Suspect - Daniel Heinrich

[Sasquatch321]

And yet they dug up the Rassier farm twice and went so far as to publicly name him a POI. If they had this other child molester on their radar for so long, why did authorities spend so much time, effort and money on going after DR?

Because DR does have a few problems. He's always been suspicious because he is his own worst enemy. He laughs and smiles too much, he had no alibi, and why not mention seeing the abductor earlier? Then they find some unique things like videotapes, newspaper clippings, a blood stained oak chest, and a diary. From his burn pit they recovered animal bones and burned up clothing. So it became interesting and that is all it is now.

 

[Jennibee]

I am wondering why he let Jared go. IF it is the case he took Jacob, he was not let go.

Eta: could he have gained more 'confidence'?

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[Jennifermn]

I am wondering why he let Jared go. IF it is the case he took Jacob, he was not let go.

Eta: could he have gained more 'confidence'?

Perhaps, it seems like Jared was an escalation as well if DJH was responsible for the Paynesville attacks. Also, whoever abducted Jacob must have known police would be onto him since he left behind two witnesses.

 

[Sigrun]

Someone earlier mentioned Richmond, MN....that is also where Jacob and his dad went fishing the morning of the abduction. Could Heinrich have seen them there?

Do you know where in Richmond they went fishing?

 

[buffetoflies]

ah! I think I found an instance of DJH lying. In the criminal complaint there was a picture of (found in his home in annandale in 2015) a boy coming out of the shower with a towel around him found in one of the binders. The search warrant talks about the same picture (found by police in his possession in 1990) but DJH claims he 'burned' those pictures because they were 'no kind of pictures to have anyway'.

 

[Wisdom]

How long will these child charges keep him behind bars? And I hope they have him on suicide watch

Exactly what I was thinking about on the suicide watch. The worst thing that could happen at this point would be for him to pull an Israel Keyes and commit suicide somehow before answers are found out.

 

[buffetoflies]

I am wondering why he let Jared go. IF it is the case he took Jacob, he was not let go.

Eta: could he have gained more 'confidence'?

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DJH probably had a police scanner on him. The boys got back to the house and 911 was called within 10 minutes or so. Maybe the intent was to molest JW in the woods but then something came over the scanner. Or maybe (I hate suggesting this!) maybe JW wasn't as compliant as JS and he accidentally said something like 'I recognize you' or 'I'll tell!' and so DJH killed him.

We don't know how the Paynesville molestation's were reported. We don't know if the police went out looking for the person who was doing it or not the day of or put something about it out on the scanner. If not, and then suddenly the thing with JW did go out that would have scared him badly i think.

 

[Wisdom]

Do you know where in Richmond they went fishing?

They went fishing at Big Fish Lake north of Cold Spring & Richmond

 

[Jbrown324320]

Exactly what I was thinking about on the suicide watch. The worst thing that could happen at this point would be for him to pull an Israel Keyes and commit suicide somehow before answers are found out.

I don't think he cared that they found child . He was telling his neighbors the FBI came to his house and found child . If he was embarassed or ashamed, he wouldn't have told others.

"Megan Champlin lives next to Heinrich's white house. She described her neighbor as "kind of a hermit," generally leaving the house only for work or to sit in the backyard. The 28-year-old mother of three kids said she never expected anything amiss with Heinrich in the two years since her family moved in until Heinrich told her husband about the July search warrant - and the child that police found. But even then, Champlin said the significance didn't hit her until law enforcement announced his arrest and described him as a "person of interest" in Wetterling's abduction on Thursday."
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/30/danny-james-heinrich-what-we-know/74831544/

 

[Wisdom]

I don't think he cared that they found child . He was telling his neighbors the FBI came to his house and found child . If he was embarassed or ashamed, he wouldn't have told others.

"Megan Champlin lives next to Heinrich's white house. She described her neighbor as "kind of a hermit," generally leaving the house only for work or to sit in the backyard. The 28-year-old mother of three kids said she never expected anything amiss with Heinrich in the two years since her family moved in until Heinrich told her husband about the July search warrant - and the child that police found. But even then, Champlin said the significance didn't hit her until law enforcement announced his arrest and described him as a "person of interest" in Wetterling's abduction on Thursday."
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/30/danny-james-heinrich-what-we-know/74831544/

You just never know what might be going on in this sick freaks head....

 

[Shay]

I owned a 1982 blue Ford EXP in 1989....I know, creepy!

Anyway, I just wanted to comment that this car is a two-door, two-seater. No backseat and no trunk. Also has a manual transmission, so if this was the car used to abduct Jacob, IMO it wouldn't have been the easiest thing to control him.​

 

[thenotebook]

I owned a 1982 blue Ford EXP in 1989....I know, creepy!

