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Jacob Wetterling

    November 29, 2018
    Daniel Heinrich
    Judge orders Wetterling killer Heinrich to pay over $17 million to Jared Scheierl
    ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A Stearns County District Court judge has awarded Jared Scheierl over $17 million in a civil lawsuit against Danny Heinrich,...
    news/crime-and-courtsNovember 29, 2018 - 3:28pm
    October 2, 2018
    Steve Gilkerson, a former FBI special agent who worked on the Jacob Wetterling case, spoke out on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis about what he called "speculative conclusions" made by Stearns County Sheriff Don Gudmundson. Mara H. Gottfried / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Retired FBI agent says sheriff 'irresponsibly unleashes' inaccuracies in Wetterling investigation
    MINNEAPOLIS—A former FBI agent who investigated 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling's disappearance said Tuesday that the Stearns County sheriff's...
    news/crime-and-courtsOctober 2, 2018 - 4:47pm
    September 22, 2018
    In Nov. 2015, images of Jacob Wetterling are displayed on a wall at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., where the age-progression photographs are produced. Wetterling, 11, was missing for 27 years after being kidnapped on a rural road near his home in St. Joseph, Minn., on Oct. 22, 1989. In 2016, Danny Heinrich confessed to killing him that same night. (Chris Newberry Productions)
    The Jacob Wetterling case file
    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...
    news/crime-and-courtsSeptember 22, 2018 - 9:21am
    September 20, 2018
    Stearns County Sheriff Don Gudmundson displays a photo of tire tread marks left at the Wetterling crime scene as he hosts a news conference to close the investigative file regarding the Jacob Wetterling abduction, Thursday, Sept. 20 at the Stearns County Law Enforcement Center in St. Cloud. Scott Takushi / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Sheriff: Wetterling investigation went 'off the rails' as FBI chased multiple leads, killer remained free
    ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- It took 27 years to get a confession out of Jacob Wetterling’s killer, but investigators had substantial evidence against...
    news/crime-and-courtsSeptember 20, 2018 - 4:40pm
    September 19, 2018
    Patty and Jerry Wetterling listen as a team of prosecutors talk about the confession of Daniel Heinrich to the 1989 killing of their son, Jacob Wetterling, in Minneapolis on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi)
    Wetterling case file to be released Thursday, but thousands of federal documents won’t be made public
    ST. PAUL — About 42,000 pages of state and county documents related to the Jacob Wetterling investigation will be released to the public...
    news/crime-and-courtsSeptember 19, 2018 - 8:36pm
    September 14, 2018
    Jacob's photo is projected on the screen at the community memorial service for Jacob Wetterling at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in St. Joseph, Minn., Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. Scott Takushi / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Jacob Wetterling documents to be released next week
    ST. CLOUD, Minn.—The closed investigative file regarding the Jacob Wetterling abduction will be released to the public on Thursday, Sept....
    news/crime-and-courtsSeptember 14, 2018 - 4:27pm
    April 20, 2018
    Patty and Jerry Wetterling accept applause from a Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, Minnesota Newspaper Association audience. They recounted the final dayts before authorities solved the disappearance of their son, Jacob. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Minnesota judge says Wetterling files are public; family of abducted boy will seek to change privacy laws
    ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—A Minnesota judge ruled Thursday that all the documents in the investigative file in the Jacob Wetterling case must be...
    news/crime-and-courtsApril 20, 2018 - 4:45pm
    March 30, 2018
    FILE: Those attending Jacob Wetterling's memorial service listen during a slideshow of photos of Jacob and his family in the Clemens Fieldhouse at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn. on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. Evan Frost | MPR News 2016
    Judge rules Wetterling documents must go back to FBI
    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...
    news/crime-and-courtsMarch 30, 2018 - 10:18am
    February 2, 2018
    Patty and Jerry Wetterling accept applause from a Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, Minnesota Newspaper Association audience. They recounted the final days before authorities solved the disappearance of their son, Jacob. (Don Davis / Forum News Service)
    Attorneys for Wetterlings, media, clash in court: At issue: privacy vs. public information
    ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — A legal clash unfolded in a Douglas County courtroom Friday, Feb. 2, over whether the family of Jacob Wetterling has...
    newsFebruary 2, 2018 - 8:07pm
    January 31, 2018
    Patty and Jerry Wetterling accept applause from a Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, Minnesota Newspaper Association audience. They recounted the final dayts before authorities solved the disappearance of their son, Jacob. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Alexandria judge faces Wetterling privacy decision Friday in open records case
    ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — The disappearance of Jacob Wetterling has been one of the most talked about cases in Minnesota history. Now it is up...
    newsJanuary 31, 2018 - 6:15am
    January 11, 2018
    Susan Swedell (left) is shown in a photo taken about a month before she went missing on Jan. 19, 1988. A police sketch (right), drawn by an artist working for the Washington County Sheriff's Office, was created on Oct. 13, 1998, based on a description given to investigators by the gas-station attendant who was the last to see Susan Swedell, 19, of Lake Elmo, on Jan. 19, 1988. Courtesy of the Washington County Sheriff's Office
    Questions remain, tips surge 30 years after Minn. teen goes missing in blizzard
    LAKE ELMO, Minn. — New tips concerning Susan Swedell, who went missing during a blizzard in Lake Elmo on Jan. 19, 1988, have been coming...
    news/crime-and-courtsJanuary 11, 2018 - 12:25pm
    December 5, 2017
    Filmmaker Chris Newberry, center, sits down with Patty and Jerry Wetterling in their St. Joseph, Minn., home on Nov. 11, 2017, to give them an update on the documentary production he is working on. Courtesy of Erica Ticknor / Chris Newberry Productions
    Minneapolis filmmaker tackles Jacob Wetterling case
    The scene, shot in November 2015, is painfully intimate. Jerry and Patty Wetterling stand in the middle of their kitchen in St. Joseph, going...
    newsDecember 5, 2017 - 8:35pm
    June 27, 2017
    Patty and Jerry Wetterling St. Paul Pioneer Press file photo
    Media groups argue for release of Wetterling files that family deems private
    ST. CLOUD-- Several Minnesota media organizations have asked to be allowed to intervene in a court case involving the release of documents from...
    newsJune 27, 2017 - 9:14pm
    June 2, 2017
    Patty and Jerry Wetterling spoke with the media, in Minneapolis, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. Scott Takushi / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Wetterlings file lawsuit to block Stearns County from releasing investigative details on their family
    ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Patty and Jerry Wetterling have sued the Stearns County Attorney and Stearns County Sheriff, seeking to block the release...
    news/crime-and-courtsJune 2, 2017 - 5:07pm
    March 30, 2017
    Daniel Rassier, a man wrongly suspected of abducting Jacob Wetterling, says he plans to sue law enforcement authorities for how they treated him. Jeff Thompson / APM Reports
    Man interviewed numerous times in Jacob Wetterling's disappearance sues sheriff
    ST. PAUL -- A man considered a person of interest in the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling has filed a federal lawsuit against the county sheriff...
    newsMarch 30, 2017 - 12:29pm
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