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JAN 14, 2019
Jayme Closs’ aunt taking steps to be her guardian, as suspect due in court today
Jayme Closs spent Saturday morning like a normal teenage girl — curled up on the couch, playing with her dog, Molly, after getting a long-overdue good night’s rest, said her aunt, Jennifer Smith.

Smith, whose sister was Jayme’s mother, Denise Closs, said she has always been close to Jayme. Smith, who lives in Barron, is Jayme’s godmother, and she saw Jayme frequently.

“We signed papers (Friday) for guardianship,” Smith said. “I did day care for her, for 12 years of her life.”

Jayme has her own room already set up in Smith’s home.

“(My family) went and purchased her a new bed, new sheets to make her feel comfortable, and decorated it for her,” Smith said.

Smith said the curtains in her house are shut, trying to shield Jayme from media and others who want to talk to her. Police are providing protection outside the home, too.

Smith said there are so many questions she wants to ask Jayme, such as if the girl was in Gordon the entire 88 days since she was abducted, or how Jayme was kept captive, or how she managed to escape Thursday afternoon from her suspected captor, 21year-old Jake Thomas Patterson. But she isn’t pushing those topics.

“She’ll talk when she’s ready,” Smith said.

 

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JAN 14, 2019
More Jayme Closs abduction details emerge in Friday press briefing
Among the remarks made by Fitzgerald at the press briefing are the following:

-- It appears Jayme Closs lived for much of the past three months in a rural development east of Gordon, Wis., known as Eau Claire Acres.

-- Suspect Jake Patterson, 21, "appeared to be looking for" Jayme Closs when he was arrested by Douglas County authorities while driving around the neighborhood last Thursday afternoon.

-- Jayme Closs' abduction was well-planned. Fitzgerald did not characterize Patterson's conduct as "stalking," but said it was clear that "Jayme was a target," and that "kidnapping was (the suspect's) main goal."

-- Asked whether he could share information about the still-unreleased 911 call made early last Oct. 15, the sheriff said much of it was "inaudible."

-- In spite of all the evidence that had already been gathered, "things still aren't clicking yet" with respect to the entire investigation. Fitzgerald said investigators would have to wait for full results from the search before they reach further conclusions. He said cell phone reception was hampering efforts to talk with investigators on the ground in Gordon.

(more at the link)

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
The Latest: Sheriff: 'Awesome' smile from Jayme Closs
A Wisconsin sheriff says 13-year-old Jayme Closs had a smile on her face when he saw her Sunday, just days after she fled the remote cabin where she says she was held for three months.

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said it was the first time he had met Jayme since she apparently escaped from her captor on Thursday.

Fitzgerald called it "awesome" and a moment he'll never forget. He says Jayme showed him the room where she is staying with an aunt in Barron, Wisconsin.

https://nypost.com/2019/01/14/jayme-closs-doing-awesome-after-harrowing-kidnapping-ordeal-sheriff/
“She’s still a young, shy girl but with a smile on her face,” said Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald, who went to visit the 13-year-old girl at her aunt’s house in Barron Sunday night, also said she was doing “awesome.”

The teen showed the sheriff her new room, accompanied by her dog Molly, who was “very protective, barking,” Fitzgerald recalled.

“Our goal is to make sure Jayme is safe,” Fitzgerald said.

Asked about her plans for the future, Fitzgerald said Jayme may go back to school “if she chooses.”

The family is taking a “whatever Jayme wants” approach, he added.

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019


Barron County Sheriff's Department

The Barron County District Attorney's Office will be holding a press conference immediately following the 3:30 pm initial appearance today in the lobby of the justice center.

 

[PommyMommy]

H.S. Classmate Describes Jayme Closs' Alleged Kidnapper as 'Loner': 'He Just Ignored Everyone'
The 21-year-old suspect accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs after allegedly killing her parents was withdrawn and isolated as a high school student, a former classmate of Jake Thomas Patterson‘s tells PEOPLE.

