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Lesbian Is a Synonym for ‘No’ (Or: Guys, Please Leave @LayneMorgan Alone)

Posted on | January 13, 2019 | 2 Comments

 
Layne Morgan is a 25-year-old lesbian — L-E-S-B-I-A-N — from Boston who is now living in L.A. where she is attempting to become a TV writer.

Now, my plan when I woke up today was to write about the notorious terrorist Angela Davis, but my plan got derailed because of some anonymous idiot in Los Angeles who can’t comprehend English. On Twitter last week, Layne Morgan told this story that went semi-viral:

 

You can read the rest of that thread if you wish, but the point is that this idiot was violating every rule in The Basic Book of How to Get Laid, which is one of those many books I’ve never actually bothered to write because I have this thing about getting paid for my writing, and unless a major publisher wants to throw me a $30,000 advance on the basis of a clever blog post or two, why bother? But the point is, I could write such a book, which would include a chapter entitled “Tempus Fugits: Never Waste Your Precious Time Trying to ‘Convert’ a Lesbian.”

Let’s start by giving Mister Idiot proper credit for being bold enough to try the cold pickup, i.e., making a move on a complete stranger in public. Any experienced player will tell you, this is a long-shot gamble that almost never works. As I’ve sometimes remarked, female sexual psychology involves a hard-wired default “no” response. Guys have to learn to cope with rejection — don’t take it personally, don’t get demoralized if a girl brushes you off — because the vast majority of women to whom you are attracted will not reciprocate your interest.

In order for Mister Idiot even to attempt to score with a girl at CVS requires a certain sort of courage, an imperviousness to shame because, viewed objectively, there is a near-zero likelihood of success in such a scenario. Was he autistic? Or had he been reading some kind of PUA (pickup artist) forum to learn this move?

“Whoa, you have pretty eyes!”

Not a bad line, but here’s a clue for you idiots: READ THE SIGNALS.

This is why I suggested the guy might be autistic, because if your opening line is to tell a girl her eyes are pretty, you should be able to judge from her reaction whether she’s into you or not. And I can’t imagine that Layne Morgan’s reaction to this line looked anything like a green light signal. I mean, if a guy opens the conversation with a compliment, he has put the ball in her court and should wait to see if she returns the volley, so to speak. See, this is the difference between flirting and harassment. When you’re flirting, it’s a back-and-forth game with two players, whereas if you go bulldozing in and corner her — making her feel trapped, looking for a way to escape — that’s harassment.

Some guys are autistic, and some guys are sociopaths, and what Layne Morgan was trying to convey in her Twitter thread was: Girls can’t tell whether a guy is just clueless or dangerous — or maybe both.

Go read her thread again and notice: He never once made a joke.

Mister Idiot’s failure to display any sense of humor during their exchange is what makes me think this guy might be somewhere on the autism spectrum, because one of the basic traits of autism is a lack of self-awareness, and any emotionally intelligent guy would have acknowledged the absurdity of his situation. I mean, a guy works up the courage to try the cold pickup and his random target turns out to be a lesbian? What a perfect opportunity to employ self-deprecating humor!

Guys, pay attention: Learn to laugh at the tragic aspect of your plight.

Why? Because chicks dig it, that’s why. Every decent, intelligent and rational woman understands how tough it is for the average guy to muster the courage to make a move, knowing full well he’s going to strike out 99% of the time, because the average guy is merely average, and women are not attracted to average guys. Mister Idiot — the guy who made his move on Layne Morgan — must not be particularly attractive, or otherwise he wouldn’t be hitting on strangers at CVS, right?

One of the things guys need to understand is The One-in-Seven Rule.

About 15% of people — roughly 1-in-7 — are sufficiently attractive that they never have a real problem finding romantic partners. Go back and look at your high school yearbook with this rule in mind, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. I mean, how many of the girls you went to school with were really good-looking? And the thing is, all the guys wanted to be with those girls, but only about 15% of the guys had any chance at all with them. The guy who was merely average had no chance whatsoever.

Well, if you’re as clueless as Mister Idiot, you don’t understand this because you lack the basic self-awareness to estimate your own attractiveness. Consider the rather obvious evidence that (a) you’re in your mid-20s and (b) so desperate for female companionship that (c) you’re trying to pick up some random girl you saw at the drugstore.

