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JAN 15, 2019
‘She Has Just Built This Community Up’: Sheriff Recounts Meeting Jayme Closs
For now, Fitzgerald says whatever Closs wants, the community will make it happen.

“Just to see that smile, it was 15 minutes of my life but it’s probably one of the best 15 minutes I’ve ever had in my life,” he said.

Fitzgerald says he got his wish now that Closs is home. For him to be able to meet her surrounded by family is a blessing.

“I was just lucky enough to be one of those people that got to sit in the same room with her and thank her for what she did, and just see that smile on her face,” he said.

It is a smile they never gave up hope they would see again, and a symbol of that hope remains standing for the entire community to see in the form of a Christmas tree in the Barron County Justice Center.

 

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JAN 15, 2019
Video: Packages start arriving offering love and support to Jayme Closs

Support for Jayme Closs is pouring in from around the country. On Tuesday, a box full of packages was waiting for her at the Rice Lake Post Office.

Jayme’s family told us they are overwhelmed by the community’s outreach.

“There’s no doubt she's going to feel so incredibly loved and supported by this,” said Jennifer Halvorson, a friend who picked the packages up.

Halvorson established the P.O. box on Saturday with permission from Jayme’s family.

“To see this so far is fantastic,” she said.

Halvorson told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS she expected to find a few cards. Instead, there were half a dozen boxes and envelopes mailed to Jayme from all over Wisconsin and Kentucky.

 

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JAN 15, 2019
Douglas Co. Officials Explain Why Jayme Closs Response Took So Long
When local law enforcement got a 911 call that Jayme Closs had been found , multiple Douglas County Sheriff deputies were sent to the scene. However, from the time the call came in to them arriving took 30 minutes.

As for why the response took so long, Douglas County Sheriff Lieutenant Chris Hoyt told WDIO News, the first three responding deputies were working patrol at the time and available for calls.

The first time stamp from their AVL log was at 4:16 p.m.

One deputy was coming from County Hwy E in the Hawthorne Wisconsin area, 28 miles from the Kasinkas home. The responding time took 25 minutes.

Another deputy responded near lake Minnesuing on County Highway P, 29 miles away. His response time also 25 minutes.

The third responding deputy was 45 miles away in Superior. His response time was 29 minutes.

Two other deputies not working patrol assisted, one arriving on scene at 4:42 p.m. and the other at 4:53 p.m.

All were traveling over 100 miles per hour.

 

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Article Updated JAN 16, 2019
Father of kidnap suspect has a letter for Jayme Closs' family - CNN
PP was in the courtroom for his son's arraignment Monday. He was initially seated on the prosecution side, but a deputy asked him to leave and sit on the defense side.

When a judge read the charges and Jake Patterson appeared via video conference, his father sobbed and buried his head into the shoulder of a relative seated next to him. On the prosecution's side, Jayme's family remained calm with arms around each other.

JM, the grandfather of the alleged kidnapper, told ABC News that the family was unaware of his actions.

"Something went terribly wrong, nobody had any clues ... We are absolutely heartbroken. It's wrenching to deal with," he said. "He was shy and quiet, he backed off from crowds, but a nice boy, polite. Computer games were more of a priority than social interaction."

A neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said that Jake Patterson's mom, DF, is "devastated."

The neighbor said of DF, "She can't wrap her head around it."

 

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JAN 16, 2019
Closs family: Appreciate sympathy from suspect’s father
The grandfather of a Wisconsin girl who was kidnapped after her parents were killed in October said Wednesday that he appreciates the sympathy being expressed by the suspect’s father.

“You can’t blame the parents,” Naiberg told The Associated Press. “A guy becomes 21 years old, and sometimes it’s not how he was raised or anything.”

Patterson’s father, PP, visited the Barron County Justice Center on Tuesday saying he wanted to pass a note to the Closs’ family, CNN reported. On the verge of tears, PP declined an interview but said: “All I care about right now is Jayme’s family.”

 

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JAN 16, 2019
Jayme Closs' kidnapper lived in 'time warp' without smart phone, former neighbor says | Daily Mail Online
The alleged killer-kidnapper accused of imprisoning Jayme Closs lived in a weird 'time warp' world without a smart phone, social media or even an internet connection, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Loner Jake Patterson, 21, instead spent his free time holed up inside his family's isolated woodland cabin poring over outdoor survival guides and books about the military.

TR, a longtime former neighbor, told DailyMail.com that Patterson seemed baffled when he first asked him at high school if he had a Facebook account.

'He stared at me blankly and said he wasn't interested in having one. He didn't even seem to have an email account to log onto, he was strictly a notes and paper guy,' TR said.

'His family were nice people but Jake's life was like something from a time warp. If he had a cell phone it was not a smart phone. All he was interested in was books.

'He didn't socialize, he didn't have what you would call real friends, just acquaintances. He just wanted to get home to read about survival and the military.'

‘The last time I was in the house was about two and a half years ago,’ added TR, 21.

‘I never really spent time in Jake’s room but from what I remember he had a twin bed and a nightstand in the corner with at least a dozen books piled up on it.

‘It was just a typical room – minus the computer.’

 

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JAN 16, 2019
Jayme Closs kidnap suspect's lawyers: Confession problematic for defense
Defense attorneys for the man accused of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents acknowledged Wednesday that they're starting the case at a disadvantage after their client gave detectives a detailed confession and said they're not sure he can get a fair trial in the state.

According to a criminal complaint , 21-year-old Jake Patterson outlined in detail for detectives how he gunned down 13-year-old Jayme Closs' parents Oct. 15 in their home near Barron and abducted the girl. Jayme escaped last week from the remote cabin where Patterson had been hiding her. Patterson was arrested minutes later, and he was charged Monday with two counts of homicide and kidnapping.

Charlie Glynn and Richard Jones, Patterson's public defenders, told The Associated Press that they face an uphill struggle. Glynn acknowledged that the complaint contains "a very thorough confession."

Yes, it looks like you start out behind the eight ball a little bit," Glynn said.

Jones said the defense team will evaluate Patterson's statements to determine whether they were given voluntarily and if they're true. He cautioned that prosecutors have amassed 30 banker's boxes full of evidence, but that the defense likely won't receive any of it, let alone review it, until after Patterson's Feb. 6 preliminary hearing.

 

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JAN 16, 2019
Jayme Closs' family has 'no desire for any contact' with kidnapper's father | Daily Mail Online exclusively to DailyMail.com Jayme's aunt JS responded to the wish allegedly expressed by Patrick Patterson when he attended his son's first court appearance at Barron County Circuit Court.

She said: 'I have no desire to have any contact with that family at the moment. I don't really know how to respond to that or how to react.

'I'm not looking at social media or anything like that and I haven't heard anything about a note.

'Right now all I'm focusing on is looking after Jayme. That's all that matters, just having her home and looking after her.

 

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JAN 16, 2019
Father of Jayme Closs' Alleged Kidnapper Apologizes to Her Family in Letter
The father of the man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs apologized to her family after his son appeared in court via video conference Monday.

PP, the father of 21-year-old suspect Jake Patterson, sent a handwritten note to Jayme's family expressing sorrow and shame at the murder of her parents and her kidnapping.

"He wanted my family to know that he was sorry and he was crying," Jayme's cousin JA told Inside Edition.

Arnold added that she knows the Patterson family is coping with their own grief. In court Monday, Patrick wept openly and left walking hand-in-hand with his other son, Erik Patterson.

"I feel sorry for them," she said. "My heart goes out to them because when these things happen, families don't always know. I don't hold any hard feelings against them. I know they're having their own kind of struggle."

 

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JAN 16, 2019
‘How Could We Not Know?’ Kidnapping Suspect Hid in Plain Sight
“The defendant stated he then got in his car, removed his mask and started to drive” with the shotgun on the front seat, prosecutors wrote. About 20 seconds later, he slowed down for three police cars racing toward the Closs home.

