Over three thousand people are expected to attend Jacob Wetterling’s community memorial today. It marks the end of the almost three-decade search for the boy from St. Joseph who was snatched off his bicycle in October 1989 and vanished without a trace. MNN’s Tasha Redel visited with a Paynesville-native Kris Bertelsen who believes he too was a victim of Jacob’s abductor Danny Heinrich:
Over the Labor Day holiday weekend news broke that Jacob Wetterling’s remains were found in a shallow grave outside of Paynesville. A few days later in federal court in Minneapolis, 53-year-old Danny Heinrich of Annandale detailed the October 22nd, 1989 abduction, sexual assault and murder of Wetterling. To hear detailed accounts of the investigation check out MNN’s Minnesota Matters program that aired September 9th:
