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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,770 --> 00:00:06,570 She is the quintessential soccer mom. 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,740 This is a woman who has left 3 00:00:09,740 --> 00:00:11,710 three children at home with a nanny 4 00:00:11,710 --> 00:00:13,840 and has been gone for two full days. 5 00:00:17,550 --> 00:00:19,110 We are realizing that this is not 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,750 just a missing person but actually 7 00:00:21,750 --> 00:00:22,980 potentially a homicide. 8 00:00:27,220 --> 00:00:29,920 People don't get divorced because they love each other. 9 00:00:29,930 --> 00:00:33,030 The children have said that he was going to kill her. 10 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:35,030 This was a bombshell 11 00:00:35,030 --> 00:00:38,200 to learn that a soccer mom had this secret life. 12 00:00:41,370 --> 00:00:43,240 He's the only person that possibly 13 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,070 was in that area 14 00:00:45,070 --> 00:00:48,180 both days and both times. 15 00:00:48,180 --> 00:00:50,710 I don't care what business you're in, 16 00:00:50,710 --> 00:00:53,480 nobody deserves to have this happen to them. 17 00:00:56,220 --> 00:00:58,520 Every day in North America, 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,120 dozens of people are murdered. 19 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,490 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides 20 00:01:03,490 --> 00:01:07,560 lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. 21 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,460 To crack the case, 22 00:01:09,470 --> 00:01:13,070 detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline. 23 00:01:13,070 --> 00:01:15,940 The minutes and hours containing evidence 24 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:18,140 that can help unlock the mystery 25 00:01:18,140 --> 00:01:19,710 and catch the killer. 26 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:31,350 Grand Junction, Colorado, 27 00:01:31,350 --> 00:01:34,390 a scenic and rugged outdoor paradise. 28 00:01:36,220 --> 00:01:38,330 Grand Junction is a... is a beautiful place. 29 00:01:38,330 --> 00:01:39,890 It's in the Grand Valley 30 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:43,060 surrounded by picturesque views. 31 00:01:43,070 --> 00:01:44,260 You can do everything here. 32 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:46,170 You can ski, you can bike, 33 00:01:46,170 --> 00:01:48,900 you can fish, you can hike. 34 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:50,670 It's typically very quiet 35 00:01:50,670 --> 00:01:54,010 and it's just usually a very safe place. 36 00:01:55,910 --> 00:01:57,440 Grand Junction is a small community. 37 00:01:57,450 --> 00:02:00,210 The city itself is about 50,000 people. 38 00:02:00,220 --> 00:02:02,550 The county is about a hundred eighty-five thousand. 39 00:02:05,190 --> 00:02:07,090 We have violent crime. 40 00:02:07,090 --> 00:02:09,360 Percentage-wise, it may not be as high 41 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,830 of violent crime rate has big cities by any means. 42 00:02:12,830 --> 00:02:15,830 That doesn't mean we don't have our share. 43 00:02:15,830 --> 00:02:18,570 And with a vast wilderness to explore, 44 00:02:18,570 --> 00:02:21,100 a person can easily disappear. 45 00:02:24,870 --> 00:02:29,040 The case starts when Mr. Howard Beigler 46 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:30,680 calls the Mesa County Sheriff's Office 47 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,010 on a Saturday morning, June 30th, 48 00:02:33,020 --> 00:02:35,180 and says his ex-wife, 49 00:02:35,180 --> 00:02:38,050 who he has recently got back into 50 00:02:38,050 --> 00:02:40,420 a relationship with, he hadn't heard from her. 51 00:02:40,420 --> 00:02:42,660 He had seen her on the 28th of June 52 00:02:42,660 --> 00:02:45,430 in person for a picnic 53 00:02:45,430 --> 00:02:47,660 and had not been able to get a hold of her 54 00:02:47,660 --> 00:02:50,800 since that time. 55 00:02:52,370 --> 00:02:54,130 This is a woman who has left 56 00:02:54,140 --> 00:02:56,240 three children at home with a nanny 57 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,170 and has been gone for two full days. 58 00:02:59,180 --> 00:03:02,210 They're reporting that this is not 59 00:03:02,210 --> 00:03:03,940 normal behavior for her, 60 00:03:03,950 --> 00:03:05,950 that she often checks in 61 00:03:05,950 --> 00:03:09,280 with both Mr. Beigler and her children routinely 62 00:03:09,290 --> 00:03:10,950 and this is concerning. 63 00:03:11,890 --> 00:03:14,220 The missing woman is Paige Birgfeld, 64 00:03:14,220 --> 00:03:17,090 a 34-year-old loving mother and entrepreneur. 65 00:03:20,260 --> 00:03:22,800 Paige was divorced twice, 66 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,030 but a very devoted mother of three children. 67 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,240 She was involved in three different businesses. 68 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,970 She was highly respected and enjoyed 69 00:03:31,970 --> 00:03:35,480 by a lot of the people that she dealt with. 70 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,210 She seemed, by all accounts, 71 00:03:37,210 --> 00:03:39,780 to be the quintessential soccer mom. 72 00:03:39,780 --> 00:03:42,420 She is caring. 73 00:03:42,420 --> 00:03:45,390 She is always there for her kids, very present. 74 00:03:45,390 --> 00:03:47,550 And she has a lot of friends 75 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,660 and a lot of family that loves her. 76 00:03:53,730 --> 00:03:56,560 Mesa County detectives, Lissah Norcross 77 00:03:56,570 --> 00:03:58,600 and Wayne Weyler, are tasked with looking 78 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,170 into Paige Birgfeld's disappearance. 79 00:04:03,540 --> 00:04:06,540 If you have a person who's missing 80 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:10,310 under highly unusual circumstances, 81 00:04:10,310 --> 00:04:12,480 the quicker you can get information, 82 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,180 the better chances you are at solving the case. 83 00:04:16,580 --> 00:04:18,290 The first thing we want to do is 84 00:04:18,290 --> 00:04:20,320 obtain a timeline and try to determine 85 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,360 when the last time she was seen, 86 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,360 where did she go, who did he spend time with. 87 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,160 Detectives begin by requesting 88 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,700 Paige's cell phone records 89 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:31,870 from June 28th until June 30th. 90 00:04:33,530 --> 00:04:36,000 Howard Beigler told us he last spoke with Paige 91 00:04:36,010 --> 00:04:38,510 at around 9:00 on the 20th of June. 92 00:04:39,510 --> 00:04:41,610 Her phone records showed indeed 93 00:04:41,610 --> 00:04:43,980 the last phone call we know she made 94 00:04:43,980 --> 00:04:46,280 was around 9:00 to Mr. Beigler 95 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:48,650 and hat that phone call was here 96 00:04:48,650 --> 00:04:50,580 in the Grand Junction area. 97 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:53,850 This is the last time anyone talked with her. 98 00:04:53,860 --> 00:04:55,960 We have records for shortly thereafter 99 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,790 and she does not make any other future phone calls. 100 00:04:58,790 --> 00:05:00,730 Ever. 101 00:05:02,730 --> 00:05:05,670 So, we, as investigators, have to start wondering 102 00:05:05,670 --> 00:05:07,670 if maybe she had met up with someone 103 00:05:07,670 --> 00:05:10,770 and foul play had occurred 104 00:05:10,770 --> 00:05:13,240 and something had happened to her. 105 00:05:20,180 --> 00:05:23,020 Then, at 10:00 PM on July 1st, 106 00:05:23,020 --> 00:05:26,120 three days after Paige's last known whereabouts, 107 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,420 police and fire departments are dispatched 108 00:05:28,420 --> 00:05:30,560 to a vehicle fire. 109 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,060 We get a call that there's a car on fire 110 00:05:34,060 --> 00:05:36,900 at a local manufacturing plant, 111 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:38,570 Walker SMS, 112 00:05:38,570 --> 00:05:41,740 and that the car is fully engulfed. 