Photo: #Investigators use a tractor-mounted backhoe to dig just southeast of the Rassier farm in St. Joseph, Minn. Thursday, June 1, 2010. Crews have been digging up a portion of the yard at a rural St. Joseph farm near the site where Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989.
Photo: #A Stearns County dump truck left the farm that abuts the scene of Jacob Wetterling's abduction in 1989. Authorities have brought in excavating equipment in a search thought to be related to the kidnapping. But investigators say they won't discuss the matter publicly.

Authorities search for new clues in 1989 Wetterling disappearance

by Cathy Wurzer, Minnesota Public Radio,
Tim Nelson, Minnesota Public Radio
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Authorities spent two days searching a farm outside St. Joseph in central Minnesota. They were just yards from where 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint on a country road in 1989. Cathy Wurzer got the facts from reporter Tim Nelson, who was on the scene yesterday.

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