The Barron Wisconsin Murders and Jayme Closs’s Escape
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
You know what terrifies me most about this case? Jake Patterson had never met Jayme Closs. Never spoken to her. He saw her getting on a school bus one morning and decided right then that he was going to take her. He killed both her parents, dragged her from her home, and kept her hidden under his bed for 88 days while police chased thousands of dead-end leads. But Jayme Closs refused to stay a victim. This is the story of how a 13-year-old girl saved herself when nobody else could find her.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to 10-minute murder. |
| 0:08.0 | October 15th, 2018. |
| 0:10.0 | A 911 call comes from a rural Wisconsin home. |
| 0:14.0 | When deputies arrive, four minutes later, they find two parents shot dead, |
| 0:18.0 | and their 13-year-old daughter gone. |
| 0:24.8 | The killer was 20 seconds down the road when police flew past him. |
| 0:26.1 | 20 seconds. |
| 0:33.3 | Jamie Clause would spend 88 days in hell before she decided she was going to need to save herself. |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah. October 15th, 2018 in Barron, Wisconsin. |
| 1:02.3 | It's about 1253 in the morning. |
| 1:03.8 | Most people are asleep. |
| 1:05.5 | Jamie Claus is asleep. |
| 1:11.6 | Her parents, James and Denise, are asleep in their home just outside of town on Highway 8. Somebody starts banging on the front door. |
| 1:14.6 | James Claus goes to see who it is. |
| 1:16.6 | He probably thinks it's an emergency, maybe a neighbor, maybe someone with car trouble. |
| 1:21.6 | When he opens the door, a shotgun blast comes through the window. |
| 1:25.6 | He's dead before he can understand what's happening. |
| 1:29.3 | Denise hears the shot. |
| 1:30.9 | She grabs 13-year-old Jamie and they run to the bathroom. |
| 1:34.1 | They climb into the tub and Denise calls 911. |
| 1:37.4 | She doesn't say anything on the call. |
| 1:39.4 | The dispatcher hears noise, movement, chaos, but the call stays connected. The man with the shotgun is Jake |
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