I look for information for this girl everyday on the internet...come home soon, I pray...Anne Frank wrote that she believes most people are good...I think so, too. God bless all the little children and old people, too.
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FBI EVIDENCE:
-Barron County, Wisconsin is a meth heavy area
-The front door was kicked in
-Perpetrators were in the house for 20min before the 911 call went out on Denise’s cell phone probably by 13 yr old Jayme.
-Jayme was very close to her mom: “inseparable”
-Jayme didn’t have a boyfriend (FBI questioned everyone)
-Car tracks at the scene reveal the getaway car was one of these 3 cars: 2006-2010 Ford Edge, 2004-2010 Acura MDX, 2008-14 Dodge Challenger
-FBI and Sheriff suspect Jayme was taken as a hostage to bargain with in case they get caught.
-Tip Line: 855-744-3879
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The pictures, the story, it looks and sounds like a beginning of some Stephen King's novel. I definitely see where he gets the inspiration.
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We just drove past Barron a couple of weeks ago, as were were out enjoying the beautiful fall in our much beloved Wisconsin. Always considered the small towns here like Mayberry. And there's always been the notion that Milwaukee is where you have to lock your doors - but nowhere else in the state. Over the years we've seen the tidy and quaint Wisconsin towns looking pretty rough. Rarely see small dairy farms anymore, just miles and miles of corn fields or mining for frack sand. Fitting that Wisconsinites considered their state, God's country - and so sad to see it go downhill. And collectively, Wisconsinites seem to have changed as well - very much divided just like the country. So sorry to hear about this as I know this will further change Barron.
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My family also vacationed in the Chetek area around Barron in the 60s. The cabin was so cool and every day was an adventure when you are 6 or 7. I recall a camp area called Sweetheart City. My parents never worried about us nor our safety back then. That entire area was that safe and friendly and comforting.
My heart breaks for the Closs family, their friends and the entire town of Barron. Abducting Jayme was horrific. Murdering her parents is beyond terrifying. "Ms. Jendery's 8-year-old son now sleeps with her older son, 13. He’s afraid to use the bathroom at night." That level and degree of fear will stay and haunt that community for a very long time.
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I wondered why the Somali community in Barron was singled out for attention? No one else brought food to searchers? Consciously or not, I think in these times it points fingers. If you are breaking out ethnic groups, how many of Polish or Czech or Hmong or German descent live in and around Barron? How many maladjusted bachelor farmers? How many Republicans, Democrats, and Independents? Any gays? Any sexual predators living in the area? Cults?
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I didn't get that aspect at all. I got that there was a new, large immigrant group that had also been impacted by a darker part of modern society. A person of Czech background, for example, has been integrated into Barron for many years. They have a larger network to share fears and resources with. The article was depicting how the Somali community is trying to do the same.
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@Jsb In NoWI. I found that disconcerting as well-my first thought as I read the entire article. This is what our nation has become in the last couple of years unfortunately.
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@Jsb In NoWI agree..I found it odd they singled them out and then made a point of saying they brought food.. subtle racism..
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What a lousy thing for the cops to post on Facebook, to watch your neighbors.
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Big brother is here...
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Yes, you should keep your eyes open, and inform the police about any suspicious behavior. That's how cases are solved. Do you think somebody came out of nowhere and did this?
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A person would have to know where that house is at 1AM in the morning set back from a county road. They didn't just stumble upon it in the middle of the night. Presumably the dog would be barking and the person would know that the dog would not be an impediment and if it were it would have been killed too. I think this person knew where the house was, knew the dog would not bite or attack and knew the family
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@Big4alum
Wondering if the dead couple had somehow made enemies at the turkey processing plant. Union talk/disagreements? Political frictions? Petty jealousies? Lots of weirdness and dysfunction happen in large production facilities.
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Thank goodness for all the commenters here who have all but solved the case based on such limited evidence! I’m going to call the FBI right away to let them know we’ve figured it out.
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Did the family own any guns? What kind ammunition caused the two deaths? Any connection?
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My theory is that the perpetrator was at the most, an acquaintance, most likely a stranger. Jayme is a very pretty child and she caught his eye. He was watching the family home for days to discover their habits and routines while he planned this heinous crime. Please, let Jayme be found alive.
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I am not sure how the police know the daughter made the call, but I do think that if it’s clear dhe did, it would fiscredit teories that she or hestrated this. If she just wanted to disappear, calling police while you’re still home makes no sense.
And with door kicked down at that hour, it also doesn’t help in suggesting she arranged it. If she had help, she could just let those people (or person) in.
It all sadly does seem to point toward an abduction.
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Why exactly is midnight underwear man (part-time burglar) not under suspicion?
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@vsanthony Did you see his photo? He has that classic bowl haircut that every other psychopath seems to have these days.
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Presumably an alibi and/or DNA or other forensic evidence that doesn’t match him.
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What happened to the investigation into the killing of 8 (?) people in rural Ohio (Pike county?) couple years ago?
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@Har Mike Dewine is too busy running for governor today. He would prefer you not bring this up just now. Of course, as Atty Gen'l, he was all over the news at first.
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i am saddened that so many posters, without any evidence whatsoever, are confidently accusing this young girl of murdering her parents.
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This is a well written article. However, I think it would be beneficial if there were some more details added to the story that aren't mentioned.
- The Closs family was last seen at a family birthday party on the evening before they were murdered.
- All three of their cell phones were left at their home.
- When police arrived, the front door had been kicked in and the parent's bodies were riddled with bullet casings.
- A little over a day after the homicides, there was a tip (which was later found to be not credible) that Jayme was spotted in a black SUV in Miami, Florida.
- On October 22, the Sherrif's department announced three vehicles of interest: a 2004-2010 black Acura MDX, a 2006-2010 black Ford Edge, and a 2008-2014 red/orange Dodge Challenger.
- There is a $50,000 reward (previously $25,000) for information leading to the discovery of Jayme Closs.
(For credibility, I live 15 minutes from Jayme Closs's home.)
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Wisconsin has an atrocious track record of letting child rapists off. It takes an incredible amount of physical evidence to prosecute for sexual child abuse in that state. My educated guess is that whoever is responsible has been arrested numerous times before and let go every time. It's common there.
