BREAKING NEWS — September 3, 2016

Jacob Wetterling’s Remains Found on Stearns County Farm

Stearns County Sheriff Confirms Remains Found Are That of Jacob Wetterling

Wetterling Remains May Have Been Found, Sources Say

By Tom Hauser, Paul McEnroe & Nate Leding
KSTP.com
September 3, 2016

Sources tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that the man authorities named as a person of interest in Jacob Wetterling’s disappearance, Danny Heinrich, agreed to cooperate, and provide information that led to authorities recovering unidentified remains.

Heinrich led investigators to the area where the remains were found, according to sources.

Sources say the remains that may be those of Wetterling were found at an undisclosed location in central Minnesota.

DNA tests are currently being conducted to determine if they are in fact the boy’s remains. …

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St. Cloud Times Live Blog: Jacob Wetterling Found

The intersection at 16th Avenue Southeast where Jacob Wetterling was last seen alive on Oct. 22, 1989. (Photo: Peter Cox | MPR News)

Paynesville Reeling With News about Jacob; Grave Was Hidden Along a County Road (Star Tribune)

The remains of Jacob Wetterling were recovered in this tree line area of a cow pasture off Stearns County Road 85 northeast of Paynesville. (Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii / Star Tribune)

Sources: Heinrich Led FBI to Jacob Wetterling’s Remains (WCCO)

Statement: Jacob Wetterling Resource Center

We are in deep grief. We didn’t want Jacob’s story to end this way. In this moment of pain and shock, we go back to the beginning. The Wetterlings had a choice to walk into bitterness and anger or to walk into a light of what could be, a light of hope. Their choice changed the world.

This light has been burning for close to 27 years. The spark began in the moments after the abduction of Jacob Wetterling, when his family decided that light is stronger than darkness. They lit the flame that became Jacob’s Hope. All of Central Minnesota flocked to and fanned the flame, hoping for answers. The light spread state-wide, nationally and globally as hearts connected to the 11-year-old boy who liked to play goalie for his hockey team, wanted to be a football player, played the trombone, and loved the times he spent with his sisters, brother, and parents.

Today, we gather around the same flame. The flame that has become more than the hope for one as it led the way home for thousands of others. It’s the light that illuminates a world that Jacob believed in, where things are fair and just.

Our hearts are heavy, but we are being held up by all of the people who have been a part of making Jacob’s Hope a light that will never be extinguished. It shines on in a different way. We are, and we will continue to be, Jacob’s Hope.

Jacob, you are loved.

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