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It's all so easy to say now, unless heinrich confessed it didn't matter if you had his house bugged fir 26 years. Every avenue and alleyway in this case was explored per request and it got too deep. This was a very high pressure and complicated case for most anyone to pursue. We won out due to miraculous circumstance in the end.
Heinrich should've been hot off the grill and we'll done immediately after Wetterlings' abduction, if not before. You take just the evidence in the driveway...the shoe prints, the shoe size, the depth of the shoe tread, the tire track patterns, the width of the tires, the depth of the tire tread, the stance of the tire tracks (distance between tires), a blue car an eyewitness sees at the scene, a suspect the Paynesville police said should be considered suspect, the same suspect another brave young man picked out of a lineup, who just so happens to match the physical description given to them by 3 victims in 2 abductions.
Your stance on the police did everything they could and couldn't do anymore without a confession, couldn't be any more ludicrous than John Sanner standing at a podium patting himself on the back telling the entire country how good of a job they did. If I should ever go missing, I'd rather have Scooby Doo and his crew out looking for me than Sheriff Ego and his crew of misguided, under-educated, and excuse filled cohorts @ the Stearns County Sheriff's Office.
The reason this case was solved was because Shane Ball listened to the community and tips received...whether or not they fit the theory the SCSO wanted portrayed. So 2 people who cared....Special Agent Shane Ball, and one tipster who may or may not be an amateur, semi-famous, just getting his toes wet, websleuther. Period.... End of the story.... SCSO did nothing but extend the suffering of the victims and their families. And while they were at it, why not throw a respected member of the community, and well liked school band teacher with no history of any complaints of any kind against him, under the slow and steady, backwards turning, wheels of SCSO justice just for good measure!
....Now with all do sincere respect...stop lying to yourself trying to convince yourself of such a ridiculous theory as they did all they can....please!