JACOB WETTERLING'S ABDUCTOR

25 years ago an 11 year old boy went on a bike ride with his brother Trevor, and his friend Aaron in St. Joseph, Minnesota. As they left Jacobs house Aaron grabbed a flashlight and they rode their bikes to the nearby movie store. On their way back from the store at 9:15 p.m they approached a dark stretch of a road. As they were riding on the road, they heard a low voice telling them to stop. Aaron was told to turn off his flash light. A man with a gun wearing a stocking mask stepped out from the darkness and told the boys to get into the roadside ditch. He asked them what there ages were. After that he told Trevor and Aaron to run off into the woods and not look back or he would shoot them. As Aaron ran away he saw the masked man take Jacob by the arm. On their way to Jacobs house, they turned around saw no sign of Jacob the masked man or the vehicle he took Jacob in. Investigators began looking into an incident about nine months before Jacob’s abduction. A 12-year-old boy had been pulled into a car and molested while he was walking home alone in Cold Spring, Minnesota. When the man dumped the boy out of the car, he was told to run. If he didn't, he would be shot. Cold Spring is about 10 miles away from St. Joseph. The case was brought up again in 2010 when the writer Joy Baker started looking into Jacob's case. She tracked down news reports about a series of attacks on teenage boys in Paynesville, Minnesota. Paynesville IS about 30 miles from St. Joseph and 10 miles from Cold Spring. These abductions were between March 1986 and the summer of 1989. According to these reports, the perpetrator also approached the boys in a car as they walked down the street and told his victims not to turn around or they would be shot. This led the detectives to ask this question: "How many psychopathic pedophiles can exist in a 15- to 20-mile radius?” Baker said her investigation led her to a man who was arrested in 1990 and convicted of sexually assaulting four boys. The man was looked at early in Jacob Wetterling’s abduction and is still being looked at. 

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Do you think this man who was arrested in 1990 is the perpetrator? Also, How do you think Jacobs Parents feel knowing that their son has been missing longer than  they've raised him?

 

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  • Excellent job replying Kenzie! My one piece of advice is to split you big paragraph up into shorter paragraphs making it easier to read.

  • It's possible that this man was the perpetrator. I believe that they shouldn't stop looking for him until they catch the real guy or this man confesses. It would be heartbreaking, not knowing for sure if your son was dead or alive, not having a body to bury. 

    • Yes it would and they probably don't have closure as to their sons life on whether or not they should make a decision whether hes dead or alive. They probably are going to keep helping others and trying to find Jacob.  

  • Yes, I think that the guy was the perpetrator that connected all these cases. I think that his parents feel that it is unnecessary for any person to think doing this is fun or a right thing to do to anyone, and I think they probably feel lost and terrible knowing they try their hardest to try and save/ help their son, but it doesn't always seem like its making a difference when nothing really happens. 

    • I agree with you that they are trying so hard to save and help their son, but it's almost like the police aren't doing enough anymore to find him, so I doubt he is alive. 

  • I think that it is the same man. I think it is just completely wrong that someone should have to go through knowing that. I don't understand why anyone would put a family through that. 

    • I agree with you the family is probably going through a lot not knowing if their son is dead or a live. They only got to spend 11 years with him. Now he's old enough to live alone and everything.

  • I think that is kind of weird that he made the boy turn around and run and not keep him.

    • Yes, It is but he did have a mask on so it's not like they could see his face and turn him in. 

  • I think he is the abductor but it might have also been a coincidence and it isn't him. 

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