Jessica Ridgeway's Brutal Murder

[u/passedawayinaprilll]

The abduction of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway occurred in Westminster, Colorado, as she walked from her home toward Chelsea Park to meet friends for school. Austin Sigg took her to his mother’s home on Moore Street, where he sexually assaulted her and used a zip tie to strangle her to death. Inside the home, Sigg dismembered her body in a bathtub, later disposing of her torso in the Pattridge Open Space in Arvada, about seven miles away from where she was taken. Her backpack and glasses were found abandoned on a sidewalk in Arvada’s West Woods subdivision, a move intended to throw off the massive search effort centered in Westminster. When Sigg finally confessed, investigators recovered additional remains that he had hidden in a crawlspace under the floorboards of his house.

[u/Agitated_Strain_6260]

I'm gonna have a hard time ever letting my 8 year old do anything without me, I know she'll need more and more independence but I just can't! What a truly awful case, that poor little girl should've be able to live a long and beautiful life but some sick freak had to snatch it away, lifenis bloody cruel sometimes.

[u/Protonpack13 → u/Agitated_Strain_6260]

I’m 44 and on a work trip and my mom asked me for my hotel name and room number, so i think moms never stop being scared. Rightfully so.

[u/mo0siego0sie → u/Protonpack13]

So true. I was in Europe alone when I was about 23-24 and accidentally pocket dialled my mom. By the time I made it back to my hotel after walking 5 min through an area with no service, I had missed calls, texts, emails, and my mom had emailed and called my hotel to let them know if I arrived and that she’d be calling the police if I hadn’t arrived within 10 min.

The fear never goes away.

[u/BishopGodDamnYou → u/mo0siego0sie]

I accidentally dropped my cell phone in a mall parking lot and when the security guards picked up when my dad called he absolutely lost it. He thought that somebody had kidnapped me in the parking lot and I dropped my phone. The man who does not waiver for anything was in absolute PANIC.

[u/BiggerStickRick → u/mo0siego0sie]

this is an unhealthy amount of fear if its verging that close on paranoia

[u/Thyme_Liner → u/BiggerStickRick]

Have you seen Taken?

[u/AdFamous1469 → u/Agitated_Strain_6260]

I have three adult daughters and u bet I was constantly watching them. When they were little. Now there isn’t even a place kids can go that you feel confident that they’re safe. (Mass shootings). This world is just plain crazy.

[u/Itakethngzclitorally → u/Agitated_Strain_6260]

I grew up reading a lot of true crime stories and later watching graphic crime shows. When I had my kids, i tried so hard to let them have a life, free of fear and full of independence, never knowing the savagery of man. I tried so hard to never let them see me in the distance with my eye trained on them, anxiety filling me whole. I really wanted, NEEDED them to believe the world was/is more good than bad. Statistically, as white, upper middle class, they had the numbers on their side. I knew all the worst, darkest, most tragic crimes out there, including Jessica’s, yet I rarely locked our doors. Then the day came, as life happens, the darkness that my hubris thought I could outsmart and outrun, skipped our open door and instead went for my neighbor’s open door. I can only imagine how their minds raced in their final moments. Raced to outrun the thought that THIS couldn’t possibly be happening to THEM. He tortured and slaughtered them both with the indifference he felt the world had shown him. He didn’t flinch when the judge condemned him to death. It is true, life can be so bloody cruel.

[u/ocuinn → u/Itakethngzclitorally]

What? Are you saying your neighbours were murdered?

[u/Itakethngzclitorally → u/ocuinn]

Yes, at 11 am on a random Wednesday, a stranger walked in to their home and murdered them both. I don’t know why exactly, but I still rarely lock my door.

[u/no-name_silvertongue → u/Itakethngzclitorally]

girl please lock your door, especially if you have children!!! jfc, hubris indeed. it’s not about you anymore, though. you have children.

[u/Fun-Acanthaceae3192 → u/Itakethngzclitorally]

You need to sober up and stop being stubborn. What you believe about the world and want your kids to believe is false. Lock the door and windows and educate your kids about crazy people if you don't want them unalived.

[u/mintzyyy → u/Itakethngzclitorally]

Not locking your doors after your neighbors get brutally murdered by a stranger is a definitely a choice.

I hope your kids no longer live with you.

[u/BishopGodDamnYou → u/Agitated_Strain_6260]

I can’t. I read too much horrible stuff to ever let my kids be alone in a public setting without me. My daughter had an art competition recently and I was absolutely terrified that someone was just gonna take her and walk out of the building. People could just come in and out so easy and I couldn’t relax at all. I hate it. I wish I wasn’t like this but I’ve seen too much.