The Amazing Survival Tale Of Shasta Groene - Part 4 - Confessions & Closure

Episode 4 — Confession of a Predator Joseph Edward Duncan the Third was calm when they arrested him. He didn’t resist. He didn’t run. He sat in that Denny’s booth while officers escorted him outside, and then he waited. From the moment he was taken into custody, Duncan confessed. All of it. Freely, consistently, and in meticulous detail across twenty-four hours of recorded FBI interviews. He didn’t need to be broken down. He wanted to talk. In this final episode of the series, we go into the interrogation room. We cover the full scope of what Duncan confessed to across three decades of violence. We walk through the legal proceedings in Idaho state court and federal court — the pleas, the sentencing hearing, and the jury that deliberated for three hours before recommending death. We examine the psychological profile that had been building since 1978, and the question that sits underneath all of it: the system didn’t fail to see him clearly. It failed to act on what it saw. And then we close where this series has always been heading. With the people he left behind. With who they were. And with Shasta Groene McClain — who survived forty-eight days in the Montana wilderness, who built a life on the other side of the unsurvivable, and who woke up the morning Joseph Duncan died and wrote: “Today, I woke up feeling like my soul was finally free.” Shadows in the Pines is a victims-first true crime podcast covering cases across the Pacific Northwest. New episodes every Sunday. https://www.patreon.com/Shadowsinthepines?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator