The Most Mysterious Unsolved Disappearances of All Time

Tragic Fate

The man told both boys to show their faces. He then ordered Jacob’s friend to run into the woods and, like Jacob’s brother, not look back or he would be shot. This was the last time Wetterling was seen alive. In 2015, Danny James Heinrich was matched to another case of the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young boy from the same year. Heinrich then admitted to murdering Wetterling and burying him 30 miles from Wetterling’s home.

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