Grace: No Regrets Over Tough Interview
CNN Host Says Guilt Probably Drove Missing Boy's Mom To Suicide
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CNN's Nancy Grace (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Melinda Duckett, who shot and killed herself one day after being grilled by CNN's Nancy Grace in a telephone interview about her missing son. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel)
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Investigators say Melinda Duckett shot herself to death Friday, the day after she was grilled by Grace in a telephone interview, and hours before the interview aired.
Grace told ABC News on Friday that it was more likely guilt than the media that drove Duckett to kill herself. "To suggest that a 15- or 20-minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing," she said.
Duckett's 2-year-old son, Trenton, disappeared late last month. Duckett had said she found his crib empty one night, along with a 10-inch cut in the window screen above it. Investigators have been looking into Duckett's movements just before the boy vanished.
In the CNN Headline News interview, Grace grilled Duckett, at one point demanding to know, "why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"
Duckett's grandfather accuses Grace of "bashing" her. He says the strain of her son's disappearance and the media attention "sent her over the edge."
A spokeswoman for Grace called the suicide a "sad development," but said the program would continue to cover the case.
Police using cadaver dogs failed to find the 2-year-old during a search Thursday in the Ocala National Forest.
They found a stuffed animal, but don't know whether it belonged to the boy who disappeared from his bed almost three weeks ago.
Police say they have no physical evidence linking her to the area of the forest searched by investigators Thursday.
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How do you know she would have committed suicide sooner or later. Desperate people take desperate measures. She was pushed over the edge by Nancy Grace. You don't know how fragile this woman's state of mind was before the interview, let alone after that fiasco. I don't know her or her family but people in America are innocent until proven guilty. She may have done nothing to her child and he is out there at the hands of someone else, or maybe she did give him to someone to protect him. Either way you look at it Nancy Grace is a horrible person for treating Mrs. Duckett in the manner she did. Everybody is so ready to judge another because they just don't act the way we think they should. Shock affects people in many different ways. And did you take the time to find out why she didn't answer the questions? That was on the advice from her attorney. I hope that you are never judged, or your family is never accused of not being there for you someday when you may need it most.
News media has not only become a "shock and awe" forum, but judge and jury also!
It is not exactly Nancy's fault in one way, I am sure she was told by superior's how to do this job. On the other hand it shows absolutely no ETHICS. What a shame that the American public has tuned in and let Neilson rate the view time for such immoral behavior across the newsworlds boards. We get a far fairer and more honest perspective online on any news site that is not in the USA and that my friends is a sad sad reflection on our society and government as a whole.
And rightfully so.
Melinda did express her observations to Nancy that media gets things wrong, misinterprets, misquotes and adds in things that were never said. Nancy Grace perpetuates Melinda's observations by embellishing, misquoting, getting dates wrong, pretending she knows certain facts for certain when she doesn't and deliberately leaving out pertinant information.
I used to watch Nancy for the comic relief of Pat Brown and her inaccuracies, but now I watch and listen to the magician's spin Nancy casts upon her less scrutinizing audience members.
trying to find out the truth..Why is that so wrong? We need people in the news or what ever field, to stand up for VICTIMS RIGHTS..It seems
to me, you hear more about court proceedings
that the law protects the suspects more than the victims. This needs to stop!!!This world is evil.
We all should be ashamed of ourselves. Freedom of
speech is the one thing we can hold onto.
I think Nancy Grace is doing a GREAT JOB!!!
Ms Grace should be aware of what the rest of the world realizes; she is not a journalist but a celebrity hack with little pedigree or credential to justify the media platform she abuses; she is no more qualified than I am to question the motives of people or to judge them; she lacks intelligence or ethics; she and her ilk are becoming more irrelevant by the day. Unfortunately, that irrelevance is what makes her dangerous. To garner the attention craves, she ends up contributing to the death of a person who never had a chance to prove her innocence.
If only we could legally sanction her. It is clear she hasn%u2019t the conscious to feel remorse or to hold herself accountable in any way. Ms Grace calls her show "Seeking Justice" but only when the justice suits her need for ratings, celebrity, fame and fortune. Outside of that, she has no concern for justice, honesty or fairness. Please, in the name of all that is decent, GO AWAY! It is too late for Melinda Duckett, but for the rest of us it truly would be a way to %u201CSeek Justice.%u201D
"To suggest that a 15- or 20-minute interview can cause someone to commit suicide is focusing on the wrong thing."
Nancy Grace, interviewed by ABC News
She made this statement so that she can reflect the responsibility of Melinda's suicide off of her irresponsible and arrogant treatment of Melinda. The focus is, Nancy, YOUR interview treatment of this young lady. Nancy Grace is a disgrace to humanity in itself. For her to even make a statement of this nature goes to show she has utter disregard for human value. Nancy needs to join the Al-quaida(?) or the Taliban because that is where she will do her best work. She seems to enjoy the idea of terrorizing already fragile minds.
you're wrong - you're guilty - you'd better tell me or else" and a dozen more I could mention here.I stopped tuning in to her sometime ago because of her method of lashing out at everyone, colleagues included. If anyone needed counseling more than this poor woman who is trying to get even with everyone, I don't know who it would be. She keeps mentioning that "she is the victim of a crime" - well, too bad for her. but that's no excuse for pounding other people into the concrete, too. If CNN had any balls at all, they would fire the broad and send her back to the courtroom - preferably close to the Siberian border. dekish ps. maybe it's all that extra weight she has put on that's making her even more cranky.
However, when a female can't empathize with another who has lost an offspring (regardless of the circumstances) I brand her as heartless and beastly.
Mother Nature designs mothers to want care for offspring.
So when the mother does a 180 degree, we have to know that something radically wrong with that mother.
It is obvious then that even if the woman killed her own offspring, that she has a huge problem, huge enough to make her want out!
This is not the time for this witch to be clinging to how right she is without at least demonstrating some humanity, some understanding now that we have two fellow citizens gone; unless of course we are dealing with a dumb ignoramus.
Women being porsecutors and judges is such a joke anyway that we shouldn't expect any better.
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by joanna_owens
September 17, 2006 3:19 PM PDT
- Nancy Grace have you considered maybe the boy has been trafficed, and also Natalee H. nobody has found a body. Isn't there a huge chance that she was also traffics especaily because she wazs in a forien country. I never knew about trafficing until I saw a program on Lifetime. Maybe that help find these inocent children. May God be with the children.
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