![]() ![]() ![]() Duncan continues to conform to the statutory definition of a sexual psychopath." "His preoccupation with deviant sexual fantasies of one kind or another date back to the age of 12," one therapist wrote after evaluating Duncan in 1982. After his arrest for that crime, he told authorities that he had raped 13 boys by the time he was 16.Īnd authorities now believe that while free on parole in 1997, Duncan kidnapped, raped and murdered a 10-year-old boy in Southern California. In 1980, at the age of 17, he earned a 20-year prison sentence for raping and torturing a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint. Long before the carnage at the Groene home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Duncan had unleashed his demons on the world. But if an unhappy childhood were all it took to create a sadistic pedophile, every town in America would live under perpetual Amber Alert. Those defects can be caused by traumatic childhood experiences, genetics or events that happen as a person's brain develops in the womb before birth.īut whatever their source, they might eventually be used as a neurological "mark of Cain," offering both a warning of what a person might be capable of and an opportunity to prevent them from realizing that potential.įreudians might find the seeds of Duncan's behavior in his youth - a lonely childhood, a domineering mother, his parents' tumultuous relationship.Īn unhappy upbringing certainly increases a boy's chances of growing up to be a violent sexual offender. Many, perhaps most, dangerous sexual predators appear to possess one or more brain abnormalities that predispose them to their extreme criminal behavior. But researchers are beginning to understand how another organ, the brain, can conjure the demons that haunt Duncan and other violent sexual predators. It is hard to conceive a heart black enough to commit such evil acts. Two children dragged to a remote part of Montana, where both were sexually molested and the 9-year-old boy was murdered. The toll? Three members of an Idaho family bludgeoned to death. Three weeks later the demons won, authorities say. If they win then a lot of people will be badly hurt." "It is a battle between me and my demons," Duncan wrote in his Web log on April 24. For months, anyone could follow the epic struggle in the mind of Joseph Edward Duncan III - live, on the Internet. ![]()
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