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outdoor adventures. a place where it's easy to get lost, hard to be found. >> people are very friendly. everybody knows each other. >> grand junction, colorado, really has that small-town feel, where the community comes together in a crisis. and it's here that in the summer of 2007, i came to report on a story about a young 34-year-old mom named paige birgfeld. she had simply vanished. frank, how would you describe your daughter? >> i think the word is effervescent. she's the kind of person when she comes in the room and meets you, always gives you a big smile. >> she is special, devoted, very patient, very much everyone's friend, and reaching out to help everyone and just

very loving. >> i'm barbara. i was one of paige's close friends. paige was very much a soccer mom. she had three kids. >> paige was the most kind of outgoing, independent, stubborn at times, just great sister and terrific mom. >> i'm carol linderholm, and i knew paige birgfeld for three and a half years. and she was just a wonderful person. i was just awestruck by her presence. i said, you are absolutely gorgeous. and she says, oh, my gosh, i haven't been told that in so long. >> she always is the kind of person that i think when you stand in front of her, you would feel that she thinks it's very special that you're here. >> i met her through mom's club,

at grand junction chapter. i had heard a lot about her from the other members, and i hadn't met her yet and, so i was kind of like, oh, i get to meet the exciting paige. and she -- she's just as, you know, was just as wonderful as everybody said. >> the mom's group in grand junction was a way for mothers to get together, whether the kids were there or not. it was a community for them. it was a safe space so that they could be themselves. >> paige would have them over for pool parties. entertainment. she liked to host the group. >> once a year, we had an official party. and this was for the moms. the last year we had a hollywood theme. we had, like, the red carpet entrance, and we had a big backdrop printed so, you know, we could stand and take pictures in front of it to document the evening. >> there's actually home video that was taken of that mom's party. and paige appears to be the star

of the show. >> we're usually in our flip-flops and shorts. and that night we were all in party wear. >> she just lit up the room. very dressed up, very classy, she just exuded that personality that attracted people to her. >> paige appears to have it all, a beautiful home and three loving children. but she's divorced from her husband of nine years, rob dixon. >> well, paige was very concerned about finances, about meeting the bills. she was working probably about four or five different jobs. she developed a business of baby slings. she taught brain dance classes to little children.

she really enjoyed that. >> it is a true honor to be able to work with your children. they have a lot of creative energy. >> and she would sell the pampered chef. >> pampered chef is a company that sells a line of kitchen supplies. in 2007, paige was able to sell items out of her home to local customers and also be at home with the kids. >> the most important people in paige's life, hands down, were her children. everything she did was to provide for her children. >> she was working all of these jobs but still showed up at the pta meeting and at the parents' play groups and everything else. she's a really special person. >> on the morning of june 28th,

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hi, mom. i was just wondering when you're going to be home. >> my understanding was that paige's daughter couldn't get hold of her the night she disappeared. and that the live-in nanny was the one who was there with the children. >> i knew something was wrong. it was a gut feeling. her children were the priority,

and she would never not follow up with letting them know she was on her way home. >> so, after not hearing from her mom for two full days, jesse, who's only 8 years old, goes down to the police station with her nanny to let police know her mom has disappeared. >> frank birgfeld, paige's dad, who lived in denver at the time, has also been calling paige but is getting no response. june 30th you get the phone call. >> yeah, i got a call that was the -- said the mason county sheriff's department, and he said, i'm calling because your daughter's missing. and it's a -- it was a strange moment, and i said, missing since when? he said missing since thursday

night. and i remember saying, this is a problem. there is a crime being committed here. we went ahead and threw some stuff in an overnight bag and came straight up. >> when my dad called me to tell me that paige was missing, that's the first time i ever had heard him cry since i was a little kid. my heart dropped. >> sometimes people leave on their own accord, so we obviously had to look into, did she up and leave for some unknown reason? on july 1st at about 10:00 p.m., dispatch received a 911 call. >> 911. where's your emergency? > hi, i'm at the corner of 23 and logos, and there is a car on fire in the parking lot at the building right here. it's in the sms walker building parking lot. >> do you see flames or smoke? >> yeah, there's a lot of flames. but there's nobody around that i could see.

