City pages patty wetterling biography
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Patty Wetterling was 39 when her son Jacob was abducted in October 1989. She was a stay-at-home mom and former math teacher who had moved to St. Joseph with her husband, Jerry, to raise their children.
They lived in what she believed to be an idyllic setting, on a cul-de-sac outside a small city surrounded by birds and trees.
"We taught him that people are good," she said of her second child, just days after he went missing.
City pages patty wetterling biography
In early news footage, she appears stunned, on the verge of tears. "We worked for peace all our lives and this is a real violent act. I don't understand it." For the next 27 years, while several police agencies failed to find Jacob or his abductor, she continued to talk to anyone who would listen, trusting that by becoming the face of her family's grief, she would keep her son on people's minds and perhaps dislodge that one kernel of information that would bring him home.
Born in Omaha and raised in St.
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