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Police Arrest 17-Year-Old Boy In Murder Of Jessica Ridgeway

October 24, 2012 at 3:50 pm by Morbid

Westminster, CO – Police in Colorado have made an arrest in the Jessica Ridgeway murder case and are expected to charge 17-year-old Austin Reed Sigg with her murder and the attempted abduction of a jogger last year.

Sigg lives about a block from Ketner Lake Open Space and about 1½ miles from where Jessica was last seen walking to school on Oct. 5. He was arrested Tuesday night after police received a tip that led them to his home.

The Associated Press is reporting that Sigg’s mother is the one that called police. “I made the phone call, he turned himself in. That’s all I have to say,” she said.

Sigg is expected to be charged with the attempted abduction last year as well as two counts of murder in the first degree, second-degree kidnapping charge, among others. The Ridgeway family were notified of the arrest.

“We notified the Ridgeway family this morning about the arrest and we hope that it will give them some measure of closure,” Chief Birk said, adding that he hoped it provided some comfort to the community.

Get this…Sigg is a student at Arapahoe Community College and on March 23, he won second place in the Crime Scene Investigation division of the Health Occupation Students of America State Leadership Conference competition.

That makes two stories on the front page involving two young girls who were killed by a teen, and the teen’s mothers turning them in. What are the odds?

Tags: Abduction, Austin Reed Sigg, Colorado, Jessica Ridgeway, Murder

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Wolf_of_Mars

“That makes two stories on the front page involving two young girls who
were killed by a teen, and the teen’s mothers turning them in. What are
the odds?”

It’s good to see that some parents are willing to make the difficult, but right, choices concerning their progeny.
Hamward

You can run, but you can’t hide! Hahaha. Fucker, I hope he rots.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Who would have thought that a teenager would be capable of such brutality?
Zibarro aka Kryssa

Parents turning in their kids – it is happening more often, which is great. Locally a father saw a video of a woman’s purse being taken as she was thrown to the ground. He recognized his son – and turned him in. It would be even better if these kids never got to the point of robbing, stealing and killing in the first place. I’m so glad this fucker was caught and really do give major props to the mom … she knows that he’ll be serving life – if not death – for this, and still did the right thing.
Sam

An award in a CSI competition? Seems to me like he was training to be a successful serial killer.
curiousalways

Do we know if this was sexually motivated? I am assuming it was, but the other girls murder was over a bike. What is going on to cause the teenagers to do this crap?
http://profiles.google.com/coldlogic HAL 9000

Hope somebody puts a bullet in the creature, and collects the carbon-offset-credit because the thing can’t be worth anything else.

I feel bad for the creature’s mother, among so many in this story, the little girl by far most of all.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Stacey-McLaughlin/1611735600 Stacey McLaughlin

my question is…Is the necklace he’s wearing a cross? was that the moment that the mother realized “oh shit that’s my sons necklace?” how heart breaking for both mothers. to raise a child and have it ripped from you at the hands of a monster, or to be the mother of a child who turned out to be a monster…I couldn’t imagine.
tkaz

I have SO many questions!
A few have been mentioned below…
Was he wearing the cross?
Was he acting out stuff he’d learned about in his CSI education?
What is his history, has he always lived in CO?
How did his mom know?
In addition to the Ridgeway family my heart breaks for this young man’s mother.
JGo555

I wanna hear the reason why. I sadly know the answer.
Abroad

Robert Pattinson?
JGo555

He looks like a fat Robert Pattinson. I wonder if the Twiheads are gonn go crazy for his child killing ass. He disgusts me.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=560257497 Steve Bunche

Please update this with a motive as soon as possible, that is if he ever gives one.
tinalib13

Ok Athena, can we pleeeease charge this one as an adult?? He really deserves it, and he’s close enough in age. I’m finding it hard to separate the feelings in this one.

His eyes. They scare me.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001528421144 Breanna Grady

To answer some questions:
He confessed to his mother in detail.
He came from a broken home, mom files for bankruptcy and dad has a criminal past.
He dropped out junior year, got his GED and wanted to be a mortician.
Hes confessed to the crime, and its been reported he claims human remains in the crawl space of his home. Police are searching both parents home.
He’s always lived in CO and went to the same elementsry school as Jessica.
Jury

Me.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lil-Bit/679912203 Lil Bit

If he goes to prison with a face like that, he’s going to be real popular.
http://www.facebook.com/tinamariematthews Tina Matthews

Just as capable as anyone else, if not more so seeing as their brains are still developing. There have been way too many horrible murders at the hands of teens for his age to surprise me
LeaveMeBe

