Wow!
From the article:
He held a Christmas Day gathering for family members at "Patterson Retreat," the former family home that Patterson is accused of turning into a prison for 13-year-old Jayme Closs.
While the family marked the holiday, the houseguests had no idea that another person was there — the terrified girl Patterson was holding captive, forced to stay hidden under a twin bed, sources told reporters for the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald wouldn't confirm the Christmas gathering, saying he wouldn't know whether such an event took place.
But two law-enforcement sources separately said the visitors included two members of Patterson's immediate family and the people they were dating.
"The family was there," one source said. Patterson "told (Jayme) that if she made a noise or tried to escape, he would kill her."
One source identified Patterson's father and sister as the family members who made the Christmas visit to the ramshackle house at 14166 S. Eau Claire Acres Circle in Gordon, a town of about 750 located about 70 miles north of Jayme's home town of Barron.
The second source confirmed that the investigation had found that those family members visited Patterson on Christmas.