Hello everyone, I am new here. Since the anniversary of JW's abduction this past October I've had renewed, almost obsessive, interest in this case. I am a mother of sons, so I do not need to say more than that, I'm sure. I've been reading as much as I can, on here, and other places, about the abduction. I was amazed when the POI was named just several days after I'd begun my research.
I guess I just want to introduce myself and tell you all thank you for taking so much of your time to work on this. I watched Patty speak today, and thought of all of you when she and Jerry mentioned the ordinary citizens being so very important in solving crimes.
I think somewhere on this thread someone had questioned why now make DJH known as a POI in the case... with some idea (I gathered from the post) that some people are thinking/hoping that LE has more to go on than they are letting on. I listened to an interview with Stearns County attorney Janelle Kendall that I found interesting.
http://wjon.com/stearns-countys-janelle-kendall-talks-wetterling-case-audio/ I think she was basically saying that JW was one reason the search warrant on DJH was executed, then Fed took over when child *advertiser censored* was found, and part of that whole federal process was making the search warrant public. Therefore LE decided to have a press conference indicating DJH as POI because they knew the public would be able to see JW was part of the reason for the search warrant, and would be talking about it. Of course they are hoping to get more information from the public, but if nothing had been found that made the warrant part of a case under federal jurisdiction, we still would (most likely) not know that they were looking at DJH.
Listen to the link above if you are interested.