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He told me it happened one night when he and a friend were biking home. We came
around the corner, and out of nowhere, from behind those trees, the attacker
came running out and clotheslined my friend from his bike. The man wore a
long-billed hat, Bertelsen said.

Many of the police reports about these incidents were destroyed years ago, but
from the ones that remain and my interviews with investigators and men in
Paynesville, it's clear the attacks were similar. A short and stocky man,
sometimes wearing a mask, would jump out of the dark and try to grab a boy and
grope him. Some of the boys were riding their bikes.

Others were just walking. One of the boys was attacked on his paper route. Most
of the attacks happened at night. One boy said the man's voice was low and
static filled. Another said it was a deep whisper.

Several of the boys said the man asked them their ages or what grade they were
in. Sometimes the man would issue a warning: Don't move or I'll shoot. It was a
group of us who hung out together, hung around downtown. To be marked like that
is terrifying. We had a feeling like we've got to take care of each other, watch
out for each other. The police in Paynesville tried their best to solve the
assaults. The local paper, The Paynesville Press, published front page stories
about the crimes.

Bill Drager described the crimes to a reporter. Police even considered imposing
a curfew, but they decided to just keep warning parents and kids: If a strange
man approaches you, scream and run away as fast you can. Jared Scheierl's family
didn't see the articles in the Paynesville paper. They didn't know about the
other boys. Jared thought he was the only one. He started having dreams of a big
black dog chasing him, and he'd wake up panicked and sweating.

He slept on the floor of his parents' bedroom every night. Like Jared, Jacob had
been kidnapped on the side of a road while heading home in the dark by a short,
stocky man with a gun.


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The Jacob kidnapping seemed like almost a repeat of the Jared kidnapping, in
which Heinrich was a suspect. It's not just that Jacob's abduction seemed
similar to another crime. It's that this kind of crime — the kidnapping of a
child by a stranger — is among the rarest of all crimes. And yet, here in this
one county in central Minnesota, it had happened twice in one year. Doug Pearce,
one of the detectives on the scene the night of the Wetterling kidnapping, had
investigated Jared's case just months earlier. Pearce had talked to Jared, had
shown Jared the line-up with Heinrich and had looked at Heinrich's car.

On the night of the Wetterling kidnapping, Pearce took statements from the two
kids with Jacob that night — the statements that described the abductor and how
it happened. I tried to talk to Pearce, but I wasn't able to reach him.
According to the documents that have been released and the best recollections of
law enforcement in interviews, no one went to look for Heinrich in those first
few critical hours after Jacob was kidnapped.

But in the weeks after Jacob was kidnapped, investigators began to take a close
look at Jared's kidnapping.

They talked to Jared over and over again. They pulled him out of class at school
a number of times. Jared said investigators told him he was their best shot at
finding Jacob, because the man who took Jacob was the same man who took him. So
they kept pressing Jared to remember more.

After several interviews, investigators tried again. They brought Jared into a
room and didn't let his parents come in, Jared said. And then they interrogated
him in a more aggressive way than Jared had ever experienced before. Jared kept
telling them no, he didn't. My parents had seen me and said, 'We're done. After
that interview, Jared's family moved out of town. They wanted to get away from
all the stress and questioning about Jared's assault, so they moved to a town
they thought was more peaceful.

They chose Paynesville, the town where Heinrich lived. Although Jared couldn't
remember every detail about the man who kidnapped him, law enforcement became so
certain the cases of Jared and Jacob were linked that they decided to announce
it to the public. Jamar was clear. The abduction of Jacob Wetterling and the
abduction of the Cold Spring boy — Jamar didn't use Jared's name — were
connected. The kidnapper was the same man. How well, how good was the witness?
How much did we know about what happened that night?

And it's taken us this long to get that down.


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From that point, the case against Heinrich for the kidnapping of Jacob
Wetterling began to build — about a month and half after Jacob was taken. Two
days after the news conference, investigators went to talk to Heinrich. They
asked him where he was on the night of Oct. Heinrich said he couldn't remember.
Heinrich agreed to give authorities a sample of his hair. He agreed to turn over
his shoes. He agreed to let officers take the tires off his car. Law enforcement
compared the shoes and tires to the shoe prints and tire tracks found near the
abduction site.

They got the results back. The shoe print and tire tracks were similar — not a
slam dunk, but promising. Authorities got a search warrant for Heinrich's
father's house, where Heinrich said he had moved around the time Jacob was
kidnapped. They found black boots, camouflage pants, two radio scanners and
several locked trunks. Inside one of the trunks, they found a photograph of a
boy in his underwear and a photograph of a boy coming out of a shower with a
towel wrapped around him. Heinrich objected to the officers seizing the
photographs. He told investigators the photos "just didn't look right.

The investigation continued. Officers brought in Jared for another line-up with
Heinrich. Again, Jared wasn't able to pick out anyone for sure, but he said two
of men kind of looked similar to the man who assaulted him. One of those men was
Heinrich. The FBI connected a fiber found on Jared's snowsuit to a fiber sample
taken from the seat of Heinrich's old car.

Finally, on Feb. The profilers told them where to put the furniture in the
interrogation room and where each person should sit. The investigators used a
small room. They put an American flag inside, along with a floor lamp and some
chairs. They got a file folder, stuffed it full of papers, wrote Danny
Heinrich's name on it and placed it conspicuously on a desk.

The goal was to intimidate Heinrich — to make it seem like they had a ton of
evidence against him, so he should just confess. He told me that he was certain
back then that Heinrich was guilty.


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Gilkerson said he tried everything he could think of to get Heinrich to confess.
He told Heinrich they had evidence that he did it.

He accused him directly of the crime. He pressed him again and again for nearly
two hours. Officers held Heinrich in jail, but the next day, the county attorney
decided he didn't have enough evidence to charge him, so they let him go. You
either get the evidence, you find that the person conclusively didn't do it, or
you just have no more to do. So you have to leave that suspect.

You can't stay with the suspect with nothing to do, nothing more to do forever.
Sometimes you just can't get it. Gilkerson, the other FBI agent, told me there's
nothing he would've done differently. I kept coming back to this moment — the
moment they let Heinrich go. I wondered what else the investigators could have
done.

I asked a lot of investigators who'd worked on the case back then about it. They
all told me the same thing.

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