Florida: What Happened to Trenton Duckett?
Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast
Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins
4.5 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
She had then watched a movie with two of her friends before going to check on Trenton—but to her horror, the 2-year-old's bed was empty. Melinda was quite sure that the little boy could not have gotten out of the crib, but it was another thing that caused her and her friends to panic someone had cut through the window screen of the room.
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| 0:00.0 | On Sunday evening of August 27th, 2006, just after 9 PM, police responded to a call regarding |
| 0:18.1 | a missing child in Leesburg, Florida. |
| 0:20.4 | What is Trenton wearing, honey? |
| 0:22.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:23.0 | He was ready for bed. |
| 0:25.0 | You don't know what you dressed in before you went to bed? |
| 0:28.0 | Um, he wanted to have his shoes off and, or his shirt off, no shoes. |
| 0:38.0 | And how long has he been gone? |
| 0:40.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:42.0 | You don't know? |
| 0:43.0 | I was two hours long. |
| 0:44.0 | I checked on it before anyone came down to the house. |
| 0:47.0 | As the officers arrived at the scene, |
| 0:49.0 | 21-year-old Melinda Duckett |
| 0:51.0 | explained that she had just put her son, year old Trenton to bed around 7 PM. |
| 0:58.1 | She had then watched a movie with two of her friends before going to check on Trenton. But to her horror, the two-year-old's bed was empty. |
| 1:07.0 | Melinda was quite sure that the little boy could not have gotten out of the crib, but it was another site that caused her and her friends |
| 1:15.3 | to panic. |
| 1:17.3 | Someone had cut through the window screen. |
| 1:20.0 | From the start, the investigators had little to go on. |
| 1:23.7 | There was no evidence or sign of an intruder other than this last screen. |
| 1:29.8 | The police could not initially conclude if the screen had really been cut from the outside, nor |
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