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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.Police have refused to say whether she left a suicide note, and said nothing they have found so far in their investigation of her death has shed light on the whereabouts of her 2-year-old son, Trenton.Investigators have stopped short of calling her a suspect but have focused increasing attention on her movements just before the boy vanished and the notes, computer, camera and other items seized from her house.Duckett’s family members disputed any suggestion that she hurt her son. They said that the strain of her son’s disappearance pushed her to the brink, and the media sent her over the edge."Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end," Duckett’s grandfather Bill Eubank said Tuesday. "She wasn’t one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this. She and that baby just loved each other, couldn’t get away from each other. She wouldn’t hurt a bug."Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said in an e-mail that Duckett’s death was "an extremely sad development," but that the program would continue covering the case."We feel a responsibility to bring attention to this case in the hopes of helping find Trenton Duckett, who remains missing," Iamunno said.Duckett had told police that after she finished watching a movie Aug. 27, she went to check on Trenton in his bedroom, and all she found was an empty crib _ and a 10-inch cut in the window screen above it. At the time she was living her son, wading through a messy divorce with the boy’s father and trying to get her life back on track after getting laid off from her job with a lawn care company.The boy’s disappearance in this town of 19,000 people about 45 miles northwest of Orlando stretched the 75-member police force to its limits. Fliers were posted on gas station doors around town, asking for information from anyone who might have seen the boy, a brown- haired youngster wearing denim shorts and a diaper.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.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.Hours before the interview aired, Duckett shot herself Friday with her grandfather’s gun at her grandparents’ house, up the road from where she was living.Investigators are still trying to piece together a timeline of where she and Trenton were 24 hours before she reported him missing. On Tuesday, they released the make and model of her car, a 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse, and asked anyone who might have seen it during that period to call them.Also on Tuesday, a newspaper reported that she bought a shotgun from a pawn shop two days before Trenton vanished. Padgett said police could not confirm that.On Monday, agents used dogs and digging equipment to search an outlying area that someone had called about, but found nothing. Investigators continued to field tips."We’re following up," Padgett said. "Hopefully they’ll bring in something to help us firm up the timeline."
AP
I hope they find her son.
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Click on the logo to find out! I do not want to spoil it for people who do not want to know like I just did to my friend!
Update:
All the rockers were there today except for Zayra Alvarez. The first single will be released tomorrow. The album drops November 21st with at least one original track from the winner. A second date was added in Vegas because the sales were so amazing! The official 3 month tour starts on January 16th with the house band. Two of the rockers including Storm Large have been confirmed to tour with the house band, and up to 5 more might also join the tour.
It does not look like they will be touring under the name of Supernova. When they announced the winner they said he would be joining Tommy Lee, Gilby Clark and Jason Newsted. When I find out what there new names is I will let you know!
Tune in to CBS to watch the finale!
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WHILE her mother told of losing her soulmate, eight-year-old Bindi Irwin prepared herself for a heart-wrenching tribute yesterday. Terri Irwin had been expected to make her first public appearance since her husband’s death to pay tribute to him yesterday. But at the last minute she decided it was too much to handle. Instead she wrote a heartfelt note which was read aloud outside the gates of Australia Zoo. She thanked the public for their "overwhelming outpouring of love, support and prayers for my family". She referred to Steve as her "soulmate" and "wildlife warrior". Terri also revealed she had rejected offers to hold a memorial for Irwin in the 50,000-seat Suncorp Stadium in favour of a more intimate tribute at his favourite place, the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo. That’s where Bindi, who many are predicting will carry on Steve’s legacy, will face her toughest moment next Wednesday. Terri revealed Bindi would address the memorial service on behalf of herself and her little brother, two-year-old Bob. "I cannot see how a memorial service for Steve would work in any other place other than the Crocoseum, which he built here at the zoo and of which he was so proud," Terri said. "I would therefore ask that everyone please bear with me in this wish and help me to make this happen." She said she understood many people would not be able to attend, so the family would work with the State Government to supply large TV screens to venues at Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. The service will be broadcast on television live through the ABC to Australia, Asia and the US. Irwin’s manager John Stainton said the service would be a tribute to Irwin’s life, from the boy to the man, with guests sharing their memories of him. He said John Williamson would perform Irwin’s favourite song True Blue, but the memorial would not be an "elaborate variety show". "We’re going to try to cover as many facets of his whole entire life from when he was a little boy to when he left us," he said. Australia Zoo and Ticketek at Brisbane and Maroochydore will distribute 3000 free tickets to the service from 9am (AEST) on Friday.
The Daily Telegraph
ET is reporting that The Discovery Channel will not air the video of his death.
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