Jacob Wetterling’s Case investigation is exclusive only to the courts said Deputy Chief Bruce Bechtold Stearns County Sheriff’s Department. This order was issued by Judge Stearns County so he cannot disclose any updates about the case.
Meanwhile, the FBI also support search operations in that area according to C. Wilson, the representative of the FBI.
Also, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has some people on the ground in St. Joseph, working to support the sheriff and the FBI.
Jacob Wetterling’s father Jerry Wetterling, in the meantime, stated: “I do not really want to get into any specific suspects or people, because I really do not know what is happening there. I just know there is a lot of activity. When I drove to work this morning, there were five or six squad cars this way, and I was extremely surprised. There were leads that were pursued aggressively for several months at a time. There were over 30,000 leads in this case. … I just know when they have no leads in the past, law enforcement will do everything they think they need to continue, especially lead. We’ve just been so grateful for all the interest and support, people helping and trying to figure out what really happened to Jacob. We kind of learned how to survive, we can not get too high or low on any specific leads. Otherwise, we would have the emotional wreckage.”
Jacob Wetterling was 11, when he was abducted on October 22, 1989.
Jacob Wetterling Case last clear lead was in January 2009. Vernon Seitz, a man from Milwaukee, who confessed to killing two children in 1950 and died in December 2008 had newspaper clippings and photographs of young Jacob along with child pornography and books about cannibalism in his home but Milwaukee police together with the Stearns Sheriff had worked to find out if there is a connection but proved that there is none.
Jacob Wetterling’s (supposedly 32) whereabouts is still unknown. He has the most famous missing child case in Minnesota. He was with his brother and friend when he was kidnapped approximately half a mile from his residence in St. Joseph in Central Minnesota. The man who kidnapped him had a gun and appeared from the woods.
Jacob Wetterling Foundation is the product of Jacob’s name being synonymous with missing and vulnerable children. It was formed by Jacob Wetterling’s parents, Jerry and Patty in 1990. It merged with the National Child Protection Training Center and led community sex offender notification forums and raising awareness about child sexual exploitation and abduction. It was renamed Jacob Wetterling Resource Center later.
Jacob Wetterling’s family organized a children’s concert last year at the College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his disappearance. His mother even wrote then published a book last year entitled “Hope of Jacob” so her grandchildren can understand what happened to their uncle. Patty Wetterling’s even said to an Interview Pioneer Press that she remains as dumbfounded as others to how such a crime can happen in a small town. She stated: “We do not know what happened. It’s just a whole bunch of ‘We do not know.’ There’s no such word as ‘closure.’ Answers. We need answers.”
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