Joseph E Duncan's Psyche
When did obsession become violence?
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38 mins
Explore how Duncan's behavior reflected a progression from sexual offending and predatory planning to increasingly violent crimes, culminating in the 2005 Groene family murders and the kidnapping of two children. View how he deliberately selected his victims and constructed his crimes around his own fantasies, rather than treating the violence as a spontaneous loss of control.
Ep 1:
The Shattered Peace of Wolf Lodge Bay
A quiet Idaho family is slaughtered in their home and two children vanish without a trace, launching the largest manhunt in Kootenai County history with no suspects and no answers.
Ep 2:
The Making of a Monster
Behind the random horror lurks years of warnings: psychologists called him unfit to be free, yet Joseph Duncan was released again and again, secretly plotting his next atrocity all along.
Ep 3:
Hell in the Lolo National Forest
Dragged into Montana's wilderness, eight-year-old Shasta Groene watches her brother tortured and executed—then uses her captor's own cruelty against him in a desperate bid to survive and escape.
Ep 4:
Out of the Woods
Duncan's hidden body count surfaces as his trial unveils unspeakable evidence, while Shasta Groene's long road from captive to survivor reveals how she reclaimed a life he tried to destroy.
Discussions (5)
Jay
Level 4 · 6 days agoThe part where Shasta chose strangulation over a bullet because slower meant she could still talk, at 8 years old that is insane survival instinct
Ezra
Level 7 · 6 days agoShasta literally talked a killer out of murdering her at 8
Isabella
Level 2 · 6 days agodid anyone else catch that the parole board KNEW he was dangerous and let him out anyway?? two doctors literally wrote 'not safe to be at large' and they just... ignored it
