"According to the family of Melinda Duckett, a harsh interview Grace taped with Duckett was one of the factors that put her over the top:
Duckett shot herself a day after taping an interview with CNN Headline News' Nancy Grace, who frequently focuses on missing-persons cases. Stumbling on questions like whether she had taken a polygraph test or where, specifically, she was shopping with her son before his disappearance, Duckett, speaking by telephone, became audibly exasperated."
Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk in a raised voice, saying, "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"
"Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end," Melinda 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."
2006-09-14 08:19:14 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No, she called her on the facts, where was she??? what about the lie detector test? Everybody knows that Nancy Grace doesn't take crap. So she should of known that before she went on the show. Did the police ever release a note that she wrote stating she killed herself because of Nancy Grace. Maybe she killed herself because she actually had something to do with her child's disappearance. Who knows but the police did take her computer and they will retrieve even the deleted files. If my child was missing and I had nothing to do with it, I would do what ever the police wanted me to do.
2006-09-14 12:06:41 · answer #1 · answered by aleynam 3 · 1⤊ 6⤋
I don't think Nancy Grace is to blame. I have read the transcripts of the interview and Melinda Duckett never gave a straight answer. Nancy had asked her several times if she had taken a lie detector test and Melinda would not answer the question. Melinda stated that she was only working with the FBI. Also when Nancy asked where she and her son had been that day Melinda stumbled on her answer. Nancy asked her what stores she had been into and Melinda refused to answer that. I have a daughter and if I was in Melinda's place I would work with all law enforcement weather it be local, state, or FBI, hell I'd even work with mall security guards. At a time like that there is no reason to be picky. I would talk to any and everyone who would listen to me about where I had been, even national media in case someone had seen me and noticed something suspicious. Another thing is that one of the men who had been over that night has disappeared and Melinda never seemed to be concerned about it. Something just doesn't add up. I think Nancy did her job. Maybe that mother was killed by guilt. But lets all try not to waist to much time and energy debating this there is still a little boy missing out there.
2006-09-16 12:29:49 · answer #2 · answered by prettiekitty22 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The way Melinda was treated was questionable at best. I did not know her but when my son was missing for 5 days when he was 11 I was a wreck!! Yes the police were up my butt 24/7 I got questioned and so did everyone I even remotely knew! It is an ordeal I am a very strong person. I don't know Melinda's strength but being in that circumstance is the most trying thing a parent can go through! I am so sorry she agreed to be on that show! The news paper tried to interview me I declined! They camped out in front of my house I went out the back door and jumped the fence! I did not return till I found my son. I did not take a lie detector on the advice of an attorney! She made some right choices and she made some bad choices we will never know what was in her mind!
2006-09-14 08:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by Star of Florida 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No. I don't think so. based on what I heard, Melinda was not shaken by Nancy's questions. She told her that she could not say anything and just kept repeating that. I did not hear Melinda break down and start to cry or even develop a shaky voice. She handled Nancy's question with some confidence.
However, she does seem to have been a problematic girl. I feel sorry for her but she was probably carrying a weight too heavy for her and it is those issues and probably the fear of being uncovered that caused her to kill herself. She was suicidal and mentally unstable but I dont think Nancy pushed her over the edge.
I have learnt that even the folks on the street who are good-looking and flashy could be as messed up and twisted. Life can surely suck -- but no kid deserves to be given so much crap when they are so young since they don't have the shocks to absorb it all.
2006-09-17 12:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by JiveSly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nancy grace should be called Nancy graceless. She doesn't even except that she did anything wrong. she said and i quote
I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett. this is from the site http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2357726,00.html
She always has been a total witch but take out the w and add a b.
she hammers on anyone and everyone.Who is she to pass judgment on anything, so what she was a prosecutor , who cares and how many times does our justice system screw up, like lets take for instance the O.J. Simpson trial, that was a total circus, and they screwed that up. No she had nothing do do with that case, but it just goes to show you the systemic problems that is our united states judicial system.
2006-09-15 02:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by richard g 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She certainly didn't help. Problem with Nancy Grace is she thinks everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Now that the girl is dead she's trying to use it as proof that Duckett had something to do with it. I saw some of her show today and am convinced she is nothing more than a ratings whore, she did this story and the LeFave story. She didn't even have the good grace to not show the interview after they got word of her death. Exploitation to the extreme.
2006-09-14 14:09:38 · answer #6 · answered by jkrauser 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Grace has always acted like a pit bull. She has made her fame acting like such but lacking the professionalism to weigh the facts - what happened to innocent until proven guilty. She is jury, judge, lawyer and now partly responsible for Duckett's death.
Look at her face - can she really be enjoying her life - I don't think so - get some counseling and deal with the issues I would advised.
2006-09-15 01:02:26 · answer #7 · answered by Lucy CIie 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nancy Grace is a sick, twisted individual who reminds me of Captain Blye. Seriously. Do you think Nancy Grace will ever REALLY retire? Even if Court T.V. fires her, she will still go through life imagining herself as a prosecuting attorney, banging her fists on Walmart checkout counters as she interrogates innocent cashiers about why half-gallons of icecream are now 1.75 quarts. She's nothing more than a rude bleach-blonde with a Barbara Bush nose who had a nasty enough attitude that a cable network thought it would be cute to make her their piranha mascot.
If what comes around goes around, Ol' Nancy had better start planning to hide from life in her waning years, since there is a whole pallet of bricks hanging over her head.
2006-09-14 13:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by Candidus 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Whether Ms Duckett was involved or not, Ms Grace needs to leave police investigations to the police. If Ms Grace wishes to return to the DA's office then do it, otherwise please remember you are a reporter not a prosecuter. I consider your conduct on air re: the Duckett matter as nothing short of irresponsible and clearly played a role in her death.
2006-09-14 12:37:17 · answer #9 · answered by Len M 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Nancy Grace disgusts me. She has absolutely no evidence and accuses this poor woman who is already going through a very difficult time of her life. Now she doesn't even have the moral scruples to appologize! She should be taken off the air!
2006-09-16 06:53:48 · answer #10 · answered by gandalf_for_president_3rd_age 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nancy Grace has a "God" complex or whatever you call it. Her holier art thou attitude that she is bravely doing what no prosecutor dares - grill the suspect, person or interest or witness - is galling, to say the least. Who appointed her to this position?
I don't for one moment think she cares about any of these people whom she is supposedly avenging. She's in it for herself with the victims a distant second. She's a hack, a sensational ratings whore. She needs to go. If you must have personality driven legal news, someone likely Bancroft is much more appropriate, or someone like Catherine Crier.
2006-09-14 15:46:45 · answer #11 · answered by Shelley 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