My impression is that Heinrich did murder little Jacob. Maybe what happened was as mentioned above: That Heinrich was so frustrated & angry that he hadn't gotten to perform that one particular s@x act on the child b4, & so he was hell-bent that he'd make sure he succeeded. I've heard that that particular s@x means more than just having a s@xual 'high': My understanding is that it is one way that the perpetrator shows he has ultimate control over the victim, that he, the perp', is in charge of everything NOT the victim, and, also, I've heard it is a way that a perp' feels he 'destroyed'/'ruined' the victim---hard to explain but along the lines of perp' feeling he's 'King of the World' and he 'won' by entirely debasing his victim.
Having been in the area of the crimes, IMO, Heinrich would have had plenty of places to 'get rid of the body'. Remember this Heinrich is a very sneaky guy who got away with his crimes against local children for years & years! Heinrich himself said it, 'They (police) can NEVER pin it on me - they can NEVER prove it'. One thing we don't know (DO correct me if I'm wrong) is whether Paynesville made any big deal about all those other children being raped----------my impression is that it NEVER made news, never really was investigated, and was so minimized & forgotten that it wasn't until 2010, when the blogger dug & found the facts about Paynesville, that dots began to get connected there.
So very, very sad, IMO, that because the shoe print - WHICH IMO OBVIOUSLY IS Heinrcih's - and the tire marks each lack some unique identifying anomaly, the county attorney sees a case against Heinrich as having 'reasonable doubt' in law.
I've zero question in my mind that Heinrich is fully responsible. I trust law enforcement is trying to cook up some sweet deal to get Heinrich to let this poor Wetterling family have their son/& brother's remains. Can that possibly happen, or will Heinrich stick on & on with his 'deny-deny-deny'. Gheesh - - wonder if Heinrich's mom was Scott Peterson's mum, Jackie Peterson....
My hunch is that Heinrich was out doing his usual, trolling for 11 y old boys who he found exciting/stimulating to Heinrich. Only after that last episode of failure, IMO Heinrich would have all the right 'stuff' with him: Rope, duct tape, shovel. So Heinrich 'got lucky' that night spotting Jacob en route to Tom Thumb & then laid in prey for the 3 kids to return. Sneaky, criminal-minded & sexually perverted Heinrich surely knew that those 2 other kids likely would go blab to their parents - but it only 945pm, and it would have taken time for law enforcement to get to the scene, so IMO Heinrich really had that night to act out his awful perversions on the poor little innocent child & then kill the child. I think Heinrich felt he had to murder this child because he forced that particular s@x act upon the little boy - IMO that poor little boy wound up brutalized - Heinrich ha gone too far & knew he had to get rid of this little child - he couldn't let this child go.
I think we are very fortunate to have learned what Heinrich's neighbors observed & heard: IMO no question Heinrich 'fits the bill'.
Last note: Did others here go 'euwwww' & feel nauseous when you see that the view from Heinrich's home was the local middle school?