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Hey lets put it this way hes worse then my uncle, DM: So then tell me also about (not easy to understand no transcription), Eyewitness confirms Michael Bahners admission of being at the scene of Jacobs kidnapping, By Timothy Charles Holmseth on August 28, 2018 at 10:13 A.M. CST, July 7, 1997 MR. SCHLEICHER: What did you do when you took Jacob back to your car? RB: Yep bike riding up to ________ and come back ride around town down by the railroad tracks. It clicked once because it didn't line up, the first chamber. They have a big granite wall that opens that nobody knows about at St. Johns, Muehlbauer said, recalling what the priest told her. You could see his red jacket. You can worship anybody you want, Muehlbauer said, explaining how Lund dismissed the subject by making it a freedom of religion issue. Listen MPR News host Tom Weber: A look back at the Jacob Wetterling case. He denies involvement. Another entry in a lead sheet reveals a Sgt. THE DEFENDANT: I asked -- well, they offered me a tape, and I knocked that down. Police found and positively identified the remains on September 6, 2016, and declared the case closed. Cloud private investigator Larry Peart, reveal Jacob was taken to the nearby apartment of Brenda Bahner after he was abducted by her brothers, Richard and Michael Bahner, and their friend Lou Kohls. I panicked. Have been found in Minnesota . It appears Minnesotas deepest and darkest secrets are coming out. MR. SCHLEICHER: You told him that you had to go to the bathroom? MB: He basically said that that he was going to do something but we didnt know. Heinrich objects to officers seizing them because "they just didn't look right." Heinrich speaks with investigators during the search and acknowledges he has child porn, stating that some of the things law enforcement would find are "pretty damning." MR. SCHLEICHER: What was your purpose in returning to the site? The site is on a farm just outside Paynesville, not far from where Heinrich lived at the time. He says one of the men is a "7" on a scale of one to 10 in similarity. The recording captures Bahner telling Muehlbauer he was present and witnessed Jacob being kidnapped at knifepoint by a man named Lou Kohls. They did. Writer then observed Allens foot tapping the floor in what appeared to be a nervous reaction. The Stearns County Sheriffs Department announced their intention to release the entire 56,000-page Wetterling case file to the public, but Jacobs parents filed a privacy lawsuit to halt the release and avoid exposing themselves to further publicity over this tragedy. RB: I think he did. No we never had any conversations at all. Jacob's case went unsolved for decades and . Just the jacket I remember, and I put the bones in that hole and then his jacket on top and covered it up and left. Officers and volunteers conduct aerial and ground searches. After you were finished, you indicated that Mr. Wetterling said something? Heinrich laid in wait for the three to return, and when they did, he put on a mask and confronted them with a revolver. He was 11 years old . The report describes Kutzs reaction to a question he was asked about the occult. I walked back. MR. SCHLEICHER: Okay. MR. SCHLEICHER: Obviously you were arrested sometime after the search warrant was executed at your Annandale residence. The report notes that Detectives Pearce and Olson left the interview with Patty Wetterling, while FBI special agent Al Catallo and BCA special agent Sigafoos continued the interview. Diane Muehlbauer: So you were just scared to tell them back then? Michael Bahner told Muehlbauer on tape he watched Lou Kohls drag Jacob to the car with a knife to his throat. Why did it take 27 years to solve? September 7, 2016 | by Jennifer Vogel and Madeleine Baran. Monday, Oct. 23, 1989 Search expands FBI and other agencies join investigation. Tennis shoes came off when I put him into the grave, so I threw them -- I didn't bury them with him in the grave. What --. He rates Heinrich a "4.". Heinrich said he went home for a couple of hours, then went back to the gravel pit and buried Jacob about 100 yards away. Transcribed by Timothy Charles Holmseth, Ben And about eight twenty to nine, I got ready to go home and I looked up the road towards where Jacobs home where they got kidnapped, Ben: Yeah [inaudible] Michael and Richard and they were coming up by the woods like into the tall grass up out of the ditch and thats what I seen before I went downhill to go home and then, Ben: Yeah, right by where he got kidnapped , Ben: And I seen Jacob, Aaron, and his little brother Trevor, when me and my dad were coming back from Tom Thumb that night we seen them going to Tom Thumb but it seemed like they came