margarita25
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The prosecution did a great job too, thank you!!
I just read that when Austin Sigg's DNA was compared to DNA on the backpack and the victim in the park, it did not match. I wonder how that happened! Apparently Sigg thought it would be a match and decided that it was better to confess than have the police choose when to arrest him, but in reality he had been cleared as a suspect.
This is disturbing - surely there wasn't anyone else involved, but that is exactly how it seems from the info above.
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While I am very happy and grateful for the verdict against Austin Sigg, the DNA mismatch is really bugging me. The following is from the Affidavit in Support of Warrantless Arrest:
"[A] full DNA profile from an unknown subject had been developed from evidence collected from Jessica's backpack. The profile had been entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). CODIS is a system developed and maintained by the FBI into which crime laboratories can enter DNA evidence for comparison, including evidence collected in cases in which there is no identified suspect. A match was made to a DNA profile already entered into CODIS in a different case.
On May 28th, 2012, at about 1315, on the trails around Ketner Reservoir, a 22-year-old female jogger was attacked by a male suspect who attempted to cover her mouth with a rag soaked in an unknown substance and to drag her into the underbrush near the trail. The female was able to fight or scare off her attacker, and she then called police. The female described her attaker as a white male, 20-25 years of age, approximately 57 to 59 tall with an average build and brown hair.
The attacker was not located after an area search and remained unidentified. During the course of his investigation into that case, Detective Michael Lynch collected the shirt the victim was wearing at the time of the attack, and submitted it to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation laboratory for analysis. From an examination of the shirt, CBI analysts were able to develop a full DNA profile from an unknown subject. The DNA profile was submitted to CODIS and later returned a match to the DNA profile from Jessica Rigeways backpack.
A buccal swab was taken from Austin Sigg after a neighbor tipped off the police to his strange behavior and a conversation with Mindy Sigg who spoke about concerns of body disposal and DNA issues. When analysed, the DNA of Austin Sigg did not match the DNA profile obtained from the swab of Jessica Ridgeways torso, nor did it match the DNA profile developed from Jessica Ridgeways water bottle or the DNA profile developed from [blacked out] shirt (from Ketner Reservoir).
If the DNA evidence was accurate enough to match the jogger attack to Jessica's murder, how could it be wrong? Seriously wondering. Whose DNA was it? And why on earth was Mindy Sigg talking to a neighbor about body disposal and DNA issues??
Based on a few articles (2 posted below), I think that affadavit was prepared prior to Sigg's DNA actually being tested. :moo:
"An early misstep made the day Sigg was arrested caused police to believe his DNA didn't match DNA on Jessica's remains and the jogger, leading detectives to investigate if another male in the family was connected to the crimes. The following day, officers learned Sigg's DNA matched samples collected from the jogger and Jessica's remains."
Read more: Austin Sigg wanted to surrender after Ridgeway killing, mother says - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23684524/austin-sigg-appear-jefferson-county-court#ixzz2lOCT7LJc
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http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23684524/austin-sigg-appear-jefferson-county-court
"Sigg is also accused of attacking a jogger at Ketner Lake before the Ridgeway death. Originally, Westminster Police thought his DNA did not match that case, but later, they found out that it had not even been tested. Once it was tested, it was a match."
http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=345754
If you read the released documents you will see that the dna was found to match sigg and connected him to the backpack and the jogger's shirt. There was some kind of error or miscommunication that got rectified.
Not sure if this has been posted yet. A bunch of photos of the investigation have been released.
http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=365831
"The photos that authorities released are not graphic and include images of Ridgeway's backpack and shots from inside Austin Sigg's home."
Now that this case has been wrapped up and we know the details, it's clear that a budding serial killer was stopped after his first victim. Law enforcement and the community went all out to achieve this result.
I drive past the spot where Jessica was found several times a week. At times, there is someone parked out there and looking at the memorial. Rest in peace Jessica. You are gone, but not forgotten.
The details of Jessica's final hours are known only by her killer. But documents, court testimony, interviews with prosecutors and newly released videotaped statements from Sigg outline the intersection of a troubled 17-year-old and a happy girl just after she left her home at 8:35 a.m.
When police came around to his house as part of a neighborhood-wide sweep to collect DNA samples, Sigg brazenly offered his up - thinking that there was nothing that could trace him back to the crime.
What he didn't know is that police had collected DNA from the attempted abduction of a jogger four months earlier - and that they also had DNA from the urine-soaked clothes that Sigg had stuffed in Jessica's backpack and dumped in town.
When local media reported that police had linked the two cases, Sigg told classmates at school that he felt 'tremendously' ill and 'wobbly,' the Post reports.
That night, he slept in his mother's bed. The next morning, he confessed his crime to Mindy Sigg - who called police.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-zip-tying-victims-mother.html#ixzz2mNRt7n7S
The ziptie thing is Fd up. For sure. The slept in mom's bed the night before confessing is not really that freaky to me. When all is messed up in the world, you are in big trouble or very ill, or very hurt, you want your mom. At least I do. The article does not state it was a normal practice (which I would totally find creepy)