More than 40,000 pages of documents were released Thursday, and 4,000 of those pages were left out because a judge ordered them to be returned to the FBI. On the way home, Jacob was abducted at gunpoint by a masked man who ordered the other boys to run. THE DEFENDANT: Nothing, none at that time -- well, yes, there was a tree growing in that -- excuse me. It doesn't necessarily get easier, you, I guess, just learn how to live life," said Amy. He took the 11-year-old Jacob with him and told the other boys to run into the nearby woods or he would shoot them. MR. SCHLEICHER: Do you recall what their answers were? I stepped out of my car. And all of your actions that you took were voluntary of your own free will, is that right? Jerry thinks Ill probably talk, but I may need some coaching, Wetterling said. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Everybody was looking at everybody else: Was it you? It makes no sense, Patty Wetterling said during an interview Tuesday afternoon. For the past nine months, Jared has worked with Baker to try encourage witnesses to come forward. THE DEFENDANT: Yes. I need to clarify a few things. "I can't imagine anybody questioning that?" Please enter valid email address to continue. "We can't change what happened, but we can learn from it," Gudmundson said. Jacob Wetterlings younger sister Carmen is afraid of helicopters, cant stand to be alone and struggles to answer the question How many brothers and sisters do you have?, When older sister Amy closes her eyes at night, she sees an innocent young boy, cold and afraid, in those last moments of his life.. If you have any tips about JacobWetterling's whereabouts, please call 320-251-4240. We know what happened and when and where, but we dont know why. Please enter valid email address to continue. In a 1990 lineup to which Heinrich consented, the boy from Cold Spring does not pick him out. I dont like that juveniles are on a registry for life - thats not what we designed it to be, she said. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. MR. SCHLEICHER: With the touching, this was something you compelled him to do? Heinrich said he was truly sorry for my evil acts that I have committed against the victims and their families and the shame that I caused, brought onto myself and my family., Mr. Trevor Wetterling, the younger brother of Danny Heinrich, was also present when the boys were instructed to drop their bicycles into a ditch and lie face down on the ground by Danny Heinrich. MR. SCHLEICHER: Can you, as best you recall, tell us about what time that was that you would have --. I raised the revolver again and shot him again, and that's when he fell to the ground. THE DEFENDANT: I had to go to the bathroom. You could see his red jacket. Someone sent a photograph of Jacob's name painted in large letters on the Berlin wall, and enclosed a chunk of the wall for Jacob when he gets home. I feel like we owe the whole world a thank you, but its going to take a while. Correction. Amy's sister, Carmen, 8, does not fully understand what has happened, Mrs. Wetterling said, yet understands some things in ways that no 8-year-old child should have to understand. In the interview, Hart tells investigators that Heinrich asked him how to get rid of a body. "We want to get this case solved," Rassier said. I was the coward that left my friend, I was the coward that ran away. He said he and Patty spent thousands of dollars hiring psychics and private investigators and that their marriage suffered. Some parents here now barely let their children out of their sight. Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, which works to help communities and families prevent child exploitation, and Patty Wetterling became a national advocate for children. Once the case was reopened in 2015, the police reinterviewed several witnesses and even reexamined the evidence they had already collected. MR. SCHLEICHER: What was your purpose in returning to the site? MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Nearly 30 years since Jacob Wetterling's abduction,authorities have released most of the files related to the investigation. The book was unveiled at a U.S. Department of Justice ceremony May 18 in Washington, D.C. where Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was the keynote speaker. A BCA agent asked him to confess. Six days after the kidnapping, law enforcement searched the farm. "When I first saw them, there was a big sigh that I am not the only one who had made eye contact with this person," Jared said. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- WCCO-TV has learned that a key piece of evidence in the Jacob Wetterling abduction -- a 911 call -- was never saved. "That is what I told police from the beginning.". Trevor Wetterling has been waiting for answers since he saw a stranger take off with his brother, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling, in October 1989. They should be chasing butterflies.'' For nearly 45 minutes on Monday morning, Danny Heinrichs victims approached the podium in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis and spoke of the sorrow, anguish and pain he inflicted on them. While Trevor and his sisters, Amy and Carmen, wait for answers to what happened to Jacob, the siblings have helped produce a survivors guide and video for other children whose siblings have been abducted. "And I remember laughing, going 'You've got to be kidding.'". Trevor Wetterling was just 10 years old when his older brother Jacob was abducted at gunpoint in 1989 near the family's home in St. Joseph, Minn. She said she is still deciding what to do next. And I got on the interstate and headed north to Albany. Please enter valid email address to continue. Baker had uncovered newspaper articles about a series of sexual assaults in Paynesville in 1986 and 1987, two years before Jacob Wetterling and Jared's kidnappings. bloomingdale football tickets; party wear saree with stitched blouse The kids didnt have school the next day. ''The number of calls has diminished.''. Please enable javascript and refresh the page to continue reading local news. "There is an unknown, we really can't think differently until there is proof.". I camouflaged the area with grass and brush. A lot of police activity started coming over the radio, so I decided I would head back to my home town of Paynesville. Heinrich also had to confess in court to kidnapping and sexually assaulting 12-year-old Jared Scheierl in Cold Spring on Jan. 13, 1989, nine months before he abducted and killed Jacob. But a local man who police wrongly suspected of taking Jacob approached the Wetterlings after Jacobs memorial service at the College of St. Benedict on Sept. 25 and said he was angry with the plea bargain because he wanted this guy locked up forever or hung, Patty Wetterling said. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Nearly 30 years since Jacob Wetterling's abduction, authorities have released most of the files related to the investigation. nose. In October 2015, Heinrich is arrested on child pornography charges, In August 2016, Heinrich provides a statement regarding Wetterling's abduction and murder. Before he read his statement, Jerry Wetterling thanked Heinrich for coming forward and showing authorities where Jacob was buried. MR. SCHLEICHER: All right. I may need some help. Through it all, the couple said they are proud their marriage has stayed strong. Trevor talked about his frustration when he heard police investigators question whether he was telling the truth about the abductor carrying a gun. I got out. Heinrich was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Monday, two months after confessing to abducting, molesting and killing 11-year-old Jacob nearly three decades ago in central Minnesota. But the reality is, he never told anybody, Jerry Wetterling said. After he finishes serving his criminal sentence, Heinrich is expected to be civilly committed as a sex offender because what he did was so heinous and so brutal and awful that its unlikely that society will let (him) go free, Tunheim said. Jacobs brother was told to run, not to turn around for fear of being shot, but to run for a nearby wooded area. Concluded Tunheim: No one is ever going to forget October 22nd of 1989, but we will move forward, and I know that were in a better place as a society because of the commitment that the Wetterling family has made to Jacob and to protecting other children.. ''And I don't know how to answer him,'' she went on, her eyes welling with tears, ''except to tell him that he's got to get through the fourth grade.''. I, I loaded it with two rounds. Trevor Wetterling, a 10-year-old Minnesota boy, grew up alongside his brother Jacob and shared an excellent bond with his family. Its like they can never change, but kids change all the time, every day. MR. SCHLEICHER: What happened when you pulled the vehicle into the area near the gravel pit? "He thought he was Jacob, he had amnesia and all that and that was, I mean it was hopeful, 'cause that's the only explanation I can really have right now as to why he hasn't come home, you know, other than the worst possible situation. They hope that someone will contact law enforcement and lead them to Jacob. This has never been easy. Concluding the conference, Gudmundson admitted that the Wetterling investigation was badly botched -- an allegation many have long suspected. So I figured, I remembered there was a construction company next door. They did. It is not normal to miss so much school in the fourth grade to have to hire a tutor to catch you up to speed and have your parents lobby to the teacher not to hold you back. Trevor is doing the best he can. But they didnt have anything evidentiary to arrest him. Had he not told us where Jacob was, I dont know that we ever would have found him, Patty Wetterling said. Thus, they searched the suspects house and arrested