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Archive for the 'Missing person cases' Category


Summary: Video of the Jacob Wetterling Memorial Service at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn., on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016.



Summary: American Public Media Investigative Unit podcast series “In the Dark” reveals how law enforcement mishandled the Jacob Wetterling case.



Summary: Danny Heinrich admits to kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and killing Jacob Wetterling by shooting him twice in the back of the head with a Smith & Wesson .38 Special snub nose revolver.



Summary: Jacob Wetterling’s remains have been found after Danny Heinrich led investigators to an undisclosed site in Central Minnesota.



Summary: On Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, Daniel James (Danny) Heinrich of Annandale, Minn., who has been named as a “person of interest” in the October 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling, appeared in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on child pornography charges. Heinrich entered “not guilty” pleas on all charges. His trial was scheduled for July 11, 2016.



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.



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.



Summary: On Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 law enforcement authorities named 52-year-old Danny James Heinrich of Annandale, Minn., as a “person of interest” in the October 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling. Read the search warrant executed on July 28, 2015 that led to Heinrich’s arrest on child pornography charges.



Summary: A new book has been published on the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling in St. Joseph, Minn., the search for Jacob, and suspects in Jacob Wetterling’s kidnapping.

The book, titled “It Can’t Happen Here: The Search for Jacob Wetterling” (2015), was written by Robert M. Dudley and edited by Dianne Rassmussen, with illustrations by Milo Von Strom and cover design by Brittany Tainter.

The book can be purchased at Amazon.com (Paperback, $19.95; Kindle, $7.99).



Summary: On Sunday, Oct. 22, 1989 — 25 years ago today — 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped while riding his bicycle with his friend Aaron Larson and younger brother Trevor near his home in St. Joseph, Minn. Jacob remains missing and the case remains unsolved.