Police to look into man’s abduction claim from late 1950s

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Racine Police say they’ll dig into their records from the late 1950s, and see if there’s anything to a man’s claim that he was abducted from the city zoo and that his kidnappers made him kill two boys.

That’s the story Vernon Seitz gave for years to his psychiatrist, Victoria Fetter.

In November, Seitz said he wanted to meet with police and admit to the killings.

But he died last month before he could do that and police later found strange items at his Milwaukee home that included child pornography, bondage devices, and news stories about young children.

There was also a poster and a video about Jacob Wetterling, the Minnesota boy abducted in 1989 and never seen since.

But Milwaukee Police said there was no evidence Seitz was involved in Wetterling’s kidnapping or any other child abductions or murders.

Racine Police Lt. Jim Dobbs says he doesn’t think Seitz was involved in any killings, either. But he’s assigned an investigator to make sure.

Dobbs said if Seitz’s claims were true, a victim’s relative would have come forward by now.

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