Wisconsin Girl Missing Since Parents’ October Deaths Found

A woman stumbled across the 13-year-old girl and pounded on her neighbors' door shouting: "This is Jayme Closs! Call 911!"

By Associated Press
Published 11 January 2019
Image via Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP, File

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager missing for nearly three months after her parents were killed in the family home was found alive barely an hour's drive away, by a woman who stumbled across the 13-year-old girl and pounded on her neighbors' door shouting: "This is Jayme Closs! Call 911!" Jayme was skinny and dirty, wearing shoes too big for her feet, but appeared outwardly OK when she was discovered Thursday afternoon near the… Read at AP News

By Associated Press
Published 11 January 2019

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