him after recovering multiple binders full of child pornography pictures from the property. You can read the sibling survival guide and watch the video by going to these links. MR. SCHLEICHER: So you dug up as many of the remains as you could gather? / CBS Minnesota. He admitted abducting Wetterling near the boy's home in the central Minnesota community of St. Joseph on Oct. 22, 1989. It's been almost 18 years since Jacob was abducted by a masked gunman as he, his brother and a friend biked home from a trip to a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minn. Three weeks ago, Trevor and his family hopes were renewed when a young man from Kentucky called Jacob's parents, claiming to be their missing son. I -- oh, I should say I didn't return with my car. I just wish you had more common sense. . I walked back to the scene then. MR. SCHLEICHER: After you dug the grave with the Bobcat, what did you do? She has won numerous journalism awards, including the Premack Award and the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists' Page One Award. I had a bag with me, a garbage bag. The crime also spurred new federal laws requiring states to create sex-offender registries. In return, Heinrich will not be prosecuted for murder, which has no statute of limitations, and 24 other counts of pornography have been dropped. I put a mask on. Just months ago, Rassier found out the deputy he talked to was Bruce Bechtold, who is now the chief deputy for Stearns County. MR. SCHLEICHER: Can you describe the area, please? This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. For the next 14 years, investigators did not focus on Rassier. Hence, they cycled to a nearby video rental store and were returning home at around 9 PM when Danny James Heinrich spotted them and ambushed them in a secluded part of the road. He said a BCA agent told him, "they are saying you were way too nervous, way too upset to be concerned about some wood being stolen.". Sadly, he had to revisit the ordeal in his mind, hoping for a lead to Jacobs safe return. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. You showed law enforcement the location of that second grave site as best you were able, is that right? Losing Jacob was hard enough, but for this man to hold this secret for almost 27 years and continue to be free is, as Jacob would say, entirely not fair, said younger brother Trevor Wetterling. He hadn't fallen. When Heinrich stepped out of the woods, he asked the boys their ages and then ordered Larson and Trevor Wetterling to run to the woods and not look back. Heinrich confessed to grabbing Scheirel, throwing him into his car, sexually assaulting him and then leaving him on rural road without his pants or underwear. The abduction happened at about 9:15 p.m. Larson and Trevor Wetterling ran the -mile back to the Wetterling home. THE DEFENDANT: I walked back home and threw his tennis shoes into a ravine about another 100 yards down the road. The Wetterlings and other siblings also shared their feelings in a video also released by the Department of Justice. I wrestle with the Why? of all this. MR. SCHLEICHER: Could you please describe what you saw when you drove by the site? THE DEFENDANT: Not right offhand, I don't, no. MINNEAPOLIS - When Patty Wetterling has the chance to talk face to face with the man who abducted and killed her son, she wants to know one thing: Why? Heinrich last month confessed to abducting, sexually assaulting and fatally shooting 11-year-old Jacob on Oct. 22, 1989, in central Minnesota. Mrs. Wetterling travels to give talks about missing children, and tries to keep her son's name and photograph in the public eye. He didn't know what I was doing. and Mrs. Wetterling, the heinous acts, the selfishness are unforgivable for what I have taken away from you. I told them to get into the ditch with their bicycles. When returning home, the trio was ambushed by Danny Heinrich, who allowed Trevor and Aaron to escape but ended up abducting, sexually abusing, and murdering Jacob in cold blood. He plans to work full time until hes 70. "He was basically saying, we don't have anything on you but would you admitwe could end this and you admit that you did this," Rassier said. #24,655 Missing Since '84 Mrs. Wetterling said it was important for children to understand that a kidnapping like Jacob's - an armed stranger lurking in the background - was not common. Federal prison cant be a happy place to be, but its well deserved. Heinrich, who took Jacob less than a mile from his home in St. Joseph, was questioned in 1989 and 1990 about the boys disappearance, but he denied any involvement. MR. SCHLEICHER: Mr. Heinrich, at some point approximately a year later, did you return to the site where you had buried Jacob Wetterling's body? I placed as many his jacket, his bones, his skull into that bag to move. MR. SCHLEICHER: Fairly close to the original place where you had buried Jacob Wetterling the year before? The couple has six grandchildren, ranging in age from 2 to 12. