CO - Jessica Ridgeway, 10, Westminster, 5 Oct 2012 - #2

[Seek&Find]

Hm. Don't focus on clothing, good chance she changed clothes sounds like they're still working all theories of this case - that she could still be alive, yet they're also checking fields, cars, houses. Very thorough, no tunnel vision. Good to see!

Moo

 

[peeples]

Yeah, I wondered last night if her clothes were in the bag and now I really wonder...why else to make a special point about her clothing this morning...

Glad you stepped up, i couldn't remember who said it last night about the clothes and
Yep, and the tweet says "good chance" she changed clothes
as opposed to "might have" or "possibly"changed clothes......

 

[passionflower]

I keep thinking about Jaycee Duggard.
She really was in plain site of many.

 

[Marilynilpa]

Good chance she changed clothes??

Someone brought up last night that maybe there was clothing in the backpack.... makes me wonder....

Wait a minute:waitasec:

If this is true, does this mean the clothes she wore to school were found in the backpack?

Because if so, there is a more ominous reason why her clothes were there, and it wouldn't be because she willingly took them off.

Maybe her mother noticed that in addition to the outfit Jessica wore to school, another outfit is missing.

Which then makes me think Jessica possibly intended to go somewhere other than school when she left home that morning.

 

[bkcrt]

I think the backpack was placed as a diversion so she could be moved and that she has been in her neighborhood the whole time. It's strange to me the choice of where it was left though. That neighborhood is not a straight shot anywhere. Whoever left it took great risk in being discovered. A 10yr old is familiar with stranger danger. I think if she was taken, it was by someone she has seen before or is vaguely familiar with.

 

[nursebeeme]

Wait a minute:waitasec:

Does this mean the clothes she wore to school were found in the backpack?

Because if so, there is a more ominous reason why her clothes were there, and it wouldn't be because she willingly took them off.

Maybe her mother noticed that in addition to the outfit Jessica wore to school, another outfit is missing.

Which then makes me think Jessica possibly intended to go somewhere other than school when she left home that morning.

we do not know there were clothes in the backpack. They will not discuss this

 

[woodlawn]

I'm puzzled by the backpack being found six miles from where Jessica was last seen.

I wish we knew the condition of the backpack, i.e., was it neatly placed on the sidewalk or did it look as it if had been tossed from a car.

I also wish we knew if someone found the backpack first, and then left it where it was later found.

Is the abductor toying with LE, trying a bit of misdirection?

There seems to be no logical explanation for the backpack to be found in a residential neighborhood six miles from where Jessica lives.:waitasec:

Agree 100%. To me (commences free speculation) despite the seeming deftness of being able to abduct this child on a very short stretch of road in broad daylight without any (known) witnesses, the very odd behavior of apparently keeping the backpack for 36+ hours, then leaving it in plain sight six miles away seems suggestive of a young/inexperienced/clumsy perpetrator.

There was no physical evidence, so why provide some? Why take the risk of being seeing leaving it? I can't reject the possibility that's this was a way of 'taunting' the police, or making a 'statement'. It just seems more likely to me that this person does indeed live near Jessica (though not necessarily knowing her or her family) or at the very least had a legitimate reason to be in the area that morning, committed what was very much a crime of impulse/opportunity, realized the police were able to really narrow the time/place of her disappearance, began to panic and came up with the 'clever' idea of leaving the items in another area not too far away (that he [sic] was already familiar with) to 'throw the police off'.

It's the kind of thing that makes perfect sense to a not-too-bright first-time offender in the middle of a complete freak-out panic. Though there are some famous exceptions, mostly people who are serially "successful" at these kinds of crimes are able to re-offend because they don't do completely brain-dead things like waiting a day-and-a-half after the crime to provide crucial evidence to the police. End of free speculation.

Prayers, as always, for Jessica, her family, loved ones, and all those working on their behalf.

 

[Eileen730]

Kenny Holmes 7News ‏@KHOLMESlive
Police: regarding the backpack. We don't know when the backpack was put there. Parents talk to your kids. #jessicaridgeway
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53s Jesse B. Gill ‏@jessebgillcrime
RT Police: We don't want to focus on clothing. Focus on facial features. #jessicaridgeway via @KHOLMESlive
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52s snottingham ‏@snottinghamcnn
Police asking public to focus on facial features of #jessicaridgeway. Say there is a good chance she has changed clothes.
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Changed Clothes?

