Jacob Wetterling

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jacob Wetterling
Occupation	Celebrity
Date Of Birth	Feb 17, 1978(1978-02-17)
Age	46
Date Of Death	October 22, 1989, Paynesville, MN
Birthplace	Long Prairie
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jacob Wetterling Biography

Jacob Wetterling is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on February 17, 1978 in Long Prairie, Minnesota, United States. Jacob Erwin Wetterling (February 17, 1978 – October 22, 1989) was an American boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota who was kidnapped from his hometown and murdered at the age of 11 on October 22, 1989. His abduction remained a mystery for nearly 27 years.

Four months after Wetterling’s abduction, his parents, Jerry and Patty Wetterling, formed the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, an advocacy group for children’s safety. In 1994, the federal Jacob Wetterling Act was passed and named for Jacob. It was the first law to institute a state sex-offender registry. The law has been amended several times, most famously by Megan’s Law in 1996 and the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in 2006.

On June 30, 2010, investigators with search warrants descended upon a farm near the abduction site. “Items of interest” were found and hauled away in six truckloads of dirt from the site to be searched for evidence. However, forensic testing was unable to “establish, distinguish or identify potential evidence”.

In May 2014, investigators confirmed that they were taking another look at a series of attempted and actual child molestations that had occurred in the Paynesville area in the two years preceding the Wetterling abduction and murder. Between the summer of 1986 and the spring of 1987, five teenage boys were attacked, but no one was ever arrested. The authorities interviewed some of the victims again and worked with the Internet blogger who had brought the information to light. After months of research and interviews with some of the victims, investigators believed that these attacks were not random and that the culprit could be connected to the abduction of Wetterling, located just 40 minutes from the other crime scenes.

On Sunday, October 22, 1989, just after 9:00 p.m. (CDT), Jacob Wetterling (11), his younger brother Trevor (10) and a friend, Aaron Larson (11), were biking home from a Tom Thumb convenience store in St. Joseph, Minnesota, where they had gone to rent a video, when Danny Heinrich, wearing a stocking cap mask and armed with an unloaded revolver, came out of a driveway and ordered the boys to throw their bikes into a ditch and lie face down on the ground. He then asked each boy his age. Jacob’s brother was told to run toward a nearby wooded area and not look back or else he would be shot. Heinrich then demanded to view the faces of the two remaining boys. He picked Jacob and told Aaron to run away, threatening him as he had Jacob’s brother. This was the last time, apart from by his captor, that Jacob was seen alive.

Jacob Wetterling Net Worth

Jacob Wetterling is one of the richest Celebrity from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jacob Wetterling 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In October 2015, Danny James Heinrich was publicly named as a person of interest in Jacob Wetterling’s disappearance. He had been questioned by the FBI on December 16, 1989 and a DNA sample was taken, but he was not charged with a crime and was released. In 2015 Heinrich’s DNA was matched to the DNA taken in the case of Jared Scheierl, who was abducted in Cold Spring, MN in January 1989 at the age of twelve. The statute of limitations had expired for the Cold Spring kidnapping, meaning Heinrich could not be arrested and charged with that crime. However, a search warrant was granted, and child pornography was found in Heinrich’s house, leading to his arrest on October 28, 2015.

On January 13, 1989, roughly ten months before the Wetterling abduction, 12 -year-old Jared Scheierl was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and physically threatened by an unknown adult man. The victim’s statement given on that night showed the modus operandi was similar to that of the Wetterling case: the perpetrator, who was later identified as Heinrich, used a gun and, upon releasing the boy, told him to run and not look back or else he would be shot. That incident occurred ten miles from where he would later stop the Wetterling brothers and their friend.

In 2008, the foundation started by Jacob’s parents became the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center. It carries on the work started by the Wetterling family “to educate the public about who takes children, how they do it and what each of us can do to stop it”.

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Who is Jacob Wetterling Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Jacques Ranked on the list of most popular Celebrity. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jacob Wetterling celebrates birthday on February 17 of every year.

What really happened to Jacob Wetterling?

At a hearing before Judge John Tunheim of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, Heinrich testified that he kidnapped and handcuffed the boy, drove him to a gravel pit near Paynesville, molested him, killed him and buried his body.

Is there a movie about Jacob Wetterling?

THE JACOB WETTERLING DOCUMENTARY is a film about a crime, but it is not your typical “crime documentary.” We lay bare the wide-reaching effects of an unthinkable crime in rural America, providing a look at its shocking, long- overdue resolution, captured in real time.

Where was Jacob Wetterling kidnapped?

22, 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling rode his bike to a local video store in St. Joseph, Minnesota. He had no idea that it would be the last cheerful experience he ever had. On his way back home, Wetterling was abducted — and never seen alive again.

How long did it take to find Jacob Wetterling?

The man grabbed Jacob’s arm and dragged him away. Trevor and Aaron ran back to the Wetterling house. The neighbour’s dad immediately called Patty and Jerry, as well as the police. It took the police just six minutes to get to the spot where Jacob had been abducted.

Where is Danny Heinrich now?

Heinrich is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Ayer, Mass. He’s scheduled to be released in 2033, when he’s 70. Heinrich talked about authorities blaming him for a series of sexual assaults in Paynesville in the late 1980s.