Investigators in the search for a missing Leesburg boy said they now believe that a second person was likely involved in the 2-year-old's disappearance, Local 6 News has learned.

Since Trenton Duckett was reported missing last month, police have had their suspicions that his mother, Melinda Duckett, 21, may have been responsible for the boy's disappearance, Local 6's Mike DeForest said.

However, Local 6 News said police named Duckett as a prime suspect in the case. Duckett committed suicide after she reported Trenton missing.

There appears to be evidence that a second person may have been involved in the incident, police said.

"Police are also telling us that there is a very likely possibility that there was an accomplice involved -- someone else who helped played a role in young Trenton's disappearance," Local 6's Mike DeForest said.

E-Mail Questioned

Local 6 News also learned Thursday that Duckett apparently presented investigators with an e-mail that she said she received from her estranged husband Joshua Duckett.

In the e-mail, it appears that Joshua Duckett threatened to kill the child and Melinda Duckett, DeForest said.

Joshua Duckett said that he didn't write the e-mail and that someone else wrote the e-mail.

More information about the e-mail was expected to be released Thursday night.

New Timeline

With newly released ATM and cell phone records, authorities are also getting a better idea of Melinda 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, police said.

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," DeForest reported. "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."

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