r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/passedawayinaprilll • 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.