RK, a lifelong Gordon resident who lives about a mile from the cabin where Jayme was held, said he met Mr. Patterson at the ICO gas station on Highway 53. He said Mr. Patterson, whom he described as “clean cut and shy,” sometimes performed odd jobs around town, like yard work and cabin maintenance, and had seemed pleasant in his interactions with him.

The town of Gordon is dotted with small cabins that sit at the end of wooded roads. All-terrain vehicles and snowmobile trails snake through the forest. Residents, especially the hearty few who stay through the harsh winters, take pride in being on a first-name basis with neighbors.

But in recent days, at snowmobile club meetings and at bars where prize bucks are mounted on the walls, residents have asked themselves uneasy questions: How did they fail to notice the horror in their small town? And how had Mr. Patterson, the tall young man with the receding brown hair, managed to live there so long without raising alarm?

“Everyone else is outside having a bonfire and splitting wood, and playing with their kids,” said Adam Wilson, a manager of a grocery store who lives near Mr. Patterson. “It’s disturbing; it shows you just never know what somebody’s up to.”

In the weeks that followed Jayme’s disappearance, as it vexed detectives and made national headlines, Mr. Patterson described how he used the seclusion of Gordon to his advantage, keeping Jayme out of sight at the cabin where he grew up, just off County Highway Y. When he ran errands, Jayme told detectives, he would force her to stay under the bed, boxing her in with totes secured with barbell weights. When he had houseguests, he would turn on music in the bedroom to muffle any noise she might make.

For a time, Mr. Patterson kept the shotgun at the ready in case the police showed up.

Eventually, he put it away. No one suspected him.

 

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Jayme Closs’ friends and family post messages of love and support
Can we move this media link to Located ? It’s still here in Missing - thanks

 

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JAN 17, 2019
New
Jayme Closs missing person billboard torn down to honks of joy
Passing cars and semis honked their horns and other stopped to take pictures as a crew tore down a Jayme Closs missing person billboard along a Wisconsin highway this week. Closs was missing for 88 days, but billboards like this one kept hope alive that she would be found.

“I got to take this down today not far from where she was found,” Will Hartman wrote in a Facebook post on Monday, Jan. 14. “It felt good to take it down knowing she made it. So often it’s not the case. We had people stop and take pictures of us, cars and semi trucks honking their horns. Without words you could feel the joy for this little girl. God bless her and her family and help them in their time of need.”

The billboard Hartman helped take down was in Sarona, Wisconsin, 40 miles south down Highway 53 from the Gordon, Wisconsin cabin that Closs escaped.

 

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JAN 17, 2019
Jake Patterson, suspect in Closs case, was discharged early from Marines because of character issues
Boot camp for Marine Corps recruits lasts 13 weeks but Jake Patterson washed out after only five.

The Marines will only say that Patterson was prematurely discharged because the "character of his service was incongruent with Marine Corps' expectations and standards," Maj. Brian Block in the Marines' communication directorate said by email.

He tried to get a new job while lying about his military service just last week — on the same day Jayme escaped his home in remote northern Wisconsin after 88 days in captivity, according to an Associated Press report.

Patterson states he served in the U.S. Marines for nine months from April 2017 to December 2017. The Marines said his brief service was two years before that.

What is known about Patterson's brief military stint was he visited a Marine recruiter in Rice Lake to enlist and showed up at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego on Sept. 14, 2015.

"Even in boot camp Marines don't act like this. They're not taught to go out and try to crucify somebody like this," said Baranzyk, who served in the Marines 1966-'69 including almost 13 months in Vietnam.

"Someone in that Marine unit must have known something about this kid was dangerous and washed him out," Baranzyk said in a phone interview. "Just think if this kid had made it through and he's in charge of a unit (in a war zone) and he exhibits these behaviors? Then people would have died or maybe a whole unit would have died."

Patterson was booted out of the Marines on Oct. 20, 2015 at the lowest rank — private. The only other information the Corps released on Patterson was this:

Military Occupational Specialty: none

Awards: none

 

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JAN 17, 2019
Mary McGuire on Twitter
Packages and cards for #JaymeCloss are pouring in from across the country, one week after the 13-year-old escaped from a Wisconsin cabin where she was being held against her will. @WCCO #wcco #barron

 

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Jayme Closs renews interest in 22-year-old missing person case

“Jayme Closs' safe return home has renewed hope for families still searching for their missing kids, siblings and loved ones.

"Jayme was very strong, and I know my sister is as strong," said Lesley Small, whose sister Sara went missing 22 years ago.”

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“Small wants everyone to recognize her sister's face the way they recognized Jayme's.“

 

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Jayme Closs suspect reportedly applied for job, labeled himself an ‘honest guy,’ the day teen escaped

“Jayme Closs’ alleged kidnapper Jake Patterson reportedly submitted an online job application to a Wisconsin liquor business the same day the 13-year-old escaped from capture.

Officials with the Saratoga Liquor Co. in Superior, Wisconsin provided a copy of the application they received from Patterson on Jan. 10 to The Associated Press, the outlet said Thursday. The 21-year-old suspect was reportedly interested in a night position at the company’s warehouse, however his lack of required experience would have stopped the company from hiring him, they said.

In the resume that accompanied the application, which details Patterson’s past work experience and education, he also portrayed himself as “an honest and hardworking guy.”

“Not much work experience but I show up to work and am a quick learner,” the document said.“

 

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On day Jayme Closs escaped, suspect Jake Patterson sought job

“He notes he worked as a “laborer” from April 2018 to November 2018, but Saratoga officials redacted the employer’s name in the provided resume.

Patterson states he served in the Marine Corps for nine months from April 2017 to December 2017. Marine Corps spokeswoman Yvonne Carlock has told AP that Patterson did serve, but only for about five weeks in the fall of 2015. Carlock said his early discharge indicated the “character of his service was incongruent with Marine Corps’ expectations and standards.

Patterson also stated he was a “production worker” from October 2016 to January 2017, specializing in packaging screens. His employer has been redacted. He goes on to say he graduated from high school in 2016, even though he actually graduated in 2015.“

 

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Jayme Closs kidnapping suspect applied for job at liquor distributor on day she escaped

“The 21-year-old wasn't considered for the night warehouse position at Saratoga Liquor Company in Superior, Wisconsin, due to lack of experience. The business made the connection after a press conference Friday when Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald announced the girl's escape.“

 

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JAN 17, 2019
#Jaymazing: Wisconsin Company Creating Shirts To Support Jayme Closs Fund



The outpouring of support continues for Jayme Closs and her family.

Fresh off the printer Thursday are blue T-shirts with the message “#Jaymazing.”

JMS Screen Printing in Cornell, Wisconsin is making the shirts with permission from the family. All proceeds from sales of this shirts will go to the Jayme Closs Fund.

 

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JAN 18, 2019
Criminal case against Jake Patterson not a simple one even though he said 'I did it'
Patterson's public defenders Richard Jones and Charles Glynn didn't respond to a request for comment from MPR News. However they have told The Associated Press they are considering filing a motion to move the trial out of Barron County.

It's a common strategy used by defense attorneys in high-profile trials.

However, criminal defense attorney Joe Tamburino said the tactic will likely be unsuccessful.

"In today's world with media, the internet, all social media — whether you have the trial in Barron or Green Bay or Madison or Milwaukee — people are still going to hear about it. There's just no way around it," Tamburino said.

It is possible the global attention that a high-profile trial would bring to Barron, or somewhere else in Wisconsin, may wind up becoming a bargaining chip for the defense, said Deborah Ellis, a private defense attorney based in St. Paul.

Tamburino said that defense — called a "not-guilty plea due to reason of mental disease or defect" in Wisconsin — presents a high bar. A defendant has to be shown so disconnected from reality that they didn't realize what they did was wrong, he said.

And Tamburino said Patterson appeared mentally stable at his first court appearance earlier this week.

Former Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner said prosecutors are holding the best hand right now. She said there's still the possibility that Patterson will be charged for crimes he allegedly committed in Douglas County, Wis., where Patterson allegedly held Jayme for 88 days.

"I think that the care they're taking to not make a media display of sensitive, highly-personal information about what might have happened during her captivity," said Gaertner. "I respect that approach a lot."