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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Joseph Edward Duncan III
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Race: White |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown |
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Wanted for :
Kidnapping, Coeur d' Alene, ID;
May 16, 2005
Murder, Coeur d' Alene, ID;
Jul 01, 2005
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Coeur d' Alene, ID |
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Possible Location : Minnesota
Fargo, ND
Coeur d' Alene, ID |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Case Story |
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End Of The Line For Duncan |
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After a seven week manhunt and massive search effort, police cuffed Joseph Edward Duncan and charged him with the kidnapping of two missing children in July of 2005. An alert waitress at a Denny's restaurant in Coeur D' Alene, Idaho spotted Duncan eating with an unlikely companion -- Shasta Groene -- an 8-year-old girl who had been missing for weeks.
Shasta and Dylan Groene disappeared on May 16, 2005. The investigation began when a neighbor called police to report "suspicious circumstances" at the Groene residence. When police arrived at the scene, they made a gruesome discovery. Shasta's mother, brother and a family friend were dead inside the home. Even more troubling was the fact that Shasta and her little brother Dylan were nowhere to be found.
The bodies of Shasta's family members bore obvious signs of injury, but the cause of death remained undetermined. However, at the time, police treated the deaths as a homicide investigation. Immediately, an AMBER Alert was issued for Shasta and Dylan Groene.
Police searched for weeks with few signs missing Groene children. A break finally came when Joseph Edward Duncan and Shasta appeared in a Denny's restaurant on July 1, 2005. At the time, police were uncertain if Duncan was connected to the deaths of Shasta's family members. Furthermore, 9-year-old Dylan was still not recovered.
Shasta Tells Of Nightmarish Ordeal
When police first interviewed Shasta, they say that she spoke of the relentless and multiple molestations that she and her brother withstood at the hands of Duncan.
Police learned that Shasta was awakened at her home and watched as her mother, Brenda Groene, 13-year-old brother, Slade, and Mark McKenzie, her mother's boyfriend, were tied up and killed. Cops say that the youngest Groene siblings were also bound and placed in a pickup truck. The children were later transferred to a stolen red Jeep and taken to the first of three campsites. Soon after Shasta was recovered and Duncan was arrested, law enforcement found Dylan's body at a remote campsite in Montana. |
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Duncan Becomes The Focus Of Another Investigation |
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In 2005, cops believed that they had credible evidence linking Joseph Duncan to another crime. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department announced that Duncan was the primary focus in their investigation of 10-year-old Anthony Martinez's murder.
Cops say on April 4, 1997, little Anthony Martinez was playing outside in Beaumont, Calif. when he was abducted. What followed was an intense manhunt for the killer -- but cops had little on which to base their investigation -- until one of the missing Idaho children, Shasta Groene, was recovered alive.
When Shasta was discovered at a restaurant with Joseph Duncan, he was arrested and fingerprinted. When cops ran Duncan's fingerprints, they discovered the prints matched those of partial prints found at Martinez's murder scene.
In Jan. 2007, Riverside County, Calif. District Attorney Rod Pacheco filed murder charges against Duncan and is seeking the death penalty. Riverside County authorities are awaiting Duncan's Idaho proceedings to finish so they can prosecute Duncan for Anthony's murder. |
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Steve Groene: This Needs To Stop Here |
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In an outdoor news conference Steven Groene said "This needs to stop here." He went on to say, "People like this should not be allowed in public." He was referring to Joseph Duncan, the man convicted of abducting his daughter, Shasta.
Groene said Americans need to pressure lawmakers to protect children from people like Duncan, who has been convicted of murdering the family of the kidnapped siblings.
"These people are put in their positions by us, and they're supposed to be working for us, but they're not doing their jobs," Groene said of politicians. He added that "people need to get on their congressmen, senators and even the president to stop convicted predators from preying on children."
Describing the trauma of his ordeal, Groene said: "This is still so incomprehensible that it's going to take a long time for us to realize what's happened."
"We need to get some laws changed," he said. "We need to do it quickly." |
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