Recently saw the excellent
Still Missing Morgan True Crime documentary, that focused on the
Morgan Nick case - but also included a lot of information about the
Jacob Ketterling abduction & murder. I had not heard that much about the JK case, so found out most of the info. due to this doc.
Very heinous and sickening crime here. The fact that this scum-bag used a gun to intimidate/strike fear into the three kids back in 1989 (so they all wouldn't just run away from him) was cowardly - but that's par for the course with these pieces of garbage. And, JK obviously had the bad luck to be the perp's main target - given that he let the other two go.
As a kid growing up in the '80's (though I was older than JK) - I clearly remember my family warning me about "stranger danger" & to be careful out there. Though these types of crimes had occurred in
past decades - IMHO it wasn't until the '80's that the public started hearing a lot about them on the news & TV.
Glad that they
finally got the right perp. It's unfortunate that he 'cut a deal' so that he would get a much lighter sentence -
if he would lead them to the body. But, the most important thing here is that the family finally found out what happened to JK & that they got closure re: the crime.
This






scum-bag is in prison for ten more years. He'll be 70 when he gets out & will hopefully have a hard time finding a job @ that age, etc. This light sentence (especially given what he did) is obviously not the optimum outcome here, but at least he'll be out of circulation for some time.