Captures the imagination of everyone because they can all imagine that could have been my kid. They were frantic, kind of screaming, someone took jacob. Theres a man with a gun and hes got jacob. Youre worried about him getting hit by a car and he gets snatched by somebody. Who would take a child . Jacob is all alone. Its not fair. This is wrong. Youre all riding your bike and your scooter from this way and you get to this area. What happens . All of a sudden a man came out from this area over here. We saw some adultsize footprints and smaller ones like child size footprints that looked like somebody was pulling this kid along. That search was massive. In my mind the man that took jacob was always lurking around the corner, and certainly could strike again. Were you thinking theres a serial kidnapper on the loose . On this country road, an 11yearold boy riding his bike is abducted just a half mile away from his home. The kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling would become one of the biggest mysteries in minnesota history, with an investigation that would last close to 30 years, and during that time, a mothers unwavering hope would fuel the search to find jacob and bring him home. [ bells toll ] growing up in st. Joseph, minnesota, was like growing up in classic smalltown america. Nobody locked their doors at night. Kids were able to run and play. St. Joseph, minnesota, is known as st. Joe. You have a lot of the lakes that people enjoy. Its a rural community, so theres lots of farmers and farm businesses in the area. Jerry was a chiropractor. He liked the feel of the small town, especially when you are building a practice. What was life like for you at that time, when you think back to the 80s . It was kinda nuts. Kids were in different sports, dance it was just a really wild time. You can see, four kids, it was pretty busy. Yeah, it looks like it. But they were fun. Look at those smiles. Stair steps too with their ages. Yeah. In 1989, amy was 13. Jacob was 11. Trevor was 10, and carmen was 8 years old. We bought this house in the woods. It just felt very peaceful here. I grew up right next door to the wetterlings. All of the siblings in the wetterling family had a very close relationship. I was a stayathome mom. We just played. It was fun. Trevor, you gotta get down low, so itll okay, wait. We got to go down. I think the favorite video is when jacob portrayed me reading the newspaper. Daddy. What . I hit a ball and accidentally broke the window. Thats okay. We well buy a new one. And then trevor comes back up again and says, dad, i forgot to tape the game. And jacob goes, what . You forgot to tape the game . Im so angry, you are grounded for two weeks. It was pretty funny. This is jacob. He looks so much like you. Yeah. Wow. Hes a cutie. And what does this say about him . He loved playing hockey, and one year he decided to be goalie, but he was really good. You know, he had a really good balance. If he stopped it, it was a great save. If it went in, thats a great shot. What made him special to you . He just had a really good spirit. Sweet, innocent, very real. A light. Light up a room. I am aaron larson. Jacob wetterling was my best friend. They were kind of the family that was willing to try anything. It looked like you had it just really kind of all laid out very nicely with your family and we did. We were happy. Everybody was busy. Well, you can see busy in this calendar. And this was 1989 . 1989. This is january. I mean, it every month. Wow. This one is jammed. Yeah. Well, this was school, back to school, so youve got everything going on, and then this is october. Now this is the month that youll yeah. Never forget. Right. October 1989. October 22nd. Pretty much everything stops. It goes to nothing. It just stopped. October 22nd, 1989 is a very vivid date in my memory. It was a sunday. We didnt have school the next day for some reason. Jacob and i went fishing at a nearby lake. He had been practicing for a hockey tryout, and he was just crazy, having trouble staying on his skates. It was just really bugging him, so i suggested we go fishing. We had a really nice time fishing and came back around noontime. We all met in here to watch the vikings game. And a fumble, penalty marker down, and joey browner runs it in. But lets wait. That particular night, we were invited to a dinner party. You were going out to dinner with friends, and the kids were going to stay here. And we asked jacob if he minded babysitting. Amy was staying at a friends house. We were just gonna be gone a little bit, and he was in sixth grade. He said sure, no problem. Can aaron come over . I remember being super excited because then we actually get to hang out, and we dont have school the next day. We left, we got to our friends house, called home to give them the number. This is precell phone, you have to remember. Of course. They asked if they could ride their bikes to the store and rent a video. Initially, i said no. It was starting to get dark. Being little boys, you kind of come up with not to take no for that first answer. Theyve ridden to the store a million times, but not at night. Where we lived in a kind of little culdesac wooded area to the town is a straight road, but cars can go fairly fast on that road. I was just concerned that they would be visible. Trevor said, well, let me talk to dad. He had it all figured out. He said that jacob was wearing my reflective running vest. Aaron had a white sweatshirt on, and trevor was carrying a flashlight. They had everything taken care of. Yeah. So, okay. Go, and then come right home. But then they called a third time. These are responsible children, and they said, carmen doesnt wanna go with, is it okay if rochelle comes over to babysit . So then i went over to the wetterling house. As a parent, we were in direct contact with them and and everything felt fine. Like youd done everything right that you could possibly do. Right, and its a fiveminute, tenminute max bike ride . Its not far. Its a mile. We left probably close to around 8 30. I was actually on the scooter, and then they were on their bikes. We werent in a big hurry. We were just kind of cruising down the road, and then, we went into tom thumb, the convenience store, and we got the naked gun, the movie. Then i remember also getting blow pops, just some suckers, and then, we just headed back the same way we came down. They were just getting really close, within a half mile of their house, and all of a sudden, this guy stepped out of the shadows and said, stop, i have a gun. A guy wearing a mask took your son. Who would take a child . It was inconceivable. Generas who are antialcholine receptor antibody positive. It is lasting control over your gmg symptoms. 