On October 12th, 1989, Jacob Wetterling recorded a video for school in which he described himself. Jacob, eleven-years-old, described...

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On a steamy August day in 1999, people outside a movie theater in Springfield, Illinois, heard the cries of an infant inside a vehicle....

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On March 6th, 1995, twenty-four-year-old Jonathon Schmitz left his Michigan home to travel to Chicago. He was contacted by the Jenny...

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On the cold winter morning of January 18th, 1992, emergency dispatch received a 911 call from a man in Herrin, Illinois. He said there...

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