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I grew up in a small WI town in the 50's and 60's. Not unlike Barron, but not quite as isolated. There was creepy stuff going on then and given the social media world we live in now, the creepiness has only been exacerbated. While alcohol was the main problem when I was growing up, opiates of every description, including heroin, have permeated every sector of the country. My 28-yr old son has lost many high school friends to heroin and I live in a very educated and affluent part of WI. In rural areas there's not much to do but hunt, get high and try to figure out a way to leave. If you've seen the movie, Winter's Bone, it captures at least the spirit of what a lot of rural America is going through. It ain't pretty but it's all too real. I'd be looking at the friends of this girl and I'm guessing decent police work has likely scrutinized every corner of her online life. Sad story.
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There is a disturbing amount of victim-blaming/speculation in the comments, despite this:
"An Amber Alert was issued for Jayme, and in the weeks that have followed, her name has shot to the top of the F.B.I.’s missing persons list. The agency has expanded its search nationwide, classifying her as “missing and endangered.” She is not a suspect in the case, according to the sheriff."
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Weird theory: I wonder if they have done a genetic test of the girl's DNA, compared to both parents', and then conducted a broader "relative" search based on hers. Is it possible that 13 years later a man, who just found out he has a child, came to get her?
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@archemie
Honestly, when men abduct 13-year-old girls, fatherhood is not the first explanation that comes to mind.
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if the girl had anything to do with it, there would be a massive digital footprint.
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Readers who think the 13-year-old girl murdered both her parents and then ran away don't know anything about homicidal crime. I'd suggest reading up on the books by Robert Ressler (who coined the term "serial killer"), John Douglas (the original FBI profiler) and Roy Hazelton.
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@globalnomad
I've read several of Douglas' books, quite fascinating and I would love to hear his take on this.
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This is a very tragic story and I would never want this to to happen to anyone else. Sad to hear nowadays, people are always shot and dead, why is our society like this? I believe that since both of the parents are dead, the daughter had killed them then ran off and went missing. People hate confrontation and many of of these photos show the real thing so its very frightening to know that is happening. I also cant understand why there would be a person going around the neighborhood of Barron abducting children.
@Elfnesh
13-year-olds in rural WI likely don’t have the knowledge and skill to plan and pull off such a crime. Disappearing without a trace afterward makes it seem even less likely
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@Elfnesh the FBI does not consider Jayme a suspect. Please go read onlie the facts of the case before offering that she killed her parents. No facts point to such possibility. While tempting to treat this as a murder-mystery novel, please remember that there are real family and friends who grieve the loss of these people. I am one of those people. This supposition only adds to the hurt.
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Did they find the cellphone at the house? Or, were the parents murdered much earlier and the call was made from another location by the kidnapped daughter? It's hard to believe the killers got away unseen in less than ten minutes.
This won't go unsolved. Like the abduction/murder in Iowa this summer, even rural towns have enough video cameras to get a glimpse of a fleeing vehicle involved in a crime like this.
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I think they have not investigated the guy who stole the girls clothing enough.
It seems like he should be their number 1 suspect.
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This might turn out to be like the murders at the Clutter family home. Strangers no one knew. On that basis, hopefully people won't start suspecting their neighbors.
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Every death is just another example of the freedom guns give us. Ask Dana Loesch.
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It was guns that took away these people’s freedom!
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@SG1
Hard to argue that it is more difficult to kill people, especially more than one at a time, without guns. Certainly possible, but a whole lot slower, needing much more physical ability and callousness, and generally leaving more evidence.
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I want to commend Tim Grubber for the fantastic photographs he took to illustrate this terrible happening. The tire tracks that appear to skid to a stop in the middle of nowhere suggest an abrupt and unresolved mystery. The corn stalks with the house in the background suggest, to me, a peeping Tom, and I'll not say what the sparse woods in the third photo suggests.
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This is a very sad story. Two people are dead and a 13 year old girl is missing. Many people are traumatized and frightened.
I would ask that people refrain from treating it like a murder mystery, imagining that they have a theory that large numbers of trained investigators wouldn't have considered.
I would also ask that people refrain from using this as a forum for sharing their political views. There are plenty of other places to do that.
There are so many tragic stories in our world that I think we become less sensitive in order to protect ourselves from feeling so helpless in the face of so much sorrow.
Yet if we lose our sensitivity, what do we have left?
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I hope this poor child is still alive and can be brought home. If she is not, I hope she is found and the killer is punished quickly so there can be some sort of resolution. There are any number of heartbreaking scenarios that come to mind, none of them good, but it is all speculation. I would assume that law enforcement would have cell phone and internet use records for the whole family by this time and have interviewed all of their friends and family. They would have some inkling if it was someone she knew or someone who was obsessed with her or someone whom she met on the internet. The house was isolated enough that I wonder if it is someone familiar with the family.
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There is no legal authority for the FBI yet - even in a "missing persons" case. There simply isn't, at least according to the facts in the article. Reporters should get the precise legal basis because this will tell you something else the FBI knows that makes this a Federal Affair or creates probable cause to believe it is an interstate matter. That is the legal standard.
I remember the Yosemite abduction/murders and they were searching for days for a legal justification until they discovered one of the missing girls was a dual citizen, and even then the FBI technically could only search for her.
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@Thomas Busse Kidnapping is a federal crime.
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Thank you for covering this story. It is heart breaking and disturbing for rural Wisconsin, and likely for parents everywhere. I can only hope that the stars align and that those responsible left a trail somewhere to be found, followed. We appreciate your attention. Many thanks.
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Do a web search of these words:
human trafficking in the usa
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An 8 year old girl was abducted from her home 3 blocks from my family nearly 15 years ago. She was a schoolmate of one of my sons. The community moblized, pushed police, media, and politicians to keep up the pressure. My sons slept with for weeks. My younger son asked why anyone would take a little girl from her house. What was I to say? She was found by volunteer searchers miles and miles from her home, raped and dead. Her family was ruined. Neighborhood kids, my son included, ended up in theory. One boy was found curled in a fetal position in the hall of his house, shaking. The monster was caught and was sentenced to death. That was no comfort. None at all.
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surely there would be vehicle tyre marks as it is a dirt road. if there are no tyre marks maybe the daughter has taken off with some undesirable she has hooked up with. Sounds to me like the police are making assumptions based on previous murders and kidnappings. Maybe someone should be looking into the daughters life that her parents didn't know about. if one sleaze ball was found in the house - goodness knows how many others in the small town were sniffing around. A 13 year old could be easily manipulated by some older impressionable undesirable. It could've been anyone who used the phone and sounds like a domestic incident if shouting in the background.
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@CK
Small town in a rural environment? Not likely there were "hook-ups" without the whole town knowing. I went to H.S. in a small town in the Central Valley, not much happened without gossip. The Clutter family were murdered by complete strangers passing through.
