Murder of Jessica Ridgeway

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Jessica Ridgeway was a 10-year-old girl from Westminster, Colorado who was strangled to death on October 5, 2012, by then 17-year-old Austin Sigg after he abducted her while she was walking to school and took her to his bedroom. He then dismembered her body and dumped her torso inside plastic bags along a roadway where it would be found. Prior to Ridgeway's kidnapping, Sigg had attempted to abduct a woman while she was jogging on May 28, 2012, but she had escaped and reported the assault to authorities. On October 1, 2013, Sigg pled guilty to 15 charges including first-degree murder, sexual assault of a minor, kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, and sexual exploitation of a minor. He was sentenced to life in prison on November 19, 2013.

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