Jayme Closs was found on Thursday, January 10, three months after she first went missing from her Wisconsin home. Her disappearance was discovered on October 15, 2018, when her parents Denise and James were found murdered inside their house. Now, details are coming out about how Jayme escaped her captor Jake Thomas Patterson and saved herself. Click through the gallery for all the info.
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Photo credit: Jayme Closs/Facebook
“On Thursday evening Barron County Sheriff’s Department was notified by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department that
they had located Jayme Closs, alive,” Baron County Wisconsin Sheriff
Chris Fitzgerald stated. “Shortly after this, a suspect was taken into custody.”
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Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
Jayme endured “sickening” torture in captivity, but she managed to run away from Jake’s remote cabin, where the 21-year-old kept her out of sight.
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Photo credit: Jayme Closs/Facebook
Jayme managed to run across the street and flag down a woman who was walking her dog. That woman got neighbors to call 911. Jayme fled in a pair of too-large men’s shoes.
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Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
“It was a split-second decision,” a source close to the investigation told
RadarOnline.com. “It was live or die. Jayme found an opportunity to escape captivity, and she did.”
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Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
“The man had the specific intent to abduct and torture Jayme — she was malnourished and dehydrated,” the source continued. “The things Jayme went through are so disturbing, so demented and sickening that the most twisted horror director couldn’t recreate it.”
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Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
Jake was “hiding in plain sight.” “He went about his day — nothing changed, according to neighbors,” the source told Radar. His cabin was deep in the woods.
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Photo credit: Aaron Lavinsky/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS
Jake has been arrested for both Jayme’s kidnapping and her parents’ brutal murders. Police located him using the description of his car Jayme gave them.
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Photo credit: Aaron Lavinsky/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS
What do you think of Jayme’s harrowing escape? Let us know in the comments.
“On Thursday evening Barron County Sheriff’s Department was notified by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department that
they had located Jayme Closs, alive,” Baron County Wisconsin Sheriff
Chris Fitzgerald stated. “Shortly after this, a suspect was taken into custody.”
Photo credit: Jayme Closs/Facebook
Jayme endured “sickening” torture in captivity, but she managed to run away from Jake’s remote cabin, where the 21-year-old kept her out of sight.
Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
Jayme managed to run across the street and flag down a woman who was walking her dog. That woman got neighbors to call 911. Jayme fled in a pair of too-large men’s shoes.
Photo credit: Jayme Closs/Facebook
“It was a split-second decision,” a source close to the investigation told
RadarOnline.com. “It was live or die. Jayme found an opportunity to escape captivity, and she did.”
Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
“The man had the specific intent to abduct and torture Jayme — she was malnourished and dehydrated,” the source continued. “The things Jayme went through are so disturbing, so demented and sickening that the most twisted horror director couldn’t recreate it.”
Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
Jake was “hiding in plain sight.” “He went about his day — nothing changed, according to neighbors,” the source told Radar. His cabin was deep in the woods.
Photo credit: Barron County Sheriff's Office
Jake has been arrested for both Jayme’s kidnapping and her parents’ brutal murders. Police located him using the description of his car Jayme gave them.
Photo credit: Aaron Lavinsky/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS
What do you think of Jayme’s harrowing escape? Let us know in the comments.
Photo credit: Aaron Lavinsky/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS
