Investigators are now reviewing unsolved missing children cases nationwide for possible links to kidnapping and murder suspect Joseph Edward Duncan III. Typically, the arrest of a violent sexual predator would prompt a regional review of unsolved cases, said FBI Special Agent Brent Robbins. But in Duncan's case, the FBI decided to ask for a massive review of cases nationwide.

Two Denny's employees were rewarded Thursday for their role in the rescue of Shasta Groene earlier this month, but her father thinks another rescuer was shortchanged and is considering giving him his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department awarded $4,315 each to Amber Deahn, the Coeur d'Alene Denny's waitress who recognized Shasta, and to her manager Linda Olson, who told the 911 dispatcher that a customer in the restaurant looked a lot like the missing Coeur d'Alene girl.

The recent murder and kidnapping case in Coeur d'Alene's back yard depressed children's advocate Tinka Schaffer, but she also saw an opportunity in the accompanying publicity to help teach children about sexual abuse. The man charged with the crimes, Joseph E. Duncan III, is a registered sex offender with a history of molesting children.

Sitting at the end of the bar in the American Legion Post 149 in Athol, manager Shirley Hyke doesn't know what North Idaho is coming to. The brutal killings and kidnapping of members of the Groene household, a close call in a police standoff earlier this week, and now a 12-year-old girl stabbed repeatedly and left for dead have left Hyke emotionally tattered.

OLYMPIA – Shortly after Joseph Edward Duncan III's initial release from prison, his therapist and parole officer clashed over the appropriateness of the sex life he adopted as part of his newfound freedom. "Would you please explain how permitting Mr. Duncan to sustain an adulterous relationship with a married woman is beneficial to his sexual deviancy issues?" his community corrections officer, Sandra Silver, wrote to Duncan's therapist.

FARGO, N.D. – Joseph Duncan bought night-vision goggles here two days before renting a car in the Minneapolis area and vanishing, police documents show. Duncan, a convicted sex offender whose last known address was a north Fargo apartment, was charged this week in Idaho with murder and kidnapping in the bludgeoning deaths of three members of a Coeur d'Alene family found slain May 16.

Shasta Groene spent Tuesday afternoon much like any other kid. "She's running through the sprinklers and watching cartoons," said her grandmother, Darlene Torres. "She's just playing and being a kid. That's what we want from her. It's a miracle we have her."

Joseph E. Duncan III studied the household of Brenda Groene and Mark McKenzie for two or three days before he killed them and Groene's 13-year-old son, Slade Groene, with a hammer, Kootenai County Sgt. Brad Maskell said in a Tuesday court hearing. Duncan used night-vision goggles at a distance and peered into the home's windows at night as he prepared for the killings and kidnapping, according to Maskell's testimony.

A dramatic week of revelations in the Groene killings and missing children's case ended quietly with officials protecting remaining details of the investigation for upcoming court proceedings. Those court proceedings involve kidnapping charges and potentially four counts of murder filed by state and, perhaps, federal prosecutors.

Authorities are now backing what some kin of the triple-homicide victims thought all along – that the killer had picked the Groene family at random for his crimes. Sheriff Rocky Watson said he thinks the three slayings and abduction of two children – one of whom is now believed dead – from the home east of Coeur d'Alene was planned by a stranger.