Photo: Courtesy Shasta Groene
Once a month Shasta Groene revels in a ritual of self-care that starts with unpacking her subscription beauty box — oohing and aahing over her favorite nude lipsticks and shimmery eye shadows — delivered to the Boise, Idaho, area home she shares with her husband, Michael.
“It’s like Christmas over and over again,” she tells PEOPLE.
“It makes me feel great,” she says, “like all the insecurities are gone.” After a pause, she adds quietly, “I guess I kind of hide behind makeup.”
The terrifying case that rocked the small, idyllic town is featured on tonight’s two-hour, premiere episode of the sixth season ofPeople Magazine Investigates, airing tonight on Investigation Discovery and discovery+. (An exclusive clip is shown below.)
“This case profoundly affected this community,” says retired Det. Sgt. Brad Maskell, the former lead investigator for the Kootenai County sheriff’s department. “To this day, everybody still talks about it.”
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Now Shasta is determined to set the record straight despite the pain that still haunts her. She has vivid memories of the night Joseph Duncan III, a violent sexual predator out on parole, sneaked into her family’s home in rural Wolf Lodge, Idaho, and killed her mother, stepfather and one of her brothers (her two oldest brothers weren’t living there at the time).
Though she survived weeks of terror, her ongoing recovery from that trauma has been difficult. She physically escaped Duncan, who died last year of brain cancer while serving multiple life sentences on federal death row. Emotionally escaping has been an ongoing struggle.
Shasta is sharing her story in hopes it will empower other victims of violence and serve as her own catharsis. “You’re not your past,” Shasta says. “Every day is a new chapter.”
SeeGroene Family Massacre, the two-hour, season 6 premiere ofPeople Magazine Investigates, airing tonight at 9 p.m. ET on Investigation Discovery and streaming on discovery+ .
source: people.com
