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S1 E7: This Quiet Place

2016/10/11
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The podcast explores the failures in the investigation of Jacob Wetterling's kidnapping, highlighting the history of unsolved cases in Stearns County and the lack of accountability within the sheriff's office.

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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.