The classmate and former lab partner — who asked not to be identified — tells PEOPLE that Patterson “wasn’t the guy with school spirit.” The classmate adds, “He didn’t go to games or care about that stuff. He just ignored everyone and everyone ignored him.”

Most of Thomas’ classmates did not want to talk about him to PEOPLE. But BK, who was two years ahead of Patterson in school, did speak about him, saying she only remembers him because the school was so small.

“Honestly, he didn’t stand out at all,” BK tells PEOPLE. “I can’t tell you a single story about him, because he didn’t do anything. If it was just you and him in a room, no one would talk.”

BK says she did speak to Patterson “when I had to,” but says he’d respond “with one-word answers, or not even answer at all. I don’t know a thing about his life. He’d sit alone at lunch, or with a couple other kids, but no one would talk at the lunch table.”

(names changed to initials by me)

 

[oviedo]

Kidnap survivor Elizabeth Smart on Jayme Closs’ road to recovery

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
How to support Jayme Closs after safe return home
As Jayme Closs settles back in at home in Barron after her kidnapping, people across the country are showing their support.

A Facebook page created to help search for Jayme while she was missing has now turned into a celebration of the teenager’s safe return.

The page ‘Healing for Jayme Closs’ posted over the weekend that there is now a P.O. box set up so people can send cards and well wishes to Jayme and her family.

Send letters, attention to:
Light the Way Home for Jayme Closs
P.O. Box 539
Rice Lake, WI 54868

Jayme’s cousin has also set up a campaign to raise money for the 13-year-old’s family, as they cope with the recovery process and costs of the three-month search. This comes after a separate fundraiser ended when it surpassed its $50-thousand goal.

People are also still invited to donate to the Closs Family Benefit Fund set up at Sterling Bank.

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
Paul Blume on Twitter
Complaint: Defendant stated he dragged #JaymeCloss across the front yard toward his car. At one point defendant stated he told her she needed to walk & then realized she couldn't because he had taped her legs together at the ankles"

Paul Blume on Twitter
Jake Patterson complaint: "Defendant stated he was determined he was going to take #JaymeCloss that night & was going to kill anyone in the house because he could not leave any eyewitnesses behind"

https://twitter.com/PaulBlume_FOX9/status/1084884394899206144
#BREAKING Charges released in #JaymeCloss case

Paul Blume on Twitter
Jake Patterson facing 2 counts 1st degree murder. Kidnapping. Armed Burglary.

 

[Gardener1850]

Here's the moment Jayme Closs' aunt met the woman who found Jayme while she was walking her dog: "I just wanted to meet you so bad!"

WCCO-TV | CBS Minnesota

13-year-old Closs had escaped her captor after 3 months. Woman who found Jayme Closs says abducted girl named the suspect right away

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
Paul Blume on Twitter
Complaint contains details of #JaymeCloss interview with authorities. She says she was asleep in her bedroom on 10/15. Dog started barking. Went to her parents room. Jayme saw man with gun at front door. She & her mom hid in bathroom in the bathtub.

Lou Raguse on Twitter
Complaint: Patterson forced Denise to put tape over Jayme's mouth. Then Patterson shot Denise. She says Patterson was dressed in black from head to toe. #JaymeCloss

https://twitter.com/news3jessica/status/1084887399002451978
#BREAKING: Complaint against #JacobPatterson in #JaymeCloss case says when he was stopped by deputies, as he got out of the car he stated he knew what the stop was about. "I did it." #news3

https://twitter.com/lizcollin/status/1084887246258483200Details how #JaymeCloss was able to finally escape here:

Brooke Schwieters on Twitter
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT: Patterson worked at Saputo Cheese Factory for 2 days before quitting. On his drive to the cheese factory one of the two day, he saw #JaymeCloss getting onto a bus. He told investigators he didn’t know her, but he knew that was the girl he was going to take.

