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Posted on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 04:14:43 PM EST
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Talk show producers are relentless when trying to get guests with first-hand knowledge of a tragedy. They circle like wolves, cajoling and promising fair treatment.

That's not what Melissa Duckett got from Nancy Grace's show this week when she agreed to an on-air telephone interview with Nancy. She got cross-examined and practically accused of being responsible for her son's disappearance.

The interview was taped on September 7 and scheduled to air September 8. Hours before it aired, Ms. Duckett went to her grandparents' home, took a shotgun and killed herself.

Police have not named Ms. Duckett as a suspect in her son's disappearance, although she appears to be a person of interest to them (as are all parents in such cases.)

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."

The reaction from Grace's spokesperson:

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.

There is blame to go around here, it's certainly not just Nancy. Guilt sells in America, ratings go sky-high when there's a tragedy like Jonbenet or any missing child with a parent that doesn't fit the public's conception about what an innocent parent would do in that situation. If the public didn't watch, ratings would go down and the shows would fade away.

Our sympathies are with the Duckett family tonight.

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    Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide | 68 comments (68 topical)
    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#1)
    by roger on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 04:38:33 PM EST
    Grace might feel bad about this. If she had a soul, that is

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 06:20:42 PM EST
    Nancy Grace has always reminded me of a female version of Bill O'Reilly. They use their loose lips as a way to make up for their lack of smarts. So if the question is "will Grace apologise," don't bet on it.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#5)
    by Che's Lounge on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 06:58:56 PM EST
    The only good that could possibly come out of this is that Nancy Grace is finished.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#6)
    by Sailor on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 07:26:56 PM EST
    Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"
    Why are these
    criminals
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_grace#Appellate_courts (see North, Oliver; Liddy, G. Gordon; Fuhrman, Mark) allowed on TV?

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#7)
    by Bob on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 09:52:50 PM EST
    Nancy "Try'em and Fry'em" Grace. May god forgive her. This woman wouldn't be the first innocent Grace has hounded to the grave. Remember the handyman in SLC? By the way, did they actually run the tape on her show?

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#8)
    by eniarku99 on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 09:52:50 PM EST
    Dear Ms. Merritt and staff: What Nancy Grace is lying about, and which you are likely to know as a former prosecutor, is that great advances have been made in the epidemiology of suicide over the past few years, and when law enforcement officials place suspects and prisoners on suicide watch, it is precisely because of this epidemiological evidence. Because suicide happens in a social context, ever since Emile Durkheim began the study of it, there has been little dent made in the public consciousness as to its etiology, which I won't go into here. Suffice it to say that most law enforcement personnel are aware that people who have been subjected to extreme humiliations have significantly higher suicide rates than other social outcasts. I had some citations, but can't get the URL function to work quite right. Ms. Grace is a psychopath who lives off cruelty and self-righteousness. She is the embodiment of why the state we live in is fascist, and why just getting rid of GWB won't suffice to fix what's wrong with us. There's a vast part of the population out there that is just as psychopathic as she is.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 09:55:47 PM EST
    eniarku99, I have never been a prosecutor and to my knowledge, neither has any other author of TalkLeft. We are 100% a criminal defense site.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#2)
    by cpinva on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 10:04:34 PM EST
    i can't stand nancy grace. according to her, we're all guilty, guilty, guilty! evidence be damned! i honestly have to wonder how many innocent people she sent to jail, in her stint as a prosecutor? before i get bashed, because she's female, her gender has nothing to do with it, it's her self-righteous priggishness. her and mr. nifong would make a lovely couple, in hell.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 10:04:34 PM EST
    This isn't the first time Grace has been called on her rough and nasty grilling of guests. But, to help drive a poor, guilt ridden (by her son's abduction) young woman to suicide, I think she should be fired. This is irresponsible behavior and CNN has a hand in this as well.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#10)
    by Jen M on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 06:15:24 AM EST
    The woman commiting suicide isn't an admission of guilt, it's a symptom of depression. Job loss leads to depression divorce leads to depression I'm fairly certain that loss of a child also leads to depression A triple whammy topped off with a helping of being browbeaten for national television? Now the police have lost their best source of information in the case. Good work, Nancy.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#11)
    by ScottW on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 08:39:00 AM EST
    I didn't know NG was a prosecutor. I have had the displeasure of watching her program several times, and it made me sick. BUT, no one forced this lady to do the interview. I'm sure she was coddled and lied to, but anyone who goes on NG after their kid has gone missing is asking for trouble. And NG should be ashamed of herself. Taking advantage of people when they are at their most vulnerable, and kicking them. DisGRACEful.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 09:54:09 AM EST
    I hate Nancy Grace!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 10:21:22 AM EST
    There is a good blog that details her: Lead and Gold. (Search the page.) In particular: she lies for emotional hook. The only good that can be said about is that she reveals what must be going on in prosecutor's offices across the country to one degree or another.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#14)
    by Sailor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 10:34:16 AM EST
    BUT, no one forced this lady to do the interview. I'm sure she was coddled and lied to, but anyone who goes on NG after their kid has gone missing is asking for trouble.
    A young devastated mother - what do you want to bet the advance folks for NG told her it would help find her son and guilted her into it?