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Given most murders involve family members, there seems to a pretty strong hypotheses that the daughter was involved and then spirited away by a friend
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People trafficking is a business and a way of life in lots of places lots of new immigrants come from. Maybe a people trafficking gang stealing kids to order.
It apparently happens in developed countries in Europe as well in undeveloped nations. Maybe the government needs to see if there is an abduction pattern throughout the USA.
Uncontrolled immigration creates this problem as you don't have the specialist services and police training to deal with disappearances.
That's why immigration needs to be restricted so as your infrastructure and police services can be upgraded to match the increase in population.
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@CK
<> Of course! The immigrants did it! /Sarc. The poor immigrants, who do most of the heavy lifting here and are generally more law abiding than the natives, couldn't catch a break, even here. The Trump "message" even made it to NZ?!
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@CK
Good grief. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Is there any evidence whatsoever that "immigrant people-trafficking gangs" have anything to do with this story?
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A big challenge for detectives in a community like Barron, WI is that it is close to wilderness areas with trees (Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest) and large bodies of water where homes and cabins are often secluded. That means a kidnapped person could be held out of sight or a body dumped where neither might be found for a long time.
I hope people in the region will help the search by being especially aware of their surroundings. Today, more people go into the outdoors still glued to their phone screens.
If you go camping or hunting, take the time to search the area of your activities. Consider where you would hide in a game of hide-and-seek and look accordingly. Get to know your neighbors and pay attention for signs that someone is acting in an unusual way (like a guy you know who lives all alone suddenly buying feminine products and extra food at the grocery).
The larger community needs to be the eyes and ears (within reason!) for law enforcement. A single tip is often all it takes to bring someone home and prevent a lifetime of anguished wondering for the family.
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@Heather: Wisconsin's firearm deer hunting season begins in 10 days. If there is something to be found out there, literally tens of thousands of people will be tromping through the fields and forests.
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My husband grew up in Barron. His family still lives there. This article is a very poignant telling of this tragedy. This community is devastated by this and life there will never be the same. It sounds like law enforcement did everything right. The delay in the amber alert was not the fault of law enforcement. They worked hard but this situation did not meet the criteria. State and FBI were called in immediately.
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These photos are a haunting and brilliant depiction of the story. Very well done.
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Maybe the daughter didn't want a future that was the lifestyle of her parents.
Many kids today want more ,think they need
more to be relevant.
A lot gets distorted on the internet and in the immature minds of teens.
I am sorry to say this, but Jayme could very well be the killer and has taken off with an unknown boyfriend.
A very tragic story no matter what the outcome turns out to be.
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@JV Unfortunately I agree. Whether the daughter had a boyfriend is not mentioned in the article. There have been too many cases in the news where a girl is forbidden to see her boyfriend anymore and so they hatch a plan to get rid of the parents. This whole story is a tragedy no matter what the truth turns out to be.
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@JV
Good grief, is there any evidence of that???
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@DW
The police would be derelict in their duties if they did not consider Jayme as a possible suspect. Children do kill. Any evidence the police have will be released when the suspect is captured.
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"Longtime residents like the Closses have been joined in Barron over the last decade by refugees, many of them Somalis,"
And there it is. No murder weapon, no body (of the young girl), no motive, but somehow the percentage of refugees in town is relevant. The USA sickens me.
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@Andrew The Somalis were kind to the people working to find Jayme. We are thankful to them.
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@Andrew
I agree with you. The US sickens me
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@Thomas It's just the facts. Jenny O needs the workers and it is close to a vibrant Somali community in Minneapolis. Don't read much into it.
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Sounds, by definition, to be an unusual and unfortunate sequence of occurrences. Things happen. My guess is that it was someone passing through a small town unknown to people in the area and that the girl was abducted. She was probably killed and disposed of within a short period of time. This may never be solved. I wouldn't blame the local police. Arrival within four minutes of a 911 call is pretty remarkable. If the confrontation took place close to the front door that explains the absence of much evidence to go on. What a terrible tragedy. My best wishes to the poor folk of Barron. I highly doubt that it was anybody from that small town that committed this heinous crime. Random violence. Random crime. Random disturbed person. They're out there.
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@Robert
That is what I thought; it reminded me of the famous Clutter family murders by two complete strangers.
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@Linda Miilu
If you’re referring to the Iowa family written about in Capote’s In Cold Blood, the killers were not entirely unknown. They heard the Clutter’s had a large amount of cash on hand in a safe. This knowledge was gleaned from a day laborer on the farm and passed along in jail to the killers.
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What a heartbreaking tragedy. Worse in a small town, really, than if this had occurred in a large city.
I was immediately thinking about Truman Capote's book, in "In Cold Blood", about the drifters who came thru a small town in Kansas in 1959 and killed a whole family.
I dont' think it's a good idea to leave one's front or any door unlocked, in any city or town, no matter how small and friendly. You never know who is coming through a town.
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@Oakbranch
I really don't understand why this would be "worse" in a small town than in a city? Two people murdered and their child missing, that's somehow not so bad for people living in a city?
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@DW - it's a bit worse in a small town because they have a false sense of security in a small town. Everyone knows everyone and they feel safe because of it. Now they realize their small town isn't keeping them safe. In the city, we don't have that false sense of security that our neighbors are all nice and everyone is on the up and up.
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@DW Everyone in a small town knows everyone and their kids. In large towns, you don't know your neighbor who lives a few doors away. When you know the person or their parents who was killed, it makes it closer to you and your own safety.
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I think it was someone who had some familiarity with the Closs family . I think it was someone who had been in the house before, even just to use the phone with the excuse of "My car broke down and I don't have a cell phone. Can I use your phone?" I can't imagine going to the front door, in the middle of the night, with a gun, prepared to do what he/they planned to do ... and knew,
without a doubt, that they could "kick in" a front door. Also,
how were they so sure there wasn't a burglar alarm or some sort
of surveillance device (somewhere) in the home. It would appear
they were sure of this. Or who would do what they did? So bold.
As much as I hate to say this, I think the goal was to abduct Jayme. My heart has been heavy and saddened since this happened. I think of the family every day. I also hold out hope for her eventual return.
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@Kelli, yes, this is my hunch as well. An Elizabeth Smart sort of situation. It could be the girl and a bad apple boyfriend, but I fear it is more like someone wanting her as a sex slave.
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@Kelli
Does anyone really knock on doors saying "May I use your phone?" anymore? Seems unlikely.
