#297 Why Jayme?

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today we’re talking about the 2018 kidnapping of Jayme Closs, which involves a horrifying double murder that’ll keep you up at night, as well as a young man who was on a mission to find and kidnap a young girl, and when he saw Jayme, he knew she was the one. He shows up at her house with a shotgun and does the unthinkable, unexplainable; honestly. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Sources: https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/i-cant-believe-i-did-this-accused-jayme-closs-kidnapper-writes-letter-from-jail/89-e1a0eb81-4e41-474c-9800-5aa3672a7883 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD65WwlJMnM https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/us/jayme-closs-case-moment-by-moment/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/us/jayme-closs-missing-girl-barron-wisconsin.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/11/us/jayme-closs-found/index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05cx7iPZkU https://drydenwire.com/obituaries/james-and-denise-closs/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-accused-kidnapping-13-year-wisconsin-girl-killing/story?id=60343911

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host, Michael, and you know Andy's in the studio with me.
0:09.3	Oh, Michael, it is finally feeling like wintertime around here. It's getting a little chilly.
0:13.4	It's beginning to feel like like Christmas. Oh, great. Here we go. We live right near Christmas Town, USA.
0:20.0	Bidgette. Oh,. And lights is already up everywhere.
0:21.6	Jesus.
0:22.6	Seriously.
0:23.6	Interstate 85 is going to be backed up for miles.
0:25.6	The traffic!
0:26.6	The real Christmas lights, tail lights.
0:27.6	The real Christmas lights are tail lights, people.
0:30.6	Exactly.
0:32.6	Oh, we're talking about a small town today, though, as well in Wisconsin.
0:38.5	Hmm, not the, probably not quite as small as McCaddenville, but somewhere around there.
0:43.0	Yeah. We're going to get back to how small this Wisconsin town is. There's a, there's a quote
0:48.0	later on by one of the judges in this case about Wisconsin. And I was like, man, you're not that
0:53.4	old. I think you need to remember your history, man.
0:56.1	There's at least one other guy who's worse in this state's history.
1:01.2	You're missing one key guy.
1:03.5	So at least one hungry fellow who's a bit worse.
1:07.5	Right.
1:08.3	Rhymes with Stommer.
1:11.2	But, no, today we're talking about a 2018 kidnapping of Jamie Klaus, which also involves a horrifying double murder that honestly is the stuff of nightmares.
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