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Theres a little gravel driveway that leads back to a farm, and its one of those, like, kind of engrained where he comes out and he says, stop, and turn off your flashlights, and i have a gun. I still remember my first reaction was i think i let out a laugh almost, because i thought this must be a joke. Then it became real pretty quick. It seemed like they werent gone very long at all when all of the sudden trevor rushed into the house, followed pretty closely by aaron, and they were frantic, kind of screaming, rochelle, rochelle, someone took jacob, theres a man with a gun and hes got jacob. To have a man jump out and abduct an 11yearold boy, it was inconceivable. I ended up calling my dad. He just came right over. You both are having your dinner, then you get a phone call that i suspect youll never forget. So, he answered the phone, and it was rochelles dad. He asked for me, and says, the boys went to the the tom thumb, and a guy wearing a mask took jacob. A guy wearing a mask took your son. Youre worried about him getting hit by a car, and he gets snatched by somebody . What are you thinking . Im not thinking. Im just he changed. Jerry came back to the table and grabbed my arm and said, we got to go, and i said, you know, what happened . Arent those boys back yet . And he said, two of them are, somebody took jacob. Its like, what . It was unimaginable. I grabbed my purse, and we left. 911 emergency. At my neighbors, the Jerry Wetterling family. Thats where youre calling from . And some of their boys went down to tom thumb to pick up a movie, and on their way back, someone stopped them, and we believe that they have one of the boys. Okay, were they picked up in a vehicle . Just a second. Ill ask the boys. Was there a vehicle there, or was he walking . They didnt see a vehicle. Okay. Did they see the individual at all . Yes, they did. Did you see the individual at all . He had a mask on. He had like a nylon stocking over his face where you couldnt see any of the eyes or any of his features. Maybe thats why the voice stands out to me more. It was a very gruff, gravelly voice. How old is the individual that has not returned . How old is jacob . 11. 11. Okay, jacob . Its jacob, right . And hes 11. Yes, Jacob Wetterling. The other dispatch right now is dispatching a squad to where youre at right now, okay . Im bruce bechtold, and i was the first officer on the scene. I was a brandnew deputy at the time. I get a call from dispatch that it sounded like a boy had been abducted, and in my mind, that cant be true, but i activated my lights and siren and drove pretty quickly this way. It must have been the longest ride of your life. It was. Who would take a child . Thats all i kept who would do this . Its about a 20minute drive or so of trying to figure it out. We had no idea what we were walking into. Its one of those things that you just cant even fathom could actually happen in smalltown minnesota. I have to drive past the abduction site to get to the wetterling home, and its in this location where were standing now. Youre all riding your bike and your scooter from this way. Yep. And you get to this area, what happens . All of a sudden, a man came out from this area over here. He said, stop, i have a gun and told us to turn off our flashlights. Its basically where all your fears and everything gets real very fast. He ordered them to put their bikes down in the ditch and then to lay down, facedown each one of them. And this is the spot, aaron, as far as you know . Yeah, like, right in here. So we were laying with our heads facing that way, like on our stomachs. Mmhmm. And then he told us to look at him and asked us how old we were, and so at the time, trevor was 10, and myself and jacob were both 11, and then he started with trevor at first, and he told him to run as fast as he could into the woods, and then he told me to get up and run as fast as i can, and dont look back, or else i would shoot. Trevor and aaron ran off to the woods back here, and then they ran from the corner of the woods here diagonally across the field where a gap in the trees is. Thats where the wetterling house and the neighborhood is. When aaron finally caught up to trevor, and they were brave enough to look back, they just didnt see jacob. He was gone. Nobody was there. Then it was a matter of how fast can we get to somebody to help us, because we had no idea whats going on and wheres jacob . Wheres jacob . You make your way back home, and you hear from the other boys. Trevor said, this man, there was a man with a gun, and he told us to get off our bikes and lay down in the ditch or he would shoot. Do you have any recollection of what was going through your mind that night . Fear. Just frantic fear, i guess i would say it. The detectives were asking for all kinds of personal they might have taken trevors hockey jacket because they both played for the same league. This was his hockey jacket. And he was wearing this . He was wearing this when he was kidnapped, then they asked for a picture of jacob. Is this the photo that you gave . This was the yellow sweater photo. This was heartbreaking. You take it down, but it was so hard, because i had, you know, three of the kids School Pictures on the wall, and then theres this blank frame. It was just ah. One of those heartwrenching moments. That first night was just a lot of chaos. You know, the sheriff was concerned that maybe hes tied to a tree or something and cant break free. Were gonna find him. 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It was him, just his face and sharing all of his favorites. My favorite game is clue. My favorite thing to do most is watch football. And that video was taken ten days before he was abducted. Im finished. I remember the night before. He was kind of crabby because he felt like he was a bad skater, and so he was a little bit sensitive, and sometime that evening he asked he felt really bad. Im sorry i was so crabby. You want to play a game . And i said, no, i thank you. I appreciate you wanting to play. I was in the midst oputting things away, which is a heartbreaker. Thats one of my worst mom moments. I wish i could i wish i could take it back. Police want to get a recorded statement from jacobs 10yearold brother trevor, who was with jacob when he was taken. It was a really quiet, solemn drive down that road, now what was an ugly road. The bikes were still there the following morning, and it was traumatic. I could just feel trevor stiffen, and then we went to the st. Joe police station. This is a taped interview. Todays date is october 23rd, 1989. The time right now is 0909 hours. Can you tell us how old you are, please . Im 10 years old. While you guys were riding your bikes, did some guy confront you . No. Some guy stop make you guys stop riding your bikes . Oh, yeah. Can you tell us what this person initially said when you guys were riding by him . He said, stop, i have a gun. Turn off the flashlight, go in the ditch, face the other way. And he asked us all our ages. My heart just broke. Hes a 10yearold kid who witnessed this horrific thing. His brother was stolen. He hadnt slept, and the fear, the sheer terror of that night. Where was his gun . He had his gun in his hand. Okay, what happened then . He told me to run as fast as i could to the woods. Right when he told me to run, he grabbed jacob. Where the abduction occurred was at the end of a driveway where the rassier family resided. 