113 00:05:43,810 --> 00:05:46,310 The fire department was able to extinguish the fire. 114 00:05:49,580 --> 00:05:52,380 Not everything inside the interior burned. 115 00:05:54,380 --> 00:05:56,720 The license plates were not on the vehicle, 116 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,920 which was a little bit suspicious. 117 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,720 In addition, there was a smell of an accelerant. 118 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,360 The VIN number, we checked that, 119 00:06:06,190 --> 00:06:07,860 and it's found to be Paige's car, 120 00:06:10,830 --> 00:06:13,630 the car that she had driven to Eagle 121 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,800 to meet up with Mr. Birgfeld. 122 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:18,940 At this point, we're absolutely sure 123 00:06:18,940 --> 00:06:21,640 that there's foul play involved. 124 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,880 Something's awry, that something's not right. 125 00:06:25,010 --> 00:06:27,450 Detectives meticulously search the car 126 00:06:27,450 --> 00:06:29,620 for any remaining evidence. 127 00:06:30,890 --> 00:06:34,820 In the trunk, there's a day planner there. 128 00:06:34,820 --> 00:06:37,820 Interestingly, there are four pages missing 129 00:06:37,830 --> 00:06:40,990 from the day planner, which was not burned. 130 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,160 And those pages are the 26th 131 00:06:43,170 --> 00:06:46,900 through the 29th of June. 132 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:49,240 We're obviously very interested in the fact 133 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,970 that those four days specifically are missing 134 00:06:51,970 --> 00:06:54,670 because one of those days is the day that Ms. Birgfeld 135 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,940 is reportedly last known to be alive. 136 00:06:59,450 --> 00:07:01,580 We also find that the driver seat is pushed 137 00:07:01,580 --> 00:07:04,580 all the way back to suit someone much taller 138 00:07:04,590 --> 00:07:08,790 than Paige Birgfeld who is five foot four. 139 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,060 She didn't drive it. So that tells us 140 00:07:13,060 --> 00:07:15,700 somebody much taller may have. 141 00:07:19,430 --> 00:07:20,970 When you have a missing person under 142 00:07:20,970 --> 00:07:23,070 really suspicious circumstances 143 00:07:23,070 --> 00:07:25,640 and you have their car found on fire, 144 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:27,540 and you still don't know where they are, 145 00:07:27,540 --> 00:07:29,240 and you're talking about a mom 146 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,980 of three small children, that's not normal. 147 00:07:32,980 --> 00:07:34,820 And that was really the first time that we are 148 00:07:34,820 --> 00:07:37,380 realizing that this is not just a missing person 149 00:07:37,390 --> 00:07:40,550 but actually potentially homicide. 150 00:07:42,060 --> 00:07:44,830 Having established that Paige was likely murdered, 151 00:07:44,830 --> 00:07:46,790 detectives need to piece together 152 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,700 her final 24 hours 153 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:51,430 in order to find her killer. 154 00:07:54,970 --> 00:07:57,040 The first people we looked at are people 155 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,370 that are closest to the victim. 156 00:08:00,380 --> 00:08:02,240 Mr. Beigler right away, obviously, 157 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,780 just by the fact that he was an ex-husband 158 00:08:04,780 --> 00:08:07,080 and was the last person that spent time with them, 159 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,250 obviously he is a person that we would look at. 160 00:08:12,590 --> 00:08:14,960 Howard Beigler explains to investigators 161 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,460 that he has known Paige for years. 162 00:08:17,460 --> 00:08:19,430 They were high school sweethearts. 163 00:08:19,430 --> 00:08:21,900 They got married. They had a short marriage 164 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:23,000 for a couple years. 165 00:08:24,770 --> 00:08:27,230 He's telling us that they're back together 166 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,240 and they're in an intimate relationship. 167 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,140 So, we must delve into that to look to see 168 00:08:33,140 --> 00:08:35,310 if there's been any problems there. 169 00:08:36,780 --> 00:08:39,210 Why did he come back into her life at that point? 170 00:08:39,210 --> 00:08:42,820 What were the reasons for the relationship ending? 171 00:08:42,820 --> 00:08:44,720 What was his relationship with her second husband? 172 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,420 Was there any jealousy issues? 173 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,890 Mr. Beigler was asked about their marriage 174 00:08:50,890 --> 00:08:53,190 and why they got divorced and he explained 175 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,200 that they got divorced specifically 176 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,300 because she met a gentleman named Rob Dixon 177 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:00,230 and he had more money 178 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,000 and she was interested in that. 179 00:09:04,970 --> 00:09:07,670 When it comes to people who either currently 180 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,680 are in relationships or have previously 181 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:11,210 been in relationships, 182 00:09:11,210 --> 00:09:13,650 high emotions can lead to violence. 183 00:09:13,650 --> 00:09:18,220 It can lead to someone killing another human being. 184 00:09:18,220 --> 00:09:21,350 We have to look at that as a possibility. 185 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,220 Oftentimes people think, "Oh, well, 186 00:09:23,230 --> 00:09:24,860 - he must not have done it. - He reported her missing." 187 00:09:24,860 --> 00:09:26,530 Well, of course, a lot of times people do that 188 00:09:26,530 --> 00:09:28,800 to try and throw law enforcement off the scent. 189 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,770 In the disappearance and presumed murder 190 00:09:37,770 --> 00:09:39,970 of soccer mom Paige Birgfeld, 191 00:09:39,980 --> 00:09:42,640 detectives have their sights on Howard Beigler, 192 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,840 Paige's ex-husband and current boyfriend. 193 00:09:46,350 --> 00:09:49,280 We need to know where he was during that week 194 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,420 inclusive of June 28th and July 1st. 195 00:09:55,620 --> 00:09:57,590 Mr. Beigler reports to us 196 00:09:57,590 --> 00:10:01,060 that he and Paige had previously made arrangements 197 00:10:01,060 --> 00:10:03,630 to both meet in Eagle, Colorado, 198 00:10:03,630 --> 00:10:06,070 which is about halfway in between their homes, 199 00:10:06,070 --> 00:10:07,700 about two to two and a half hour drive 200 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:09,140 for each of them. 201 00:10:10,140 --> 00:10:13,310 Howard told us that on the 28th of June, 202 00:10:13,310 --> 00:10:15,610 he and Paige were together from about 203 00:10:15,610 --> 00:10:17,780 1:00 in the afternoon until 7:00 in the evening, 204 00:10:17,780 --> 00:10:19,980 that they had a picnic date in the park 205 00:10:19,980 --> 00:10:21,350 in Eagle, Colorado. 206 00:10:24,490 --> 00:10:26,990 He remembers her leaving at about 7:00 PM 207 00:10:26,990 --> 00:10:30,290 going westbound on I-70 back to Grand Junction. 208 00:10:33,260 --> 00:10:35,260 Beigler tells investigators 209 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:36,860 that he then gets into his vehicle 210 00:10:36,870 --> 00:10:38,800 and drives home towards Denver 211 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,940 making a call to Paige at 8:57 PM while driving. 212 00:10:44,340 --> 00:10:46,970 We look into Mr. Beigler's phone 213 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:49,340 to find out where that is. 214 00:10:51,010 --> 00:10:53,210 The proliferation of cell phones next to DNA 215 00:10:53,220 --> 00:10:56,280 has probably been the biggest game changer 216 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,050 in homicide investigations. 