The items seized from Joseph Duncan’s red 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo are being introduced into evidence now, one by one, including Duncan’s green “Tommy Jeans” jacket with bloodstains that when tested showed Dylan’s DNA; a laptop computer (with a sticker on it proclaiming “I’m…
The frightened, tearful voice of an 8-year-old girl filled a Boise courtroom today, as audio of little Shasta Groene’s conversation with a Coeur d’Alene Police officer just after she was rescued from Joseph Duncan was played for jurors.“Where’s your brother at?” Officer Shane Avriett asked…
Joseph Duncan just asked his first question on cross-examination, but it was an odd one. The jury had just viewed surveillance video from a Conoco station and convenience store in Kellogg, Idaho where Duncan and Shasta stopped about five hours before she was spotted with…
Former Kootenai County Sheriff’s Deputy Dale Moyer, the first officer on the bloody scene after the three murders at the Groene family home, went around the yard after finding the bodies, looking for the two missing children and calling their names to no avail. The…
Idaho State Police Detective Sgt. Fred Swanson, the third witness today, told of processing evidence at the crime scene at the Groene family home, and identified zip ties and duct tape, some with blood on them, that were on the three bodies. He held them…
The second witness was Steve Groene, the children’s father. Speaking through an electronic larynx, Groene identified photographs of Dylan and Shasta, and their handwriting in four letters that were submitted into evidence, three of which were addressed to him. Groene told the court he never…
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