Saturday morning, Scheierl told KARE 11's Karla Hult, "My heart goes out to the Wetterling family in all of this.” 
 
 Dan Rassier, a Cold Springs music teacher and neighbor to the Wetterling family, told Lowe on Saturday the news of Wetterling's remains brings mixed emotions. “We have no words.” 
 
 Jacob was snatched off his bike, half a mile from his home, by a masked man with a gun on a dark October night. At the time of Wetterling’s abduction, Heinrich lived in Paynesville, about 30 miles southwest of St. Joseph, with his father. The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the FBI, the Stearns County Attorney’s Office and the United States Attorney’s Office are currently in the process of reviewing and evaluating new evidence in the Jacob Wetterling investigation. Additional DNA testing will be conducted by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The Sheriff’s Office said authorities are “reviewing and evaluating new evidence” and expect to provide more details later this week. Patty Wetterling took to Twitter Saturday afternoon saying, "Our family is drawing strength from all your love & support." “We’re struggling with words at this time. Ellie Quarry, of rural Little Falls, who lived in St. Joseph at the time of the abduction, said of Patty Wetterling, “She held out hope right to the very end. On the evening of Oct. 22, 1989, he was riding his bike with his brother, Trevor, 10, and best friend, Aaron Larson, 11, on a remote dirt road near the family’s home in rural St. Joseph. The man threatened the other two boys at gunpoint and told them to run into the woods and never look back -- or they would be shot. They did not say where exactly the remains were found. When the boys did, both Jacob and the masked man were gone. A chilling similarity 
 
 Nine months before Jacob’s disappearance, Jared Scheierl, a 12-year-old from nearby Cold Spring, was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man who then released him with the warning “not to look back or he would be shot.” 
 
 Heinrich was questioned by investigators soon after Jacob was abducted and several times in 1990. "It’s a miracle they found his remains, but I’ve always hoped that Jacob would be found alive.” 
 
 Rassier came under a cloud of unwanted attention when authorities dug up his family farm and searched the farmhouse and as well as Rassier's bedroom, looking for information in the Wetterling case. Danny Heinrich (Credit: KARE 11) 
 
 Last October that DNA evidence found at Heinrich's property conclusively linked Heinrich to the January 1989 abduction and assault on Jared Scheierl. Last October, authorities announced they were unable to prosecute Heinrich in Scheierl’s case because the statute of limitations had run out. They recovered 19 three-ring binders of child pornography, and a DNA sample tying Heinrich to the kidnapping and sexual assault of another Stearns County boy from the same time period of Jacob's abduction. Authorities said there was even more child pornography on Heinrich’s computer hard drive. Danny Heinrich remains incarcerated, awaiting trial next month on child pornography charges. Held on to hope 
 
 As the years passed, the Wetterlings never gave up hope. RELATED: Patty Wetterling writes to Jacob on birthday #jacobshope — Patricia Wetterling (@pattywetterling) September 3, 2016 
 
 The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center released a statement on its Facebook page saying, "We are in deep grief. We didn’t want Jacob’s story to end this way ... Our hearts are heavy, but we are being held up by all of the people who have been a part of making Jacob’s Hope a light that will never be extinguished. It shines on in a different way. “It’s a very sad situation, and I feel for the Wetterling family," he told Lowe.
– The remains of a boy missing since 1989 appear to have been found this week in Minnesota, USA Today reports. While authorities aren't confirming the identify of the remains, Patty Wetterling and another source tell the Minneapolis Star Tribune the remains are those of Wetterling's son Jacob, who disappeared when he was 11. "Our hearts are broken," Wetterling says. "We have no words." The remains were found with information from Danny Heinrich, a 52-year-old man arrested last October on child pornography charges and a person of interest in Jacob's disappearance. "I am happy for them that they know, not that he’s passed, but at least they have closure," Heinrich's brother tells KARE. Jacob was on the way back from the store with his friend and brother in 1989 when they were accosted by a masked man with a gun. The man had the other boys run into the woods and is believed to have kidnapped Jacob. Heinrich says he had nothing to do with Jacob's disappearance, but DNA evidence tied him to the sexual assault of another boy around the same time and place. The statute of limitations has passed on that crime, so no charges were filed, but Heinrich became a person of interest in Jacob's disappearance due to similarities in the incidents. In the wake of his disappearance, Jacob's family created the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center for families of lost children. “We are in deep grief," the Star Tribune quotes a statement from the center. "We didn’t want Jacob’s story to end this way."