At least half a dozen Boise homes are burning tonight, under a bloody-red sunset that followed a super-strong windstorm late this afternoon. The burning homes are in the Sweetwater area in southeast Boise; some residents there said they heard a bang, then a field went…
The fingerprint expert followed much more dramatic testimony from three previous witnesses. Ernesto Medina, Anthony’s father, told of the day his son was abducted. “A terrible thing happened that day,” he told the court. He heard children screaming from outside his apartment, “A man’s got…
FBI Special Agent Mike Sotka testified in court today that Joseph Duncan, in a conversation with authorities at the Kootenai County Jail on July 19, 2005, told him he killed Carmen Cubias and Sammiejo White as his “first revenge.” “He told me that these two…
Mark Medina was just six years old when Joseph Duncan, a tall, thin Caucasian man in a white car, pulled up into the alley behind a neighbor’s house where he was playing with his 10-year-old brother, Anthony Martinez, and three other friends. Medina is now…
U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge has ruled that evidence of previous, unadjudicated child murders can be presented to show Joseph Duncan’s future dangerousness. It doesn’t just show he’s a danger to children, the judge said. “The evidence … in this case is highly relevant in…
Today marks the start of the second phase of Joseph Duncan’s death penalty sentencing trial, the “selection” phase. It’s so called because while the jury decided in the first phase whether he qualified for the death penalty (they said yes), in this phase they decide…
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