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[inthemudhole]

Dear frickin' Lord..

(CNN) -- An 8-year-old Idaho girl missing more than six weeks was found alive early Saturday morning, and a registered sex offender was arrested and charged with kidnapping, according to authorities in the county where she lived.

Shasta Groene was found about 2 a.m. (5 a.m. ET) at a Denny's restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, just miles from the home where she was last reported seen, said Capt. Ben Wolfinger of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department.

In her company was 42-year-old Joseph Edward Duncan III of Fargo, North Dakota, who has outstanding warrants for his arrest and may face further charges, Wolfinger said.

Shasta was taken to the Kootenai Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. Wolfinger said she appeared "to be in generally good health."

Wolfinger said authorities had information that Shasta's 9-year-old brother, Dylan, is dead. Both had been missing since May 16, when their mother, a brother and their mother's boyfriend were found beaten to death in the mother's Coeur D'Alene home, Wolfinger said.

"Our best information right now is that Dylan is deceased," Wolfinger said.

They had all been seen alive at a get-together of family and friends Sunday, May 15.

Authorities described Dylan as 4 feet tall, 60 pounds, with crew-cut blond hair and blue eyes.

The coroner's office said 40-year-old Brenda Groene, her 37-year-old boyfriend, Mark McKenzie, and her 13-year-old son, Slade, died of blunt force trauma to the head and that each had been bound.

Wolfinger said while it was "too early to tell" if Duncan had any connection with the slayings, investigators were "working all the angles in this case."

Wolfinger said he was "very surprised" the girl and Duncan were found so near her home.

Several people who were inside the Denny's restaurant said they immediately recognized the girl, whose picture has been widely circulated in the media, and called authorities.

One witness said the young girl was relaxed, coloring and drinking a soda, before police arrived and detained the man.

Wolfinger said Coeur d'Alene police received a call from a waitress at the restaurant at about 2 a.m. The waitress, Amber Deahn, said she made every effort to keep the girl in the restaurant before police arrived.

"I made sure to make a large shake instead of a child's shake," Deahn said. "We wanted to make sure to take just long enough to where if it turned out to be nothing we could say, 'Hey our shake machine's running a little slow.' "

"We didn't want to cause any suspicion."

One of the cooks said he blocked the restaurant's back entrance in case the man tried to make a getaway.

Coeur d'Alene police detained Duncan at the restaurant until Kootenai County deputies arrived to arrest him.

Deahn said she comforted the girl who burst into tears after police took the man away.

"I would really hope that if my children, God forbid, ever went missing somebody would do the same," Deahn said.

Wolfinger said investigators had obtained a search warrant for the red 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Duncan was driving.

He said the vehicle was reported stolen from St. Paul, Minnesota, in early May, and that the license plates were stolen in Newton County, Missouri, a few days before.

Duncan's arrest record goes back to a 1980 rape conviction in Pierce County, Washington, when he was 16. His last address was in Fargo, North Dakota, where he was a registered sex offender, but he is listed as "delinquent" on the North Dakota offenders Web page.

"One of his outstanding warrants is failure to register as a sex offender in Washington," Wolfinger said. "The other is an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution out of Minnesota for second-degree sexual offense."

According to the Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Police Department, Duncan was charged in early March with molesting a 7-year-old boy near a middle school in Becker County in July 2004.

The department issued a warrant for his arrest when he violated the terms of release from an April 5 court appearance.

Wolfinger said Duncan runs a Web site that advocates against prosecuting sex offenders. CNN was unable to locate the site.

In his 1980 conviction in Washington, Duncan pleaded guilty to abducting and raping a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint, burning the victim with a cigarette and firing the gun -- on empty chambers -- causing him to believe he would be killed, according to a description from the North Dakota sex offender registry.

Upon turning 17, Duncan was transferred to adult court where he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to the city of Fargo.

He was released on parole in 1994 after serving 14 years, but returned to prison for a parole violation in 1997.

On July 14, 2000, he was released at the end of his prison term, and on July 21 he arrived in Fargo, where he immediately enrolled at North Dakota State University. (Read more)

On his personal Web site at the school, Duncan claimed he was an honor student studying computer science and expected to graduate in May.