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@DW They have been out their knockin' on doors to get out the vote. As plausible as anything else here!
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Unfortunately, the reality options are limited. The thirteen year old is dead or was involved in her parents' murders.
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@Lisa C Or she is alive and being held captive by her abductors, or she was, as others here have mentioned, sold in some sort of child sex trafficking ring.
But I agree with your point; there is absolutely no good outcome for this poor child. None.
Even if she is miraculously found and returned home, her parents were murdered. Every single possible scenario is horrifying.
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This article should include a better picture of the girl -- surely someone must have one? If the girl is still alive, getting her face out there across the country might be the key to finding her if someone, somewhere, has seen her.
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@Nikki
the link is in the article.
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/jayme-closs
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The 911 call definitely sounds sketchy and worth deeper scrutiny. And why is the only photo of the girl one that foreshortens her face?
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Speculating as to what happened is fun and interesting, but let's remember that in all likelihood we are being told only a small amount of what the police and FBI know--indeed we may even be getting false information for strategic purposes. Let's leave the detective work to those who have the evidence to do the work effectively.
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Great writing by Sarah Nir. Writing like this takes us beyond the news into the feelings of those good people who are victimized by these cruel acts and into their communities.
Speculation about the crime is fruitless; we can only hope for a resolution to this criminal act, with our sympathies to those who have suffered from it.
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This article fails to mention that it took at least 13 hours for law enforcement to activate the amber alert. Why is that? 13 precious hours lost to find the child. Did they think she was a suspect??
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They issued the Amber Alert later that afternoon because they had no suspect description or vehicle information to give to the public.
(I live 15 minutes from Jayme Closs's home.)
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@Melissa M To file a missing person report in most states it requires 24 hours to pass. I agree this is WAYYYY too long.
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No doubt this is the work of the migrant caravan and the Islamic terrorists that are coming with them. I’m sure Trump can blame this on immigrants.
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@Grover
not appropriate even though my sentiments about Trump are likewise
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It seems really strange that there would be a true stranger killing of small town people like this, especially with the daughter kidnapped.
The "Charlie Starkweather" explanation doesn't seem likely here -- the girl is a bit young to have been dating a boyfriend she would have run away with, nor is any such boyfriend mentioned.
Most other explanations -- parent having an affair, etc, make less sense with both parents killed.
That they both worked at the turkey plant makes me wonder about temporary or itinerant workers, truck drivers, etc, who would have had exposure to the family, and especially the girl. I would imagine that nearly everyone related to the plant has been looked at closely for past criminal behavior.
I also wonder if maybe one or the other parent might have been exposed to some kind of drug trafficking and was killed for threatening to expose it or for knowing too much.
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@Mobocracy
I thought of Charlie Starkweather, too. Caril Ann Fugate was only 14 years old when that murder took place. Hopefully, this child will turn up.
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@Melissa Holzinger
It was my first thought, too, but the times are so different. Age 14 was considered more mature and adult-like in the late 1950s in a rural community than it is now. Marriage before 18 wasn't uncommon and a girl involved with an older boy could more rationally indulge in a romantic fantasy of marrying and escaping a bad family situation.
Now, marriage before 18 is considered the definition of a bad family situation and I think few girls of 14, urban or rural, actually would consider it a fantasy to escape with their boyfriend/husband because they see that kind of domestic involvement as something a decade or more away.
If she was involved, Starkweather-like, I'm sure she would have had a worse social reputation in town, and been seen as less sweet and more troubled. There's some chance that the family's popularity may be silencing rumors of a troubled youth, but the police likely would know about this and focus on a known boyfriend as a suspect.
I fear that kidnapping the girl was the entire motive here. Robbery or other motives associated with homicide wouldn't imply a high-risk kidnapping, killing the entire family would have been lower risk.
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Not saying the cops investigating are inept, far from it. Like the Jon Benet Ramsey murder, the Boulder cops were way over their head. Had they asked for help from the Denver PD homicide the case may have been solved.
Why are there so few photos of the missing girl?
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White male is my guess. Not a Somali. Probably no stranger. Stop misusing "psychopath" please. Let's pray for her safe return.
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Male is my guess. What difference does it make—all colors of men kill females.
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4 killings over a period of 10 years in a town of 3423 people -
isn't that a bit too much? clarify that statement, please
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@peggy The four killings were in Barron COUNTY, population 45,000, of which Barron is one of many towns.
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How did this thief get in the house? Isn't it still a crime scene? One would think that law enforcement would have it secured so no one could enter it till the case is solved.
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@susan I was wondering just the same thing. It doesn't suggest good local police work, that a door to the scene of an unresolved murder and disappearance should be left with an unlocked door. Kind of appalling, really.
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@susan The thief was caught by surveillance equipment law enforce installed at the home.
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@susan Perhaps law enforcement left that door unlocked on purpose. Set the bait and see who takes it. The article says that the fellow has been ruled out as a suspect but that may be a ruse as well.
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Muffled shouting... I'd think people would shout at someone they knew, but scream if it were someone they didn't know. Shouting suggests an argument with a known person.
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@Suzanne Moniz Maybe. Maybe not. The husband was shot at the door, which suggests stranger. The muffled shouting could have been the mother begging for her and her daughter's life.
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For all the 'boyfriend did it' theorists: it's more than likely she would have brought her dog if she left voluntarily.
There is alot of of missing information such as : were bloodhounds brought in to track her scent? In such a rural place, they would definitely find her unless she left by automobile.
What about the ammunition used,; did it identify the weapon(s)?
Given that the father was killed by the front door and mother was inside tells me that he was shot when the perpetrator(s) entered the home, his wife as soon as they located her on the phone.
Based on the limited information, my theory would be criminal non-resident(s) who happened by and saw an opportunity to snatch the girl.
God help her.
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@Jonuld The father could have been trying to LEAVE the house after having been shot, inside. I read a report that said the police found him alive inside the door, but I dont know if he was conscious
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America. No one is safe. Anywhere. This will be forgotten by next week.
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@David It is true that security is an illusion. However, Jayme won't be forgotten by her town by next week. Unless she is found, they will be left wondering about her for forever. It just won't be headline news anymore. Especially in a small town like this, she has friends and family that still care and who will continue to wait.
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@David
Jacob Wetterling was searched for and remembered vividly each and every day of the 29 years it took to find him.
Jayme will not be forgotten in Barron.
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@David That isn’t necessarily true. It won’t be front-page news forever, but many times, stories like this stick with people.
I live in NY and frequently thought about Etan Patz.
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This is certainly a dark story.
