You Give Blogs A Bad Name

This morning's news that an accused killer and kidnapper kept a BLOG detailing his emotional turmoil ticked me off. As a card-carrying drama queen with a penchant for emotionally overwrought blog entries, I'm all for some Grade-A grandstanding every other day post - but this, this just makes me ill.

Convicted sex offender Joseph Edward Duncan III spent months on the Internet documenting his internal struggle over right vs. wrong. Then, four days before two Idaho children he is accused of kidnapping disappeared, he wrote: "The demons have taken over."

It was one of the last entries in Duncan's Weblog before the 42-year-old North Dakota man was arrested and charged this week with two kidnapping counts. Authorities believe he took 9-year-old Dylan Groene and 8-year-old Shasta Groene from their Idaho home shortly before their 13-year-old brother, mother and her boyfriend were bludgeoned to death May 16. Police say Duncan also is a suspect in the killings.

"God has shown me the right choice, but my demons have me tied to a spit and the fire has already been lit," Duncan wrote April 24, after he had jumped bail in Minnesota on charges of molesting a 6-year-old boy in a playground.

Rather than address the serious issue of mental illness, I suspect they'll run a demonic possession story with a dash of internet friend or foe.

The Devil Made Me Blog It -A Dateline Exclusive.

We'll just have to see.