Editor's Note: This interview was conducted in 2015.
None of us will ever forget the gruesome murder and a father's agonizing plea.
In May of 2005, Brenda Groene, her boyfriend Mark McKenzie and her son Slade were brutally killed in a rural home in North Idaho.
The two youngest Groene children, Dylan and Shasta were kidnapped, and sexually assaulted. No one knew they were being held captive in this remote campsite in the Lolo National Forest in Montana.
Steve Groene pleaded on television for his children's abductor to release them safely.
Incredibly, 6 weeks later in July, 8-year-old Shasta Groene was spotted at the Denny's restaurant in Couer D' Alene with convicted sex offender Joseph Duncan.
The overwhelming joy of Shasta's rescue was tempered by the news that her brother 9-year-old Dylan had been murdered.
Duncan was sentenced to death and is currently in the appeals process.
Ten years have passed, but Shasta Groene is someone the people of Idaho have always remembered.
She's now 19, and lives right here in the Treasure Valley. She is a survivor.
"I think that things that happen like that you can't really forget about them. I think that the images will always be vivid in your mind... or I know that they are in my mind."
Shasta admits her road has been rocky.
"I feel like I'm doing pretty good," she said. "But, I do have bouts of depression, I have PTSD and bipolar disorder."
She fell into drugs at 12 years old.
"That's when I started smoking marijuana and drinking," she said. It actually made me feel really good because I didn't have to focus on all the stuff that was going on in my life at that point. I mean, there was still court stuff going on with Joseph Duncan and counseling stuff I had to do. When I was 14, that was my first time ever doing meth, and for four years after that, it was meth. Pretty much anything I could get my hands on that made me feel like a different person I would do."
Two years ago, a judge sent Shasta to the Saint Anthony Juvenile Correctional Center in Eastern Idaho. That's where she says her path to healing truly began. After over a year there, she was clean and sober and ready to start a new chapter - right here in our community.
"I actually came to a step down program that's in the Treasure Valley area, and was there for four or five months and they helped me get on my feet, get a place...and just work on my sobriety," she said. "It seems a lot of people here, see me and they recognize me, but they're like let's let her live her life."
Shasta has now been sober for two years, and she's expecting a baby boy in March - a child she calls her miracle. She says Joseph Duncan didn't steal her ability to have a family.