Latest / Crime and Horror / The MOST terrifying killer The Jayme Closs story
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cases like this don't happen. Hey, what's going on, guys,
- 0:05Speaker 1: mister ballin here. You probably know me from TikTok. In fact,
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- 0:15Speaker 1: Version of this case, the Jamie Close case, And so
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- 0:51Speaker 1: This is the first week i've done too, so we'll
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- 0:55Speaker 1: three kids and other job responsibilities, so it's a little
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- 1:08Speaker 1: Jamie Close case, the reason I ended up choosing this
- 1:12Speaker 1: one and making a TikTok version of it now YouTube
- 1:15Speaker 1: version of it is.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Actually pretty straightforward.
- 1:18Speaker 1: It's because even though it's true, if you were to
- 1:21Speaker 1: make a movie out of this case, the viewers wouldn't
- 1:24Speaker 1: really believe it, because the perpetrator in this case has
- 1:30Speaker 1: no motive and has no history of committing any crimes.
- 1:34Speaker 2: I think, get a parking ticket, any targets a child.
- 1:39Speaker 1: I mean putting that all together, you don't see that
- 1:42Speaker 1: that is not a popular archetype for a movie. The
- 1:46Speaker 1: idea that there are just these random, you know, perpetrators
- 1:50Speaker 1: out there just targeting random children and harming them in
- 1:55Speaker 1: their families. There has to be a motive, especially actually
- 2:00Speaker 1: when it comes to children being involved. There has to
- 2:03Speaker 1: be a motive, and in this case there really wasn't.
- 2:07Speaker 1: And even the perpetrator, when he was in prison, he
- 2:10Speaker 1: wrote a letter to Jamie and her surviving family members
- 2:15Speaker 1: where he kind of tried to explain why he did it.
- 2:19Speaker 1: But even he didn't have strong enough language to communicate
- 2:23Speaker 1: what it was. He made it seem like it was
- 2:24Speaker 1: pretty complicated, and even he didn't know. He just said, hey, look,
- 2:27Speaker 1: I'm not a serial killer. I just I just had
- 2:30Speaker 1: to do this, and I don't really know why. So
- 2:32Speaker 1: it's just one of the more disturbing cases when you
- 2:36Speaker 1: go into it knowing that this whole thing was perpetrated
- 2:41Speaker 1: by someone who had no criminal history. He had no
- 2:44Speaker 1: connection to the victims except that he randomly had a
- 2:48Speaker 1: chance encounter with one of them and it just.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Kind of happened.
- 2:53Speaker 1: It's just one of those horrible things that even now
- 2:57Speaker 1: no one really understands, including the killer himself.
- 3:00Speaker 2: So let's dive into it.
- 3:02Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, twenty one year old Jake Patterson is
- 3:06Speaker 1: on his way to work at a cheese factory in Wisconsin.
- 3:09Speaker 2: He'd only been working there for a couple of days.
- 3:11Speaker 2: This is like his third day on the job.
- 3:13Speaker 1: You know, he's this kind of typical guy leading a
- 3:16Speaker 1: typical life in Wisconsin, and he's driving his Ford tourists.
- 3:21Speaker 1: He comes to a stop behind a school bus where
- 3:24Speaker 1: middle school kids are getting on the bus, and he's
- 3:26Speaker 1: sitting there and he looks up and he sees for
- 3:29Speaker 1: the first time in his life, a blonde haired, green
- 3:34Speaker 1: eyed girl who ended up.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Being thirteen year old Jamie Close.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And as he's sitting there, because this all came out
- 3:40Speaker 1: in a very lengthy confession, so we have lots of
- 3:43Speaker 1: details about this case. As he's sitting there watching Jamie,
- 3:49Speaker 1: who again he doesn't know, get on the bus, he
- 3:52Speaker 1: has this realization that she is going to be the
- 3:56Speaker 1: girl that he takes. He actually says that that's sitting
- 3:59Speaker 1: behind the wheel, He's like, I realized right then and.
- 4:02Speaker 2: There that she's the one I'm gonna take.
- 4:04Speaker 1: And so, a guy with no criminal history, he's sitting
- 4:07Speaker 1: there coming up with this plan of how he's gonna
- 4:12Speaker 1: abduct this girl, and it would come out later in
- 4:17Speaker 1: his confession, which again was very lengthy, that he put
- 4:22Speaker 1: a ton of effort into planning out this abduction.