Life has a way of sorting people into two categories: Winners and losers. If you’re a heterosexual guy in your mid-20s who isn’t married or otherwise involved in a steady relationship, you are by definition not winning. By the time my oldest sons were 25, they were already married. Trust me on this, guys — if you’re 25 and making enough income to pay the rent and you don’t have a girlfriend eager to move in with you (with hopes of becoming your wife), you are by definition losing.

If a guy is even moderately good-looking and shows any prospect of going somewhere in life, he will have no trouble finding a girlfriend. So the fact you’re 25 and don’t have a girlfriend — in fact, you’re so desperate you’re trying to pick up random chicks at the CVS — means you’ve got serious problems. And the lack of any humor in Mister Idiot’s approach to Layne Morgan is a major clue to what this particular guy’s problem is.

When I was 16 or 17, I was still fool enough to imagine I could win by being sincere and earnest, that I could be the brooding romantic protagonist — Marlon Brando, James Dean, whatever — but all that ever got me was rejection and heartbreak. “Unrequited love” is a fancy poetic synonym for loser and, circa 1976-77, I was perhaps the World Champion of Hopeless Crushes on Girls Way Out of My League.

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,” as Benjamin Franklin observed, and I learned all my lessons the hard way. Eventually, I figured out how to make my clownish sense of humor work to my advantage, to laugh at my own inherent absurdity. The reason self-deprecating humor works is because (a) 85% of all guys are not very attractive and (b) by laughing at your pathetic predicament, you’re demonstrating self-awareness. If a guy falls below the One-in-Seven threshold, he’s going to have to put in some effort to get a girlfriend, whereas genuinely attractive guys — the top 15% — have had lovestruck girls chasing them since they were in seventh grade.

Go read Jack at Sigma Frame to get some concept of what I’m trying to convey here: For all the talk in the “manosphere” about Alpha males vs. Beta males, the fact is that if you’re the real Alpha, you don’t need any advice on how to get laid. No, the idea is to become the Sigma male — the average guy who wins despite his inherent disadvantages.

Look at yourself, Mister Idiot! Isn’t it obvious you wouldn’t stand a chance with Layne Morgan even if she were heterosexual? You’re merely average, a dime a dozen, which means you’re basically invisible. No attractive woman would ever look twice at you, which is why you’re so desperate that you’re bothering random girls at the CVS.

Because I would never in a million years make that particular move, it’s difficult for me to rewrite this guy’s script. If you were in some kind of social setting — a party, a concert, a sporting event, or any setting that suggested a commonality of interest — you could easily find a way to introduce yourself to a woman without making it unnecessarily obvious you were trying to score. But just to move in on a girl at the drugstore and drop the “pretty eyes” line on her? Dude, that’s a million-to-one shot. You’ve got to be ready to take “no” for an answer, and guess what?

Lesbian is a synonym for “no.”

You’re barking up the wrong tree, homeboy. You rolled the dice and didn’t hit your point. You crapped out. You’re a loser. Go home.

If you’ve read Layne Morgan’s thread, you know that Mister Idiot didn’t play it that way, but instead was so persistent and intrusive that she felt threatened. If that’s your idea of an “Alpha male” approach, you should seek psychiatric care immediately. As I say, this guy’s approach was a million-to-one shot and if you’re going to take that kind of shot — making a move on a complete stranger — you should expect rejection, because female sexual psychology is hardwired for the default “no.”

Even if you were unusually attractive, above the One-in-Seven threshold, the circumstances of an approach like this weigh against your odds of success, because the fact that a woman is good-looking enough to catch your attention and inspire such unusual boldness means . . . what?

Anyone care to guess the answer to this question?

Good-looking women are usually not single.

For the same reason that a genuinely attractive male — i.e., the top 15% — doesn’t have problems finding a girlfriend, neither does the One-in-Seven girl experience much difficulty finding a boyfriend. Therefore, if a girl is good-looking enough to catch your eye, she’s probably already taken. It is thus a classic loser move to zoom in on a pretty girl and act like she’s got nothing better to do than to spend time talking to you. Pretty girls are insulted by this kind of approach. She is offended by the very idea that you might think she would be interested in an average guy: “Can’t you see that I’m too good for a loser like you? Get lost, creep.”

