Hold up. Wait one freaking minute here. The suicide of Melinda Duckett, the mother of missing child Trenton Duckett, who killed herself after being grilled by Headline News host Nancy Grace, is not merely an "extremely sad development," as Grace said in a statement today. An "extremely sad development" is when your dog needs to be put down. Melinda Duckett's suicide is a tragedy that should make the boutique criminal-justice vigilantes of the media take a good hard look at the potential consequences of their actions. It's pretty obvious that Melinda Duckett, whether or not she had anything to do with her son's disappearance, was a troubled individual and for any one television host to press her mercilessly outside of a courtroom is megalomania of the highest order. Did Grace think perhaps she could get Duckett to confess live on the air? Melinda Duckett should have been treated by the media and by Grace as a precious piece of evidence--that is, as the last person to see Trenton alive. But it's too late now--Melinda Duckett's not around. Now what?