- 4:27Speaker 2: So let's talk about Jake's plan.
- 4:29Speaker 1: He takes his father's Mosburg twelve gage shotgun, which is
- 4:33Speaker 1: a very commonly purchased weapon. He assumed that because it is,
- 4:38Speaker 1: you know, so widely purchased, it would be hard to track, Okay,
- 4:40Speaker 1: So he takes his gun, takes a couple of slugs,
- 4:43Speaker 1: so he's got his weapon. Then he goes and purchases
- 4:46Speaker 1: a balaclava so a mask, a whole head mask from Walmart.
- 4:51Speaker 1: He you know, he shaves his head, shaves his beard
- 4:53Speaker 1: so that there wouldn't be any hairs, you know, for
- 4:56Speaker 1: forensic evidence at the crime scene.
- 4:58Speaker 2: This is all so premeditated.
- 5:00Speaker 1: He went out and purchased gloves and wiped his gloves
- 5:03Speaker 1: all so they wouldn't have prints on them. He purchased
- 5:07Speaker 1: steel toed boots and dark jeans and a dark jacket
- 5:11Speaker 1: in the car he was going to use because he
- 5:13Speaker 1: again he plans on abducting Jamie, and he knew who's
- 5:16Speaker 1: gonna be keeping her in the trunk. He cut the
- 5:18Speaker 1: cord inside of his vehicle. It was when you press
- 5:22Speaker 1: this button inside the car, it would open the trunk. Basically,
- 5:24Speaker 1: he didn't want any access to the trunk unless he
- 5:27Speaker 1: had the key, so he.
- 5:27Speaker 2: Cuts that cord.
- 5:29Speaker 1: He disconnected the dome light inside of his Taurus, his
- 5:32Speaker 1: forre Taurus, to try to better.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Conceal him when he's in the car.
- 5:36Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, he's really thinking hard about how
- 5:41Speaker 1: he's going to do this. He knew he was going
- 5:42Speaker 1: to go in that house, He's going to take Jamie,
- 5:44Speaker 1: and he had his big plan right two separate times
- 5:48Speaker 1: Jake tried unsuccessfully to abduct Jamie. He drove to their
- 5:54Speaker 1: house the first time and there were cars in the driveway,
- 5:57Speaker 1: so he gets spooked and he leaves. He comes back
- 6:00Speaker 1: and he's about to drive up the driveway when lights
- 6:02Speaker 1: come on, so he leaves again. But on October fifteenth,
- 6:05Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, he was Unfortunately, he was successful.
- 6:10Speaker 2: It was around midnight.
- 6:11Speaker 1: When Jake Patterson rolls into the closed family's driveway.
- 6:17Speaker 2: The lights in his car are off, the headlights are.
- 6:20Speaker 1: Off, and he rolls into the driveway and inside of
- 6:23Speaker 1: this very modest home, Jamie was sleeping.
- 6:26Speaker 2: With her dog, Mollie, and Mollie.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Hears the car pull into the driveway and starts barking,
- 6:32Speaker 1: wakes up Jamie. Jamie looks out, she sees a car
- 6:35Speaker 1: she doesn't recognize. It's the middle of the night, and
- 6:38Speaker 1: she runs to her parents' room and she larns her parents,
- 6:41Speaker 1: Jamie's father, James.
- 6:42Speaker 2: He goes to the front door with a flashlight.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Denise, that's Jamie's mother, and Jamie retreat into the
- 6:49Speaker 1: bathroom where they shut the door. They sensed that this
- 6:52Speaker 1: was potentially going to be a home invasion, and certainly
- 6:56Speaker 1: they were right.
- 6:56Speaker 2: So they actually.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Barricade the door with a dress that was in there,
- 7:00Speaker 1: and they get in the tub and they shut the curtains.
- 7:04Speaker 1: And so James is at the front door and he
- 7:08Speaker 1: watches Jake Patterson get out of his car calmly walk
- 7:14Speaker 1: up the steps to the front door.
- 7:17Speaker 2: And at this time James is thinking that perhaps this
- 7:19Speaker 2: is the police.
