Investigators missed opportunities early on to catch the man who kidnapped and killed 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in 1989, a Minnesota sheriff said Thursday before releasing thousands of investigative documents in the case that focused national attention on missing children.
A Minnesota lawmaker is proposing a new limit on public access to police files in light of the legal battle by the family of a slain Minnesota boy whose case remained unsolved for 27 years.
The U.S. government is asking a state court judge to order that FBI documents related to the Jacob Wetterling investigation be returned to the federal agency.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota judge says she hasn't decided whether to allow several media organizations to join a legal dispute over whether to release case files from the Jacob Wetterling investigation.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy who was kidnapped and killed in 1989 in a case that remained unsolved until last year, are asking a judge to keep the media out of a privacy fight over the investigative file.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Several Minnesota journalism groups want to intervene to release documents from the 1989 abduction and killing of Jacob Wetterling.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — A judge has blocked Monday's scheduled release of documents from the 1989 abduction and killing of Jacob Wetterling at the request of his parents.