Duncan died early on Saturday at a hospital in Terra Haute, Indiana near the federal prison where he was serving his sentence on federal death row, KXLY reported. Shasta Groene, now in her mids, has issued a written statement following Duncan's death about the man who murdered her entire family.
Now, we can live our lives knowing that. For so long I have been struggling with hate towards that man. Today, I woke up feeling like my soul was finally free,' the statement reads. Groene's statement continued: 'For some reason I can't stop thinking about the Anthony Martinez family the last couple days.
I just want to reach out to them. If I could, I would hug them all. An undated evidence photo shows the cabin in Montana where Joseph Duncan held Dylan and Shasta Groene and filmed his crimes. Duncan, pictured in a police booking photo in , right, and in , left, died Saturday of brain cancer in an Indiana hospital while serving a sentence on death row for several murders.
The family was stalked, attacked and tortured,' the statement said. Duncan was a registered sex offender, telling a therapist that he estimated he had raped 13 younger boys by the time he was He spent much of his life in prison. His most violent string of crimes occurred in May while driving across the Idaho Panhandle on Interstate Duncan spotted two children playing in their swimsuits in the yard of a home next to the freeway.
He pulled off the road and started surveillance of the home, later breaking in with night-vision goggles. He tied up Brenda Groene, 40, her boyfriend Mark McKenzie, 37, and her son, Slade Groene, 13, before beating them to death with a hammer.
Duncan then kidnapped two of Brenda Groene's other children: Shasta and her 9-year-old brother Dylan. He took them into the wilds of western Montana, where he tortured and abused them for weeks before killing Dylan. Joseph Edward Duncan III stands in court in Indio, California in after he was sentenced to life in prison for torturing and killing a year-old boy in California in Cops arrived with their lights off, drew their weapons and arrested Duncan without incident. Duncan maintained in court that he took Shasta to the restaurant just a few miles from where he killed her family with the intent of returning her to authorities.
Regis, Montana. During the trial, it was revealed that Duncan shot the boy at point-blank range by holding a sawed-off gauge shotgun to his head. Duncan videotaped many of his crimes against the Groene children, leading a veteran investigator to say the footage shook him to his core. Brenda Groene, pictured in an undated photo, was killed along with her son, Slade Groene, and her boyfriend, Mark McKenzie, by child molester Joseph Duncan. Duncan was convicted and sentenced to death in and, after his arrest, DNA evidence linked him to the April killing of ten-year-old Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California.
He admitted to murdering Martinez in The world is a more beautiful place without the evil that is Joseph Duncan. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds.
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