Coeur D’Alene, Idaho ? More than six weeks after she disappeared from a home where family members were bludgeoned to death, an 8-year-old girl was found safe Saturday, sharing a meal with a registered sex offender at a Denny’s restaurant in her hometown.

Shasta Groene was reunited with her father, but her 9-year-old brother, Dylan, remained missing and was feared dead, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger said.

“Our initial information is that he may be deceased,” Wolfinger said, adding that officials were continuing the search for him. He said investigators believe Dylan was alive when the children disappeared.

Joseph Edward Duncan III, a registered sex offender from Fargo, N.D., was arrested and charged with kidnapping. He was being held without bond, and Wolfinger said more charges were possible.

Duncan, 42, had an outstanding warrant for failing to register as a high-risk sex offender and was facing charges of molesting a 6-year-old boy in Minnesota. He had been released on bail in April, just weeks before the children disappeared.

Shasta was spotted by a waitress early Saturday just miles from the home where her mother, older brother and mother’s boyfriend were discovered bound and bludgeoned to death May 16.

Amber Deahn, 24, said she thought she recognized the girl eating onion rings, cheese sticks and chicken strips with an older man. Shasta’s picture has been posted around town and shown in the media.

“It clicked in my brain that she looks familiar,” she said.

It was not yet known where the girl had spent the past six weeks. She was being interviewed at a medical center but appeared physically well.

Shasta’s father, Steve Groene, and her oldest brother, Vance, spent Saturday at a hospital with Shasta. They did not make any statements to reporters, but when asked when he was driving away from the hospital if he was relieved, Vance Groene said, “more than relieved.”