217 00:10:58,050 --> 00:11:00,050 They're basically honing devices 218 00:11:00,060 --> 00:11:02,120 whereby you can follow 219 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,120 an offender or a suspect's movements 220 00:11:04,130 --> 00:11:07,160 by the way that their cell phone will ping off towers 221 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,030 and essentially plot a trail of their movements. 222 00:11:11,130 --> 00:11:13,170 We were able to track his movements 223 00:11:13,170 --> 00:11:15,940 back to the Denver area at the same time 224 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,040 she was traveling back to the Grand Junction area 225 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,780 after their little rendezvous on Thursday. 226 00:11:21,780 --> 00:11:23,540 He had remained in Denver 227 00:11:23,550 --> 00:11:25,350 both at the time that she went missing 228 00:11:25,350 --> 00:11:27,280 and at the time that the car was set on fire. 229 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,350 So, we were able to rule him out because of that. 230 00:11:33,020 --> 00:11:36,090 With ex-husband Howard Beigler cleared, 231 00:11:36,090 --> 00:11:39,790 investigators push for their next suspect. 232 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,590 Investigators receive a phone call 233 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,260 from a gentleman named Steven Heald. 234 00:11:44,270 --> 00:11:46,430 - He knows Paige. - He has heard 235 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,330 that she is missing and he said 236 00:11:48,340 --> 00:11:51,070 he wants to provide information to us. 237 00:11:52,340 --> 00:11:54,370 Mr. Heald tells us Paige mentions to him 238 00:11:54,380 --> 00:11:56,910 that her ex-husband, Rob Dixon, 239 00:11:56,910 --> 00:11:59,010 is coming to town. 240 00:11:59,010 --> 00:12:01,180 Paige had confided in him that she was scared 241 00:12:01,180 --> 00:12:03,580 of Rob Dixon. 242 00:12:03,590 --> 00:12:06,090 He had concerns that Rob Dixon might have 243 00:12:06,090 --> 00:12:07,820 harmed on Paige. 244 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,890 Rob Dixon is a natural person 245 00:12:11,890 --> 00:12:13,660 we have to question. 246 00:12:16,130 --> 00:12:19,130 People don't get divorced because they love each other. 247 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,240 Looking for a motive, investigators dig into Rob 248 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,470 and Paige's marriage. 249 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,710 He became Paige's second husband, second love, 250 00:12:32,710 --> 00:12:34,910 and all of her kids were with Rob. 251 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,590 They were together for a long time. 252 00:12:38,590 --> 00:12:41,520 And then as the relationship started to fall apart, 253 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,420 he, I believe, moved to Durango first 254 00:12:43,430 --> 00:12:45,960 and ultimately moved to Pennsylvania. 255 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,600 Frank Birgfeld, who is Paige's father, 256 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,230 advised us that Rob and Paige 257 00:12:52,230 --> 00:12:54,670 ran into a bunch of financial problems 258 00:12:54,670 --> 00:12:57,270 and that broke up their relationship. 259 00:12:58,970 --> 00:13:01,980 Frank told us that Rob, 260 00:13:01,980 --> 00:13:03,510 at first, was a good guy 261 00:13:03,510 --> 00:13:05,950 and seemed to be a nice husband. 262 00:13:07,310 --> 00:13:08,580 Near the end of the relationship, 263 00:13:08,580 --> 00:13:09,980 he said he wasn't so nice 264 00:13:09,990 --> 00:13:11,620 and it wasn't a good relationship, 265 00:13:11,620 --> 00:13:13,890 and there were kind of two sides to Rob. 266 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:18,260 We know money makes the world go round 267 00:13:18,260 --> 00:13:20,560 and money also causes tremendous 268 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:22,460 conflict in these relationships. 269 00:13:22,460 --> 00:13:25,000 So, left over time, this continues to build 270 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,170 into something that really can create 271 00:13:27,170 --> 00:13:29,200 a motive for murder. 272 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:36,080 Detectives discover there's more to Paige 273 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:37,940 and Rob's troubled history 274 00:13:37,950 --> 00:13:41,010 than just financial issues. 275 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:43,680 Close friends of Paige had disclosed to us 276 00:13:43,690 --> 00:13:46,490 that the children had overheard threats 277 00:13:46,490 --> 00:13:48,820 made by Rob Dixon. 278 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,760 Paige had told a friend that the children said 279 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,730 that he was going to kill her. 280 00:13:58,730 --> 00:14:01,130 We checked our records 281 00:14:01,140 --> 00:14:04,070 and there had been numerous calls of disturbances 282 00:14:04,070 --> 00:14:08,540 between Mr. Dixon and Paige Dixon at that time. 283 00:14:08,540 --> 00:14:10,180 Mr. Dixon had been arrested for 284 00:14:10,180 --> 00:14:11,710 domestic violence in the past. 285 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,820 Paige had been fearful and concerned that, 286 00:14:15,820 --> 00:14:19,320 her ex-husband was moving back into the area, 287 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,250 so obviously, he became higher 288 00:14:21,260 --> 00:14:23,260 in the list of suspects. 289 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:31,630 With Paige's ex-husband, Rob Dixon, 290 00:14:31,630 --> 00:14:33,230 in their crosshairs, 291 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,130 investigators haul him into the station 292 00:14:35,140 --> 00:14:37,500 for questioning. 293 00:14:37,510 --> 00:14:39,710 He denies that they had prior violence 294 00:14:39,710 --> 00:14:41,170 between the two. 295 00:14:41,180 --> 00:14:43,380 He does discuss that they argued. 296 00:14:43,380 --> 00:14:45,250 He also talks about they disagreed 297 00:14:45,250 --> 00:14:46,680 on some things with the children. 298 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,380 But when talking about his past with Paige, 299 00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:52,850 he seemed to be deceptive, 300 00:14:52,850 --> 00:14:55,890 he seemed to deflective of some of the questions 301 00:14:55,890 --> 00:14:57,420 that we asked. 302 00:14:58,930 --> 00:15:01,360 It raises suspicions as to why is he not 303 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,560 being forth coming. 304 00:15:23,180 --> 00:15:25,050 Detectives want to know where Dixon was 305 00:15:25,050 --> 00:15:27,920 between June 28th and July 1st. 306 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,660 The window of time they believe Paige was killed. 307 00:15:31,660 --> 00:15:34,290 Rob Dixon provides us an alibi 308 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:37,200 and says that he was in Pennsylvania 309 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,600 working as an EMT over several of those days 310 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,570 and says when he wasn't working, 311 00:15:42,570 --> 00:15:45,640 he had several friends helping him pack up his home 312 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,780 to move down to the Durango, Colorado area 313 00:15:48,780 --> 00:15:50,080 to work there. 314 00:15:51,410 --> 00:15:53,250 We look into Rob Dixon's alibi 315 00:15:53,250 --> 00:15:56,450 and we find that indeed he was working in Pennsylvania 316 00:15:56,450 --> 00:15:58,620 long 12-hour shifts during the timeframe 317 00:15:58,620 --> 00:16:00,420 of her disappearance. 318 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,390 We confirmed that he was indeed with 319 00:16:04,390 --> 00:16:07,660 friends on the day of the car fire. 320 00:16:07,660 --> 00:16:11,200 He could not have come to Colorado 321 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,370 in the time in between. 322 00:16:17,070 --> 00:16:20,370 Before investigators let Dixon walk out the door, 323 00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:22,310 they ask him if he could think of anyone 324 00:16:22,310 --> 00:16:25,650 who might have held any ill will towards Paige. 