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 10:34:23 AM EST
    What it must be like to go thru life blameless. What it must be like to have every accusation you make absolutly correct. Nancy Grace, clearly, watches too much CSI on TV. The female O'reilly. This woman is trailer trash and I bet she has enough dirt in her past to fill several volumes of tabloids. Hell, even Joe Scarborough, yeah, the beady eyed ex republican, ripped her a new one. In fact, three of the four people speaking on the issue ripped her. Who defended her? The 23yo blonde 'psychoanalyst' that works for the NG show. She should be fired, but CNN wont do it. Ratings are ratings

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 11:48:12 AM EST
    I appreciate where everyone is coming from, but let me offer a slightly different perspective if I may. What mother who is really interested in the return of her missing child REFUSES TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH so that the police can verify that she wasn't responsible for her child's disappearance and rule her out as a suspect? Even the boy's FATHER took the polygraph test. Frankly, his picture looks scarier to me than the mom's, but you can't always judge people by how they look. In missing child investigations, parents and family members are normally grilled like this, and the parents COOPERATE, especially when they were not involved in the child's disappearance. What mother who is still searching for her missing child KILLS herself so that the boy will have no mother to return to if he is found? What this mother's suicide tells me is that she knows her boy is never coming home. Please don't assume that the mother had nothing to do with her son's disapperance just because she's a mother and has cute pictures of herself with her son. Of course 99% of mothers are loving, but there's 1% that are capable of being killers on a bad day, even if they are fine with their kids most of the time and even if they look like loving mothers at first glance. Remember Susan Smith, who drowned her two boys and pretended they were abducted? Remember Andrea Young, the "great mother" who drowned FIVE chidren in one day? Susan Smith had a motive to kill her kids -- she thought they were standing between her an a love interest other than her husband. This mom had possible motivations to harm her son too -- she was going through a layoff as well as a messy divorce. People under stress sometimes do crazy things, and sometimes they do crazy, cruel things to people around them. Sometimes they try to kill themselves and their child in order to get revenge on the other spouse, and then chicken out when only the child is dead. When a child is missing, you always have to look closely at the parents and caregivers first. Only if you can confidently rule them out do you move on. This woman wouldn't even take a polygraph. What was she afraid of? I'm concerned her that the only outrage I've heard so far is at Nancy Grace, whose only "crime" is to ask tough questions in the hopes of getting the truth out of an evasive mom. Where is the outrage at the mom for refusing to cooperate with the police? Where is the outrage at the mom for "not being able to remember" where she went shopping the day her son was killed? That's rather basic to the investigation, wouldn't you think? Where is the outrage at the mom for killing herself so that if her son is found he will never have a mother to return to? Is that self-centered or what? And if she's self-centered enough to take away her son's mother before he is even found, what other self-centered thing might she have done to her son? Look, it's still possible the mom might turn out to be completely innocent, but even then I don't think that parents of missing children who refuse to answer polygraphs should be treated with kid gloves by TV news reporters. Sorry, but when you won't fully cooperate with police, you shouldn't be offering to do TV interviews and expect no tough questions to be asked. Right now the evidence suggests that the mom had something to hide. So let's not give her a "pass" or judge Nancy Grace too harshly. Nancy Grace has very good prosecutorial instincts -- she "smelled a rat," and she tried to ferret out the truth. And what appears to have happened is that she got so close to the truth that the mom thought the jig was up and killed herself.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#17)
    by Bob on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 12:52:12 PM EST
    Gina, We have police and real prosucutors. We have a criminal justice system. Nancy "try'em and fry'em" Grace is not part of that system. She's a TV personality (to be charitable). Thanks for listening. You can go back to your Boob Tube now.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#18)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 12:52:12 PM EST
    What mother who is still searching for her missing child KILLS herself so that the boy will have no mother to return to if he is found? Hmm, I don't have any ide... oh, wait: People under stress sometimes do crazy things There's an answer for ya.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#19)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 12:52:12 PM EST
    Where is the outrage at the mom for killing herself so that if her son is found he will never have a mother to return to? I admit that it never would have occurred to me to be outraged at someone for killing herself. What is odd about Gina's comment is that she has no trouble accepting that the circumstances of the mother's life could have possibly driven her to murder, and yet it's positively unacceptable that the woman could act strangely or irrationally in other respects, such as refusing to take a polygraph or forgetting where she was shopping. Seems to me that if you're under a lot of stress, you're likely to act in ways that other people may not understand, and that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to kill someone.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#20)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 02:57:42 PM EST
    Please don't assume that the mother had nothing to do with her son's disapperance just because she's a mother and has cute pictures of herself with her son. Of course 99% of mothers are loving, but there's 1% that are capable of being killers on a bad day, even if they are fine with their kids most of the time and even if they look like loving mothers at first glance.
    unless there's evidence that she was involved, why should we automatically assume she's one of the 1% as opposed to the 99%?

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#21)
    by BigTex on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 02:57:42 PM EST
    The big question is what is Chicken Noodle News going to do in response. If they had any journalistic integrety they'd at a minimum suspend the show and get Grace some treatment. This just goes to show how the honorable profession (journalism)has lost its honor.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#23)
    by Sailor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 04:12:05 PM EST
    What mother who is really interested in the return of her missing child REFUSES TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH
    One that listens to her lawyer. Cops (and DAs) focus on the easiest path and don't bother to look farther; see Ramsey, Patsy. She was 21 freakin' years old, lost her job, in a bad marriage and now her son is gone and some crazy lady on nat'l TV is hollering at her in a way that wouldn't be allowed in any court room. Maybe it was guilt, maybe she just couldn't take it anymore. Time, hopefully, will tell. NG (as in No Good) is a disGrace and should never have been allowed on TV after being sanctioned by the AL supreme court twice! BigTex sez "If they had any journalistic integrety they'd at a minimum suspend the show and get Grace some treatment." - no argument from me, yet another point we can agree on;-)

