Update 10-24-12: WESTMINSTER, Colo. –  A teenager who lived just a mile from a 10-year-old Colorado girl who was abducted and killed earlier this month has been arrested in her death, along with a May attack on a runner, authorities said Wednesday.

Police in the Denver suburb of Westminster said they arrested 17-year-old Austin Reed Sigg on Tuesday night after receiving a phone call, apparently from his mother, that led them to Sigg.

Update 10-19-12:  6:49PM EDT October 19. 2012 – Colorado police say a small wooden cross could be a key piece of evidence in the abduction and murder of Jessica Ridgeway.

Westminster police on Friday released photos  (see below) of the dark, 1½-by-1-inch cross, hoping someone will recognize it and lead them to the person who killed Jessica Ridgeway, says the station owned by Gannett, USA TODAY’s parent.

Here’s the description:

The cross has a hole drilled through the upper part and appears that it can be or was worn on a necklace. On one side of the cross are three vertical bars etched onto the shorter horizontal section and a zig-zag pattern is carved onto the opposite side.

Jessica was last seen Oct. 5 on her way to school. Her remains were found Oct. 12 near an abandoned mine close to Arvada.

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AMBER ALERT – A 10-year-old girl from Colorado has been missing since Friday morning.

A $1,000 reward is currently being offered by SafeCITY Publishing for her safe return.

Jessica Ridgeway was last seen around 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 5, 2012. She was walking to the park to meet with a friend so the two of them could walk to school together.

Witt Elementary called Jessica’s mother at 10 a.m. to tell her that Jessica was not in school. Jessica works the overnight shift so she did not hear the phone ring and did not receive the message till 4 p.m., reports the Denver Post.

Authorities found that Jessica never showed up to meet her friend, nor made it to school.

Jessica is 4’10″ tall and 80 pounds with shoulder-length blonde hair, and blue eyes. She was wearing a black jacket with pink and purple glasses.

Authorities have concentrated their search efforts near the area of West 107th, Wadsworth Parkway and Moore Street.

“We started activating a lot of personnel to start searching for her,” Westminster Police Detective Trevor Materasso told

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