Gripping 911 audio reveals the moments right after 13-year-old Jayme Closs was found — and how the people with her were terrified that her abductor would track her down again.
“Hi, I have a young lady at my house right now, and she says her name is Jayme Closs,” shaken Gordon, Wisconsin, resident Kristin Kasinskas tells the emergency operator around 4 p.m. Jan. 10.
The stunned worker, trying to confirm that the teen is in fact Closs, who had vanished after her parents were killed at the family’s home nearly three months earlier, asks, “Have you seen her photo, ma’am?”
Kasinskas responds, “Yes, it’s her. I 100 percent think it’s her.”
“Does it look like she’s gonna run?” the operator says.
“No, she’s just sitting down. She’s relaxing,” Kasinskas says.
The 911 operator then takes the caller’s information, including her name and address, while Kasinskas pauses at one point on the side to ask Jayme if she is thirsty or cold.
Kasinskas explains to the operator that a neighbor, Jeanne Nutter, is the one who actually found Jayme walking on the road, and the worker asks to speak to her.
Nutter tells the operator, “I was walking my dog, and we were almost home, and she was walking towards me, crying, saying, ‘You gotta help me, you gotta help me.’
“So, I didn’t want to go into my cabin because it’s too close to Patterson’s house,” Nutter explains.
The operator asks, “And she said her name is Jayme Closs?”
“Yep. And when I walked into this house, they recognized her immediately from posters,” Nutter responds.
Nutter stops to ask the teenager, “Jayme, do you know when he was going to come back?”
The resident then explains to the operator, “She thought he was going to come back at midnight.”
“Who is going to come back?” the worker asks.
“His name is Jake Patterson, Jake Thomas Patterson,” Nutter replies. “So, we’re kind of scared because he might come, so if the cops could get here soon …”
The operator assures her, “I have many deputies headed that way, I’m going to keep you on the line,” then adds to double-check again, “And she said, ‘I am Jayme Closs’?’ ”
“Yes,” Nutter says. “She said, ‘He killed my parents, I want to go home. Help me.’
“She didn’t know where she was. When I saw her, she was saying, ‘Where am I? Where am I?’ I said, ‘You’re in Wisconsin.’ ”
The operator then takes Nutter’s personal information, presses for any known details about Patterson’s whereabouts and again assures her, “I’ve got multiple deputies headed out there [to the Kasinskas home], so just stay on the line with me.
“Does she seem like she’s going to need medical attention at all?” the worker then asks Nutter of Jayme.
“I would think yes. I was a social worker for 30 years, so yes,” Nutter replies.
“OK, what do you think is her medical condition right now?” the operator asks.
“I think shock and cold,” Nutter says.
“Just try and speak very calm and if she feels, just don’t try to push her too much,” the worker advises.
Nutter replies, “No, we’re not.”
The 911 operator then tells Nutter to begin preparing for the cops to arrive.
“Ma’am, my deputy, he just wants you to lock the doors. And don’t let the dogs out or anything, just everybody stay inside until I can get deputies there,” the worker says.
Nutter can be heard in the background assuring Jayme that everything will be fine.
The emergency worker asks for more information about Patterson and the cabin, but Nutter responds that Jayme “has no idea where he is.
“She told me that when he leaves her, she doesn’t know where he’s gone. He turns the music up real loud, he hides her under a bed. He’s the only one that lives there.”
“OK, does she remember how far she was walking before she met up with you?” the operator asks.
“She was like, maybe 100 yards from my cabin,” Nutter says.
The operator asks of Jayme, “Does she seem comfortable right now?”
Nutter responds, “Yeah, we have her wrapped up in a blanket.”
The resident is then asked for anything she knows of Patterson.
“He doesn’t work, and I asked [Jayme] what kind of car it was” that he used, Nutter says. “ It’s red, he used to be in the military. There’s a bunch of cars in the driveway [of his cabin]. I mean, I’ve walked by that place I can’t tell you how many times”
“Oh, you know where it is?” the worker says.
“It’s on Eau Claire Acres Road. It’s on the same road I live. He lives two doors down from me,” Nutter says.
“Do you know Jake?” the operator asks.
“No … We only come up here periodically, but he’s never been friendly or talked to me, and we’ve been here four years,” the resident replies.
“I’m telling you, I’ve been coming here four years and never seen his face. The driveway, I just walk by it and I just noticed he hasn’t really plowed his driveway, just kind of swept at the end,” Nutter says.
“And all the doors are locked?” the operator asks.
“Yes, all the doors are locked,” Nutter replies.
“I’m just gonna let you know, when the deputies pull up, they’re just gonna give me instructions on how they wanna handle it,” the worker tells Nutter.
When the resident says Kasinskas’ husband’s parents are on their way to the home, the 911 operator gets adamant about keeping them away.
“No. No. No. She needs to call them right now and tell them do not go,” the worker says of Kasinskas. “I can’t have anybody showing up at that house right now.”
Also, “I need the dogs to be put in a shut room because there’s going to be a lot of deputies coming in. It’s just, it’s going to be a lot of commotion, dogs react differently,” the operator instructs.
“Are they close? We’re just nervous,” Nutter says of the cops.
“They’re close, hang on a second,” the emergency worker responds. “They’re on [the street] right now. Can you see the suspect’s house from where you’re at?”
“No, because the road kind of curves. … It’s just too curvy and woody here,” Nutter says.
The resident pauses, and there is noise in the background. She then says, “I was just asking if [Jayme] was afraid, and she said ‘no.’ ”
“OK, good. You guys are doing a good job of keeping her comfortable,” the emergency worker replies.
“And you’re doing a good job of keeping us calm,” Nutter says.
The worker chuckles and says, “That’s why we’re here” before asking, “Are you guys all in, like, the living room? Where are you guys at in the house right now?”
“We’re all in the living room,” Nutter says. “When they drive in the circle driveway they’ll see a porch, a white porch with a Christmas tree and a blue car is parked by the garage.
“OK, somebody’s here, it’s a police officer,” the resident says. “We need to let them in, right? I see lights. Somebody’s here. It’s a police officer! How are we to let them in? We need to let them in, right?”
“Hang on, I’m asking them,” the operator says. “OK, was there a deputy that knocked on the door?”
Nutter: “No, they’re in here with us.”
The operator finally says, “OK, Jeanne, I can let you go. Thank you, good job.”
Patterson was soon caught by cops driving back to his isolated home in the woods, after having hit the road futilely scouring for his escaped prisoner.






