USA 1989 - Der Vermissten-/Entführungsfall Jacob Wetterling

Continuing investigation[edit]
The investigation into Jacob's abduction continues. In 2004, some new reports appeared in the local press. A long-held belief is that the abductor got away in an abandoned car. It was also revealed ten months prior to the Wetterling abduction that another boy had been kidnapped, placed into a car, and sexually assaulted before being released. The modus operandi was similar to the Wetterling case: the man used a gun and upon releasing the boy told him to run and not look back or else he would be shot. That incident occurred ten miles from the location where Jacob, his brother, and friend were stopped.[2]

The Charley Project has sketches of a man believed to have abducted Jacob and sexually assaulted the other boy in 1989.[3]

In early 2009, Milwaukee police discovered child pornography and an alleged video of Wetterling taken before the abduction in the home of Vernon Seitz, 62, of the St. Francis, Wisconsin, area. Seitz had died in his house, but officers asked for additional assistance after the pornography was discovered. Along with the child pornography, articles involving missing children and maps of the cities from whose children had disappeared were found in Seitz's home. It also emerged that Seitz himself had been abducted and tortured in 1959, and family said he was thus concerned for Wetterling from personal history. [4]

On June 30, 2010, investigators with search warrants descended upon a farm near the abduction site. "Items of interest" were found and hauled away in six truckloads of dirt from the site to search for evidence. However, it was revealed in late September testing was unable to "establish, distinguish or identify potential evidence".[2]

In May 2014, Investigators confirmed that they're taking another look at a series of attempted and actual child molestations that occurred in the Paynesville, Minnesota, area in the two years leading up to the Wetterling abduction. Between the summer of 1986 and spring of 1987 5 teen boys were attacked. No one was ever arrested. The authorities re-interviewed some of the victims and are working with the internet blogger who brought the information to light.

After months of research and interviews with some of the victims, it is believed that these attacks were not random and that the culprit could be connected to the abduction of 11-year-old Wetterling in St. Joseph, Minnesota, a town just 40 minutes away. [5]

Comtesse schrieb:Interessanter Fall, habe ich noch nie etwas von gehört bisher.

Hier noch Wikipedia dazu allerdings auf Englisch:

TContinuing investigation[edit]
The investigation into Jacob's abduction continues. In 2004, some new reports appeared in the local press. A long-held belief is that the abductor got away in an abandoned car. It was also revealed ten months prior to the Wetterling abduction that another boy had been kidnapped, placed into a car, and sexually assaulted before being released. The modus operandi was similar to the Wetterling case: the man used a gun and upon releasing the boy told him to run and not look back or else he would be shot. That incident occurred ten miles from the location where Jacob, his brother, and friend were stopped.[2]

In early 2009, Milwaukee police discovered child pornography and an alleged video of Wetterling taken before the abduction in the home of Vernon Seitz, 62, of the St. Francis, Wisconsin, area. Seitz had died in his house, but officers asked for additional assistance after the pornography was discovered. Along with the child pornography, articles involving missing children and maps of the cities from whose children had disappeared were found in Seitz's home. It also emerged that Seitz himself had been abducted and tortured in 1959, and family said he was thus concerned for Wetterling from personal history. [4]
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Die Geschichte mit Vernon Seitz ist ziemlich an mir vorbei gegangen, ob ich den Fall damals schon länger kannte. Im Netz kursiert die Behauptung Seitz hätte auch ein Video von Jacob besessen. Und zwar aus der Zeit bevor er entführt wurde.

Quiver schrieb:Die Geschichte mit Vernon Seitz ist ziemlich an mir vorbei gegangen, ob ich den Fall damals schon länger kannte. Im Netz kursiert die Behauptung Seitz hätte auch ein Video von Jacob besessen. Und zwar aus der Zeit bevor er entführt wurde.

Feelee schrieb:Er erinnerte mich dennoch sofort an den Fall hier. Warum auch immer.

Feelee schrieb:Ich kann mir auch vorstellen, bei dem, was @Quiver hier für Links reinstellt, dass Trevor gezielt ausgesucht wurde. Evlt. wirklich, weil er bereits bekannt war und in der Zeitung mit Bild stand. Aber es war ja wohl Zufall, dass der Jungs mit seinen Freunden so spät abends noch draußen war. Damit konnte der Täter eigentlich nicht rechnen.