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#24)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 04:59:52 PM EST
    Gina: You sound a lot like the 23 year old blonde on Scarborough last night defending her. There is NO WAY to justify what Nancy Grace did, at all. Isn't Dr. Phill on now? Run along.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#22)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 05:00:04 PM EST
    So let's not give her a "pass" or judge Nancy Grace too harshly. Nancy Grace has very good prosecutorial instincts -- she "smelled a rat," and she tried to ferret out the truth.
    yeah, she was spot-on with that john mark karr guy. totally right, from the start. instincts like a shark.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#25)
    by Che's Lounge on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 05:49:52 PM EST
    Gina, The late Ms. Duckett refused the polygragh on the advice of her lawyer. Think before you say something stupid.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#26)
    by eniarku99 on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 10:26:30 PM EST
    Ms. Merritt, My apologies. Alas, there is no guard against one of my occasional attacks of complete stupidity that happen when I write and post both late at night and in a state of near rage. The person of whom I was thinking was ReddHedd at Firedoglake, who I KNOW is not you, at least at any time before two AM. What's very funny is that I turned to the info page and read every word of it, and it didn't register. Gee, I'm glad I wasn't driving. I really am not that stupid most of the time, and hope you can find some small measure of forgiveness. P.S., my point about suicide, law enforcement and humiliation still stands, even if you are not, never have been, and never will be a prosecutor. P.P.S. Yes, I did humiliate myself. But inasmuch as you can't see me face to face, I'm no real danger to myself at the moment.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#30)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 10:31:27 AM EST
    Not being a big TV watcher, I've never heard of Nancy Grace before this. Now, I've got a good reason to continue not watching.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#31)
    by Aaron on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 12:17:39 PM EST
    What a disgusting commentary on society this tragic incident represents . I won't watch Nancy Grace, on general principle. I saw some of the rebroadcast of the segment, f--king shameful. That witch needs to be run out of town on a rail. I've seen my share of soulless lawyers washed out by the system, but she personifies the terms vacuous, bitter and jaded. I guess that's why she plays so well on TV, so many people can relate. Gina Even if this mother was somehow responsible for her own child's disappearance, even if she murdered her own child, what Nancy Grace did in this situation is not acceptable. Mothers do terrible things to their children all the time, it doesn't mean they don't love them, it doesn't mean they are not human beings worthy of compassion. Most often when mothers commit infanticide, something has gone terribly wrong with them, and no one around them even noticed. I have no idea why this person chose to go on Grace's show, obviously that was a mistake. Now we may never know what happened to the child or to this young mother. Grace's brand of justice is just one small step up above mob justice, where she is Judge jury and executioner. The thought that she was a judge on the bench somewhere petrifies me. Imagine being a defendant who came before her on one of her bad days. . Americans just love this brand of gutter law, they eat it up, because most Americans who watch this stuff are desperately searching for something that will make them feel better about their own pathetic lives, their desperate to see someone who they can brand as morally inferior to themselves, so they can look at themselves in the mirror every day and not be totally revolted by what they see. If people have to die for their entertainment, well then so be it, Nancy Grace is just too happy to oblige them. We're like the Roman mob screaming for blood, and Nancy just gave somebody the thumbs down. I'm sure she got a ratings bump. F-ing pathetic. Oh and here's a little advice, save your outrage for the living, it's wasted on the dead, your outrage means nothing to them.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#32)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 02:36:42 PM EST
    After reading all the above comments, I felt compelled to write - because I saw Nancy Grace's entire show last week, not just 30 seconds of a blurb the news channels are showing now. I wonder how many of you who wrote comments above actually watched the entire one hour show? I wonder how many of you watch what Nancy has done in the past to try and help other parents find missing children....Ask Polly Klas's father about Nancy Grace... or Elizabeth Short's father...or that poor man down in Florida who's beautiful daughter was abducted, raped, tortured and murdered by the old neighbor guy.... What Nancy does is give the parents a forum to come on to her show and talk about their missing child and get infromation out to the public -- that is how these children are eventually found. When Nancy began talking to the mother, she was trying to get info out of her so that the public could help -- things like -- where did you go during the day where someone could have seen the child? The mother blatantly refused to answer the question.... when was the last time you saw him alive? Why won't you take a polygraph? What INNOCENT parent of a missing child REFUSES TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH? One of you above said it was on the advice of her lawyer --- why? Probably cuz he knew she would fail. And if the lawyer was so good with his advice, why did he let his client appear on the show if she was in such a fragile state.... What have I learned about this case today....You know where the mother went on the day little Trevor turned up "missing from his crib"? She grabbed a shot gun and Trevor and went up into the hills to do some "target practice"... HELLO ??? And now we are wondering why she wouldn't answer Nancy's question -- cuz it's going to come out that she accidently killed the kid... What were her last words to her grandmother before taking her life with the shotgun? "Grandma, Trevor's never going to come home again..." Nancy Grace is not responsible for this woman committing suicide (something the mother has tried before), this woman is responsible OR maybe these family members who are accusing Nancy Grace should have known the mother needed help and they didn't do anything about it..... The truth will come out. By the way, prior to coming on Nancy's show, the mother had just been through 4 hours of interrogation at the police station in which they she gave them NO INFORMATION at all with trying to help find her son.... I'm looking forward to watching Nancy tonight.... Some of Nancy's past, in case you don't know her well.... while she was a student in college, her fiance was viciously murdered... she later became a prosecutor, and to this day, Nancy Grace has NEVER LOST A CASE. That's because she deals with the facts and the evidence and the JURORS put the guilty behind bars....

