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Closs Copycat Killer!
Globe
|August 26, 2019
New massacre mimics kidnapper who butchered Jayme's family
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IN A tragic copycat case, a Wisconsin psycho who killed four people was imitating last year’s violent abduction of teenager Jayme Closs, whose parents were murdered.
Ritchie German — described by police as a “troubled individual” and unemployed loner with no friends — callously shot his mother, brother, and nephew.
Then the cold-blooded fiend blasted his way into another home where the lovesick freak gunned down 24-year old Laile Vang and shot her parents before killing himself on July 28.
German, 34, may have been trying to kidnap Laile in a twisted mirror of what monster Jake Patterson did with Jayme, says Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk.
This story is from the August 26, 2019 edition of Globe.
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