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New Timeline Released In Missing-Boy Case

POSTED: Thursday, September 21, 2006
UPDATED: 12:52 am EDT September 21, 2006

A new timeline focusing on the whereabouts of a missing boy's mom was released Wednesday night and it contradicts what the woman told Local 6 News and police before she committed suicide.

For 24 days, police have been trying to pinpoint where Melinda Duckett, 21, was the day her son Trenton, 2, vanished.

With newly released ATM and cell phone records, authorities are getting a better idea of Duckett's travels.

A witness claims to have seen Duckett by herself inside a Leesburg business at about 8 a.m. the day her son disappeared, Local 6 News reported.

ATM records show that Duckett was still in Leesburg at about 10:39 a.m. on the same morning.

Marion County officials said they believe Duckett then traveled within five miles of Paddock Mall in Ocala, where new cell phone records show her leaving the area at 12:28 p.m.

A witness later spotted Duckett back at her Leesburg apartment shortly before 3 p.m. without her son.

Six hours later, when Duckett reported her son missing from his apartment bedroom, the woman allowed police to search her home and a trash bin outside.

"That's when investigators made a bizarre discovery," Local 6's Mike DeForest said. "Inside the trash, detectives uncovered a box full of unused garbage bags, along with photographs of Trenton, a sonogram and several of the boy's toys."

"It strikes me as very odd," the boy's father, Joshua Duckett, said. "I have all of my photos and all of my sonogram pictures from when she was pregnant. To me, it's a shock that you would want to throw stuff like that away."

Search crews continued looking for Trenton or clues to his whereabouts in the Ocala National Forest Wednesday.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

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