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This article describes how he kept her hidden while friends & family visited the cabin. 

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A Wisconsin man suspected of abducting a 13-year-old girl made up his mind to take the teen when he spotted her getting on a school bus, and he made two aborted trips to her family's home before finally carrying out an attack in which he killed Jayme Closs' mother in front of her, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, told investigators he was driving to his job at a cheese factory one day when he stopped behind a school bus and watched Jayme get on. At that moment, he said, "he knew that was the girl he was going to take," the complaint said. Police have said the two did not know each other.

Prosecutors charged Patterson on Monday with kidnapping Jayme and killing her parents Oct. 15 near Barron, about 90 miles northeast of Minneapolis. He was also charged with a count of armed robbery and was scheduled to make his first court appearance later in the day.

Investigators believe Patterson hid Jayme in a remote cabin before she escaped on Thursday.

The criminal complaint said Patterson had gone to the home twice intending to kidnap Jayme, but broke off one attempt because too many cars were in the driveway and called off another because the house was too active.

On the night she was abducted, Jayme told police, she was asleep in her room when the family dog started barking. She woke her parents as a car came up the driveway.

She and her mother, Denise, hid in the bathroom, clutching each other in the bathtub with the shower curtain pulled shut. Her father, James, went to the front door. They heard a gunshot, and Jayme knew that James had just been killed, according to the complaint.

Denise Closs started to call 911. Patterson broke down the bathroom door. Jayme said he was dressed in black, wearing a face mask and gloves and carrying a shotgun.

Patterson told her mother to hang up and ordered her to tape Jayme's mouth shut. Patterson told detectives that Denise Closs struggled with the tape so he wrapped the tape himself around Jayme's mouth and head. He then taped her hands behind her back and taped her ankles together, pulled her out of the bathtub and shot her mother in the head.

He dragged Jayme outside, nearly slipping in blood pooled on the floor. He threw her in the trunk and drove off, pausing to yield to three squad cars speeding toward the house with flashing lights.

Patterson took her to a cabin that he said was his, ordered her into a bedroom and told her to take off her clothes and get dressed in his sister's pajamas. He then threw her clothes into a fireplace in the cabin's basement.

Whenever he had friends over, he made clear that no one could know she was there or "bad things could happen to her," so she had to hide under the bed. He sealed her under the bed with tote boxes and weights so she could not crawl out, according to the complaint. She had to stay under the bed whenever he left the house, sometimes going for hours without food, water or bathroom breaks.

Patterson told investigators that he kept Jayme under the bed when his father often visited him on Saturdays, turning up the radio in his room to cover any noise she might make.

He said he assumed he had gotten away with the slayings and kidnappings after the first two weeks went by. He told detectives that on the night he kidnapped her he put stolen license plates on his car, disabled the dome light and removed an anti-kidnapping release cord from his trunk. He also shaved his head so he would not leave any hair behind and chose his father's Mossberg shotgun because he thought it was a common model that would be hard to trace.

Patterson, who has no criminal history in Wisconsin, was described by people who knew him as a quiet and good student who participated in quiz bowl in high school. He wrote in his high school yearbook of wanting to join the Marines. On Monday, a spokeswoman for the Marines said Patterson lasted just a little more than month before washing out in October 2015.

The spokeswoman, Yvonne Carlock, said by email that Patterson's early discharge indicated "the character of his service was incongruent with Marine Corps' expectations and standards."

The criminal complaint says Patterson told detectives he worked at the Saputo Cheese Factory near Almena for just two days before quitting. The company did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.

Patterson's defense attorneys, Charles Glynn and Richard Jones, said they believe Patterson can get a fair trial, but they are not sure where.

"It's been an emotional time for this community and a difficult time for this community. We don't take that lightly. But we have a job to do in protecting our client," Jones said.

Police collected more than 3,500 tips following Jayme's disappearance, but no hard leads emerged.

Then on Thursday, a woman walking her dog spotted Jayme along a road near Gordon, a town about an hour's drive north of Barron. The woman said the girl begged her for help, saying Patterson had been hiding her in a nearby cabin and that she had escaped when he left her alone.

Neighbors called 911, and officers arrested Patterson within minutes.

The New York Post published photos of the cabin Monday. The images showed a shabby living area with a couch, refrigerator, an old television set and an unfinished ceiling. Exterior photographs show a lean-to loaded with firewood, a three-car garage and an empty box of adult female diapers in a trash can. A sign over the cabin's front door reads "Patterson's Retreat."

Authorities have not said whether Jayme was sexually assaulted. The complaint does not charge Patterson with any form of sexual assault. The narrative in the document does not say what Patterson did with her.

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said he met Jayme for the first time Sunday, and that she had an "awesome" smile on her face. He said she showed him her room at her aunt's home in Barron.

"It was a moment I'll never forget," he said.

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Highly doubt that dude’s gonna last real long inside. 

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This is frightening in myriad ways, in particular how random it was and his willingness to murder. Don't have an answer, but man I wish we had a better way to screen people for the crazy ... of course that would shut down the Cloak Room but well worth it.

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Dude deserves the chair. 

Clicked on the link, couldn’t get more info but this part was confusing: 

“On the night she was abducted, Jayme told police, she was asleep in her room when the family dog started barking. She woke her parents as a car came up the driveway.

