For my first story, I wanted to pick something close to home for me. Today I will be telling you the story about the kidnapping of Jayme Closs. Jayme Closs was an only child who lived with her Mother, Denise Closs, and her Father, James Closs. This small family lived in northern Wisconsin in a town called Barron. Jayme was only 13 at the time. On the night of October 15th, 2018, Jake Patterson, 20 at the time, had broken into the Closs home in the middle of the night. This was not the first time he was at their house though. Later during the trial, Jake admits to visiting the Closs house two other times before committing the murder. At the time, Jake worked at a cheese factory in Almena, Wisconsin. The Closs house was on his way to the factory and in September, he saw Jayme for the first time. Jake was behind Jayme's school bus and he saw her get off the bus one day. He didn't know who she was but he knew that she was 'the girl he wanted to take'. He took a lot of pl...