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Annandale, Minn.
Home of Jacob Wetterling’s killer is razed
A small white house that belonged to Jacob Wetterling’s killer has come crashing down.
Woodbury real estate developer Tim Thone bought the former home of Danny Heinrich
specifically to destroy it. While Heinrich is now in prison, his empty house was a distressing
reminder to the central Minnesota community of Annandale that the man who killed 11-year-
old Jacob in October 1989 had lived among them.
Jacob’s mother, Patty Wetterling, was in the crowd Friday to watch a crew use heavy
machinery to tear the house down.
The unsolved kidnapping of the St. Joseph boy haunted Minnesota for decades. Authorities
searched Heinrich’s home and arrested him on child pornography charges last year as they
took a fresh look at the case. As part of a plea bargain, the 53-year-old Heinrich publicly
confessed in September to abducting, sexually assaulting and fatally shooting Wetterling.
Heinrich will spend at least 17 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
After that, he could face indefinite confinement as a sexual predator.
Thone said the idea hit him Dec. 10 as he watched a TV news show. The story was about the
Wetterling case, and included a brief shot of Heinrich’s house, which was for sale.
“I thought, ‘That house just can’t be there,’ ” Thone said.
The cost of the project was about $74,000.
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