The mother of a missing two-year-old killed herself after a phone interview with CNN’s Nancy Grace. Melinda Duckett, 21, shot herself to death a day after the taped interview, just hours before it aired Sept. 8th. Writes the AP: 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?” (CNN Transcript) Some members of Duckett’s family say the media pressure pushed her to take her own life. Police, however, while not calling her a suspect, have been focusing on her movements at the time of her son’s kidnapping. On her show Monday, Grace said “I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett. The truth… is not always nice or polite or easy to go down. Sometimes it`s harsh, and it hurts.” (CNN Transcript)
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