CO - Jessica Ridgeway, 10, Westminster, 5 Oct 2012 - #3

[shefner]

Your child is gone....you are actively searching.....praying and hoping....
Would you say, "We are a strong family and we will get through this"

Even IF you get through it, you will NEVER get over it. But what does that have to do with things at this point?

My heart screams, "Where is my little girl? Please, if you have her, let her go. Just let her go. I don't know if she's cold or hungry...or if she's hurt somewhere. Without my baby, my life is over...so please, please let her come home to me."

 

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[Helenstreet]

It won't be safe for me to post on this case until we have more information. Something isn't right imo. :twocents:

I just stopped by, but I totally agree with both of your statements. I will say that the father's grief to me seems very genuine.

 

[iamnotagolem]

Verbatim: (She says puts on her coats, plural )"I make sure she's going to meet her friend because it's snowing. And your, she, she makes,..her friend says yes, I'm walking too. (big swallow) I watched her walk out the front door and I shut the door.

http://kdvr.com/2012/10/09/family-of-jessica-ridgeway-makes-first-public-statement/

This article says cousin, not friend. Was it her cousin or friend that she walked to school with? Were they in the same class?

 

[Jan]

I hope the DNA on the backback and water bottle and anything else in the backpack will give important clues to what happened to Jessica and will tell who took her. I hope any unknown DNA found will be located in police records from some previous offence of the person who has (had) her. When my sister's kids were teens, a teen girl was kidnapped from the bus stop that my nieces took to school each day. They just happened not to go to the bus stap that day and saw nothing of what happened. Neighbors didn't seem to have seen anything either. I can't remember the girl's name but police looked for her for some time and thought she had been taken by car, possibly up north. As far as I know, she was never found. That was before the days of DNA and modern crime fighting technology. The girl's disappearance was upsetting and scary to me knowing my nieces got their bus at that stop most days. I believe the case went cold and was all but forgotten after that. Our area has had at least 3 young girls who were kidnapped and later found dead and the killers were never found. One was little blond, blue eyed Jessica Phelps, and the others were 2 young black girls in separate incidents. I hate it that the killers were never caught.

 

[hollyblue]

Respectfully snipped by me.

Mom did not say she saw the friend. Mom did not say she watched her walk toward the park. She saw her go out the door. The communication MSM reported between the two kids may have been by phone, email, instant message, etc. to arrange to meet at the park as usual.

BBM: I have never read anything about communications between the kids in the MSM....do have a link because I've missed some important info? Is this scanner info bubbling to the top? Again?

 

[shefner]

I just stopped by, but I totally agree with both of your statements. I will say that the father's grief to me seems very genuine.

I agree. The father looks shell-shocked. My heart breaks for him, felon or no.

 

[Foxfire]

Do we know in which neighborhoods or on which streets LE was stopping cars and searching them during the hours in which it is believed Jessica's backpack was left in the Rock Creek subdivision?

Normally a five mile radius in the primary search. In the Holly Bobo (TN) abduction 04/13/2011, it was seven days later before a roadblock was iniated..
She is still missing without a clue...


http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/28/americas-silent-disaster/?partner=RSS

'America's silent disaster:' Mysteries of the missing
FBI: More than 1,100 'active' missing-persons cases in Tennessee; exact number unknown

By Jim Balloch
Posted June 28, 2009 at midnight

 

[belimom]

OT: This whole discussion about her walking to school... scares the bejeezus about of me, b/c next year, my son will be 10 and within walking distance to school (different school this year - we drive him). A 10-yr-old is plenty old enough to walk to school, but as we know, it doesn't mean it's safe to do so these days. :cry:

 

[cluciano63]

No charge where I live yet, but it's 1 mile for elementary and 1.5 for middle and high school.

Problem is a bus is not going to stop child abductions. As children who ride the busses must walk to the bus stops and stand around about 10 minutes waiting.

Kids are abducted walking to the bus stop and standing at the bus stop all the time. I can't see my grandsons bus from my house, I have to walk him to the bus stop. It's the reason why my daughter moved into my home with her children after she became a single mother. She has to work and can't get the children off to school. Latch key starts at 6:30am she leaves for work at 6am.

She often works midnights, comes running in the door at 8:15am to pack lunches and get kids out the door. It's very hard for her to stay awake even for a half hour to get the kids to the bus stop.

