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Big Surprise: Joseph Edward Duncan III Eligible for the Death Penalty
Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Joseph Duncan made this senseless, weird video sometime between 2000 and 2005 and posted it online. If nothing else, it gives you a sense of just how incredibly creepy a presence he probably was even when no one knew he was really a sexually sadistic, psychopathic serial killer.
It took the jury 2 hours to find Joseph Edward Duncan III eligible for the death penalty.
Duncan knew it was coming. He may be one of the more monstrously cruel killers you'll ever read about, but few have accused him of being stupid. Before the jury retired to deliberate, Duncan spoke to them, making as forthright a statement as he's probably ever made about what he is: "You people really don't have any clue yet of the true heinousness of what I've done." He continued, outlining what he wanted to do back in 2005, "I was not searching for a child, but rather I was on a rampage."
If you're that minority of readers who have followed any of my blogs since the Duncan case hit the news, you know I pegged that from the beginning. When Duncan went to ground in April, 2005, he was doing what a profiler once called (in reference to Ted Bundy's final spree in the Chi Omega sorority house in Florida) "decompensating." Decompensation is what happens when a homicidal psychopath who has constructed a feasible mask of sanity finally loses the ability to continue the charade. The truth, the nature of the animal is then revealed.
Duncan told the jury that he "rape and kill until I was killed, preferring death over capture." To that end he'd marked several spots in the GPS tracker of the vehicle he used during his travels in the Spring of '05.
Duncan's words to the jury made little sense, perhaps because he was speaking off the cuff. He said he "knew the best way to hurt" society was to take "an eye for an eye."
"[But] the system didn't take my eye," Duncan said, "it took my heart and my innocence, and I wanted to do the same to it."
He was likely referring to his 2 decades of incarceration for rape and assault, beginning in 1980.
In the end, the jury came back with a finding that declared Duncan eligible for the death penalty. They also agreed to all the aggravating factors listed by the State during the argument for putting Duncan down.
The second phase of deliberations in the sentencing of Joseph Edward Duncan begins Monday.
And the man who told his young victims to call him Jet won't be done, once the jury goes home from that Coeur d'Alene courtroom. He still has to answer for the 1997 abduction and murder of Anthony Martinez in Riverside, California. [KXLY.com -- possibly some of the best coverage of the case available online.]
Tags: Coeur d'Alene, death penalty, Dylan Groene, Jet Duncan, Joseph Edward Duncan III, Shasta Groene
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