Jayme Closs’ kidnapper spent nearly three months sleeping in the same bed as the 13-year-old — but was too guilty to have sex with her, according to a trove of new documents released in the case.

Instead, Jake Thomas Patterson, who murdered Jayme Closs’ parents before snatching the Wisconsin teen from her home, played board games with the girl.

The deranged man, who became obsessed with Closs after spotting her getting on a school bus, also hit her with a window blind cleaner, yelled at and threatened her in the weeks before she managed to escape.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice, the Barron County and Douglas County Sheriff’s Offices released a trove of thousands of pages on Friday, some heavily redacted, detailing the 88 days Patterson held Closs captive in his Gordon, Wisconsin, home.

Patterson admitting having sexual thoughts about Closs but didn’t act on them because his guilt from killing her parents stopped him, according to the documents.

Authorities unknowingly came tantalizingly close to rescuing Closs minutes after she was taken in the harrowing October 2018 incident, when an officer responding to a 911 call passed Patterson’s vehicle as he drove away from the family’s home — with Closs in the trunk.

Instead, unsuspecting officers continued on at the home, where they found the bodies of James, 56, and Denise Closs, 46, and the family dog trembling in fear behind the washer and dryer in the basement.

Closs managed to escape Jan. 10. In May, Patterson was found guilty of double murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison.

Closs is now living with her aunt and godmother, Jennifer Smith.

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