# Without Googling, do you know who I'm talking about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368 "2011-07-17T19:49:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/21 "2011-07-18T03:21:34Z")
No idea. With a name like “Jacob Wetterling”, I expected some kind of German or Austrian philosopher. I’m in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/22 "2011-07-18T03:28:50Z")
No clue. 27 years old, southwest Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/23 "2011-07-18T04:04:55Z")
SE Michigan. No idea. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/24 "2011-07-18T04:43:53Z")
Chicago. No. But I don’t expect Minnesotans to know who Tionda and Diamond Bradley are either. ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/25 "2011-07-18T05:37:52Z")
Yes. I grew up in northeast Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/26 "2011-07-18T06:20:40Z")
140 to 9. I think you’ve got your answer. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/27 "2011-07-18T07:47:44Z")
No. Lived all my life in N. California. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/28 "2011-07-18T08:54:11Z")
No idea (I’m in the UK). Only time I’ve heard the surname is referencing a popular [Swedish axe](http://www.wetterlings.se/the/index.php) manufacturer. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/29 "2011-07-18T10:15:17Z")
Nope. Northwest Arkansas. But I also never remember the names of these people who are abducted or killed. Jon Benet Ramsey is probably the last one I can still recall, unless you for some reason count Baby Jessica. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/30 "2011-07-18T11:10:59Z")
No, UK. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/31 "2011-07-18T14:21:56Z")
Yes. I was born in 1983 and grew up an hour away from where he was abducted. I’m pretty sure his mom spoke at my elementary school once. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/32 "2011-07-18T14:28:27Z")
Yup, grew up in Brooklyn Park and remember going down 169 and seeing a larger poster with a picture of him on it for the longest time. > [@Trom](#): > > Yes. > > I was born in 1983 and grew up an hour away from where he was abducted. I’m pretty sure his mom spoke at my elementary school once. His mom ran (and lost) against Michele Bachmann. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/33 "2011-07-18T14:51:57Z")
I live in Minnesota now, lived in Wisconsin growing up. Of course I’ve heard of him - I think he’d be my brother’s age, actually. And it’s truly too bad that his mom didn’t defeat batshit crazy Bachman when she ran against her. Not sure that Patty Wetterling woulda been a great Congresscritter, but way better than the alternative. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/34 "2011-07-18T14:55:00Z")
Holy cats. Totally wrong on the age - turns out, Wetterling is a year-and-a-half younger than I am, and is my husband’s age instead. Huh. Remembered that he was abducted in '89, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/35 "2011-07-18T15:08:05Z")
It didn’t reach here, or at least I hadn’t heard of the case. Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/36 "2011-07-18T15:13:02Z")
Not to stray too far from the OP, but have any of you heard of [Ann Gotlib](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Gotlib)? That was a huge abduction case from early 1980s, and according to the wiki page, had a major impact on how child-abduction cases are handled: > [@](#): > > Due to the startling way Gotlib vanished in broad daylight without any trace, it was a key case that lead the United States Congress to create the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 1984 to coordinate departments involved in missing persons cases. The center credits the Gotlib case with increasing national awareness of missing and abducted children and revolutionizing how missing-child cases are handled. One new technique that came out of the investigation was the use of billboards and other tactics to generate widespread awareness of a missing person, which was considered foolish by conventional wisdom at the time.[2] ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/37 "2011-07-18T15:26:45Z")
Never heard of him. I’m in Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/38 "2011-07-18T16:09:47Z")
Ireland, and I’ve never heard of him Should I have? ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/39 "2011-07-18T18:29:53Z")
Northern midwest and yes. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368/40 "2011-07-18T19:23:54Z")
I knew the name instantly, but it took a while to remember why. But I grew up in South Dakota and was 13 when he was abducted so I don’t expand the area of knowledge much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-googling-do-you-know-who-im-talking-about/589368.md?page=3)