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Conditions and exclusions apply. Previously on In The Dark. It's a case that defied logic

then and now. On the outskirts of his hometown of St. Joseph, a young boy's mysterious disappearance.

What they call an abduction of a child, well, my initial thought was, you don't think that

happens here. People of all ages and walks of life came out to keep the hope alive. Hope

that 11-year-old Jacob will return home safely.

I don't know. I know we were used to point after the investigation there. We had really

nothing at that point. We went high and regained. They had all that. None of it was new. None

of it is new. Stern's colony, the FBI, they've all had all of this. None of this was new.

I was just like, what? We lived here the whole time and he's just down the dam road. All

those years, you know, and it's like, what? The people that worked on that case, they

gave truly 110% every day they were there. And I don't know. I don't know that there's

anything we could have done differently.

In December 1978, in a farmhouse, in a remote part of Stern's county, the same county

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