Steve Groene: ‘I feel much better now’

Steve Groene, father of the victim, sat stoically in the courtroom, as he has through much of the case, as the verdicts were read finding Joseph Duncan eligible for the death penalty for the murder of 9-year-old Dylan. Groene, his black sunglasses tucked into the front of his light-blue denim workshirt, sat with narrowed eyes, blinking frequently. Afterward, outside the courtroom, Groene told U.S. Attorney Tom Moss, “I feel much better now.” His comment, in the monotone of his electronic larynx, came as Moss patted him on the shoulder.