CO - Jessica Ridgeway, 10, Westminster, 5 Oct 2012 - #4

[OwlMom]

Leyden road was opened to traffic about a week ago. Right now it's closed again with a police roadblock at Quaker avenue.

Interesting. I drove past it three weeks ago (Sept 16). I don't usually go out that ways.

Not sure that the lockout at the elementary school would be related to a suspect. They would have to be old enough to drive.

Not a suspect at the school. A suspect who might enter the school or try to take kids hostage while fleeing police. A lockout keeps bad people out, not keeps them in.

 

[Barefoot]

Maybe the school was I'm lockdown so kids would not be boarding buses at the end of the day that would take them past the site where she was found. It looks like 82 ave was a road that could have easily been traveled by school bus.

 

[yrmfp]

Im several pages "out" in catching up but have silently followed this case with a heavy heart,having 2 daughters 11 and 16....I constantly thought of my youngest and her friends and that phase of life at that age when reading about Jessica.I read about the body as my daughters were on the sofa beside me complaining of how I forgot to buy milk for their oreos.....I lost it in tears....(my youngest kept hugging me telling me she didnt even care about milk,not knowing why I was crying)...someone took this baby from her family and as skeptical as I was at certain times in this case( and many others)my heart literally hurts for her family.......

 

[passionflower]

TV NEWS9
talking about boys being lured by candy.
poor family, some activity at their home today.
LE is by home, media is in front of the house.
1 light on all day and eve.

 

[MidwestMama]

Not sure that the lockout at the elementary school would be related to a suspect. They would have to be old enough to drive.

Do you mean the students would have to be old enough to drive? I think there was a lockdown to avoid children walking home at the time, for their safety.

 

[ExpectingUnicorns]

If this is Jessica, she was not destroyed, no matter how her murderer might have tried. He may have harmed her vessel, but she is in heaven right now, laughing, loving, and smiling. The tears and pain are felt by us, not her, IMO.

But those driven by evil can find perverse joy in trying to snuff out good and innocence. They will be held to account.

Even Jesus cried. Bad, painful, almost unbearable things happen. Jessica was not only a vessel; she was a 10 year old, innocent child who by all our current accounts died a horrendous death, likely preceded by acts beyond our worst nightmares.

Seek&Find, you are so right that Jessica has not been destroyed because her sacrifice will still live on. The grace is that we can overcome these horrendous crimes by honoring the victims by trying help save others in the lessons we have learned. God willing, may the lesson of her sweet, innocent life not fall on deaf ears!

Because, even though God is omnipotent, society can still be a *****! Free will and all, you know.

 

[JaimeInLA]

Precious child.

She bears a striking resemblance to Elizabeth Collins!

 

[GrainneDhu]

Why would they have made this announcement if it wasn't her??? I'm devastated.

Maybe because onlookers (media or the general public) saw the scene being processed.

I think it's 50/50 right now. Even if the body is of an adult male, I think LE would want to try for an ID out of respect for families who have a missing adult male loved one.

While everyone wants to spare Jessica's family as much as possible, there are no doubt other families with missing loved ones in the general area and they need consideration as well.

 

[Leilei]

Channel 9 news was reporting live from in front of Jessica's house a few minutes ago.

They need to leave this family alone right now, seriously :furious:

 

[Snufamonbobball]

She bears a striking resemblance to Elizabeth Collins!

I said the same thing over on Elizabeth's thread.

 

[carbuff]

Do you mean the students would have to be old enough to drive? I think there was a lockdown to avoid children walking home at the time, for their safety.

I think she meant the perp has to be old enough to drive.

I keep wanting to say "they" when I think of who left her and the book bag. I'm picturing a pair of boys about high school age. I don't know where that idea came from. Maybe the geocaching thing put it there. That doesn't sound like the kind of thing a person working alone would do.

