Physician: Boy Duncan murdered likely suffered excruciating pain before death
BOISE
Dr. Sharon Cooper’s testimony in U.S. District Court followed the presentation of a taped interview in which Shasta Groene, 8 at the time, connected frightful details of Duncan’s sexual profane and slaying of her older brother, Dylan. Shasta, who in addition said she was sexually abused and tortured, said Duncan accidentally shot her brother in the stomach with a shotgun and then blasted him in the head rear deciding he couldn’t be saved.
Cooper said the description of the boy’s injury indicated it was “a very potentially salvageable wrong.” Cooper also related Duncan, formerly of Tacoma, may have had enough time to get Dylan Groene to a hospital from the remote western Montana campsite where the shooting occurred.
Duncan pleaded actually offending in December to 10 federal counts in the 2005 kidnapping of the Coeur d’Alene-area children and the murder of the boy. A jury be bound to decide whether Duncan should subsist executed or spend living beings in prison without parole.
Duncan, acting considered in the state of his own attorney in the sentencing phase, suggested in cross-examining Cooper that the girl was exaggerating her brother’s injury.
“How much in your experience do children tend to minutely and intricately wrought or exaggerate and fill in details … especially after a traumatic experience like that?” Duncan asked.
Children who exaggerate are typically a great deal of junior, between 4 and 6, and destitution the vocabulary to describe the sort of happened to them, Cooper said.
Later, FBI Agent Mike Stoke told the jury he found a piece of Dylan Groene’s skull at the campsite and displayed it in court.
Duncan bludgeoned to death the children’s older brother, mother and her fiance at their abiding-place before abducting the pair in May 2005, setting off a nationwide manhunt. Duncan has pleaded guilty in state court to the killings at the commercial establishment.
