The Answer Was in the File: The Jacob Wetterling Case
The Answer Was in the File: The Jacob Wetterling Case
On October 22, 1989, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was biking home from a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minnesota, with his brother and a friend when a masked man with a revolver took him and vanished. For 27 years his fate was unknown. But the man responsible, Danny Heinrich, was questioned by investigators within months of the abduction. They took his shoe prints, his tire impressions, and his hair samples, and then they let him go. His name sat inside a 41,787-page case file for a quarter of a century.
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