Body Found, Not Yet ID'd; Is It Jessica Ridgeway?

Yesterday evening, police found a body in an open space area of Arvada, 10 miles from where the girl's backpack was found in Superior. The area has been identified as the Pattridge Park Open Space. Arvada police say that includes 82nd Avenue between SR Colorado 93 and Indiana Street. Federal and police investigators swarmed a grassy area north of West 82 Avenue and east of the BFI landfill on Wednesday. They were aided by lights and were using a fire truck's extended ladder to get a better view. Their work was focused near a building that appears to be a remnant of an old mining operation.

 Police say that the body has not been identified, and that it may take several weeks to do so. In the meantime, the search for Jessica Ridgeway goes on - she has now been missing for 170 hours.

The wildfire at Fern Lake Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park is still burning out of control. It is overcast here today, and one can still see pieces of ash in the air. .... Zoey Ripple, the CU co-ed who was shot in the bedroom of a stranger's house, while so intoxicated she could not verbally respond to the owners warnings, has made a plea deal. She pleaded guilty to felony breaking and entering and trespass; she received an 18 month suspended sentence. If she has no further run-ins with law enforcement, her felony conviction will be removed from her record. She still has the bullet she was shot with inside her body - it can't be removed at this time. She and her attorney are now saying that she must have been drugged with "the date rape drug" at one of the parties she attended that evening. I have a problem with that, as she was taken to the ER and had emergency surgery. When I worked in the hospital, each emergency surgery patient had an STD and drug test run upon admittance. I can't see that a dose of "rufy" would have gone undetected by the MDs during or after her surgery, along with the fact that her blood alcohol level was 4 times the legal amount. I think she was just completely sloshed. ....