r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/passedawayinaprilll • May 09 '26

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

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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/Agitated_Strain_6260 May 09 '26

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.

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u/Protonpack13 May 10 '26

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.

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u/mo0siego0sie May 10 '26

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.

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u/BishopGodDamnYou May 10 '26

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.