So I truly feel for this single mom, working midnights, she was doing the best she could. As you said the options are not always good for working parents.

Kids are not abducted walking to bus stops all the time, It is an extremely rare event.

 

[shefner]

BBM: I have never read anything about communications between the kids in the MSM....do have a link because I've missed some important info? Is this scanner info bubbling to the top? Again?

Yes....we are moving into forbidden territory. No scanner info allowed up here or we all get in trouble.

 

[Considering]

On NG, now.

Well, actually, the show went to a commercial, but NG will be back to misinform (...oops, I mean inform) in a minute or so.

 

[Leilei]

^^^^this! Moms statement seems odd and over detailed in parts and lacking in others. While I don't know if she was involved, it could very well be that her and Jessica had an argument or she went straight to bed and left Jessica to get ready and out the door on her own. The peeling oranges comment stuck me as strange. But it could just be that every little detail is right there burned into her memory as her last moments with Jessica.

Exactly, and the "teenager" part is what struck me the most. That and the alarm clock, which just seemed as if she may have trusted Jessica to get herself ready and fed and out the door by herself. And, coming from a mom of twin boys, a granola bar for breakfast? Maybe it's because I didn't have girls, but my guys wouldn't leave the house without two bowls of cereal and maybe a poptart, too.

I want to stress that I DO NOT think that Mom is involved in Jessica's disappearance, but I do think that there is more to the story of that morning than she is telling. And if I'm right, omg the guilt she must be feeling

IMO

 

[Foxfire]

I hope the DNA on the backback and water bottle and anything else in the backpack will give important clues to what happened to Jessica and will tell who took her. I hope any unknown DNA found will be located in police records from some previous offence of the person who has (had) her. When my sister's kids were teens, a teen girl was kidnapped from the bus stop that my nieces took to school each day. They just happened not to go to the bus stap that day and saw nothing of what happened. Neighbors didn't seem to have seen anything either. I can't remember the girl's name but police looked for her for some time and thought she had been taken by car, possibly up north. As far as I know, she was never found. That was before the days of DNA and modern crime fighting technology. The girl's disappearance was upsetting and scary to me knowing my nieces got their bus at that stop most days. I believe the case went cold and was all but forgotten after that. Our area has had at least 3 young girls who were kidnapped and later found dead and the killers were never found. One was little blond, blue eyed Jessica Phelps, and the others were 2 young black girls in separate incidents. I hate it that the killers were never caught.

Yep, because what we do know is that sexual predators are recidivist...and they hone their skills with each victim taken...

 

[SuziQ]

Verbatim: (She says puts on her coats, plural )"I make sure she's going to meet her friend because it's snowing. And your, she, she makes,..her friend says yes, I'm walking too. (big swallow) I watched her walk out the front door and I shut the door.

I'm more confused than ever on if the friend was already there or not and is the friend and the cousin one and the same?

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

This is a good link to get caught up: http://kdvr.com/2012/10/08/live-blog-search-continues-for-jessica-ridgeway/

I wasn't aware of a custody dispute with Dad, but I came into this late.

Great resource for updates and archive! :seeya:

 

[mikkismom]

Verbatim: (She says puts on her coats, plural )"I make sure she's going to meet her friend because it's snowing. And your, she, she makes,..her friend says yes, I'm walking too. (big swallow) I watched her walk out the front door and I shut the door.

FWIW, nowadays, lots of kids have the '4-way' coats - a reversible coat that zips inside another coat. That's what I thought of. If it were snowing, my kids would be wearing this 'double' coat.

jmo, hth, etc

 

[Foxfire]

On NG, now.

"Bombshell"..

 

[Coldpizza]

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Let me just edit, been there done that, zapped and all and without them we would be in chaos.

I've been wanting to say this all afternoon, a good cab helps.

nursebeeme will give you a sedative to settle things down

Kimster will just plain zap you off the page

bessie will come along and sing you to your demise, then use her microphone to reiterate the rules!

 

[iamnotagolem]

So avoiding no no topics and moving back towards scenarios that leave Jessica alive......if the girl in WY was abducted by the same man who took Jessica. Is it possible that he abducted Jessica and had her in an abandoned house? By abandoned I mean vacant, foreclosure, short sale, etc in the area. Maybe police were getting too close so he dropped the backpack and left? Maybe the backpack was a clue to where she is?

Just thinking.