CO - Jessica Ridgeway, 10, Westminster, 5 Oct 2012 - #1

[Kaliste]

Maybe the friends all came from different areas of the neighborhood. Chelsea Park is the central meeting point and they walk to school together from there.

It looks like there is a crosswalk and a footpath, off West 106th which leads directly to the school.

http://goo.gl/maps/HQDi3

Good thought. That actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[Footwarrior]

I'm a litte confused on the general area of Jessica's home. From the map it looks like 107th and Moore at one point are the same street?

Yes, Moore and 107th are the same street. The name changes at the bottom of the loop on the map.

 

[scorekeeper]

http://twitter.com/9news

Jessica's grandmother lives with her and her mom and stays with her overnight.

 

[Knox]

Westminster Police ‏@WestminsterPD Westminster FD will be deploying a dive team at Ketner Resivor #jessicaridgeway

Ketner Reservoir is directly behind her school ...
http://goo.gl/maps/GkfDT

 

[scorekeeper]

dive team to ketner per twitter

 

[nursebeeme]

http://goo.gl/maps/gXZfL

reservoir on map

 

[Knox]

RT @westminsterpd: Dive team using sonar to check the water. Being done as a search tool to rule out the lake #jessicaridgeway

 

[scorekeeper]

perhaps mom turns house phone off during day; i got 8 political calls yesterday!!

 

[cluciano63]

perhaps mom turns house phone off during day; i got 8 political calls yesterday!!

lol partly why I no longer have a land line.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

perhaps mom turns house phone off during day; i got 8 political calls yesterday!!

Got to love election season!

 

[Cubby]

perhaps mom turns house phone off during day; i got 8 political calls yesterday!!

I agree the political calls lately are annoying. That said, it was reported mom is a day sleeper because she works an overnight shift. I'd assume she leaves the telephone on during the day in the event of an emergency. I also assume she'd think the school would call an emergency contact if they could not reach her. That's why we parents provide the school with emergency contacts.

If this particular school uses an automated machine of some sort to make calls to parents of absent students, it really sounds like this is a loop hole of some sort which wasn't thought out carefully for situations such as this. By loop hole I mean relying on a machine to contact the parent of an absent student when the students parent has not called to report the child's absense.

I'm afraid this is going to be the tragedy that happened because of that loop hole which causes the school district and parents to come up with a better solution. Perhaps automated machine calls would be best for snow emergencies or things like that as opposed to reporting a student never arrived at school.

ETA: Machines to make calls may save a few bucks, but no childs life is worth saving a few bucks. Schools should really have a live person making those calls when a child does not arrive at school and a parent has not called in to report the child sick.

 

[scorekeeper]

lease:lease:lease:

for Jessica and her family and friends; plus LE and all the searchers

 

[nursebeeme]

Police are reviewing past incidents for a possible connection, including the attempted abduction on Labor Day of a 22-year-old female jogger at Ketner Lake in Westminster. A man tried to put a chemical-soaked rag over her mouth. The woman was able to fight her way free and called 911.


Read more: 300 volunteers join search for 10-year-old Westminster girl - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...ls-find-10-year-old-westminster#ixzz28YTbxMuh
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just reposting this snip

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Police investigators and volunteers collected socks and other items near Chelsea Park, Materasso said. The socks were placed in evidence bags.

"We can't say at this point whether these are or are not related," he said. Detectives will show the articles of clothing to Jessica's mother and see if they belong to the girl, he added.

Snipped: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...ght-search-fails-find-10-year-old-westminster

 

[ErinGrrrl]

Jessica's exact street address: 10768 Moore St. Westminster, CO 80021

Exact address of her school: Witt Elementary School, 10255 W. 104th Drive Westminster, CO 80021

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...ght-search-fails-find-10-year-old-westminster

 

[JodyMT]

I just went and picked up my daughter at a friend's house. There was a large group of teenage boys hanging out in a field by the friend's house and it sent shivers down my spine. All I could think of is what if my daughter and the other girl went walking and ran into that group of kids. They might be nice kids or they might not. The might not terrifies me.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

According to 9News, there is "severe winter weather" rolling into the area this weekend.

 

[JodyMT]

I thought they said she lived 3 blocks from the school. When I mapped it out, it looked a lot farther than that. 1.3 miles.

NEVER MIND….I see now she likely cut through that field to go to the back of the school.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Jessica's exact street address: 10768 Moore St. Westminster, CO 80021

Exact address of her school: Witt Elementary School, 10255 W. 104th Drive Westminster, CO 80021

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...ght-search-fails-find-10-year-old-westminster

Her home address is literally right by Chelsea Park. I was under the impression it was a little further away.

So, if she usually met friends at Chelsea Park (to walk the rest of the way to school) but friends say she never made it that means she either (for whatever reason) didn't stop at Chelsea Park that day to meet them and walked by herself and THEN something happened or something happened before she made it to Chelsea Park in which case it would have had to be RIGHT by her house.

The park, according to Google Maps, can be seen from her driveway.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

I thought they said she lived 3 blocks from the school. When I mapped it out, it looked a lot farther than that. 1.3 miles.

According to Google Maps it is exactly 1.3 miles away from her home to her school. But the route isn't a straight shot, which might make it look longer.