 

[PommyMommy]

Lou Raguse on Twitter
Complaint: After read his rights, Patterson confessed to killing Jim and Denise Closs, #JaymeCloss suspect

jonathan roy on Twitter
BARRON, Wis. (AP) -- Complaint: Jayme Closs abduction suspect says saw her on school bus, knew `that was the girl he was going to take'

Paul Blume on Twitter
Jake Patterson says he kept #JaymeCloss captive under his bed & left his home on multiple occasions including to attend family Xmas in Superior.

Paul Blume on Twitter
Jake Patterson reportedly told investigators he went to the Closs family home multiple x before pulling off his plan. Both prior times scared off by lights, people, cars in driveway.

Paul Blume on Twitter
Complaint says defendant Jake Patterson confessed to killing James & Denise Closs as well as the kidnapping. Prosecutors alleged he worked out of town. Stopped behind school bus and saw #JaymeCloss. Told authorities he just knew Jayme was the girl "he was going to take.'

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019

Lou Raguse on Twitter
Complaint: Patterson said James Closs looked through a window and said, "Show me your badge," assuming he might be police. He shot James through the window next to the door. Then shot the door to enter the house. #JaymeCloss

Liz Collin on Twitter
Patterson says he left for a few hours last Thursday only to return and find #JaymeCloss was gone. Then... “he knew he was caught.”

Lou Raguse on Twitter
Complaint: "he was determined he was going to take JLC that night and was going to kill anyone in the house because he could not leave any eyewitnesses behind. Asked what he would have done if he was stopped by police... he most likely would have shot at the police" #JaymeCloss

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
Criminal complaint against suspect in Jayme Closs disappearance released
According to the complaint, Closs confessed to killing James and Denise and kidnapping Jayme. He allegedly told authorities he worked at a cheese factory south of Almena for two days before quitting. On his drive to the cheese factory on one of his two mornings there, he had stopped behind a school bus on Highway 7 where he said he watched Jayme get on a school bus.

"The defendant stated he had no idea who she was nor did he know who lived at the house or how many people lived at the house," the complaint reads. "The defendant stated, when he saw (Closs), he knew that was the girl he was going to take."

According to the complaint, Closs said she was asleep in her bedroom on the night she was abducted when her dog started barking. She got up to investigate and saw someone driving up their driveway. She notified her parents and her father reportedly went to the front door to see what was going on.

He then reportedly said there was a man - later identified as Patterson - at the door with a gun.

The complaint states Jayme said she and her mother were hiding in the bathroom with the door closed when Jayme "stated she heard a gunshot and knew her father had just been killed."

Her mother called 911 shortly before Patterson is said to have broken down the bathroom door and told her to hang up the phone. Jayme described him as being dressed in black from head to toe, including a face mask, hat and gloves.

According to the complaint, Jayme said Patterson told her mother to put tape over her mouth, which she did. It was at that point, the complaint states, Jayme said Patterson shot Denise.

He then allegedly tied Jayme's hands and ankles together and dragged her to his car. The complaint states Jayme thought she was in the trunk of the car for two hours before they arrived at a house Patterson took her to.

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019

Lou Raguse on Twitter
Complaint: Patterson told officers he started to drive toward Barron but 20 seconds later yielded to three passing squad cars heading toward the house with lights and sirens #JaymeCloss

Lou Raguse on Twitter
Complaint: Jayme told officers that because of Patterson's anger outbursts, she complied and did what she was told. #JaymeCloss

Lou Raguse on Twitter
Complaint: Patterson said he never met Jayme on any social media sites and only learned her name after kidnapped her and got back to his house. #JaymeCloss

'Ryan Raiche on Twitter
The 12-page criminal complaint against Jake Patterson is the most chilling thing I've read. He told detectives he saw Jayme Closs get off the school bus one day and decided that was the girl he would kidnap. He went to great lengths to cover his tracks...

Ryan Raiche on Twitter
The night of the murders/kidnapping, Patterson told investigators he shot and killed James Closs first. Then found Denise and Jayme hiding in bathtub. He says he made her Denise duct tape Jayme -- then murdered Denise. He put Jayme in the trunk of the car and drove off...

