Barron County (WQOW) – It’s been seven days, and 13-year-old Jayme Closs is still missing, after her parents, James and Denise Closs, were found murdered in their home Monday morning. But the tips keep rolling in. The Barron County Sheriff said their department has received more than 1,200 tips, 1,000 of them already thoroughly investigated. Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald continues to encourage the community to call and send in tips. He also reminded community members of the Gathering of Hope for Jayme Closs, which will take place on Monday evening. You can find information on the event below, or on the Barron County Sheriff’s Department Facebook page. Jayme has been added to the top of the FBI’s Missing Persons list. Sheriff Fitzgerald said there will be a press conference at the Barron County Justice Center Monday at 4 p.m. Below is more information from the sheriff: We continue to investigate the disappearance of Jayme Closs. I urge the public to continue supplying us with tips. Thus far, we have received over 1,200 tips, and of those, we have thoroughly investigated over 1,000. Please use our 24 hour tip line 1-855-744-3879, email: jaymetips@co.barron.wi.us which will accept any photos or videos related to possible sightings.<doc-sep>BARRON —Investigators are looking for two vehicles that were near a Wisconsin home last week around the time a couple were murdered and their 13-year-old daughter vanished. Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said in a news conference Monday that one of the vehicles is likely a 2008 to 2014 red or orange Dodge Challenger, and the other is either a 2006 to 2010 black Ford Edge or 2004 to 2010 black Acura MDX. License plate information for the vehicles was not available. The vehicle descriptions marked the first time authorities publicly identified a specific lead in the investigation of the deaths of James and Denise Closs and disappearance of Jayme Closs. The couple were shot to death in their rural Barron home a week ago. Also on Monday, the sheriff's department asked for 2,000 volunteers age 18 and older to help conduct a routine search on Tuesday for "articles of evidentiary value" that could be related to the incident. One hundred volunteers searched the area between Barron and Turtle Lake last week but were unable to turn up any evidence. More:Wisconsin girl missing, 'endangered' after parents found dead in home, police say More:What we know about the disappearance of Jayme Closs, the Wisconsin girl missing since her parents' deaths The slayings and the mysterious disappearance of middle-schooler Jayme Closs have rocked the small northwestern Wisconsin community. Ever since two of her neighbors were killed, Joan Smrekar has heard a helicopter circling the area near her house. Smrekar lives next door to James and Denise Closs, who were found dead in their Barron home last week. Their daughter, 13-year-old Jayme Closs, was nowhere to be found and is still considered missing and endangered. Smrekar and her husband heard two gunshots around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. It's common to hear gunshots nearby their rural home, she said, but these sounded different. Louder. And they knew it was the wrong time of night for a gun to be going off. "They were just seconds apart," she said. "They both seemed really strange to both my husband and me." The Smrekars did not call 911, but the Barron County Sheriff's Department would soon arrive at the Closs' home after receiving a 911 call from Denise's phone. Smrekar and her husband didn't find out what happened to their neighbors until the following day. "It’s just been traumatic," she said. More:Missing Wisconsin teen: 911 call log reveals new details in disappearance of Jayme Closs More:Wisconsin girl missing 4 days: What we know about Jayme Closs' disappearance and her parents' death Smrekar said the Closs family was quiet and didn't interact often with neighbors in their area, about a mile west of Barron city limits. She feels secure with law enforcement working next door, she said, but called it scary and "unbelievable" that something like that would happen in their own backyard. "Right now we don’t feel anything other than compassion for what happened," she said. The couple's deaths and Jayme's subsequent disappearance has upended the small northwestern Wisconsin community. Investigators continue to piece together the murders and search for Jayme with the help of the FBI. The sheriff's department is also enlisting the help of community volunteers. In a Monday news release, the department asked for 2,000 people age 18 and older to help conduct a routine search for "articles of evidentiary value" that could be related to the incident. One hundred volunteers searched the area between Barron and Turtle Lake last week but were unable to turn up any evidence. Officials scheduled a press conference at 4 p.m. Monday to provide an update on the case. And Monday night, starting at 6 p.m., the community is holding a "gathering of hope" for Jayme at the Barron High School football stadium. Jayme is a student at Riverview Middle School. James Closs, 56, and Denise Closs, 46, both had worked at the local Jennie-O Turkey Store plant for 27 years, according to the company. Anyone with information is encouraged to call 855-744-3879 or email jaymetips@co.barron.wi.us. Follow Haley BeMiller on Twitter: @haleybemiller<doc-sep>The FBI announced a $25,000 reward for information that leads to the location of Jayme Closs in a news conference Wednesday. In addition to the announcement of the reward, the public heard from Closs’s family for the first time. Closs’s aunt Jennifer Smith said she thanks the community for its “show of love and support of our family,” before directly addressing Jamie. “Jamie, not a moment goes by when we aren’t thinking of you and praying for you,” she said, talking about Closs’s “sparking eyes,” “little giggles” and her dog Molly. “We need you here to fill that hole in our hearts,” she went on. “We will never stop looking for you.” MORE INFORMATION NEEDED In addition to hearing Closs’s family, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald also asked for some information from drivers on Hwy. 8 early on the morning of the incident. He asked that anyone traveling on Hwy. 8 in either direction the morning of Oct. 15 between 12:30 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. call the tip line with any information they have. The Sheriff also explained the FBI and Barron County Sheriff’s Office have worked through 1,250 tips of the 1,550 collected by the community. Fitzgerald also thanked the more than 2,000 people who helped with a search Tuesday that did not yield any items of evidentiary value. He said no further searches are scheduled at this time. Advertisement “We believe Jayme’s out there,” Fitzgerald said. “Jayme’s endangered and we need to bring the 13-year-old girl home.”<doc-sep>
Barron County (WXOW) – Investigators are still combing through tips about the Closs case in Barron County, but the number of incoming tips has dropped off significantly. It was 17 days ago Jayme Closs, 13, vanished and her parents James and Denise were found fatally shot in their home. More: Visit News 19’s page dedicated to the Closs investigation According to Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald, the number of officers working the case has been cut in about half. In a one-on-one interview with our sister station News 18 in Eau Claire Fitzgerald said that 120 officers are in on the investigation, versus more than 200 working the case just last week. A Facebook post by the sheriff Wednesday said they’ve received more than 2,000 tips and closed over 1,875 of them to date. The sheriff also talked to News 18 about Kyle Jaenke-Annis, 32, the man who is facing charges after allegedly breaking into the Closs home and stealing Jayme’s clothing. Fitzgerald said he was charged Wednesday in Barron County Circuit Court with burglary and bail jumping. More: Cameron man charged with stealing from Closs home Fitzgerald said Jaenke-Annis was cleared quickly in Jayme’s disappearance, but not before a lot of digging was done. The sheriff said they searched Jaenke-Annis’ residence and his parents’ residence the same day as the allegedly robbery. He was also extensively questioned. Most of all, Fitzgerald said he, and the community, is still holding on to hope that Jayme is alive. The Facebook post asked people to continue to call in tips to 1-855-744-3879 or jaymetips@co.barron.wi.us