Delurk.
He's not a toy but based on the FBI analysis of the perpetrator he doesn't really fit the description in a number of ways:
Quote from saintautumn.wordpress.com:
Agents assigned to the FBI Academys Behavioral Science Unit at the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime compiled a profile of Jacobs kidnapper: The offender is likely to be a white male between the ages of 25 to 35 years old; very low self image; likely to have committed a similar crime in the past; may have some physical deformity (such as scars or acne) and is likely to have had a recent stressful event in his life which would have precipitated the high-risk approach taken in this crime. The high-risk approach also indicates the offender may have attempted similar acts recently and failed. The offender is likely to be in an unskilled or semi-skilled job that does not include contact with the public.
Word on the street is that DR is not only just a skilled musician and educator but one of the top five trumpet players in the state. Playing an instrument at a high level requires not only skilled manual dexterity but high mathematical skill especially in the classical idiom. Playing multiple instruments (trumpet, saxophone) and to be able to teach a student musical concepts is not unskilled or semi-skilled. And it takes a certain kind of musical ego to teach. I'd say DR has a healthy one.
Some have asked if his skill level is so high why he isn't playing in the Minnesota Orchestra or similar organization - from my experience some musicians are better at teaching and get more intellectual stimulation from it than they are getting along with a large ensemble of musicians. Also, instructors at this level are paid well. And teaching involves lots of contact with the public, students, other teachers, administration.
He's thin, wiry, a runner no deformity that I know of plus musical skill doesn't guarantee you will be able to create a "deep raspy voice" on command - in a recent interview I think it was with Trevor said that he sounded like a smoker's voice.
That's definetely an adults viewpoint - he wouldn't have thought of that when he was a kid. No pro winds player smokes if they want to be any good or have the endurance needed to play at a high level.
Yes, it's a bit weird he lives by himself with his aging parents but I know at least three other people in his age group who would fit that description who are around that age. It's not that unusual.
At least one of my associates has aspbergers and has a narrow range of interests and never married as a result and maybe comes off as emotionally flat. It comes with that diagnosis.
So, if it's not DR who is it?
I have a different viewpoint - that the perpetrator was probably a local, probably knew DR (or knew of him), knew the area well or better than most and inadvertently by virtue of where this all happened managed to point the finger away from the perp and right at DR.
If I hadn't heard of Jered and his situation I wouldn't have come up with this alternative explanation.
But all of this is immaterial, I just wish the poor Wetterling's could get an answer.
Every once in a while I'll be on one of these boards and people say they know what happened but they can't talk.
I say they are either making stuff up or they are just afraid it will make their family look bad.
What about the poor Wetterling's family? They need some answers.