Despite every common-sense argument against making a move in such a circumstance, however, Mister Idiot opens up with a compliment — “Whoa, pretty eyes” — and makes the nature of his interest clear: “Are you single?” And when she plainly tells him she’s gay, he nevertheless persists: “Do you want to go grab a beer?”

Like I said, seek psychiatric help immediately, because you’ve got to be completely crazy to waste your precious time chasing a no-chance prospect like that. Tempus fugits, homeboy. If you want to roll the dice on such a long-shot gamble, you’ve got to be ready to take “no” for an answer and move on, as if nothing happened. Play it off as a joke, like you’ve got a dozen girlfriends waiting for your call and just wanted to bump your total up to 13. “Never let ’em see you sweat.”

Either this guy was autistic or he had an IQ below room temperature, because if you’re trying for a cold pickup and she says “lesbian,” that’s about as no as no could ever get. How do you play it off?

  1. Surprised — “Wow, really? I never would have guessed.”
  2. Embarrassed for her sake — “Oh, wow, that’s too bad. I mean, I should have known. It’s so totally obvious. I feel stupid.”

She would prefer the surprised response, of course. Gay people generally prefer to think that their homosexuality is not apparent, so that even the most obvious bull dyke doesn’t want the stranger to make assumptions. Like, she could be an all-conference shortstop for a Division I varsity softball team with an undercut hairstyle and a pierced septum, but common courtesy requires you to pretend you don’t know she’s gay.

This is why the embarrassed-for-her-sake response could be more fun. Like, you tried to put the move on her thinking she might be heterosexual, but now that she’s told you she’s gay, you’re kicking yourself for not seeing what should have been obvious at first glance. You didn’t mean to accidentally force her into this embarrassing acknowledgement of her shameful perversion, which any decent person would have been kind enough to ignore. “Please pardon my faux pas, ma’am — I’m just a clumsy and desperate heterosexual.”

But whatever you say, laugh about it. If you play a million-to-one gamble and lose, you shouldn’t act like you expected to win. The joke’s on you, and you’re gracious enough to laugh at your own absurdity.

To blunder onward, trying to close the deal after she’s made it clear she’s not interested — are you autistic or a sociopath or just plain stupid?

One of the keys to success, playing from a Sigma Frame perspective, is to think in terms of the process of elimination. There are 3.5 billion women on this planet, and all you have to do is find one. By trial and error, you can learn to distinguish between the few who might possibly say “yes” and the vast majority who are a definite “no.” Once you accept the implications of the One-in-Seven Rule and recognize that you aren’t part of the lucky 15% who can win no matter how they play the game, you’ll increase your likelihood of winning simply because you understand how much the odds are stacked against you. And it’s important for young men to recognize this reality at a young age, or otherwise they might become the kind of loser who’s 25 years old with no girlfriend, and no idea of how to get one other than approaching strangers at the CVS.

It’s very sad watching Darwinian evolution in action. This dude trying to score with Layne Morgan is like the Pleistocene mammoth stumbling into the La Brea Tar Pits — doomed to extinction. But nobody’s paying me to write The Basic Book of How to Get Laid and I’ve already wasted 2,000 words trying to explain what’s wrong with this guy’s strategy, so let me conclude with a warning for every male in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: Leave Layne Morgan alone!

You’re welcome, ma’am. The patriarchy is here to help.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

George Will: Apologist For Tyranny?

Posted on | January 13, 2019 | Comments Off on George Will: Apologist For Tyranny?

by Smitty

I remember reading Will back in the day and feeling edified. He has wandered far in his dotage, first embracing Her Majesty against Trump, and now coming out against Brexit.

A June 2016 referendum endorsed (52 percent to 48 percent) exiting the EU. Implementing this has, however, become messier than anyone, especially voters, anticipated. In a House of Commons debate on Brexit, a Conservative member said that democracy is like sex — if it isn’t messy, you’re not doing it right. However, messiness is not proof of correctness.

Read the whole thing.
George Will sounds as though he might have sided with George William Frederick against George Washington back in the 18th century.

Of course liberty is fraught with peril, Will. As with taking the square root of a number, negative results are part of the process. This concept of “correctness” is a fine theological pursuit for each of us. Politics? Politics is the flesh, which is why the comparison to sex is so apropos.

But the point is that, in minimizing the risk of being shagged undesirably by your government, the more local the power, the greater the likelihood of a desirable outcome.

