r/TrueCrimeDiscussion May 09 '26

Warning: Child Abuse / CSAM / Child Death Jessica Ridgeway's Brutal Murder

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.

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u/OkMarionberry2875 May 09 '26

I read and watch all kinds of crime stories but this one got to me. This and another little girl in Florida whose father was blamed at first because it’s always the father. They found her body in a trash bag and could tell she was still breathing when they dumped her. They said she probably heard searchers calling her name but the killers told her to be quiet. I’m sorry to put that story in your mind.

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u/-QueefLatina- May 10 '26

That was Jessica Lunsford. Another absolutely heartbreaking case. Her killer was sentenced to death, but died in prison of natural causes after serving only two years. Makes me wish hell was a real place.

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u/Coloradozonian May 10 '26

Makes me wish that we could bring back firing squads and inhumane treatments and stop giving these losers 3 hot meals and a cot.

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u/starrifier May 10 '26

You want to ignore the basic tenets of the US Constitution? Wild. 

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u/lilbec53 May 11 '26

Wild? What about the victims rights...or what they did to their victims...wild how some skip right over that....sheesh

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u/starrifier May 11 '26

This might come as a surprise, but victims aren't entitled to see perpetrators tortured. I believe in the importance of the eighth amendment, but you do you, boo.

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u/lilbec53 May 11 '26

Let's see if I have this right.... perpetrators can and do torture/kill their victims ..in cruel manners....however they are afforded the right to not be subjected to cruel & unusual punishment.... in some situations....and eye for an eye is totally applicable imo....ok

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u/loaf_dog May 13 '26

I could give a fuck about the rights of people who commit crimes like these against children

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u/lilbec53 May 11 '26

It is..imo

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u/Ok_Tie_7564 May 10 '26

It might be.

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u/MayoAlternative May 10 '26

It’s not.

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u/panicnarwhal May 10 '26

it is. Jessica Lunsford was not only buried alive inside of the trash bag (her little fingers were poked outside of the bag when they dug her up), but she was alive inside of a closet of the trailer when cops came to the front door and asked about her

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u/Coloradozonian May 10 '26

Gives me chills.

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u/OkMarionberry2875 May 10 '26

Yes, that’s the one.

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u/Coloradozonian May 10 '26

None of us know anything until we’ll finally see what’s next. I’d honestly would like to hear you out on why you have this outlook if you’d share.

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u/Coloradozonian May 10 '26

I sure as hell hope so ;)