Police arrest a man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl and killed her parents

Residents and law enforcement agencies of a town in Wisconsin on Friday were happy to release a 13-year-old girl after nearly three months in captivity and arrest a man held in custody, who is now charged with kidnapping a girl and murdering her parents.

Photo: Facebook / Barron County Sheriff's Department

The suspect is 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson, writes NBC.

“For 88 days, I have stood before you and told you that we will work tirelessly to bring Jamie Closs home. Today I can report that we did it. Jamie is currently in the comfort of law enforcement as the investigation into her three-month ordeal continues,” Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said at a news conference.

When asked if there was any contact between Jamie and Patterson before October 15, when the suspect allegedly killed her parents and kidnapped her, Fitzgerald replied: "We believe that they were not there." He added that they also had no contacts on social networks.

Patterson was charged with two first-degree murders (56-year-old James Kloss and his 46-year-old spouse Denise), as well as kidnapping. The man lived in Gordon, Wisconsin, he was not previously brought to justice. Fitzgerald said that detectives had just begun to question the girl about what she had been through.

Patterson was arrested outside his home in Douglas County, Wisconsin, and held in Barron County Prison.

According to Fitzgerald, the search for Jamie ended on Thursday, when the missing girl suddenly went out of the woods near Gordon and asked for help a woman walking a dog. A woman called 911. According to her, Jamie looked untidy, and it seemed that for some time she was “locked up or hid.” The girl was taken to the hospital, where she stayed overnight to assess her state of health.

According to investigators, Patterson was arrested after Jamie gave the police a description of his car. He was arrested and taken into custody soon after she was discovered. Fitzgerald clarified that there are no additional suspects in the case.

On Friday, the girl was interrogated by law enforcement officers, in the afternoon, she should be reunited with her family in Barron County.

The search for Jamie and her alleged abductor—an intensive manhunt that also included the FBI—began after the Barron County Sheriff's Department received a call from the Closs home. When police arrived at the scene they found that the girl's parents were killed and she herself disappeared.

Almost immediately after Jamie disappeared, thousands of people joined her searches, some of them even came from Florida.

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