By Seamus McGraw
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Suicide note castigates cops, the media and the public
Several cable news outlets, including CNN Headline News and MSNBC's "Scarborough Country," have devoted considerable air time to the case and the controversy surrounding it.
That controversy got a boost over the weekend when authorities released a suicide note, written by Melinda Duckett and addressed to the public. In the unsigned and undated note, Duckett held out hope that her son would be found alive, and blasted the public and the media for insinuating that she was involved in his disappearance. "Your focus came off my son," she wrote.
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| Melinda Duckett with Photo |
On Monday police acknowledged that they had found two other letters along with the suicide note, one addressed to her grandparents and the other intended for police. Authorities have declined to discuss the content of those notes but told the Orlando Sentinel that there was nothing in either to shed much light on the case.
The suicide note added another layer to the already complex question of Duckett's state of mind at the time of her disappearance.
Last week, authorities disclosed that they had found a sonogram — an image of a child floating in its mother's womb, the kind of keepsake parents often cherish — carelessly discarded in a Dumpster outside Duckett's apartment.
According to documents detailed in published reports, authorities searching her apartment and the area surrounding it in the days after she reported that Trenton had been abducted from his bedroom also found a number of other items, including dried baby food, children's snacks, toys and photographs, all apparently discarded by Melinda Duckett.
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