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Accused kidnapper's demon-haunted world

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Published: July 4, 2005 at 8:04 PM

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, July 4 (UPI) -- The man accused of kidnapping an Idaho girl detailed his fight with "demons" and urge to strike out at society in a Web log.

"I hope to complete this journal before I die (soon) or turn myself in (I still might do that, I think it is the right thing, but of course, I'm not sure)," Joseph Duncan wrote in his final entry on May 13 at fifthnail.blogspot.com/.

Duncan was arrested Saturday at a diner in Coeur d'Alene, when Shasta Groene was rescued, apparently unharmed. Police said they feared her brother Dylan was dead.

The two had not been seen since May, when the bodies of their mother, her boyfriend and an older brother were found in their home.

"I have been asking God to help me defeat the demons," Duncan said on May 11. "In fact, last night I was on my knees begging him, crying out loud to him, to help me. He didn't answer, again."

Duncan, 42, spent most of his adult life in jail after being convicted at 16 of raping a young boy in Washington State. He describes in his blog being raped so often as a child he thought it was normal.

Topics: Joseph Duncan
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