S1 E4: The Circus

In The Dark

The New Yorker

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Wetterling abduction story kept getting bigger as the case served as a conduit for public fear and grief. Capitalizing on a growing sense that pedophiles lurked in every shadow, the likes of Maury Povich and Geraldo Rivera joined the cause with sensational retellings of the crime and its consequences. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:00.0	Previously on In The Dark.
0:04.2	Danny Heinrich is no longer a person of interest.
0:07.8	He is the confess murderer of Jacob Wettelink.
0:10.6	I was just like, what?
0:11.6	We lived here the whole time and he's just down the dam road.
0:14.7	All those years, you know, and it's like, what?
0:17.6	They had all of that. None of it was new.
0:20.1	None of it is new.
0:21.5	Stern's County, the FBI, they've all had all of this.
0:25.0	None of this was new.
0:27.0	Nobody's ever asked me a single question about those others and you guys.
0:33.0	I've never been interviewed by police.
0:35.6	I've never been talked to by any law enforcement.
0:38.8	Ever. Not one person.
0:42.2	I had expectations that this was hot.
0:47.0	Like, my leave, this, this self-impanial, you can't ignore this guys.
0:51.7	I went in with that mentality.
1:03.7	Within a few weeks of the kidnapping of Jacob Wettelink,
1:06.7	there were close to 100 investigators working on the case.
1:10.1	That's one of the most unusual things about this case.
1:12.9	Just how many people were assigned to it.
1:15.3	So it was hard for me to understand why those investigators
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