CHILDREN NOW. WE REMEMBER
JACOB WETTERLING.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
I AM ANGELA DAVIS.
THIS WEEK WE EXPECT TO LEARN
MORE ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF
JACOB WETTERLING'S REMAINS 27
YEARS AFTER HE DISAPPEARED.
TONIGHT WE ARE HEARING FROM TWO
IN WHO BOTH SAY THEY WERE
SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY THE MAN
WHO LED THE FBI TO JACOBS
REMAINS.
THE STEARNS COUNTY SHERIFF'S
OFFICE CONFIRMED REMAINS LAST
WEEK FOUND -- FOUND LAST WEEK
ARE JACOBS.
DENTAL RECORDS WERE USED TO
MAKE THE IDEA YESTERDAY.
THIS CAME TOGETHER IN THE LAST
COUPLE OF DAYS AS FBI AGENTS
PRESSED THE PERSON OF INTEREST
IN THE CASE FOR INFORMATION.
SOURCES SAY THE FBI TOOK DANNY
HEINRICH OUT OF JAIL AT LEAST
TWICE LAST WEEK AND THAT'S WHEN
HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS WHERE
THEY WOULD FIND JACOBS BODY.
IN OCTOBER 1989, JACOB
WETTERLING WAS ON HIS WAY HOME
FROM A CONVENIENCE STORE WHEN
HE WAS ABDUCTED BY A MAN WITH A
GUN.
JACOB WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN.
DANNY HEINRICH WAS ARRESTED
LAST OCTOBER AT HIS HOME IN
ANNANDALE.
PROSECUTORS CHARGED WITH
SEVERAL COUNTS OF CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY AND NAMED HIM A
PERSON OF INTEREST.
NINE MONTHS BEFORE JACOB
DISAPPEARED, A 12-YEAR-OLD BOY
NAMED JARED CHERYL WAS
KIDNAPPED AND JAY -- SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED BY MAN IN COLDSPRING.
AUTHORITIES TESTED A SWEATSHIRT
HE WORE THAT DAY AND FOUND
DANNY HEINRICH'S DNA. IT HAS
ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF WHO I AM.
CALL ME A HELICOPTER DAD OR
WHATEVER YOU MAY, BUT THE FEAR
OF YOUR CHILDREN'S SAFETY HAS
ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY BIGGEST
CONCERNS. Reporter: CHERYL IS
A FATHER OF THREE.
HE WAS WITH ONE OF HIS SONS
WHEN HE HEARD THE NEWS. I AM
LOOKING AT MY 12-YEAR-OLD BOY.
IT WAS A MOMENT THAT WAS KIND
OF SPIRITUAL AND SURREAL.
IT WAS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
I AM CELL PROCESSING IN SOME
WAYS.
Reporter: --
LAST FALL, HE LEARNED
AUTHORITIES COULD NOT PROSECUTE
BECAUSE IT WAS TOO LATE. THEY
SAID THE GOOD NEWS IS WE HAVE
YOUR GUY, THE BAD NEWS IS WE
CANNOT PROSECUTE.
THERE IS A LIBERAL -- LEVEL OF
ANGER. THE FAMILY NOW HAS
SOME CLOSURE.
HE THINKS MAYBE HE CAN TOO.
GERRIT THINKS HEINRICHS TIME IN
JAIL PLAYED A ROLE IN HIS
DECISION TO TALK TO EVENTUAL --
INVESTIGATORS.
TIME CATCHES UP WITH YOU.
WITH YOU WANT TO HIDE SECRETS
ARE NOT, THE TRUTH WILL
EVENTUALLY COME OUT.
I'M GRATEFUL IT DID. GERRIT
SAYS HE WANTS A CHANCE TO TALK
