DADvocate

From Breitbart:

Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"

A day after the taping, Duckett, 21, shot herself to death, deepening the mystery of what happened to the boy.

Reading this story immediately raised a red flag for me. It reminded me of the Marcus Fiesel case I blogged about a couple of weeks ago. It also reminded me of the Susan Smith case in which she rolled her car with her two children in it into a lake.

Hopefully, I'm wrong. But the odds are against the boy being found alive no matter what. At this point, the mother, Melinda Duckett, appears suspicious.

She was separated from her husband, the boy's father. She had taken out a restraining order on her husband, a common ploy in divorce situations designed to give the woman an advantage in custody proceedings. But the plot thickens.

Trenton's father, 21-year-old Josh Duckett, was closely questioned after the boy disappeared. Newspapers reported that his wife had taken out a temporary restraining order against him. But Josh Duckett took a polygraph test and has answered all police questions satisfactorily, Capt. Ginny Padgett said.

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On Sept. 7, Melinda Duckett gave a telephone interview to CNN Headline News' Grace, a former prosecutor known for practically cross-examining her guests. Duckett stumbled over such questions as whether she had taken a polygraph _ she said she refused on the advice of her divorce lawyer _ and where, exactly, she was shopping with the boy before his disappearance.

Father passes polygraph and satisfactorily answers police's questions. Mother refuses polygraph.

Apparently, Nancy Grace ripped Ms. Duckett a new one in the interview.

Where were you?" Grace asked Melinda Duckett. "Why aren't you telling us where you were that day? You were the last person to be seen with him."

"We were just shopping, going around…" Duckett said.

"Shopping where?" Grace asked.

"Well, we didn't go any where specific," Duckett said.

"If you went shopping, you had to go into a store -- what store did you go into?" Grace said.

"I wasn't (going to get) into any specifics," Duckett said.

Didn't go any where specific!! Most women I know relate minute details of shopping trips to a painful degree. Even a man remembers what stores and shopping centers to which he goes. Violent suicide is also less common among women than men which makes me wonder about her psychological state. Color me suspicious.

All a very sad story, but the father remains optimistic.

Joshua Duckett said he is optimistic his son will be found but the death of his estranged wife complicated things.

I hope he's right. In the mean time, I'm refusing interviews to Nancy Grace.