 

[bkcrt]

One thing that hasn't been mentioned: Leyden Road has been closed to all but local traffic for construction all summer. I know because we were researching Arvada and Colorado history and wanted to drive down it between Indiana and Hwy 93, but couldn't. It's closed beginning at Quaker and all the way to 93, and that was still true as of a couple of weeks ago (I was coming up 93 from Golden and looked, because I would have driven back that way just to drive through the canyon to get to my house).

I'm sure the perp knew that.

I also saw a news report that said 93 is closed in both directions near the area currently, so they are working much closer to Hwy 93 than Indiana.

And like Eesti, I'm just horrified. These are all areas that I regularly run and bike in, and all of it is just miles from my own house.


But even the earliest reports said they were a couple, so there was an indication from the beginning. It was equally clear that he was a suspect from the beginning.


That was Thornton--east side of I-25, nowhere near the Jeffco schools.

Again, there's nothing good going on when any school in Jeffco is on lockout. I've never seen them do it just because law enforcement is in the area. Yes, that's the story they told, but I'm pretty sure they were worried about someone entering the school while they canvased, whether because they were flushed by law enforcement or for other reasons.

OMG Owlmom....I was just discussing this with my son...and he was telling me the road was closed. We are very familiar with the area (he more than I, as he went to school very close). He spent many lunches parked at Pattridge park. The graffitied buildings are very familiar. My son says people go there to take pictures, shoot, hike and walk dogs. He says everyone knows the road is closed. And whoever dumped the body is probably familiar with the area.

 

[cluciano63]

Wasn't the lockdown around lunchtime?
I thought that the body was located several hours later.
I'm not sure there is a connection, unless they had an eye on a school employee, for instance.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

I'm so heartbroken. Fly with the angels, Jessica. :rose: I'm praying hard that justice for beautiful and precious Jessica is extremely fast. My heart goes out to her family.

Has it been reported yet how police found the body? Was a tip called in or was it during a search?

 

[Chewy]

How horrible would that be that someone would leave a bookbag with "geocaching" connections to a site at the school, (which someone in LE was smart enough to figure out), and then the "find" at the school geocaching site led to the location of the body? I honestly can't think of any other reason the school would have been on lockdown. In any case, I am just heart broken - but I want answers, and I want justice for this beautiful child. Oh so horrible!!!! Why???

I guess I've been researching serial killers for the last three months and there's something really off about that bag.

For example if he was trying to get rid of it, as has been pointed out, why not just throw it out the window while driving on the highway late at night?

And maybe if he did leave it, he took it over towards the school to leave it in front of the school, but then thought about cameras and decided not to. Or thought it would get lost in the shuffle.

Something in that bag seems to have pinpointed them towards here. Is geocacheing taught in schools there? I only know about it from a friend of mine who is a fanatic about finding them.

 

[cluciano63]

Maybe because onlookers (media or the general public) saw the scene being processed.

I think it's 50/50 right now. Even if the body is of an adult male, I think LE would want to try for an ID out of respect for families who have a missing adult male loved one.

While everyone wants to spare Jessica's family as much as possible, there are no doubt other families with missing loved ones in the general area and they need consideration as well.

But we often hear that the body is of an adult male or female, if it is known, at the time of the discovery.

 

[AngelWings444]

If she was found today, and the uncle really said she was found last night, that makes me feel kind of ...weird. Especially since LE would not clear the entire family. Is he a local, I wonder?

Clu - the MEDIA reported the uncle said she was found last night. I will take that with a box of salt. :seeya:

 

[StJohn]

I am thinking LE has a good idea who the perp is, based on where they have been focusing their searches & the fact that body has been found. Wouldn't be surprised to hear of a quick arrest.

 

[Gabby66]

Also another note someone earlier wondered why they were checking the wide open places instead of wooded areas. <modsnip>

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[Isabelle]

This is never going to end! My poor granddaughter will never be able to go anywhere alone, not as long as I am alive!