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BARRON — Hours after his arrest, Jake T. Patterson confessed to blasting his way into Jayme Closs’ Barron home, executing her parents and kidnapping her.

But conspicuously absent from the narrative Barron County authorities provided in a 12-page criminal complaint last week: details of what happened in the three months Patterson held the 13-year-old girl captive two counties to the north.

Prosecutors in Douglas County could file additional charges against Patterson for various other crimes: among them, false imprisonment or any sort of assault committed against Jayme on his wooded Gordon property while she was missing for 88 days, legal experts said. For instance, Jayme told authorities Patterson once hit her with an object, according to the court documents in Barron.

But it will be a sensitive decision, especially in a high-profile case where the victim’s name and photo appeared on billboards, trucks, social media and international news as part of a massive search — and where a trial would be highly publicized and possibly televised.

While seeking the truth, prosecutors will be balancing several other objectives, including safeguarding the public, getting the proper punishment for the perpetrator and protecting the victim from further harm through her possible court testimony.