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

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[Knox]

So Jessica enters Chelsea Park right off of Moore Street.

http://goo.gl/maps/cq6qd

 

[bdawk20]

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.

It's interesting how the systems differ between schools, but yet none of them seem to be set up in such a way that if a child goes missing anyone is necessarily alerted in time. For instance, in Bryan Glenn's case his school has an automated system that doesn't notify until 7 pm bc kids can go home and intercept it if their parents are at work.

 

[taagean]

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

Looking at Google Maps, it appears that 10768 Moore St is right beside Chelsea Park. Isn't that where she was to meet up with friends? For her not to make it, she must have disappeared right at the house or in the park.

ETA: Sorry, I just noticed this has been discussed - guess I missed a post or two.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Looking at Google Maps, it appears that 10768 Moore St is right beside Chelsea Park. Isn't that where she was to meet up with friends? For her not to make it, she must have disappeared right at the house or in the park.

Didn't the mother say she watched Jessica walk until she couldn't see her anymore? If so, that would mean that Jessica either didn't stop at the park that day and kept walking (for whatever reason) or she went INTO the park and the mother couldn't see her anymore and something occurred inside the park.

Right? Or am I missing something?

 

[Knox]

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.

Jessica routinely meets classmates at Chelsea Park, three blocks away, and then the classmates together walk the remaining 1.3 miles to school together.

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#ixzz28YYdgUPh

Not making sense with the location of the home on the map :waitasec:
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[nursebeeme]

http://twitter.com/i/#!/search/#JessicaRidgeway

1,100 volunteers searching

(knox, I think the three blocks is the walk from the park to the school.. not sure but according to the map it makes more sense)

 

[nursebeeme]

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[Knox]

Matt Flener ‏@mattflener Police will meet at 4PM to figure out how to search for #jessicaridgeway into this evening http://fb.me/1WFKco4xc

 

[JodyMT]

That poor mother is going to blame herself for the rest of her life. The kids may resent it, but you have to be over protective in these times with all the sexual predators roaming around. Her neighborhood looks like a fairly nice one, but if someone was hanging around the park waiting on their chance, then that poor girl may not have stood a chance.

It scares me to death.

 

[Footwarrior]

Yesterday morning the temp. was near freezing at the time Jessica set off for school. Did any of her friends actually meet at the park and walk to school, or did they all get rides?

 

[nursebeeme]

Buses of volunteers were sent to open spaces in Mayfair, Countryside, Ketner and Chelsea as well as the Westminster Hills Dog Park and Standley Lake.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...-for-jessica-ridgeway-10-missing-since-friday

 

[eileenhawkeye]

I don't think the address: 10768 Moore St. Westminster, CO 80021 for Jessica's home is right. I went to the Jefferson County Tax Assessors website, and that street # doesn't exist in the property records....

I did find a woman with the last name "Ridgeway" who lives at 10786 Moore Street. (Is it okay for me to post that?)

 

[TripleA]

What if Jessica left the house a few minutes late and when she go to the park the other kids were already gone? That means that she could have walked the whole way to school by herself which means she could have gone missing anywhere along the route, not just in the three blocks to the park. Have they checked with every house on the route that she likely walked everyday to see if anyone saw her walking alone to school? What if a parent/neighbor that she knew drove by while she was walking alone and offered her a ride and then just took her? They should post the route so that anyone who drives those roads can be thinking about whether they saw a young girl walking alone that morning.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Since someone posted that it was really cold that morning, I wonder if a car pulled up and offered to "give her a ride to school" and she accepted because she didn't want to walk in the cold.

Just trying to think of possible scenarios.

 

[cluciano63]

I wonder what time the call to her home was actually made? 9am, 10am?
Anyway...it was probably far too late, in any case. It would have taken barely a minute to get a child into a car and away from the area. Even thirty minutes would have been too late, if no one saw anything. So yes, time was lost by mom not answering, but I am not sure it would have mattered in the long run.

 

[Knox]

Mark Neitro ‏@CBS4Mark Several times today I've been with searchers as they located clothing/items. Police gathering possible evidence. #jessicaridgeway

 

[LietKynes]

Sorry if this has already been posted...but who exactly saw Jessica last ?

BTW, I have felt for a long time now, that no kids should walk to school; unless they are very close to the school, and walk with other kids --not blaming anyone. This world has gone completely nuts.
I don't know if it was better when I was young, but my siblings and I were allowed to walk a mile or so to the neighborhood grocery to buy candy ---and we never worried.

 

[Knox]

I don't think the address: 10768 Moore St. Westminster, CO 80021 for Jessica's home is right. I went to the Jefferson County Tax Assessors website, and that street # doesn't exist in the property records....

I did find a woman with the last name "Ridgeway" who lives at 10786 Moore Street. (Is it okay for me to post that?)

That address makes more sense, now it's three blocks from her house to the park. Thank you Eileenhawkeye.
It also dovetails with the neighbor's location, she spoke in a news story and said Jessica was at her home a lot (last name Johnston).

http://goo.gl/maps/vnX15

 

[steff13]

That address makes more sense, now it's three blocks from her house to the park. Thank you Eileenhawkeye.

http://goo.gl/maps/vnX15

Am I reading incorrectly, or does that map say it would take 10 minutes to walk from the home to the park?

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