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Joseph Duncan Extradited to California for Murder of 10-year-old Boy

By David Lohr

When I wrote Stolen in the Night for St. Martin's Press couple of years ago, I found myself wishing and hoping since that time that the subject of my book, serial killer scumbag Joseph Edward Duncan III, who is clearly among the worst sexual deviants to ever walk the face of the earth, would eventually be extradited to California to stand trial for the 1997 Riverside County murder of 10-year-old Anthony Martinez after his case in Idaho had been adjudicated. Readers will recall that Duncan was singlehandedly responsible for the 2005 slaughter of Shasta and Dylan Groene's family - their mother, her boyfriend, and their older brother - before vanishing into the night with Shasta, then 8-years-old, and her brother, Dylan, then 9-years-old - in a case that culminated with the ghastly sexual abuse of Shasta and Dylan for several weeks and Dylan's eventual torture and murder while Shasta was forced to watch...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).