Cold Spring victim gave voice to Jacob Wetterling, new life to case

Jared Scheierl got the call while driving, his 12-year-old son beside him in the passenger seat. The man who had kidnapped and assaulted him in 1989 — when Scheierl himself was 12 — had led investigators to Jacob Wetterling’s remains.

He looked at his son through tears.

“I said, ‘Wow, you’re like one of the first people to know: They found Jacob Wetterling.’ ”

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