325 00:16:38,030 --> 00:16:40,660 Rob Dixon tells us he's concerned that 326 00:16:40,660 --> 00:16:43,860 Paige may have met foul play by someone involved 327 00:16:43,870 --> 00:16:46,530 in the escort business that she was running. 328 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,440 This was a bombshell to learn that 329 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,370 a soccer mom that was so involved 330 00:16:53,380 --> 00:16:55,810 in the community had this secret life. 331 00:16:57,980 --> 00:17:00,210 No one could believe it. 332 00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:03,050 In terms of Grand Junction, it's pretty scandalous. 333 00:17:03,050 --> 00:17:07,150 No one was expecting it, not from Paige Birgfeld. 334 00:17:08,390 --> 00:17:11,420 As investigators were acutely aware 335 00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:14,030 that being involved in the escort business 336 00:17:14,030 --> 00:17:16,330 puts you at a much higher risk 337 00:17:16,330 --> 00:17:21,370 for violence, serious assaults, or even death. 338 00:17:21,370 --> 00:17:22,940 Anytime you're dealing with a secret life 339 00:17:22,940 --> 00:17:24,540 that involves illegal activity, 340 00:17:24,540 --> 00:17:26,170 you're gonna deal with people 341 00:17:26,170 --> 00:17:28,510 who don't wanna tell you the truth. 342 00:17:28,510 --> 00:17:30,180 She collected a lot of information 343 00:17:30,180 --> 00:17:32,180 about a lot of individuals. 344 00:17:32,180 --> 00:17:35,680 The fear of information getting out 345 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,020 about their own personal lives is so pronounced 346 00:17:39,020 --> 00:17:40,550 that the only way out 347 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,220 is to get rid of the individual 348 00:17:42,220 --> 00:17:45,560 who's holding this over their head. 349 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:47,360 There could be so many people who had 350 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:49,460 a motive to kill Paige. 351 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,300 Armed with the revelation that 352 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:58,740 Paige Birgfeld, mother of three, 353 00:17:58,740 --> 00:18:00,740 had been moonlighting as an escort. 354 00:18:00,740 --> 00:18:03,640 Investigators track down her client list 355 00:18:03,650 --> 00:18:06,610 and began an exhaustive search for suspects. 356 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,420 Paige, the number of clients that she had seen 357 00:18:11,420 --> 00:18:14,420 just recently blew up the suspect list 358 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:17,960 to about 10 to 15 people and that became difficult 359 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,660 and we had to include every one of those people. 360 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:27,070 In hopes of narrowing down their suspect pool, 361 00:18:27,070 --> 00:18:29,740 investigators look into who Paige had contact with 362 00:18:29,740 --> 00:18:33,110 on June 28th, the day she disappeared. 363 00:18:34,740 --> 00:18:37,640 So we start looking at her phone records 364 00:18:37,650 --> 00:18:39,550 and we see that there's a number 365 00:18:39,550 --> 00:18:43,220 that's called multiple times, many times 366 00:18:43,220 --> 00:18:46,650 over the evening of the 27th to the 28th 367 00:18:46,650 --> 00:18:48,750 and we track that number back 368 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,490 to a person named George Coralluzo. 369 00:18:53,430 --> 00:18:56,130 When police look into George Coralluzo, 370 00:18:56,130 --> 00:18:59,030 they discover he's a local house painter. 371 00:18:59,030 --> 00:19:00,800 We try to contact him and we don't get 372 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,800 any answers on that phone number, 373 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,470 but the business partners tell us that, 374 00:19:05,470 --> 00:19:09,140 George failed to show up for work on June 28th, 375 00:19:09,140 --> 00:19:12,310 the same day that Paige disappeared 376 00:19:12,310 --> 00:19:15,180 and that's the same day that he was calling her phone 377 00:19:15,180 --> 00:19:17,580 routinely and repeatedly throughout the whole day. 378 00:19:19,150 --> 00:19:21,390 He tells family and friends 379 00:19:21,390 --> 00:19:23,120 there's been a death in the family 380 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:24,990 and he buys a last-minute plane ticket 381 00:19:24,990 --> 00:19:28,630 and leaves Colorado and goes to New Jersey. 382 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,230 Cops don't like coincidences, 383 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,440 and the timing of his leaving 384 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,170 is concerning, very concerning. 385 00:19:42,180 --> 00:19:44,410 We're thinking that possibly they met up 386 00:19:44,410 --> 00:19:47,150 and things went sour, we don't know that. 387 00:19:47,150 --> 00:19:48,980 What we do know is that we need to find 388 00:19:48,980 --> 00:19:52,920 George Coralluzo and talk with him as soon as possible. 389 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,290 Investigators travel to New Jersey 390 00:19:55,290 --> 00:19:57,690 to interview George Coralluzo. 391 00:19:58,830 --> 00:20:01,130 George tells us that he was, 392 00:20:01,130 --> 00:20:03,560 looking to get a escort service, 393 00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:05,260 a massage service 394 00:20:05,270 --> 00:20:07,930 and that he couldn't find the business 395 00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:10,900 and that he denies he ever met up with anyone. 396 00:20:12,270 --> 00:20:15,440 He pursues to discuss, spending the evening 397 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,080 getting very, very drunk with friends 398 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,780 and then his girlfriend came and picked him up 399 00:20:19,780 --> 00:20:21,410 at about midnight 400 00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:23,580 and then the next day left Grand Junction 401 00:20:23,590 --> 00:20:25,480 to drive over to Denver. 402 00:20:25,490 --> 00:20:27,820 He says he parked his car at the Denver Airport 403 00:20:27,820 --> 00:20:29,920 and flew into New Jersey, 404 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,790 which would be prior to the car fire. 405 00:20:34,230 --> 00:20:37,600 He does admit that he lied to his business partners 406 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,470 about leaving town 407 00:20:39,470 --> 00:20:42,900 and that no one was killed in his family, 408 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:44,740 but that he just wants a vacation 409 00:20:44,740 --> 00:20:46,710 and doesn't wanna tell his business partners 410 00:20:46,710 --> 00:20:48,910 is what he tells us. 411 00:20:48,910 --> 00:20:51,010 That's a pretty big lie. 412 00:20:51,010 --> 00:20:53,650 Investigators work to verify 413 00:20:53,650 --> 00:20:55,210 Coralluzo's whereabouts 414 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:58,020 between June 28th when Paige went missing, 415 00:20:58,020 --> 00:21:01,390 and July 1st when her car was found on fire. 416 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,360 We confirmed the information that George has given us 417 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:09,160 that he was indeed out of town. 418 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:12,270 Investigators find that his car is parked 419 00:21:12,270 --> 00:21:15,000 in long-term parking and they see a parking receipt 420 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,800 for where he entered the parking 421 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:21,340 at about 11:00 in the evening on June 30th. 422 00:21:22,910 --> 00:21:24,680 He flew to New Jersey and arrived there 423 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,680 at about 1:00 in the afternoon 424 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,950 which is about eight or nine hours 425 00:21:28,950 --> 00:21:30,680 before the car fire. 426 00:21:30,690 --> 00:21:33,550 With Coralluzo's alibi checking out, 427 00:21:33,550 --> 00:21:35,860 he's eliminated as a suspect. 428 00:21:40,990 --> 00:21:44,860 Investigators find themselves at a crossroads. 