09-06-2016, 05:24 PM
Thanks for the update, MS.
That piece of shit confessed to approaching Jacob, his brother and their friend on their bikes with a revolver. He told the two other boys to leave and tied Jacob's hands behind his back. Jacob asked, "what did I do wrong?" God, poor kid.
Then, Heinrich took Jacob, sexually assaulted him, and shot him twice. He left his body there and went back with a Bobcat to bury him in a hole. A year later, he went back and saw that part of Jacob's jacket was exposed. So, he took Jacob's remains and moved them.
Police interviewed Heinrich right after Jacob's disappearance, but couldn't tie him definitively to Jacob's abduction. Last year, they tested a jacket from a local boy who had been abducted and sexually assaulted a few months before Jacob's kidnapping, and the DNA matched to Heinrich. They searched Heinrich's home and found child porn, so they were able to lock him up and he confessed to Jacob's abduction, sexual assault, and murder as part of a plea deal to drop one of the porn charges. He's looking at 20 years.
I hope he gets treated like the trash he is in prison and dies there. Mrs. Wetterling, who is responsible for getting mandatory sex registry legislation passed, was very choked up when Heinrich read his confession. She said her family always considered Jacob alive, until his remains were found.
May the Wetterlings find some peace in knowing for sure what happened to their son and brother, even though the outcome is truly agonizing.
Story: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...wetterling
That piece of shit confessed to approaching Jacob, his brother and their friend on their bikes with a revolver. He told the two other boys to leave and tied Jacob's hands behind his back. Jacob asked, "what did I do wrong?" God, poor kid.
Then, Heinrich took Jacob, sexually assaulted him, and shot him twice. He left his body there and went back with a Bobcat to bury him in a hole. A year later, he went back and saw that part of Jacob's jacket was exposed. So, he took Jacob's remains and moved them.
Police interviewed Heinrich right after Jacob's disappearance, but couldn't tie him definitively to Jacob's abduction. Last year, they tested a jacket from a local boy who had been abducted and sexually assaulted a few months before Jacob's kidnapping, and the DNA matched to Heinrich. They searched Heinrich's home and found child porn, so they were able to lock him up and he confessed to Jacob's abduction, sexual assault, and murder as part of a plea deal to drop one of the porn charges. He's looking at 20 years.
I hope he gets treated like the trash he is in prison and dies there. Mrs. Wetterling, who is responsible for getting mandatory sex registry legislation passed, was very choked up when Heinrich read his confession. She said her family always considered Jacob alive, until his remains were found.
May the Wetterlings find some peace in knowing for sure what happened to their son and brother, even though the outcome is truly agonizing.
Story: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...wetterling