They Found Jacob

So on Saturday the news was released that they found the body of Jacob Wetterling. I don’t know how big of story his abducted was nationally, but here in Minnesota it was huge. We were on our way to the Minnesota State Fair when we heard the news. Shortly after hearing the news, we drove right by the location he was abducted at. It’s no longer a convenience store. It’s now a veterinarian clinic.

I remember the day he was abducted. At the time I was a ninth grader in northern Minnesota. We had a current events class and the two biggest events that year were the Burlin Wall coming down and the Jacob Wetterling abduction. It’s amazing that 27 years later, the guy they caught looks just like the police sketchings from 1989. They new who it was all along, they just couldn’t find any evidence.

After my freshman year of high school, we moved to the St. Cloud area, the area where Jacob lived. It was even a bigger deal down there. They even named a newly built bridge “The Bridge of Hope”, in his memory. I later dated a girl that was in Jacobs class. She lived not too far from that convenience store. In fact we walked together to that convenience store a few times, just like Jacob did. Every time we thought about Jacob.

They nabbed the abductor on child porn charges. He’ll probably be spending the rest of his life behind bars just for the porn charges. He made some sort of deal and told authorities where the body was buried. He actually worked with my wife’s aunt for eight years. He was arrested at work. It’s crazy to think how someone could hide that for all these years. He was actually a pretty smart criminal. They new he did it, but could never prove anything. But like all sick bastards, it eventually catches up with them.