Barron County

A long Wisconsin car chase finally came to a sudden halt when the driver was confronted with a large herd of cattle, police said.

The public had its first look Monday at the man suspected of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents. Jake Patterson, 21, went before a judge for a bond hearing in Barron County, Wisconsin, Monday afternoon. His bond was set for $5 million. NBC 5 Chicago’s Kate Chappell reports.

A criminal complaint has revealed gruesome details on the horrifying series of events that took place at the Closs family home on Oct. 15 – the night Jayme Closs was kidnapped and her parents fatally shot.

For the last three months, Jayme Closs was held captive, beaten, threatened and forced to hide under a bed for hours with no food or water, in a remote home by the man who allegedly killed her parents.

Jayme Closs’ grandfather hugged her on Friday, a day after her monthslong kidnapping ordeal ended, like he never wanted to let her go, NBC News reported. “Oh it was so good to just hug her. How wonderful that she was back and I could hug her again,” Robert Naiberg said. The 13-year-old girl who emerged from the woods in Wisconsin...

A young man suspected of killing a Wisconsin couple, kidnapping their teenage daughter and holding her captive for three months said he took the girl after seeing her board a school bus one day and kept her under his bed, prosecutors alleged in a criminal complaint. Jake Thomas Patterson told police while allegedly confessing to killing James and Denise Closs...

Barron County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald shares his reaction after he found out 13-year old Jayme Closs was found safe after going missing for several months.

Kelly Engelhardt, Jayme Closs’ aunt, tells NBC affiliate KARE that she had hope and faith that her niece would be found. Closs, who was missing since Oct. 15, 2018, was found alive close to an hour’s drive away from her home on Thursday.

The FBI is examining additional surveillance video taken from an expanded area around the Wisconsin home where a couple was shot and killed and their daughter was apparently abducted.