Jacob Wetterling

I saw a news crawl this morning saying the FBI has been told where to find Jacob’s body.
The person that told them is Danny Heinrich,

http://www.startribune.com/wetterling-suspect-leads-officials-to-unidentified-remains/392238471/

body has been recovered but not yet identified. wow! I was only a few years younger than he was when this happened and we, like all families I think in MN, were profoundly affected by this. I can remember my mom not allowing me to bike to my friends house any longer for a long time after this happened. As morbid as it sounds I hope this turns out to be him just so the family can give him a proper burial and have some closure.

I was living in St. Cloud in 1989 and taking classes from members of the St. Cloud Times news team. It is impossible to overstate how much this crime impacted and changed Minnesota.

I hope the family can get some closure with this development, but there is also the terrible sense that this guy was a long-time pervo and could have been involved in more of these cases.

Grouse

After all these years it would be nice to allow that family some closure….one way or the other. Prayers for that to the Wetterling family.

After reading the little I have about this current event it brings back memories of the actual incident and all the hurt that came of it. If the remains are Jacob, is there a fitting punishment for that perv?

From what I skimmed, he’s going to trial for child porn, but statutes of limitations apply to Jacob case and the other boy.

I’d imagine if they can prove he murdered Jacob (or he confessed) then there is no statute of limitations. I’m no expert on Minnesota law though.

Hope they found him.

mplspug wrote:

From what I skimmed, he’s going to trial for child porn, but statutes of limitations apply to Jacob case and the other boy.

The other boy was not murdered…..I don’t think there is a statute of limitations for murder.

Mudshark wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mplspug wrote:</div>
From what I skimmed, he’s going to trial for child porn, but statutes of limitations apply to Jacob case and the other boy.

The other boy was not murdered…..I don’t think there is a statute of limitations for murder.

there is no statute of limitations for murder.

crappie55369 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Mudshark wrote:</div>

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mplspug wrote:</div>
From what I skimmed, he’s going to trial for child porn, but statutes of limitations apply to Jacob case and the other boy.

The other boy was not murdered…..I don’t think there is a statute of limitations for murder.

there is no statute of limitations for murder.

Agree whole heartedly
I would asume that some kind of deal has been reached,I doubt there will be a trial.

My heart breaks for the Wetterling Family

Find a tall tree for Heinrich.

I met Patty Wetterling last year at a child abduction training seminar I attended. She was the first speaker and was very powerful, friendly, and yet wounded. She showed a video of Jacob at one point and she was about 10 feet from me. I looked at her face and you could tell the pain and anguish was still fresh and powerful. I hope this starts to bring their family the closure they deserve.

http://www.kare11.com/mb/news/wetterlings-remains-found-our-hearts-are-broken/313210664

I’m very keen to know where they found Jacob’s remains, specifically. It will be interesting to know if this location is somehow linked to Heinrich or if it was just a random hiding place and he got away with it all these years just by chance.

I’m also keen to know what kind of a deal was cut with the perp to make him, essentially, confess by revealing the location of the remains. I have to think that with Heinrich facing a slew of sex charges, that they finally convinced him to confess. In exchange for what? That’s my question.

I remember I was pheasant hunting the weekend Jacob was abducted and while walking the abandoned shelter belts and remote ditches of western MN, I thought that the chances with this many hiding places in this vast landscape were slim to none that they’d every find him. I’m very glad for the family that at least now they have an answer.

Grouse

Judging by the following this case has acquired, I find it doubtful that a specific place would be reported,but rather a generalized city and landscape. The sheer amount of press coverage would drive any landowner into seclusion.

The FWs family farm was searched following the abduction and for weeks they dealt with gawkers and arm chair investigators wanting to do their own searches. (Note…searches were conducted only due to the close proximity to the scene of the crime.)

It’s not over, the wetterings stood for 27 years as a family with the Hope of finding him.
By the Grace of God,it wil now bring closure for the family.
To watch the Grace with which Patti Wetterling handled this for 27 years will always be lasting a lasting memory.
God Bless the Wettingling family.

Very glad they get some closure. Thankfully Patty never stopped keeping Jacob, and the chance of finding him, alive or we may still be wondering. Hopefully we can shift the focus to Josh Guimond (vanished from St John’s campus in early 2000s) and all other missing persons cases. No parent should experience What the Wetterlings did.

BigWerm wrote:

Very glad they get some closure.

Key word here is “some closure”. Any family that loses a child will never have total closure because that space is empty, robbed of the child they brought into the (at times) miserable world.

I cleaned up this thread and I apologize for not seeing it earlier.
Call it Ido censorship if you like. If someone has an issue with it, pm me. I’ll tell you how I really feel.

