Police: Accomplice Likely Involved In Central Fla. Boy's Disappearance

[johnnie]

"Investigators in the search for a missing Leesburg boy said they now believe that a second person was likely involved in the 2-year-old's disappearance, Local 6 News has learned.

Since the Trenton Duckett was reported missing last month, police have had their suspicions that his mother, Melinda Duckett, 21, may have been responsible for the boy's disappearance, Local 6's Mike DeForest said.

However, Local 6 News learned Thursday that police are getting closer to naming Duckett as a suspect in the case. Duckett committed suicide after she reported Trenton missing."

Local 6 News also learned Thursday that Melinda Duckett apparently presented investigators with an e-mail that she said she received from her estranged husband Joshua.

In the e-mail, it appears that Joshua threatened to kill the child and Melinda Duckett, DeForest said.

Joshua said that he didn't write the e-mail and that someone else wrote the e-mail.

More information about the e-mail was expected to be released Thursday night.

http://www.local6.com/news/9902762/detail.html



I don't know if any of you are following this case, but there are more twist and turns than a corkscrew. I have been reading some of the blogs and forums out there and the whole background of this case is as strange as the little boy's disappearance. I sadly believe the little boy is dead, but then again he could have been sent away to live with someone.

They have traced MySpace comments, phone calls, they found the child's pictures and toys in the dumpster behind her place, the father's father is in prison for raping and murdering a young girl in the 80s, the mother-in-law had been contacting Jeb Bush to get possession of young Trenton. It goes on and on.

[frogmarch]

1. Melinda Duckett hacked

into her ex-husband Joshua's MySpace email account (according to the FBI) and sent the threatening letter to HERSELF, claiming it was from him. She used this phony threat to gain full custody of little Trenton.

[frogmarch]

2. In one of the three suicide notes

that Melinda Duckett left (I think the one to her grandparents), she indicated that she had made mistakes, but that her heart was in the right place. She mentioned feeling inadequate as a mom because she had so little time to spend with Trenton. She said she worked hard but had a tough time making ends meet financially.

Yet in the note, she informs her grandparents that she left them something (a sum of $900) under her car ashtray.

According to reports, Melinda had some (I don't know how much) money left in her bank account after she committed suicide. It shouldn't be hard for investigators to find out if she withdrew $900 (or so) from her account shortly before she died.

Why would she withdraw only $900 of the total amount she had in her account to give to her grandparents?

And if she'd been planning to kill herself, why did she say in the note that killing herself was pretty much a sudden decision?

I can't be alone in wondering if the $900 she left for her grandparents was payment she'd received from selling Trenton.

If she sold Trenton, how did she locate prospective buyers? She'd have been stupid to hand him over to someone she knew, or to have made any arrangements on the Internets. Maybe a friend of a friend of a friend knew someone who wanted a child. Have investigators thoroughly questioned all of Melinda's friends and acquaintances? Maybe someone she knew put her in contact with whoever has Trenton - if somebody does.

Josh, Trenton's father, has said several times that he believes Trenton is alive, and that Melinda may have stashed him with someone. He believes that it was part of the "game" she was playing, and that she'd set him up months ago, by way of the phony threatening email, to go down for Trenton's eventual disappearance.

Melinda said in the 911 call that she knew "who friggin' did it," and when the police arrived, the first thing she did was show them the phony threatening email. Melinda was trying to hang the rap on Josh, knowing full well that she herself had manufactured the "evidence" against him. If a stranger had taken Trenton, I can't imagine Melinda trying to implicate Josh by using evidence she'd faked herself. She would want the real kidnapper to be caught and her little boy returned to her. Whether Trenton is alive or dead, I think Melinda Duckett earned her place as the prime suspect in Trenton's disappearance.

I am sure I won't be the only one who dances for joy if little Trenton is someday found alive and well.

[johnnie]

3. Hiya frogmarch

From what I understand, the $900 was the amount her grandparent's church donated to Trenton's search fund. It could be that she was basically saying that the money would do no good because Trenton is not with us any longer.

I have read posts from her friend who's brother was one of the two at her apartment that night and she said her brother saw the open window when he got there, but the screen wasn't cut. He said that either Melinda didn't really know what happened or she was the best actress in the world because she was freaking out when she went to check on Trenton and couldn't find him.

There is so much information on this case and it is hard to tell what is real and what is rumor. I find it strange that Melinda alluded to the fact that Trenton was still alive in her suicide notes. She was either really whacked out or she was sincere in saying she had nothing to do with it.

[frogmarch]

4. There is qute a discussion

about the case over at Websleuths ( www.websleuths.com )

I looked there for something regarding the $900, but I haven't seen anything about it yet. Lots of posts to go through.

From what I've gathered by reading there, the church agreed to contribute $5,000 to the reward. I don't know that Melinda had access to the money.

As for the screen not being cut when the two men arrived that evening, according to what I've read, the screen was only cut 10 inches up the side. I don't know if it was cut 10 inches on each side, or just cut on one side. Either way, if the screen was cut only 10 inches up, maybe it wasn't particularly noticeable to a casual observer.

[johnnie]

5. I tried to sign up for Websleuths a week ago

The canceled my membership even before I got to post. I have no idea why and when I wrote the admin. to ask, they never wrote back. But as I read there, it seems like there are a lot of people there who are out of their minds..lol. There is a lot of people saying things over there that have already been shown to be not true and some are just making things up based on how they feel. It's too "gossipy" over there. Plus I am pissed they wouldn't let me in...LOL

I am beginning to think the poor little guy is gone for good. Sometimes I think the other way, but it has been over a month and still nothing. Then again, there is the chance that Melinda gave him to someone while convincing them that Trenton would be in harm's way if he ended up with Josh. But, I think that person would have come forward by now.

[frogmarch]

6. hmmmm

Did you try at Websleuths, or at Webbsleuths (a.k.a "The Swamp" ... lol)?

The "double b" website and the "one b" site are totally different websites, though some people don't realize that at first, especially since the "one b" site was originally called Webbsleuths. A former mod there stole the name and started her own website, calling it Jameson's Webbsleuths. So the original "double b" site dropped a "b."

If you are talking about the "one b" Websleuths, would you like me to try to find out why you couldn't get in? I think there must have been an error of some kind.

There is now a Trenton Duckett forum at Forums for Justice, ( www.forumsforjustice.org ) whose owner also owns the "one b" Websleuths.

Yes, there's always some gossip at the forums, but there are also some very serious discussions.