>> when officers got there, they realized that that car belonged to paige birgfeld. >> paige's car was found, but there's no sign of her. >> it was very clear that it was an arson, because there was nothing else around it that was burned. it was just the car itself, and it was parked in a location that paige really had no association with. >> paige's car was found less than five miles from her home. but keep in mind, this is an industrial neighborhood. there are warehouses and car mechanics, not residential at all, and not a place where you'd expect to see paige. she didn't frequent that kind of area. >> when i first heard about finding the car on fire, i knew then that something horrible had happened to her. >> prior to finding the vehicle on fire, this was a missing person's case. and as soon as that happened, it was an immediate conversion over to that is foul play. >> many people cause fires trying to destroy the evidence.

and obviously it can destroy fibers, hairs, dna evidence, fingerprints, things of that sort. >> and so at that point, we at least suspected that she had been kidnapped and feared that she was also deceased. >> the hottest point of the burn was on the driver's side over here. and we could determine that from what we call v-patterns. it was later tested and we determined that there was petroleum-type accelerants used. one of the key things that we found is that the driver's side front seat had been pushed all the way back. >> paige birgfeld is not a very tall person. and so, therefore, that was unusual. >> we took another female that was the same size as paige birgfeld, approximately 5'4," ad put her in the car seat as it was, and she could not even reach the pedals of the vehicle. we knew that the last person that drove this car had to be

tall, and extremely tall. >> but there was one other major clue found in the wreckage of that car, which the fire strangely didn't destroy. >> additionally what was found was that there was a day planner. >> everyone who knew paige should have seen her day planner. that was -- that was just something that was part of her. she would always write stuff down, just super organized. >> finding that day planner for investigators was huge, because it should be able to tell them what paige was doing and who she was doing it with. >> and as we looked at the day planner, four of the dates had been torn out of the day planner. they were june 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th. those were the dates that paige birgfeld went missing. >> we immediately suspected that whoever it was who was responsible for her disappearance ripped those pages out, because they would have disclosed who she was meeting with. >> so, the car's burned. someone very tall had last driven it.

there are pages torn out of her day planner. and there are two questions now -- where is paige? and who was she with the day she disappeared? >> as parents we are absolutely crushed. this is any parent's worst nightmare. right now what he need to do is find paige. >> as a father, how hard is it? >> it occurred to me that i haven't cried in a long time. i've learned how to do that. >> this community came out in force to help search for her. >> a bunch of us just hoped we would find evidence that we could go, oh, look, the -- here, police department, now you can figure out what happened to her. and it would have a happy ending. >> mesa county is 3,300 square miles. >> we're looking down side dirt roads that lead to the river. it's kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack. >> so, this is an overall map of mesa county. we had people searching in this area over here.

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at first glance, the marriage of rob dixon and paige birgfeld looked picture perfect, but when i covered the case back in 2016, i quickly learned that the relationship was troubled. >> from what i saw of paige and rob's marriage, it was strained. so i started to question, what's their family dynamic like? >> i would describe the marriage as extremely volatile, not a loving situation. >> her husband had been very wealthy. as rob's wealth kind of toppled, he came under more and more pressure, and it bled out into the relationship. >> he wasn't bringing in enough money, and, you know, i'm not gonna put that on him. they're both in a relationship. and i think that just -- that just started beating them down.

>> a lot of couples fight when their marriage is strained, but one night in 2004, paige makes this 911 call to police. >> where is your emergency? >> my husband and i were in a fight, and he was supposed to watch my children while i went to work. and he said that i would come home and find them all murdered. >> no charges are filed against dixon that year, but 12 months later -- >> in october of 2005, he was accused of assaulting page, punching her, slapping her. >> yep. filed charges. and he had to answer them. >> although dixon denies assaulting paige, he pleads guilty to misdemeanor harassment. the charge is later dismissed, but that incident marks the beginning of the end for their marriage. >> paige and rob divorced in 2006. >> she ended up with the house,

and that was her home. that was her kids' home. and that certainly was a big, big overhead. >> she was living in this very beautiful 6,000 square foot home. and i think her mortgage was somewhere around $6,000 a month. >> paige was very concerned about finances because she didn't want to lose the house. >> all she had to offer the kids was the safety of their home, to not change one thing in their life, because they'd been through years of struggle. so she tried to hang onto the house. >> we're going to do two dances. this is our first group. >> she was already doing so many little piecemeal things. but they weren't enough to keep the house. >> even after the divorce, paige's fear of rob is still palpable. >> she specifically told me

she was worried about rob. that he was coming, he was going to do something bad. >> then in march 2007, paige writes this bone-chilling post on an online message board. my children would ask me if dad was going to kill me. i can't imagine what life would be like for them after he killed me. i would gladly sacrifice every penny of child support if he would stay away. >> that's one of the reasons why, when paige goes missing, her friends fear foul play. >> the first person you thought might have done this? >> rob was the first person that came to mind. >> my immediate thought, honestly, was rob dixon. >> her friend, carol linderholm, even mentions rob on a worried voicemail she leaves for paige after she disappears. >> paige, this is carol. what's going on? i hope you're all right. i just saw on the news that you've been missing. oh, i hope you're all right. oh, my god.

