Jacob Wetterling
True Crime All The Time
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4.7 • 13.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On October 22nd, 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped by a masked man from St. Joseph, Minnesota. For 27 years, what happened to Jacob and who took him remained a mystery. The perpetrator had been on police radar since the early stages of the investigation.
Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling. In 2015, 52-year-old Danny Heinrich was arrested and charged with five counts of possessing or receiving child pornography. He was also named a person of interest in the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling. The authorities had to make a deal with Heinrich to get the full story, and he revealed shocking details of other crimes as well. Many people have questioned whether justice was really achieved and if Heinrich should have been identified much sooner.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 474 of the True Crime All the Time podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson. |
| 0:40.6 | And with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson. Give me, how are you? |
| 0:45.2 | Hey, I'm good about you. I'm doing great, man. I'm having a good week. You know, we put out the |
| 0:50.2 | the Thursday episode. And also went up on YouTube. |
| 0:56.0 | And we're getting a lot of great feedback about the studio, the new episode. |
| 1:01.3 | So it's more work, but hey, people are liking it. |
| 1:05.5 | If long as they're happy, I'm happy. |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, me too. |
| 1:08.4 | Me too. |
| 1:08.9 | Let's go ahead and give our Patreon shoutouts. We had Bruce Swicker. Hey, S. Wicker. Jack, Glanville. What's happened? Jack. Sarah Woods. Hey, there's Sarah. Tammy Forkham. Well, if I said it on Patreon, if you can't fork them, spoon them. Katie Armstrong. What's going on, Katie? Hunter Hoffman. Hey, there's Hunter. Casey P. Well, thanks, Casey. Jay Law. Well, Jay Law. And last but not least, Tara Henry. Well, thank you, Henry. And then if we go back into the vault, this week we selected Vicky Armstrong. |
| 1:44.9 | Well, thanks. |
| 1:45.4 | Vicki. |
| 1:45.7 | Are you related to Katie? |
| 1:46.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:47.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.7 | Last name. |
| 1:48.3 | Two Armstrong. |
| 1:49.2 | So we appreciate all the Patreon support that we'll get. |
| 1:52.9 | We have an episode out right now on True Crime All the Time Unsolved where we're talking |
| 1:57.2 | about Doddy Kaler. |
| 2:00.1 | This is a fascinating case because her husband dropped her off at the train station, |
| 2:05.2 | but there was no evidence that she ever boarded the train. |
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