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S1 E3: The One Who Got Away

2016/9/13
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Jared Scheierl recounts his abduction and assault by a man who later became a prime suspect in the Jacob Wetterling case, highlighting the chilling details and the failure of law enforcement to connect the dots.

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The closest you can get to a conversation with Jacob Wetterling about his abduction is to talk to Jared Scheierl. Scheierl was walking home from an ice skating rink in Cold Spring in January 1989 when a man who turned out to be Danny Heinrich forced him into a car, assaulted him, and let him go, uttering some chilling parting words: "If they come close to finding out who I am, I'll find you and kill you." That was nine months before Jacob's abduction.