Then Patterson hunted for Jayme inside the home, he said. Jayme told police “she heard a gunshot - and knew her father had just been killed,’’ the court papers said. Patterson shot a single bullet at the dad’s head through a small window in the door and burst into the house, he told cops. The suspect said he began pounding on the family’s front door and that James Closs thought he might be a cop and demanded to see his badge. Patterson told police he soon spotted Jayme’s dad, James Closs, standing in front of the home’s large front picture window. Jayme had awoken to her dog Molly barking, saw what appeared to be a man lurking outside and went to tell her parents.
“The defendant stated he felt that a 12-gauge slug would inflict the most damage on someone and would most likely be the best choice of shell and weapon to kill someone versus a rifle,’’ according to the criminal complaint. He toted a kitchen knife and a carefully chosen second weapon - his father’s 12-gauge silver and black Mossberg shotgun - loaded with six bullets, cops said. That night, Patterson drove up to the Closs house in his old red Ford Taurus wearing gloves, a black jacket, jeans, brown leather steel-tipped military-style boots - and a black balaclava-type mask he had bought from Wal-Mart within a day of first spotting Jayme at her bus stop, he told cops. 15, Patterson said, he made sure to take precautions.įor example, he shaved off his beard and all his hair “so that he would not leave any DNA or hair at the scene,’’ the papers said. He then tried twice to kidnap her at her house, but there were too many people around.īefore finally succeeding the night of Oct. Patterson - a failed Marine-wannabe who couldn’t keep a job and lived in a cabin in the woods about an hour from the Closses - said he got Jayme’s address simply by waiting till she got off the school bus one day and following her home.
Jayme said she could hear the sirens, too, from the trunk. Patterson told detectives that within “20 seconds’’ of leaving the Closs family house, three blaring police cars passed him on the road. The documents showed that police appeared to have been this close to nailing Patterson before he fled with Jayme, who was held hostage for 88 days, beaten and abused, until she escaped Thursday. The teen’s mom, Denise, would die trying to protect her daughter, hiding with her in a bathtub - until Patterson found the pair and killed the mother with a bound Jayme standing next to him, they said. Inside the hell house of Jayme Closs's alleged kidnapper The psycho - who was ordered held on $5 million cash bail at his first court appearance Monday - revealed in methodical detail his heinous crime, which began with Jayme’s parents being shot in the head, each with a single bullet, authorities said.
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