Soon after the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling in 1989, Stearns County sheriff’s investigators came face to face with his killer, Danny Heinrich, who would confess to the crime 27 years later. Then they let him go. It wasn’t the first time that had happened in Stearns County. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.
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