The grandfather of a 13-year-old northwestern Wisconsin girl says she's in "exceptionally good spirits" after being found nearly three months after authorities say she was kidnapped during a home invasion that left her parents dead.
Robert Naiberg said Jayme Closs is with her aunt Jennifer and getting good care.
"They bought a new bed for her, and Jennifer slept in the same bed with her, with her dog," Naiberg told WCCO radio's Susie Jones.
"I guess she's doing fine, she's smiling and laughing," he said, noting that everyone is trying to give her space after what she endured. "Nobody's been bothering her about that at all," Naiberg said. "She'll speak on her own."
Naiberg, who lives in Cornell, Wisc., has 16 other grandchildren, plus six great-grandchildren, and had been bothered by stomach pain while Jayme was gone.
"I'll be better now that she's back," he said. "But I was a mess before she got back, ain't going to heal that fast."
Jamye had been missing for nearly three months when she approached a woman wakling her dog on Thursday near the small town of Gordon. Officers arrested 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson minutes later based on Jayme's description of his vehicle.
"It's so unbelievable, how he did it, why he did it, it's unreal," said Naiberg. "Thanks god for that lady where she was, walking her dog."