34yearold dan rassier lived on this farm with his parents who were out of town that weekend. My name is dan rassier, and in 1989 i was a band teacher. The night jacob was taken, i was home alone working on this collection, getting it up to date. Between 9 00 and 9 30, the dog is barking because the dog is noticing a car coming down the hill. It was like a blue, maybe a darker blue, but smaller car, and turned around very quickly, and it was gone. Shortly after that, i went to bed. I woke up when smokey was barking, looked outside, and a whole bunch of people were up by the woodpile with flashlights. When i interviewed trevor and aaron, they said they didnt see a car, so we thought, well, we need to do a ground search. We first searched where the bicycles were found and started working our way through this little bit of a wooded area. Dan rassier meets up with police and tells them he saw a dark vehicle quickly turn around in his driveway earlier that night. Talking to dan, we thought, well, maybe there was a car. About in this area we saw some tire tracks, and then we saw some adultsized footprints and smaller ones, like childsized footprints. They werent going straight forward like this. They were to the side and almost like they were shuffling together. It didnt look like someone had just gone for a walk. It looked like somebody was pulling this kid along. And so, that caused us to think that maybe these were jacobs footprints and the abductors footprints. The car would have stopped here. So, as theyre coming down the road on their scooter and bicycles, they would have never saw that there was a car here. They found jacobs footprint down here. Yeah. It was way down by that second pole. And the irony is, it is such a peaceful, beautiful spot. Its like gods country, you know . It is. The driveway where jacob was taken is just a few miles from the interstate, so if he was in a car, jacob and his kidnapper could be anywhere. I just had the sense that this guy took jacob and took off. In my mind, hes halfway to las vegas or chicago. Hes got him. Hes going somewhere. My gut feeling was just the opposite. It was like, hes so close, but we cant reach him. This man has put us behind locked doors and made us restrict our childrens every movement. You couldnt be outside. You locked your doors. You kept track of your kids differently. With the community and parents on edge, the hunt for Jacob Wetterling quickly becomes one of the biggest Search Missions in minnesota history. Ive got Home Internet from tmobile it only costs 50 bucks at tmobile they wont raise your rates at tmobile youll get a great deal every day fair, freckled, or melanated. We are appreciated. Ultra hydrated. Glazed and glowing. Confidence overflowing. 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In the days following the abduction, Law Enforcement conducted a neighborhood canvas. Weve covered everything that we can with the helicopter. I remember the helicopter sound. I still have ptsd over helicopters. Hundreds of Law Enforcement officers involved. A task force was formed with multiple agencies and multiple investigators. And theyve come up with nothing. It was massive. There were resources i didnt know about. Ham radio operators. Give me a quick status. Theres a small pilots association, and they were taking up little private planes. It doesnt make any difference what the costs are. We are just determined to do whatever is necessary. Weve got to do an absolute thorough search out there. The governor called and offered up the national guard. Okay, move out which was really, really huge because they searched ground searched about 30 miles worth of land. Hes wondering what all the army guys are doing out here. We went and met patty and jerry almost immediately. What we promised them is that we would do Everything Everything in our power to find jacob. You have to be patient, and she said, i cant be patient. This is my child. And we both understood. There was just people all the time, like, at their house, people bringing food. The media coming and going with the huge satellite trucks. What youre doing right now is a very, very integral part of that, so we really appreciate you being here. They felt that if the story got out, there would be more people knowing about it, more people looking for him, that that would be their best chance of finding where he was. A friend of ours said, you know, you need to call the media. He had seen a program on 20 20 approximately six weeks before jacobs abduction. 20 20 with hugh downs and barbara walters. How getting the word out quickly was important in recovering that particular child. In desperation, jeremiahs parents turn to the media, doing seven to eight interviews a day. It wasnt too long before it started making national news. From abc, this is world news tonight with last week, an 11year old named Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped from the streets of st. Joseph, minnesota. I remember being at the Minnesota Vikings game when they had jacobs missing poster. Not just the vikings are part of this football game, but its a whole area, and this is a big thing, and everyone is a part of trying to find Jacob Wetterling. I just thought, well, this is it. If they get jacob on this particular broadcast for the Minnesota Vikings, they will absolutely find him. How hard was that for you to see his picture out there as a missing child, your jacob . Just devastating. At the beginning, theres no way your your brain can really take all this in. It its crazy. First, it was jerry who was front and center in the middle of all that media coverage, but after an appearance on a current affair, the family decides to change not its message, but its messenger. 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It was my way of just connecting to him. If he came home tomorrow, i wanted him to know exactly what we had tried, everything that wed tried, because i kept thinking he was wondering why did it take so long. Dear jacob, my heart hurts as days pass by without you. I wrestle over the details again and again. Who could have done this . Where are you, jacob . I love you, jacob, and i promise, i will never stop searching for you. Love, mom. The idea that jacob was taken while innocently riding his bicycle seemed to shake the nation to its core, leading police to stop at nothing to find him. Little do the wetterlings know that just miles away, investigators may have a link to jacobs disappearance. Investigators became aware of a similar abduction that had occurred. There were so many similarities, they thought, this could be our guy. Type 2 diabetes . Discover the ozempic® trizone. I got the power of 3. I lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. 