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Body Found In Colorado Is That Of Missing Girl Jessica Ridgeway, Authorities Confirm
NBCNews ^ | October 12, 2012

Posted on 10/12/2012 4:05:24 PM PDT by Steelfish

Body Found In Colorado Is That Of Missing Girl Jessica Ridgeway, Authorities Confirm

Colorado authorities confirm that a set of human remains recently discovered are those of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway.

Police in Colorado confirmed Friday that a dismembered body they discovered earlier in the week in Arvada is that of 10-year-old schoolgirl Jessica Ridgeway, who went missing from her Westminster home a week ago.

"Our focus has changed from the search for Jessica to a mission of justice for Jessica," Westminster Police Chief Lee Birk said. "We realize there is a predator at large in our community."

Ridgeway began a short walk from her home to Witt Elementary School on the morning of Oct. 5 but never arrived. A massive search by hundreds of law enforcement officers was launched hours later because Jessica's mother works nights and slept through a call from school officials saying the fifth-grader wasn't there.

Ridgeway's case made national headlines in the days following her disappearance as hundreds of police officers, bloodhounds and scores of volunteers scoured the chidl's neighborhood looking for clues to her whereabouts. Her father, Jeremiah Bryant, who lives in Missouri, traveled to Colorado when he learned of his daughter's disappearance, police said.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out with them," Birk said, adding, "They’ve been in our hearts from the beginning."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; jessicaridgeway
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To: RJS1950

I pray that the cops get the monster that did this in custody ASAP

He’ll do this again a cop buddy said after reading this


61 posted on 10/12/2012 7:26:36 PM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: Second Amendment First; Tijeras_Slim

My post points out that the mother works nights. Who gets the child up,fed, and safely out the door every morning? Did ANYONE but the mother ACTUALLY see the child in the morning? Unfortunately these are some of the first questions that come to mind these days with these stories. In other words, was the mother somehow involved? Maybe I missed it in the posted story but these questions aren’t answered.


62 posted on 10/12/2012 7:27:55 PM PDT by bramps
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To: cherry

It very well “could be”, though that’s not the way to bet, see where I’m going with that?


63 posted on 10/12/2012 7:31:45 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: bramps

Grandma stays with child overnight, reported early on in the investigation. Mom gets home about 7:30, daughter gets up about 7:30 or so.

Police & FBI have cleared the family.


64 posted on 10/12/2012 7:32:14 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Maybe she never actually left the house alive.


65 posted on 10/12/2012 7:33:16 PM PDT by bramps
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To: Sarah Barracuda

WOW! That white van description is just too co-incidental for an incident that happened locally yesterday afternoon (11Oct).

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/stranger-incident-reported-in-cedar-falls/article_72153314-1420-11e2-aa4c-0019bb2963f4.html


66 posted on 10/12/2012 7:35:56 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 200 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Police & FBI have cleared the family.


Got a link to that?


67 posted on 10/12/2012 7:36:04 PM PDT by bramps
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To: OrangeHoof
...and they never solved the Jon Benet Ramsey case either.

Not officially but as Peter Boyles often says that case is no whodunit.

68 posted on 10/12/2012 7:42:24 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: bramps

http://www.9news.com/news/article/293899/164/Day-7-Body-found-in-Arvada-not-intact-hard-to-positively-ID-it-as-missing-10-year-old-Jessica-Ridgeway

“At this point in the investigation, after thoroughly looking at the parents, we’re confident they’re not involved in the disappearance of Jessica Ridgeway,” Materasso said Wednesday afternoon. “The focus shifts to [an] unknown suspect.”


69 posted on 10/12/2012 7:43:58 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: bramps

True. Family could be suspects but cops don’t want them to know that.. yet.


70 posted on 10/12/2012 7:53:39 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: wtc911
In the area south east of Houston and north west of Galveston at least a dozen girls have disappeared from the 70’s through the 90’s. Most of the bodies have not been found and neither has the killer or killers. Ever so often a newspaper article will appear reminding us of these tragedies.
71 posted on 10/12/2012 7:53:47 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: ican'tbelieveit

Thank you. And sorry for my skepticism but I’ll only firmly believe the officials words when the killer is caught with no links to the mother who lets her 10 year daughter walk over a mile to school, alone at least for part of the trip.


72 posted on 10/12/2012 7:56:42 PM PDT by bramps
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To: bramps

3 blocks isn’t that far. She wasn’t the only mother/father that let their kids walk as Jessica met up with other kids doing the same thing. Very common around here, still. I know after tragedies like this, we all say we would have done it differently, but these are really good neighborhoods, you feel safe.

When I was a kiddo, a country kid stranded in town because my parents had a business there, I wandered all of that town all day long, walked, biked, went into houses.


73 posted on 10/12/2012 8:02:37 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: ican'tbelieveit

This reminds me of that book ‘The Lovely Bones’. It was a
twisted neighbor who did it in the book. Drove the family
apart and ruined their lives in the book.


74 posted on 10/12/2012 8:14:42 PM PDT by jusduat (on the mercy of the Lord alone.)
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To: annieokie

Oh I promise you they are taken care of by me and their very big brother. Right now since the killer is still on the loose they stay in the house and are escorted everywhere. Its a damm shame what this evil SOB has done to the community.


75 posted on 10/12/2012 8:23:14 PM PDT by AmonAmarth (Wherever you go...There you are)
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To: jusduat

First few days I was thinking that someone ran over her. Now I think the police have gotten pretty close to the perp, hence how she was found. Had to find a way to get rid of her.


76 posted on 10/12/2012 8:36:34 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: ican'tbelieveit
this was a response to another poster, not addressing the motive of perverted killers

OK. It just seemed to fit.

77 posted on 10/12/2012 8:36:47 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: AmonAmarth
I am so sorry for what the monster has done to you and your community. Stay Safe and we will all pray the nightmare will be caught soon.

God bless and protect your family.

78 posted on 10/12/2012 9:23:00 PM PDT by annieokie (O)
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To: RandallFlagg

Good idea, but a bit too humane. He’d be deceased in about a minute, from that altitude. How about a helo, about 50’ off the deck, in the wilderness ? Same result, eventually, but it would make for a long, and epic video, especially if the wildlife thought he might be tasty. Just a thought ;)


79 posted on 10/12/2012 10:15:07 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: annieokie; et al

Though its against the “LAW”, they need to be run out of every neighborhood, township, county, and state.

A bold “M” hot branded on their cheek by some ‘good samaritan’ would facilitate their moving on and prevent the molesters from so easily offending again.

Maybe a “P” on the forehead would keep the pedophile moving too; and be tough to hide under a beard.

Oh for the ‘good old days’.


80 posted on 10/13/2012 12:07:09 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (That Kenyan muzzy bastard is not my president. ENFORCE the Bill of Rights.)
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