jacob wetterling

A new lead investigator has been named for the Jacob Wettlering case. Stearns County Chief Deputy Bruce Bechtold is taking over after Captain Pam Jensen recently retired. Jensen led the Wetterling investigation for about 15 years.

A federal grand jury has added more child pornography charges against a man authorities have called a "person of interest" in the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling.

A community meeting filled the Paynesville High School Auditorium this (Sunday) evening with a sense of healing, support and renewed hope in the Jacob Wetterling case. Patty and Jerry Wetterling formed the community event called "a night of sharing and healing" to connect with residents who's lives have been changed since Jacob Wetterling's abduction on October 22nd 1989.

A community meeting in Paynesville organized by Patty and Jerry Wetterling has been rescheduled for tomorrow (Sunday). The meeting is meant as a way to help central Minnesota residents cope with recent developments in their son’s case.

Central Minnesota may be the definition of small town USA, but that doesn't mean they don't have dark pasts. October and November seem to be a bad omen in this area for a few reasons. Here are just some of the worst crimes that have been committed in our area that we really wish never happened.

Daniel Heinrich, you need to tell us what you know about Jacob Wetterling.

A man called a person of interest in the 1989 abduction of an 11-year-old Minnesota boy has been ordered held on unrelated child pornography charges. Fifty-two-year-old Daniel James Heinrich was charged last week with possessing and receiving child pornography after authorities searched his Annandale home in July for evidence in the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling.

Standing in front of a throng of cameras and reporters, Jerry and Patty Wetterling stood in their driveway and addressed the media about recent developments in the abduction of Jacob Wetterling.

A Cold Spring man who was sexually assaulted months before the abduction of Jacob Wetterling says he hopes the identification of his suspected attacker helps investigators close the 1989 case. Jared Scheierl was 12 when he was grabbed off the streets of Cold Spring, forced into a car and sexually assaulted by a man.

The phones at the Stearns County Sheriff's Office have been busy since last Thursday's news conference announcing the arrest of Danny Heinrich.

Read the federal indictment and see search warrants against 52-year-old Daniel Heinrich of Annandale.

A news conference has been scheduled for 2:00 p.m. today (Thursday) in Minneapolis. A spokeswoman from the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center tells WJON news that it is related to the Jacob Wetterling Case.