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#28)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 02:36:43 PM EST
    the Graceless defenders are all sayig if you go on her show you know what you are getting into.. Mrs. Duckett asn't a regular viewer of the show .... and then showing it after they knew she killed herself..nothing but crass sensationalism. And once again Graceless is trying to portray herself as a victim--she is a horrible liar and is now saying Mrs. Duckett wasn't talkng to the police which isn't true at all...the pokice asked her not to give out the details Graceless was asking for..she is a liar and a horrible person who things she is now judge and jury

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#29)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 02:36:43 PM EST
    I would really like for Miss Grace to see this, but I know there is no chance of that. I was a NG fan for years. Wouldn't miss her on Court TV, then on CNN,bought her books etc. I didn't always agree with her, I admired her work for victims rights,and usually enjoyed her programs. Over the past year or so my opinion toward NG has drastically changed. She is so very rude to her guest panelist, it is a wonder she has anyone who will come on her show anymore. She becomes very soft spoken and compassionate with victims families because she can empathize with them. Then there are the people like Melinda Duckett, who clearly already had mental problems, a very disturbed lady, and to quote Clint Van Zant, whom I admire greatly, needed to be handled with kid gloves. Instead Nancy lit into her like madwoman that would shake her to death if she could get her hands on her. It too late for Melinda, all of the apology's in the world from NG won't bring her back, although Nancy denies doing any wrong. I pray Trenton is found safe and alive somewhere. My prayers are with Joshua and the entire family, and my prayers are with Nancy Grace, that she might see the err of her ways. I think I am finished watching her, I had already stopped watching her show on Court TV, I think this does it for me on CNN also. I think CNN needs to take a close look at The Nancy Grace Show. Thanks for letting me vent.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#35)
    by chris on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 03:47:46 PM EST
    Nancy Grace should be fired. She is an arrogant, haughty, and exemplifies all that is wrong in American media. I believe that she is directly responsible for this young girl's suicide. Many Americans fear the media more than the authorities because the media has no checks and balances and no controlling authority. Nancy Grace once compared all defense lawyers to Nazi guards at a concentration camp. When questioned about her comment at a later date, Nancy said, "Under no condition is a defense attorney equal to a Nazi guard. That's just an extreme example of someone refusing to take responsibility." So by her own logic, Nancy Grace is now comparable to a Nazi guard. I'll let the quotes below make the rest of my argument for me. 11th Circuit: Nancy Grace 'Played Fast and Loose' With Ethics "We conclude that the conduct of the prosecuting attorney in this case demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness, and was inexcusable," wrote then Chief Justice Robert Benham. Carr v. State, 267 Ga. 701 (1997). "The prosecutor clearly played fast and loose with her disclosure obligations in this case." Stephens v. Hall, No. 1:99-CV-1317 (N.D.Ga. April 2, 2003).

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#33)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 05:33:02 PM EST
    CRae58 -- Oh, man, you seem to have imbibed in the Nancy Grace Kool-aid. You might want to do some more Googling on Graceless' actual record as a prosecutor and her over-the-top role as a "victim" before you blast the rest of us for seeing her as the heinous, shrill individual that she is. She's in her current position due to the ratings and her ratings only go up when she's controversial. Also, the Elizabeth Short case (the Black Dahlia murder) that you reference was way before the Elizabeth Smart case. Maybe you missed the recent episode of Graceless' show where she repeatedly tried to get Ms. Smart to discuss her kidnapping (Ms. Smart was on her show to promote something else) and Ms. Smart, at her tender age, had more dignity in refusing to answer and calling Graceless on her rudeness than Ms. Graceless will ever possess. Ms. Graceless' comment about the grieving family in this double tragedy was that they should quit worrying about what Ms. G might have done to push their daughter/granddaughter over the edge and put their energies towards finding the baby. Like duh! She abets in compounding their tragedy and them mocks them for working through their grief for not only a child's suicide but the kidnapping (or worse) of another member of their family. That alone should tell you what a c&*t Nancy Grace is.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#34)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 05:33:02 PM EST
    Contradictions...people, Listen:... What he said: "What mother who is still searching for her missing child KILLS herself so that the boy will have no mother to return to if he is found? Hmm, I don't have any ide... oh, wait: People under stress sometimes do crazy things There's an answer for ya." Maybe he's right, people who are under a lot of stress can do crazy things. It is possible that the mother is under too much stress to begin with (a loss of job, a bad marriage, etc.),and now she has a missing son. What added more to the stress was Nancy Grace aggressively questioned her alibi. (I am still in confusion why she would not tell where she was. A whore house? Some man's house? Anywhere that might ruin her reputation cannot be an excuse for her refusal of answering.) Anyways, therefore, Nancy Grace might play a part in her suicide. We cannot excuse Nancy Grace because she has a history of being a powerful woman who stands her ground and because of her demanding personality. Some people cannot take the fact that someone is yelling at them in a serious situation, and they might assume that everyone (being on TV and all) is acussing the mother of killing her son or involving in the abduction. How would you feel if you were attacked and accused by others/more than one person? It belittles you, it breaks your confidence, you feel afraid (sometimes for no apparent reason at all). Hence, The only way to escape this misery is a suicide, a permanent ending. Now, did she ever think that her son would be found? Maybe not because when people are stressed out, a presence of hope might lack. Why did she say or know that her son is not comming back? That can only depends on whether either she said that because she has no hope and is extemely depressed or she actually KNoW something (not assuming automatically that she killed her son). As someone mentioned, she was advised not to take the polygraph by her lawyer. I am just confused why in the world would a mother listens to someone (with any ranking or power in society)when her own child is missing? Shouldn't she be outraged and shocked by the fact that her child is missing? And shouldn't she be desperately trying to find a way to find her son again with whatever method it takes including cooperating with the police? Did she love him at all? And it is just a polygraph. Let's say if she was scared that it would show a false result, there might be a chance that the machine could not tell whether it's a lie or not by the pulse rate and perspiration. Besides, if it does tell that a person is lying, where is the evidence in that beside depending on a machine for the truth? Also, shouldn't be know that the police (let's say) is there to help her, not to prove that she is guilty. So, why wouldn't she cooperate with them? A little bit of details might help a lot. Another thing about the interview with Nancy Grace. I know that the atmosphere was tense during the interview (mostly because of Nancy Grace's attitude and demand for the answers and truth), but the answer from the mother is simply blunt. I feel no sense of emotions from the mother. She said, "Because I don't want to [give an answer]." First, why wouldn't she? If she was advised to not give answer by whomever, and she listened, tell that woman that and to stop asking the repetitive question instead of being emotionalist. Of course, people cannot judge by just the tone alone because there is more to it (mentally or emotionally). However, having a child missing and a mother refusing to give details can be frustrating; therefore, judging is all we can do. Okay, now I am tired of explaining. Let's go straight to my verdict. I feel that the mother seems to be involved in the missing case of her son. (Aside from the evidence that she has a weapon that can kill, and she was depressed by all the troubles she has had). I am mainly focusing on how the mother feels and reacts to this situation. In society, it is the norm that the (loving) mother is supposed to be shocked and confused and whatever in situation like this. Show the emotions or not showing the emotions, only physical appearance can tell. How can someone be so calm, so stubborn, so rebellious (being against the police and refusing to give details) like this mother? Any (loving) mother would explode (maybe cussing at the police or anybody), but still manage to give every single detail from the best knowledge of her memory that she has. However, she did not do that. What was her reason? We don't know because she didn't tell us anything? Why? We don't know.. The suicide... *sighs* I believe guilty conscience rules mental distress. Would you rather be stressed out or be guilty? Which one is lighter to deal with? Being stressed out, of course(assuming that is your answer) because time will heal. Being guilty, you're waking up everyday for the rest of your life with this feeling is unbearable. It's hard to live this way. Only a few people can deal with it. Others can't. Would you want to die sometimes? Being guilty adds to the stress because it is the reason that causes stress.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#36)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 05:33:02 PM EST
    Oh Please People, you really think a concerned mother who didn't know what has happened to her child would commit suicide? Don't blame Grace for putting her over the edge. Her murdering her child put her over the edge. It is so plain to see.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#37)
    by tara on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 05:33:02 PM EST
    i can't stand nancy grance. regardless if the mother was innocent or guilty, nancy grace should have not been grilling melissa duckett. i'm sure that duckett was advised not to give out any information and erred on the side of caution. it would be different if the case was solved and duckett was able to give out information. even if duckett didn't submit to a polygraph test, a judge can order her to do one. i'm certain that duckett felt a lot of pressure weighing on her from getting through a messy devorice to her son kidnapped. innocent until proven guilty!!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#27)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 06:16:00 PM EST
    Nancy Grace, please make a public apology for this terrifying mistake. Humiliating a person who was in a fragile situation in front of millions of people is what you will go down in history for. Make a public apology. It's the absolute least you can do.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#38)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 06:16:00 PM EST
    Where is baby?

