CO - Jessica Ridgeway, 10, Westminster, 5 Oct 2012 - #21

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http://www.9news.com/news/article/293104/222/Police-search-for-missing-Westminster-girl

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Police release pictures of a cross that may be related to Jessica's case as well as the case in May. Read more and see pictures of the cross here:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/jessica-ridgeway/police-say-wooden-cross-may-belong-to-jessica-ridgeways-killer-need-help-identifying-it
http://www.kctv5.com/story/19867106/recovered-cross-possible-pivotal-piece-in-jessica-ridgeway-investigation
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/10/19/wooden-cross-could-provide-break-in-ridgeway-case/

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I've seen a couple of different crawl spaces here in CO. None were accessed from outside the house. In our first town home we owned, the crawl space was the entire bottom of the house. There was a spot in the hall coat closet that you pulled up the carpet. There were about 3 stairs going down to a tarp covered floor. "Walls" were tarp covered dirt with dirt exposed in some places. The height was about 3 feet...maybe not quite that. I know I could sit up but had to crawl around. It really freaked me out back then and I used to think how someone could keep someone down there and no one would ever know...Anyway, other type I have seen is from a full basement, there is a small door in the wall. You'd need to hoist yourself up to get in but then it's about the same height but elevated somewhat. Also, unfinished with tarp or dirt floors and walls.

Not trying to get all complicated but here in California we have "raised foundation" houses which I always thought were kind of the same as having crawlspaces. Apparently not from what I've read here, but anyway the "crawlspaces" I've seen were mostly accessible from indoors only and kept locked. The "raised foundations" I've seen/lived in meant basically the house was a few feet off the ground and you could get around underneath it if need be to say run cable, check plumbing, etc. To get in from outside means unbolting a fairly sturdy locked window thing, and the only way to get into the house from the "raised foundation" area would be sawing through the floor, or I suppose pushing through the floor for the super-strong. "Basement" to me = at least a crude concrete floor/sides, and somewhere safer to hide in a hurricane or tornado. Celllar, IIRC from living on the East Coast for awhile fit more into what I picture as a "basement" but apparently I've lived in California too long because now I just picture a bunch of aging barrels of wine.

In any case... OTHER than the crawlspaces mentioned earlier where the access is from inside the house only, the others seem like odors would be so noticeable from outside. Inside who knows - it's probably sealed off better, add in someone with a weak sense of smell, I can see something inside being less noticed possibly.

(Sorry for the bad quoting job! Trying to bring it over from the old thread, just realized I posted this after it was closed. I hope it carries over ok.)
 
Hi

Been looking to see if there is any footage of Sigg in court, but I can't seem to find any.

Is there any out there!?

Thank you.
 
Hi

Been looking to see if there is any footage of Sigg in court, but I can't seem to find any.

Is there any out there!?

Thank you.

No footage -- this was a juvenile court hearing -- only MSM descriptions of what occurred by eyewitnesses.
 
why would someone who was interested in all the stuff AS was, especially CSI stuff, leave DNA on the school bag and leave his cross?

Did he want to get caught?

Just curious, why?
 
why would someone who was interested in all the stuff AS was, especially CSI stuff, leave DNA on the school bag and his cross?

Did he want to get caught?

Just curious, why?

In a hurry, only 17 and thinking like a 17 year old?

I do not think he wanted to get caught, he was just getting started.
 
Don't know if there was DNA on the backpack, but it is very possible.

I'm guessing there was DNA on the remains and obviously on the cross.

He probably thought he wiped down the cross (if he left it on purpose and not accidentally lost it), not knowing wood is porous and wiping is useless.

He may have tried to clean the remains, but that is easier said than done.

The clothes may have had some DNA from him removing them if he did not wear gloves the entire time.

But yeah, The Farm is right. Thinking like a 17 year old, in a hurry, scared and sloppy for someone that may have learned about DNA and crime scenes. I really think he had not learned enough yet too.
 
In a hurry, only 17 and thinking like a 17 year old?

I do not think he wanted to get caught, he was just getting started.

that could be it.

But, I wonder....he was supposedly smart, but I guess NOT smart enough, or he wanted to get caught.
 
that could be it.

But, I wonder....he was supposedly smart, but I guess NOT smart enough, or he wanted to get caught.

I work with smart people here and there. Degrees out the ying yang.

Honestly sometimes the things they do are so STUPID. I see a huge lacking of common sense. Book smarts yes but..........
 
why would someone who was interested in all the stuff AS was, especially CSI stuff, leave DNA on the school bag and leave his cross?

Did he want to get caught?

Just curious, why?

It is a long way from taking a couple classes at a community college and being competent at forensic examination technique (which includes techniques for preventing contamination of the crime scene with the tech's DNA). It takes having the techniques down to an almost automatic level, having a checklist, following a protocol established by experts, etc, to get to the point where a person knows enough to avoid contaminating a scene with their own DNA.

This kid was obviously not there yet.

I'm not even sure he thought he was there. So far, it sounds like it was a spur of the moment crime, where he saw an opportunity and took it without really thinking things through (which is good for the investigation). For instance, it sounds to me like he placed the backpack because he was getting nervous and needed to distract LE.
 
It is a long way from taking a couple classes at a community college and being competent at forensic examination technique (which includes techniques for preventing contamination of the crime scene with the tech's DNA). It takes having the techniques down to an almost automatic level, having a checklist, following a protocol established by experts, etc, to get to the point where a person knows enough to avoid contaminating a scene with their own DNA.

This kid was obviously not there yet.

I'm not even sure he thought he was there. So far, it sounds like it was a spur of the moment crime, where he saw an opportunity and took it without really thinking things through (which is good for the investigation). For instance, it sounds to me like he placed the backpack because he was getting nervous and needed to distract LE.

all good points.
 
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21857895/jessica-ridgeway-suspect-one-first-through-new-juvenile

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Sigg's defense lawyers will likely move for a reverse-transfer hearing, said Kim Dvorchak, director of the Colorado Juvenile Defender Coalition.
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If he is convicted as a minor charged as an adult, Sigg faces life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years on a single first-degree murder charge. Convictions on the additional charges would lengthen the sentence, Dvorchak said.
 
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that sentencing a juvenile murder offender to mandatory life in prison without parole is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

However, Justice Elena Kagan's majority decision did not completely eliminate life-without-parole sentences for juveniles convicted of murder. She ruled out automatic life sentences, writing that "a judge or jury must have the opportunity to consider mitigating circumstances before imposing the harshest possible penalty for juveniles."

The high court banned the juvenile death penalty in 2005.

Storey said the June Supreme Court ruling made the current law on life-without-parole sentences for juveniles "murky."

So, even if Sigg is convicted of murder, Storey said, "because he's a juvenile we would have to have a sentencing hearing to see if he would actually even get life."

In court, the defense asked the judge to put all documents in the case under seal and issue a gag order in the case. The judge agreed to seal the documents, but did not issue a gag order.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...-murder-austin-sigg-appears-in-court-thursday
 
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