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For so long I have been struggling with hate towards that man. Today, I woke up feeling like my soul was finally free,' the statement reads. Groene's statement continued: 'For some reason I can't stop thinking about the Anthony Martinez family the last couple days.

I just want to reach out to them. If I could, I would hug them all. An undated evidence photo shows the cabin in Montana where Joseph Duncan held Dylan and Shasta Groene and filmed his crimes. Duncan, pictured in a police booking photo in , right, and in , left, died Saturday of brain cancer in an Indiana hospital while serving a sentence on death row for several murders.

The family was stalked, attacked and tortured,' the statement said. Duncan was a registered sex offender, telling a therapist that he estimated he had raped 13 younger boys by the time he was He spent much of his life in prison. His most violent string of crimes occurred in May while driving across the Idaho Panhandle on Interstate Duncan spotted two children playing in their swimsuits in the yard of a home next to the freeway.

He pulled off the road and started surveillance of the home, later breaking in with night-vision goggles. He tied up Brenda Groene, 40, her boyfriend Mark McKenzie, 37, and her son, Slade Groene, 13, before beating them to death with a hammer. Duncan then kidnapped two of Brenda Groene's other children: Shasta and her 9-year-old brother Dylan.

He took them into the wilds of western Montana, where he tortured and abused them for weeks before killing Dylan. Joseph Edward Duncan III stands in court in Indio, California in after he was sentenced to life in prison for torturing and killing a year-old boy in California in Cops arrived with their lights off, drew their weapons and arrested Duncan without incident.

Duncan maintained in court that he took Shasta to the restaurant just a few miles from where he killed her family with the intent of returning her to authorities. Regis, Montana. During the trial, it was revealed that Duncan shot the boy at point-blank range by holding a sawed-off gauge shotgun to his head.

Duncan videotaped many of his crimes against the Groene children, leading a veteran investigator to say the footage shook him to his core. Brenda Groene, pictured in an undated photo, was killed along with her son, Slade Groene, and her boyfriend, Mark McKenzie, by child molester Joseph Duncan. Duncan was convicted and sentenced to death in and, after his arrest, DNA evidence linked him to the April killing of ten-year-old Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California.

He admitted to murdering Martinez in The world is a more beautiful place without the evil that is Joseph Duncan. God chose to make his end a long suffering and I believe that is fitting. The horror of his thoughts consumed him. Anthony's younger brother, Marcos, said there is now 'less evil in the world. Because of him, I will spend the rest of my life doing everything I can to fight against any evil left in the world,' Marcos Martinez said. Duncan's attorneys disclosed late last year that he had terminal brain cancer and did not have long to live.

He lost the final appeal of his death sentence in Martinez was killed while Duncan was on parole for a rape charge in Washington. He was kidnapped while playing outside of his home and his body was found 15 days later.

Duncan was not suspected of the crime until after his arrest in Idaho and he was extradited to Southern California to be tried for the crime. Duncan was also linked to the killings of two young girls in Seattle in the s.

In , Duncan was accused of molesting a young boy on a playground in Minnesota. He posted a low bail and skipped town. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Duncan - who killed her entire family Duncan died in a hospital Saturday while serving a sentence on federal death row at a prison in Indiana Duncan's attorneys disclosed late last year that he had terminal brain cancer The year-old was convicted in of killing nine-year-old Dylan Groene, his brother Slade Groene, 13, his mother Brenda Groene, 40 and her fiance Mark McKenzie, 37 DNA evidence linked Duncan to the killing of year old Anthony Martinez in California while he was on parole for a rape charge By Adam Schrader and Brian P.

Share this article Share. Share or comment on this article: Woman who was kidnapped by serial killer when she was 8 speaks of her relief after he dies of cancer e-mail Comments Share what you think. View all. I hope other people affected by Joseph Duncan were able to wake up feeling the same way. Duncan , 58, died Sunday at a hospital near the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, just weeks after his terminal brain cancer diagnosis was made public.

After abducting the children, Duncan took them to Montana, where he abused them and killed Dylan. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. Duncan was also convicted for the killing of year-old Anthony Martinez in Riverside County, California. Duncan also admitted to the killing of two young girls in the Seattle area, but he was never charged.

Groene went on to thank those who spent thousands of hours searching for her and her brother and still prayed for and supported their family after she made it home. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below.