- 7:21Speaker 1: And so when Jake arrives at the door and starts
- 7:25Speaker 1: banging on the door, James shines this light out through
- 7:29Speaker 1: the window kind of gets a peek at him, then
- 7:30Speaker 1: moves over to the door itself where there's this little
- 7:33Speaker 1: tiny window on the door, and he looks through shining
- 7:37Speaker 1: the light and he says, show me your badge, And unfortunately,
- 7:41Speaker 1: it was at the same time that Jake raises his
- 7:43Speaker 1: shotgun and pulls the trigger, shoots right through the glass,
- 7:46Speaker 1: hits James, and James dies immediately back in the bathroom.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Jamie would later say that when she heard that shotgun
- 7:56Speaker 1: blast that she knew that her father was dead. And
- 7:59Speaker 1: I think her mother knew that as well, because immediately
- 8:03Speaker 1: Denise picks up her phone and calls nine to one one.
- 8:05Speaker 1: As she's talking to the dispatcher who said that there
- 8:09Speaker 1: were no police in the area, so further confirming that
- 8:11Speaker 1: this was definitely not the police because they didn't see
- 8:14Speaker 1: that interaction at the door that has heard it. Jake
- 8:16Speaker 1: at the front door is trying to bust in the door.
- 8:18Speaker 1: He can't do it, so he takes a shotgun. The
- 8:20Speaker 1: jacks is spent round and then puts a slug through
- 8:23Speaker 1: the doorknob, making it.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Come wide open.
- 8:26Speaker 1: He pushes it open, steps over the body of James
- 8:29Speaker 1: and begins to search the house.
- 8:31Speaker 2: The house is empty.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Every door is open except one, and it's the bathroom
- 8:35Speaker 1: door where Denise and Jamie are hiding. In the bathroom,
- 8:38Speaker 1: Jake begins to try to push the door open. He
- 8:41Speaker 1: can't do it, and finally he just starts trying to
- 8:44Speaker 1: smash the door in, and after ten fifteen blows he
- 8:48Speaker 1: actually managed to split the top half of the door
- 8:50Speaker 1: open because the dresser was blocking the lower half.
- 8:54Speaker 2: He goes into the bathroom and he rips.
- 8:56Speaker 1: Down the shower curtain and there is Denise hugging and
- 9:01Speaker 1: protecting her daughter Jamie in the tub.
- 9:03Speaker 2: Jake hands duct tape to.
- 9:06Speaker 1: The mother, Denise and tells her to put duct tape
- 9:08Speaker 1: over the mouth and the hands of her daughter. She refuses,
- 9:11Speaker 1: she's protecting her daughter. Jake sets his shotgun down, pushes
- 9:16Speaker 1: the niece aside, and does it himself. And then after
- 9:18Speaker 1: getting Jamie out of the tub, he picks right his
- 9:20Speaker 1: shotgun up again, aims it at the mother, turns his
- 9:23Speaker 1: head and he pulls the trigger and he kills the mother.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Picks up Jamie, she's only about, you know, five foot
- 9:28Speaker 1: hundred pounds, and he drags her out to his car,
- 9:32Speaker 1: opens up the trunk of his tourus, puts her in,
- 9:34Speaker 1: shuts it, and he's on his way.
- 9:36Speaker 2: He was in the house for a total of four minutes.
- 9:38Speaker 1: He would say in his confession, Jake that as he's
- 9:41Speaker 1: driving away, about twenty seconds after departing the house, he
- 9:46Speaker 1: saw all the cop cars coming down the road, and
- 9:48Speaker 1: actually police officers would say they remembered a Taurus yielding
- 9:52Speaker 1: to the police cruisers as they came in. He makes
- 9:55Speaker 1: his way around them and off he goes, and Jamie
- 9:57Speaker 1: would say she remembered hearing the sirens and then they
- 10:00Speaker 1: fade as they disappear.
- 10:03Speaker 2: Jake would drive seventy.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Miles to his house, where he would keep Jamie prisoner
- 10:10Speaker 1: for the next three months, investigators, the local population, everybody
- 10:16Speaker 1: is looking for Jamie. And at the same time, I mean,
- 10:19Speaker 1: people didn't have high hopes for her safe return. I mean,
- 10:23Speaker 1: in the vast majority of cases like these, where a
- 10:27Speaker 1: child's been abducted, unfortunately, they usually don't get home safe
- 10:31Speaker 1: and so the whole community is just devastated. This is
- 10:34Speaker 1: gaining national attention. Everybody's looking for Jamie and they can't
- 10:38Speaker 1: find her. The whole time, she was being held seventy
- 10:43Speaker 1: miles away in Jake Patterson's cluttered, kind of crummy house
- 10:47Speaker 1: that was out in the middle of the woods. When
- 10:49Speaker 1: they got to his house, he burned her clothes and
- 10:52Speaker 1: his gloves and the duct tape. He gave her his
- 10:55Speaker 1: sister's pajamas, and then he had her go under the
- 10:59Speaker 1: bed bed he had in the house, and he barricaded
- 11:02Speaker 1: her underneath the bed and so had she had a
- 11:04Speaker 1: pillow and a blanket, and.
