The Most Mysterious Unsolved Disappearances of All Time

Jacob Wetterling

11-year-old Minnesota native Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped on October 22, 1989. Wetterling, his younger brother, and a friend were biking home from a convenience store when a man wearing a stocking cap mask came out of a driveway with an armed revolver. He ordered the boys to lay down on the ground and asked them their age. The man told Jacob’s brother to run into the woods and not look back or he would be shot.

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