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Nancy Grace, CNNNancy Grace - CNN news anchor whose heavy-handed prosecutorial rant allegedly influenced a distraught woman to take her life soon after an interview on September 6th, 2006.

Grace, a former lawyer, had talked to Melinda Duckett during a telephone interview to discuss Trenton Duckett, Melinda's two-year-old son who had been snatched from his crib in their house near Orlando, Florida on August, 26th, 2006. At the time, Police had not named Melinda as a suspect in the case.

Unfortunately for Duckett, before the interview-turned-Inquisition was over, Nancy Grace was pounding her desk and demanding loudly: “Where were you? Why aren’t you telling us where you were that day?”

The next day, shortly before the interview aired, Melinda Duckett, 21, shot herself to death with a shotgun that she procured from her grandfather's house just down the road.

Duckett's relatives said that the strain of her son’s disappearance pushed Melinda to the brink, and the media sent her over the edge.

“Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end,” said Duckett’s grandfather Bill Eubank. “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.”

Did Nancy Grace cross the line during her phone interview? Well, many feel Nancy Grace's act of targeting the grieving mother as a suspect destroyed the woman's very soul.

Former FBI profiler, Clint Van Zandt reported to Tucker Carlson on MSNBC that Nancy Grace "stepped over the line" and pushed over the edge a woman who was very "delicate psychologically with number of challenges going on in her life" (recent divorce and lay-off from her job). Tucker Carlson called Nancy Grace a "reckless gasbag."

Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, commented in an email that Duckett’s death was “an extremely sad development.”

Shortly after, in an exclusive interview with GOOD MORNING, AMERICA, Grace said that she takes no responsibility for Duckett's suicide. In her hubris, Grace told ABC News Chris Cuomo, "If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide."

Now, whether Melinda Duckett is found guilty or innocent, the fact remains that Nancy Grace, was "graceless" in her handling of Duckett during a phone interview - an interview which turned out to be Grace's own "
Jenny Jones moment."

Consequently, Grace's handing of the issue hindered the investigation by instigating the death of a key player in the case and further damaging the lives and well-being of Duckett's family and friends.
For these reasons, Nancy Grace, has for now, won a dishonorable spot in our MONSTERS section at TVACRES.com. Can Bill O'Reilly be far behind? Just kidding, Bill...or are we?

 
     
 

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