The Amber Alert automated call came in to houses in the area around 9:30, if I recall. It was kind of hard to understand what the computerized voice was saying and I had to have it repeated.
I didn't get an Amber Alert automated call, but we did receive a reverse-911 call around 6 pm (maybe sooner, maybe a little later) that they were looking for her in the area.
I'm sure he didn't know she was missing I just don't get how someone can be that unaware.
The main thing I'm getting out of this is this. The bag was dumped Saturday night, maybe after the search and rescue effort stopped in an area where they hadn't searched. Based on what someone said the bag was found just outside of the perimeter. This tells me that it could have been a search member.
Fox- Would you hear helicopter's flying outside in your town? Or see possible roadblocks? I commend you for being so informed Nationally but personally I also want to know what's going on in my town. Not sure how you do it
Two things: (1) That neighborhood is in a different county, in a different city, in a different school district, and over a good-sized ridge that provides some psychological distance as well. Superior is not part of Westminster's "community." Arvada and Westminster, on the other hand, are pretty much indistinguishable, our trail systems connect to each other, etc. So on Saturday, no one was searching there, no helicopters were flying there, and there were no roadblocks there on Saturday either. Anyone who wanted to go to the store in Superior would have headed north to the stores in that area; there are very few reasons anyone from Superior would have headed into Westminster. (2) Maybe the perp was a search member, but it would have been just as easy for someone to watch what was being searched. The search parties were quite visible from roads in the Westminster area (but not at all visible in the Superior area).
Hundreds of bikes in the parking lot at the Quaker steak & lube at 104th & US 36 memorial ride for Jessica Ridgeway.
There were a ton of bikes on the ride. I saw tons and tons headed north on Wadsworth, but didn't realize it was in connection with this ride at first.
I don't live in Westminster, but we have a basically an e-mail bulletin board sponsored by our HOA where homeowners can leave messages, etc. It doesn't cost anything (but assume the cost is covered in our HOA fees).
The paper reported the email bulletin board incorrectly (several times, actually, including in today's Denver Post article). The backpack was reported on a Superior email bulletin board. Westminster doesn't have one.
If he's a random guy that just caught a break then why do they make a connection to the jogger case. When did that take place? That seemed planned with the chemical agent on the rag and all.
It was probably planned in that he planned to incapacitate a female runner on Memorial Day using a chemical-soaked rag, but he probably wasn't stalking a specific runner so much as someone who looked to be easy prey at a moment when no one else was in sight to witness the event. There are a lot of runners, so the challenge was probably waiting until no one was around as a witness rather than picking out targets.
