Jake Patterson, After Seeing Jayme Closs Board School Bus, Decided to Abduct Her

Jake Thomas Patterson, of the Town of Gordon, Wis., who has been jailed on kidnapping and homicide charges in the October 2018 killing of a Wisconsin couple and abduction of their teen daughter, Jayme Closs. Closs was found alive Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in the Town of Gordon. Barron County Sheriff's Department via AP

The 21-year-old man accused of kidnapping teenager Jayme Closs from her Wisconsin home after slaying her parents initially spotted her boarding a school bus.

That’s what Jake Patterson told police officers during an interrogation after Jayme, 13, was found on Jan. 10, according to a criminal complaint filed in Barron County court on Jan. 14.