- 11:05Speaker 2: She was just underneath this bed, and you know, that
- 11:10Speaker 2: was it. She basically was ignored. I mean, her captor,
- 11:14Speaker 2: Jake Patterson.
- 11:15Speaker 1: He puts her under the bed and he warns her,
- 11:18Speaker 1: you know, if you leave or try to escape, you know,
- 11:20Speaker 1: bad things are going.
- 11:21Speaker 2: To happen to you.
- 11:22Speaker 1: And because she did witness him kill her parents, she
- 11:26Speaker 1: knows he's capable of that, and he knows that she
- 11:29Speaker 1: knows that he's capable of that. So we had this
- 11:33Speaker 1: stranglehold on her where he basically just said you're staying
- 11:35Speaker 1: under the bed and don't you dare leave and she listened,
- 11:39Speaker 1: and frankly, you can't blame her, right, you know, And
- 11:42Speaker 1: so she would go stretches of eight, ten, twelve hours
- 11:45Speaker 1: of laying under the bed, no food, no water, no
- 11:47Speaker 1: bathroom breaks.
- 11:48Speaker 2: But ultimately she was just kind of ignored.
- 11:52Speaker 1: There wasn't really a plan for, you know, what was
- 11:54Speaker 1: going to happen when she got to the house.
- 11:56Speaker 2: He just kind of neglected her.
- 11:58Speaker 1: After two weeks where he was really on guard, and
- 12:01Speaker 1: he told her that he was keeping a shotgun right
- 12:03Speaker 1: outside her door in case anything went.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Down with the police.
- 12:06Speaker 1: When no one came looking for them or when no
- 12:08Speaker 1: one arrived at his place. He felt very confidently that
- 12:13Speaker 1: he had gotten away with his crimes to the point
- 12:15Speaker 1: where he actually Jamie would say, he started having guests over,
- 12:20Speaker 1: you know, he had friends over, and he just told
- 12:22Speaker 1: her stay in the room, don't come out, And so
- 12:25Speaker 1: for eighty seven days. That's how it was. She just
- 12:28Speaker 1: was neglected. This poor girl was underneath this bed, you know,
- 12:31Speaker 1: just wondering what the heck's going to happen with obviously
- 12:34Speaker 1: no time to grieve over the loss of her parents.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Mister Patterson, he really didn't leave the house. And when
- 12:42Speaker 1: he did, I think he left one time to visit
- 12:44Speaker 1: a grandparent, and he was very aggressive in warning her
- 12:47Speaker 1: that he would hurt her if she tried to leave.
- 12:50Speaker 1: But for the most part, you know, he didn't leave
- 12:51Speaker 1: the house. But you could tell in looking at this
- 12:54Speaker 1: case that he became fairly confident that he was just
- 12:56Speaker 1: going to get away with this. And so he actually
- 12:59Speaker 1: applied for a job, and he left one morning to
- 13:03Speaker 1: go to the interview. And it's kind of funny on
- 13:05Speaker 1: his in.
- 13:05Speaker 2: A dark way, he rode on his what did he
- 13:08Speaker 2: write on his application?
- 13:11Speaker 1: That he's an honest, hardworking guy and under skills, he said,
- 13:15Speaker 1: he doesn't have much work experience, but he shows up
- 13:17Speaker 1: to work and is a quick learner.
- 13:19Speaker 2: And so here he goes. He goes out to just
- 13:20Speaker 2: get a job and go back to normal.
- 13:23Speaker 1: And when he left that morning, Jamie, who's under the bed,
- 13:26Speaker 1: it's just she's done.
- 13:27Speaker 2: She's not going to be a captive anymore.
- 13:29Speaker 1: And as soon as he leaves, she pushes aside the
- 13:32Speaker 1: barricade of you know, there's some weights that were there
- 13:35Speaker 1: and dresser. She pushes it all aside. She runs out.
