'We're Overjoyed, Overwhelmed': Church Services Celebrate Jayme Closs' Return Home
"You can almost hear Barron breathe for the first time in months," Senior Pastor Ron Matthews said.
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"You can almost hear Barron breathe for the first time in months," Senior Pastor Ron Matthews said.
Now that this shy, sweet girl is back in the arms of her family, the page will serve as a permanent reminder of how much she is loved.
Jane Straub, victim assistance specialist at the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, says people should celebrate Jayme's homecoming but also realize she will need time and space to adjust to life after what she's been through.
From the air, you can see how remote Gordon, Wisconsin, is. The home where 21-year-old Jake Patterson is believed to have held Jayme Closs is surrounded by woods.
Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald shared the highs and lows of the Jayme Closs search efforts and what he learned along the way, but he says the investigation is far from over.
When you grow up in Barron, Wisconsin, your path tends to cross with almost everyone in town. That is how 17-year-old Ashton Blick met Jayme Closs.
More photos of 13-year-old Jayme Closs, with her aunt Jennifer Smith and her dog Molly, were shared on social media Saturday morning.
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"It's amazing, the will of that 13-year-old girl to survive and escape," Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said.
In all, 3,318 people call Barron home. For the last three months, they've been one person short. They cried in hopes of finding Closs, and they prayed. And on Friday, they rejoiced.
The search for Jayme Closs came to a dramatic end Thursday when the 13-year-old freed herself and fled to safety. She encountered three people who helped her make contact with 911.
Authorities in western Wisconsin have identified the man arrested in connection to the kidnapping of Jayme Closs and the killing of her parents nearly three months ago.
Ownership of a remote cabin where a Wisconsin teenager was apparently held during a nearly 3-month disappearance passed to a credit union soon after the girl's abduction.
"I can't thank everybody enough for not giving up on Jayme, for not giving up hope, and all your prayers."
Child abduction survivor Elizabeth Smart says she was thrilled to hear Jayme Closs was found alive, calling the news a "miracle."
Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs, who went missing almost three months ago, was located Thursday evening, according to the Barron County Sheriff's office.
The Barron, Wisconsin community is banding together in its ongoing search for missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs.
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Barron community members gathered Saturday afternoon to release balloons for Jayme Closs as authorities continue searching for the Wisconsin teenager who has been missing for two months.
The town of Barron is blanketed in reminders of the mysterious disappearance of the 13-year-old, who went missing two months ago.
This week marks two agonizing months without answers in Jayme Closs' disappearance. The 13-year-old vanished after someone shot and killed her parents inside their home in Barron, Wisconsin.
A tree lighting ceremony is slated to be held this week in honor of Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old girl who's been missing for nearly two months from her western Wisconsin home, where her parents were found murdered inside.
More than two months after the disappearance of 13-year-old Jayme Closs, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald says they've found no new evidence to help find her.
The city of Barron, Wisconsin is holding out hope for the safe return of a missing teenager. Jayme Closs, 13, vanished from her home last month after her parents were shot and killed. The Clerk of Court Office in Barron decorated a Christmas tree in her honor, which is standing in the lobby of the sheriff's office. It serves as a reminder that she is still out there.
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