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Wisconsin man arrested in teen’s abduction, parents' deaths

Salt Lake Tribune | January 12, 2019

Related Topics: Arrest, Kidnapping, Parent, Death, University of Utah, Sheriff, Elizabeth Smart

Barron, Wis. • A 21-year-old man shot a Wisconsin couple to death at their home in a scheme to kidnap their teenage daughter, then held the girl captive for three months before she managed to escape in an isolated north woods town, authorities said Friday.

Jayme Closs, 13, was skinny, disheveled and wearing shoes too big for her when she approached a stranger and pleaded for help Thursday in the small town of Gordon, where Jake Thomas Patterson lives.

(Barron County Sheriff's Department via AP) This photo provided by the Barron County Sheriff's Department in Barron, Wis., shows Jake Thomas Patterson, of the Town of Gordon, Wis., who has been jailed on kidnapping and homicide charges in the October killing of a Wisconsin couple and abduction of their teen daughter, Jayme Closs. Close who was found alive Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in the Town of Gordon.
(Barron County Sheriff's Department via AP) This photo provided by the Barron County Sheriff's Department in Barron, Wis.
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