429 00:21:44,870 --> 00:21:46,500 Everybody in the community 430 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,770 knew in their hearts that she had been killed 431 00:21:49,770 --> 00:21:53,110 and our ability to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt 432 00:21:53,110 --> 00:21:55,880 was still hampered by that double life 433 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,610 that she had and the fact that we hadn't found the body yet. 434 00:22:00,250 --> 00:22:03,380 Paige going missing really woke up 435 00:22:03,380 --> 00:22:04,920 Grand Junction to say, 436 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,690 "Wow, we didn't think this could happen 437 00:22:06,690 --> 00:22:09,560 in our backyard, but here it is." 438 00:22:13,290 --> 00:22:15,260 Something has happened to Paige 439 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:17,600 and we have to keep working and we have to keep trying 440 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,370 and we don't give up just because time 441 00:22:20,370 --> 00:22:22,570 isn't on our side. 442 00:22:22,570 --> 00:22:27,410 A chance occurrence revitalizes the case. 443 00:22:27,410 --> 00:22:30,440 It just so happened that somebody driving down 444 00:22:30,450 --> 00:22:32,140 highway 50 in the middle of nowhere 445 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:35,080 had pulled over to check his tires and had noticed, 446 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,280 I think it was one of Paige's checks 447 00:22:37,290 --> 00:22:39,350 and started to see that, 448 00:22:39,350 --> 00:22:41,850 hey, there's more scattered items out here. 449 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:43,920 All sorts of items that you would not expect 450 00:22:43,930 --> 00:22:47,560 a person to throw out unless they are trying 451 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,200 to potentially leave a trail of breadcrumbs. 452 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:54,800 It was our belief that Paige had been put 453 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,070 in the trunk of a vehicle and was trying to leave us 454 00:22:57,070 --> 00:23:00,270 a sign of where she was going. 455 00:23:00,270 --> 00:23:01,970 I think everybody thought, 456 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:03,740 - "- This is it. - She's leaving us a trail. 457 00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:05,780 She's signaling us to her." 458 00:23:10,580 --> 00:23:12,520 After a trail of Paige Birgfeld's 459 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,090 belongings are found on the side of a highway, 460 00:23:15,090 --> 00:23:17,860 police and volunteers scour the area 461 00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:23,200 hoping to find more evidence and perhaps, Paige's body. 462 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,130 Highway 50 is a long stretch. 463 00:23:25,130 --> 00:23:28,170 It's extremely rugged and rural. 464 00:23:28,170 --> 00:23:29,900 They searched and searched knowing that 465 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:31,570 they could possibly be looking 466 00:23:31,570 --> 00:23:34,810 for a needle in a haystack. 467 00:23:34,810 --> 00:23:36,410 We had a large community search team 468 00:23:36,410 --> 00:23:38,180 that went out and found 469 00:23:38,180 --> 00:23:42,680 close to 75 pieces of evidence. 470 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,350 But unfortunately, even though 471 00:23:44,350 --> 00:23:46,120 all of those personal belongings were found, 472 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:48,020 it didn't lead to our body. 473 00:23:53,330 --> 00:23:54,860 There are murder cases 474 00:23:54,860 --> 00:23:56,460 that a prosecuted without a body, 475 00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:58,430 but in this particular situation, 476 00:23:58,430 --> 00:24:00,470 we're talking about a woman who has a double life. 477 00:24:00,470 --> 00:24:02,570 We're talking about a woman who has such a secret life 478 00:24:02,570 --> 00:24:05,870 that some of her best friends had no idea 479 00:24:05,870 --> 00:24:08,240 that she was doing all of these other things. 480 00:24:10,780 --> 00:24:14,410 Our office continued to look at any possible leads. 481 00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:17,780 We had people coming forward with information 482 00:24:17,790 --> 00:24:20,150 about the escort business. 483 00:24:20,150 --> 00:24:22,990 When investigators take a closer look 484 00:24:22,990 --> 00:24:24,760 into Paige's business, 485 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,930 they discover she wasn't working alone. 486 00:24:27,930 --> 00:24:29,560 One of the interesting people that came forward 487 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,100 was a woman named Carolyn Linderholm. 488 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:35,170 She was aware of Paige's Model's Inc. business 489 00:24:35,170 --> 00:24:37,140 and she had actually participated 490 00:24:37,140 --> 00:24:40,110 in some of the calls. 491 00:24:40,110 --> 00:24:42,410 Carol told us that Paige had called her 492 00:24:42,410 --> 00:24:47,110 on the 27th of June and asked her to take a client 493 00:24:47,110 --> 00:24:48,810 by the name of Jim Jones, 494 00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:50,450 because Paige had recognized him 495 00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:53,320 from a previous visit. 496 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,960 She said that Paige was not comfortable 497 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,990 because he had recognized her as being Paige Dixon 498 00:24:58,990 --> 00:25:01,660 and related to Rob Dixon. 499 00:25:01,660 --> 00:25:05,260 She agreed to take the client. 500 00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:09,670 She went to Mr. Jones's home on the 27th of June 501 00:25:09,670 --> 00:25:12,710 between 10:00 and 10:30 in the evening. 502 00:25:12,710 --> 00:25:14,540 She provided a topless massage. 503 00:25:14,540 --> 00:25:17,880 He did ask for additional sexual activity 504 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,550 and she said no. 505 00:25:20,550 --> 00:25:22,780 Investigators learned that Jim Jones 506 00:25:22,780 --> 00:25:27,450 is Lester Ralph Jones, a mechanic at Bob Scott RV 507 00:25:27,460 --> 00:25:31,560 which is near Walker SMS Manufacturing. 508 00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:35,090 He works across the street 509 00:25:35,100 --> 00:25:39,770 from where the car was burned so we find that interesting. 510 00:25:39,770 --> 00:25:42,840 Paige's last phone call to anybody 511 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,500 was just outside the Walker SMS 512 00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:49,280 and just outside Bob Scott RV. 513 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,380 We didn't know much about him and we didn't know much 514 00:25:51,380 --> 00:25:53,710 about what his involvement was, 515 00:25:53,710 --> 00:25:55,850 but as we started to look into him 516 00:25:55,850 --> 00:25:59,050 there was a lot of very serious coincidences. 517 00:26:00,620 --> 00:26:02,450 Detectives take a second look 518 00:26:02,460 --> 00:26:04,720 at Paige's work phone records and discovers 519 00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:07,530 she received multiple calls from Lester Jones 520 00:26:07,530 --> 00:26:11,000 after he met with Carol on June 27th. 521 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,530 Armed with this information, 522 00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:16,270 they bring Jones into the station for questioning. 523 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,040 Mr. Jones initially denies knowing Ms. Birgfeld 524 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,880 and eventually admits that he does know her 525 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,750 and admits to having service on June 27th with Carol. 526 00:26:28,750 --> 00:26:31,780 Detectives question Jones about his whereabouts 527 00:26:31,790 --> 00:26:35,790 on June 28th, the day Paige disappeared. 