Ok, I'm better now. So is there a transcript of DH's confession? I haven't found one yet. I've compiled one of my own based on news reports:
Transcript
1. Heinrich said that around 8 p.m. he was on a dead-end road when he noticed three boys on bicycles with a flashlight. He said the three boys passed him, so he turned around and faced the direction of the road they would be coming back on. He described pulling into a driveway after they passed him.
2. Twenty minutes later, they passed him again, so Heinrich got out of his car, put on a mask, reached for a revolver and confronted them.
3. Heinrich said the boys offered him the tape they got from the video store, but he knocked it down.
4. Heinrich testified that he jumped out of the car wearing a mask and holding a .38 revolver. He ordered them into a ditch with their bikes and asked their names and ages. "I told Trevor (Jacob's brother) and Aaron (Jacob's best friend) to run away, don't look back or I'll shoot. " Heinrich recalled.
En route between DR’s residence and Paynesville, via some circuitous route:
1. Heinrich then put Jacob in the back of his car and handcuffed him with his hands behind his back. Heinrich said Jacob asked, “What did I do wrong?” (at some point on the trip). Alternative account: Heinrich handcuffed Jacob and put him in the passenger seat of his vehicle. Yet another account has it as: Heinrich said he brought Jacob to his car, handcuffed him and put in the front passenger seat.
2. Heinrich had a police scanner in his vehicle and after hearing police respond to the kidnapping he decided he'd better drive back to his home in Paynesville.
3. Heinrich said he drove out of St. Joseph with the police scanner on the whole time. He ordered Jacob to duck down and lean forward in his seat until they got out of St. Joseph.
4. Heinrich said he drove taking a series of back roads that wound through several small central Minnesota communities and thence to Paynesville and turned off on a sewage pond road, stopping near a gravel pit in the area. Once there, Heinrich said he uncuffed Jacob and took him to a grove of trees.
5. Then, he forced Jacob to disrobe and perform a sexual act on him and asked him to masturbate until Jacob told Heinrich he was cold. In another account it was stated that he said there was no penetration or oral sex. In any case, Heinrich answered, “Ok, you can get dressed”.
6. Afterward, Jacob asked whether he was taking him home. At this point DH became visibly emotional when replied:
7. "I said, 'I can't take you all the way home,'" Heinrich said. "He started to cry. I said, 'Don't cry.'" It is reported that he also said, “it is too far”. It might have been more accurate to say that St. Joseph was too HOT.
The Murder
1. Heinrich then said a patrol car with siren and lights came down the road, and he “panicked.” He said he drew a .38 caliber revolver from his pocket. He said he loaded his revolver with two rounds and told Jacob to turn around because he had to go to the bathroom. [this could be interpreted as he saw police speeding past, then reacted after the police had passed.]
2. “He didn’t know what I was doing,” Heinrich said in court.
3. Heinrich said he raised his gun to the back of Jacob's head and fired one round but the "first shot didn't work." [misfire or empty chamber]. He fired again. Heinrich described how Jacob was still crying after the first round discharged, so he fired again [this leaves unclear whether or not the first round struck Jacob – and is telling]. Heinrich said he fired a third [two discharges total], and Jacob fell to the ground. Heinrich said he checked to see if Jacob was dead.
4. Oddly, Heinrich claimed that he looked away when he fired the first time [misfire, dry fire], turning his head away from his target. With his head still turned away, he said he fired again. Then he says he looked back and Jacob was still standing (and crying). He then fired again, killing him.
5. Heinrich said he wasn’t under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time and that his actions “were voluntary” and "of his own free will.”
After the Murder
1. Heinrich said he then went home to Paynesville but returned to the site a few hours later (about midnight) with a shovel. Heinrich said he dragged Jacob about 100 yards to the northeast of where he was shot.
2. Heinrich said his shovel wasn’t big enough, but he remembered there was a construction company nearby, so he went to see if a shovel was there. Heinrich said he found a Bobcat and knew where the company kept the key, so he returned to the site and dug a hole using the Bobcat, which is where he buried Jacob. [depends on how remote this is, and how close the Bobcat was. He could not tow it, so he had to drive it]
3. Heinrich said Jacob was buried in a reflective vest, red jacket and blue sweatpants.
Post Murder (about 1 year later)
1. About a year later, Heinrich said he drove by the site where Jacob was buried and noticed that the grave was partially uncovered and that he could see Jacob’s red jacket above the ground. Heinrich said he “gathered as much as he could” of the clothing and remains, placed them in a garbage bag, and walked across the highway to a farm, where he dug a 2-foot-deep hole in the ground and reburied the remains covered by the red jacket.
2. Heinrich showed police that second burial site while he was in custody. This is the burial site that was covered in the recent news stories.