Has anyone involved in the investigation thought that perhaps the girl was being sexually abused by her father; and she told her mother who didn't believe her; and repeated complaints about him yielded nothing, so she orchestrated/arranged the killing herself then disappeared?
Something to think about.
Now, with the internet, and all manner of making contacts, it's not an impossibility.
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@Euphemia Thompson You are leaping to unsupported conclusions. The facts as currently reported are as follows: Parents murdered, girl missing. You are speculating that the girl is a murderer for which you have no evidence. Wait for some evidence before you blacken her name. It is easily as likely that she was kidnapped by whoever killed her parents. Just as good an unsupported theory as you have put forth.
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@Euphemia Thompson, no offense but you have an active imagination unsupported by the facts presented in this article. Speculation, wild imaginings and dark accusations are not helpful.
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@Debbie and to @Jennifer above:
I am not leaping to anything. I was MERELY putting out a theory -- SPECULATING on the possibility that this is another theory to be investigated. Re-read how I wrote my comments and you'll understand what I said. I am more than aware that I was speculating. Thank you for "editing" my thinking. You are both so capable. Bless your hearts.
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I know Barron County. As a family, growing up in the '60s, we vacationed at a small, not-fancy (at all) lake and cabin situation, in the lovely little town of Chetek within Barron Co.. Beautiful waters, great fishing.
It was then, and I expect still is, the quintessential 'up north' Wisconsin get-away destination for that precious one week a summer ...
Yet, of course, there are the year-round locals that inhabit these towns and villages, and make it all go. While living their personal dream, perhaps, a lifestyle far from cities and noise and all else.
So, for me, this is a bit personal and sadly, this is a 'story' with almost no good possible outcomes at this point. I hold out hope for young Jayme's well-being, yet time is not on her side.
Services were already held for the parents.
If anything, and the opposite of wild and groundless and uninformed speculation from afar ... I would ask any readers of this to please hold this family in their hearts as they have certainly been ripped into pieces, and healing will be a long time in coming.
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@jazz one — sadly I have to agree with your comment that time is not on the side of Jayme since about 3 weeks have passed since her parents were murdered and she disappeared.
I obviously hope I’m wrong and that the evil person who abducted Jayme is still holding her someplace and she will eventually be returned to her family.
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The kidnapping of female children seems on the rise in the last few years. It is probable that separation of the parents and children on our southern borders has acerbated this trend making a lot of money for the sale of girls overseas. The up and coming march of migrants has already probably produced one sale. There could be a lot more of them as they approach or enter our borders. In the past, separation has achieved a loss of parent-child attachment. And, a number of young girls and boys have been "lost."
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@Hank, I'm totally confused Hank. Are you implying that the murder of 2 parents and the disappearance of this girl is linked, somehow, to a paeodophile ring originating south of the US boarder? Like I said, just confused by what you wrote.
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@Debbie
I'm not sure but I suspect that the ring(s) is/are international including the US.
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Sigh. Two things to sigh about (beyond this nightmarish scenario):
1) Please people, widespread searches all the houses in the vicinity is a grossly illegal act. I get the desire for it but please cease recommending it, as doing so wears down the utter wrongness of it. Some here have suggested it's being totally Ok because if you're innocent you should have nothing to hide, and I can only say LOL!! Many ACTUALLY INNOCENT people were arrested during the house-to-house searches during the search for the Boston Marathon bombers, and here in New York the police in the subway consider refusal to let them look in your bag as probable cause for looking in your bag -- 4th Amendment be damned. Should we also go back to arresting the usual suspects? Beside all else, it's lousy police work. Bad News All Around.
2) The salacious value of an underwear thief is high, and I understand why some fixate on that. But, the thief stole clothes, "including underwear". The "including underwear" part was thrown for it's bald sex stimulating aspect; the actual clothes stolen was two tops, a dress and a pair of underwear. Having your head in the toilet obscures your view of events as they transpire; remove head from toilet, have a look around. One way or the other, the guy suffered a felony arrest for it.
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I don't get how, in 2018, there is anyone in America who actually believes that their town is too precious, too innocent, too rural to experience a seemingly random violent event. Heinous acts happen everywhere in this country, every single day. If they were as rare as some of you commentators think (i.e., "gee whiz this reminds me of that one murder 60 years ago from 'In Cold Blood'"), the Investigation Discovery channel would go dark for lack of programming.
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@Alexis I dunno. I grew up in one of those towns. There was no crime. Literally. We didn't even have keys to our own house, the door was always unlocked. It goes like that for years and years until something bad happens. It's easy to feel like you're in a safe little bubble in your safe little town.
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@Alexis Most of those places have the same, if not worse issued with domestic violence. Isolation makes it easier to hide things, and for others to cover them up when they don't fit the narrative.
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@Alexis Statistically we're in the safest time in Human History
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Recipe for parental murder: adolescent love, older boyfriend, strict religious parents, small town gossip and repression, immaturity, easy access to a handgun. Bang! Bang! Run!
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@Portlandia Someone would have likely known if she had a boyfriend that the parents know about.
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@Portlandia
If they were shot with the family's own gun, the police would probably have figured that out. Jayme is not a suspect, so there are probably reasons (not specified in the article) why not. She was more likely kidnapped. Hopefully she is still alive.
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Most likely, the daughter is dead. Outside possibility, she's a contemporary Lizzie Borden.
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Whoa!!! This guy has been arrested sneaking into the empty house and taking the missing girl's clothes/underwear? It would take one year of 24 hour ironclad alibi to not focus more on this guy, not just he was known to be somewhere else at the moment the 911 call came in...sounds like a stakeholder to me
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@Melquiades: Unfortunately there may be more to this guy than the artical writer could substantiate. Rumor has it he has been arrested and charged for breaking in and stealing women's clothes before. I will not repeat where I got this information and cannot guarantee it is true. You can read more on the "closed" Facebook groups on the "abduction of Jayme Closs".
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@Julie P
Oh, that's great, that's really great, "closed Facebook groups" (plural - there's more than ONE??!) on "abduction of Jayme Closs."
What a world we live in. That really sickens me.
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@DW I'm no fan of social media and think technology is really messing with humans right now, but I can imagine some good reasons for the groups. Perhaps locals wanting places to find or share information, but not wanting crazy people or voyeurs to start posting there.
