yet another criminal blogger

On May 16, Joseph E. Duncan killed three people in Idaho and kidnapped two kids. One of those kids, Shasta Groene, was found at a Denny's in her hometown the other day. Her 9-year-old brother, Dylan, is still missing and feared dead. It is horrible to think what has happened to those two kids since their family had been murdered...Duncan was a regustered sex offender who had spent many years in prison for raping a boy at gunpoint. Six weeks, Shasta was in his sick grip...I shudder.

Sadly, this is yet another case where Monday-morning blog-reading might have come into play. Duncan had his own blog, "Blogging the Fifth Nail", in which his last two entries have been dark...very dark:

To be more specific, I am scared, alone, and confused, and my reaction is to strike out toward the perceived source of my misery, society. My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die. As for the "Happy Joe" (Jet), well he was just a dream. The bogeyman was alive and happy long before Happy Joe.

The blog itself is odd...older posts are written in a way that make me feel as though he is trying to be a good person -- they are insightful and talk of good things -- but there is, from the beginning, this rehashing of his "demons" (as he calls them. As far back as I read, he continually brings up his "victim" status being a criminal, blaming society for what he is (even in his last entry, three days before bludgeoning three people to death, he wrote "I just have a disease contracted from society, and it hurts a lot"), and obsessing about his "past" (quoted because it obviously isn't just his past).

I am reminded of Rachelle Waterman, the girl on Live Journal who had her mother killed (a mirror of her site -- which has since been taken down -- can be found here). Going back through her journal, one can see some of the the "signs". The signs, however, were seen too late. Her mom is dead and she is one trial. The same as in this case.

Anyway, enter another entry into the morbid curiosity file...