HUCKLEBERRIES: A vanilla milkshake and bittersweet ending

In July 2005, Shasta Groene is shown at Kootenai Medical Center, now Kootenai Health, after her rescue.
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A 2005 Amber Alert shows Shasta and Dylan Groene.
Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department photo

Shasta Groene and serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III are shown in a surveillance photo entering a Kellogg convenience store July 1, 2005, hours before Shasta’s rescue.
AP, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office

Waitress Amber Deahn is shown with her 15-month-old daughter, Maria, after visiting Shasta Groene in the hospital July 2005.
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Adam Piper (aka “Li’l Bud the Kid”) aims his .357 magnum in May 2000.
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Chuck Buck, left, and C.J. Buck, right, of Buck Knives join Mayor Clay Larkin of Post Falls at the company’s 2005 grand opening.
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In May 1965, Sister M. Aloysia of Immaculate Heart of Mary Academy, displays a 1912 Coeur d’Alene Press photo of Rev. Thomas J. Purcell, the parish priest who built St. Thomas Catholic Church at Ninth and Indiana.
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After 128 sticks of dynamite explode, dust billows from the old Rutledge mill sawdust and bark burner as it begins to tumble May 24, 1970.
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Coeur d’Alene Press carrier Mike Murphy braved fallen ash in May 1980 to deliver the newspaper, protected by a special newspaper bandana.
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All but one person interviewed for a Coeur d’Alene Press Street Forum after the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption wore masks. They were, clockwise from top left, Bill Bashburn, Joe Brabeck, Bob Ball, Dale and Gloria Martin, Guy Smith and Roy and Mary Milks.
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