Jayme Closs ‘hid in the bathtub with her mother’ as man is charged with kidnapping and murder 

Jayme Closs cowered in the bathroom with her mother as Jake Patterson shot her father in the head then watched in horror as he did the same to her mother minutes after kicking in the flimsy door.

Dressed in black from head to toe including a face mask, hat and gloves Patterson grabbed the terrified teenager, taped her hands and ankles together, covered her mouth with tape and dragged her out of her home to his waiting car.

According to Jayme her abductor then bundled into the trunk and drove her approximately two hours to the cabin where he would hold her for the next three months.

The horrifying details of the Closs murders and Jayme’s abduction have emerged for the first time in the criminal complaint filed today ahead of Patterson’s first court appearance in Barron County Circuit Court.

According to Jayme’s account Patterson took her into the cabin, removed the tape from her mouth, hands and ankles and told her to go into the bathroom and remove all her clothes.

He made her put the clothes in which she had been abducted into a bag, making some comment about ‘not having evidence.’

Jake Thomas Patterson, 21 is being held for two counts of first degree intentional homicide and and one count of kidnapping of Jayme Closs

Jayme Closs cowered in the bathroom with her mother as Jake Patterson shot her father in the head then watched in horror as he did the same to her mother minutes after kicking in the flimsy door 

According to Jayme’s account Patterson took her into the cabin, removed the tape from her mouth, hands and ankles and told her to go into the bathroom and remove all her clothes. Jayme, pictured following her miraculous escape

According to Jayme’s account Patterson took her into the cabin, removed the tape from her mouth, hands and ankles and told her to go into the bathroom and remove all her clothes. Jayme, pictured following her miraculous escape

When friends of relatives visited Patterson ‘made it clear that nobody was to know she was there or bad things would happen to her.’

He made her hide under his bed in once corner of his bedroom and stacked totes and laundry bins around the bed with weights stacked against them so she could not move them without his being able to detect if she did.

On one occasion, according to the documents seen by DailyMail.com Jayme stated Patterson got made and ‘hit her really hard on the back with the handle of something he used to clean blinds.’ She could not remember what had angered him.

Her escape came when he left the cabin and she managed to push the weights away and flee.

Jake Patterson told cops that he decided that Jayme Closs was ‘the girl he was going to take’ after a chance sighting of her getting off the schoolbus when it stopped in front of him as he drove to work.

Shocking details of the night of October 15, when Patterson enacted his hideous crime, along with the conditions in which Jayme was held and her escape have been disclosed for the first time in the criminal complaint filed today and seen by DailyMail.com.

Patterson has confessed to the crime and is charged with two counts of first degree homicide, kidnapping and armed burglary.

And in the complain sets down both he and Jayme’s narratives in chilling detail.

It was there they found the bodies of Denise, 46, (pictured) and James Closs, 56, and realized their 13-year-old daughter was nowhere to be found

Pictured is James Closs

It was there they found the bodies of Denise, 46, and James Closs, 56, and realized their 13-year-old daughter was nowhere to be found 

Pictured is the front door of the Closs home. It appears to be covered with plywood and a blanket, and sources say it was kicked in during the home invasion

Pictured is the front door of the Closs home. It appears to be covered with plywood and a blanket, and sources say it was kicked in during the home invasion

According to Patterson he ‘had no idea who Jayme was’ when he decided to take her and set about plotting his crime. 

He bought a black balaclava mask from Walmart and drove to the Closs home twice with the intent to kidnap her but was deterred by cars in the driveway and lights in the house.

On the night he finally followed through he stole his father’s 12 gauge Mossberg shotgun – chosen because it was so common as to be hard to trace. He took six 12 gauge shells chosen because ‘he felt the 12 gauge would inflict the most damage on someone and would most likely be the best choice of shell and weapon to kill someone.’

As well as the balaclava and he wore two pairs of gloves. He shut off his headlights and coasted to the end of the driveway. As he approached under cover of darkness Patterson saw Jayme’s father, James, standing in the large picture window.

Jayme told detectives that she had been woken by her dog Molly barking and noticed somebody coming up the driveway when she went to investigate.

She woke her parents and her father ‘went to the door to see what was going on.’

Patterson claimed that he yelled at Closs to get on the ground but that he ‘kept shining a flashlight and looking outside.’

The gunman then approached the front steps, opened the glass storm door and began pounding on the wooden door.

As Closs peered through the decorative glass window he asked to see Patterson’s badge – assuming that he was law enforcement.

In that moment, Patterson stated, he raised his shotgun, pointed it at Closs’s head and pulled the trigger.

He tried to shoulder open the door behind which Closs had collapsed but when he couldn’t he lowered his shotgun and blasted the doorknob.

Family members of Jayme Closs' (pictured with her aunt Sue Naiberg Allard) told DailyMail.com they will be in court later today to 'look Jake Patterson in the eye,' as he makes his first appearance in Barron County Circuit Court

Family members of Jayme Closs’ (pictured with her aunt Sue Naiberg Allard) told DailyMail.com they will be in court later today to ‘look Jake Patterson in the eye,’ as he makes his first appearance in Barron County Circuit Court

Jayme was found at the Eau Claire Acres estate near the town of Gordon, which is about 70 miles away from her home in Barron where she was abducted

Jayme was found at the Eau Claire Acres estate near the town of Gordon, which is about 70 miles away from her home in Barron where she was abducted

Once in he stepped over Closs’ lifeless body and headed to the closed door directly in front of him. He quickly scanned other rooms checking for anybody else and when he found nobody he returned to the closed door and kicked and shoved it 10 to 15 times before it burst open.