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Are you terrified that theres somebody out there whos going to try to snatch you or somebody else . Yeah, i would say i was traumatized. I slept on my parents floor for how many months. We didnt know who had jacob. That person still out there, obviously, and so theres always that fear of the what if . In my mind, the man that took jacob was always lurking around the corner. After Jacob Wetterling, everything changed. Almost immediately, how people parent their kids. I even asked the sheriff one time, i was like, are our other kids safe . There were times when i just wanted to keep them all inside, but i spent a lot of my own energy trying to nudge them into being okay with the world again. The people of st. Joseph have rallied on jacobs behalf, putting up posters, raising reward money, and calling attention to his plight. There were white ribbons everywhere, and they wrote on them, you know, jacobs hope. At a church service, jacobs classmates and family sang listen. Listen, can you hear the sound one of his favorite songs. It has become an anthem of hope. There was no evidence that jacob was not alive, and that was the one thing patty and the wetterling family had to cling to. From that first night on, we kept leaving our porch light on all the time. It was just a way to say were not stopping. You got to get home, jake. His favorite show was mcgyver. That was a man who escaped from all these outrageous situations, and i thought, if anybody could get away, it would be jacob. The fbi says it is the best lead theyve had in nearly two months. For the first time agents believe there is a connection between jacobs abduction and another abduction earlier this year. Shortly after jacobs abduction, investigators became aware of an incident that had occurred in cold spring, minnesota. Cold spring is about ten miles from st. Joseph, and in january of 1989, just nine months before jacobs kidnapping, another boy, 12yearold Jared Scheierl, is abducted. Jared had gone to the skating rink with several other friends, and after ice skating, they had decided to walk to this cafe in town, and they ordered some milkshakes and french fries. Jared just lived really close, so he decided he was just going to walk home. When he was nearing his neighborhood, a car had pulled up, and a man asked if he knew where the kramers lived, and jared tried to help him with directions, and the man got out and grabbed jared and put him in the backseat of his car. This guy approached me from behind, said, i have a gun, im not afraid to use it. The abductor drove jared to a remote site outside of cold spring, minnesota, and assaulted him. I was dropped off and told to run, dont look back, or he would shoot. The statement matched language used at the wetterling abduction. He grabbed jacob, and then he told to me to run as fast as i could into the woods or else he would shoot. He said almost the same words. I was just thinking that these cases are pretty similar. I was really concerned that it could be the same person. Were you thinking that theres a serial kidnapper on the loose . Possibly, and i had heard that, you know, sometimes theres a time period where they dont do it again for fear of being caught. Jared and his parents reported this right away, and they met with police and gave a very Detailed Police report. He believed the vehicle was a blue vehicle, blue interior. He described some sort of a Police Scanner or a handheld scanner in the front seat of the vehicle. Jared described his abductor as wearing a baseball cap, camouflage clothing, a man with a gruff voice. Today the fbi released this composite, a sketch of the cold spring abductor. It was drawn after authorities noticed the similarities between the abduction and jacobs. The abductor was a white man in his 40s or 50s. He has a deep raspy voice and he told the boy he had a gun. The characteristic that i remember of, like, our event is the voice. When Jared Scheierl was abducted and sexually assaulted, that was very, very rare. You fastforward to when Jacob Wetterling was abducted. A stranger abduction in minnesota on a gravel road . Probability that they were both related . Absolutely. Police were looking for a Child Predator based on something you had said. What led them to think that . When he was coming out of the the road there, he initially had reached over and had touched me, so i think that obviously led them to think that that was what his main goal was, on the sexual predator side of things. Police always thought there were so many similarities between jareds abduction and jacobs abduction. They thought, okay, this could be our guy. But as each anniversary went by, year after year, and then nothing would happen, you do start to think this case is never going to be solved. Every year we would get together, like, on the 22nd of october. Weve reached another year of we havent found him. Like, we still dont know where he is. His presence is still real and heartfelt, but this graduation is still a somber one for classmates of Jacob Wetterling. A lot of people value a lot of things more because you realize, i mean, everythings not going to be here forever. I think patty and jerry would talk about they kind of lived vicariously like through my our graduating class, but its also, im sure, a sad thing because they wish jacob was there doing it with us. Years go by, and then you hear the police are looking at somebody whos right down the street. They wired me. You would never have harmed jacob . I only feel that i could have saved him. And then a blogger begins doing a little digging of her own. Are you thinking at this point you probably got your guy . Yes. We got a big break in the case. We have in our grasp the opportunity to find Jacob Wetterling . I have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. 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Big moment here for charles who ate a big ole bowl of raisin bran crunch and packed a downright immaculate carryon. Big chuck, you sock rollin son of a. The wetterling case is immense. It is a huge story. Looking for any sign of jacob or his kidnapper. This whole row right here is Jacob Wetterling. And this is the wetterling room. This is a lot of evidence. This guy threatened these kids with a gun, and he would often say, dont look back, or ill shoot. You started a real investigation. And that began an incredible force. A chiropractor, a plumber, a blogger, and a housewife. You see all of these victims in a close radius, it has to be the same person. The guy came flying from out of the spruce trees. In the dark. In total darkness. Just took the wind out of everybody. It was like, oh. This could be the information that weve been looking for all these years. Now youre about to find out. Yeah. The real story. Wow. What did we just discover here . Its an unsolved mystery. Weeks go by, months go by. Involving this young, allamerican boy. No news, no leads. No one knew why. Year after year after year. And nobody really knew exactly how. All Law Enforcement really knew was that young Jacob Wetterling vanished on a moonless minnesota night, leaving behind a footprint as the only clue to follow. When a story like that lingers, you just figure its never going to be solved. Where are you, jacob . So, its 2004, and its late january, and i get a call. We invited dan rassier into the Sterns County Sheriffs Office and went over the information we had with him. Back in 1989, dan rassier was that music teacher living on a property near where the wetterling crime happened. Rassier sees