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Sep 2016
49m 52s

Season 1, Episode 5: Person of Interest

The New Yorker
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Dan Rassier now wishes he'd insisted that police search his family's St. Joseph farm top to bottom the night Jacob Wetterling was abducted. That way, they would have known there was nothing to find. And it would have been harder for them to come back 21 years later to search with backhoes and declare him a "person of interest" in the case.  Learn m ... Show More
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