The Brief Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd briefed media Thursday morning regarding the 1987 Jeanifer Weldon cold case homicide in Winter Haven. Detectives plan one final meeting with state prosecutors to officially clear the decades-old murder case now that Duckett is dead. According to Judd, Weldon began walking to her home two miles away but never arrived. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd has tied the murder of Jeanifer Weldon to James Duckett who was executed on Tuesday. "What I like to tell people - what if that was your family when you don’t believe in the death penalty.