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The scum sucking bastard who was recently arrested on other charges, and named as a "person of interest", finally admitted to the FBI that he was indeed the person who abducted Jacob all the way back in 1989. Last week he led them to his remains.
Jacob Wetterling remains are found
This was the case that taught my circle of friends here in Northern Minnesota that the world was not always as safe as we liked to pretend.
I grieve for the parents, yet hope they find some comfort in the fact that at least now they know. What stings most, and I am sure especially for the investigators of that time period, is that the man was questioned as a suspect back when the kidnapping originally happened:
At the time of Jacob's disappearance, Heinrich was living in Paynesville, Minn., about 30 miles southwest of St. Joseph. The city had suffered a string of attacks on young boys — a husky white man, his face obscured, would approach and sometimes grope groups of kids on bikes. His voice was raspy, the boys told Paynesville authorities, and he often made threats. The kids dubbed the menace "Chester the Molester."
In early 1989, nine months before Jacob's disappearance, Jared Scheierl, a 12-year-old from Cold Spring, Minn., was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man who then released him with the warning "not to look back or he would be shot."
Heinrich was questioned by investigators soon after Jacob was abducted and several times in 1990. At the time, he denied any involvement.
Jacob Wetterling remains are found
This was the case that taught my circle of friends here in Northern Minnesota that the world was not always as safe as we liked to pretend.
I grieve for the parents, yet hope they find some comfort in the fact that at least now they know. What stings most, and I am sure especially for the investigators of that time period, is that the man was questioned as a suspect back when the kidnapping originally happened:
At the time of Jacob's disappearance, Heinrich was living in Paynesville, Minn., about 30 miles southwest of St. Joseph. The city had suffered a string of attacks on young boys — a husky white man, his face obscured, would approach and sometimes grope groups of kids on bikes. His voice was raspy, the boys told Paynesville authorities, and he often made threats. The kids dubbed the menace "Chester the Molester."
In early 1989, nine months before Jacob's disappearance, Jared Scheierl, a 12-year-old from Cold Spring, Minn., was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man who then released him with the warning "not to look back or he would be shot."
Heinrich was questioned by investigators soon after Jacob was abducted and several times in 1990. At the time, he denied any involvement.
