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Jessica Riggins

From time to time I come across a case where someone claims the crime they committed was in self defense that I could have bought, if it were not for their actions after the crime. This is just such a case. On August 7, 2007 police in Flagstaff Arizona received a call from Rusty Riggins' mother.  She was concerned about him as she had not heard from him and asked that he be checked on.  He was house sitting for a friend, and he was going through a divorce.  She was concerned.  Police would go to the home they were directed to and they would find Rusty there, dead, shot in the back by a .22 caliber handgun. Police would soon learn that Rusty's wife, Jessica was no where to be found and neither was Rusty's mother's car that she had loaned him to use.  They would learn that Jessica's first stop was in California where she saw her ex-husband and her son and then they learned she had gone into Mexico. The investigation continued and a week later when Jessica wa...