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🗓️ 7 September 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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When Jacob Wetterling was taken, authorities launched what would turn into one of the largest searches for any missing person in the history of the United States. But that first night, law enforcement didn't cover all the basics.
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| 0:00.0 | If this is your first time listening to In The Dark, stop, go back, and start the first episode. |
| 0:05.6 | It'll make a lot more sense. |
| 0:07.6 | Last time, on In The Dark. |
| 0:11.6 | I know in one emergency, some of their boys went down to Tom's town to pick up a movie and on their way back to someone stop them. |
| 0:19.8 | When you ran, did you look back? |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, once we got away, gone there. |
| 0:23.6 | Where did you see? |
| 0:26.2 | Nothing. |
| 0:28.2 | He wasn't there anymore. |
| 0:30.2 | The 11-year-old boy went missing in 1989 and it has been a mystery since. |
| 0:35.0 | Finally, we know. |
| 0:38.2 | We know what the weatherling family in all of Minnesota have long to know since that awful night in 1989. |
| 0:44.2 | We know the truth. |
| 0:46.2 | Are there things you would have done differently now looking back on it? |
| 0:50.2 | You always think about that, but no, I think the people that worked on that case |
| 0:54.2 | gave truly 110% every day they were there. |
| 0:58.2 | I don't know. I don't know that there's anything we could have done differently. |
| 1:02.2 | We are here today because of the perseverance of the investigative team |
| 1:06.2 | that commitment to aggressively follow up on every single lead, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant |
| 1:12.2 | and the absolute belief that if we continued to press, we would eventually solve this case. |
| 1:43.2 | Five days after 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted, radio stations across Minnesota |
| 1:50.2 | all played one of Jacob's favorite songs, |
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