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Couple aspects of the case seem significant: I have read that the front door was 'kicked in', indicating it must have been locked - in a town where 'few lock their front doors'. Also, the police arrived four minutes after the call, which means that the murders and the 'abduction' of Jayme must have occurred immediately after the front door was opened. This suggests that there was a confrontation between the parents and someone they locked the door against who broke it down and left with Jayme, none of which seems to fit the behavior pattern of the typical opportunistic burglar or intruder. All of which could mean that the killer is someone known to the family and to other people who live in Barron.
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@mark
Absolutely nothing about this strikes me as an opportunistic crime.
Actually, I was also rather curious about the timing on the 911 call.....thinking that if father shot, child grabbed, mother shot calling 911 at 1am, and if the police arrived in 4 minutes, wouldn't they see getaway car/ truck/ motorcycle lights in the long and dark expanses of those open fields?
The call came in at 1am. Police "traced the call" & we have no idea how long that took. Once they had Denise Closs's name it took them 4 minutes.
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@mark
That the girl was taken and not killed suggests that her kidnapping was central to the motive. Even if you can spin a narrative of random home invasion or robbery, it seems more likely that perpetrators willing to kill the parents would kill the girl vs. the risks associated with kidnapping her.
I think it's likely that the abductor was someone casually known to the family with an obsession with the daughter, perhaps a temporary turkey plant employee or someone like a truck driver who came and went from the plant. Killing the parents seems to be an extreme action, though, and I would expect a straight up kidnapping to be more likely given the opportunities in a rural community vs. a more urban one.
The only other explanation that makes sense is some kind of drug trafficking was exposed to mom or dad at the plant, and the killing was ordered by a drug cartel to enforce silence. Fear of this would explain the door being locked and provide the only motivation I can think of for an extreme homicide and an opportunistic kidnapping.
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This article had a really interesting feel to it, and it's nice to get a portrait of this small town and how this event has affected them. I found the inclusion of the bit about the Somali refugees as random because the article wasn't about them? But it was interesting information nonetheless. But yeah, that didn't seem to fit really.
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@Paige In small towns, where everyone knows everyone and has for generations, the information about refugees is a vital detail.
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How I wish President Trump might read this article and learn the goodness of the people that come to America for a better life.
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@Mamie Watts
If Trump read this article he'd immediately start tweeting that Somali immigrants are coming to murder your daughters.
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@Mamie Watts
Trump can't read, so it's a moot point.
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Another downside to this is: because those of us in other parts of the country are reading about this and about other terrible crime - people think crime is on the rise. In fact it has fallen dramatically over recent decades - we just hear about every case where in the past it was only local news.
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@Paul Define crime, please.
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As a dog lover, I'd suggest posting a pic of the dog. I'm sure that if she ran away with someone, she misses her dog.
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I'm sure the FBI has a profile of this person, and given the information to local law enforcement. Was it someone she met on line? The FBI probably has their forensics looking into her hard drive to see its history. I hope she is found safe soon for everyone's sake.
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this should be a mini podcast
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Smells of a cover up.
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@Julie - Hope not. The FBI was heavily involved.
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@Julie
Good grief, why? How? Who?
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Motive is everything. Find the motive, and you find the criminal. All they need now is a lucky break, like “ In Cold Blood”. They tied that lucky break to the robbery motive, and bingo. It took more than just a few weeks. Then Sarah Maslin Nir can write it up into a book, but hopefully it won’t consume her life like it did Capotes.
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Just thrown in at the end of the story, 20% of the Barron population is Somali.
They would be Black and Mohammedan .
Not the usual Wisconsin population.
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Your point?
What if 40% are Scandinavian? What is you point?
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@Sparky Jones - are you suggesting what I think you are suggesting?
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@Sparky Jones
So?
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An epidemic of mayhem,murders or the missing, young and old at the hands of men with weapons, whether in this young girl's rural home, whether in a Jewish place of worship in Pittsburgh, whether at a yoga studio in Florida, whether in a school in Parkland Florida, whether at a concert in Las Vegas, whether at one's workplace around the country. And what do we do about it? We wring our hands, offer the ubiquitous thoughts and prayers, send another email to our representatives in Washington. Whatever. If women committed the number of crimes white American men with guns did, we would probably declare women diseased and find a suitable medication. But here in the good ol' USA, we can't seem to notice the common denominators...see: White men, guns. Sprinkle in misogyny and the internet. Stir. Missing children, murder and mayhem is the result. What are we going to do about it? Nothing.
The message is: women, children, the elderly at a place of worship--all are expendable. Admit it: we say we really care about our fellow Americans. Do we? Then why do we allow them to be slaughtered, day after day, year after year?
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@Eva Lockhart
Hear, hear. When will there finally be a reckoning, a #MeToo movement that targets angry men, their toxic abuse, and their murderous gun violence?
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@Eva Lockhart who said the men were white???
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@Eva Lockhart, Not only is it white men alone who have guns and use them too, often.
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A boyfriend the parents didn't like took her somewhere. She knew him otherwise he may have killed Molly, the dog. And as far as Kyle Jaenke-Annis goes, I usually like Ms Nir's reporting but she didn't explain why he wasn't a suspect, I presume because of an alibi. And they may be withholding information because KJ-A is a suspect and don't want to let that info out.
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Could be he was just a $ opportunist. Any items could become very $ valuable on Ebay or dark net. The more mysterious or sensational, the more $$$. There are all sorts of people who treasure such items...
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@Anne R. Check out historical accounts of sensational murders - much crime scene evidence used to be lost to such nonsense, even in small towns.
@Anne R.You should contact the hotline, I'm sure no member of the sheriff or police department, or even the Federal B.I., thought to look into the boyfriend angle.
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I was originally born and raised in Wisconsin, about 3 hours south and east of Barron. Spouse is not from Barron, but his brothers played basketball there. We have family spread throughout Northern Wisconsin.
This is personal.
I hope and pray every day the perp. is caught. I can't help but think he/she will be, due to the sloppiness of this crime--front door kicked in, loud argument caught on the 911 tape, other evidence.
And I still hope Jayme is found alive. That's all we have right now--hope.
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Based on nothing but human nature, I'm guessing Jayme wasn't happy at home, found an older troubled boy who promised to love her, and one night he came by and they left together.
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@Sam: The shortcoming with this theory is the aftermath doesn't fit. Impulsive teenagers aren't likely to completely elude a massive law enforcement effort for three weeks.
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Funny how those living in rural America want everyone to think this sort of thing only happens in the city.
Give me a break.
To me, there is something inherently distrustful about folks who choose to live "off the grid."
Human beings aren't meant to live in isolation. The chances of being ripped off or dying a mysterious death go way up in these parts of the country.