I just can’t fathom Will’s slide into licking the authoritarian boot.

Category: Uncategorized

FMJRA 2.0: John The Baptist Was A Real Humdinger

Posted on | January 13, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule Five Tuesday
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Living Well Is the Best Revenge
EBL

Latina Lesbian Murdered by Two Men (But Don’t Blame Racist Homophobes)
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: (Like) There’s No Tomorrow
A View From The Beach
EBL

Media’s Anti-White Bias Makes Houston Drive-By Shooting National News
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.07.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Florida Stripper Had Mass Murder Fantasies
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.08.19
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Schumer and Pelosi Own the Shutdown Even as They Try to Blame Trump
The Universal Spectator
A View From The Beach
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Step Back From The Wall And Consider
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.09.19
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

The Happiness Gap
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.10.19
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Google: ‘To Control the Narrative, We Planted Stories with Journalists’
EBL

Girl Found Alive After Being Kidnapped by Man Who Murdered Her Parents
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.11.19
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending January 11:

  1.  EBL (18)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach and Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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Category: FMJRA Award

The Compulsory Approval Doctrine: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope

Posted on | January 12, 2019 | Comments Off on The Compulsory Approval Doctrine: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope

 

Pete Da Tech Guy this week noticed that Ford Motor Company fired a contractor at one of its Michigan plants for posting an online comment critical of transgender ideology. The contractor said he “was told to pack up my belongings immediately, to leave my badge and computer, then I was walked out of the building like a criminal,” Tyler O’Neill reported at PJMedia, because of an “intolerant” comment which, not coincidentally, was “a paraphrased version of a statement … from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops [USCCB].” Evidently, Catholics cannot express their religious beliefs if they work at Ford, and this reflects what in March 2015 I called the Compulsory Approval Doctrine:

This new dispensation . . . has the consequence of abolishing religious liberty. “Marriage equality” requires universal recognition of same-sex unions. Woe be unto the baker who, for religious reasons, refuses to provide a cake or the florist who refuses to provide flowers for a gay wedding.

Since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision, this doctrine has been used by advocates of transgenderism to bully into silence anyone who disagrees with their bizarre ideology. While almost no one wishes to interfere in the private lives of adults, the Compulsory Approval Doctrine has the effect of prohibiting the expression of any opinion that the most fanatical LGBTQ zealot might consider “offensive.” And, it would appear, there is no feasible limit to what they will do to promote their agenda:

On Monday, 10-year-old Canadian boy Nemis Quinn Mélançon-Golden was featured in a troubling Huck Magazine piece highlighting the life of a so-called “child drag queen.”
Young Nemis, whose drag name is “Queen Lactacia,” was shot by photographer Jonathan Frederick Turton for the spread. In one of the shots that did not make the magazine, Nemis, in full drag makeup and a black dress, is posing for a photo with the Season 7 winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Violet Chachki. In the shocking photo, Violet is wearing nothing but a pair of heels and a small piece of fabric covering his genitals . . . .
In the jarring Huck Magazine piece — which ironically bashes Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro for calling out parents for over-sexualizing their “drag kids” — Nemis’ mother, Jessica Melancon, conceded that drag has a sexual component and is unapologetic about her young son wearing sexually suggestive clothing if it “makes him feel beautiful” . . .
In 2017, Nemis appeared on stage with popular drag queen Bianca Del Rio at a drag show his mother brought him to. The clip of the two on stage together, wherein the drag queen repeatedly uses the word “b****” and drops an “f”-bomb, quickly went viral.
“That video happened and everyone went crazy,” Jessica recalled. “But we knew from the get-go we never wanted to lose control, or lose sight of it being fun for Nemis.”
According to Jessica, drag is “how Nemis chooses to express himself. He’s just a kid playing.” . . .
Nemis also appears to already be an LGBT advocate. “Choose Love. Be Proud. Smash the Patriarchy and be kind to one another, always! #pride #lovenothate#loveislove #nonbinary #thefutureisfluid,” reads a post on the boy’s Instagram account, which is said to be run by his mother.

You can read the rest at Daily Wire. It seems obvious that the child’s mother is engaged in a Munchausen-by-proxy manipulation of her son, encouraging his transvestite activity to gain attention for herself, but no one is allowed to say so, because that would be intolerant.



