Jake Patterson was a loner. Classmates described him as someone who was just….there…One day while driving to work he was behind a school bus that picked up 13 year old Jayme Closs, and he decided he couldn’t live without her.

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02:08 - Start of Case

02:44 - Jake Patterson

04:33 - Kidnapping

09:30 - Search for Jayme

11:15 - Jake Patterson house

13:02 - Jayme escape

17:39 - Jake caught

18:32 - Patterson prison letters

23:08 - Sentencing

25:30 - Jayme Closs victim statement

28:21 - Updates

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Logo by Stephanie Solheim from Grow With Meerkat (And my mom)

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SOURCES:

See the episode transcript for Sources. I ran out of characters lol