Convicted Indiana Serial Killer Joseph Duncan Dies on Death Row
Joseph Duncan, a serial killer who terrorized northern Idaho nearly two decades ago, has died on federal death row in Indiana.
According to KXLY, Duncan, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, died early Saturday morning at a hospital in Indiana after being taken out of the federal prison in Terre Haute.
Duncan, 58, received a federal death sentence in 2005 shortly after he murdered several members of a family in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in order to kidnap a brother in sister he had seen while driving by the family’s home. He held the kids in Montana for several weeks before he killed the boy and returned the girl to a restaurant in Coeur d’Alene.
After he was arrested, his DNA was linked to the kidnapping and murder of a California boy in 1997 and the murder of two young girls in Seattle in the 1990s.