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#39)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 06:16:00 PM EST
    Nancy Grace should be fired.Shame on her!!!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#40)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 07:02:54 PM EST
    This incident clearly proves why lawyers are so very much dispised in this country. Ms "DIS-Grace" certainly did not do any of her professional peers any favors behaving as she did - and has been for some time already. There are many others in the legal profession that have undergone great personal trauma and have not turned into the type of selfrightous, narcissistic,indulged and evil persona Ms Grace has come to be. So to excuse and applaud her being the way she is must not be done on account of her loss. When asked "Who made her Judge,Jury and Executioner" (after news of the young mother's suicide spread) she (Nancy DIS-Grace)replied that no-one had, but that she (the missing boy's mother) "refused to answer my and the police's questions". (e.Q) This statement in itself should send warning flags flying high - as it clearly shows that she sees herself in the capacity of an interrogator! She clearly is not! And in my view everything must be done to finally remove her and the likes of her from the public eye. There is more harm done here than may be apparent as poor, frightened and lonely souls are amongst us at all times and seeing such evil in action and on national TV does nothing to help their cause. Or qualm their fears. I hope, for all our sake, that persons like Ms Grace stop slithering through our TV's and into our homes on the lie that they are offering forum for those that need help. As we have once again seen after this "mis-hap" she does not offer forum for anyone but herself! And does so on a fat salary all of us are paying. Get her off the air and into an courtroom ASAP .... i.e. with her sitting behind the Defendant's table this time!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#44)
    by dennis on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 09:17:59 AM EST
    Thank goodness for Nancy Grace. We will always need someone like here who isn't afraid to call a spade a spade. THANK YOU NANCY for standing up for the victims. Your headstrong and right on. Forget those who want to prance around the subject with no backbone. As for as the Duckett mother... she saved our state and county 100k for what would have been her court appointed attorney and then many years in the slammer. Thanks for saving us the money!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#45)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 09:17:59 AM EST
    RIGHT ON MISS NANCY. THANKFUL TO KNOW THAT SOMEONE WILL STAND UP FOR JUSTICE AND IS NOT AFRAID TO ADMIT IT. SOUNDS LIKE THE ENTIRE DUCKETT CLAN IS/WAS DISFUNCTIONAL. THE POOR CHILD, WHAT DID HIS MOTHER DO WITH HIM. GLAD TO KNOW SHE IS IN HELL AND IF NANCY PUSHED HER OVER THE EDGE THEN GOOD. NANCY NEEDS TO USE THIS POWER ON ALOT OF OTHER MURDERS. ANYCHANCE OF OJ BEING ON YOUR GUEST LIST???

