Revisiting a famous missing-child case, several dozen local and state law enforcement officers, with help from the FBI, descended unexpectedly on a MN farm this week to look for evidence in the 1989 disappearing of Francois Jacob Wetterling, then 11. By Th night, they’d completed their work, trucking out six dumper dozens of dirt. They gave no indication whether they’d found anything that might atomic number 82 them to Francois Jacob or an arrest, says the Minneapolis star Tribune.

The intensity level of the work — involving as many as seventeen cars or trucks – transfixed a state and raised hope that maybe, just maybe, research worker might hit on something. Stearns county government declined to remark about the case, locution a court order barred them from speech production One law enforcement official with knowledge of the probe described the continuing hunting try as “a shot in the dark.” Another functionary said the search was initiated by the work of two young agents who, after pickings a fresh look at the case file, said, “Maybe we should go take a look.” The functionary said no new tips sparked the search, adding that the research worker were simply workings off a hunch.