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It was the Minneapolis police. Officers arrested Ture for several rapes, and while Ture was in custody, he was charged with murdering Edwards, the waitress. He received a life sentence and has been in prison ever since. In the mids, a state cold case unit revisited the Huling case, and officers went to find Billy Huling, the boy who survived the murders.
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By that point, he was grown up with a family of his own. One of the people involved with the case told Billy there was some evidence they wanted him to look at. State investigators quickly built a case based on the same evidence that the Stearns County Sheriff's Office had known about since — the metal bar and the toy Batmobile. Twenty-one years after Ture had killed four members of the Huling family and after he'd gone on to kill at least two more people and sexually assault at least three more, a jury finally convicted him of the Huling murders. I asked Kostreba, the officer who questioned Ture in , why he hadn't asked Billy Huling about the toy Batmobile.
Kostreba sighed. Kostreba said, as far as he knows, no one made any changes at the sheriff's office to prevent this kind of mistake from happening again. As best I can tell, there was no formal training or review at the sheriff's office about how to learn from the Huling case or any of the other unsolved crimes in the s. But the problems in the sheriff's office did get the attention of a local politician, State Rep.
Al Patton. Patton retired years ago.
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Patton told me how in the s, he started hearing about problems with evidence handling, in-fighting among deputies, a lack of training, and failed investigations in the Stearns County Sheriff's Office. The way Patton saw it, voters didn't know enough to be able to choose the best candidate for sheriff. He proposed a bill at the Minnesota Legislature in that would have gotten rid of elections for sheriffs and turned the job into an appointed position.
It was resisted. The bill never came up for a vote. Patton's effort had failed. It still bothers him. Grafft campaigned on a promise to fix the problems in the Stearns County Sheriff's Office, but once he was elected, the cases kept piling up. In , an year-old woman named Myrtle Cole was found stabbed to death in her bed at her home in Fairhaven, Minn. Officers had found a bloody handprint on the pillow case next to Cole's body, but no one took a handprint from her body to see if it matched.
Months passed without a break in the case, and officers finally decided to exhume Cole's body to take prints.
Cloud Times. Grafft told the paper, "We already have seven unsolved murders in this county. I don't want it to become eight. I've been living with the pressure of the other unsolved murders 24 hours a day since I took office. With this new murder, the pressure is even worse. Despite all these unsolved cases, the sheriff rejected the idea that something was wrong with Stearns County in particular.
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Grafft got to the dead-end road shortly after 10 p. He tried to reassure Jacob's parents, then he summoned volunteers from the fire department to search the woods next to the road with flashlights. By the time the firefighters arrived, it was about p. Jacob had been missing for about 90 minutes. The circle was expanding. Ed Merkling, one of the firefighters who searched that night, said they walked in a straight line, one next to the other, about an arm's length apart. A sheriff's deputy with a shotgun went with them.
Grafft also called the state crime bureau and asked for a helicopter with a spotlight to search the area. The helicopter flew so low it almost clipped the power lines. After an hour and a half of searching, there was still no sign of Jacob or the abductor. However, searchers on the ground did spot some shoeprints in the gravel driveway next to the abduction site.
One of the prints looked like it came from an adult-sized shoe. The other print was smaller. They also found a set of tire tracks in the driveway near the prints. It wasn't clear whether the tracks had any connection to the crime. The boys hadn't seen a car, and it's not as though it's unusual to find tire tracks in a driveway. And if a car was involved, the logical question would be: Did anyone see it on the dead-end road that night? The long gravel driveway next to the spot where Jacob was abducted curves around and leads down to a farmhouse with a clothesline out front, a chicken coop and a grain silo.
Inside the farmhouse that night was a year-old man named Dan Rassier. He was home alone. Rassier was upstairs in his bedroom organizing his record collection when his dog Smokey started barking around 9 p. It was small and dark and the headlights were close together. Rassier didn't get a good look at the driver. He watched as the car turned around and headed back out toward the road. Then Rassier went to bed. But a little later Smokey started barking again, and Rassier woke up. He looked outside and saw flashlights shining around his family's woodpile.
He thought maybe somebody was trying to steal the firewood. As he opened the front door, his heart started pounding. He realized that there was no way he could take on a bunch of guys in the dark by himself. So he ran back in the house and called Rassier went outside, and as he walked up his driveway, he ran into Bechtold, the sheriff's deputy. They talked briefly.
Rassier offered to search the farm buildings, but he didn't find anything. No one paid any more attention to Rassier that night. No one knocked on his door. No one searched his house. Dan Rassier was just the neighbor. For the next 27 years, investigators would claim that they knocked on every one of the doors on that dead-end road that night.
Patrick Zirpoli, a former law enforcement officer who consults on child abduction cases across the country, told me that officers should know that they need to talk to the neighbors right away. Vernon Geberth, a law enforcement trainer and former N. Geberth didn't want to comment specifically on the Wetterling case because he hasn't seen the investigative file, but he told me it's hard to overstate how important it is to talk to the neighbors right away.
A lot of people don't realize they may have seen something significant, he said. It happens so often that there's even a term for these people: unknowing witnesses. They don't remember everything correctly. You've got to get out there and talk to people and find out what the hell is going on. I asked Geberth how long it's been a routine practice of law enforcement to canvass the neighborhood. When I asked the initial investigators on the Wetterling case whether officers canvassed the neighborhood thoroughly that night, they all said the same thing: Yes.
I mean, these detectives ask those questions," said retired FBI agent Al Garber , who worked the case in the early months. We tried to reach about people who had lived on the dead-end road in Some of them had died. And of course, after 27 years, people's memories are going to be a little fuzzy. We interviewed 26 people. Only two said they clearly remember being interviewed by law enforcement that night. Some people remembered being interviewed days or weeks later.
Others said they had never been questioned. Jim Klein lived on the dead-end road in , a bit closer to town. On the night of the abduction, he was in his garage working on a car, and he saw the boys returning from the store. Erica and Adam Sundquist don't remember talking to the police that night either.