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 01.11.19

Posted on | January 12, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: There’s No Cure For Being Mitt Romney
Twitchy: Byron York Questions Whether NYT Article is About Trump Or FBI Malfeasance
Louder With Crowder: Three MS-13 Members Stab Teen In The Neck. Yes, They’re Here Illegally.
According To Hoyt: The Crazy Is Infectious
Monster Hunter Nation: House Of Assassins Book Tour Schedule
Vox Popoli: Heuristics Are Not Proof

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Illegal Immigrants Are Illegal Edition
American Power: Emma Cline, The Girls
American Thinker: Hiding Evidence – The Continuing Coverup
Animal Magnetism:  Rule Five Political Hypocrite News
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 11
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Ford Has Chosen – Now How Many Christians Like Me Will Make Different Choices? also, Andre Galloway, Jazmine Barnes, And Da Tech Guy’s Third Law Of Media Outrage
Don Surber: Who Gave National Review The Power To Excommunicate? also, Star Democrat Freshman Says She’ll Vote For The Wall
Dustbury: When You Need Better Friends
First Street Journal: The Only Acceptable Answer? None Of Your F*cking Business!
The Geller Report: UK Exhibit Featuring Muslims Who Helped Jews During Holocaust Canceled Due To Muslim Protest, also, Marco Rubio Explains Anti-BDS Bill Blocked By Democrats
Hogewash: This Offends Me, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Upside May Change Kevin Hart’s Career
Joe For America: New Study Says Pork Fat One Of Top Ten Most Nutritious Foods
JustOneMinute: Girding For Ginsburg
Legal Insurrection: CNN’s Ana Navarro Files Her Nails During Discussion Of Americans Murdered By Illegals, also, Dem Rep Tulsi Gabbard Is Running For President, And That’s Important
The PanAm Post: Colombia – Calls For Greater Initiative In Border Region As Venezuelan Collapse Continues
Power Line: A Warning From Robert P. George – Democrats Will Turn On Israel, also, The Great Undoing Continues
Shark Tank: DeSantis Replaces Scott Israel, Appoints New Broward County Sheriff
Shot In The Dark: “Pour Encourager Les Autres”
STUMP: Math Stupidity – Comparing Pizzas & What’s Important
The Political Hat: Is there A Catgirl Gap?
This Ain’t Hell: Sgt. Trey Troney Saving The World, also, Marines To Reduce Infantryman’s Load By Recruiting Fewer Wussies
Victory Girls: Texas GOP Squashes Bigotry In Its Own Ranks
Volokh Conspiracy: Short Circuit – A Roundup Of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Weasel Zippers: NC Police Report Three Illegals Busted With $200,000 In Meth, also,  Former Broward County Sheriff Israel Blames NRA For His Removal
Megan McArdle: Let’s Step back From The Wall And Consider – Why Does Anyone Even Care?
Mark Steyn: The Beto & Cher Show


Category: Linkagery

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | January 12, 2019 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

On Dec. 28, sheriff’s deputies in Stevens County, Washington, responded to the report of a shooting at a home near Colville, about 70 miles north of Spokane. They arrived to find that Mark Leland, 51, had been shot with a .357 revolver by his father-in-law, James Gates, 72, as the result of an apparent domestic dispute. Leland died later than night in a nearby hospital. He and his wife had been visiting her father, and this shooting in Washington state made headlines in the Portland Oregonian because Leland’s wife — Gates’s daughter — was one of the most notorious killers in Oregon history. In 1980, when she was 13 years old, Michele Gates drowned a 4-year-old girl she had been babysitting. While being questioned by police, Michele Gates confessed that two years earlier, she had drowned her 3-year-old cousin by shoving her into a pond at the zoo. The case spent years in the juvenile justice system:

Psychiatrists deemed the girl a sociopath, incapable of controlling short-term impulses. She almost avoided prosecution because of debate over her mental state. She spent time at a home for troubled kids in Maine, and at one point before the case was resolved, police were alarmed to learn she had gotten a job as swimming coach at the local YMCA.
Finally, in January 1985, when she was 18, Gates was convicted of the juvenile equivalent of murder. She avoided prison because state law at the time forbade incarcerating female juvenile offenders past the age of 18. That conviction was later expunged, allowing her to legally say on job applications that she’d never been convicted of a crime.
That lasted until 1992, when Gates, then 26 and using the last name Shorthouse, was indicted in federal court on charges of arson and solicitation to commit murder. She was accused of hiring one of her ex-boyfriends to kill her fiance’s ex-girlfriend.
Gates had blamed the woman for telling others of her criminal past, and Gates wanted to help her fiance win back custody of his young son, prosecutors alleged. She pleaded guilty that year to lesser charges of abetting arson and interstate travel with intent to commit murder, and was sentenced to 15 years in federal custody.

