S1 Update: The Wetterling File
In The Dark
The New Yorker
4.7 • 28.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In Season 1 of our podcast, we reported that the Jacob Wetterling case was a botched investigation. Just yesterday, law enforcement acknowledged it too. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Samara. |
| 0:01.5 | I'm the senior producer of In The Dark. |
| 0:03.8 | We're coming to you today with an update, |
| 0:05.8 | not about the Curtis Flowers case, |
| 0:07.8 | but about our first season. |
| 0:09.7 | Yesterday we got some important news about the case |
| 0:12.0 | that we covered in that season, |
| 0:13.2 | and we wanted to make sure to tell you guys about it |
| 0:15.6 | as soon as we could. |
| 0:17.3 | If you haven't listened to season one of the podcast, |
| 0:19.9 | you can find it in our podcast feed, |
| 0:22.4 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.7 | Thank you so much for listening and enjoy the update. |
| 0:41.1 | This is an update episode of season one of In The Dark. |
| 0:44.6 | In season one of this podcast, |
| 0:46.6 | our team spent a year looking into the case of Jacob Watterley, |
| 0:50.4 | an 11 year old boy who was kidnapped |
| 0:52.8 | on October 22, 1989, |
| 0:56.0 | in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, in Stern's County. |
| 1:00.4 | The case went unsolved for almost 27 years, |
| 1:03.8 | and then in September of 2016, |
| 1:06.9 | authorities announced that a man named Danny Heinrich |
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