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Duncan’s records show a series of failed treatments and refusal to comply with therapists and law enforcement officials who tried to correct his behavior, which mental health evaluators diagnosed in 1980 as consistent with an antisocial personality and a sexual deviant, the Seattle Times reported.
-Joseph Edward Duncan III December 2007 Dundan pleaded guilty to 10 federal felonies in Idaho and in January 2009 was extradited to California to face trial for the death of 10-year-old Anthony Michael Martinez.  “I do not blame the criminal justice system for anything…but the system does not work and I can tell them why. It doesn’t really matter why the crimes happened. I should be punished to the full extent of the law, as should all sex offenders and murderers.”
“I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape or kill someone within the prison. If I do escape, I promise you I will kill and rape and enjoy every minute of it,” -Westley Allen Dodd Dodd’s story is a cautionary tale for communities, law enforcement, and families. Although he killed three children, he plotted to murder and torture many more. (He claimed to have committed 250 crimes against children.)
Joseph Edward Duncan III "God has shown me the right choice, but my demons have me tied to a spit and the fire has already been lit," Duncan wrote April 24, after he had jumped bail in Minnesota on charges of molesting a 6-year-old boy on a playground. On December 2, 2007, Duncan appeared in Federal court in Boise, Idaho. At this hearing he pleaded guilty to a total of 10 federal felonies related to the Idaho kidnapping and murders. During this court appearance, he read a statement in which he said, "The not-guilty plea was not entered by me, but on my behalf." On 27 August 2008, a federal jury unanimously sentenced Joseph Duncan to the death penalty for 3 of the 10 federal charges of which he has been found guilty. There was no deal made by federal prosecutors in return for the plea and Duncan was sentenced to death on August 27, 2008. In total, he received three death sentences and nine life sentences for the Idaho crimes. In August 2005, California cold case investigators connected a single fingerprint to Duncan in an unsolved homicide. The case, cold since 1997, is the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Michael Martinez, a resident of Beaumont, California. On January 24, 2009 he was extradited to California to face trial. Duncan’s records reveal a history of inflicting violence and sexual torture upon others, particularly young boys, with his crimes escalating in their seriousness. His past shows a series of failed treatments and refusal to comply with therapists and law enforcement officials who tried to correct his behavior, which mental health evaluators diagnosed in 1980 as consistent with an antisocial personality and a sexual deviant, the Seattle Times reported. Duncan was deemed a sexual psychopath at 17, after he was arrested for the rape and torture of a 14-year-old boy in 1980. As an alternative to prison, Duncan underwent treatment at the Sex Offender Program and Western State Hospital in Washington State, where he lived during his teenage years. Twenty-two months later, he was kicked out of the program for sneaking off the campus and having rape fantasies, the Times said. A judge then reinstated his 20-year prison sentence in March 1982 and Duncan served 14 years in prison. *Sources Seattle Times, MSNBC, Fox News
 “I’m glad they caught me, because I’d do it again.”
-Gary Arthur Bishop
The courts convicted Bishop on five counts of capital murder, five counts of aggravated kidnapping, and one count of sexually abusing a minor. |
