Prosecutors say the 21-year-old suspect in the abduction of 13-year-old Jayme Closs confessed, and said he decided to kidnap her, after seeing her get on a school bus.
Jake Patterson was in Barron County court this afternoon on charges of kidnapping, burglary, and two counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Judge James Babler set his bond at $5 million.
Prosecutors say he killed the girl’s parents, James and Denise Closs, because he wasn’t going to leave any eyewitnesses to the abduction. They say Closs told investigators Patterson made her hide under his bed, if people came over to the house in the town of Gordon in Douglas County.
They say he would put totes and laundry bins around the bed, with weights in them. She said something bad would happen, if they were moved.
One time, Closs says he made her stay under the bed for 12 hours with no food, water, or bathroom breaks.
Prosecutors say when she escaped last Thursday, Patterson put her under the bed and told her he would be gone for five or six hours.