himself as a solid citizen, a good guy, but police arent yet convinced. I was completely thinking i was going to help with something. It starts off kind of just, you know, well, what can i do . I remember him saying, well, that car that you saw, its been accounted for. The car theory was that someone pulled into the rassier farm driveway and was waiting there and abducted Jacob Wetterling and left. That car theory is based on rassiers eyewitness account. I went, well, great. Youve got your guy. No. No, we found the driver of the car, and he is innocent. He did not do this. Thats bad news for rassier. Thats when the investigation seemed to really turn towards dan rassier as being the abductor. It had been 15 years since Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped right at the top of this driveway, and now the man living on this sprawling farm across from the abduction site is the focus of the investigation. And if you just want to look at a thing like this from a commonsense perspective, its got to be somebody, youre thinking, that knows the area, somebody whos comfortable in the area. We were pretty i dont know if forceful is the word, but we were pretty somewhat aggressive with him, maybe more than normal, just to see if we could get a different reaction out of him, and i dont think he liked that. I know he didnt like it. I want you to tell him where you put jacob so i can go out and find him, and well be done. Boy. You could be a person thats a psychopathic killer, or you could be someone thats the nicest guy in the world, or you could be someone in between. Basically hes saying, you took jacob, on and on, that kind of thing. Howd you do it . You knew they were coming by. You grabbed them. For instance, i said, did you take Jacob Wetterling . And instead of just saying no, which most people would be upset that you accused him, he put his hand up, and he said, did i take Jacob Wetterling . Just kind of cocky remarks. He would never eliminate himself. He always kind of teased you with, it might be me type of comments. If i did Something Like that, i would have to be nuts. And im trying to explain to him, but hes just so hes so gone that i remember the interview just going not good, not good, and so on the way out, pam jensen says to me, well, you took that pretty well. And i go, well, its a joke. The whole thing is a joke. And then i left. That must have been mind boggling to think that police are looking at somebody whos right down the street. Were you suspicious . For years i was curious about him. You were so determined to do anything to find your son, that you were even willing to wear a wire. I did wear a wire. Id do anything. I just wanted to meet the man and have him look me in the eye and say he didnt do it, and so they did, they wired me. So, we put a wire on her, and we knew where rassier went to the gym, so we had her bump into him. Are you dan . I need to talk to you. We just sat in that lobby area, and i asked a lot of questions. You know, jacob was last seen on your property. Do you think jacob could have been on your property . I needed you to look me in eye and say you had nothing to do with jacobs disappearance . I had nothing to do with this. You would never have harmed jacob . I only feel that if i had been more alert its all hindsight i could have stopped it. I could have saved him. Do you remember that conversation . Yes. We sat down for maybe 45 minutes. I told her my side of the story. She wanted to get all the questions answered. Did you do this, dan . Thank you, dan. Lets talk again. Okay. Thank you. I told the fbi as im tearing off the microphone, hes either innocent or a psychopath. Hes either really good at covering up, or he didnt do it. By 2010, the investigation is right back where it began, on the rassier property. Through time, we put together all the information we had and we presented that information to a judge, and the judge felt there was sufficient probable cause to look on the farm. And im standing in front of a cornfield on the edge of the rassier family farm. This was a big deal when they did the dig at the rassier residence. Neighbors have been watching, too. Its kind of scary. They did a pretty extensive search, even digging up some of his property, which clearly he was not happy with. The dig turns up tons of dirt and nothing else, but the damage has been done. Rassier is branded. Rassier was known publicly as a person of interest in the wetterling case. It wasnt like we stopped everything and then started working on dan rassier. Thats not the case at all. We worked every lead we could think of. Dan rassier isnt involved in the wetterling abduction at all, but it will be years before investigators make that clear. If dan didnt do it, who did . Thats when a blogger begins doing a little digging of her own. What are you thinking . I just thought, oh, this is big. This is this has got to be the answer. 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I was working with the National Center for missing and exploited children and doing Law Enforcement trainings all over the country. People need to be educated about the dangers of those who violate children. Because of jacobs case and patty, the sex offender registration law was passed. Today, america warns, if you dare to prey on our children, the law will follow you wherever you go. She got very involved in trying to keep this from happening to other families. It wasnt just about jacob. It was about all children. The wetterling case is immense. It is so emotional, it is deep, and it was, for me, all consuming. Im joy baker, and starting in 2010, i wrote a blog about the Jacob Wetterling case. You started a real investigation. Yeah. I went to the local library, looked up all the Old Newspaper articles from that time period, and i just started to lay it out. Over the next few years, joy gained a following online, but the wetterlings werent aware of her until a chance encounter. In 2013, it was nearly 25 years since you had lost jacob. You meet a blogger. Yes. I was speaking at an event, and this woman came and introduced herself and said shed been blogging about jacob. Patty is mildly freaking out about this person. And i just go to the blog, and im reading and say, wow, this is good stuff. We called her, i think, the next day, and we had like at least a twohour conversation of, who are you, and where do you hope to go . Then, a turning point in joys research. She stumbles across a 1987 newspaper article from the nearby town of paynesville. I found this story about these five cases of young teenage boys who had been followed, assaulted, also very similar language. Like when they had been caught, hed say, dont turn around, or ill blow your head off. And it was similar to the language that the boys who were with jacob had reported. The town of paynesville where the incidents happened is roughly 30 miles from where Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped. Past cold spring, minnesota, where that other boy Jared Schierel was abducted months earlier back in 1989. I shared his story on my blog, and people were commenting, that same thing happened