Today Snow. Temperature falling to around 12 by 5pm. Wind chill values as low as zero. North northeast wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.
Tonight Snow likely, mainly before 11pm. Cloudy, with a low around 8. Wind chill values as low as -3. North northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
- El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa slammed Black Forest Fire Department Chief Bob Harvey for telling multiple media outlets Wednesday night that this summer's Black Forest fire was intentionally set by a perpetrator.
- The marijuana battle has returned to Denver's front yards. The City Council continues to wrestle with where to draw the line on marijuana consumption when it comes to private property.
- Legislative leaders have dismissed an ethics complaint filed against the lobbyist for Colorado's most strident gun-rights group, but the issue is a long way from over.
- Prosecutors are expected to present a plea deal in the case against Melissa Miller, who is accused of killing Wheat Ridge resident LeAnn "Annie" Meyer.
- The ACLU and a Castle Rock couple whose car was hit by a police officer's bullet while he was responding to a burglary in February are suing town officials for records related to the shooting and the officer's conduct.
- Detectives with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department are working to solve a mystery after car windows are shattering while traveling near C-470 and Highway 285. The sheriff’s department says it happened three separate times. Two occurred on C-470 near Alameda Parkway and another on Highway 285 near Highway 8. Although some drivers reported a gun shot or loud boom before the window shattered, nothing was found.
- Police looking for help identifying three men involved in an armed robbery at a Broomfield business. Police released surveillance pictures of the men. The suspects entered the AAA Nail Supply business Tuesday night. One pointed a gun at the employee and stole his wallet while the other two stole cash from the registers and a safe box containing cash and credit card receipts. The men may have left in an older model grey or silver Honda sedan.
- Police in Colorado Springs are investigating a deadly accident that killed two airmen. The airmen were from Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. They died after their car was hit by a truck. Investigators say the car’s driver swerved to avoid a couch in the middle of the highway and an oncoming truck hit it. The base has not released the names of the airmen.
- A mother’s courage can be heard in a 911 call as she turned her son in for murder. Not only did Mindy Sigg call for help, she handed the phone to her son Austin who confessed to killing Jessica Ridgeway.
- CBS4 Investigator Rick Sallinger requested the tape of the dramatic call after first hearing it in court.
- From their home Austin Sigg’s mother Mindy called police.
- Mindy Sigg: “Hi, um, I need you to come to my house … um, my son wants to turn himself in for the Jessica Ridgeway murder.”
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- The words apparently seemed incredible — that Austin Sigg was turning himself in, admitting to the murder the 10-year-old girl.
- Dispatcher: “And what’s going on there. Ma’am, are you there?”
- Mindy Sigg: “Did you not hear me? He just confessed to killing her.”
- Dispatcher: “I know. I want you to tell me what’s going on. Can you tell me exactly what he said?”
- Mindy Sigg: “That he did it and gave me details and her remains are in my house.”
- As police were dispatched to the Sigg home the call taker asked if she could speak to Austin and asked how he was feeling.
- Austin Sigg: “I don’t exactly get why you’re asking me these questions. I murdered Jessica Ridgeway.”
- Dispatcher: “Okay.”
- Austin Sigg: “There is … I have proof that I did it … there is no other question. Uou just have to send a squad car, something down here.”
- Austin Sigg also admitted to attacking a jogger at Ketner Lake. He was then asked if he had weapons.
- Austin Sigg: “I have knives in my room, um, and we own a few guns, but … I’m giving myself up completely, there will be no resistance whatsoever.”
- The dispatcher then is heard once again talking to Mindy Sigg.
- Dispatcher: “Is Austin still there with you?”
- Mindy Sigg: “Yeah, I’m hugging him (crying).”
- Dispatcher: “Okay, you guys are hugging? … Okay, you definitely did the right thing. You tell me when the officers get there, they’re coming to your front door, okay?
- At one point in the call Mindy Sigg is so distraught she says she can’t breathe.
- What started for her with that phone call ended Tuesday with her son being sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