up the other way coming back from Tom Thumb up the hill, Ben: The next day I heard that he got kidnapped, DM: And you knew the Bahners were down there in the ditch when you left. The Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act was passed in 1994 and was the first to establish mandatory state sex offender registries. A masked gunman appeared and made the boys throw away their bikes. Looking for evidence regarding the abductions of both Jacob and Jared, investigators seize 19 three-ring binders containing child pornography, a pair of silver handcuffs, duct tape, camouflage pants and shirt and four bins filled with boys' sized athletic wear. They turned a renewed spotlight on him as part of a fresh look into Jacobs abduction around its 25th anniversary. After almost 27 years, Danny Heinrich was willing to talk, and we had to grab the moment.. Haunting as it was, Jacob served as an inspiration for tremendous good, with his family leading a . THE DEFENDANT: I didn't drive. Did he run up there with him? DM: Where did you see Jacob where did you meet him? Six Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and five FBI agents are taken off the case. At the time, Heinrich told investigators he could not recall where he was the day Jacob vanished, WTSP reports. MR. SCHLEICHER: Okay. THE DEFENDANT: Back to 121 Washburn Avenue, the Plaza Apartments, downtown Paynesville. Jacob's mother, Patty Wetterling said Heinrich deliberately set out to hurt a child the night he abducted Jacob on Oct. 22, 1989, while her boy was biking with his brother and a friend near their . So you saw Jacob in the car? MR. SCHLEICHER: Just for clarification, were you under the influence of any drugs or alcohol at the time of this? BREAKING: Recorded confession of witness to Jacob Wetterling ritual sacrifice released in possession of feds LISTEN, by Timothy Charles Holmseth on November 23, 2018 at 6:43 P.M. CST. MB: I mean if somebody had a knife to my throat and wanted me to get in their vehicle I wouldnt put no I wouldnt like that I mean as all theyd have to do is go whaaacckk and youd be dead. He was a good, creative student, though he also procrastinated and disliked homework. 48 by 36 drawing of 2 boys in bondage And I got on the interstate and headed north to Albany. ST. JOSEPH, Minn. (AP) _ The search for an 11-year-old boy who was abducted at gunpoint last week intensified after a motorist reported seeing a young man and a boy in a car stopped along a road, the FBI said. Decades later, authorities thought they finally found the man they were looking for. MR. SCHLEICHER: Did you then return to the site to make any effort to conceal what you did? I looked back. His abduction remained a mystery for nearly 27 years. Finally, on Sept. 3, 2016, the Stearns County Sheriff's Office announced that his remains had been recovered, buried on a farm plot just outside Paynesville, Minn., about 30 miles from his home. Holmseth discovered the bones and teeth found by law enforcement were not human. The audio given to the feds reveals the witness said Jacobs last words included Daddy, daddy, dont!. Can you please describe the revolver? Using technology that wasnt available in 1989, investigators found Heinrichs DNA on Scheierls sweatshirt, and used that evidence to get a search warrant for Heinrichs home, where they found the child pornography. Seitz said he was forced to kill another child during his abduction in 1958. Minneapolis and St. Paul business leaders offer $100,000 reward for Jacob's safe return. January 29, 1998 MR. SCHLEICHER: All right. I turned my head. Looked back, he was still standing.". Please enter valid email address to continue. MB: He was on the front seat on the passenger side. CHILD I TRIED TO HELP YOU I TRIED SO HARD! Write Into Action continues to investigate. A formal criminal complaint filed in Minnesota against Michael Bahner describes abuse he inflicted upon a seven year old boy. THE DEFENDANT: He started to cry. I got out. I pulled into a driveway, passed -- after they passed me, turned around and faced the direction of the road that they would be coming back on. MB: Well Jacob was punching him I mean he was waling on him he wanted to get out of the vehicle, MB: I mean it was like right and left every three seconds there was a punch or something but then, MB: But then the guy I was with he saw well Im not going to say he saw but to me he said he thinks he saw but I know damn well that he saw it he saw Lou have a knife that I do know, MB: It was he was on the front seat on the passenger side. As we know from Part 1 and 2, Michael Bahner said he was at the scene of the Jacob Wetterling kidnapping and witnessed Lou Kohls abduct Jacob at knifepoint. Jared could not be excluded as one of