His teachers barely remember him, his neighbors didn’t know he was there, and he appears to have had little to no online presence. By virtually all accounts, Jake ThomasPatterson—the 21-year-old police say killed 13-year-old Jayme Closs’s parents in rural Wisconsin, kidnapped her, and held her in a cabin for almost 90 days—was a living ghost. Now authorities are scrambling to put together a profile of a man who managed to elude attention for years in a tiny township, as the Associated Press reported.
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Deputies in Barron, Wisconsin, found James and Denise Closs shot dead in their home back in October, kicking off a nationwide search for the deceased’s missing daughter, whom they believed had been home at the time of the killings. Last Thursday, a social worker was walking her dog when, as the Daily Beast reported, a young woman “just came out of the woods” without gloves or a coat and began to describe her ordeal. Police said they captured Patterson roughly 11 minutes later, and that he soon confessed under questioning.
More than 72 hours after that, we know more about Patterson, but details about his background and motive remain frustratingly scant.
Source: What We Know About Jake Thomas Patterson, the Man Accused of Kidnapping Jayme Closs
