FL TRENTON DUCKETT: Missing from Leesburg, FL - 27 Aug 2006 - Age 2

Trenton's photo is shown age-progressed to 15 years. He was last seen at approximately 7:00 p.m. on August 27, 2006. Trenton is Biracial. He is Asian and White. Trenton has a small mark over his left eye. He was last seen wearing denim shorts and a green and blue striped shirt.
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Trenton was last seen on August 27, 2006 at Windemere Apartments in the 1400 block of Griffin Road in Leesburg, Florida. He was living there with his mother, Melinda M. Duckett, at the time. Melinda stated she put her son to bed at approximately 7:00 p.m. When she went into his room to check on him two hours later, he was missing.

The bedroom window's screen had been slit, leading authorities to speculate that an abductor had gained access to the room through the window and carried the child away.

Authorities initially announced they believed Trenton had been abducted and made an appeal to the public to search for him. Several days after his disappearance, however, investigators stated they had no reason to believe the child was deceased or had been taken out of the local area, and that his parents were the focal point of the investigation.

About a week after Trenton went missing, police stated they were not certain he had disappeared at the time Melinda said he did. No one other than Melinda reported having seen Trenton since his mother picked him up from day care a full day prior to his reported disappearance, and witnesses reported seeing Melinda alone in the hours prior to her son's going missing.

Melinda refused to take a polygraph, and she failed a voice stress test. Investigators found photographs and sonogram images of Trenton, and some of his toys, in the trash bin when they searched Melinda's apartment after the child's disappearance was reported.

It is unclear why someone tried to throw those items away, but their presence in the garbage made police suspicious.

Melinda had told her attorney she took her son and a shotgun to a shooting range at the Ocala National Forest on August 27, then became lost and drove around central Florida for eight hours.


On September 8, thirteen days after her son vanished, Melinda was found shot to death in a closet in her paternal grandparents' home in Lady Lake, Florida. She had taken her own life at the age of 21. She left two notes, neither of which disclosed any information as to what happened to Trenton.

On September 21, nearly a month after Trenton went missing and two weeks after Melinda's death, police officially named her as the prime and only suspect in Trenton's case. They stated they did not necessarily believe she had harmed him, however.

Almost a full year after Trenton disappeared, investigators stated they had ruled out several theories in his case: they no longer believe he was abducted by a stranger or that his mother gave him to another individual to hide from Joshua.


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Have you seen this child? TRENTON DUCKETT

Missing From: LEESBURG, FL. Missing Date: 08/27/2006. Trenton's photo is shown age-progressed to 15 years. He was last seen at approximately 7:00 p.m. on August 27, 2006. Trenton is Biracial. He is Asian and White. Trenton has a small mark over his left eye. He was last seen wearing denim...

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TRENTON DUCKETT has been missing from Leesburg, FL since 27 Aug 2006. His mother committed suicide after his disappearance.

Trenton was last seen at Windemere Apartments in Leesburg, Florida. He was living there with his mother, Melinda M. Duckett, at the time. Melinda stated she put her son to bed at approximately 7:00 p.m. When she went into his room to check on him...

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[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Once again, this is not a new age-progression. It's 2 years old. Nor is it a new flyer. I will never understand why they do this.
Glad they are talking about his case again, but maybe use an accurate headline.

Florida shares new rendering of Trenton Duckett 18 years after his disappearance

It’s been 18 years since the disappearance of a Lake County toddler captured the nation.

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Florida shares new rendering of Trenton Duckett 18 years after his disappearance​

It’s been 18 years since the disappearance of a Lake County toddler captured the nation.

However, with few clues police hope a new flyer can help their search.

On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement released a rendering of what he would look like today.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

America's Lost Children: 37 Active AMBER Alerts Still Haunt Families

Since the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have tracked AMBER Alerts, 99% of children have been recovered. The 1% are still missing.

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America's Lost Children: 37 Active AMBER Alerts Still Haunt Families​

The first AMBER Alert was issued in 1996. The notification, which stands for America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response, has recovered at least 1,074 abducted children around the country.

Throughout the years, however, not all missing children are found and there are still 37 active alerts.

"Obviously we would want ever case of a missing child to be resolved and for the child to be recovered alive," Alan Nanavaty, executive director of special programs the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children missing children division, told Newsweek.

The alerts serve as just one tool to help find missing children. Last year alone, Nanavaty said her organization had 20,000 children missing reported to the organization. Around 90% of those children were found.

"Since we've been tracking AMBER Alerts, since early 2005 timeframe, 99% of the children have been recovered," Nanavaty said. "It's not a good or bad thing. It's just what it is, and law enforcement continues to work on the cases."

"I think in terms of the AMBER Alert being used or activated at this point on these cases, the value diminishes over time. However, there are still things that can be done," Nanavaty said. "The most important part is locating that child as quickly as possible and bringing them home safely."

2006 Amber Alerts​

Trenton Duckett was last seen in Florida. His mother put him to bed and then she went in his room to check on him two hours later, he was missing. The bedroom window had been slit.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Leesburg mystery: It has been 18 years since 2-year-old Trenton Duckett went missing

A new age-progressed photo on a new poster will hopefully help his family find him and revive interest in the case. Here's what we know:

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Leesburg mystery: It has been 18 years since 2-year-old Trenton Duckett went missing​

Aug. 27 marks 18 years since Trenton Duckett was reported missing in 2006.

To this day, no one knows his whereabouts.

The Leesburg Police Department, working with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Gas Station TV, have coordinated media efforts at gas pumps throughout Florida to display Trenton Duckett’s poster, showing an age-progressed photo, throughout September.

A candlelight vigil was scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 27 at Leesburg City Hall, 501 W. Meadow St.

 

[GrandmaBear]

He's dead. Imo. She did not make up a story, slit the screen and fail tests, throw away sonogram pics and more because she was innocent. There was no abduction here and the cases where the few who have shown up years later were abducted.

It's very far fetched to believe that this woman knew anyone to hand him off to that would raise him, hide him and be part of a crime for years to come.

She did what usually it is many men that do, she killed the child rather than the ex having a chance to get him and in revenge most likely.

What I don't understand, I did a quick refresh, not hard, few pages on this one, is when detectives had an arrest warrant in hand or something else and were mulling over what to do, she killed herself that very day. HOW did she KNOW about it? it was for some unrelated charge sounded like and I suppose she may have known if she committed some other crime at that time but did she know an arrest warrant was issued before they acted on such?

So now she's gone and answers with her. Not that she'd have given them up.

The only way his body is going to be found imo is if someone stumbles on it one day or part I'm sad to say. He'll be listed as missing until but I think there's enough here to indicate what very likely happened, maybe wasn't tried nor her convicted but seems pretty obvious.

I never say never of course, and of course I'd love to be wrong and he is alive somewhere but I think most feel the same, he is not.

In a quick review LE was also looking for people who may have seen her or her car near was it the Ocala National Forest? So it would seem they maybe had some hint of where. Might have the name and details wrong on that but I think that's what I read.

Imo she killed him but note she never killed herself then, and it was revenge and ensuring he would never have him or see him. She valued self and only killed self when she thought she was finally going to be in trouble and arrested for something else. Still unclear how she knew that.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Trenton Duckett: Florida gas stations to feature new poster after disappearance

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Gas Station TV has introduced a new flyer at gas pumps in Florida during September.

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Trenton Duckett: Florida gas stations to feature new poster after disappearance​

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Gas Station TV has introduced a new flyer to spread awareness for the missing child.

Both organizations worked together to show the flyers at gas pumps in Florida during September.