Two weeks ago, 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway disappeared.
Last week, police said she was dead.
Now, they are asking for the public's help to identify a cross that authorities say could lead to her killer.
Police from the girl's hometown of Westminster, Colorado, on Friday released several images of a wooden cross recovered during the investigation. It is about 1 1/2 inches tall and 1 inch wide, with a hole drilled through it so it can be worn as a pendant.
The cross has three vertical stripes etched onto the horizontal section and a zigzag pattern on the opposite side, according to police.
"Authorities are looking for someone who may carry or wear this type of cross, may have recently purchased one of these, or is known to have some association with one," they said in a statement.
Police believe there may be a connection between Jessica’s killing and an attempted abduction at Ketner Lake, also in Westminster. A suspect from that attempt has been described as a light-skinned male with a medium build and brown hair. He is thought to be between 18-35 years old.
Jessica was last seen by her mother as she left for school October 5. Her body was found last week at a park in Arvada, a Denver suburb five miles from Westminster.
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..........looks like chain-gang art to me! Primitive. Those guys use alot of odd stuff to create art while in prison. Gum wrappers, broom straw, piece wood from workout yard, and the list goes on. Thats some creep thats been locked up and released very recently. They always keep something from their prison days!
it could be as you said prison/gang symbol, but it could be of some spiritual sadistic cult group as well. a sacrifice, a revenge token even. so it could very well be significant. maybe some sort of distortion of the swastika as hitler used to inflame the jews in his reign of terror. or some vodoo mojo, but if it is cult oriented there will be more identical to it.
Denise, she is not "missing" (quotation marks around it, even!)
'Last week, police said she was dead.'
Still confused?
I remember there being a murder case about a year back that involved investigators looking for the owner of a similar wooden cross necklace.
I don't think this is deja vu on my end
Any idea what state it was? Maybe a closer idea of time of year?
I hope this dosnt sound weird,but I feel the killer drives a green car. probably nothing.
Wow..rmoffatt..u nailed it !!
For crying out loud, at least publish ALL the images of the cross as released by the police.
Heck, you don't even bother linking to them.
Where are all the psychics now, eh? Hiding on their reality tv shows, that's what.
It is my sincerest hope that when they find the killer, they drill a hole in him/her so that he/she can be worn as a pendant. And while they are at it, etch a few stipes and zig zags. Why would anyone other than a wild mindkless animal, hurt a child?
Blame American Taliban. Case is closed.
Philip says the truth he senses differently, if at all.
raphael, some of us have been physically dead for longer than 30 or 40 min., not by the hands of the 'good guys', and are yet here now, having returned to 'this vale of tears' to speak God's hope filled truth. Think as you wish.
Why does the description of the cross in the article in no way resemble the picture?
You missed the zig zag pattern etched on to the side that is being shown? You can't see the side with the horizontal stripes because the other side of it is facing away from the camera.
Matches the description I read in the article.
Jeff S. where is the drilled hole, dimbulb?
I wondered about the hole for a fraction of a second...it is drilled sideways into the top part of the cross. The zig-zag pattern is less pattern more random. To mr. frank Dimbulb.
A child killer wearing a cross? No surprise there.
Light skinned? So that means what? Light skinned mexican or black? Light skinned white guy?
Perhaps it was made in prison.
How sad, home they get her killer and hang him.