Missing 2yr old in FL-- Follow-up..Possibly Dead!!

[GrimReaper]

Follow up on the Missing Child Story in FLorida: the Sheriff has told the locals to start checking in the woods for a dead body!!

LEESBURG, Fla. -- Investigators in the search for a missing 2-year-old boy in Leesburg, Fla., are leaning toward the possibility that the boy will not be found alive and are asking people to search remote areas on their property this week, WKMG-TV in Orlando reported Monday.

Police are asking people in Leesburg, Fruitland Park and the Lady Lake area who have property in remote areas to search the region for clues or the body of Trenton Duckett.

"They may have a good idea that, you know, that corner of property I got might be a good place," Leesburg police Capt. Steve Rockefeller said. "Well, grab a friend, go out there and start looking. That's what I encourage people to do at this point."


The police admitted the possibility three days after the missing boy's mother committed suicide.

Melinda Duckett, 21, was found Friday in her grandparents' home in The Villages, dead from a gunshot would that appeared self-inflicted, Leesburg police Capt. Steve Rockefeller said.

Trenton disappeared from his bedroom at a Leesburg apartment complex where he lived with his mother. Police say they think he was pulled through a hole cut in a window screen. He was reported missing Aug. 27, and police were still searching for him.

Police have not said whether Melinda Duckett left a suicide note. Rockefeller said there were no imminent arrests in the case.

"We're getting bits and pieces," said Don Jordan, Trenton's great-uncle, who lives in Plant City. "Until they (the police) track more down or get anything, we're just fearing for the worst."

Melinda Duckett had refused to take a polygraph test, police Capt. Ginny Padgett said. He would not say whether she was considered a suspect in the boy's disappearance.

However, Kimberly Schulte, Melinda Duckett's family-law attorney, said the woman did not refuse to take the polygraph test after Trenton's disappearance, but was instead advised not to take it.

"I answered for her because polygraphs are not admissible in evidence," Schulte said.

Trenton's father, Joshua Duckett, took a polygraph test within 24 hours after police were called and investigators were "satisfied with his responses."

Melinda Duckett filed for divorce from Joshua Duckett on June 14, and the two were fighting for custody of Trenton.

WKMG reported that Melinda Duckett's grandparents said media coverage may have been too much and pushed her over the edge.

Police are trying to piece together Melinda and Trenton Duckett's whereabouts on Aug. 26 and Aug. 27 and ask anyone who saw the pair or has any information about Trenton's wherabouts to call 800-CALL-FBI[/b]

[Brent]

WOW. Two and a half months after he disappeared, police today they said they believe he is ALIVE! They think his mother dropped him with someone to keep him away from his father.

How strange.

http://www.wesh.com/news/10324431/detail.html

[Miss Mary]

If he is safe and alive, this is one missing child case I would wrong about. I feared he was gone, as soon as the story broke.

Sometimes there is a happy outcome in these cases isn't there? Let's hope and pray so, in this story.

Mary

[Lindaloo]

I sure hope and pray he is alive. The outcome may be happy for some but if this little fella is alive it will not be so happy for him. His Mother is gone and her death was senseless. I hope Nancy Grace is disgraced right on out of a job!