LEESBURG, Fla. -- With all the focus on Caylee Anthony recently, Leesburg detectives wanted to bring attention back to anther high-profile missing child case. Trenton Duckett was just two years old when he disappeared in 2006. Detectives released a picture Tuesday of what Trenton might look like now.
Detectives say, unlike Caylee, they have no evidence that Trenton is dead.
The same poster of Trenton has been up on the door at the Leesburg Police Department for more than two years. Now investigators hope a new picture of the boy helps bring him home.
"Our hope is we can get the public to perhaps stop looking for a toddler, because what we are looking for now is a small boy, maybe school-age," said Major Steve Rockefeller, Leesburg Police Department.
Using photos of Trenton and both his parents, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children produced a computerized image of what the boy could look like at age 4. While there's no evidence to suggest Trenton is dead, there's also no proof he's still alive.
"There was no abduction out of the home and, beyond that, the investigation hasn't led us in any direction as to what his condition is. We are still just focused on bring him home," Rockefeller said.
Investigators have no new leads, no new geographic boundaries and no new developments. Their only suspect, Trenton's mother Melinda Duckett, killed herself.
The numbers of tips coming to investigators went from a 100 a day in the beginning to now only a couple a month and police have significantly scaled back their efforts, from more than 40 detectives working on the case initially to now just two. The lead investigator has since retired.
Trenton's father Joshua hopes the new image helps generate new leads and possibly bring Trenton back.
"We are going to continue to push, continue to do everything we can to move forward to bring him home," Joshua Duckett said. "That's been our goal since day and we are not gonna give up no matter what."
what Trenton might look like now
