Sick Killer Reveals The Haunting Last Words Of 11-Year-Old Boy He Killed 27 Years Ago |PoliFocus

A Minnesota man has finally confessed to abducting and killing an 11-year-old boy nearly 27 years ago – recounting a crime that long haunted the US state in chilling detail.

Danny Heinrich admitted he abducted, sexually assaulted and shot Jacob Wetterling, of St Joseph, to death in 1989, then buried the boy’s body in a field in rural central Minnesota.


The 53-year-old made the admission on Tuesday as he pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge that could put him behind bars for decades.

The confession came as part of a plea agreementin which Heinrich will not face state murder charges in Jacob’s death.As part of the deal, Heinrich, who is described as a volatile man, led authorities to Jacob’s remains last week.

“This was not an opportunity we could pass up,” US Attorney Andy Luger explained. “After almost 27 years, Danny Heinrich was willing to talk, and we had to grab the moment.”

In chilling detail, Heinrich stood in court and calmly described how he abducted, molested and killed Jacob, as some members of the Wetterling family cried .Although his voice wavered at one point, he showed little emotion and expressed no remorse to authorities.

Heinrich said that on the night of the abduction, he saw Jacob, Jacob’s brother, and a friend cycling down a rural road near Jacob’s home. Heinrich laid in wait for the three to return, and when they did, he put on a mask and confronted them with a revolver.

Heinrich said he told the two other boys to run and not look back or he’d shoot.He said he then handcuffed Jacob forced him in his car.“What did I do wrong?” Jacob pleaded with Heinrich.

Heinrich said he drove Jacob to a gravel pit near Paynesville and assaulted him.Afterward, Jacob asked whether he was taking him home.“I said, ‘I can’t take you all the way home,'” Heinrich said.

“He started to cry. I said, ‘Don’t cry.'”Heinrich said at some point a patrol car with sirens and lights passing nearby caused him to panic. He said he pulled out his revolver, which had not been loaded, and put two rounds in the gun.

He told Jacob to turn around, held the gun to the boy’s head and pulled the trigger, he said. The gun didn’t fire. Heinrich then fired two shots. After the second, Jacob fell to the ground.

Heinrich said he went home for a couple of hours, then went back to the gravel pit and buried Jacob about 100 yards away.

He said he returned to the site about a year later and saw that Jacob’s jacket and some bones had become exposed, so he re-buried the remains.

Credit: SunUK 

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