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. I pulled into a driveway, passed -- after they passed me, turned around and faced the direction of the road that they would be coming back on. Jared, speaking publicly for the first time in years, told WCCO-TV's Esme Murphy, "This guy stepped out of a vehicle, said 'I have a gun I am not afraid to use it. Still, he was Trevor was surprised to learn that authorities had questioned him shortly after Jacobs disappearance but were forced to let him go for lack of evidence. MR. SCHLEICHER: Okay. MR. SCHLEICHER: You told him that you had to go to the bathroom? MR. SCHLEICHER: After Jacob Wetterling fell to the ground, at some point did you check and find that in fact he was dead? MR. SCHLEICHER: Obviously you were arrested sometime after the search warrant was executed at your Annandale residence. Are we doing what we set out to do? ''Your letter and your words of anguish over the abduction of your precious Jacob tore my heart,'' Mrs. Bush wrote. Cloud, that direction, but we headed west on that road. "I was told to run don't look back or he would shoot," Jared said. I figure I've got to move it. I unhandcuffed him. But many have likely never heard of Jared. "The person in the area who probably did this could have taken Jacob's body and hidden it in our gravel pit," Rassier told Patty Wetterling. I dug a hole with the trenching tool about two feet deep. At sentencing, apology from Jacob Wetterlings killer rings hollow He was riding his bicycle with his friend Aaron and brother Trevor about 9:15 p.m. Oct. 22, 1989, when Heinrich, masked and armed, abducted him from a rural road near the Wetterling home in St. Joseph. He does not want to go to school. He lived as he still does, on a farm with his elderly parents, who were in Europe that night he was home alone. The Wetterlings believe someone knows what happened to Jacob and provide them with answers. So I said, Okay. First published on May 14, 2013 / 10:41 PM. Tennis shoes came off when I put him into the grave, so I threw them -- I didn't bury them with him in the grave. Trevor later mentioned that he never saw his brother alive again, and his deceased body was recovered in 2016. She is a graduate of Carleton College and lives in St. Paul with her husband, Greg Myers, and their three children, Henry, Frances and Fred. After you were finished, you indicated that Mr. Wetterling said something? MR. SCHLEICHER: And secured. He lived in absolute silence after he took Jacob - and thats a lot. MR. SCHLEICHER: And can you describe what you recall clothing he was wearing? She reminded the abductor that he, like Jacob, had once been an 11-year-old boy, and that something very wrong must have happened to him. That's correct. Read Part 1: New Developments Revealed In Wetterling Abduction Case, First published on May 15, 2014 / 6:45 PM. For years, the case attracted national attention and dominated headlines. THE DEFENDANT: I told Trevor and Aaron to run away, not look back or I would shoot, and I took Jacob back to my car. THE DEFENDANT: A Regency 50-channel scanner. We headed not to Main Street, but back to, I don't know, Highway 75, whatever, that runs back to St. He couldnt have our marriage. First published on September 8, 2016 / 12:17 PM. 1:07 For nearly 27 years, Patty Wetterling has asked a simple question to a world that has watched in pain and, until recently, in vain: "Where's Jacob?" Trevor, who is 10 years old, does not sleep well anymore. THE DEFENDANT: I drove as close as I could to a grove of trees. "I think it's time for people to share their stories," Baker said. There is no mention of Heinrich following his release until background investigations are noted in March and April of 1990. That's correct. MR. SCHLEICHER: Did you see anything else in the area that caught your attention that would have been by the grave site? I reached for my revolver. Are they tied to Jacob? No one said all this stuff was going to be peaches and pumpkins all the time - and its not. This family died a death of a thousand cuts, and this man let that happen, year after year. Jacob, the second of the Wetterlings four children, was in the sixth grade in October 1989. THE DEFENDANT: I left him, and I went home. I dont know what else to say. We need our answers.". MR. SCHLEICHER: All right. I asked their names,their ages. MR. SCHLEICHER: You had a shovel with you? / CBS Minnesota. I was the last person who cared about Jacob to see him, to be right next to him, and I just left him. "I do think there is a strong possibility they could be connected," she said. Even though Trevor was already dealing with his brothers disappearance, law enforcement officials kept asking him for a specific description of the abductor. MR. SCHLEICHER: Okay. THE DEFENDANT: I placed Jacob in the grave, and then I covered it back up with the Bobcat. ''We don't know yet the probabilities that are involved