1. Re: Jerry Wetterling. They have an older daughter that is older than Jacob.
2. I had heard the rumors back then that Jerry was not Jacob's father. But since they have an older child, I doubt it.
3. I , too, helped in the search and maybe the National Guard person had better info, but all I remember is that the guy asked the children's ages.
4. Please look at the maps and see if you can possibly see how a guy could get ahead of them.
5. The Wetterlings were at a PTA party. This was before cell phones. How would Jerry contact anyone as this was a spur of the moment idea that the kids had.
6. Yes, Jerry was very stoic. Men especially in Minnesota are very stoic. Especially at that in history. Men don't cry.
Human,
Your post above made me think some more... this is what I came up with....
- > we still have a missing 11 year old, attacked by a man who said he had a gun (did the other two kids see a gun?? does anyone know?).
- > the man was said to be dressed in black, wearing a nylon hose mask, and approached from the area of the driveway. Its possible that he
may have been in the bushes before the attack as Aaron heard rustling in the bushes on the way to Tom Thumb....
- > SOOOO... what if... maybe DR might have had a friend / visitor that night? Perhaps a drug deal was going down, or should have gone down? Perhaps a robbery of DR's house or maybe even of Tom Thumb's...was the original plan, but then someone saw the boys go by, and decided instead to grab one of them?? BUT... even IF this was the case, there doesn't seem to have been a getaway car (no car heard by the kids as they bolted) etc....
-> DR may well have had nothing to do with this case directly, but the fact that he went to bed as police searched his property, and didn't want to "waste his time" are suspect to me!! I'd like to know -- did this (then) kid call his parents in Europe to tell them the police were searching their property? Did he ever ask police what all the fuss was about?? Of course if he were involved in anything illegal or anything that he might fear might land him in trouble he'd be more likely to retreat into his home, and hope to heaven no one ever found out!!
He may have nothing to do directly with the kidnapping -- but I'm not buying that he's got
nothing!!
The ONLY other explanation I can come up with for a man, dressed all in black, hiding in bushes, with a nylon over his head, carrying a gun would be to rob DR's parent's home while the parents were in Europe (did anyone know DR was going to be home alone while his parents were overseas?)... and then that plan became abduction as the kids passed by.
What other possible reason is there for the perp to BE at that farm, in the dark... carrying a gun (presumably), with a mask??????? Its either DR, someone DR knows, related to a robbery that was going to happen then didn't... or related to a deal (drugs?) that someone was dealing on that property that night... or it was just a planned, calculated attack against these kids, which seems so unrealistic given the location of the events in question....
Thats it... those are my best guesses.