we cover these cases that sometimes thes keep the stuff around sort of as trophy or something? explain that to me. you re exactly right. they keep it around. and they don t think they re going to get caught. that s really the main point here. a lot of these perpetrators, especially in child abduction cases, don t think they ll get caught. the police need to go back to the area where this guy used to live at the time that jacob went missing, and in 1989, and dig up the ground in that area. now, why should they do that? they ve done that once before but need to do it again because with the technology we have today, we will be able to pick up any bones or anything like that, that bill in that area. that s what we ll see happen in this case very soon. apparently heinrich was telling his neighbors yesterday or the day before that things are heating up on the jacob wetterling case. that s exactly what he said. we hope this family and so many others can get answers. that s right.
assaults in central minnesota dating back to the 1980s, we consider him to be a person of interest. officers reexamining evidence with new dna testing technology. heinrich s dn washington was wound on an assault victim nine months before jay kohn cob jacob s abduction. rod miller is a former d.c. homicide detective. this case really put he was the natural post buy for abducted children. happened to be in my home state of minnesota. it s been so long, and now this guy may have something to do with it. what do you think? i think that this cold case is no longer as cold as it used to be, here s why. the case you talk earlier where
the employs was able to get dna. this was unrelated case to the fact that jacob was missing they ve got dna off a young victim of that case. that case happened nine months before jacob went missing. here s the connection and here s how you solve these cases. the police have been able to connect the dots, and one thing they found out that s really significant here, gretchen, is that this individual, heinrich, he person of interest, lived in the same community as a cluster of these assaults. he is the one common denominator with all of these assaults and that s why the investigators are really taking a closer look at him now. he was arrested for other child porn charges. that s when they used the dna because dna wasn t available back when jacob was abducted, and that connected to another case which made them suspicious about jacob. here s what i m having trouble with pavemently back in 1990, they visit evidence this guy. they asked him about jacob s case. they found sixñi photos of
school and work. so they all did, which left me home screaming, tearing my hair out. you know, it s like, what else, what do we need to do, what s going on? and i had nowhere to go. in the beginning, there s this initial surge, the media is fascinating. people try to help you. strangers you never met try to help in some way. police are really on top of the case. but then that reality sets in, that if your child s missing for a certain period of time, a couple weeks, sometimes a month, now your child drops from being the hottest case, the top of the news, to just another poster of a missing child. we just kept making noise so he wouldn t be forgotten. we re going to stay committed to getting this resolved. we owe that to the wetterling family. what happened here?
from there, you just hang a left straight into st. joseph. how many psychopathic pedophiles can exist within a 15 to 20-mile radius? what was going on in this region? it s all sterns county. what was going on and it was so deeply and intensely harmful to boys? someone in that tight knit community may have the keys of what happened but they haven t yet been asked. there were no incidents that happened in 1988, and we think that s for a reason. we think that the guy that was committing these crimes was probably put away himself at that time. and we have a guy in mind that that is the case. and he was looked at early in jacob wetterling s abduction.