In ELOC's book on pp. 163-165 he discusses a couple known criminals who were looked at in Jacob's case. Because Weiss was a first aid instructor and traveled throughout MN, I wondered if he could have been the guy at Tom Thumb who told Kevin he was a "medical cop".
"In August 1997, St. Paul police served forty-four-year-old David Paul Weiss with a search warrant after Weiss was arrested on August 6th on charges of sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old boy. According to the search warrant documents, Weiss had discussed the Wetterling case with at least one of his assault victims. Weiss roommate told investigators that Weiss had confided to him that Weiss knew of a body that had been hidden in the cemetery at Fort Snelling. The police took Weiss to search the cemetery but no evidence was found. [SUP]55[/SUP]
Police reportedly found child *advertiser censored*, movies, a digital camera, boys clothing, and a youth jock strap in Weiss possession. Media reports also stated that a jar containing testicles was found, but they were later determined to be canine testicles. DNA testing was done and after six months of waiting, the results came back and there was no connection established between Weiss and Jacobs kidnapping. [SUP]56[/SUP]
Weiss frequently traveled across the state of Minnesota during his twenty-two years as a first-aid instructor. Authorities suspected that he might have assaulted many children across the state over the years. [SUP]57[/SUP]
Information about the Weiss case was forwarded to the Stearns County Sheriff's office and Sheriff Jim Kostreba acknowledged that several people had contacted his office about possible ties between Weiss and the Wetterling case." (pg. 163)
David Blom (who murdered Katie Poirier and burned her body in his fire pit) and whose real name was Donald Pince, was also looked at in Jacob's case.
"The 50 year-old Blom, whose birth name was Donald Pince, admitted to investigators that he had kidnapped and killed Poirier. Investigators revisited the files on Blom for a possible connection to Jacob's abduction... Pince had been imprisoned for six years on a rape conviction, and had been released in March 1989. Investigators questioned him and his wife, Kathy Pince, about the Wetterling kidnapping." (pg. 156)