Patty Wetterling: “Where is Jacob?”

The parents of Jacob Wetterling say they have many questions about the man identified a “person of interest” in the case.

Patty and Jerry Wetterling gave brief statements outside their central Minnesota home, not far from where their 11-year-old son Jacob was abducted in 1989.

Last week, authorities identified 52-year-old Daniel Heinrich as a “person of interest” in Jacob’s disappearance, but refused to call him a suspect.

They say Heinrich has denied involvement.

He faces unrelated child pornography charges.

“We have as many questions or more as all of you.  We will let law enforcement and the courts and the process continue and watch impatiently for answers but the one question that we have said for 26 years is ‘where’s Jacob’?” asks Patty Wetterling, Jacob’s mother.  “Where is Jacob?”

Wetterling and her husband asked anyone with knowledge about the case to come forward.