I thought that, too. I can’t stand either one of them.
LeaveMeBe

In most states, if you are 17 years old and commit a crime, you are automatically charged as an adult. I think this fits the bill.
LeaveMeBe

Holy shit. If he follows the pattern, this isn’t his first violent crime. I wonder what skeletons will end up falling out of the closet.
Rachel Ann

I guess its one of those situations where you say as a parent “I love you but I fucking hate what you have done. Face the fucking music.” How sad.
tinalib13

I would love to know who in the hell is down voting me. Every post I make gets down voted. I’m starting to get a complex about it.
EveryVillainIsLemons

The murder itself is no surprise for a teenager, but the kidnapping and dismemberment and putting her belongings in one suburb and her remains in another is what’s really shocking to me. He’s scary on an Ed Kemper level.
AssWho?

Well thank god we didn’t need to be worried about a predator…….. And look he attends the same college as my wife, which is 2 miles from my house, a campus myself and my two small children were at last weekend for a ceremony.

FUCK YOU POLICE !!!! You are worthless to prevent the crime, and are so poorly skilled in determining whether public safety is even at risk, how effectively are you protecting anyone you assshats!
Evan Oswald

that’ll teach this kid to try to recycle a person
weneedhelpnow

They feel entitled. I want it, I take it. If you don’t let me have it, too bad for you. Welfare society. No need to work for what you get.
Reen B

That’s the weird part, I haven’t seen any mention of sexual assault and if he’s confessed, that would have come out by now. “Thrill kill”? Why her?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001528421144 Breanna Grady

My guess is because he physically couldn’t overpower a grown person (he is also linked to an attempted kidnapping of a 22 yr old from a month earlier-DNA I hear), that the puss had to pick a small, more vulnerable victim to kill. He’s only like 5’7″. According to news huma remains have been found in the crawl space of the home.
LadyLeopard

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/justice/colorado-ridgeway-suspect/index.html

The remains in the crawl space are parts of Jessica’s body. Still no motive though.
BEastDuo

That is something I always stop to consider. I lived in Oklahoma during the bombing arrest and trial of Timothy McVeigh, I even tangentially knew people in his family. His parents were devastated and hounded until he died. I will never forgive him for what he did, but his family…didn’t deserve this.
BEastDuo

They responded exactly the way they should have. Police officers deal with so much, and had to deal with finding the body of this precious child. When you get the balls to face THAT every day, along with the possibility of dying in the line of duty, -every day-, then you can go ahead and walk up to a police officer and tell them what you just said here.
LeaveMeBe

Don’t worry about it. Awesome people always have haters.
LeaveMeBe

I hope I never have to do anything remotely like this mother had to do.
Evan Oswald

whatever – if those cops had less control issues and more “care” they’d be firemen or something else. fuck police they can suck one – every day.
AssWho?

First off, its homeboys second attempt, but his first successful one at abduction. Police couldn’t find him after the first time, then and the case was cold…..

SO they suck once

All the cops did on this one was give completely inaccurate info to the public as what to be watching/looking for. While advising the public that there was no dangers predator, just a bad custody battle

So they suck twice

NO they didn’t find the body, city workers doing routine trash pick up get to claim that.

So they suck three times or more. Police as a whole are pretty useless, They really are only a reactive force, and it seems of late the small dick complex’s from high school with a chip on the shoulder and a badge to hide behind just aren’t cutting it anymore.

However I bet they create a lot of revenu serving and protecting our most pressing areas of crime like parking,registration, seat belt,speeding, noise complaints.
AssWho?

And this is not about are there good cops/bad cops. I know there are good cops, who truly do their best to protect the community they serve out of a sense of duty. However there are far more of them that have no interest in anything other than the power that they perceive the job will bring them. For most its a job where you are above reproach, and that little badge will put the fear into those who are not scared of the gun.
In my view/experiences of course your interactions may vary…..
onlyme356

“I made the phone call, he turned himself in. That’s all I have to say,” Was mom lighting a cigarette when she made this statement?
JustBrowsingLife

I know. Huh?
http://twitter.com/LaylaLolly LaylaLolly

Yes, she was raped.
http://twitter.com/LaylaLolly LaylaLolly

Not to mention his unusually high pitched voice. I hope he is raped until his bowls rupture and he dies from a semen overdose.
http://twitter.com/LaylaLolly LaylaLolly

He claims he dismembered her because killing her gave him no joy. I hope he gives plenty of Bubba’s joy in jail….but sadly, I’m sure he’ll be segregated with the other cho mo baby killers.