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

Yeah, I wondered last night if her clothes were in the bag and now I really wonder...why else to make a special point about her clothing this morning...

yes... This leads me to think her clothes she was wearing may be in the bag...

 

[Marilynilpa]

Agree. That road is...I mean it has a good amount of traffic, but really only for people who live in those areas. All that is in that direct area are subdivions and the open space.
For example, I only use it when I go to Target (right off of 36 and McCaslin) and then need I go to the mall so I don't have to deal with the highway. The mall is in the Interlocken area, which is not too far from where she went missing. The road is winding, though, hilly, and has a lower speed limit-like 35-45 and much less convienent than the highway for nonlocals. I guess my point is that only someone who lives in this area would use the road. A passer through would not go out of their way to get to it or even realize it was there.
The open space area off the road where the backpack was found is massive. But it isn't wooded-it is hilly praire land.

I think I know the area you mean - about a zillion prairie dog holes??

 

[eileenhawkeye]

Jessica's address is 10786 MOORE ST, Westminster, CO.

The media is mixing it up and saying she lives at 10768 Moore Street, but that's false.

You can go here: https://www.co.jefferson.co.us/ats/specificaddresssearch.jsp

You will see that 10768 does not exist, but that a woman with the last name Ridgeway lives at 10786.

 

[Nana46]

I guess anything of course is possible but I wondered if maybe a child just found the backpack and just dropped it or discarded it....they might be too afraid to admit to having it which is understandable.IMO.

 

[trigger]

I think its someone in her own neighborhood and i think Jessica will be close to home The bag was tossed out as a decoy JMO!

ITA Someone lives right by her who goes to work at that time. But I also think this person has ties to the area where he dropped her belongings. Maybe his parents live in the area. Would be comfortable in that area if seen.

Wonder if they are going to search landfills?

OMG another child. Your right something has to be done.

Hopefully there is DNA on the backpack.

 

[Foxfire]

http://kdvr.com/2012/10/07/search-for-ridgeway-moves-to-superior/

Backpack found in Superior believed to be Ridgeway’s

Posted on: 3:25 pm, October 7, 2012, by Brooke Way, updated on: 07:10am, October 8, 2012

WESTMINSTER, Colo. – The search for missing 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway was moved to Superior this afternoon, according to the Westminster Police Department.

A Superior resident emailed the town’s listserv just after 1 p.m. Sunday saying they discovered a backpack holding a water bottle inside with Ridgeway’s name written on it, according to police.

According to the Boulder Daily Camera, the e-mail read: “Found this morning on the side walk at Andrew Drive and Alpha Court. Water bottle has ‘Jessica Ridgeway’ name on it. Come and get it.”

The resident, who did not want to be named, told FOX 31, “I was just coming home and I saw a purple backpack sitting in front of the neighbor’s house… All I told them is I saw a purple backpack and I didn’t think anything of it because my neighbors have little kids and I thought they always just leave their stuff out.”
In a press conference Sunday, Westminster Police spokesman Trevor Materasso said, “We believe the backpack to be Jessica’s.”

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[eileenhawkeye]

We've heard about how LE searched most homes near Jessica's. I think the abductor lives in one of those houses, and he knew that he needed to dispose of the backpack. However, I don't know why he dumped it in a residential neighborhood where it would definitely be found. What if there's fingerprints or DNA on it?

 

[nursebeeme]

Ana Cabrera ‏@AnaCabrera
#JessicaRidgeway search: Investigators combing triangular area bound by Hwy 128, Hwy 93 and Hwy 36 (including Eldorado Canyon).

I have put this area on the map
http://goo.gl/maps/HKVo4

 

[cakegirl0905]

I guess anything of course is possible but I wondered if maybe a child just found the backpack and just dropped it or discarded it....they might be too afraid to admit to having it which is understandable.IMO.

No way that far. A kid from her neighborhood wouldn't have made it to where it was found without a parent driving them, most likely.

 

[Marilynilpa]

we do not know there were clothes in the backpack. They will not discuss this

Right, I'm just speculating on what it would mean IF it turns out there were clothes in the backpack.

Maybe they will elaborate at the presser.

 

[hollyblue]

The previous thread suggested that her address had been transposed and should be 10786 Moore St--which puts it three blocks from the park.

Per property records this is the correct addy for her gma's house.

 

[JodyMT]

It sounds to me like whoever took her is now playing a sick game with the police by leaving behind her belongings.