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#46)
    by chris on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 09:17:59 AM EST
    I found the perfect word to describe Nancy Grace. She is a ghoul. Webster defigns a ghoul as: 1 : a legendary evil being that robs graves and feeds on corpses 2 : one suggestive of a ghoul; especially : one who shows morbid interest in things considered shocking or repulsive

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#47)
    by chris on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 09:17:59 AM EST
    It makes me ill to read posts from supposed "mothers" who are sure that they would behave differently if their child was abducted. None of you have any idea how you would react in that situation until you are there. Such posts smack of ignorance and braggadocio. If she did do it, as you are already convinced she did, and she was disturbed, depressed, and suicidal, then wouldn't that dictate a lighter sentence, or an insanity plea? So many mothers with so little compassion. Perhaps women aren't the fairer sex after all.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#41)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 09:34:36 AM EST
    I agree that Nancy Grace should be fired for her behavior. I am an attorney and I enjoy watching a great debate/cross examination. However, NG was not in court and she was not dealing with a thick skinned advocate. Instead, she was grilling a Ms. Duckett who was in the midst of a tragedy. Ms. Duckett's child had gone missing and she was at the end of her rope. NG made this helpless soul believe that it was her fault that her child was taken. Someone posted the question that what kind of mother kills herself so if her child is found he has no mother to come home to? The answer is a mother who believes that her child is better off without them because they are not a fit parent. This is what NG made Ms. Duckett believe. These newscasters only care about ratings. It is time that they start being held accountable.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#42)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 09:34:36 AM EST
    I've saw this airing and was simply appalled by Nancy's actions! I had been a fan since the begining, but my jaw dropped at the sight of her attempting to be the prosecutor, judge and executioner of a very young and distraught mother. Nancy rants and raves frequently but mostly in situations where there is actual evidence of guilt not notions of guilt & circumstantial evidence. She has simply crossed the line by eliminating the only real lead in this case. If the mother was guilty then the natural course of time and the law will succeed and she should serve her time in prison. Law enforcement needs the opportunity and time to allow this to take place. A young child or body can be found and the family can pay their respects, if that is the case. Unfortunately, for the sake of increase ratings and ad sales Nancy felt the need to coax this young woman on her show for good ol witch hunt. Not to seek justice (she is no longer in the justice system), but simply to increase her ratings! Now we may never know the truth or recover a body. Nancy continues to air the series in hopes that information can be found and lift the burden of guilt she is feeling by eliminating the only person that could have solved this case. Worse yet, the possibility of an actual predator out there and a case of witch hunt that has earned a possible predator a free pass. It is obvious that the police will easily be able to drop any investigation at this point and blame a deceased mother to wash there hands of it. At the end of the day Nancy sells ads and this is where anyone that feels she is accountable for her actions in obstructing a case in progress should look to voice their opinion. You would be surprised how a few well written letters to key contacts at these companies that advertise with CNN Headline News can bring this issue to light.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#43)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 09:34:36 AM EST
    I think it's a sad event, and I don't believe it's Nancy Grace's fault that her guest committed suicide. Nancy Grace asks obvious questions that have obvious and common sense answers. If someone asks you where you were before something happened and you were innocent, you're not going to avoid the question and change the subject. You're going to say where you were. From what little of the clip I saw, that's all Nancy Grace wanted to know. If her guest wasn't concerned about something, she would have just said where she was. She may or may not have been hiding something, particularly her guilt, but her refusal to answer the question brings suspicion on her.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#48)
    by chris on Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 11:58:21 AM EST
    I've read a lot of armchair psychoanalysis on this board and others. I'd like to give you all my analysis. 1. Melissa Duckett is adopted. She may not even know either of her birth parents. 2. She started a family in her late teens, and that family has broken up as well. 3. Her son is the only blood relation that she has in the whole world. He was the only thing in her life that was truly hers. 4. Melissa Duckett was fighting to keep sole custody of her son. With these facts in mind, do you really think that Melissa Duckett would kill her only son? Oh, yes, that car seat she was selling. She had lost her job. Maybe she needed money so bad that she was going to sell it, and buy a new one when she found work again. What good is a car seat if you can't make your car payment? Oh yeah, before she killed herself, she did say that her son was never coming home. Some might see this as an admission of guilt. The media was already speculating that the boy was dead and the searches had not turned up a single clue in two weeks. I think it more likely that she had given up hope that her son would ever be found alive. She also knew that she had already been tried and convicted in the press. So, let's recap: no birth parents, no husband, and now her son is gone. No one can find him, she is being vilified in the media, and people all over the country are convinced, in spite of the complete lack of any physical evidence, that she killed her only son. If she wasn't suicidal before, that ought to about do it. To all those who are so sure she did it, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You would want to be presumed innocent. You would want a chance to tell your story without interruption, badgering, and without having the intent behind your words misrepresented. You better pray that you never have to try to defend yourself against such an onslaught. We'll see how strong you are then.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#49)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 05:25:39 PM EST
    If anyone's keeping score here, I think it IS suspicious that a grieving mother would commit suicide if/when she doesn't know her child's whereabouts. Doesn't it stand to reason that Melissa Duckett MOST LIKELY killed herself based on guilt? Guilt at what she had done, or what she knew about her child's disappearance? Suicide is far too much of a selfish act to be easily explained by depression in THIS PARTICULAR CASE. If she were so distraught at what had happened to her son, I agree with previous writers who have said it seems she would want to be there if/when he was returned. The fact that she killed herself tells me that she knew her son wasn't coming back. I believe Melissa Duckett either knew exactly what happened to her son, or that she was involved in his disappearnce in some way. I believe that she killed herself because she longer had anything or anyone to live for.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#50)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 05:25:39 PM EST
