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Mother Pens Emotional Birthday Note to Son Jacob Wetterling Who Disappeared 26 Years Ago
On what would have been her son's 38th birthday, Jacob Wetterling's mother penned an emotional letter to the son who was taken from her more than 26 years ago.
Jacob was just 11 when he was abducted on October 22, 1989 near his home in central Minnesota, while he was out riding his bike.In October, authorities named Daniel Heinrich a person of interest in connection with Jacob's abduction. Heinrich was arrested on several unrelated child pornography charges and is scheduled to be arraigned on February 22 for a slated July 2016 trial.Although police say he may be connected to the mysterious cold case, he's not been charged and has denied any involvement.
Patty Wetterling hasn't given up hope that her son may someday return. She served on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's board for three years and continues to advocate for missing children. You can read Patty's note to Jacob, posted below.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB
Birthdays are supposed to be about parties, hats and noisemakers, cake, ice cream, friends singing and making wishes but not yet. Not this year, again. How I wish to wrap my arms around you and hug you tight! I have watched the tape of your last birthday party over and over. We rented a suite at the Holiday Inn for your party. You and Aaron raced back and forth in the pool and took turns throwing each other in the deep end. It was so much fun!
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I want you to know that since you were stolen away from us, people everywhere have been searching, praying and hoping for your safety and for answers. Last fall, 26 years later, news of possible answers had your story as the number two news coverage in the region. That's pretty amazing 26 years later. People care. There are more good people than bad in the world and people still hope.
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My birthday wish is for you to come home. We need to find you. I have another wish for every child who is home safe today, that they will never have to endure abduction or sexual exploitation of any type. We are working just as hard on prevention as we are on searching because this is so wrong…so unfair. I remember how much it bothered you when things were unfair. Me too, it bothers me too.
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I am hoping and praying that people will remember you on February 17 and we ask that everyone hug their kids a little tighter, tell them that they love them and take time to play a game or read books. My wish is also that parents will support agencies that help to find our missing kids and help other victims. Today, we ask everyone to volunteer, attend events, send financial support and share safety information. The non-profit work continues on a daily basis. Sometimes sexual exploitation and abduction are on the news, and sometimes not, yet we all rely on the support and expertise of these agencies when we need them. They are there for us. They need our support as well.
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And once again today, February 17, we will light our candles, fix your favorite foods and cake, and thank God for the gift of you.
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We love you Jacob and we'll never stop searching for you!
I so wish for a happy birthday for you…Mom
Small Person of Interest Named in 1989 Disappearance of 11-Year-Old
Jacob Wetterling
Daniel Heinrich
Sherburne County Sheriff's Office
Jacob Wetterling
Authorities in Minnesota have identified a person of interest in connection with the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling.
During a news conference Thursday, federal and local officials announced the arrest of Daniel Heinrich, Annandale, Minn., on several child pornography charges, and said he may be connected to the mysterious cold case.
A search warrant was executed on Heinrich's residence on July 28 and police found 19 three-ring binders filled with pornographic images of young boys, a computer hard drive filled with images, along with dozens of VHS tapes, officials said.
The videos, which police say appear to have been shot by Heinrich himself, show young boys participating in everyday activities such as delivering papers and having fun at playgrounds.U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger also says Heinrich's DNA has been matched to a kidnapping and sexual assault case of a young boy back in January 1989. The young boy in that case was grabbed off the street, forced into a vehicle where he was sexually assaulted, then dropped off and told that if he turned around, he would be shot, according to NBC affiliate KARE.
Jacob was just 11 when he was abducted on October 22, 1989 near his home in central Minnesota, while he was out riding his bike with some friends.Officials said Heinrich was looked at closely back in the 1989 and 1990. He was once again investigated, when detectives from the FBI and several law enforcement agencies met to discuss the Wetterling case about a year ago.
Officials on Thursday stressed that Heinrich has not been charged in connection with Wetterling's abduction, but that he is being named a person of interest. Heinrich has reportedly denied any involvement in connection with the boy's disappearance.The Wetterling family released a statement Thursday afternoon, thanking all those who were, and continue to be, involved in the investigation.Related: The Mysterious Disappearance of Jacob Wetterling"We are grateful for the prayers, the support and the hope shared in our search for Jacob and the search for answers... today we ask for a little time," read the family's statement."For 26 long years we have said that somebody knows something. If you know anything about this man, his ties to St. Joseph in 1989 and his victimization of children or since, please call the Stearns County Sheriff's Department."Jacob's case was one of the first cases highlighted in Dateline NBC's 'Cold Case Spotlight' series. His case was featured in October 2014.
