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Here’s an odd detail: Among the items admitted into evidence in court on Friday was a note card, found in the center console of Joseph Duncan’s stolen red Jeep, with several phone numbers and names written on it in Duncan’s handwriting. They included numbers for “Mom,” “my cell,” “Joe,” and – here’s the odd one – “Mr. Groene,” with, written above that, “Steve.” Duncan claimed he was returning his lone surviving victim, then-8-year-old Shasta Groene, to her father when he was arrested with her at a Coeur d’Alene Denny’s restaurant in 2005, seven weeks after he had kidnapped her. Had Duncan actually been in touch with Steve Groene, Shasta’s father? Possibly enough times to begin calling him by his first name? There’s been no answer to that question thus far; the father, who lost his voice to throat cancer and can speak only in the metallic monotone of an electronic voice-box, has sat wordlessly in court each day, watching the story unfold, and testified only briefly when he was called as the second witness in the sentencing trial on Thursday.
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