to my brother or my nephew or my son. Kris bertelsen, who grew up in paynesville, told me about a string of frightening incidents that he and his friends had there back in the 80s. Some of the incidents were reported to authorities back then. Early in 1987 two friends of mine had been molested. One, a masked man grabbed him, groped him, and then another friend of mine had been molested near his home. Was there a feeling that there was some guy out there who was preying on boys . Yeah. It was the talk of everybody, at least of us boys. It just became kind of a culture to watch out for this guy. All of a sudden, its not safe to ride your bike. A time of fear. A lot of fear. Then in may of 1987, kris had his own runin with that man. He takes me back to the spot. My friend and i were riding our bikes around this corner, and the guy came flying out from behind the spruce trees. In the dark . In total darkness. Clotheslined my friend off the bike, and he stopped on the bike, and i stopped, and my friend yelled, you already got me, and the guy took off running, and i took off on my bike to call the police. My friend, he said, i got his hat. In their scuffle, he grabbed his hat. We always kinda knew there were these pieces that that were unanswered. Law enforcement investigate, but they never arrest anybody for the attacks on kris or his friends. One of the consistent things with all of my friends was that he had a low, gravelly voice, a mumbly voice. More than two decades later, this string of incidents in paynesville may now shed new light on Jacob Wetterlings case. This is what happened to me. This is what happened to jacob. This could be the information that weve been looking for all these years. Kayaking is my thing. Running is awesome. 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So, when you began looking into this case, and you started to discover that there had been incidents of boys being either assaulted, molested here in paynesville, what areas did you find that were significant . A lot of them happened right here, right downtown, where kids were at their local hangout spot, the local pizza place. Youre convinced that these incidents here in paynesville were no doubt connected to what happened to jacob and that perpetrator was probably the same person. I really, really felt that paynesville was the answer. Law enforcement had actually talked to some of the paynesville boys after jacobs abduction. When we found out about the paynesville incidents, we thought they were connected. We thought maybe that the same person kidnapped jared and jacob. In january of 1990, the Paynesville Police chief had contacted the task force and indicated that Danny Heinrich might be considered a suspect in the wetterling case. Heinrich was in his mid20s at the time. He was a lifelong resident of paynesville and was a member of the Minnesota National guard. Danny heinrich was one of the names whod come up early. No prior arrests for sexual assault, no prior anything against children. Couldnt hold a job for long. He had a troubled childhood. The physical description was nearly identical in all of the paynesville incidents. It was very similar to the cold spring abduction, as well as Jacob Wetterlings abduction. Gravely, raspy, staticfilled voice was a specific description of the offender. And investigators did take a close look at heinrich after jared schierls kidnapping. In the case of Jared Scheierls kidnapping, Danny Heinrich was a suspect. They put him in a lineup. It was just a picture lineup, so jared picked two people that somewhat resembled the guy that had taken him, but that was as good as he could do. One of those was heinrich, and the words somewhat resembled in the precision of legal language isnt that he picked him out. With no other evidence, heinrich is never charged. But after jacob wetteling is abducted, heinrichs name surfaces once again. When he was interviewed, heinrich denied knowing where he was on the day of the abduction of jacob. Heinrich denies any involvement, so authorities take a different tact. They search the home hes living in. They take his tennis shoes, they vacuumed his car, and they kept those fibers from the back of his car. They obtained his tires from his vehicle. One of the items tested was Jared Scheierls snowmobile suit, and it was determined that trace evidence on jareds snowmobile suit may have originated from the seat materials in a mercury topaz. That fiber could have come from the seat of any mercury topaz manufactured around that time, not specific to heinrichs mercury topaz. If a laboratory examiner can testify that that tire impression belonged to that tire, thats evidence. If a laboratory examiner says that tire impression is consistent with that tire, thats not evidence. Same thing with shoe impressions, same thing with hairs and fibers. Its strong indications for an investigator to pursue it. Its not evidence. Investigators bring heinrich in. We started talking to him, and before long, he said, i want a lawyer. And, of course, once they say that, according to the rules, we cannot ask any further questions. They did not have enough physical evidence to charge him, therefore, they had to release him. Through the years of investigating, Danny Heinrich always was one of our suspects. After different leads, we then decided that wed go approach and see if we could talk to him, and we would knock on the door. The first time, he shut the door on me. A couple years later we came back, the same story. I knocked on the door. He said, i got an attorney. Im not talking to you. End of the story. Did we think that was suspicious . Sure, but could we do anything about it . No. Every day, im getting all these tips and leads from paynesville residents, and im sending them all to Stearns County, but at some point, i just felt like a bother. Joy may have discovered some additional information, but the fact that young boys were being either chased, stalked, or groped in paynesville was not new to us. We just couldnt share the Law Enforcement file, what we had with her. But since jared was a victim, investigators would share information with him. Jared meets with jose captain jensen, and he calls me, and he is on fire, and he just said, joy, theres more to this story. Theres a hat that may have dna on it. The paynesville incidents have Something Else in common. At the center of many of those crimes is that apartment where Danny Heinrich was living. Were you losing faith in Law Enforcement at this point . I was frustrated. I wanted the team back, fresh look. You gotta go back to the beginning. Today is day 728. 2015. 