The Disappearance of Trenton Duckett

There is something particularly disturbing about mothers who kill their children. While there is no direct proof yet that Melinda Duckett had anything to do with the disappearance of her two year old son Trenton, her suicide is being seen by many as tantamount to a confession.

Here's Melinda's story:
On August 27th this year 2 year old Trenton Duckett was reported missing from his bedroom, and the fly screen had been tampered with. 21 year old Melinda Duckett said she spent the day with Trenton playing in a local forest, came home and put him to bed about 7:30. When she checked on him about two hours later he was gone.

Melinda tearfully appeared on local televison news and radio, begging for her son to be returned. On September 8th she was interviewed by Nancy Grace, a notoriously tough interviewer. Melinda went home, took out her grandfather's shotgun and killed herself.

Now suicide doesn't always indicate guilt, but the evidence which has come forward since her death certainly makes it look like Trenton was the victim of his own mother.
Melinda and Joshua Duckett were in the process of getting a divorce, and Trenton was a powerful tool. Perhaps Melinda was so angry at Joshua, she was prepared to kill her own son to get at him. Of course we will never know.
We do know that Melinda was in the process of removing any evidence of Trenton from her life when she died - police found amongst the garbage from her home an ultrasound picture of Trenton in the womb, toys and clothes belonging to Trenton. It seems that not only was Melinda not expecting him to come home, but that she did not want any reminders about Trenton around her home. She had also emailed herslef, posing as her ex-husband, ranting and hurling abuse.
Witnesses have also come forward saying that they saw Melinda out shopping on August 27th without Trenton - she did not spend the day with him at the forest as she had claimed. This of course throws into doubt the timeline of his disappearance.

The most important thing to remember here is that a two year boy is still missing, and now may never be found.