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The man accused of kidnapping Jayme Closs hosted a Christmas Day gathering while he held the terrified teen captive, forcing her to stay hidden under his twin bed, according to a new report.
Jake Thomas Patterson welcomed his relatives at the ramshackle “Patterson Retreat” — the former family home in rural Wisconsin, where the twisted 21-year-old allegedly kept the teenage girl for 88 days.
“The family was there,” a police source told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a report published Tuesday.
Patterson “told [Jayme] that if she made a noise or tried to escape, he would kill her.”
There’s no indication that any of the guests — who included Patterson’s father and sister — knew that a 13-year-old girl was imprisoned there.
Authorities say Patterson would play music in his room when people came to visit, to drown out any noise Jayme might make. He’d also surround the bed she was under with containers so she couldn’t be seen.
The sicko had stashed her away after allegedly gunning down her parents Oct. 15 in their home in Barron, about 80 miles away.
It would take another 16 days after the holiday get-together for Jayme to bravely make her escape, fleeing the isolated cabin in Gordon and finding help.