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In october 1989, i was familiar with mr. Wetterlings name because i had driven past a billboard. It caught my attention that his son was missing. The case was impactful to me to the point that i decided that i wanted to get into Law Enforcement to hopefully someday make a positive impact on this investigation. This whole row right here is Jacob Wetterling. I think it by far dwarfs any other case that we have for sheer volume of evidence. In 2014, we needed to take a step back and have a review of the whole case itself. In doing the cold case review, Danny Heinrich was a very good suspect early in the investigation. There was some very compelling information there. Such as . Such as, that some tires had been taken from his car, and these tires correspond in design and measurements to the tire impressions that were taken from the gravel at the rassier residence where the abduction had occurred. We also found that his shoes corresponded in design to the foot impressions that were taken from the scene. Thats pretty stunning stuff. It was really good evidence, but because theres no nicks, cuts that are individual to these shoes or these tires you cant say its exact. We cant say its exact. One might think that based on the substantial evidence that Law Enforcement had gathered against Danny Heinrich, well, wasnt that enough . But as a prosecutor, you have to evaluate a case not based on probable cause that its likely, but proof beyond a reasonable doubt. And looking at the evidence they had at the time, it wasnt even close. When they started reviewing the case, they looked at jareds case, too. This would be clothing related to the abduction of the cold spring boy. When Jared Scheierl was assaulted, dna was not regularly used in criminal cases. Over the course of time in the investigation, we had continued to repeatedly submit the items from the cold spring boys abduction for dna analysis, and it was only finally in 2012 that we were able to come up with an unknown male dna that was left on the clothing. Dennis kern located a hair that had been saved on a slide at the fbi lab, that was identified as Danny Heinrichs. We got a big break in the case. The hairs provided a dna match to the previously unknown dna that was collected from the cold spring boys abduction, and that match was Danny Heinrich. And so they were able to conclusively show that Danny Heinrich was the person who kidnapped and assaulted Jared Scheierl. Once we had a dna match for the cold spring investigation, we sought a search warrant. In that search warrant, Law Enforcement allege heinrichs involvement in eight paynesville incidents. The baseball cap is tested for dna, and though 80 of the population was excluded, Danny Heinrichs dna was not. In that search warrant, we were looking for human remains, or any trophies that might have been kept. They were going to do a search warrant on this suspect, Danny Heinrich. That was scary. Would they find anything . Todays date is 7 28 2015. The time is 8 36 a. M. Presently with pam jensen, Stearns County sheriff. Im ken mcdonald, minnesota bca. While other investigators were executing the search warrant, captain jensen and myself sat outside at the patio table with Danny Heinrich. Heinrich has no idea that hes being recorded. You know, when they do these search warrants, we like to see what we have on the internet. Youre going to find some things in that house that look pretty damning to me. Well, if youre worried about pornography, a lot of people got pornography in their house. Yes, i do have pornography. Im not going to lie to you. Tell us what you found when you got in. The house itself was very neat. He had two cats, but the house was wellkept and organized. There is no human or anything remains on this property, i guarantee you 100 . As far as i know. Before i bought the place, who knows whats in the root cellar or underneath the house . That i wouldnt know anything about, you know . Right. Nothing pertaining to Jacob Wetterling. Theres nothing here or ever has been. Of course, were trying to get a Little Information without making him upset with us. I asked him about paynesville. Ive never touched anybody, period. Thats the gods truth. Ill admit i got some damning [ bleep ] in that house, but i never touched anybody. Very quickly within the search, investigators were finding binders that contained child erotica, child pornography. We found numerous bins of childssized clothing. We found wigs and handcuffs. We recovered 922 vhs tapes. A lot of the vhs tapes were of childrens programming, where you had children actors on the shows. When we went through the tapes, investigators found hours of him at playgrounds, hours of him watching boys go by on their bikes. Very inappropriate. The search yields no evidence directly linking heinrich to jared, jacob, or any of the paynesville incidents, but there was Something Else found that troubled investigators. He had tapes of news clippings from the wetterling investigation. The wetterling investigation. So he was obviously concerned about the wetterling case . Correct. This very well could be Jacob Wetterlings abductor. What are you thinking . A lot of it is thinking in your head, what do we now need to do so that we do this properly . So, we worked with the u. S. Attorneys office to formulate a nexus to get federal charges for child pornography. Federal charges would carry more weight with more potential prison time, which might help elicit some confession in the wetterling case. So after nearly three decades, would heinrich confess . 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But you dont know at this stage where jacob is. You dont if hes dead or alive. Correct. They warned us to not reveal to anybody what was going on because they wanted him arrested. Good afternoon. Last night, fbi special agents working with the bca, the Stearns County sheriffs office, and local Police Arrested daniel james heinrich. 26 years, roughly, after the abduction, Danny Heinrich is arrested on child pornography charges. We consider him to be a person of interest in the wetterling abduction. It was really the First Major Development in the case, really since the day it happened. They couldnt charge him in jareds abduction because statute of limitations had run out, but they were hopeful that they could get him to to talk. We do see patty and Jerry Wetterling coming down their driveway. You can see they still have the porch light on all the time. Missing kids come home after long periods of time, and i will still always, always hope until we have our answers. Thank you. After Danny Heinrich was arrested, patty asked me to help write the book, and so we were really focusing on that. We didnt know where jacob was, so we just kept writing. We had no idea what the ending was going to be. Nearly a year after heinrichs arrest, hes ready to make a deal. Do you want justice, or do you want answers . Its like, i want jacob. Danny heinrich would plead guilty to one count of child pornography in federal court and receive a 20year sentence if he was able to show us remains or provide a credible confession. He would either tell where jacob was and what happened or give some convincing evidence, and i was really troubled by that word. Its like, who does he have to convince . Hes already convinced all of you. Give us the keys to unlock the door to finally find Jacob Wetterling. Where is jacob . Now Danny Heinrich, the suspect in the boys kidnapping, has led Law Enforcement to a quiet stretch of farmland in paynesville. Would they finally be able to bring jacob home . We walked through that narrow strip of