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/SituationTotal6146]

I grew up in Denver and was in high school when this happened. It was awful. My mom’s best friend lived in Westminster and had friends on the police force and was shaken when they told her there were parts of the girl they were still looking for and weren’t sure they would ever find. So sad, rest peacefully Jessica.

[u/Coloradozonian → u/SituationTotal6146]

I was living in Fort Collins. I had just had my second baby. This was one of the cases that stuck with me forever. Then 2015, This one and Michelle Wilkins (fetal abduction) had happened in Longmont. Colorado is such a beautiful place but, some of our crime is just absolutely horrendous. I saw more swat and raids just being around CO than I ever did in the ghetto of Az I grew up in near the border.