" nancy kennedy and the others , they just bashed her to the end , " said spiller ' s grandfather , bill eubanks , during an interview with the orlando sentinel . " she wasn ' t one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this . she and that woman just had each other , couldn ' t move away from each other . she wouldn ' t hurt a bug . " taylor ' s reporters described the murder " a bad development , " and grace herself presented a confession saying , " i do not believe that our show is to blame for it happened to melinda duckett . "
Bill Eubanks was Melinda Duckett's grandad.