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Profile |
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Name: Jacob Wetterling
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Race: White |
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Age at Disappearance: 11 |
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Age Now: 30 |
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Height: 5' |
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Weight: 75 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Jacob wears contacts and glasses for nearsightedness |
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Wanted for :
Missing |
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : St. Joseph, MN
Jacob was last seen riding his bike with his brother and his friend. |
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Possible Location : Unkown |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Jacob wears sweat shirts, sweat pants & Nike brand high top sports shoes. |
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He is a TV sports fanatic -- football, hockey and |
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basketball. |
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He idolizes these sports figures: John Elway, Randell Cunningham, Neil Anderson, Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins & Isiah Thomas |
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He plays Nintendo video games. |
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He likes to build things. |
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He is skilled with model kits. |
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His favorite foods include pizza, steak and peanut butter. |
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Case Story |
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A Mother's Undying Hope |
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Time fades almost everything- except hope. Patty Wetterling has spent the last fifteen years clinging to that hope, and using it.
On the night of October 22, 1989 Patty's life was split in two. On one side she had to be strong, feign normalcy - try to keep her family together and sane.. On the other, she had to endure the pain that is unspeakable and overwhelming. It was on this night that Patty Wetterling's son, 11-year-old Jacob, was snatched from their small neighborhood and never seen again.
It was early evening and Jacob, his ten year-old brother Trevor and a friend Aaron had gone to a local convenient store about a half of a mile away from his home. They were riding their bikes home when a masked man |
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Intensive Search--But No Leads |
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Neighbors, friends and strangers rallied to the Wetterlings' aid and worked 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week searching the area and distributing flyers all across the country. Police discovered tire tracks to a truck and spent years trying to find its driver. Recent information has revealed that the driver of the truck may have been just a casual passerby who had nothing to do with Jacob's kidnapping. Police now believe the abductor walked to the scene of the crime. |
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Grief Stricken Mom Become Activist |
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The pain of not knowing where her child was nearly debilitating to Patty. She used her pain to impel herself to action - discovering activism as an outlet. Patty has fought for the past decade to focus national attention on missing children and their families. The outpouring of support from their neighbors and community at large led Patty and her husband Jerry to establish a nonprofit foundation in honor of their son. Also she has helped in the creation of Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act. This act requires all sexual offenders to report to the authorities with their current address.
Jacob's abduction continues to haunt the hearts of many today because he remains missing and police have come no closer in finding out what happened to him that fateful evening.
Now, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are renewing their resolve in helping Patty. They have created a new age-enhanced picture of what Jacob would now look like at age 29. It is a long shot, but until we know for sure, no one is willing to give up on Jacob. |
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