Jaycob rideing his horse. Unlike Steven Stayner, he has never found his way back home. All his parents have is hope, hope to get Jaycob back, or know what happened to him.
Jaycob's parents holding their son's picture hoping someone would come forward and tell them something.
Story Highlights
A man has been questioned in the 1989 abduction of a boy in Minnesota, authorities said The man was not charged in the abduction, but was charged with possessing child pornography
Meet The Man Abducted Before Jacob Wetterling
"I Know My First Name Is Steven"
Steven Gregory Stayne
Steven Gregory Stayner (April 18, 1965 – September 17, 1989) was anAmerican kidnap victim. Stayner was abducted from the Central Californiacity and county of Merced, California at the age of seven and held until he was 14, when he escaped and rescued another victim, Timothy White, in 1980. Stayner died in 1989 in a motorcycle accident while driving home from work.
Birth and family
Stayner was the third of five children born to Delbert and Kay Stayner inMerced, California.[1] He had three sisters and an older brother, Cary.[2] In 2002, Cary was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of four women.
Kidnapping
On the afternoon of December 4, 1972, Stayner was approached on his way home from school by a man named Ervin Edward Murphy, an acquaintance of Kenneth Parnell. Murphy, described by those who knew him as a trusting, naïve, and simple-minded man, had been enlisted by convicted child rapist Parnell (who had passed himself off as an aspiring minister to Murphy) into helping him abduct a young boy so that Parnell could "raise him in a religious-type deal," as Murphy later stated.
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​Acting on instructions from Parnell, Murphy passed out gospel tracts to boys walking home from school that day and, after spotting Stayner, claimed to be a church representative seeking donations. Stayner later claimed that Murphy asked him if his mother would be willing to donate any items to the church; when the boy replied that she would, Murphy then asked Stayner where he lived and if he would be willing to take Murphy to his home. After Stayner agreed, a white Buick driven by Parnell pulled up, and Stayner willingly climbed into the car with Murphy. Parnell then drove a confused Stayner to his cabin in nearby Catheys Valley instead. (Unbeknownst to Stayner, Parnell's cabin was located only several hundred feet from his maternal grandfather's residence.)[8] Parnell molested Stayner for the first time early the following morning.
Kenneth E. Parnell (September 26, 1931 – January 21, 2008) was anAmerican convicted sex offender, known infamously for his kidnapping of seven-year-old Steven Stayner inMerced, California.
After telling Parnell that he wanted to go home many times during his first week with the man, Parnell told Stayner that he had been granted legal custody of the boy because his parents could not afford so many children and that they did not want him anymore.
Parnell began calling the boy Dennis Gregory Parnell, retaining Stayner's real middle name and his real birth date when enrolling him in various schools over the next several years. Parnell passed himself off as Stayner's father, and the two moved frequently around California, among others living in Santa Rosa and Comptche. He allowed Stayner to begin drinking at a young age and to come and go virtually as he pleased.[4] One of the few positive aspects of Stayner's life with Parnell was the dog he had received as a gift from Parnell, a Manchester Terrier that he named Queenie. This dog had been given to Parnell by his mother, who was not aware of Stayner's existence during the period when he was living with Parnell.
For a period of over a year, a woman named Barbara Mathias, along with one or more of her children, lived with Parnell and Stayner. She later claimed to have been completely unaware that "Dennis" had, in fact, been kidnapped.
As Stayner entered puberty, Parnell began to look for a younger child to kidnap. On February 14, 1980, Parnell and a teenage friend of Stayner's named Randall Sean Poorman kidnapped five-year-old Timothy White in Ukiah, California. Motivated in part by the young boy's distress, Stayner decided to escape with him, intending to return the boy to his parents and then escape himself. On March 1, 1980, while Parnell was away at his night security job, Stayner left with White and hitchhiked into Ukiah. Unable to locate White's home address, he decided to have White walk into the police department to ask for help, before escaping himself. Before he could successfully escape, the police spotted the two boys and took them into custody. Stayner immediately identified Timmy White and then revealed his own true identity and story.
Escape
Refusing to let the boy suffer the abuse that he had been enduring himself for so long, Stayner waited until Parnell had gone to his night-shift job at a local motel on 1 March 1980 and, carrying Timmy on his back, hitchhiked to Ukiah, where his intention was to return Timmy to his home and then 'escape' himself. Unable to locate Timmy White's home, he took the boy to the Police Department where the truth of what had taken place over the last seven years slowly came to light.