    Myself and alot of my friends and family here, had stopped watching CNN along time ago, due to Nancy Grace. Especially during the time of the Louisiana crisis, the way she grills people and questions people, are inhuman. I wanted to throw something at my tv set every time I heard her question people...how they FELT, I mean come on Nancy are you just plain evil and ignorant, with no morals? CNN sucks only becuase of her and I refuse to watch you. If you let her continue on, your ratings will drop even further, as her most recent interview on the woman who committed suicide was despicable and does nothing for people to watch you in the future. If you beleive in Evil and letting someone like Nancy who is VERY fake and Inhumane on your show...then I hope your ratings drop for not doing something about her and getting her evil attitudes off of your show. She will have to be accountable one day and so will the people on your show for allowing crap like that to air and hurt MILLIONS of people.!!SHES EVIL COLD AND A THOUGHTLESS SELFISH WOMAN!!!Get her OFF the air and due us all a HUGE favor in AMERICA!!Also the woman who tried to defend her with Katie Curic? She smiled the whole time- tell me thats not disugusting of CNN and all of you, but ESPECIALLY that horrible woman Nancy GRACE?? THANKS!!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#51)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 01:19:10 AM EST
    It is not just what she says, but it is also the tone Nancy Grace uses. She is very agressive when she talks and it is horrible to watch.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#52)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 01:19:10 AM EST
    Most disturbing... Nancy Grace likes to make a big deal of the fact that she was a prosecutor. But to me the big deal is that people like Nancy Grace become prosecutors. In our flawed system of "justice" we actually employ people to destroy people. Their mission is to WIN, to get a conviction, when it should be to seek the truth. I once asked a prosecutor if he was at all interested in the truth, or if he only cared about legal victory. At least he was honest enough to say "the truth isn't my job." Nancy Grace is the symptom, a legal system that seeks people like her out to represent our government in court is the disease. Another disturbing thing is that when I search Google with "Nancy Grace suicide" I find pages such as this. But when I search CNN with the same terms using their google branded search, I get nothing even remotely related. Shame on CNN! Prosecutors are famous for putting their careers ahead of justice, ahead of truth. In all honesty, they can hardly worry about whether they are putting innocents in jail, if they are the ones victimizing someone or not, because they have a political career in the future to worry about. And to them thats much more important than justice. This is just another twist on that... Instead of thinking that perhaps the police trying to find this child were holding their cards close to their chest in hopes that whoever might be guilty would play their hand wrong, Nancy sought her own glory. Nancy's priority was clearly Nancy and her TV career - not that missing child. There's no possible good result from what Nancy did. Thanks to her the Mother is now dead and can't help the police. If Grace's assumption turns out to be correct, Grace's actions will have further endagered the child as he is now very unlikely to be found alive. If Grace turns out to be wrong, then not only did she drive a grieving, despairing young Mother to suicide, she has deprived a child of his Mother's love - either in life, or in memory. Either way, Grace's actiosn were despicable. Not only should Nancy Grace be fired from CNN, she should be disbarred. But really the problem is larger than just her. It's time to see that laws are written that say that the Truth, and not a conviction, is what a prosecutor is expected to come up with. And the way we bring this about is that we, the people, reject prosecutors like this by refusing to allow former prosecutors like Grace to win our votes just because they got a lot of convictions. The ex-prosecutor who can get me to vote for them is the one who can show they PROVED a lot of people guilty, AND they proved a lot of people innocent. That would impress me. And as for Nancy Grace - the best thing you can do to get rid of her and people like her is to become a Nielsen family - then change the channel.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#53)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 08:58:36 AM EST
    I do not believe that Nancy Grace contributed to Melindas death at all. Melinda did something to her son and as the weeks went by she realized that the focus was on her NOT her husband (that she wanted it to). Yes Melinda was a disturbed person but Nancy Grace did nothing more than everyone wanted too do to try and find Trenton. But Melinda took the cowards way out rather than confess.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#54)
    by Bill on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 08:58:36 AM EST
    Chris, the ad in newspaper for the car seat was nothing more than nancy trying to deny any blame for melindas suicide. Did nancy investigate before she insinuated that proved melinda was guilty because she posted ad 17 days before trentons disappearance. Is there any possibility that melinda purchased a new one? Guess what.According to an interview,Rockefeller, who has appeared on nancy's show , claims that investifators found a new carseat box in melindas apt. also rocefeller claims he doesn't remember not seeing a car seat in melindas car at any time.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#55)
    by Sailor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 09:36:15 AM EST
    NG aired the interview after she knew of the suicide, that's despicable. Anyone else notice all the caps and bolds comments appear to be from the same trailer park denizens commenting on the 'dog' threads? Trials, juries, findings of guilt don't seem to matter to these folks.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#56)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 11:55:11 AM EST
    Nancy Grace is beyond any sort of redemption. I don't care if Melissa Duckett had emotional problems, that doesn't mean she killed her son. Grace is not a Prosecutor anymore, she's a TV Personality. Which means the network should do the right thing and fire her. If networks truly think that she will help them get better ratings, they are as out of touch as Nancy Grace is. I will Never watch her show again, and I can't be the only one who feels this way. She pushed a a very young, very depressed young woman over the edge and her actions will probably end up hampering the search for an innocent child, not helping. She takes no responsiblity for this. Personally, even if she was sorry-Who cares. She has to Go. Please CNN and networks, get this miserable excuse for a human being Off the air, before she does more damage. Enough is enough....It's more than enough. Even if you don't really care about people,care about your precious ratings. This will come to bite you in the butt. Nancy Grace, if karma is real-Man do I hope you get yours.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#57)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 11:55:11 AM EST
    Nancy Grace has gone too far to many times and I will no longer watch CNN. Thanks for allowing me to postl