528 00:26:35,790 --> 00:26:38,120 Mr. Jones tell us all week, 529 00:26:38,130 --> 00:26:39,930 including the 28th of June, 530 00:26:39,930 --> 00:26:42,560 that his same routine is right after work 531 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,970 he goes to the Alano Club socializes with people, 532 00:26:45,970 --> 00:26:47,600 drinks coffee for a little bit, 533 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,770 then gets some dinner and heads home. 534 00:27:09,690 --> 00:27:11,520 Mr. Jones says that 535 00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:14,160 no one can corroborate he was home by himself 536 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,300 because he was alone. 537 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,830 However, he states his wife returned to town on June 30th 538 00:27:18,830 --> 00:27:21,670 during the afternoon. 539 00:27:21,670 --> 00:27:24,600 While some investigators are talking with Mr. Jones 540 00:27:24,610 --> 00:27:26,410 at the sheriff's office, 541 00:27:26,410 --> 00:27:30,180 other investigators go out to Mrs. Jones's workplace 542 00:27:30,180 --> 00:27:32,750 and contact her. 543 00:27:32,750 --> 00:27:35,750 And during that conversation, Mrs. Jones said that 544 00:27:35,750 --> 00:27:39,120 Mr. Jones was gone Sunday evening on July 1st 545 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:43,490 between about 9:00 and 10:15. 546 00:27:43,490 --> 00:27:47,160 He states that he had to drive to Bob Scott's RV 547 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,360 and turn off the lights. 548 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:53,530 He puts himself right there at the time of the fire. 549 00:27:59,870 --> 00:28:01,410 When detectives look 550 00:28:01,410 --> 00:28:02,810 into Lester Jones's background, 551 00:28:02,810 --> 00:28:04,340 they discover a history 552 00:28:04,350 --> 00:28:06,710 of domestic abuse and assault. 553 00:28:06,710 --> 00:28:09,380 He has a prior arrest for assault 554 00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:11,450 and sexual assault, and kidnapping, 555 00:28:11,450 --> 00:28:15,220 and that he had been prisoned for three years. 556 00:28:15,220 --> 00:28:17,320 As we dig further into him, we find that, 557 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,390 uh, with two of his first ex-wives, 558 00:28:19,390 --> 00:28:21,130 he had propensity for violence, 559 00:28:21,130 --> 00:28:22,960 domestic violence, sexual violence 560 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,730 towards both of them. 561 00:28:25,730 --> 00:28:27,700 Having uncovered a pattern of violence 562 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:29,500 against women, 563 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:33,140 detectives put Jones' alibi to the test. 564 00:28:33,140 --> 00:28:36,680 When we confronted Lester about his alibi, 565 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,480 he wasn't able to give us any names. 566 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,850 We were able to verify that he did in fact go to work 567 00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:43,980 that day, but of significance, 568 00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:47,320 nobody remembered him being at the club that night 569 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,920 on June 28th. 570 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,790 We have nothing to alibi where he is 571 00:28:51,790 --> 00:28:53,990 on the evening of the 28th, 572 00:28:53,990 --> 00:28:56,300 and he puts himself in the area 573 00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:58,200 of the evening of the car fire, 574 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,600 and he's the only person so far that we've run into 575 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:05,640 that possibly was in that area both days and both times. 576 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,480 We were in consultation 577 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,040 with the District Attorney's Office 578 00:29:12,050 --> 00:29:13,810 throughout this investigation, 579 00:29:13,810 --> 00:29:16,220 and we believed we had the primary suspect 580 00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:19,320 in Lester Jones. 581 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,750 Having zeroed in on Lester Jones, 582 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,220 police obtain search warrants for his house, 583 00:29:24,230 --> 00:29:28,130 vehicles, and place of work. 584 00:29:28,130 --> 00:29:30,560 No body homicides are rather obviously 585 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,730 very difficult investigations and are seldom prosecuted. 586 00:29:33,730 --> 00:29:36,470 What you have to do is collect what you call 587 00:29:36,470 --> 00:29:38,870 the corpus delicti or the body of evidence 588 00:29:38,870 --> 00:29:41,440 through other means, and assemble basically 589 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,240 a circumstantial case that is rock solid. 590 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,080 As we search his desks and the work area 591 00:29:51,090 --> 00:29:53,850 at Bob Scott's, the first thing of note 592 00:29:53,850 --> 00:29:58,220 is the gas can that's sitting there. 593 00:29:58,230 --> 00:29:59,830 Obviously, with our information 594 00:29:59,830 --> 00:30:01,390 that there was accelerants used, 595 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,400 um, in the vehicle fire, 596 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,100 none of the other employees claim that 597 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:07,130 that is their gas can, 598 00:30:07,130 --> 00:30:10,440 that they have not seen that there before. 599 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,470 We find a list with names 600 00:30:13,470 --> 00:30:15,910 of, um, escort ladies. 601 00:30:15,910 --> 00:30:20,480 We find wigs, men's wigs. 602 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,220 We find a package of condoms and some Viagra pills, 603 00:30:25,220 --> 00:30:27,490 all of these in his closed locker area 604 00:30:27,490 --> 00:30:30,490 that is used only by him. 605 00:30:30,490 --> 00:30:33,460 We know Mr. Jones and Paige knew each other 606 00:30:33,460 --> 00:30:35,360 and she didn't wanna see him for that. 607 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,100 There's a concern was he maybe trying 608 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:40,000 to meet up with her and disguise who he was. 609 00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:43,740 We saw that there was our package 610 00:30:43,740 --> 00:30:46,000 for a track phone in the trashcan 611 00:30:46,010 --> 00:30:48,710 next to his desk. 612 00:30:48,710 --> 00:30:51,880 That raises our suspicions and we believe now 613 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,350 we're on the right trail. 614 00:30:54,350 --> 00:30:56,280 Criminals, or people who are about 615 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,120 to commit crime, are getting savvy. 616 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,650 They understand that their cell phone 617 00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:02,620 will be used to track them. 618 00:31:02,620 --> 00:31:05,320 A track phone is often used because you don't have 619 00:31:05,330 --> 00:31:08,260 to provide your name or your address, 620 00:31:08,260 --> 00:31:11,030 so there's no paper trail. 621 00:31:11,030 --> 00:31:14,700 We tracked that back to being purchased 622 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:18,700 at a specific date and time at a local Walmart store. 623 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:22,470 We go there, we get surveillance video, 624 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,340 and lo and behold, it is Lester Jones 625 00:31:25,350 --> 00:31:27,880 purchasing that phone. 626 00:31:29,750 --> 00:31:31,820 Investigations obtain records 627 00:31:31,820 --> 00:31:35,150 for the prepaid cell phone purchased by Lester Jones. 628 00:31:36,990 --> 00:31:38,720 When we get the phone records, 629 00:31:38,730 --> 00:31:41,630 the only calls made using that phone 630 00:31:41,630 --> 00:31:45,930 are to Paige Birgfeld's Model's, Inc. Cell phone. 