Wetterling

A Minnesota judge has ordered the release of state files on the 27-year investigation into the kidnapping and murder of Jacob Wetterling.

Sifting through every word of a 20-year investigation is right in the wheelhouse of the Civil Division of the Stearns County Attorney's Office.

The Wetterling's are suing the Stearns County Sheriff's Office. The county intended to release the Jacob Wetterling case file on Monday but has since postponed the release due the lawsuit.

The Wetterling family has written a thank you letter to the community. The letter is posted Friday in the local newspaper because this is Jacob's birthday. He would have been 39 years old.

The man who admitted last year that he killed 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in central Minnesota in 1989 is serving his sentence at a federal prison outside Boston.

Days after the tragic news broke that authorities found Jacob Wetterling's body, his mother Patty Wetterling, released a statement to the media this (Monday) morning in reaction to the news.

There have been unconfirmed reports that remains were recently found that are those of Jacob Wetterling. KARE 11-TV is reporting that Patty Wetterling has confirmed that the remains are Jacob. KSTP-TV reports that over the last few days searchers have been in Stearns County looking for the remains of Jacob Wetterling.

A community meeting in Paynesville organized by Patty and Jerry Wetterling has been rescheduled for tomorrow (Sunday). The meeting is meant as a way to help central Minnesota residents cope with recent developments in their son’s case.

A community meeting in Paynesville put on by Patty and Jerry Wetterling has been postponed for tonight (Monday) due to weather. The meeting was meant as a way to help central Minnesota residents cope with recent developments in their son's case.