The alleged kidnapper of Jayme Closs's mother is "totally helpless"

BARRON, Wisc. – The mother of the school bus driver of the kidnapper accused of Jayme Closs is devastated by the alleged crimes of her son, said Tuesday the woman's neighbor at The Post.

"She's totally helpless," said Michael Bogenschneider. Deborah Frey, the remarried mother of Jake Thomas Patterson, in the town of Haugen, Wisconsin, with 285 inhabitants.

In a chilling coincidence, Frey drives a bus to the local Rice Lake School District, said other residents. 21, confessed to the authorities that he had first sighted Jayme, 13, at her school bus stop – and had immediately "known that it was the girl that he was going to take away, "according to court documents.

The failed employee of the Navy and Cheese Company murdered Jayme's parents while they were trying to protect her, before holding him hostage for 88 days under her bed.

Bogenschneider claimed to have received several "clueless" Texts from Frey in recent days.

"It's going to take him a while. "Said the neighbor.

He said that Frey, who remarried just two months ago," was afraid "of all the attention of the case. [19659002] But he added that the little town had rallied around her by laying flowers outside her home where she lives with her new husband and the Labradors.

Nobody answered the Freys Gate Tuesday morning

Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Saputo Cheese Factory – where Patterson was working in nearby Almena for only two days before seeing Jayme and leaving for al [19659011] Saputo spokeswoman Sandy Vassiadis told The Post that Patterson had been placed in a cheese factory by a temporary agency.

she says.

Then "while he was going to the cheese factory one of the two mornings where he worked, he stopped behind a school bus borrowing the US H wy. 8

Prosecutors declined to say exactly when Patterson saw Jayme for the first time, but Vassiadis said he was working at the factory in October. 3 and 4, then did not show up on October 5 and beyond.

"It was a non-show," said the representative.

Patterson is accused of kidnapping Jayme from her home on October 15 – which means he allegedly set up his heinous conspiracy in less than two weeks.

About Patterson's behavior at the cheese factory, Vassiadis said, "The weather was so short that there was nothing to notice."