An American 21-year-old arrested for holding a teenaged girl captive after murdering her parents chose his victim after seeing her get on a school bus, according to a charge sheet filed on Monday.
An American 21-year-old arrested for holding a teenaged girl captive after murdering her parents chose his victim after seeing her get on a school bus, according to a charge sheet filed on Monday.
Jake Patterson confessed to killing James and Denise Closs and to abducting their 13-year-old daughter Jayme, according to the document filed in court in Barron County, Wisconsin.
Referred to in the document by her initials, JLC, Jayme Closs was the subject of a nationwide search following her disappearance three months ago — until last week when she made a seemingly miraculous escape.
“I did it,” the criminal complaint quotes Patterson as saying after sheriff deputies stopped his car in Douglas County, Wisconsin, on January 10.
Patterson appeared in court on Monday by video link from his cell. He showed little emotion as he was formally charged with murder and kidnapping.
The criminal complaint described how he killed the teen’s parents on October 15 at their rural Barron home, in order to take their daughter.