those, but the predominant male DNA profile did not match Jared's DNA. TIMELINE: The night of TRANSCRIPT: The 911 call EPISODE 2 The Circle Several incidents of an unknown adult male groping or chasing juvenile males had been reported to Paynesville law enforcement from about September 1986 through the following September. Some of the discussions between Seitz and Muehlbauer involved Seitz acting as an go-between for Jerry Wetterling who wanted to purchase Muehlbauers taped confession of Michael Bahner. We might be one step closer to understanding what the government was hiding in the Wetterling case. Transcribed by Timothy Charles Holmseth, RB: And thats where I got to know the kids around town because I was like a big brother to them ____. . I had him masturbate. To prove murder, we had to be able to prove that Jacob Wetterling died. THE DEFENDANT: It would be to the north of the, of the -- where I shot him. Jacob Wetterling was abducted from St. Joseph, Minn., on Oct. 22, 1989. Those efforts, alongside one of the highest-profile police searches in U.S. history, yielded the occasional heart-stopping lead. THE DEFENDANT: I, I, I can't remember. Its incredibly painful to know his last days, last hours, last minutes, his mother, Patty Wetterling, said after the guilty plea. And you said that you dragged Jacob Wetterling's body from the place where you shot him to about 100 yards off? I think [childs name] saw a snuff film, Muehlbauer said, recalling what Lund told her. Twenty to nine? Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. For nearly 27 years, he was the brown-haired kid with the smiling eyes portrayed on "Missing" posters, billboards, and pizza boxes. DM: So then what did you hear next? MR. SCHLEICHER: What was your purpose in removing the shoes and throwing them --, THE DEFENDANT: I, I just noticed that I hadn't buried them with him so --. Heinrich confessed to grabbing Scheirel, throwing him into his car, sexually assaulting him and then leaving him on rural road without his pants or underwear. Muehlbauer said that on one occasion at the Del-Win Ballroom in St. Joseph she was talking to a drunk priest. MR. SCHLEICHER: You had a shovel with you? 'To us, Jacob was alive until we found him,' mother says, By The Associated Press While the statute of limitations on the sexual assault has run out, Heinrich was arrested last October on alleged possession of child pornography and named a person of interest in Jacob's abduction for the first time. On April 4, 1990 Detective Pearce and BCA Special Agent Denny Sigafoos met with Kutzer at his home in Albany. Vern Seitz represents one small piece of a much bigger picture, Muehlbauer said. Correction. A tree or a bush. There, Heinrich said he forced the boy to perform a sex act on him. There is a lot -- you live a town or so away. Afterward, Jacob asked whether he was taking him home. I need to clarify a few things. He said he took Jacob into his car, handcuffed him and drove to a gravel pit. (Sherburne County Sheriff's Office via AP, File) (The Associated Press) MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and killing 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling says his. Cloud. I noticed three children on their bicycles with a flashlight. On Jan. 12, 1990, Mund finds that Heinrich's tires resemble the prints left at the scene. During the search Heinrich tells investigators he most likely was at home the day of the Wetterling abduction and that he was not in St. Joseph that weekend. Diane Muehlbauerwith Ben from St. Joseph, Minnesota After the second, Jacob fell to the ground. I said, Don't cry. And was Jacob wearing all of his clothing at the time. Eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling, bicycling home from a convenience store with friends after dark, is abducted in St. Joseph, Minn., a small town about 75 miles northwest of Minneapolis. That's correct. MR. SCHLEICHER: All right. I gathered up as much as I could and put it into the bag and transported it across the highway there to his final resting spot. After being charged with child pornography and named as a person of interest in the Wetterling case, Heinrich confessed to molesting and murdering Jacob and agreed to tell police the location of Jacobs body in exchange for a plea deal. Heinrich was found guilty of child pornography and placed in a Massachusetts federal prison in January 2017 to begin his 20-year sentence. MR. SCHLEICHER: Do you know now that the three children involved were Jacob Wetterling, Trevor Wetterling, Aaron Larson? October 30, 2015 12:00 AM. Okay and he was out there talking to some guys about some stuff that I had never heard about and then he come up and I was talking to Bill and he said something about Jacob I heard