Jacob Erwin Wetterling was a boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota who was kidnapped from his hometown at the age of 11 on October 22, 1989. His fate remains unknown.
“All I can tell you is we’re conducting an investigation in the St. Joseph’s area, and the details of that investigation are restricted by a court order,” Bechtold said. He is a Chief Deputy of the Stearns County Sheriff’s Department he also said he was restricted by court order from commenting on the investigation. The order, he said, was issued by a Stearns County judge on Tuesday or today.
ABC News first made contact with Wetterling 10 years ago.
"This is God's country," she said at the time, walking in a cornfield just a half-mile from her house.
It was through the same fields, on a warm autumn night, that Jacob, his brother Trevor and a friend set out on their bikes to pick up a video.
It was the first time Jacob had been out alone at night on his bike.
On the return home, according to the other boys, a masked gunman stopped all three -- and then drove off with Jacob.
On a gravel road was a spot where Jacob's footprints seemed to show resistance. And then...
"It's gone," Wetterling said. "It's just bizarre."
It was just the beginning of a nightmare from which Wetterling has not yet awoken. But something inside her has awoken.
Over the years, Wetterling has found her voice, and her mission: to find Jacob and help protect other children.
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