631 00:31:47,770 --> 00:31:50,040 There were five calls to and from that phone 632 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,600 on the day of her disappearance, 633 00:31:51,610 --> 00:31:54,410 and the last call on that phone 634 00:31:54,410 --> 00:31:57,340 was at about 7:55 on June 28th 635 00:31:57,340 --> 00:32:00,780 when Paige called Mr. Jones back. 636 00:32:02,450 --> 00:32:04,780 It was clear to us that his efforts to call 637 00:32:04,790 --> 00:32:09,050 from his personal cell phone were unsuccessful, 638 00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:12,360 so we assumed that is why he got the prepaid phone 639 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,760 was to disguise who he was and try and convince Paige 640 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,300 to meet up with this person she doesn't know. 641 00:32:21,070 --> 00:32:22,570 With the evidence 642 00:32:22,570 --> 00:32:24,370 against Lester Jones mounting, 643 00:32:24,370 --> 00:32:26,670 investigators obtain another search warrant 644 00:32:26,670 --> 00:32:29,040 for his two computers. 645 00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,550 Every evening, 646 00:32:33,550 --> 00:32:35,080 when he would get home from work, 647 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,720 he would get back on his computer, 648 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,550 and you're able to see the computer usage. 649 00:32:39,550 --> 00:32:41,920 He was involved with a lot of pornography 650 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,420 and checking other escorts 651 00:32:43,420 --> 00:32:45,260 and prostitution type services 652 00:32:45,260 --> 00:32:47,290 on June 26th, 27th, 653 00:32:47,290 --> 00:32:49,260 while his wife was out of town. 654 00:32:49,260 --> 00:32:51,100 On June 28th, during the evening hours, 655 00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:53,930 there was no activity, and then again on June 29th 656 00:32:53,930 --> 00:32:56,540 and June 30th, there was a lot of activity. 657 00:32:58,340 --> 00:33:00,070 He was a creature of habit 658 00:33:00,070 --> 00:33:02,270 and everyday looked exactly the same, 659 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,940 except for the day that Paige went missing. 660 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,450 With the search warrants complete, 661 00:33:08,450 --> 00:33:11,420 a patrol officer calls Jones's home to arrange 662 00:33:11,420 --> 00:33:13,090 for the return of his two cars 663 00:33:13,090 --> 00:33:16,090 that were seized and searched. 664 00:33:16,090 --> 00:33:17,920 A sergeant in the investigation unit 665 00:33:17,930 --> 00:33:21,560 called Mr. Jones and realizes that Mr. Jones sounds 666 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,930 almost like he's intoxicated or, uh, sounds off-kilter. 667 00:33:25,930 --> 00:33:28,100 Mr. Jones says something to the effect 668 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:31,440 of "You ask me where I would bury a body?" 669 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,810 And the sergeant is pretty surprised 670 00:33:33,810 --> 00:33:35,370 by that statement, 671 00:33:35,380 --> 00:33:37,640 because he never asked him that question. 672 00:33:39,510 --> 00:33:41,510 Right after that statement was made, 673 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,280 Mrs. Jones took the phone 674 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,880 and said her husband wasn't feeling well, 675 00:33:45,890 --> 00:33:47,790 and ended the conversation. 676 00:33:50,420 --> 00:33:51,890 That was pretty significant fact to us 677 00:33:51,890 --> 00:33:54,630 because Mr. Jones actually had a history. 678 00:33:56,260 --> 00:34:00,230 He had been convicted of kidnapping his prior wife 679 00:34:00,230 --> 00:34:02,300 and he had actually told her, 680 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:04,470 "I'm going to kill you and bury you on a lake 681 00:34:04,470 --> 00:34:06,870 where nobody will ever find your body." 682 00:34:06,870 --> 00:34:09,640 And so we knew he was capable of this type of behavior. 683 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,180 But without a body, 684 00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:14,910 detectives can't arrest or charge Lester Jones 685 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,650 with the crime. 686 00:34:17,650 --> 00:34:22,220 You get one shot at prosecuting on a homicide, 687 00:34:22,220 --> 00:34:25,060 so the decision was made to not arrest at the time. 688 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,460 We believe she's dead. 689 00:34:30,460 --> 00:34:33,800 We don't know where the body is. 690 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,070 We don't know how Lester Jones killed her. 691 00:34:38,070 --> 00:34:39,840 We had already decided he was our guy 692 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,540 but it was just not realistic 693 00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:43,180 to prosecute without the body. 694 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,580 In the murder of Paige Birgfeld, 695 00:34:51,590 --> 00:34:54,420 detectives have zeroed in on Lester Jones. 696 00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:56,020 A former client 697 00:34:56,020 --> 00:34:57,790 of the soccer mom turned escort. 698 00:34:57,790 --> 00:35:00,530 But without a body or any physical evidence 699 00:35:00,530 --> 00:35:04,530 connecting him to the crime, he remains at large. 700 00:35:06,030 --> 00:35:07,500 Finding a body is important. 701 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:09,200 It's not absolute but became difficult 702 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,070 trying to prosecute without the body, 703 00:35:11,070 --> 00:35:13,840 because Paige was involved in this double life, 704 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,010 so it was very frustrating. 705 00:35:18,110 --> 00:35:20,580 We were left with waiting 706 00:35:20,580 --> 00:35:22,250 and trying to follow up 707 00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:24,480 with any other lead that came up. 708 00:35:26,290 --> 00:35:28,320 Obviously, the family was grieved. 709 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:29,820 The community was concerned 710 00:35:29,820 --> 00:35:31,890 that there was this killer out there, 711 00:35:31,890 --> 00:35:35,030 or alleged killer out there. 712 00:35:35,030 --> 00:35:37,530 It was really hard for Grand Junction. 713 00:35:37,530 --> 00:35:39,000 Everybody wanted answers. 714 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,730 People that didn't even know her 715 00:35:40,730 --> 00:35:42,200 were calling the news station every day saying, 716 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:43,640 "What's the update on Paige? 717 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,600 Where is she? Have we found her?" 718 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:50,780 Months turn into years, and eventually 719 00:35:50,780 --> 00:35:53,910 the investigation into Paige Birgfeld's disappearance 720 00:35:53,910 --> 00:35:56,450 and presumed murder goes cold. 721 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,620 And then we get a phone call. 722 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:07,430 On the morning of March 6th, 2012, 723 00:36:07,430 --> 00:36:10,630 two hikers stumble onto a key piece of evidence 724 00:36:10,630 --> 00:36:14,900 approximately 45 minutes south of Grand Junction. 725 00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:18,070 Two hikers are down hiking the Wells Gulch area 726 00:36:18,070 --> 00:36:20,070 which is one of our adjacent counties 727 00:36:20,070 --> 00:36:22,910 and they come across some human remains. 728 00:36:25,610 --> 00:36:27,610 Investigators from Mesa County 729 00:36:27,610 --> 00:36:29,310 and Delta County head down there, 730 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,750 do some searching and find 731 00:36:31,750 --> 00:36:37,160 almost a full skeleton of a adult. 732 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,330 We all knew as soon as we heard 733 00:36:40,330 --> 00:36:41,690 whose bones they were gonna be. 734 00:36:43,860 --> 00:36:46,000 The remains were examined by 735 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,670 both the Mesa County coroner 736 00:36:48,670 --> 00:36:51,340 and also a forensic anthropologist 737 00:36:51,340 --> 00:36:54,310 here in Colorado. 738 00:36:54,310 --> 00:36:57,140 There was DNA extracted that was found 739 00:36:57,140 --> 00:36:59,180 to match that of Paige Birgfeld. 740 00:37:05,650 --> 00:37:07,150 Investigators were glad 741 00:37:07,150 --> 00:37:09,020 the remains are finally found. 