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The Jacob Wetterling abduction

Cathy Wurzer and Tim Nelson

July 2, 2010 9:25 AM

Authorities search for new clues in 1989 Wetterling disappearance

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Digging near Wetterling site — Investigators use a tractor-mounted backhoe to dig just southeast of the Rassier farm in St. Joseph, Minn. Thursday, June 1, 2010. Crews have been digging up a portion of the yard at a rural St. Joseph farm near the site where Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989.
AP Photo/St. Cloud Times, Kimm Anderson

Authorities spent two days searching a farm outside St. Joseph in central Minnesota. They were just yards from where 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint on a country road in 1989. Cathy Wurzer got the facts from reporter Tim Nelson, who was on the scene yesterday.

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Digging near Wetterling site — Investigators use a tractor-mounted backhoe to dig just southeast of the Rassier farm in St. Joseph, Minn. Thursday, June 1, 2010. Crews have been digging up a portion of the yard at a rural St. Joseph farm near the site where Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989.
AP Photo/St. Cloud Times, Kimm Anderson

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Dump truck leaves Wetterling search site — A Stearns County dump truck left the farm that abuts the scene of Jacob Wetterling's abduction in 1989. Authorities have brought in excavating equipment in a search thought to be related to the kidnapping. But investigators say they won't discuss the matter publicly.
MPR Photo/Tim Nelson

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