SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Registered sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III is apparently blogging again, this time from a jail cell. Messages that Duncan allegedly wrote in longhand and mailed to another person are being posted on the Internet.
The messages are mostly religious in nature, and do not address the charges that Duncan killed three people outside Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, last year so he could kidnap two small children for sex.
The blogs were revealed this week on a web site called "The Cellar" that is exhaustively dedicated to Duncan. Jules Hammer, an East Coast blogger who operates The Cellar, refused to identify who is helping Duncan post the messages, saying that person wanted to remain anonymous. She said that person had been helping Duncan since November in hopes that Duncan's writing would provide incriminating evidence.
An FBI agent, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the agency cannot confirm conclusively that the writings are Duncan's. But agents have been monitoring the new blog and assuming it was Duncan's work. "There is a real dearth of information about him, anyway," the agent said. "We are certainly going to look at any of his writings, to see if they have any investigative value." "I want him to write as much as he can," the agent added. The FBI would have no way to prevent Duncan from mailing letters, the agent said.
The messages are mostly religious in nature, and do not address the charges that Duncan killed three people outside Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, last year so he could kidnap two small children for sex.
The blogs were revealed this week on a web site called "The Cellar" that is exhaustively dedicated to Duncan. Jules Hammer, an East Coast blogger who operates The Cellar, refused to identify who is helping Duncan post the messages, saying that person wanted to remain anonymous. She said that person had been helping Duncan since November in hopes that Duncan's writing would provide incriminating evidence.
An FBI agent, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the agency cannot confirm conclusively that the writings are Duncan's. But agents have been monitoring the new blog and assuming it was Duncan's work. "There is a real dearth of information about him, anyway," the agent said. "We are certainly going to look at any of his writings, to see if they have any investigative value." "I want him to write as much as he can," the agent added. The FBI would have no way to prevent Duncan from mailing letters, the agent said.
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