S1 E5: Person of Interest

In The Dark

The New Yorker

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dan Rassier now wishes he'd insisted that police search his family's St. Joseph farm top to bottom the night Jacob Wetterling was abducted. That way, they would have known there was nothing to find. And it would have been harder for them to come back 21 years later to search with backhoes and declare him a "person of interest" in the case. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:57.8	Contitions and excursions apply. Previously on In the Dark.
1:03.8	They were going that way and then we seen a car go really fast, go by here and he was
1:10.7	going the same way only he was going really fast. We've been running so many white cars
1:14.8	down and red cars down and tan station wagons and bands and so no one came and knocked
1:21.3	on your door that night. No. And nobody came and searched her house.
1:25.3	No. And nobody searched any of as far as you know the buildings, the farm buildings
1:29.6	around your house. No. I remember saying I'm going to all look down here and that was
1:36.3	a mistake.
1:45.9	When the news broke three weeks ago that a man named Danny Heinrich had confessed to the
1:50.0	murder of Jacob Wetterling, US Attorney Andy Luger held a news conference. Standing
1:55.4	by his side was a Stern's County Sheriff.
1:58.3	First I want to introduce Sheriff's Center. My partner on this matter and a man whose
2:04.4	dedication to seeking justice for Jacob Wetterling knew no limits. Sheriff's Center.
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