Recently in Wisconsin to two life imprisonments sentenced 21-year-old Jake Patterson.
Last fall, Patterson broke into a house in the town of Barron, where he killed a man and a woman and kidnapped their 13-year-old daughter, Jamie Kloss. Patterson was not familiar with Jamie, didn’t even know her name. As told he arrested once, returning from work, he saw a girl at the bus stop and realized that he «needed» and that he would kidnap her.
‘I Did It’: Suspect allegedly confesses to trapping Jayme Closs beneath bed, killing parents, the complaint says https://t.co/tKfUPQ8jmj pic.twitter.com/0S16fce3Xj
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Jamie was looking for almost three months across the country, yet the girl did not asked for help in a nearby town – as it turned out, after 88 days she managed to escape from captivity.
Before Patterson was sentenced, the family lawyer read out a message from the girl herself.
Here are excerpts from this message:
«In October last year Jake Patterson took my mom and dad. I loved them and they loved me. They did everything they could to make me happy and protected.
I felt safe in my house, I loved my room and all my stuff. He took it all too. I don’t even want to see your house or your belongings because of the memories of that night.
I loved hanging out with friends. I loved to go to school. I loved to dance. And he took it. Too difficult for me to go public. It’s the usual stuff that do all people, but I can’t.
But there’s something that Jake Patterson will never be able to take from me. He cannot take my freedom. He thought he could own me, but he was wrong. I was smarter than that. I watched his routine and she regained freedom.
Jake Patterson will never take from me courage. He thought he could control me, but it’s not. He acted like a coward. I was brave. He didn’t.
He can never take my spirit. He can’t prevent me to be happy and move forward. I will be able to accomplish many things in life, and he didn’t. It needs to be «closed» forever.»
