New details of the gruesome attacks on the Groene family were released today. This information comes from the minutes and a recording of a closed-door probable-cause hearing before First District Magistrate Judge Scott Wayman on Tuesday, as Duncan was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the bludgeoning deaths of three people in the family home.
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — During six weeks on the run with an 8-year-old girl, convicted sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan told his young prey that he had driven around her neighborhood looking for children, according to court documents released Tuesday.
And when he found Shasta Groene playing in a bathing suit with her 9-year-old brother, Dylan, the documents say, he stalked their home for days, using night-vision goggles to learn its layout before bursting in, subduing their family with a shotgun and a hammer, and abducting the siblings.
Make no doubt about it…Duncan’s preperation for and execution of his crimes are consistent with those of a legally sane person.
“She [Shasta] described how Duncan told her he drove around looking for kids, saw her outside. … He told her he watched her two or three days and at night would peer inside the home. He became aware of the layout of the home. We found night vision goggles in the vehicle.”
Duncan bragged to her about killing her family with a hammer and showed it to her.
If I were this man’sanimal’s jailer, he would be dead by morning.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers — Ezekiel 25:17
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Let’s get the trial done and go from there.
Duncan, you will be banished from heaven, you will be sent to hell and you will be tortured and raped with satan’s spere over and over and over again, forever, you son of a bitch, i wish i could appear and do it myself, but i’ll just save it for SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!
And shepherds we shall be,
For Thee, my Lord, for Thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand,
That our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spirit?s Sancti.
It’s hard to remember that our justice system is still the most equal handed and by most accounts, the most moral system in the world. Ergo, we give people like this a voice and place to defend themselves. Hard to think that way when we all ultimately want swift punishment and execution of such people. When there is something so evil in this world, it reinforces our faith in god and what is right.
What a horrible, horrible deamon.