Austin Sigg

Austin Sigg is an American murderer who, as a teenager, abducted, killed and dismemebered a 10-year-old girl called Jessica Ridgeway in a sexually motivated sadistic attack.

Background
Sigg lived with his mother in Westminster, Colorado. He had unusual interests dating back to the age of 12 when his stepmother took him for treatment over extensive viewing of violent pornography. He was interested in death and mortuary science, and told his brother a community college class he took was helping him learn how to commit murder undetected. In May 2012 he used homemade chloroform in an attack on a jogger in a Westminster park; she escaped. Ahead of the murder of Ridgeway Sigg practiced binding his mother using zip ties.