In my mind, that's why a lot of these Americans have been suckered by Trump.
When you've never met a black person or a gay person or someone who recently immigrated to this country, it's hard to feel a connection.
But guess what? WE ARE ALL THE SAME.
And, if you believe the U.S. Constitution -- we are all created equal.
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@Maurice S. Thompson Sorry to puncture your fantasy, but nothing in the article indicates that the local residents are hostile to the Somali immigrants.
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@Maurice S. Thompson
Your comment and tone are indicative of a big part of the problem: The urbans think less of the rurals, and the rurals know it. As a lifelong (and highly educated) small-town lefty stranded in a big liberal West Coast city, I miss those rural towns and communities; I've also lived much further "off the grid" than a town of 2,000 90 miles from a major U.S. metro. It's not because I think small towns are safer; I know the stats. It's because of who I am, who my partner is, and how we want to live.
So, stifle the snide remarks -- instead, consider how you can emphasize with people, rather than insult them.
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i hardly think living in a small town w cell service is "off the grid". And why mention profiling of city dwellers but then stereotype and make assumptions about those who live outside of cities?
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Have they taken Jayme's dog Molly to all the homes nearby and of the convicted sex offenders/other possible suspects in the area to see how the dog reacts?
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Warrants based on probably cause would be needed if consent to enter was denied (plausibly based on the risk of a false positive). I don't think probable cause exists.
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@Rhinebeck "Lassie" was fiction.
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I'm surprised Donald Trump has refrained, so far, from speculating that one of the Somali immigrants might be behind it. Or maybe it's just Guatemalan women and children we have to worry about.
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@Richard
Trump probably does not know what and where Somalia is.
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@JuniorK He could not pronounce it nor find it on a map.
Yet I’m sure once someone tells him about Jayme, he 100% will blame them.
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What a minute, wait a minute. What about the cars supposedly seen close to the Closs house around the time of the murders? Was this a dead end or was there no further info on the cars?
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@High Chapparal I was wondering about that too. The police don't mention if anything was taken from the house. Besides The daughter. Either way nobody deserves what this family went through
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You so wonder if they’ve given any thoughts to sex trafficking. She is of the age where it is the most common. A terrible mystery. That poor child.
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@Kathryn B. Mark I think sex trafficers don't really have to violently kidnap kids and kill their parents. It's easy to find runaway, homeless, and forgotten kids in larger cites. Nobody knows they're missing.
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Thoughts while reading this:
1-I am hopeful that there are security cameras in town and that every car driving by can be assessed. It's how they caught the guy in Iowa who allegedly killed Mollie Tibbetts. Were there any new vehicles seen on or before that day?
2-Can the family's internet provider and phone carrier provide the FBI phone records and internet data to see if any of them in online chats or even arguments?
3-Was the mother's phone which made the muffled 911 call left behind at the scene? I pray they find the poor girl alive.
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It's reassuring that apparently no one seems to blame the Somali community.
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@Andy For one thing, in the town of Barron, a black guy visiting a white family's house in the middle of the afternoon WILL BE NOTICED.
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These cold and likely calculated murders are absolutely heartbreaking. Very much reminds me of the chilling "In Cold Blood" murders in Kansas, except the original modus operandi was premeditated robbery.
But it also serves to remind me of the danger inherent to living in such an isolated country home with no real neighbors in any close proximity to provide possibly important potential clues that having neighbors can help with. So incredibly sad.
But several oddly placed statements in this story are concerning. The post-scene apprehension of the man stealing Jayme's underwear goes without saying. What I find extremely troubling is that police arrived to the scene 'four minutes' after the distress hangup call was received from Jayme. Why no call to begin blocking streets, highways, watching video footage, etc., immediately. Something isn't adding up.
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@RLC I'm with you on all of what you are saying here, esp the guy caught in their house. but I would offer that living in the country without close neighbors is not inherently dangerous,.. the crime rate in cities attests to that. believe me, life is good in rural places with no traffic, close community, and being close to nature. That's all a side note to this terrible story; may they find this child soon.
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@RLC
Because in a town that small, it's unlikely that the local police department had a sufficient number of officers to deploy as you suggest. Further, there was no hard evidence at the time that something dreadful had happened. Many people call 911 and then hang up; officers or dispatchers will always dial back that call to the location to find out if all is well, but they won't necessarily assume a full dragnet is necessary without more information.
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@RLC "Police traced the call to Denise Closs’s cellphone...."
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Heartbreaking.
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This reminds me of the murders of Mary and Michael Short and their daughter Jennifer near Martinsville, Virginia, in 2002. Jennifer was abducted after her parents were shot. Her body was found 6 weeks later. The crime has never been solved. I still have a button with her picture that was sold before her body was found to support efforts to locate her. Maddening.
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Wait so they caught a guy in the house, stealing a missing little girl's underwear... But they've cleared him of involvement?
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He probably has a solid alibi and he has been ruled out. He's on their radar now though, for future consideration.
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@Austin Per the comments above from @Robitaille03 and others--about the police withholding evidence, such as fingerprints, that is specific to the perpetrator/s--the authorities may likely have some forensic details that eliminated the person who entered the house after the murders. If the police arrived four minutes after the cell call, one wonders if the perpetrator/s had time to remove anything they left behind. Regardless, whole situation is very sad. The article gave me the chills.
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@AustinI agree! He was either getting clean clothes for Jayme or for himself. They caught in another robbery wearing women’s clothing. That’s probably why they don’t think he had any involvement!
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"Last week, a local man, Kyle Jaenke-Annis, was arrested inside the Closses’ house; officials said he had taken clothing, including underwear, that belonged to Jayme, but they also said he had been cleared of involvement in the killings and disappearance." As for many others in the comments section, this paragraph, in its inconclusiveness and weirdness, jumps out at me. I will bet dollars to donuts that Jayme is not only alive, but is being held captive by someone right there in that town.
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@Me Yep. You covet what you see every day. The killer is local. I have no idea how this guy got cleared or what the deal is, but this sounds ridiculously suspect. Perhaps he is under surveillance.
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@Me: The clothing thief probably has an airtight alibi.
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“ You covet what you see every day “ - the Silence of the Lambs. Absolutely Chilling.
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There is a lot the police know that is ot being shared. 1) They know Jayme was there during the murders. How? 2) They know Jayme is not a suspect. How? 3) Forensic teams have been all over everything everywhere and probably several times. It defies belief that the killer(s), who fled 4 minutes before the police arrived, left nothing behind and cannot be traced.
They are going to find who did this.