I’m still a believer in everything happening for a reason. There are so many good things that came out of the Wetterling family after Jacob went missing. Parents can not thank Patti enough.

I’m physically feeling sick to my stomach after reading that monster’s testimony of what he put Jacob and Jared through. My heart is broken. I know that my kids will be getting extra hugs tonight.

I cleaned up this thread and I apologize for not seeing it earlier.
Call it Ido censorship if you like. If someone has an issue with it, pm me. I’ll tell you how I really feel.

Thank you BK!

Brian Klawitter wrote:

I cleaned up this thread and I apologize for not seeing it earlier.
Call it Ido censorship if you like. If someone has an issue with it, pm me. I’ll tell you how I really feel.

Thank you as well BK!

RIP Jacob

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

I’m physically feeling sick to my stomach after reading that monster’s testimony of what he put Jacob and Jared through. My heart is broken. I know that my kids will be getting extra hugs tonight.

I just read it, and agree… If I had kids they would be held a lot closer tonight. I have a tear in my eye just thinking about it.

Brian Klawitter wrote:

I cleaned up this thread….

Thanks Brian.

I just finished reading the account of what happened that night. I feel like throwing up. The final moments of that poor boys life…. just unbelievably horrible. I am so sorry for the Wetterling family has had to endure and for their suffering now. And to think the man will only get 20 years. I know the Wetterling family had to sign off on that but boy is that a tough pill to swallow. Im just at a loss for words……

And to think the man will only get 20 years.

What are the odds he’ll last 20 months? Inmates do not like child abusers, he better hope he is in solitary.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

I’m physically feeling sick to my stomach after reading that monster’s testimony of what he put Jacob and Jared through. My heart is broken. I know that my kids will be getting extra hugs tonight.

I read it as well and am literally on the verge of crying at my desk and unable to focus on work. I think I’m just going to go pick the kids up early and spend the rest of the afternoon with them.

Will

munchy wrote:

And to think the man will only get 20 years.

What are the odds he’ll last 20 months? Inmates do not like child abusers, he better hope he is in solitary.

He will be incarcerated the rest of his life. If he fulfills his term the state will have him civilly committed as a sex offender. Also, likely part of the plea is where he serves, which is probably going to be a prison with other similar filth so he won’t be in the general populace. I couldn’t read the full transcript I had to stop after Jacob asked what he did wrong, absolutely sickening.

I suspected that Heinrich had held out for a one-sided plea deal (in his favor) and it looks like that’s what happened. Any deal would seem too lenient to me, but this deal seems especially lopsided in favor of Heirich getting away with paying no price for what he did to Jacob. I suppose since he was the only person with the answers, it put the investigators and prosecutors in a difficult situation and compromises had to be made in order to get Heinrich to confess and therefore to finally give the Wetterling family the truth. But it still seems to me like he got away with something.

I can only hope that the 20-year sentence is without the possibility of early parole under any circumstances? I have read no reports as to the conditions. I also hope it grants this POS absolutely no conditions of special treatment while in prison, but I have a feeling it will emerge that this is part of the deal.

The media summary of Heinrich’s confession in court today is sickening. There is no other way to put it. The only justice of this situation would be if Heinrich serves 19 years, 364 days of his sentence and then drops dead on the morning of his release, never having been free again. Of course, we can all hope that he gets plenty of attention from other innmates now that everyone in he US knows that he is a child molester and murderer.

Grouse

Will Roseberg wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Ralph Wiggum wrote:</div>
I’m physically feeling sick to my stomach after reading that monster’s testimony of what he put Jacob and Jared through. My heart is broken. I know that my kids will be getting extra hugs tonight.

I read it as well and am literally on the verge of crying at my desk and unable to focus on work. I think I’m just going to go pick the kids up early and spend the rest of the afternoon with them.

Will

I think that is a great idea Will.

I’m not sure I accept the plea deal. The only right thing to do is remove this person from society. Permanently. For people like this there is no suitable punishment because no matter how harsh the punishment, it will never deter these types of people from doing these things.

The more I think about it the more disappointed I am.

Remove him from society. I don’t care how and it doesn’t matter.

I can only hope he gets murdered in prison. I’d only feel sorry for the guy who’ll have to be punished for it.

When I opened this up this afternoon I had the same reaction as Will. All I wanted to do was go pick up my kids from their first day of school. This past week my kids ages 9,7,5 all have had questions after seeing this on the local news. It has been an opportunity to educate my kids of the dangers of society and how fast things can happen. It too makes me sick to think of the events that happened to Jacob that day. As I write this it is replaying again on the national news. Thoughts and prayers go out to the Wetterling family.