In a terrifying scene he tore the closed shower curtain down, taking the rod with it and found Denise ‘with her arms wrapped around Jayme in a bear hug.’

He was met by Patterson, armed with his shotgun. As she and her mother ran to hide in the bathroom, she said, Patterson shot her father in the head.

James Closs is described in the complaint as having ‘significant trauma to his face and head.’

The gruesome scene is laid bare as deputies attending the scene told of ‘blood and brain splattering on the…wall directly behind the wooden entrance door.’

Denise had also been shot in the head, ‘with the rear backside of her head and skull plate completely removed and lying next to her body in the bathtub.’

He told Denise to place black duct tape over her daughter’s mouth but when she ‘struggled to do that’ he put down his shotgun, took back the tape and wrapped it around Jayme’s mouth and head. He made her stand up while he ‘took and placed [tape] around her wrists, with her palms together to restrain her hands and arms.’

He then taped her ankles, removed her from the tub and, as she stood beside him, he took aim at her mother’s head and pulled the trigger.

As he dragged Jayme away he told officers he nearly slipped on the blood that had pooled on the floor.

The gruesome scene as described by deputies who arrived on the scene chime told of ‘blood and brain splattering on the…wall directly behind the wooden entrance door.’

The image above shows the cabin in rural Wisconsin where Jake Patterson allegedly held 13-year-old Jayme Closs prisoner for nearly three months

The image above shows the cabin in rural Wisconsin where Jake Patterson allegedly held 13-year-old Jayme Closs prisoner for nearly three months

As Jayme's family prepares to face down Patterson in court, DailyMail.com obtained exclusive photos of the squalid basement 'cell'  in Patterson's home 

As Jayme’s family prepares to face down Patterson in court, DailyMail.com obtained exclusive photos of the squalid basement ‘cell’  in Patterson’s home 

The image above shows the filthy basement den where authorities believe 13-year-old Jayme Closs was held prisoner by her alleged abductor, Jake Thomas Patterson, 21 

The image above shows the filthy basement den where authorities believe 13-year-old Jayme Closs was held prisoner by her alleged abductor, Jake Thomas Patterson, 21 

Inside the main living room is a half-finished game of Monopoly and a book entitled 'U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide' 

Inside the main living room is a half-finished game of Monopoly and a book entitled ‘U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide’ 

This aerial photo shows the cabin where 13-year-old Jayme Closs was held by Jake Thomas Patterson, surrounded by law enforcement vehicles

This aerial photo shows the cabin where 13-year-old Jayme Closs was held by Jake Thomas Patterson, surrounded by law enforcement vehicles

Denise had also been shot in the head, ‘with the rear backside of her head and skull plate completely removed and lying next to her body in the bathtub.’

Chillingly after he had dragged the shocked teen to his car, bundled her into his car and made his get away Patterson recounted ‘he yielded to three passing squad cars that were travelling west towards the house with their red and blue emergency lights and sirens on.’

Patterson ‘knew he was going to kill anyone in the house [that night] because..he could not leave any eyewitnesses behind.’

Asked what he would have done had he been stopped by police as he made his escape Patterson said ‘he still had the loaded shotgun in the front seat of the car [and] would most likely have shot at the police.’

He described Jayme as ‘scared and crying’ when he finally let her out of the trunk. She had urinated herself and so he told her to changed into a pair of his sister’s pajamas.

He then kept her in a space under his bed which is a twin and sits approximately 2 1/2 feet off the ground.

He said that Jayme had tried to escape this makeshift lair at least twice and when she had done so he ‘struck a wall and screamed a lot to the point where he knew she was scared and …she better never try that again.’

He believed her to be ‘fearful enough not to leave the bedroom without him.’ 

Chillingly after he had dragged the shocked teen to his car, bundled her into his car and made his get away Patterson recounted 'he yielded to three passing squad cars that were travelling west towards the house with their red and blue emergency lights and sirens on'

Chillingly after he had dragged the shocked teen to his car, bundled her into his car and made his get away Patterson recounted 'he yielded to three passing squad cars that were travelling west towards the house with their red and blue emergency lights and sirens on'

Chillingly after he had dragged the shocked teen to his car, bundled her into his car and made his get away Patterson recounted ‘he yielded to three passing squad cars that were travelling west towards the house with their red and blue emergency lights and sirens on’

According to Patterson she did not leave because he had scared her enough with his outburst to the point where she complied

According to Patterson she did not leave because he had scared her enough with his outburst to the point where she complied

According to Patterson she did not leave because he had scared her enough with his outburst to the point where she complied.

He left her alone for 12 hours at Christmas while he visited his grandparents in Superior and when his father visited he simply turned up the radio to mask any sound she might make.

On the day of her escape and his arrest Patterson had told Jayme he was leaving for a few hours.

When he got home he discovered she was not under the bed and began a frantic search for her.

After a few minutes he returned to his house and when he saw police ‘he knew he was caught.’

In a bizarrely nonchalant admission Patterson told cops he ‘assumed he had gotten away with killing James and Denise and kidnapping Jayme since he hadn’t been caught in the first two weeks.’

He denied having ever met Jayme either in real life or online and that he only learned her name after the abduction. He claimed he learned her parents names when he saw the reports of their killings.

He told detective ‘he never would have been caught if he would have planned everything correctly.’   

THE 12-PAGE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT DETAILING JAYME’S ABDUCTION

 

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