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Is Wetterling Person Of Interest Connected To A 1989 Arson?WCCO has uncovered new information about a lead investigators in the Jacob Wetterling case followed in 1990, and again this year.

Original FBI Investigator On Wetterling Case Speaks OutAl Garber, the FBI investigator who supervised the original Jacob Wetterling abduction case back in 1989, is speaking out for the first time since the arrest of Danny Heinrich -- a man investigators are calling a "person of interest" in the case.

Fmr. FBI Agent: Early Wetterling Investigation Was 'A Bad Mistake'A former FBI agent who supervised the Jacob Wetterling investigation says the agency botched how it first handled the man now considered a person of interest in the case. Al Garber wrote in his out-of-print 2009 memoir that the FBI's encounter with Danny Heinrich in 1990 was a "comedy of errors" and "a big mistake."