48 years ago, they used to fill that house with noise and laughter. Now only one of them is still here to remember it with us.
48 years? 😞
“Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis?!”
He saw a 13-year-old girl get on a school bus and decided she was the one. He killed her parents to take her. She got herself out.
October 15, 2018. Barron, Wisconsin. Jake Patterson was 21. Before 1 a.m. he was at the Closs family's front door with a shotgun. James Closs, 56, asked to see a badge through the door. Patterson shot him. Then he tied up Jayme and shot her mother, Denise, 46.
He had driven there twice before that month and turned back.
He took her to a cabin in Gordon, about 70 miles away. Whenever he left, he pushed her under his bed and walled her in with bins and weights.
She was there for 88 days.
On January 10, 2019, she shoved the bins aside and walked out. The first person she saw was a woman walking her dog. That day Patterson told a deputy: "I did it."
In the video below, it's a prison camera in New Mexico, August 2019. He had been moved out of Wisconsin for his own safety. Another inmate tells him to leave the pod. He throws the first punch. A guard ends it with a bean bag round.
Three months earlier, at his sentencing, he said: "I would do absolutely anything to take back what I did. I would die."
The judge didn't buy it. "Regret means you're sorry that you're caught. Remorse means you have empathy for the victims."
Two life sentences, no release, plus 40 years. "The public can only be safe if you are incarcerated until you die."
Wisconsin has no death penalty. He was 21. He will likely spend the next half century in rooms like the one in that video.
Is that enough for what he did, or should he have faced death?
WATCH: Woman OPENED FIRE on a business man sitting in his vehicle and missed every shot. When she tried getting away on a scooter. He cut them off causing them to crash into the vehicle. The woman attempted again to fire. And missed. The driver then OPENED FIRE striking her.