Anyway, I just wanted to comment that this car is a two-door, two-seater. No backseat and no trunk. Also has a manual transmission, so if this was the car used to abduct Jacob, IMO it wouldn't have been the easiest thing to control him.​

Good points. But if he threatened JW with a gun he might have been scared enough to sit somewhat still for a bit.

 

[thenotebook]

I don't think he cared that they found child . He was telling his neighbors the FBI came to his house and found child . If he was embarassed or ashamed, he wouldn't have told others.

"Megan Champlin lives next to Heinrich's white house. She described her neighbor as "kind of a hermit," generally leaving the house only for work or to sit in the backyard. The 28-year-old mother of three kids said she never expected anything amiss with Heinrich in the two years since her family moved in until Heinrich told her husband about the July search warrant - and the child that police found. But even then, Champlin said the significance didn't hit her until law enforcement announced his arrest and described him as a "person of interest" in Wetterling's abduction on Thursday."
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/30/danny-james-heinrich-what-we-know/74831544/

I agree with your point, but now he knows the pressure is on to pin the JW case on him. If he feels like they police are almost there, he could attempt suicide to avoid being charged, etc. I hope that doesn't happen.

There was a very recent case of an Olympic gymnastics coach caught with child . He was arrested but then killed himself in the jail cell within only a few days.

 

[thenotebook]

I just want to take a moment to thank LE for FINALLY blowing this case wide open and releasing an incredible amount of information and photos - things I never thought we'd see, ever. The details are disturbing to read, but I feel a sense of relief knowing that there are perp footprints, they were able to match the tires, confirmed as Jared's perp through DNA, etc.

Thank you LE for finally releasing info and asking for the public's help. I hope they get a TON of great leads on DJH!

 

[Sasquatch321]

I owned a 1982 blue Ford EXP in 1989....I know, creepy!

Anyway, I just wanted to comment that this car is a two-door, two-seater. No backseat and no trunk. Also has a manual transmission, so if this was the car used to abduct Jacob, IMO it wouldn't have been the easiest thing to control him.​

Looking at this video of an 82 EXP it seems there is an open style trunk behind the seats. Also this type of car is so small and probably quiet with the type of engine in it. It could explain why aaron and trevor never saw or heard it then.

https://youtu.be/nSwvDbFr88Q

 

[Jbrown324320]

It looks like DJH's father's house was searched. I wonder how well it was searched and if they ever searched his mother's residence.

"At the time of the abduction, Heinrich lived in Paynesville, 30 minutes from St. Joseph.

Heinrich was interviewed about Jacob shortly after he disappeared and reinterviewed at least twice in 1990. The Paynesville house where he lived with his father, who has since died, also was searched by authorities."


http://www.startribune.com/new-developments-to-be-announced-in-wetterling-case/338399961/

 

[MotherOcean]

I am wondering why he let Jared go. IF it is the case he took Jacob, he was not let go.

Eta: could he have gained more 'confidence'?

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I couldn't sleep last night, tossing and turning and thinking about that very thing. We can see from the search warrant records that the incidents escalated. I am thinking that Jacob may have resisted more than Jared. Jared complied. Perhaps Jacob did not and Heinrich finally acted on his threat to shoot his victim. It was also stated in the search warrant papers that LE had found some photographs of children in Heinrich's possession that he later told them he had burned. That makes me wonder if he burned Jacob's possessions so they would never be discovered. It is so creepy that they found taped material of children playing sports. Makes me think he was the one watching Jacob play hockey when Jacob's dad got that odd feeling that someone was watching them.

 

[Shay]

Looking at this video of an 82 EXP it seems there is an open style trunk behind the seats. Also this type of car is so small and probably quiet with the type of engine in it. It could explain why aaron and trevor never saw or heard it then.

https://youtu.be/nSwvDbFr88Q

Yes it was completely open behind the front two bucket seats. There was a metal bar running across it, probably to stop things from sliding forward. You certainly could sit back there but there were no seat belts. But who really used seat belts in the 80's anyway!

 

[liz b.]

It seems as though he had stalked the boys before. I agree that he may well have originally seen them in the video store. It was perhaps a spot that the abductor liked to troll for possible victims. But he would had to have been familiar with the boys' route home, which would have made it possible for him to simply step out of that driveway like he did. Where was his vehicle parked,I wonder ? Did he possibly have help ?

 

[liz b.]

Could he have driven past them as they headed towards the store----then turned around, hidden and waited for them to return?

Yes, that is certainly possible. But, why not abduct them when he first saw them ? Wonder if there was much traffic on the route to the video store ?