in child abductions,'' Ms. Cartwright said. Still, he was willing to cooperate with the investigation in any way possible and hoped that his brothers killer would eventually be brought to justice. In the video, Amy talked about facing Jacob's birthdays without knowing where he was. Danny Heinrich Now: Where is Kidnapper and Killer Today. / CBS Minnesota. Investigators quickly ruled him out and the investigation took a dramatic turn: Investigators concluded Jacob's kidnapper had been on foot. When we got out of St. Joe, I told him he could sit back up. I gathered up as much as I could and put it into the bag and transported it across the highway there to his final resting spot. Minnesota, and then from Roscoe, I headed east or west on 23 to Paynesville. September 20, 2018 / 5:49 PM Trevor later called his parents at the party and asked if the boys could bike and scooter up to the Tom Thumb convenience store to rent a video. Jacob has not been seen since. A victim from the Paynesville incidentscame to the sheriff's office less than 48 hours after Wetterling's abduction to say he believes the Paynesville assaults and Wetterling's disappearance are related. On his birthday, Feb. 17, hundreds of people gathered at the banks of Lake George, in nearby St. I opened the door for Jacob. In January, he returned to work nearly full time. Kidnapping Sows Suspicion in Trusting Town, https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/29/us/kidnapping-sows-suspicion-in-trusting-town.html, Dirk Johnson, Special To the New York Times. Trevor was surprised to learn that authorities had questioned him shortly after Jacobs disappearance but were forced to let him go for lack of evidence. You can feel somebody might be guilty, but how much can you legally do? The Stearns County Sheriff's Office declined to comment on why the 911 call was never saved and said Bech, thechiefdeputy, was not available for an interview. THE DEFENDANT: I dragged him off about 100 yards off to the north of the site where I shot him. In the following days, the former was forced to relive the nightmarish tragedy multiple times as the police kept questioning him about the days events. Aaron Larson felt so much guilt about what happened on the night of Oct. 22, 1989, the night that Danny Heinrich abducted, molested and killed his best friend Jacob, that he left the state and later left the country. I hated how I left him.. After an interview with Duane Hart in 1991, who was a convicted sex offender in custody at a Minnesota correctional facility and was a suspect in several of the abduction cases, there was no mention of Heinrich in the files for more than 20 years. Wetterling Siblings Reach Out To Other Kids. I took his jacket out of the bag. "He grabbed Jacob and he told me to run as fast as I could into the woods or else he would shoot," Larson said. Rassier says after hesearched the buildings on the farm property and returned to the farmhouse, law enforcement was everywhere. Get into the vehicle.'". "I sometimes have dreams about it that I don't really remember," said Trevor. Under a plea agreement approved by the Wetterlings, Heinrich confessed to Jacobs kidnapping, sexual assault and shooting and agreed to lead authorities to the boys body. In return, Heinrich will not be prosecuted for murder, which has no statute of limitations, and 24 other counts of pornography have been dropped. This is a crime scene. During all these years, every decision I made in life revolved around Jacob, and the guilt I felt because I was still here. About 100 yards up that road, there is an approach and -- to a field next to a grove of trees. 7 / 7: Patty Wetterling speaks as her son Trevor leans his head on his father Jerry's shoulder, during a press conference where the team of prosecutors talked about WebBackground details that you might want to know about Trevor include: ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is unknown; and religious views are listed as Christian. Please enter valid email address to continue. I touched his penis. "If you are a sibling going through this, that they know that they are not alone," said Carmen. MR. SCHLEICHER: Did you handcuff him behind his back? He took the lie detector test, but said he has never been told the results. I lived every day thinking I was the monster that night. Rassier said. The Wetterling siblings -- Trevor, Amy and Carmen -- and their parents were on hand May 18 in Washington, D.C. when the guidebook was released by the U.S. Department of Justice. On the way out of St. Joe, I had the scanner on. In January, he returned to work nearly full time. 