On August 27, Melinda Duckett told police that on her way to bed she went in to check on her 2 year old son — when she entered his room, she found him gone and the screen cut on the window above his crib. The fate of the boy is still unknown.

On September 7, Ms. Duckett agreed to a phone interview with CNN’s Nancy Grace, presumably under the pretext that she would be allowed to tell her story, and hopefully someone, somewhere, would be able to shed some light on the case. What Duckett was certainly not told was that she instead was going to have her feet held to the fire on Grace’s virtual witness stand. Grace has yet to wake up from her fog and realize she’s a TV commentator, and no longer a prosecutor. Grace grilled this mother on her whereabouts at the time of her son’s disappearance, becoming belligerent, pounding her hand on the desk, all but straight out accusing Duckett. Shortly after the interview, Duckett took a shotgun and blew her brains out. Duckett’s family is claiming that Melinda was already “pushed to the brink” and that the media gave her the final shove. The most disgusting part of the story? They still ran the interview hours after learning about Duckett’s death.

I’ll admit that I’m entertained by Nancy Grace from time to time, just as it’s entertaining to watch a deranged person yell and dance in the middle of the street. But she has crossed the line here. I hope the Ducketts sue her and CNN for every penny they are worth. There’s certainly a legal precedent. Am I overreacting? Watch the video and judge for yourself:

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