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



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



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.



Summary: On Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014, at 8 p.m. Central Time, CNN’s “The Hunt With John Walsh” will feature the unsolved missing person case of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling, who was kidnapped on Oct. 22, 1989, while biking with his friend Aaron Larson and younger brother Trevor near his home in St. Joseph, Minn.



Summary: Memorial service on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Maple Lake, Minn., commemorating the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of St. John’s University student Joshua Guimond. Josh vanished under suspicious circumstances while walking from a card game at Metten Court to his room in St. Maur House around midnight on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002.



Summary: The child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, in which former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is charged with 40 sex crimes against minors while running a program for at-risk kids raises new questions about the unsolved disappearance of Joshua Guimond nine years ago today, on Nov. 10, 2002, from the campus of St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on November 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Maple Lake, Minn., student Joshua Guimond had been missing eight years from the campus of St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He noted that Josh still remained missing and that his case appeared no closer to resolution than the day he vanished. As a consequence, Immelman contended that to move Josh’s case forward, it was imperative that the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department refer the case to FBI behavioral scientists promptly for review and investigative recommendations.



Summary: The 22nd anniversary of the abduction of Jacob Wetterling is being marked with a large donation to the AMBER Alert program, which notifies the community about missing children. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman commemorated the 21st anniversary of Jacob Wetterling’s abduction on October 22, 1989 in St. Joseph, Minn.