1, can sirens be heard on the 911 call because the squad arrives
2. That would make three mysterious cars that day. One driving crazy in the afternoon; Kevin's car; and the kidnapper's or someone's car that went up to the house and turned around at he time of the kidnapping? Do I have that right?
That's a good question about the sirens. When I have more time I will try to find the audio again. Below is posted what I could find of the written transcript. Note that one officer arrived during the 911 call and indicated other officers were on their way.
Yes, 3 cars in one day would be the total - the 2 that DR says he saw, and then Kevin. The only thing would be the order of the cars - Kevin had to be last, or third, because he came by after the kidnapping. That's the car that DR says he did not see.
Overall, the toughest thing for me to swallow about DR's story is the 3 cars in one day, turning around in the same spot.
911 call transcript:
They're the words that launched the search for Jacob Wetterling and some of them come from
his 10-year-old brother Trevor. A year after the abduction, he talked about how a man
asked them their ages and told them to run into the woods or else he would shoot them. The
FOX 9 Investigators have obtained the seven-page 911 transcript of that first call made on
October 22, 1989. The call comes from a neighbor.
Merlin Jerzak says, "I'm right now next door, my neighbors, at my neighbors, the Jerry
Wetterling family. Some of the boys went down to Tom Thumb to pick up a movie and on their
way back someone stopped them and ah, we believe that they have one of the boys because
the, one of the boys did not come back with them."
Dispatcher: "Okay, were you, were they picked up in a vehicle?"
Jerzak: "Just a second I'll ask the boys was there a vehicle, ah, this person appeared ah,
on the road when they were bicycling back home."
Dispatcher: "Okay, did they see the individual at all?"
Jerzak (talking to the boys): "Did they see the individual at all? He had a mask on."
The dispatcher then gets a rough second-hand description of the suspect. A description of
the red hockey jacket Jacob was wearing with Police Department inscribed on the back. The
call is confusing. The dispatcher is simultaneously dispatching squad cars, trying to
figure out where the abduction occurred on the rural stretch of road and asking questions.
Dispatcher: "Give me some information on this guy with the mask, I want color, anything
those kids can remember?"
That's when Jacob's brother, Trevor, has calmed down enough to get on the phone.
Dispatcher: "I want you to give me anything you, you can recall about this male party that
approached you guys, okay?"
Trevor: "Well he was, he was like sorta, he was like a man, sort of big. He had like a, it
looked sort of like nylon things as a mask."
The dispatcher asks about the location of Jacob's bike. Trevor doesn't know what happened
to it.
Trevor: "'Cuz we have to just like run, run off into the woods."
Dispatcher: Did the guy have a deep voice? Anything like that you can remember?"
Trevor: "Yes, did he have like a deep voice or whatever? Seemed like he had a cold sort
of."
Dispatcher: "Trevor, did you see the gun the individual had?"
Trevor: "Um, we couldn't really see it, but we just, we sort of saw it."
Dispatcher: "Okay, did he threaten you?"
Trevor: "Mm, what?"
Before Trevor can answer, the officers have arrived at the Wetterling home. The dispatcher
ends the call telling them they'll be sending more officers and dogs to begin the search.
Unknown to anyone at the time, the heartbreaking search for Jacob Wetterling is just the
beginning.