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Archive for November, 2015


Summary: Excerpts from an excellent compilation by St. Cloud Times reporter David Unze of the history of the investigation of Jacob Wetterling’s abduction, focusing on 1990 case notes by private investigator Larry Peart while working as the lead investigator for Minnesota’s Eighth Judicial District’s public defender’s office. The article includes an overview of the so-called Paynesville assault cluster, gleaned from the federal criminal complaint charging Danny Heinrich and the search warrant used to search his Annandale house in summer 2015.


Nov 14th, 2015

Summary: On Friday night, November 13, 2015, eight militants wearing explosive belts and armed with assault rifles, shotguns, and hand grenades attacked six sites in Paris, killing at least 129 people and wounding more than 350, including about 100 seriously injured. The dead include many French citizens, three Chileans, two Belgians, two Mexicans, two Spaniards, two Portuguese, an American, and a Briton. ISIS has claimed responsibility for this mass-casualty commando-style terrorist swarm attack. Swarm attacks are high-risk, coordinated assaults sometimes directed against multiple targets or building complexes, using mobile groups to circumvent security measures, allowing attackers to inflict casualties, garner news coverage, and inflict considerable damage prior to the neutralization of the assailants.


Nov 11th, 2015

Summary: Veterans Day observance … On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice was signed in “the war to end all wars.”



Summary: On Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015 Jerry and Patty Wetterling spoke to the media for the first time since 52-year-old Danny James Heinrich of Annandale, Minn., was arrested on child pornography charges and named a “person of interest” in the Oct. 22, 1989 abduction of their son Jacob.