How charges in the Wetterling case came together

Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall joined All Things Considered host Tom Crann to talk about her office's involvement in the Jacob Wetterling case.

She shared how Danny Heinrich ended up being prosecuted in the boy's 1989 disappearance and why he was charged for child pornography — not murder.

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