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During the prosecution’s closing statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Traci Whelan illustrated some of her points by playing snippets of audio of Shasta Groene’s statements to police just after her rescue from Duncan in 2005. In one, Shasta, just outside the Denny’s restaurant where she was rescued, tearfully told a Coeur d’Alene police officer that her brother was dead, and described his murder. “You saw all that?” the officer said. Shasta, crying, said, “And then we burnt his body,” and she broke into sobs.
Whelan also played the clip in which Shasta talked about how Joseph Duncan called her 9-year-old brother a coward. “He wanted to show Jet that he wasn’t a coward, and he really wasn’t, he was very, very brave,” the little girl’s voice declared. Whelan echoed that. “He was a very, very brave boy,” Whelan told the court.
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