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Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home

by Gregg Olsen

A true-crime account extending beyond the crime

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    Gregg Olsen: #1 New York Times bestselling author (for If You Tell)

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A true-crime account extending beyond the crime

The 2005 murder of the Groene family and the disappearance of Shasta and Dylan Groene form the starting point for Gregg Olsen’s account. The children were found in Montana with serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan, and Shasta was rescued after forty-eight days. The book also follows the years after her rescue, describing her struggle with trauma and self-destructive behavior alongside her determination to reclaim her life. By connecting the crime and its aftermath, the account places Shasta’s long-term effort to recover at the center of a case involving abduction, survival, and the consequences of violence.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in accounts of real criminal cases and serial killers.
  • Readers seeking true crime that also addresses a survivor’s life after rescue.

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Abduction and survivalTrauma and recoveryThe aftermath of violent crime

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Book overview

From a girl's abduction by a serial killer to the harrowing aftermath--a gripping and heart-wrenching true-crime story by Gregg Olsen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell.

In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family's youngest members--eight-year-old Shasta and her brother, nine-year-old Dylan--were nowhere to be found.

As a community prayed for their return, Shasta and Dylan were already miles away in the woods of Montana at the hands of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan. After a harrowing forty-eight day ordeal, Shasta was rescued. In many ways, her survival story was only beginning.

In the following years, while Shasta struggled to outrun her trauma, a pattern of self-destructive behavior shadowed her like an ever-worsening thunderstorm. She still had hope buried deep inside. Every bit as much as the little girl who had been held captive in the woods. This would be an all-new battle for Shasta. And she was determined not to lose.

Out of the Woods is the haunting and intimate true-crime story of one of the most notorious criminal cases in American history--and a young woman's journey to reclaim her life in its wake.

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