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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Yes. I agree with you I don't think they will get their son back even though there hasn't been any reports of him being dead.
It would make sense for him to be considering that he was was charged for sexual assault of four boys. They have had a long time to get used to not having their child around, but the pain of losing their child will always be there.
Yes I agree with you it does kind of make sense for this guy to be the culprit. They just need to find Jacob in some location where there's evidence that that man has been there.
i think he is probaly the abductor but they don't have enough proof
I was thinking if they found Jacob, Dead or alive in some pace that has anything to do with this man, would be PLENTY of proof to put him away.
I beleive that he is the abductor, however it cannot be proven
There is plenty of evidence they just need to find jacob
I believe that the man arrested in 1990, was Jacob's abductor. There can'e be too many men in that radius that tell each child abducted the same exact thing, "don't turn back or I'll shoot you". I'm sure Jacob's parents are devastated and have been since the night we was abducted. They can't do anything about it and I'm sure they are starting to give up. After being gone for 25 years, who knows where he could be. He could be in China for all we know.
I agree with you. I don't think the cops have a lead on where he could and if he is dead or alive. I think the parents haven't given up because there hasn't been a report of their son being dead.
I think that it is most likely the man who was arrested in 1990, but I think there are more men in on the crime. His parents are probably very upset that they don't know where their son is. When he first went missing, they most likely looked every where for him. If they haven't found Jacob yet then I think that he is dead.
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