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Indeed, of the 24,655 children reported missing in the United States since 1984, fewer than 1 in 25 were taken by someone other than a family member, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Approximately 20 minutes or so later, they came back. The nine siblings said they developed a strong bond as they shared their stories which were included in the book. Jacob's father, Jerry Wetterling, a chiropractor, did not return to work for five weeks after his son was taken. During an interview at St. Marks Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis, the Wetterlings covered a variety of topics, including the death penalty, their relationship and It went off. Its never easy. Patty Wetterling said divorce wasnt an option. On September 6th, he made a full confession detailing the kidnap, sexual assault, murder, and disposal of Jacob Wetterling. So I thought I would go over there and see if I could find a shovel, or else it would have taken me hours to dig the grave with a little shovel. We need to revisit some of that. But then he said he had to let that go because he finally recognized, we caught the bogeyman, she said. From Albany, I got off the interstate and hit another country -- county road that went to Roscoe, Jacob has not been seen since. ''Keep fighting, shouting and keep on hoping.''. He has talked a lot with the family counselor, who has made sure to stress that Trevor should feel no guilt about what happened to Jacob, a reaction his parents had feared. The Wetterlings said it was comforting to see how much they had in common with the other siblings who came from opposite ends of the country. Little kids shouldn't be worrying about a bad man out there somewhere. We werent going to let that guy take anything more. Anyone can read what you share. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. I said, Don't cry. "I think we still have birthday presents in our garage wrapped up for Jacob from the first few years," she said. She said she misses her sons touch, smell, smile, laughter, jokes, questions and zest for life. On the way I said -- Are you taking me home? It was late at night again, probably around midnight, with a flashlight. MR. SCHLEICHER: So you were sober, correct? If there is any pain as crushing as the abduction of a child, it is the relentless, numbing anxiety that comes with the uncertainty of each day. MR. SCHLEICHER: And this was a fairly remote area, is that right? Amy and Carmen are both married now and Amy has two young daughters. Wetterling is the boy who grew up only through computer enhancement. I would just simply like to say to him: There is nothing uncommon about common sense. Theres a sadness that I didnt have. "They brought me to a point where I broke down, just mentally broke down. Vegetation or --. This fall marks the 18 years since a stranger abducted 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling from his home in rural St. Joseph, Minn. '', A letter from Barbara Bush arrived the other day. Rassier also told Wetterling where he thought a body could be hidden on his property. If you have any information about the Paynesville attacks or the Wetterling case, please call the Stearns County Sheriff at (320) 251-4240. "We all came together and realized how similar our experiences were," said Carmen. A masked stranger grabbed the 11-year-old as he biked home from a store in St. Joseph on October 22, 1989. "I apologize to the victims and people that we have already talked to, that we are going to talk to about bringing up 27-year-old repressed memories," he said. His courage against the demons of his past is truly inspiring, and we hope he remains happy in the years to come. He just wanted to go home. MR. SCHLEICHER: Did he make any statements to you at that time? I dont want to do that, Patty Wetterling said. As a rational person, you try to figure it out, but this one you cant, because it makes no sense. Wetterling will have a chance to address Danny Heinrich, 53, of Annandale, when he is sentenced in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Nov. 21. ''The class will be reading a story, and Trevor will say: 'Who cares about this? Even when, and if, we do have resolution, it is always going to be a big part of our lives," said Amy. ''I'm sure he's taller now. The Wetterlings said Tuesday that police did all they could at the time. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. And then you returned home? "It doesn't go away. He then demanded that the three boys tell He faces a federal prison sentence of 20 years and a possible civil commitment after that. It is the ending of a chapter. Jerry Wetterling said Patty is struggling with whether to talk in court because she doesnt want to give Heinrich more power. Well, if I really say the impact that he had, it makes him sound like some big guy, and hes not worth it, she said. What caliber and type was it? He described it as very similar to the car in which he was abducted, rating it as an 8 or 9 out of 10 in similarity. Added sister Amy: The worst part is that for nearly 27 years he let us believe that we would someday be able to see Jacob again. There somewhere thats not what we set out to do as close as could! 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