Jayme Closs, 13, was found disheveled and thin but alive Thursday after escaping from a home near the town of Gordon in northwestern Wisconsin, about forty miles southeast of Duluth, the Barron County, Wis., Sheriff's Department announced late Thursday. Closs had disappeared Oct. 15 from her rural home near Barron, Wis., about 90 miles northeast of the Twin Cities, where her parents, James and Denise, were found fatally shot. She had not been seen or heard from since. One suspect, Jake Thomas Patterson, is being held for the abduction of Jayme and the murders of her parents.
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Where was Jayme Closs found?
Closs was found at 4:43 p.m. Thursday in a cluster of about 30 homes originally built about 50 years ago as cabins near the Eau Claire River, about 9 miles east of Gordon, in Douglas County, and about 65 miles north of Barron. A suspect, Jake Thomas Patterson, was arrested minutes later.
According to Denny Kline, chairman of the Gordon town board, most of the homes in the area are unoccupied during the winter months. The land is hilly and heavily forested. Many homes are set back among trees. Late Thursday, investigators blocked all streets leading to a cabin in the 14100 block of S. Eau Claire Acres Circle as they combed for evidence.

How was Closs found?
Kristin Kasinskas, a teacher at the nearby Northwood School who lives on S. Eau Claire Acres Circle with her husband, Peter, and children, said that around 4 p.m., a neighbor walking a dog frantically knocked on their door. Standing with her was a skinny, dirty girl with matted hair, wearing shoes too big for her feet who had escaped from a nearby home.
"This is Jayme Closs! Call 911!" the neighbor said. In a phone interview with the Star Tribune late Thursday, Jeanne Nutter, the woman who found the girl, said Jayme "came up to me and said she wanted help."
In the 20 minutes Jayme was in the Kasinskas home, the couple offered her water and food. She declined both but did say she didn't know where she was or anything about Gordon. From what she told them, they believe she was there for most of her disappearance. Jayme was quiet, her emotions "pretty flat," Peter Kasinskas said.
What do we know about the suspect?
Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, of Gordon, is being held at Barron County Jail. A criminal complaint charging Patterson with two counts of first-degree homicide and one count of kidnapping was expected to be filed next week, the Barron County District Attorney's Office said. Patterson was pulled over in a vehicle near where Closs was found and was arrested without resistance thanks to a vehicle description Closs provided, said Douglas County Sheriff Tom Dalbec.