- 13:39Speaker 2: She puts on his shoes, which are too big for her.
- 13:42Speaker 1: She puts him on the wrong feet, and she runs
- 13:44Speaker 1: out the door.
- 13:45Speaker 2: She doesn't know where she is, she doesn't know anything,
- 13:47Speaker 2: but she's gone.
- 13:47Speaker 1: A woman was walking her dog around four pm. Her
- 13:51Speaker 1: name was Jeanne Nutter, and she sees this girl, this teenager,
- 13:56Speaker 1: who doesn't have a coat on, she doesn't have gloves on.
- 13:58Speaker 2: It's bitterly.
- 14:00Speaker 1: They're in the middle of Wisconsin in the wintertime, and
- 14:03Speaker 1: she sees her coming towards her and she can tell
- 14:07Speaker 1: kind of instinctively that something's wrong. Okay, this is not
- 14:10Speaker 1: this is not just some nice kid coming down the road.
- 14:13Speaker 2: There's an issue here.
- 14:14Speaker 1: And as she got closer and the girl said, I'm lost,
- 14:18Speaker 1: I need help.
- 14:18Speaker 2: My name is Jamie.
- 14:21Speaker 1: The woman, Jeanie, said that she immediately knew who it was.
- 14:25Speaker 1: She lived in the area and she had seen the
- 14:29Speaker 1: posters up for Jamie.
- 14:30Speaker 2: She knew exactly who she was.
- 14:31Speaker 1: She gave her a big hug and held her and said,
- 14:33Speaker 1: you know, I've got you.
- 14:34Speaker 2: I'm going to take care of you. And so, holding
- 14:36Speaker 2: her closely, she brings her to a nearby neighbor's house.
- 14:39Speaker 2: She said, this is Jamie close. We have to call
- 14:43Speaker 2: the police.
- 14:43Speaker 1: And they go in there and the homeowners got their
- 14:46Speaker 1: weapons out and they guarded the door and they huddled
- 14:49Speaker 1: around Jamie while Jeanie called the police, and the police
- 14:52Speaker 1: just didn't even know what to do. They were so
- 14:54Speaker 1: shocked that they had found Jamie close that it actually
- 14:56Speaker 1: took a minute for them to recognize what they were
- 14:58Speaker 1: saying and how urgent it was was that you come
- 15:01Speaker 1: here right now, because at some point.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Her captor, who can't be that far.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Away, is going to recognize that she's not there anymore.
- 15:08Speaker 2: And so they send the police.
- 15:09Speaker 1: And you know, luckily, Jamie's brought in and is saved,
- 15:15Speaker 1: you know, certainly not from the emotional toll, but she's
- 15:18Speaker 1: physically safe. Jake comes home from his big job interview
- 15:23Speaker 1: and he sees the Jamie's gone, and he sees footsteps
- 15:26Speaker 1: leaving his property in the snow, and he goes out
- 15:28Speaker 1: looking for her, and you know, just because this is
- 15:31Speaker 1: the way things go sometimes.
- 15:33Speaker 2: He was immediately rounded up by the police. They found
- 15:36Speaker 2: his car, they.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Found him, and as soon as he was pulled over,
- 15:39Speaker 1: he didn't resist.
- 15:40Speaker 2: In fact, he immediately identified himself and said that he
- 15:43Speaker 2: did it. Jake Patterson was given a life sentence.
- 15:47Speaker 1: Without the opportunity to parole, so he will die in prison.
- 15:51Speaker 1: But to this day, no one really understands how this
- 15:54Speaker 1: could have happened. And going back to what I said
- 15:56Speaker 1: at the beginning, cases like this don't happen. There's always
- 16:00Speaker 1: some reason for a crime such as this. We can't
- 16:05Speaker 1: as human beings accept that some stranger has the ability
- 16:10Speaker 1: to randomly target a child and go as far as
- 16:14Speaker 1: to kill their parents in front of them and hold
- 16:16Speaker 1: them hostage when they have no criminal history. There's no
- 16:20Speaker 1: red flags. It just he happened to see her getting
- 16:23Speaker 1: on a bus and.
- 16:25Speaker 2: That was all he needed.
- 16:26Speaker 1: I mean, how could that possibly be the case, But
- 16:29Speaker 1: in this unfortunate case, it just is.
- 16:33Speaker 2: So that's gonna do it. Guys.
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