How to attend Jacob Wetterling鈥檚 memorial service

By St. Paul Pioneer Press

September 17, 2016 at 7:14 AM

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. -- The Jacob Wetterling memorial service next weekend in St. Joseph, will be open to the public, but advance RSVPs are required.

The service will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at the College of St. Benedict in Wetterling鈥檚 hometown. Space will be limited and guests should sign in at to get specific information on the location and parking.

St. Joseph is hosting the Millstream Arts Festival that same day, so organizers anticipate significant traffic in the small town.

The memorial service will be live-streamed at for anyone who wants to watch it from home.

Jacob, the 11-year-old son of Patty and Jerry Wetterling, was abducted from a road near their St. Joseph home Oct. 22, 1989.

Almost 27 years later, Danny Heinrich, 53, of Annandale, Minn., led investigators to Jacob鈥檚 body and confessed Sept. 6 to kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing Jacob. He will be sentenced Nov. 21.

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How to attend Jacob Wetterling鈥檚 memorial service

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. -- The Jacob Wetterling memorial service next weekend in St. Joseph, will be open to the public, but advance RSVPs are required. The service will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at the College of St. Benedict in Wetterling'...