this crime was so horrific in nature, and it's gone on for 25 years, and there are new tools to help solve this case. what is killing the wetterlings and what they need to know is what happened to jacob. the not knowing is what kills you. ♪ ♪
>> so we start to search the area, the immediate area of the abduction and start to fan out from there. everybody thought that within a few hours we would get it taken care of. >> when it comes to missing children, time is the enemy. seconds count. hours count. if that child is going to be killed, it's going to happen within the first few hours. >> never went to bed that night. we were up all night. it was just crazy. >> there are so many parallels in the wetterling case to our case of adam, and i will never forget that night when darkness fell and we started to search for adam. i will never forget that realization and that loneliness. i know exactly what the wetterlings are going through. >> wetterling was abducted at gunpoint last night while riding his bike with two other boys.
it's going back to the beginning and looking at it through what we know now. what we know now is more than what we knew then. >> a lot of those individuals have been talked to back in 1989, to relook at them is never a bad thing. >> we're really encouraging people to come forward and share, because we're really trying to piece this together. if the right people come forward, i think we can get this figured out. i really do. >> i think it's so important for the wetterlings to know at least something about what happened to jacob. and there are those stones that haven't been turned over. >> i think they ran straight
>> so we start to search the area, the immediate area of the abduction and start to fan out from there. everybody thought that within a few hours we would get it taken care of. >> when it comes to missing children, time is the enemy. seconds count. hours count. if that child is going to be killed, it's going to happen within the first few hours. >> never went to bed that night. we were up all night. it was just crazy. >> there are so many parallels in the wetterling case to our case of adam, and i will never forget that night when darkness fell and we started to search for adam. i will never forget that realization and that loneliness. i know exactly what the wetterlings are going through. >> wetterling was abducted at gunpoint last night while riding his bike with two other boys.
this crime was so horrific in nature, and it's gone on for 25 years, and there are new tools to help solve this case. what is killing the wetterlings and what they need to know is what happened to jacob. the not knowing is what kills you. ♪ ♪
and looking at it through what we know now. what we know now is more than what we knew then. >> a lot of those individuals have been talked to back in 1989, to relook at them is never a bad thing. >> we're really encouraging people to come forward and share, because we're really trying to piece this together. if the right people come forward, i think we can get this figured out. i really do. >> i think it's so important for the wetterlings to know at least something about what happened to jacob. and there are those stones that haven't been turned over. >> i think they ran straight
we know now. what we know now is more than what we knew then. >> a lot of those individuals have been talked to back in 1989, to relook at them is never a bad thing. >> we're really encouraging people to come forward and share, because we're really trying to piece this together. if the right people come forward, i think we can get this figured out. i really do. >> i think it's so important for the wetterlings to know at least something about what happened to jacob. and there are those stones that haven't been turned over. >> i think they ran straight back toward those trees, and
this crime was so horrific in nature, and it's gone on for 25 years, and there are new tools to help solve this case. what is killing the wetterlings and what they need to know is what happened to jacob. the not knowing is what kills you. ♪
realization and that loneliness. i know exactly what the wetterlings are going through. >> wetterling was abducted at gunpoint last night while riding his bike with two other boys. >> certainly nothing has happened at school with jacob. i'm not aware of having any enemies. >> i'm like staring in la-la land. i know i was in shock. i couldn't say anything. and jerry was doing the best that he could to stand and be strong and be the spokesperson. >> nobody knows what to do. this doesn't happen here. you hear that all the time. we live here because it's peaceful and quiet. >> child abduction is the most difficult investigation law enforcement will confront in their careers, and it's probably one of the most dreaded, as
>> when it comes to missing children, time is the enemy. seconds count. hours count. if that child is going to be killed, it's going to happen within the first few hours. >> i never went to bed that night. we were up all night. it was just crazy. >> there are so many parallels in the wetterling case to our case of adam, and i will never forget that night when darkness fell and we started to search for adam. i will never forget that realization and that loneliness. i know exactly what the wetterlings are going through. >> wetterling was abducted at gunpoint last night while riding his bike with two other boys. >> certainly nothing has happened at school with jacob. i'm not aware of having any enemies.