According to the criminal complaint filed against Jake Patterson, officers responding found James Closs shot in the head near the front door. Denise Closs shot in the head in the shower.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Denise tried to barricade herself in the bathroom. The front door was shot in with a shotgun slug.
#jaymecloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: After she was safe, Jayme told deputies on the night of the kidnapping, Jayme woke up her parents because the dog was barking. James went to the front door to see what was causing that.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Jayme and her mom heard the gunshot and went to the bathroom to hide together. Denise tried calling 911. But Patterson broke down the door and made them hang up.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Jayme and her mom heard the gunshot and went to the bathroom to hide together. Denise tried calling 911. But Patterson broke down the door and made them hang up.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: Patterson taped Jayme’s hands and feet and drug her out of the home. He put her in the trunk of the car. Jayme heard the sirens of driving by as the car drove away.
#jaymecloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: Jayme says that was the first time she had ever seen Patterson. She felt it took about two hours to arrive at the cabin. She said he disposed of her clothes and said he was getting rid of evidence.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: Jayme says Patterson would sometimes have family and relatives over. He threatened to harm her if they found out she was there. He made her hide under the bed and he stacked totes and laundry bins around it. And he would turn music on loud.
#jaymecloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: Patterson forced Jayme to stay under the bed while he left the house. He would punish her if it looked like the laundry bins moved. He would be gone up to 12 hours with no bathroom breaks, she told police.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: On Jan. 10, Patterson told Jayme he would be gone 5 or 6 hours. She pushed the bins and weights away from the bed and got out from under it. She put on a pair of Patterson’s shoes, left the house, and found Jeanne Nutter in the woods.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Now, the complaint reveals how Patterson got his eye on Jayme.
It says while being interrogated, he said he stopped behind a school bus on Hwy 8 one day and saw Jayme get out. “The defendant stated, when he saw her, he knew that was the girl he was going to take.”
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: Patterson admitted that he drove to the Closs home twice prior to Oct. 15 with plants to kidnap Jayme.. about a week or two before.. but noticed cars in the driveway once and lights on in the house the second time.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: On the night of the crime, Patterson stole license plates off another car and put them on his. He disconnected the dome light and trunk lights. He brought his dad’s pump 12 gauge shotgun because he thought they were most difficult to trace.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: Patterson shaved his head and face, wiped all fingerprints off the shells and everything, He wore two pairs of gloves, a black balaclava mask, steel toe work boots, and regular blue jeans.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: Patterson said James Closs looked through a window and said, “Show me your badge,” assuming he might be police. He shot James through the window next to the door. Then shot the door to enter the house.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Oh my god this is heartbreaking. After breaking into the bathroom with 10-15 hits with his shoulder, “Denise and Jayme were seated in the bathtub, Denise with her arms wrapped around Jayme in a bear hug.”
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Patterson told police the same thing Jayme told them, about making Denise tape her mouth. Said her hands were shaking and he helped her do it, setting the shotgun down on the bathroom sink.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Patterson told officers he started to drive toward Barron but 20 seconds later yielded to three passing squad cars heading toward the house with lights and sirens
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 201
Complaint: “he was determined he was going to take JLC that night and was going to kill anyone in the house because he could not leave any eyewitnesses behind. Asked what he would have done if he was stopped by police… he most likely would have shot at the police”
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Twice while imprisoned under the bed, Patterson says it looked like Jayme tried to escape so he screamed to the point he knew she was scared and wouldn’t try it again. He thought she was fearful enough of him that she knew not to leave the bedroom.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Jayme told officers that because of Patterson’s anger outbursts, she complied and did what she was told.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Patterson drew officers a map of the Closs home and explained how he did everything. He assumed he had gotten away with it, because he wasn’t caught within the first two weeks.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Complaint: Patterson said he never met Jayme on any social media sites and only learned her name after kidnapped her and got back to his house.
#JaymeCloss
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
Jake Patterson chose Jayme Closs randomly, after seeing her get off the school bus one day, according to the criminal complaint. He allegedly told investigators he didn’t even know her name until he took her and returned to his cabin.
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse)
January 14, 2019