David Wahlberg, a school spokesman, said he would not be able to check the records about Duncan's graduation until the school reopens after the July 4 holiday Tuesday.

He did say the university had been aware of the charges in Minnesota.

Duncan will make his first official court appearance in Kootenai County Tuesday at 2 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), Wolfinger said.

Eh, it's easier to just look at the site it's on.

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Man!
This is all over the news here.
I know that guy. His apartment building isn't far from my house.
The whole town's shocked. Nothing like this ever has a connection with my town or state.

So, uh... your thoughts?

[Fallen Fairy]

Omg brie this is so freaky!

fallen fairy

[toodlepops.]

Wow, you knew that guy? That must be so scary!
But how come the girl was found nearby, though?

[YourSuperior]

That is sad. Sex offenders are just stupid.

[inthemudhole]

I honestly don't know any more than what I posted. =/
I just watched the news and they basically repeated everything I posted, so I can't really answer any questions.

Yeah, I had never spoken to him before, but I have seen him in the neighborhood before.. I go for a lot of walks on the street where he lived.

He lived on seventh street, I live on sixth.

[enyceXaddiction]

o wow missing for THAT long..

[jeSs1cA]

So you knew that guy? Oh my gosh, if I were in your position I would be like, so .. shocked. That's scary.

EDIT//
okay so you answered my question of knowing him up there.^

[Pulchritude]

Yea my friend showed me the link.. really sad when I read stuff like this. it sucks

[EmmalieV]

Wow , you knew him?! , read that this morning on google news.

[*lolita kitty*]

i read most of it.
thats creepy. you knew the guy? gosh... ><

[beambitious]

i just read that a while ago. er if you see him again run run away. but if you want to be cut off from all humanity stay in your house.
thats scary that you know him

[angelrevelation]

wow that's weird... i dont understand how the girl could become attached to him, unless he didn't abuse her or anything, but why wouldn't he, especially with his record

[xbr0kensmil3]

woa if that happened near where i live i'd ask my parents to move.

[Spirited Away]

That's why giving paroles to those kind of people is... stupid.

[Looow]

=O Wow and you knew him!
That's a scary thought. he could have ...done something to you. Ahhh fjksf.

[Saeglopur]

That's like what's happening around New Jersey. Three kids were found dead in a car's trunk. Yeah... they suspected it was this sick-o guy. I forgot the rest. Nyeh.

[emazing]

Wow, that is scary if the offender and the little girl who was missing were found near your hometown. Anywho, I'm really glad that the girl was found; I think the dad and the girl are re-united now; and that's what counts. I feel sorry for the brother though.

[*chaneun*]

Brie, my town is like that too. Nothing happens, but a few years ago OUR town had anthrax attacks and was all over the news.

[*xcaitlinx*]

wow, you knew him!? that's even more insane. i heard about that case on AMW (america's most wanted). thank god that little girl is safe.

[inthemudhole]

Ahh, they weren't found near my town. They were found in Idaho. I live in North Dakota, by his apartment building and where he has lived for the past five years or so.

[demolished]

how scary. buy yourself a peper spray, chain belt, and sleep powder.

peper spray him, get a handful of sleep powder and smash it in his mouth. whip him w/ da belt.

he'll be tired and sleepy .... weak.

[michelle_07]

that is scarey to think about.
there's some website to look up registered sex offenders, but if there was a warrant for that guys arrest, i'm sure he wasn't registered in the right spot.

[steezahh]

are you serious? by my house just across the street and two houses down their were 7 police cars. then when it finally came up on the news it was a rapist who was raping someone. shot a gun so someone called the police. its not big news here but its scary to know that someone bad was living so close to you. and it only came up on the news once.? true story.

[jr0h]

that's pretty creepy. idaho is pretty close to washington and i think i read somewhere in the article that the man was also a sex offender in washington? ><

whens the date of this article? i dont think i can see it anywhere.

if i was one of the denny's employees..i'd be scared to death. especially since it was 2am in the mornin right.

[parallel]

I couldn't really tell what the point was.
Well. Besides the fact that he was arrested due to kidnapping and yada yada.

I would be freaked out.