 The more you read about this Joseph Edward Duncan asshole, the more you wonder why on earth he wasn't stopped before he could get to Coeur d'Alene. Just one month before Shasta and Dylan Groene were kidnapped and the rest of the family bludgeoned to death, this is what Duncan was up to:
Duncan appears in court
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
A convicted sex offender from Fargo made his first court appearance Tuesday on charges he molested a 6-year-old boy near a Detroit Lakes, Minn., middle school last July. Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, posted a cash bond of $15,000 after the appearance in Becker County District Court on charges of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and attempted criminal sexual conduct.
... According to a court complaint: On July 3, a man carrying a video camera approached a 6-year-old boy and his 8-year-old friend (at the time of the incident) at a school playground. The man pulled down the shorts of the younger boy and touched him. He tried the same thing with the other boy but wasn't able to, the complaint says. The younger boy described the man and his car to police, who used a sex offender database to match the descriptions to Duncan and his red Pontiac Grand Am. The boy also identified Duncan in a photo lineup. Duncan, who is considered by authorities to be a high-risk offender, was convicted of raping a 14-year-old boy in Washington in 1980, when Duncan was 16.
The reporter had his address and was able to contact him at home. In fact, it seems that everyone who was interested knew where to find Duncan, who was apparently going from state to state trolling for children to molest. So when the Groene children went mising, why didn't Fargo police think of checking in on ole' Joe? |
