Body of missing boy found after 27 years
A controversial loss in America is dissolved after 27 years.
The boy disappeared in October 1989, when he rode with his brother and a friend near his home in the state of Minnesota. A masked and armed man took him. He remained without a trace and no one was arrested. Last year the police reopened the investigation. They found a man who had already been in the picture and had molested other boys in the neighborhood. He led police to the grave of the boy.
Jacob's mother Patty told a local station:,, Jacob is found, our hearts are broken. We have no words for it. ''
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Jacob's parents Jerry and Patty Wetterling in 2009.
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The disappearance of the boy shocked America. In 1994, the US Congress took the Jacob Wetterling Act, which states are obliged to keep lists of sex offenders.