The collaboration between Patty Wetterling, Jacob's mom, and friend Joy Baker led to a book, and a book tour, that has meant much to those struggling with their own grief and loss.
Part 4 of the Forum News Service investigation into the Belinda Van Lith missing persons case: What did investigators find when they looked into two intriguing suspects?
Patty Wetterling and Joy Baker share the story about Jacob's disappearance and the never-wavering hope and drive to bring him home in a new book published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
ST. PAUL -- When law enforcement caught up to Jacob Wetterling's killer in October 2015, he said he wasn't the "monster" he was 27 years earlier. In transcripts of jailhouse phone conversations between Danny Heinrich and his brothers, released Th...
Sep 22, 2018
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By Josh Verges and Mary Divine / St. Paul Pioneer Press
It took 27 years to get a confession out of Jacob Wetterling's killer, but investigators had substantial evidence against Danny Heinrich within months of the October 1989 attack in St. Joseph.
Sep 20, 2018
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By Mary Divine and Josh Verges / St. Paul Pioneer Press
ST. PAUL -- About 42,000 pages of state and county documents related to the Jacob Wetterling investigation will be released to the public Thursday, Sept. 20, in Stearns County.
ST. CLOUD, Minn.--The closed investigative file regarding the Jacob Wetterling abduction will be released to the public on Thursday, Sept. 20, Stearns County officials said Friday.
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-A Minnesota judge ruled Thursday that all the documents in the investigative file in the Jacob Wetterling case must be released to the public.Patty and Jerry Wetterling, the parents of Jacob Wetterling, who was abducted near the...
A Stearns County judge has ruled that a portion of contested files in the Jacob Wetterling investigation must be returned to the FBI. The agency can then decide whether to make them public.Stearns County had planned to publicly release the entire...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - A legal clash unfolded in a Douglas County courtroom Friday, Feb. 2, over whether the family of Jacob Wetterling has a right to privacy that should prevent some information in the criminal investigation from being released to ...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - The disappearance of Jacob Wetterling has been one of the most talked about cases in Minnesota history. Now it is up to an Alexandria judge to decide if the Wetterling family's request to keep some details of that investigatio...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. - Patty and Jerry Wetterling have sued the Stearns County Attorney and Stearns County Sheriff, seeking to block the release of certain documents in the investigative file into their son Jacob's kidnapping and murder.The investiga...
