And he said "The Demons have taken over...." but nobody listened

With the Story in the papers of the two children kidnapped and the blog of The Fifth Nail I did some googling and came up with some freaky stuff that should have been a sign to any who knew who this man was as it’s a scream of help and he had been screaming for quite some time ….

Here's what you'll find if you look for the site now:

Joseph E. Duncan III, "the demons have taken over"
(AP) - A convicted sex offender spent months on the Internet documenting his internal struggle with right and wrong. Then, four days before two children he is accused of kidnapping disappeared, he wrote, "The demons have taken over."It was one of the last entries in his Web log before he was arrested Saturday and then charged this week with two counts of kidnapping.The authorities maintain that the 42-year-old blogger, Joseph E. Duncan III of Fargo, N.D., took Dylan Groene, 9, and Dylan's sister, Shasta, 8, from their rural Idaho home shortly before their 13-year-old brother, their mother and her boyfriend were found bludgeoned to death on May 16. The police say Mr. Duncan is a suspect in those killings, and a body believed to be that of Dylan has been found in Montana and is awaiting positive identification."God has shown me the right choice, but my demons have me tied to a spit and the fire has already been lit," Mr. Duncan wrote on April 24, after he had jumped bail in Minnesota on charges of molesting a 6-year-old boy in a playground. His last entry on the Web log was on May 13, three days before Dylan and Shasta vanished."As far as 'taking people with me,' well, I don't know if that is right or wrong," he wrote then. "In fact, I don't know much anymore what right and wrong even is." Mr. Duncan began his online journal in January of last year. It was called "Blogging the Fifth Nail," an allegorical reference to a fifth nail intended to end Christ's suffering on the cross.Chris Magnus, the police chief in Fargo, the suspect's hometown, said officers learned of the blog when they questioned friends and neighbors after Mr. Duncan failed to check in with his probation officer in May.The sporadic entries included excerpts from a book that Mr. Duncan said he was writing based on his conviction, at age 16 in Tacoma, Wash., of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint. He documented his nightmares, his anger at serving 20 days past his 20-year prison sentence and his difficulty making friends and dating.Another target was the Fargo Police Department's policy of visiting the homes of high-risk sex offenders. He railed against officers' checking on his whereabouts and confiscating his computer and digital camera to look for child pornography.He also vented anger about the social stigma of being a convicted sex offender, about the requirement that he register as one and about the fact that the information was publicized on a Web site maintained by the Fargo police."I have decided to give up on trying to convince people that I am a real person, with honest and good intentions," he wrote last year, "not some evil monster they should be afraid of."

Parts from his blog follow:

Fifth Nail, Actual Entry by sex offender Joseph Duncan

The Boogyman Will Get Ya
So, I've been accused of molesting a little boy. Those close to me know I didn't do it of course, how could I, I'm not even a pedophile. Well, I'm not a psychopath either, I feel the full force and pain of everyone I have ever hurt, but that doesn't stop me from doing what I need to do. Ultimately my feelings don't matter, I learned that in prison. I have to carry out my orders or a lot worse than just me dying could happen.
4/15/05, from the Fifth Nail, by Joseph E. Duncan, III


“As far as letting God take care of the Demons, too late. They've locked up the "Happy Joe" person in the same dungeon that "Happy Joe" kept them in for so many years. Now they are loose and I am very afraid.”

“was in prison for over 18 years, since the age of 17. As an adult all I knew was the oppression of incarceration. All those years I dreamed of getting out...And getting even. Instead, I got out and I got even, but did not get caught.”

So, I got even again, and again did not get caught. So, I figured, well, I got even twice (actually more, but that's here nor there), even if I'm the only one who knows, so now what?



With the one line from above “As an adult all I knew was the oppression of incarceration.” I thought about the fact that this man knew nothing else than how he learned to live in prison, and then they let him out and expect him to be able to live in the real world.
This brings up the subject of rehabilitation as well, though prison isn’t rehab and even a little therapy here and there.

But how can we just keep a man through all his adult years in prison and then let him out again and even begin to expect he can function? This isn’t’ a 3 year stint , this was the 18 years, all of a man’s adult hood. He had basically known nothing else but the life of prison and then he’s let out on the streets again and expected to function, expected to have learned his lesson.

Either A. Rehabilitation needed to have at least been tried or B. Monsters like that should be left to rot. A case like this is almost guaranteed to commit his original crime again. This man allegedly did just that and more..he moved to murder, kidnapping and possibly molestation.

He mentions in his blog that others had read his blog, including a female Neighbor. And no one listened ...

I’d be fascinated to get any input or thoughts from any professionals and possibly anyone who'd like to shoot out a basic profile.