WWW- The parents of a woman who committed suicide shortly after a grilling by Nancy Grace today filed a lawsuit against the TV host, claiming that their daughter was driven to her death by the hard-charging former prosecutor.
In a wrongful death lawsuit, the parents of Melinda Duckett charge that Grace duped their daughter into an interview about Duckett’s missing two-year-old son, Trenton. That interview, which aired on Grace’s CNN Headline News show after Duckett’s death, was more of a cross-examination, with Grace peppering the 21-year-old woman with questions about her whereabouts at the time of her son’s late-August disappearance.
On September 8, a day after her interview with Grace, Duckett used a shotgun to kill herself. While Florida police have described Duckett as the prime suspect in her son’s disappearance, they have said they believe the boy may still be alive. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed by William and Beth Eubank in Lake County Circuit Court. The complaint, which also names Duckett’s estranged husband as a defendant, seeks undisclosed damages.