As she waited for police to arrive after she escaped her months-long abduction,13-year-old Jayme Closssat in a Wisconsin couple’s room playing with their new puppy, the coupletold theStar Tribune.
“She seemed kind of in shock and kind of timid, but she did talk to us a little bit,” Kristin Kasinskas, who owns the puppy and took Jayme into her home, toldTodayof the moment. “It wasn’t like she was scared of us. She wasn’t crying or upset. She was just very calm.”
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Jayme had been missing after vanishing on October 15 — the same night her parents were found dead in their home in Barron, Wisconsin, nearly 70 miles south of Gordon. She had been declared “missing and endangered,” an AMBER Alert was issued for her and thousands of people joined investigators in their search for her.
On Thursday afternoon, Jayme ran from the cabin to a woman walking her dog asking for help, saying she was Jayme Closs and that she had been kidnapped, theStar Tribunereports. The dog walker took Jayme to the Kasinskas’s house and frantically told them to call 911.
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The puppy provided comfort to Jayme, who had a dog before she disappeared.
“Jayme has a little dog. A little tiny dog that was unharmed, oddly enough, in all of this. The dog has been with family waiting for her” Jodie Arnold, 39, a cousin of Jayme’s late mom, tells PEOPLE.
Jayme was not familiar with the area, Kasinskas toldToday.“I asked her if she knew where Gordon, Wisconsin, was [and] she did not.
Jake Thomas Patterson.Barron County Sheriff’s Dept
On Friday, police identified the man they allegekilled Jayme’ parents before abducting the teenas Jake Thomas Patterson of Gordon. Patterson, 21, has been charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one of kidnapping.
Patterson, who is unemployed, was not on the radar of investigators and had no criminal history in Wisconsin, authorities said at a Friday press conference. He is currently in the Baron County Jail and police are not looking for additional suspects.
At the press conference, Baron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald alleged the suspect planned the crime and that “Jayme was the only target,” and that Patterson allegedly went to the home for the purpose of kidnapping Jayme and had no prior contact with the parents.
Patterson has not appeared in court to enter a plea. It was unclear if he had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.
source: people.com
