CO - Jessica Ridgeway, 10, Westminster, 5 Oct 2012 - #6

[AngelWings444]

No. It's damaged beyond recognition. We should learn more tomorrow. Here's a catch up article.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21754575/fbi-look-strange-behavior-suspect

:seeya:

LE did not say the BBM part. They said the body was not "intact." We don't have the details regarding the condition of the body, other than what LE has released.

 

[tiredblondy]

Go back and read 12:30 am today.

Where scanner thread or here? Don't understand- sorry.

 

[Ransom]

Where scanner thread or here? Don't understand- sorry.

Scanner thread. Sorry.

 

[CHERIE.T]

I don't see how the family could be asked to positively identify a "not intact" body?

Warning......not meant to be offensive in any way....

I'm sure this has been mentioned, still catching up....but if no identity can be made that could mean there is no head, therefore no teeth. And no hands meaning no fingerprints.

 

[Darkman00]

Published: October 12, 2012 3:00 a.m.

Hunt for missing Colorado girl intensifies

Police solicit tips, deploy radar vans

P. SOLOMON BANDA | Associated Press

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Read at the Source: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20121012/NEWS03/310129938/1066/NEWS03

 

[CHERIE.T]

I understand. But considering the torture of waiting, waiting, waiting to find out: is it her?, would you choose the wait option rather than viewing the body (part(s))?

I don't know which I would choose, but the waiting has to be the most painful, excruciating time. I would need serious sedation...

True. How are her parents dealing with sorta knowing its their daughter yet waiting for other things to be found and confirmed? Has to be the worst nightmare to endure. :moo:

 

[winterrose]

I'll never forget Zahara. She lived with cruelty, evil and severe physical abuse for at least 6 mos if not longer before she was killed. To me that was torture.

It's also sad everyone around here knew it and did nothing.

 

[MsFacetious]

A major news conference... what does that mean?

http://www.krextv.com/news/around-t...day-for-Missing-Colorado-Girl--173839241.html

That they might give out information instead of just saying "we can't tell you anything."

When on Friday? I guess at least afternoon or evening.


https://twitter.com/WestminsterPD

Westminster Police ‏@WestminsterPD

Unless there is breaking news, there will be no additional updates tonight or tomorrow morning. #jessicaridgeway

 

[CHERIE.T]

We need desperately to find the perp!
Keep your kids close until we do! The perp is close! Imo

Kkdj , I hope all locals are paying close attention to this horrendous crime. I know i wouldn't allow my children out alone. Do you know if local schools have held safety classes? Tia :moo:

 

[CHERIE.T]

In my opinion, LE would not give the family the option of identifying a body which is found "not intact". It would be too horrifying for the family to see their loved one in such a state.

Absolutely. I personally believe LE is considering that. I think they have the utmost respect for this family. Imoo

 

[Snowbunny]

I like how the elementary schools in TN handle the kids being dropped off and picked up at school. Where I lived you drove up to the front door and a teacher took your kids out of the vehicle and when you went to pick your child up a teach put your kids in the vehicle and only if they knew who you were.

 

[tiredblondy]

Published: October 12, 2012 3:00 a.m.

Hunt for missing Colorado girl intensifies

Police solicit tips, deploy radar vans

P. SOLOMON BANDA | Associated Press

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Read at the Source: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20121012/NEWS03/310129938/1066/NEWS03

Thanks but explain to me how this will help? It's late and apparently my concentration and comprehension is poor tonight. Thanks- From above referenced article the statement below is what I'm asking about.

Police said photo radar vans – normally used to detect and photograph speeding vehicles – were being used to monitor some streets around the girl’s house.

 

[GrainneDhu]

I will bet $1,000 the father of J's walking friend is not involved in her abduction.

Beside the timing of events logically dictating that he could not have been involved, he would have to be an absolute moron if he were.

MHOO, but one I'm willing to bet on...

I'm with you. I really doubt that J or J's father is involved.

 

[CHERIE.T]

And that just further confuses me. (Mom call to verify that they are going to walk together and then they don't but son says they did? But it's the day before?)

Clear as mud sarx. Lol
Maybe the boy is afraid he will get in trouble if he tells exactly the last he and J saw each other. :waitasec: for example what if they walked another route to school for example. Not the day J was kidnapped....another day maybe?

 

[Snowbunny]

I've been doing some reading on this case tonight since I got home from work and it wouldn't surprise me any if this body they found turns out not to be Jessica. I just keep getting the feeling that it is not, but either way my heart and prayers go out to whomever it is and their loved ones. This is just terrible.

 

[CHERIE.T]

When she had been gone for 3 days with no sign of her, LE said the abductor could have changed her clothes or hair to change her appearance. People who steal children to keep them do that. Changing clothes on the way to school is a 'rumor' or 'speculation' and not credited by LE. :banghead:

Thank you....

 

[GrainneDhu]

Wow! I was JUST talking to my husband about this being my one nagging "confusion" since hearing the original call information. I know people here seem to be confident that the father somehow "fit into" that morning's routine and ended up driving his son despite the original plan. But why do police keep saying over and over that Jessica had planned on meeting "a regular group of friends" in a very specific park(three block distance)? As far as I have heard- the police have completely dropped that detail (about meeting boy first) from the description of where Jessica was right before she dissapeared. I also wondered why how the father would know to drive his son- maybe the little boy was told by his father that he was only allowed to walk if Jessica was with him, and the little boy went home after realizing she hadn't shown up- but wouldn't be the type of chaos that a ten year-old would remember? (at least by the same afternoon)? Just sharing my thoughts...I must be missing some info, I'm glad I'm not alone.

I'm thinking that after Jessica called (something that would be easy as falling off a log for LE to do in the first 24 hours she was missing), her friend's father decided it was a little too cold, so he drove his son to the park and they waited for Jessica for 10 minutes, then figured they'd misunderstood her call and went on to school.

Or maybe Colorado is like Iowa, where the first snow of the season seems to bring out the idjit drivers, so the dad in question thought better of letting his son walk.

In either case, I think it's most likely that they put Jessica's non-appearance down to some sort of miscommunication and didn't think anything more about it.

 

[GrainneDhu]

Former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt says the condition of the body, which was described by Westminster police spokesman Trevor Materasso as "not intact," indicates an experienced killer.

Just curious does anyone know of cases of child abductions where the victim's body is damaged like this? I can think of some where the victim was an adult.

Zahra Baker. Adam Walsh.

I know there's more but I can't tease the full names out of my memory right now.

 

[Lola6655]

While we don't seem to get a lot of the everyday violence here(Denver), this does seem to be where the more "high profile" events happen. When we moved here a few years ago, I assumed the area would be a little hardened to violent attacks such as Columbine- however I have since noticed it is very much the opposite. The "weird" grotesque crimes seem common for Colorado, but people around here are not desensitized at all. (MUCH less than in any of the other 10 areas we have lived). People here have such an unusual sense of "pulling together", honestly I am left amazed after each and every tragedy or shooting- how do the people around me not just want to "give up" and move on? I see a tremendous (almost unknown to me) resilience...it reminds me of a child that has been raised in chaos- a teacher can easily identify them as being the "stronger" spirit in the face of adversity. Just when I decide to pack up and move out of Denver, the people here amaze me, every time!

 

[redheadedgal]

Just curious does anyone know of cases of child abductions where the victim's body is damaged like this? I can think of some where the victim was an adult.

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