February 25 1963: Born Fort Bragg, North Carolina Parents Joseph E. Duncan Jr. and Lillian Mae Duncan.
February 25, 1963: Born New Orleans, LA Parents Joseph E. Duncan Jr. and Lillian Mae Duncan.
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End of Sentence Psychological Evaluation dated March 16, 2000,
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1971: Sexual contact at 8 years of age initiated by two of his sisters.
1975: Duncan told therapists that he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old boy when he was 12 years old.
1978: Duncan was 15, he sexually assaulted a 9-year-old boy at gunpoint.
1979: Arrested by police after a high-speed chase in a stolen car at 15. During the car chase he tried to run a police roadblock. The crash shattered his sinuses and the right side of his face.He was sent to Dyslin's Boys Ranch for several months.Also 150 community service.
1979: 16 year old Duncan told his therapists that he tied up six younger boys and sexually assaulted them.
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Duncan dropped out of Lakes High School in Lakewood, Pierce County, in 10th grade, estimated that he'd committed about 13 rapes on younger boys by the time he was 16.
January 24, 1980: Tacoma, Washington, Joseph E. Duncan, age 16 (almost 17), was arrested and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. charged with first-degree rape, first-degree burglary and third-degree statutory rape for the assault on the 14-year-old boy.
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Police and prosecutors said Duncan broke into a neighbor's house in January 1980 and stole a gun. He pulled the gun on a boy who was walking to school and forced him into a wooded area, papers say. Duncan made the boy undress and perform a sex act, court documents say. Duncan then walked the boy farther into the woods, sexually assaulted him a second time, and then beat the boy's buttocks with a stick and burned him with a cigarette. He led the boy back to his clothes and told him to run away. That night, court records show, Duncan was arrested.
May 20, 1980: Joseph Duncan was admitted to Western State Hospital's Mentally Ill Offender Program pursuant to Court Order 57116.
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May 19, 1980: Filed Court Order 57116 Order to examine defendant. Western State Hospital, psychological and medical tests and treatments not to last beyond 15 days without further order of the court. At the end of testing he is to be returned to Pierce County Jail to be held pending further proceedings. (Order signed on May 14, 1980) .May 29, 1980: Filed report regarding findings of Court Order 57116.
March of 1982: Dincan is 19 years old His therapists concluded that, after 22 months in the Sex Offender Program, Duncan was no longer trying. "He has chosen not to commit himself to our program techniques," therapists wrote.Duncan sent to the state Department of Corrections to serve out his prison term.
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The report details two times that Duncan sneaked out of a special facility for extended visits with family, while his parents were sleeping, and prowled the neighborhood. He snuck away from the hospital treatment program and peeped into homes. His treatment providers saw the incidents as proof that Duncan was choosing not to control himself.
April 29, 1982: Duncan's 20 year sentence officially starts.