woods with him and eventually planted a few flags to show where the remains could have been. When investigation began at the scene, they found a piece of red material that was sticking out above ground. It ended up being jacobs hockey jacket. Everybody just took a deep breath, and it just took the wind out of everybody. It was, oh. I cannot describe in words what it was like to all of a sudden just feel like, oh, my goodness. This is it. We get this call saying that they had found jacobs jacket. Your blood runs cold. Its like everything inside is screaming, no. And were driving up, and its a peaceful farm. We see the sheriff and captain pam jensen, and they just come up and give us a hug, and were just in tears. Why did you walk away . Well, its been a while since i thought about this case, and when we found him, it was very surreal. We realized that there was no more jacob hope. It was incredibly sad, but at the same moment there was something peaceful. Jacob was at peace. Jerry . For you . Words couldnt do anything at that point. Finally finally we found him. Jerry and i he drove to some little neighborhood on a side street and pulled over and said, we have to call the we got to call the kids, and that was the worst call in my life. Among jacobs remains investigators also find his number 11 soccer jersey. Sheriff would tell us what danny said happened that night. Heinrich said that he fired once. Just wants to go home. I cant imagine, like, the fear. But with skyrizi to treat my skin and joints, im feeling this moment. Along with clearer skin skyrizi helps me move with less joint pain, stiffness, swelling, and fatigue. And is just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. Serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. 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Alkaseltzer plus powermax gels cold flu relief with more concentrated power because the only thing dripping should be your style. Plop plop fizz fizz winter warriors with alkaseltzer plus. A minnesota man confessing in chilling detail about abducting and killing 11yearold Jacob Wetterling in 1989. His confession coming days after he led authorities to the boys remains as part of a plea deal. After obtaining heinrichs confession, Law Enforcement then share the painful details with the wetterlings. The sheriff would tell us what they found out, what danny said happened that night. Heinrich said that he was in the st. Joseph area that sunday night and he saw the three boys going towards a convenience store. And he drove to the dirt driveway and he waited for them. He said that he walked jacob back to his car and he handcuffed jacob and that jacob asked, what did i do wrong . He did nothing wrong. You know were all sobbing. And its like, stop, sheriff. Can you not hear us . You know, stop. He drove jacob to the edge of paynesville and got him out of the car and assaulted him. Jacob said he was cold. And that just that really stuck with me. He didnt have any clothes on. As a parent, its just heartbreaking. Jacob said that he wanted to go home and started to cry. Just wants just wants to go home and was doing everything he asked him to do and just wanted to go home. And like, i cant imagine, like, the fear. Just let him go home. And thats when he took out a gun that he had in his pocket and he fired once, and jacob didnt fall down and he pulled the trigger again. Why did he have to kill him . Why . Two shots. It was just too much. Its too much. He had not killed anybody, as far as you know. Why did he kill jacob . During the interview, he said that he had seen some red lights of a Police Vehicle going past and he said that that contributed to his panic and may have influenced his decision to shoot jacob. He went home for some period of time, came back, and took jacob and took his remains and buried them. Approximately a year later, he went back to the scene and he noticed a little part of the red jacket was sticking up. At that point, he determined that he needed to move jacob. Basically walked kitty corner across the state highway into a farm field, and thats where jacob remained until he told us about the location. Finally we know. Danny heinrich is the confessed murderer of Jacob Wetterling, and for that, he will spend the next 20 years in prison. I want to say, jacob, im so sorry. Its incredibly painful to know his last days, last hours, last minutes. I also want to say one huge shoutout to jared and joy. Jared had the courage to stand up and say, this happened to me. As part of the plea deal, heinrich also admitted in court to jareds abduction and assault. In the case of the paynesville victims, we believe them. I hope they realize they were a very significant part of the wall of evidence that we had against Danny Heinrich to get us to the result that we eventually got. Heinrich was never charged in those eight paynesville incidents. Turns out the statute of limitations had run out and there was a lack of evidence. Heinrich denies any involvement to the police. My whole name is jacob erwin wetterling. Happy fathers day from all of us. It is disheartening that it took so long for the wetterlings to finally find out what happened. Jacob spurred patty into being a bulldog, you know, for keeping kids safe. You know, it took 27 years, but she made a difference in those 27 years. And we are all better for it. Youve written a book, dear jacob. Yeah. What led you to want to put your pain out there and to relive it . Everybody has stuff going on in their lives and theyre trying to figure out how do you get through this . Part of me wanted to write to share some of what kept us going if it could help another family. I think jacobs legacy is showing that all kids are really awesome and they need every bit of opportunity to flourish, to express themselves, and to fully do that in a safe way. How was work . Well, im tired after a long day of work. How would you describe where you are at this moment . I am a believer in children. And i didnt want our own kids to live fearful, afraid of the world, afraid to go out and to play and to have fun. So we fought for the way the world that jacob knew. I refused to let the man who took jacob take away anything more. You cant have my marriage. You cant have my kids. You cant have the world of innocence and believing in dreams and going after your full potential. Thats really what i have fought for and i still will. Its the kids. A mom turning her pain into action. Patty wetterlings book dear jacob is available october 17th. Deb, as you know, the subtitle of this book says it all a mothers journey of hope. That is our program for tonight. Thanks for watching. Im david muir. And im deborah roberts. From all of us here at 20 20 and abc news, good night. After israel warns roughly a Million People to leave before a possible ground invasion. Tonight the United Nations is calling the Evacuation Order impossible. Good evening. Im ahmed daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Developing news out of the middle east where israeli troops have now entered gaza. A military spokesperson says the troops left after conducting a raid on hamas