about this was like 12 years ago when Jacob got kidnapped, Kevin: He started talking about it with Bill I was standing there listening about how him and his brother he said some other people too but he didnt give no names or nothing takes this kid up to his sisters apartment and tortured him for a few days . So I thought I would go over there and see if I could find a shovel, or else it would have taken me hours to dig the grave with a little shovel. The BCA reports that 99.5 percent of the general population could be excluded. The kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling sparked a "stranger danger" panic across the United States - parents were hysterical at the idea that a stranger could just walk out of the shadows and snatch a child. MR. SCHLEICHER: Okay. a href= '' https: //www.bing.com/ck/a in 1989 at 11. To us, Jacob was alive until we found him.. MR. SCHLEICHER: All right. A man named Kevin, who agreed to speak this year with an APM Reports journalist on condition his last name not be used, comes forward to authorities. Muehlbauer said she was told that Kohls later burned his vehicle to get rid of the evidence. The boy said Michael Bahnber put his penis in the victims butt and went back and forth and peed in his butt. Allen responded he did hear a rumor about the occult activity in an area from St. Johns University to Alexandria. Kutz said he went to the Wetterling residence two times after Jacobs kidnapping. Heinrich's disappearance had remained unresolved untillast week, when Heinrich led police to the isolated spot where he buried Wetterling's body after molesting him and fatally shooting him. FBI tells investigators a fiber found on Jared's clothing had similar microscopic and optical properties as fibers taken from the Mercury Topaz that Heinrich owned in January 1989. Size 2-1/2 gray childs shoe Deputies search on horseback. Well he saw it obviously before he went down to get him. At the request of law enforcement, Patty Wetterling invites Rassier to talk and asks him if he abducted Jacob. After you covered Jacob's body back up with the Bobcat, you returned the Bobcat to the construction site? DM: So where were you guys parked next to them? DM: So then it was later that you learned that he had killed him, DM: When he brought him up did he have him at knifepoint or something, MB: Pretty much I mean he had the knife right next to his throat. DM: I was thinking last night about what you were telling me when we were sitting in the cafe about I think I told you about Lou in the burgundy car they got rid of that then you told me you guys were there you admitted to that you said you guys were in your car and he was in his or what tell me again or you dont remember it all what he said did you see him get out? Gov. Youd just go bike riding? DM: So what car was he driving that night? In about 20 or so minutes, about a half hour later, he said I'm cold, and I said, Okay. It is about 30 miles from St. Joseph. Some questioned whether the deal was enough punishment for the crime, which shattered childhood innocence for many rural Minnesotans, changing the way parents let their kids roam. Subscribe to our channel for exclusive TODAY archival footage \u0026 our original web series. THE DEFENDANT: He said, I'm cold. I stepped out of my car. FBI takes six agents off the case, leaving nine. They gave a car to Beatrice (Kingbird). NBCs Gabe Gutierrez reports from Minneapolis. Subscribe to TODAY: http://on.today.com/SubscribeToTODAY Watch the latest from TODAY: http://bit.ly/LatestTODAYAbout: TODAY brings you the latest headlines and expert tips on money, health and parenting. MR. SCHLEICHER: What was his reaction to that? Paynesville, before I got to Paynesville, I turned on the sewage pond road. Writer noticed Allen tapping his foot in what appeared to be a nervous reaction to SA Sigafoos question about the occult. The man yelled "Run to the woods as fast as you can, or I'll shoot!" As Aaron ran away, he saw the man grab 11 year old Jacob Wetterling by the jacket. MR. SCHLEICHER: With the touching, this was something you compelled him to do? He tells her no. He later tells investigators he has burned them. MR. SCHLEICHER: What did you do when you transferred the remains to this farm property? DM: Do you think he looked at you like a big brother? They have heard the tape of Michael Bahner stating he was there the night Jacob was taken, she said. Muehlbauer said she met a man named Vern Seitz at a motel where they met so she could play audio recordings of Michael Bahners confession to him. I drove back to -- I turned the lights on to find out where I had left him, and I found him, and I dug a grave with the Bobcat at that site. 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