Missing teen, Jayme Closs
By PETER MARDJONOVIC
Jayme Closs was like every other teenage girl in America: she went to school; had friends and a loving family; had her own interests and her own goals to fulfill in life.
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But, what happened to Jayme Closs on October 15, 2018 was not something every other teenage girl in America experienced.
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Jake Patterson, 21, kidnapped Jayme Closs and is accused of killing her parents, James and Denise Closs.
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Thankfully, after a countrywide search and gaining mainstream fame, the search for Closs was over exactly 88 days after it had begun. The man who was convicted created enough trauma to poor Jayme within those 88 days.
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“Kristin and Peter Kasinskas said Jayme was quiet and showed little emotion. She told them that she didn't know where she was, although she made it clear that she had been taken and that her parents were killed,” Doha Madani of NBC News reports.
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Soon after a 911 call, police arrived, detained Jake Patterson, and as of now, he will be given a trial. Patterson, during his criminal complaint, stated, “Jayme ‘was the girl he was going to take’ after he saw her getting on a school bus near her home. He made two aborted trips to the family's home before carrying out the attack,” 6ABC Action News reports.
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On the night Closs’s life changed for the worst, it came so fast and so dramatically with little warning: “Jayme told police that on the night she was abducted, she awoke to her dog's barking, then woke her parents as a car came up the driveway. Her father went to the front door as Jayme and her mother hid in a bathtub, according to the complaint. Jayme told police she heard a gunshot and knew her dad had been killed,” according to 6ABC Action News.
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Patterson did not stop there, he continued towards the Closs’s household. “Patterson - dressed in black and wearing a facemask - broke down the bathroom door, according to the complaint. He taped Jayme's mouth, hands, and ankles before pulling her out of the bathtub and shooting her mother in the head, the complaint said,” 6ABC Action News continues.
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Now all anyone can do is hope the crimes Patterson has committed will be paid for and that Closs is in the best of hands with her immediate family, and hopefully soon enough, she will be a regular teenage girl again.
Works Cited
Madani, Doha. "Missing Wisconsin Teen Jayme Closs Found Alive, Suspect in
Custody." Missing Wisconsin Teen Jayme Closs Found Alive, Suspect in
Custody, NBC News.
NEWS, 6ABC ACTION. "Jayme Closs Kidnapping Suspect Jake Patterson's Father
Speaks: 'Our Hearts Are Broken For Their Family.'" https://6abc.com, 6ABC
ACTION NEWS, 7 Feb. 2019, 6abc.com. Accessed 17 Feb. 2019.