She and her mother, Denise, hid in the bathroom, clutching each other in the bathtub with the shower curtain pulled shut. Her father, James, went to the front door. They heard a gunshot, and Jayme knew that James had just been.”

Maybe some details got scrambled with the trauma of the night or the article left them out but why did they get in the tub when someone knocked? Somethings missing

 

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13 minutes ago, achooloco said:

Dude deserves the chair. 

Clicked on the link, couldn’t get more info but this part was confusing: 

“On the night she was abducted, Jayme told police, she was asleep in her room when the family dog started barking. She woke her parents as a car came up the driveway.

She and her mother, Denise, hid in the bathroom, clutching each other in the bathtub with the shower curtain pulled shut. Her father, James, went to the front door. They heard a gunshot, and Jayme knew that James had just been.”

Maybe some details got scrambled with the trauma of the night or the article left them out but why did they get in the tub when someone knocked? Somethings missing

 

I feel like they messed up the timeline. I assumed dad went to the door, mom and daughter heard gunshots, and then they ran to bathroom and tried to hide. 

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19 minutes ago, Foosters said:

I feel like they messed up the timeline. I assumed dad went to the door, mom and daughter heard gunshots, and then they ran to bathroom and tried to hide. 

I read it as the dog woke up Jayme, she woke up parents, mom & Jayme hid, dad went to investigate. 

 

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On the night she was abducted, Jayme told police, she was asleep in her room when the family dog started barking. She woke her parents as a car came up the driveway.

She and her mother, Denise, hid in the bathroom, clutching each other in the bathtub with the shower curtain pulled shut. Her father, James, went to the front door.

 

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9 minutes ago, RPM said:

I have no idea what that is and I'm good with that. Sometimes a sheltered existence is a good thing.

It's basically a cult of "nice" guys who have "taken the red pill," i.e., bought into the "truth" that women exist to serve men. See also: Hook-up artists, "Nice" guys, fedoras, m'lady.

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33 minutes ago, Apep said:

The 911 call from the mom was shortly before 1 am. The dog woke up Jayme. Mom and Jayme hide in the bathroom while Dad checks the front door. That's not an unreasonable procedure at that time of night in a rural or semi-rural setting.

The only thing out of sorts is that dad answers the door in the middle of the night to an uninvited stranger without recon of the situation outside his house and a loaded shotgun of his own.  imo of course.  What a fucked up story. 

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5 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Was definitely confused about why they would hide in the tub just because somebody drove up the driveway. I have never lived in a rural area though. 

Maybe they'd read Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"?

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2 hours ago, cabowabo said:

I know it has been denied, but I'll bet there was some kind of internet contact between the two before the murders.  Regardless, that motherfucker can be out down quick enough. 

Just reading the details it reminded me of the Dee Dee Blanchard case from 2015. Wouldn't be surprised at all to find out it wasn't completely random. But who knows at this point. Maybe it really was.

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17 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

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Cityboy. You really think all the rural kids have their parents drive 10 miles to a central bus stop?

I rode the bus for years. It picked me up at my driveway then it went to the neighbors a mile away to pick them up and so on and so on...

If I missed the bus it was a 5 mile cross country hike to school.

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2 minutes ago, RPM said:

Cityboy. You really think all the rural kids have their parents drive 10 miles to a central bus stop?

I rode the bus for years. It picked me up at my driveway then it went to the neighbors a mile away to pick them up and so on and so on...

If I missed the bus it was a 5 mile cross country hike to school.

Exactly. My great aunt was a bus driver for a small town a little more than an hour outside of Abilene. She said sometimes stops were 5 miles apart.

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1 hour ago, RPM said:

Cityboy. You really think all the rural kids have their parents drive 10 miles to a central bus stop?

 

I live in Wimberley, dumbass.  Bus pickup and dropoffs here are on the major road that fronts a neighborhood. You don't get dropped at your driveway.  

Same as it was where I grew up, outside the Denton city limits. 

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I live in Wimberley, dumbass.  Bus pickup and dropoffs here are on the major road that fronts a neighborhood. You don't get dropped at your driveway.  
Same as it was where I grew up, outside the Denton city limits. 


I wouldn’t call Wimberley rural. In real rural Texas, there aren’t neighborhoods in the country. It’s just county roads with scattered houses, trailers, and misery.
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26 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I live in Wimberley, dumbass.  Bus pickup and dropoffs here are on the major road that fronts a neighborhood. You don't get dropped at your driveway.  

Same as it was where I grew up, outside the Denton city limits. 

Like I said... cityboy.

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17 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

 


I wouldn’t call Wimberley rural. In real rural Texas, there aren’t neighborhoods in the country. It’s just county roads with scattered houses, trailers, and misery.

 

Well fortunately, we're not talking about "real rural Texas," we're talking about Barron, Wisconsin.

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Our companies school buses that are rural routes for the most part pick up on the road at the end of the long driveway. Or if theres a space for the bus to pull in and turn around if needed then we'll pick up right in front of house.

 

 

And by rural I mean separated by farm land and driving on gravel roads.

 

I did have flashbacks to watching in cold blood with my parents as a kid. Wtf whos parents let their kids watch that.?? Haha

 

 

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9 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I live in Wimberley, dumbass.  Bus pickup and dropoffs here are on the major road that fronts a neighborhood. You don't get dropped at your driveway.  

Same as it was where I grew up, outside the Denton city limits. 

God damnit, you idiots, maybe it's different in different places. Get the fuck over it. 

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