BARRON, Wis. (1010 WINS/AP) -- A Wisconsin man will spend the rest of life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents.
At the sentencing hearing for Jake Patterson, 21, Closs said -- via a written statement read in court via her guardian -- that she wanted to see him "locked up forever," saying "he tried to steal me. And he didn't care who he killed or who he hurt." Jayme did not appear in court.
Wisconsin does not have the death penalty.
Jayme also wrote that Patterson "thought that he could own me, but he's wrong. I was smarter."
"He thought he could control me, but he couldn't," she added. "He could never take away my spirit. He thought he could make me like him. But he was wrong."
Patterson "will never have any power over me. I think I have some power over him," Jayme wrote.
Patterson had admitted to concocting a plan to kidnap Closs after seeing her get off a school bus near her home.
Patterson pleaded guilty in March to two counts of intentional homicide and one of kidnapping. He killed Jayme's parents, James and Denise Closs, at the family's home near Barron, about 90 miles northeast of Minneapolis. Jayme escaped in January from Patterson's cabin near the small and isolated town of Gordon, some 60 miles (97 kilometers) from her home.