Why did Jacob Wetterling have to die? Book of Job

Twenty seven years later, the killer confesses to the murder of an 11 year boy.

Giving graphic details in a Minnesota courtroom, Heinrich laid to rest a 27-year-old mystery: What happened to Jacob in 1989 after he was abducted by a masked man holding a gun?

Danny Heinrich (Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Heinrich admitted in court Tuesday that he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed the boy.

Now 53, Heinrich made the admission as he pleaded guilty to federal child ography charges, the Associated Press reported.

He told the court that he sexually assaulted the boy in a rural area of Paynesville, near where the assailant lived with his father.

During the assault, Heinrich told the court that Jac