Ryan Raiche on Twitter
Patterson said about 20 seconds after he pulled away, he heard sirens. He was prepared to fire at officers. He kept Jayme under his bed for as many as 12 hours at at time with no food, water, or bathroom breaks.

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
Latest: Complaint: Suspect hid Jayme Closs under bed
1:10 p.m.

Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs has told police she tried to hide from the man accused of killing her parents and kidnapping her, but that he dragged her out of her home and threw her in the trunk of his vehicle.

Prosecutors filed a criminal complaint Monday charging Jake Thomas Patterson with two counts of intentional homicide, kidnapping and burglary. Investigators believe Patterson broke into the Closs home near Barron, Wisconsin, in October, killed Jayme’s parents and kidnapped her.

The complaint states that Jayme and her mother hid in the bathroom as Patterson came to the front door. They heard a gunshot and knew Patterson had killed her father.

Patterson then broke down the bathroom door, shot her mother and taped Jayme’s hands and ankles. He then dragged her to his car and threw her in the trunk.

 

[cybervampira]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=289563674975566

GRANDFATHER ON GMA
This morning on Good Morning America , Jayme Closs’ grandfather speaks out about the emotional reunion with the teen. Read more here: Jayme’s grandfather on her homecoming: “You can tell she’s not quite the same”

 

[cybervampira]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=310808972974196

Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart on advice she'd give 13-year-old Jayme Closs: "The best punishment I could give [my captors] was to be happy, was to move forward." Elizabeth Smart: Jayme Closs's kidnap ordeal doesn't have to "define her future"

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
Jake Thomas Patterson charged with homicide, kidnapping in Jayme Closs case
Before he went to the Closs home on Oct. 15, Patterson told investigators he drove a few miles before he stopped to steal license plates from a car parked at a residence.

He removed the light from the trunk of his car, as well as "what he described as a glow-in-the-dark kidnapping cord ... so that no one could pull the trunk release once inside."

Jayme Closs told authorities that, on Oct. 15, the night she was abducted, she was asleep in her bedroom and woke up early in the morning to the sound of her dog barking.

She got up to see why her dog was barking, and noticed a vehicle coming up the driveway. She woke up her parents and her father went to the door to see what was going on.

They saw a man standing at the door with a gun. She and her mother hid in the bathroom.

They heard a gunshot. Denise Closs used her cell phone to call 911.

Patterson broke down the bathroom door and told Denise to hang up the phone.

Patterson told Denise to put tape over Jayme's mouth. She did. Then Patterson shot Denise.

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
Jamie Perez on Twitter
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT: #JAYMECLOSS describes to police her account of what happened the night of Oct. 15 when she was abducted.

Matt Finn on Twitter
Unfathomable details in the Jayme Closs case. 13-yo girl told police she watched her mother be shot in head as they hid in bathroom. Suspect then taped her, put in trunk. Then made her hide under his bed for 3 months when people came to his house, until she escaped last Thursday.

Jamie Perez on Twitter
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT IN THE #JAYMECLOSS case: deputies describe condition they walked in on (WARNING: disturbing description)

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 14, 2019
News about Jayme Closs on Twitter
Front 2 rows of gallery reserved for families. One side- Closs. One side- Patterson. Cameras allowed in WI courtrooms so @FOX9 will be streaming the hearing online & on-air at 3:30pm. Stay tuned. Still can't believe this all traces back to a random bus stop encounter...

Jamie Perez on Twitter
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT: "The defendant stated that he felt a 12 gauge slug would inflict the most damage on someone and would most likely be the best choice of shell and weapon to kill someone versus a rifle." #JaymeCloss #JakeThomasPatterson #Barron #WI #BREAKING

MURDER COMPLAINT: http://media.graytvinc.com/documents/jayme+closs+complaint.pdf

and on Document Cloud: PattersonComplaint