What happened to Jacob Wetterling?
On a crisp October evening in 1989, Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota, was abducted by a masked gunman while biking home from a convenience store with his brother and a friend. This tragic event sparked one of the most extensive child abduction investigations in U.S. history, ultimately leading to significant changes in national sex offender registration laws.