By daybreak on March 2, 1980, Parnell had been arrested on suspicion of abducting both boys. After the police checked into Parnell's background they found a previous sodomy conviction from 1951. Both children were reunited with their families that day. In 1981, Parnell was tried and convicted of kidnapping White and Stayner in two separate trials. He was sentenced to seven years but was paroled after serving five years. Parnell was not charged with the numerous sexual assaults on Steven Stayner and other boys because most of them occurred outside the jurisdiction of the Merced county prosecutor or were by then outside the statute of limitations. The Mendocino County prosecutors, acting almost entirely alone, decided not to prosecute Parnell for the sexual assaults that occurred in their jurisdiction. This is likely due to the prosecutors' belief that they were "protecting" Stayner because rape and molestation victims were seen as "damaged goods." They may also have felt that they were respecting the Stayner parents' reluctance to discuss Parnell's crimes because of the stigma of male sexual abuse. Poorman, who had helped abduct Timmy White, and Ervin Murphy were convicted of lesser charges. Both claimed they knew nothing of the sexual assaults on Steven. Barbara Mathias was never arrested. Stayner remembered the kindness "Uncle" Murphy had shown him in his first week of captivity while they were both under the influence of Parnell's manipulation, and he believed that Murphy was as much Parnell's victim as Steven and Timmy were.
Steven Stayner's kidnapping and its aftermath prompted California lawmakers to change state laws "to allow consecutive prison terms in similar abduction cases."
It was a rejoicing time for Steven and his mother on his return home.
It was like the return of the Prodigal Son. Instead of giving Steven a ring, he received a love, a huge, kiss and tears from his mother.
Pictured is Timmy with his mother after Steven resqued him from Parnell.
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Steven was a hero and Timmy will long remember him, as well as his family.
Later life and death
Pictured is Steven, his wife and his two children years later after his ordil with Parnell.
After returning to his family, Stayner had trouble adjusting to a more structured household as he had been allowed to smoke, drink and do as he pleased when he lived with Kennet Parnell.
In an interview with Newsweek shortly after he was reunited with his family, Stayner said, "I returned almost a grown man and yet my parents saw me at first as their 7-year-old. After they stopped trying to teach me the fundamentals all over again, it got better. But why doesn't my dad hug me anymore? Everything has changed. Sometimes I blame myself. I don't know sometimes if I should have come home. Would I have been better off if I didn't?"
Stayner initially underwent brief counseling but never sought additional treatment. He also refused to disclose all the details of sexual abuse he endured while he was living with Kenneth Parnell. In a 2007 interview, Stayner's sister Cory said that her brother did not seek counseling because their father said Stayner "didn't need any". She added, "He [Steven] got on with his life but he was pretty messed up." He was teased by other children at school for being molested and eventually dropped out. Stayner began to drink frequently and suppressed his true feelings. He was eventually kicked out of the family home and his relationship with his father remained strained.
In 1985, Stayner married 17-year-old Jody Edmondson. The couple had two children, Ashley and Steven, Jr. Jody Edmondson later said that having a family of his own helped Stayner find some peace although he still blamed himself for being abducted. In his final years, Stayner worked with child abduction groups, spoke to children about stranger danger and granted interviews about his kidnapping. He later joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just before his death. At the time of his death, Stayner was living in Merced, California and working at Pizza Hut.
On September 17, 1989, Stayner was heading home from work on a rainy afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a car that pulled into traffic from a side road in Merced, California. He sustained fatal head injuries and died at the Merced Community Medical Center shortly thereafter. At the time of the accident, Stayner was driving without a license and was not wearing a helmet. The driver who struck Stayner fled from the scene and later surrendered to police shortly before Stayner's funeral. On September 20, Stayner's funeral was held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Merced. 500 people attended including 14-year-old Timmy White who was one of Stayner's pallbearers.
Timmy White beams at Steven after presenting him with a check for $15,000 as his reward for returning him to his parents.
Parents need to show this track to their children and talk to them about talking to stranters and getting into their car.
If you should order this book about Steven, I suggest that you have a box of clenex at your side. From the time Steven was obducted to his death is something that should never happen to any child. While it is a good book, I rate it as a R.
This book leaves nothing out of everything Pornell did to him. It tells how Pornell used Steven to obduct Timmy and how he escaped with Timmy.
You might want to check it out before buying it. There are some harsh and Adult word in it.
Born - Steven Gregory Stayner
April 18, 1965
Merced, California, U.S.
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Disappeared - December 4, 1972 (aged 7) Merced, California, U.S.
Status - Found
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Died - Sept (aged 24)
Merced, California, U.S.
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Cause of death - Road accident
Resting place - Merced Cemetery District
Nationality - American
Spouse(s) - Jody Edmondson (m.1985–89)
Children - 2
Relatives - Cary Stayner (brother)
Cheaded Out Of Childhood