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#58)
    by Tim on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 12:08:12 PM EST
    Nancy Grace exemplifies the old days and Klan tradition of lynching in the state she comes from.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#59)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 03:14:52 PM EST
    I know melinda duckett she dated my buddy for a couple months.Has anyone really thought about all the theorys here.Every single person is capable of murder and suicide,its in our nature to destroy ourselves in some way..by the way we eat etc..lets analyze some of the facts.Its seems like an easy blame when she committed suicide,an easy write off to the case but hell think about this was it really a suicide or was it staged to look like one.Or how about the fact that the attorney ordered her not to take a lie detector test and she was just listening,but for some reason that part was left out all the news focused one was Oh my god she isnt taking one shes hiding something.You wanna see what the news hides from you go to ogrish.com and see whats really going on in other countries they fail to tell you about or show you.They said melinda had mental problems and that she wasnt normal...what is normal define normal.Now heres something to chew on ok lets say she did kill Trenton..what would the whole point of fighting for custody all that time be for??? She did become stressed at the end and the myspace.com messages and comments did lead to believe she has something to do with this,but we will never know.Hell we r still missing facts and we havent been told everything the news is still hiding stuff.Why dont we look at the father more...

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#60)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 05:04:30 PM EST
    I HATE HER!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#61)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 07:37:06 PM EST
    Nancy Grace, I am sure, believes this woman killed her son and in Nancy's world her believing it makes it so. But let's say Grace is right. I put this to her...What were the circumstances? Was this young mother somehow negligent? Was there an accident and she, being 21, became frightened? Oh, and of course, there is the unfathomable, that and she had nothing to do with her son's disappearance, but felt like she had failed him anyway? Nancy Grace has blood on her hands and she we should all demand her immediate dismissal. Anne Harman -Long Beach, CA

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#62)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 10:14:30 PM EST
    In my opinion Nancy Grace is an agry, caustic person with a hate on for the world because she has serious deep-rooted issues for which she needs help...she is not imprtant...what is important is the fact that in our society individuials are considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law...NOT ON A TV SHOW AND NOT BECAUSE AN ANGRY NANCY GRACE SAYS SO!!!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#63)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 05:34:42 PM EST
    After seeing a video clip of the Nancy Grace story I was interested to read the comments about the lady committing suicide. I didn't see the interview. I know nothing about the whole issue except what I saw on the clip and people's comments. In fact, I've never even watched the NG program. But what I do see is people doing the same thing they are accusing Nancy of doing. Those who say that Nancy drove this woman to kill herself are being just as "mean" as they say Nancy was in that interview. What if Nancy killed herself because of the guilt the public put on her for "driving this lady to suicide"? Would some of you be happy? If yes, how cruel of you. When I'm sure Nancy never wanted this lady to kill herself. I'm sure that's the last thing she wanted! The bottom line is: FACT: Before law we are innocent until proven guilty. FACT: Before God, we cannot judge. He knows ALL things and HE WILL reward...in time. FACT: True, guilt DOES lead to suicide. But based on these facts, all WE need to worry about is how is OUR OWN self-righteous attitude behaving towards others. Only God knows the truth...we ought to leave it in his hands. Dealing with things like this in any other way can only lead to more problems. I know one thing for sure, and this gives me peace...The truth will ALWAYS win!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#64)
    by diana on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 10:16:01 AM EST
    This is truly sad. I've seen Nancy Grace in action many times and she does act as though she is judge, jury and in this case executioner. She repeatedly treats case principals as though they are guilty, especially when they won't 'play the game' with her the way she thinks it should go. I don't know whether Mrs. Duckett is responsible for the disappearance of her son and now, thanks to Nancy Grace, we may never know. I'm certain she did not intend to push the mother over the edge, which resulted in her suicide, she was only interested in her ratings. Why didn't Mrs Duckett take a lie detector test? What difference does it make? Likely, because of her emotional state, the test would not have been valid anyway, add to that the unreliability of test results as a whole. I for one would never take a lie detector test, I wouldn't want to be hung publicly simply because I failed this test. What would people believe, me other evidence or the possibly inaccurate test results? On Nancy Grace's show it would certainly be the one damning piece of evidence she would lock her teeth onto, with all the other evidence swatted away like a gnat. Because of her celebrity, Ms Grace can be a great tool to assist in spreading the word about a missing cild, as long as she hasn't decided that you MUST be guilty. I am truly sorry for the family of Mrs Duckett. They have now lost another loved one and may never know the fate of her son. I pray that Ms Grace never has to face the wrath of a self important berater, such as her self, in the future. She may not fair much better with this kind of verbal attack.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#65)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Sep 25, 2006 at 05:53:04 PM EST
    Nancy Grace is a horrible person with her own anger biult inside of her.......your soooo right SHE needs help!! Also everyone should email cnn and let them know how they feel.I can`t believe she is still on that show!!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#66)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Sep 26, 2006 at 12:09:33 AM EST
    Personally, I am neutral about Nancy Grace since I rarely watch her show. However, I am amazed at this overwhelming support for a young woman, who by most reports, looks to be a strong suspect in the murder of her own child. I am SICK of the multitude of excuses offered as to why women murder their own children. There is NO good reason for this and if the secenario were different and it was the father that was suspected of killing this precious child then I suspect there would be a vastly different attituded to the whole situation. The saddest fact of all is that we may never know what did happen to Trenton.

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#67)
    by anon55 on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 03:40:49 PM EST
    She should be fired!!!

    Re: Guest on Nancy Grace Show Commits Suicide (none / 0) (#68)
    by edchaos2 on Tue Oct 17, 2006 at 06:27:26 PM EST
     Nancy Grace should be held accountable. as well as CNN. According to the (radio and televisions news directors ass.) code of ethics.   Treat all subjects of news coverage with respect and dignity, showing particular compassion to victims of crime or tragedy.
    Exercise special care when children are involved in a story and give children greater privacy protection than adults.
    Seek to understand the diversity of their community and inform the public without bias or stereotype.
    Present a diversity of expressions, opinions, and ideas in context.
    Present analytical reporting based on professional perspective, not personal bias.
    Respect the right to a fair trial http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/coe.shtml

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