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@traveling wilbury Investigators often keep specific crime scene details/findings under lock and key so that, during interrogations or other communications with people of interest, only they and someone who committed the crime (or was there at the time) would know whether certain things about that crime are true or false. It is a common practice used to determine if someone is a suspect or not.
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@Robitaille03: Yes, you are right. Quite rightly, the police behave this way. Maybe it's wishful thinking but I'd be flabbergasted if the 21st Century forensic science applied hasn't produced results which are not being shared. So it is beyond me why this story is still active.
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@Robitaille03 that's understandable. In this situation of life and death, I feel they need to maybe worry less about prosecution, and more about getting the public's help! This girl could still be alive! We have nothing to go on in order to "help".
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I believe the man who killed her parents and kidnapped her is holding her for a while. Search every house in town. He won't keep her for long and he'll never release her alive.
Poor, poor girl.
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@Jenifer
While I very sincerely hope Jayme is found, I'm glad that as Americans we are protected by the 4th Amendment and the police can't bust down every door in town in the aftermath of a crime.
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@Jenifer
"Search every house in town..."
I can't believe 30 readers recommended this.
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Aside from this tragedy thinking of what this town owes to immigrants. Many Somalis came here as asylum seekers.
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@Idiolect
What this town "owes" to immigrants? When and why did this thought become a staple much less mainstream that the USA is just sitting here waiting to hand out to all others across the globe what we "owe"?
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@Honeybee We don't know that the daughter was 'abducted'. She might have fled.
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@Honeybee — It isn't clear to me that the girl was definitely abducted. It is a current assumption. She could be quite near by dead or alive. She could be near, alive, and have lost her mind. I think her dog may have let them know quite a lot.
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Reminds me of:
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime--law/pike-county-murders-big-questions-years-later/5wEBWj2dwa3GExsumPE6gP/amp.html
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"Police traced the call to Denise Closs’s cellphone, and arrived at the house on Highway 8 four minutes later"............ 4 minutes that's the riddle~the solution really!
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@John Brady
Do you even know how far apart these locations are?
But why let facts (or lack of them) get in the way of a good conspiracy theory?
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@John Brady Correct - look, random villains passing by did not make a 911 call. The call must have come from the girl, which is how they know she was there. Probably she ran off with someone ...
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@John Brady: 4 minutes is pretty good response time, especially in a rural area with a small police department. We don't know who or how many responded, how experienced or well trained they are, what they might have seen and either forgotten or ignored on their way, we don't know squat, actually. We don't know what if anything the FBI and forensics have turned up (they're not going to share all that). There's a great deal they can tell from a crime scene, even a compromised one, and they're not gonna blab what they know all over the place unless they think it will help find the girl and/or solve the crime. Barron is a very rural place surrounded by miles of farmland, not the easiest topography to search effectively. The only thing we can be sure of is that Trump will blame to Somali immigrant population and they will suffer because of it.
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Meanwhile this past weekend in Chicago 15 people were shot and 2 killed. You can get away with murder in Chicago which has the lowest clearance rate of any major American city. The notion that this happened in such a small rural community raises the specter of someone possibly hiding in plain sight. The fact that the girl was not killed immediately gives some hope and some dread.
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@Blackmamba How do you know the girl wasn't killed immediately? She may have been removed from the home, murdered in a waiting car, and her body remains hidden.
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This is a town where everybody knows everybody and many people are related. Somebody has to know something. Yes, the town is on edge and reeling from shock.
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What a heartbreak. And something is weird with that guy who stole the young woman's underwear. I hope she can get free and get safe.
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@RCJCHC
I know right? Seems he would be charged with breaking and entering & the underwear??? Creepy!
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@Jeanne. He was, and rumor has it he has done this before and been charged. It sounds like he also has a GoFundMe campaign for a sex change. This doesn't make him a murderer, but shouldn't clear him necessarily either.
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I wonder if the police checked every nook and cranny in every single house, in town and surrounding region. The girl could be held hostage within the vicinity. This has happened before in plain sight. I hope they catch this monster. This is a case where I don't mind seeing the death penalty for the perpetrator. I feel profoundly sorry for the family and all people in touwn. What have they done to deserve such a horrifying fate, it looks like the work of a psychopath.
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Get a search warrant. That is what I would say if police came to my door and I live in Maryland. The police do not have the right to "checked every nook and cranny in every single house, in town and surrounding region." If the person is psychopath as you have diagnosed then they are mentally ill. And your solution is putting a sick person to death? Maybe reconsidering your thought on they tragedy is worth while.
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@Bob
“Diagnose”?
I doubt the writer is a mental health professional, and is probably using the term “psychopath” informally.
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@Bob " If the person is psychopath as you have diagnosed then they are mentally ill. "
A psychopath is not sick. They are simply incapable of empathy and will always be preying on someone. All that will stop them is life in prison or execution.
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I wish this had answered the question of why the local man was taking clothing and underwear that belonged to Jayme.
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@CW
Locally the newspapers said he was just "curious about Jayme." Probably some cognitive issues too.
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Good reporting. The facts, well organized and written. No speculation or attribution to global warming or the President.
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@Alex Trent Yes, the "President" is always a victim, isn't he?
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@Alex Trent -- Actually, as Trump logic goes: Some people are saying he did it. We haven't NOT seen him do it; so certainly, he must be considered a suspect. Of course, I don't want to eliminate the question mark, but he's a very bad man, who (some say) has done some very, very bad things. Who knows? I'm just sayin'.
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@Lissa And we'll see.
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Reminds me of the Starkweather murders in the 50s. 18 year old Charles Starkweather's "girlfriend" as 13. He worked at a warehouse near where she went to school. Of course, there was little mystery to the Starkweather killings.
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@omamae1 Or "In Cold Blood", the Clutter family.
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Please post the picture of Jayme.
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Exactly! This missing child’s photograph should be constantly in the media so everyone around the country can be on the lookout.
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A photo is included in the piece, mid way.
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@carol Goldstein
There is a picture (undated) of her found in this article.
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A monster. Not the mythological, fairy tale variety of times past. The American variety, born and bread. A Male with a Gun, intent on satisfying his dark fantasies. Heartbreaking, and almost routine. Seriously.
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@Phyliss Dalmatian
“ Bred “. I hate autocorrect.
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@Phyliss Dalmatian
But be afraid of CARAVANS. White men with guns okay.
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@networthy
Because the national origin of the killer is what's really important.
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Excellent article. Comprehensive reporting. We are praying for her safe return!
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