>>>
>>> YOU
>>> YOU ARE THE EMBODY WANT OF EVIL AND THE PUBLIC CAN ONLY BE
SAFE IF YOU ARE ENCARS RATED
TILL YOU DIE.
>> POWERFUL WORDS FROM A JUDGE
MOMENTS BEFORE HE SENTENCED
JAKE PATTERSON TO TWO LIFE
SENTENCES PLUS 25 YEARS IN
PRISON FOR KIDNAPPING JAYME
CLOSS WAS IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL
DAY HEARING FROM THE CLOSS
FAMILY.
FAMILY.
FAMILY. WE WERE IN THE COURTROOM AND
WE'RE JOINED LIVE WITH MORE.
>> REPORTER: RANDY, JAKE
PATTERSON KNEW HE'D RECEIVE
LIFE IN PRISON AND SEEMED TO BE
OKAY WITH THAT.
HIS ATTORNEYS ARGUED FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF PATROL WHEN HE
TURNED 100 BUT THE JUDGE
REJECTED THAT.
REJECTED THAT. INSIDE THAT ROOM, WE HAD TO
ENVISION ALL THE BRUTAL DETAILS
OF PATTERSON'S CRIME IN GREAT
DETAIL AND THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEY SHOWED PHOTOS OF THE
MURDER WEAPON, MATCHING SHOTGUN
SHELLS AND FRONT DOOR HE SHOT
OPEN AFTER KILLING JIM CLOSS
AND THE BATHROOM DOOR HE
SMASHED OPEN TO KILL DENISE AND
TAKE JAYME.
TAKE JAYME. SHE SAID PATTERSON TOOK THEM
FROM ME FOREVER AND SHE SHOWED
HOPE IF HER MESSAGE ABOUT HER
FUTURE AND THE THINGS PATTERSON
CAN'T TAKE FROM HER.
>> I FEEL LIKE WHAT HE DID IS
WHAT A COWARD WOULD DO, I WAS
BRAVE AND HE WAS NOT.
HE CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY MY
SPIRIT.
SPIRIT.
SPIRIT. HE THOUGHT HE COULD MAKE ME
LIKE HIM, BUT HE WAS WRONG.
HE CAN'T EVER CHANGE ME OR TAKE
AWAY WHO I AM AND CAN'T STOP ME
FROM BEING HAPPY AND MOVING
FORWARD WITH MY LIFE.
I WILL GO ONTO DO GREAT THINGS
IN MY LIFE AND HE WILL NOT.
JACK PATTERSON WILL NEVER HAVE
ANY POWER OVER ME.
I FEEL LIKE I HAVE SOME POWER
OVER HIM BECAUSE I GET TO TELL
THE JUDGE WHY THINK SHOULD
HAPPEN TO HIM.
>> REPORTER: GOING INTO TODAY'S
HEARING, THERE WERE QUESTIONS
ABOUT PATTERSON'S MOTIVE AND
HIS ATTORNEY SAID THERE WAS A
PSYCHOLOGIST LOOKING AT HIM AND
SAID HE'S NOT A PSYCHOPATH OR A
SOCIOPATH AND THE JUDGE SAID
SOMETHING CHILLING THAT
PATTERSON WROTE WHILE IN HIS
JAIL CELL SAYING HE HAD
FANTASIES OF KIDNAPPING
MULTIPLE GIRLS AND KILLING
MULTIPLE FAMILIES AND THE ONLY
THING THAT STOPPED HIM BEFORE
WAS THE FEAR OF BUT THEN HE
STOPPED BELIEVING IN GOD AND HE
STOPPED FIGHTING THE FANTASIES.
>> NOT ONLY WERE YOU A DANGER
TO THE CLOSS FAMILY, YOU ARE AN
EXTREME DANGER TO THE PUBLIC IN
GENERAL.
GENERAL.
GENERAL. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND
THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE MOST
DANGEROUS MEN TO EVER WALK ON
THIS PLANET.
THIS PLANET. >> REPORTER: TODAY'S HEARING
WAS TWO HOURS LONG AND IT WAS
VERY EMOTIONAL, ESPECIALLY AT
THE BEGINNING HEARING FROM
JAYME'S AUNTING AND UNCLES AND
TALK ABOUT THE FEAR THEY
EXPERIENCED AFTER THE CRIME NOT
KNOWING IF THEY'D BE TARGETED
AS WELL AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT
NIGHT AND TALKED A LOT ABOUT
HOW DEVASTATING THE LOSS OF JIM
AND DENISE HAS BEEN TO THEM.
BACK TO YOU.
>> LOU, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN
YOU ELUDED TO WHAT THE JUDGE
WAS READING AND PATTERSON
REALLY VISIBLY SEAMED UPSET AND
SAID SOMETHING [ INAUDIBLE
]ABLE THAT WE COULD NOT HEAR
BUT MAYBE PEOPLE IN THE
COURTROOM COULD HEAR.
CAN YOU JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT
THAT WAS.
THAT WAS.
THAT WAS. >> REPORTER: EXACTLY.
HE INTERRUPTED TO TELL THE
JUDGE TO READ THE REST OF THE
LETTER.
LETTER.
LETTER. I
LETTER. I WROTE A LOT MORE IN THE
LETTER AND YOU'RE IGNORING THAT
AND AFTER THAT, THE JUDGE
IGNORED HIM AND HANDED DOWN THE
SENTENCE.
SENTENCE.
SENTENCE. >> JAKE SPOKE BRIEFLY NEAR THE
END OF THE SENTENCING.
HERE'S WHAT HE SAID TO THE
JUDGE AND THOSE IN THE
COURTROOM.
COURTROOM. >> I WILL DO ABSOLUTELY
ANYTHING TO TAKE BACK WHAT I
DID, YOU KNOW.
I WOULD DIE.
DO ANYTHING TO BRING THEM BACK.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT ME, I JUST
AM SO SORRY.
>> CLOSS FAMILY AND THE COUNTY
SHERIFF REACTING TO THE
SENTENCE?
SENTENCE?
SENTENCE? A NEWS CONFERENCE JUST IN THE