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Notorious Home of Kidnapping Victim Jayme Closs to Go Up for Sale


Notorious Home of Kidnapping Victim Jayme Closs to Go Up for Sale

Jayme Closs home

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The Wisconsin home where a teen was abducted and her parents horribly killed is expected to hit the market. It’s the second notorious “murder home” to be put up for sale this week, following the home that was the site of one of the Charles Manson cult’s killing sprees in southern California.

The Barron, WI-area house of kidnapping victim Jayme Closs was spotted earlier this week on HomePath.com, which lists Fannie Mae–owned, foreclosed properties. The home was marked as “coming soon.” The creepy, three-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom home has since been taken down after the media attention it received.

The modest, beige ranch house is the site where a 13-year-old Closs was kidnapped on Oct. 15, 2018, sparking a nationwide hunt. Her abductor, Jake Patterson, used a shotgun to gain entry to the home and kill her parents. He held Closs prisoner for 88 days before she escaped.

The single-family house on a wooded, 1.24-acre lot was described as “conveniently located just outside Barron on Highway 8” in the listing, according to an NBC affiliate. It has a two-car tuck under an attached garage and a sauna, according to the New York Post.

Closs hasn’t returned to the home since her abduction, according to the Post. She now lives with her aunt.

It was last sold in 2001 for $87,500, according to realtor.com® data. It’s estimated to be worth $125,900, but that likely doesn’t take into account a death discount.

“It will have to be severely discounted,” says Orell Anderson, a real estate appraiser at Strategic Property Analytics in Laguna Beach, CA. And that’s if it gets sold at all.

“The stigma will remain much longer and more prominently because this is a small town. My guess is this home will just sit vacant,” he adds.

“Things go more sideways when it’s a disgusting story like this involving children and a brutal murder,” he says. “I can’t imagine someone wanting to move in there with their family.”

Patterson confessed to the crimes. In May, he was sentenced to two life sentences for the murders and 40 years for the kidnapping.

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