MINNESOTA 1989 Cold Case Solved After 27 Years — Justice for Jacob Wetterling
Cold Case Solved
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MINNESOTA 1989 Cold Case Solved After 27 Years — Justice for Jacob Wetterling
On Sunday night, October 22, 1989, three boys were riding bikes on a dark road in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Jacob Wetterling, 11 years old, his younger brother Trevor, 10, and their close friend Aaron Larson, 11, had just rented a videotape from the Tom Thumb convenience store. Home was only half a mile away. It was the kind of ordinary evening every child in rural Minnesota knew — riding bikes under the autumn sky, carrying a flashlight, no one worried. Then a masked man with a gun stepped out of the darkness right in front of them. He ordered all three to lie down in the road. He asked each boy his age. Then he kept Jacob and ordered the other two boys to run into the woods or he would shoot. Trevor and Aaron ran. When they looked back, Jacob was gone. No scream. No trace. Police arrived within minutes. They found tire tracks and an adult’s footprints in the damp ground. But Jacob had vanished completely. The search that followed became one of the largest campaigns in Minnesota history — 225 National Guard troops, hundreds of volunteers, private pilots flying reconnaissance, more than 50,000 tips, a reward of more than $100,000. Nothing led to Jacob.
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MINNESOTA 1989 Cold Case Solved After 27 Years — Justice for Jacob Wetterling
Cold Case Solved
2,901 views
MINNESOTA 1989 Cold Case Solved After 27 Years — Justice for Jacob Wetterling
On Sunday night, October 22, 1989, three boys were riding bikes on a dark road in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Jacob Wetterling, 11 years old, his younger brother Trevor, 10, and their close friend Aaron Larson, 11, had just rented a videotape from the Tom Thumb convenience store. Home was only half a mile away. It was the kind of ordinary evening every child in rural Minnesota knew — riding bikes under the autumn sky, carrying a flashlight, no one worried. Then a masked man with a gun stepped out of the darkness right in front of them. He ordered all three to lie down in the road. He asked each boy his age. Then he kept Jacob and ordered the other two boys to run into the woods or he would shoot. Trevor and Aaron ran. When they looked back, Jacob was gone. No scream. No trace. Police arrived within minutes. They found tire tracks and an adult’s footprints in the damp ground. But Jacob had vanished completely. The search that followed became one of the largest campaigns in Minnesota history — 225 National Guard troops, hundreds of volunteers, private pilots flying reconnaissance, more than 50,000 tips, a reward of more than $100,000. Nothing led to Jacob.