Among the revelations in the prosecution’s opening statement: Duncan told the two children he’d kidnapped all about the terrible things he’d done, including how he’d killed their older brother, mother and mother’s fiancé. Court documents earlier revealed that Duncan told Shasta that he’d killed other children, too. And Moss said after Duncan made a videotape of himself sadistically sexually abusing Dylan at an old cabin near the campsite where he held the two children captive, the first thing he did after he returned to the campsite was show the videos to Shasta. “She was able to describe them to the police before they had been pulled off the computer,” Moss said. A female juror gasped audibly after hearing that. Moss said when police interviewed Duncan, “He explained why he told the kids bad things about himself. He says, ‘You have to understand, Shasta,’ excused me, S.G. ‘was dead. She was a dead girl and I knew it. … I told these children because that’s how convinced I was that … they were history.’”

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