742 00:37:09,020 --> 00:37:10,690 This gives some kind of 743 00:37:10,690 --> 00:37:13,330 a small portion of closure to the family, 744 00:37:13,330 --> 00:37:15,590 even though this was really hard news to deliver. 745 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,630 And that gets us to where we know 746 00:37:17,630 --> 00:37:20,370 we're going to be able to close the case. 747 00:37:25,170 --> 00:37:27,310 Having identified the remains 748 00:37:27,310 --> 00:37:29,980 as Paige Birgfeld, investigators work 749 00:37:29,980 --> 00:37:33,180 to determine a cause of death. 750 00:37:33,180 --> 00:37:35,180 Unfortunately, the, uh, 751 00:37:35,180 --> 00:37:37,150 forensic anthropologist nor the coroner 752 00:37:37,150 --> 00:37:39,480 are able to determine an exact cause of death. 753 00:37:39,490 --> 00:37:42,620 There were two fractures on the face, 754 00:37:42,620 --> 00:37:44,360 both which would somewhat suggest 755 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,730 that there was some kind of a fight. 756 00:37:46,730 --> 00:37:49,430 These were determined to be perimortem 757 00:37:49,430 --> 00:37:51,900 which is at about the time of death. 758 00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:54,830 There was duct tape, as well as some black tape 759 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,400 along her mouth area 760 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,170 and around the bones of the body, 761 00:37:58,170 --> 00:38:00,270 so it clearly shows that she had been bound 762 00:38:00,270 --> 00:38:02,240 either while going into that area 763 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:04,580 or at the area at the time. 764 00:38:04,580 --> 00:38:07,510 With this final piece of the puzzle, 765 00:38:07,510 --> 00:38:09,510 detectives are now able to reconstruct 766 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,680 Paige's final 24 hours. 767 00:38:12,690 --> 00:38:15,090 Howard Beigler says that they saw each other 768 00:38:15,090 --> 00:38:17,720 and he saw her, uh, in her car driving 769 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:21,190 towards Grand Junction at about 7:00 on June 28th. 770 00:38:21,190 --> 00:38:25,660 At approximately 7:39, we know that Lester Jones 771 00:38:25,670 --> 00:38:30,370 called Paige Birgfeld on her work phone for Models, Inc., 772 00:38:30,370 --> 00:38:32,540 and this was from Lester Jones' track phone 773 00:38:32,540 --> 00:38:34,540 that he had bought. 774 00:38:34,540 --> 00:38:36,010 During this time, we know 775 00:38:36,010 --> 00:38:37,640 that she's still driving home. 776 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,620 After 8:57 PM, we know that Paige Birgfeld met up 777 00:38:44,620 --> 00:38:49,190 with Lester Jones at either Bob Scott RV or Walker SMS 778 00:38:49,190 --> 00:38:53,490 which is across the street where her vehicle was found. 779 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,430 Then he kidnapped her and he duct taped 780 00:38:57,430 --> 00:38:59,700 around her skull, around her head, 781 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:02,130 which would indicate that she was alive at that point 782 00:39:02,140 --> 00:39:05,640 that that happened and likely being driven somewhere. 783 00:39:07,810 --> 00:39:09,770 The seat was pushed back in the car 784 00:39:09,780 --> 00:39:12,010 which would indicate that Mr. Jones was driving it. 785 00:39:12,010 --> 00:39:15,650 He drives her to Wells Gulch area 786 00:39:15,650 --> 00:39:17,450 of the Delta County. 787 00:39:19,450 --> 00:39:22,790 Paige Birgfeld, who's in the trunk of her vehicle, 788 00:39:22,790 --> 00:39:24,920 was throwing out cards and checkbooks 789 00:39:24,930 --> 00:39:28,960 to lead a trail to where she would be at. 790 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,560 We don't know exactly what the last moments 791 00:39:31,570 --> 00:39:33,900 of Paige's life were, 792 00:39:33,900 --> 00:39:37,270 but due to information that Mr. Jones 793 00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:39,940 had previously threatened other ex-wives 794 00:39:39,940 --> 00:39:42,970 and choked them, you can wonder 795 00:39:42,980 --> 00:39:45,280 if that's how she met her demise. 796 00:39:47,050 --> 00:39:49,450 Paige was killed at some point 797 00:39:49,450 --> 00:39:51,750 and buried deep enough that we didn't find her remains 798 00:39:51,750 --> 00:39:54,690 for five years. 799 00:39:54,690 --> 00:39:57,520 And that vehicle was brought back up to Grand Junction 800 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,360 and dropped off. 801 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,760 On July 1st, about 9:00 PM, 802 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,060 Lester Jones realizes that their vehicle 803 00:40:05,070 --> 00:40:06,930 was parked across from the street. 804 00:40:06,930 --> 00:40:09,730 There could be possibly evidence inside that vehicle 805 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,500 so he drives to Bob Scott RV's 806 00:40:12,510 --> 00:40:14,310 under the pretense of turning off the lights 807 00:40:14,310 --> 00:40:17,580 in his office, goes across the street. 808 00:40:17,580 --> 00:40:19,610 He takes four pages of the calendar 809 00:40:19,610 --> 00:40:23,010 out of the calendar book, 810 00:40:23,020 --> 00:40:25,250 uses accelerants, gasoline, 811 00:40:25,250 --> 00:40:27,290 or some type of gasoline accelerant, 812 00:40:27,290 --> 00:40:29,720 start the fire, 813 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,320 and arrives back home where his wife sees him. 814 00:40:33,990 --> 00:40:35,890 He knew that she had information 815 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:38,460 about her clients in there and needed that evidence gone. 816 00:40:43,170 --> 00:40:45,400 This is by definition of a sexual homicide. 817 00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:47,870 He has pursued the victim for a sexual purpose. 818 00:40:47,870 --> 00:40:50,580 She was avoiding his phone calls. 819 00:40:50,580 --> 00:40:53,410 She was denying him the opportunity to see her, 820 00:40:53,410 --> 00:40:57,350 passing him off to another colleague 821 00:40:57,350 --> 00:41:00,320 was probably the last straw for him. 822 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,860 On November 21st, 2014, more than seven years 823 00:41:04,860 --> 00:41:07,890 after Paige Birgfeld's disappearance, 824 00:41:07,890 --> 00:41:09,830 Lester Jones is arrested and charged 825 00:41:09,830 --> 00:41:13,400 with first-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping. 826 00:41:16,570 --> 00:41:18,500 He is eventually convicted and sentenced 827 00:41:18,510 --> 00:41:21,410 to life in prison without parole. 828 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,350 Justice was done, justice was due, 829 00:41:28,350 --> 00:41:30,450 and justice was delivered. 830 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:36,720 You have to be in this for the long haul. 831 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:38,190 It took a little over seven years 832 00:41:38,190 --> 00:41:39,790 to resolve this case. 833 00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:43,700 I don't care what business you're in, 834 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:46,500 nobody deserves to have this happen to them. 835 00:41:48,730 --> 00:41:50,900 Despite Lester Jones' sentence, 836 00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:53,470 Paige Birgfeld's family is still left reeling 837 00:41:53,470 --> 00:41:55,370 from their loss. 838 00:41:55,380 --> 00:41:58,040 When Paige's body was found, 839 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,210 I think the stories resurfaced 840 00:42:01,210 --> 00:42:03,750 about her double life and her escort service. 841 00:42:03,750 --> 00:42:06,550 But I think it was tremendously overshadowed 842 00:42:06,550 --> 00:42:09,720 by what a great mom she was. 843 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:11,620 I think at the end of the day, 844 00:42:11,630 --> 00:42:13,260 we can all sympathize with somebody 845 00:42:13,260 --> 00:42:16,030 that is really just trying to do their best 846 00:42:16,030 --> 00:42:17,800 and provide for their family. 847 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,300 Did she have other options? 848 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:21,270 We don't know, but she did what she felt 849 00:42:21,270 --> 00:42:22,900 she had to do for her family. 65069

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