Update: September 3, 2016 Breaking News

Jacob Wetterling’s Remains Found in Central Minnesota

“This area is dedicated to our friend Jacob and other missing children”
Inscribed stone slab in Jacob’s Garden at North Junior High School, St. Cloud, taken Oct. 9, 2008. (Photo: Aubrey Immelman)

Wetterling Case on CNN’s ‘Hunt With John Walsh’

Jacob Wetterling at age 11, left, and what authorities think he would look like today, using age progression software. (The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)

Amy Carlson Gustafson

August 28, 2014

On Sunday [Aug. 31, 2014], CNN’s “The Hunt with John Walsh” will feature a 25-year-old Minnesota cold case. The first half of the show focuses on Jacob Wetterling, the 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped while riding his bike in his hometown of St. Joseph on Oct. 22, 1989.

On cnn.com, Jacob’s mother, Patty Wetterling, has posted five questions for her son’s abductor, who is still unknown, including “Who are you?” and “Is Jacob still alive?”

“The Hunt With John Walsh” features unsolved and ongoing crime investigations. Walsh was the host of the long-running “America’s Most Wanted” before it was canceled in 2011 after airing for more than two decades on Fox.

The episode of “The Hunt With John Walsh” featuring the Wetterling case airs at 8 p.m. [CT] Sunday [Aug. 31, 2014].

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Read about the Wetterling case and watch “The Hunt” trailer at CNN.com

Got a tip? Call 1-866-THE-HUNT or click here

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