Editing Austin Sigg (section)

==Murder==
Ridgeway vanished on October 5<sup>th</sup>, 2012.<ref name=news>[http://www.news.com.au/world/teen-killer-austin-sigg-confesses-to-raping-dismembering-jessica-ridgeway/news-story/d5456ac0f6764924b84d0f7f6b50a306 Teen killer Austin Sigg confesses to raping, dismembering Jessica Ridgeway] - News.com.au</ref> Siggs was 17 a the time.<ref name=huff/> A massive search involving hundreds followed, with police photographing cars in the area where she was heading to school.<ref name=nydn/> Within days the girl's backpack was found nearby in a suburb of Superior.<ref name=huff/> Five days after the abduction her torso was discovered in a field near Westminster wrapped in rubbish bag.<ref name=news/> A tipoff to the FBI on October 19<sup>th</sup> brought Sigg into authorities' notice, describing his obsession with death.<ref name=nydn/>

On October 22 Sigg told friends at college he felt "sick" and "wobbly";<ref name=nydn2/> FBI agents had taken his DNA.<ref name=nydn/> The following day, after spending the night in his mother's bed, he confessed to the crime.<ref name=nydn/> She called 911 with her son telling the dispatcher "I murdered Jessica Ridgeway, I have proof that I did. I'm giving myself up completely, there will be no resistance whatsoever."<ref name=huff/> Sigg falsely told his mother he had not raped the child.<ref name=den/> He would later repeat this lie to police.<ref name=huff0>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/austin-reed-sigg-guilty-jessica-ridgeway_n_3071110.html Austin Reed Sigg Enters Not Guilty Plea In Jessica Ridgeway Case] - The Huffington Post</ref>

Dismembered remains from the child were found concealed inside the house.<ref name=nydn/> Sigg told officers the abduction was done by hauling Ridgeway into his car and driving around for around 30 minutes while her hands and feet were tied.<ref name=news/> He drove his victim to his mother's house where he raped her before strangling her and cutting her up in the bathtub.<ref name=huff/><ref name=news/> He had cut her hair and made her switch her clothes for some he supplied.<ref name=den/> An initial attempt at strangulation failed when a zip tie snapped.<ref name=den/> He also confessed to the attack on the jogger, having told the 911 dispatcher that was his only other crime.<ref name=huff/>

Sigg told officers he told Ridgeway everything was going to be fine but this was a lie: "The second I pulled her into my car, I knew she was dead."<ref name=news/> At the house he told the girl she would see her mother again after she asked him.<ref name=reut/> After the murder he labelled her removed organs and kept her skull.<ref name=den/>