To recap: Sociopath killed two children and later attempted to kill another woman, and now her father shot her husband to death.

Crazy people are dangerous.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)

 

Category: Crime, Oregon, Washington State

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | January 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

“Haven’t been across Grandpa Eddy’s Bridge in 40 years,” I say, looking at young Tim, angry at being peeled off of his iPad for a walk with his grandfather, “I heard they’d renovated it last year.”

“This is stupid,” decides Tim with a 7 year old’s vehemence. We make the right turn, head down.
“Stupid? He took me up into the forest where he had a still.”
“A still what?”
“Still haven’t figured out there’s more to life than electronics.”
We go up the hill quite a bit slower than I used to.
The old oak marks the turn.
There it is.
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Girl Found Alive After Being Kidnapped by Man Who Murdered Her Parents

Posted on | January 11, 2019 | Comments Off on Girl Found Alive After Being Kidnapped by Man Who Murdered Her Parents

 

Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs escaped with her life Thursday after being held captive for nearly three months by the man who police say murdered her parents James and Denise Closs. The suspect, 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson, specifically targeted the Closs home Oct. 15 with the intention of kidnapping Jayme, according to authorities in Wisconsin:

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said Patterson had ‘zero’ criminal history, but said he had “specific intent” to kidnap Jayme Closs, during a 4 p.m. press conference Friday.
Fitzgerald said the suspect used a shotgun to shoot open the door to the Closs family home on Oct. 15 and then used the gun to kill James and Denise Closs before kidnapping Jayme. Fitzgerald said law enforcement recovered a gun that is consistent with the gun used at the crime scene. Investigators are waiting on forensics to prove that it is the same weapon.
Patterson planned his actions and took significant steps to hide his identity from law enforcement, according to Fitzgerald. Those steps included shaving his head so he would not leave trace evidence of his hair at the crime scene.
Jayme escaped from Patterson’s home in Gordon, which is in Douglas County, Thursday afternoon when Patterson was not home, according to Fitzgerald.
“Jayme is the hero in this case, there is no question about it,” Fitzgerald said.
She left the house on foot and was found around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, a short distance away from Patterson’s home, after approaching a woman who was walking her dog. The woman took Jayme to a neighbor’s home and the homeowner called 911.
Douglas County Sheriff Tom Dalbeck said his deputies responded and quickly identified Jayme. They soon located a vehicle matching the description of the suspect’s vehicle given to them by Jayme. Police believe Patterson was out looking for Jayme when they made contact with him. Patterson was arrested 10 minutes after Jayme was found. Officers interviewed Patterson and then brought him to Barron County.

 

The place where Jayme was found was about 70 miles north of where she was kidnapped, and at this point we don’t know how or why Patterson choose her as the target of what was evidently a crime he had planned carefully. We know almost nothing about Patterson, but there must be something unusual in his background to explain the level of evil required to do what he is accused of doing. Details of her escape:

On Thursday, Closs was able to escape from a cabin before flagging down a person walking a dog in Gordon and asking for help. Jeanne Nutter, the woman who first spotted Closs, told The Associated Press she “was terrified” but wanted to “get her to a safe place.” She recalled the teen looked disheveled, dirty and thin. She also noted Closs was wearing shoes too big for her feet.
“She [Closs] just yelled, ‘Please help me, I don’t know where I am. I’m lost,'” Nutter recalled.
The two went to the home of Peter and Kristin Kasinskas who called 911.
Kristin Kasinskas told The Associated Press she did not know why the teen was targeted. She said Closs told her that the suspect “killed my parents and took me.” Kasinskas said she didn’t know Patterson, although he lived three doors down from her. She said she taught him science in middle school but remembered him as being quiet. She said she did not see him during the months Closs was missing.

Another “quiet loner” type.



 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin
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