i hope this isn't rob. oh, my god. talk to you later. i hope. oh, my god. >> we were, of course, very interested in rob dixon as a potential suspect because we knew about the volatility of the relationship. but he had moved to philadelphia at that point, and we were quickly able to show that his phone was in philadelphia at that time, and he couldn't have been in two places at once. >> he came out immediately when he found out she was missing. >> i think that rob is crushed. and he still loves paige, and he definitely loves his children. >> with rob dixon cleared, investigators start looking at paige's other ex, her first husband, ron beigler. and they discover he's still in her life. >> they were high-school sweethearts. he was the love of her life initially. >> i liked everything about her. i liked who she was on the inside.

>> they have this huge wedding, set on a peak overlooking the denver skyline. but their youthful rush to the altar ends as quickly as it starts. >> it had come down to a kid issue, like, that she just really wanted a family and he really didn't. and so that relationship didn't work. >> it may not have worked out back then, but the very day paige went missing, it turns out she'd spent time with ron beigler. it seems paige was rekindling her romance with her first love rght before she disappeared. >> she reconnected with ron. she would find herself driving up to eagle to meet him halfway, and they'd have picnics. >> we just decided to meet that day. just to be together and have a picnic and be in each other's company.

eagle is the halfway point for both of us, so we left at the same time and arrived back in our towns at approximately the same time. she called me to make sure i made it back into denver, and that's the last i ever heard of her. >> i need to talk to you about a missing person emergency. >> he had reported when he called 911 that he had been with her earlier that day. >> i saw her all day on thursday, and then i talked to her when she got back in town. she is definitely missing, because she would never leave her children. >> he remembers her getting into her car, getting on i-70 headed west. he got into his car and drove on i-70 headed east. and we could track his phone headed all the way back to the front range. he was ruled out almost immediately. >> there is still no sign of paige birgfeld. the mother of three has been missing for three weeks now in grand junction. >> meanwhile, there are hundreds of searchers combing those

deserts outside grand junction, and then new clues emerge from someone who wasn't even looking. >> perhaps the biggest clue came from the unlikeliest of sources. a motorist with a flat tire pulled along the side of this road to fix it, and then notices paige's checkbook. investigators find paige's personal checks, business cards, and other personal items dropped all along this road. >> one check was torn out at a time. one card was thrown at a time. so it appears she was just trying to leave us a trail of bread crumbs to show us where she was going to. >> the items that were thrown along the highway were very personal to her, and they identified her. i can come up with no other reason why she would have done that other than, here's where you can find me. >> it's very heart wrenching. >> if she was throwing stuff out of the car, she had been alive. >> all of us on the search team

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>> my name is megan lundstrom, and i am a survivor of domestic sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. as women, we generally feel insecure about our bodies. so having tons of men that are not only complimenting us, but willing to pay money, can feed this illusion of self-worth and confidence, absolutely. >> so the chronology goes like this -- when paige is dancing in denver, she's still married to husband number one. they get divorced in 1997. a year later, paige meets rob dixon and they marry. and in 2005, the business savvy paige finds herself, literally, at a crossroads. >> on the third floor of an office complex, and using the company name of grand river acupuncture, paige birgfeld is in business. and it's not the acupuncture

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a mom says -- "hey, so i picked up this part-time job running an escort service." paige used a different name for the escort service. she used the name carrie. >> women in the commercial sex trade use fake names for a couple different reasons. first of all, to protect themselves from buyers. so, making sure that buyers can't show up at their house, they can't show up at their kids' school. >> paige's online ads likened her erotic massage services to filet mignon, while referring to the competition as chopped meat. this is not to say everyone who called models inc. was looking for sexual services, but those who were, were paying filet mignon prices. >> paige charged the most that i've ever heard. and that in some cases was up to $2,500, and for the most part,

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and when someone gets to a really difficult place in their life, you have to make a choice. >> women in the commercial sex trade have a mortality rate 40 times higher than the average woman. so, if that doesn't tell you something about how dangerous it is, i don't know what will. >> i flat out told her, you know, there's danger. and i guess i just, again, put those blinders up. i just live a normal soccer mom life. you know, what could possibly happen? >> it's incredibly deadly, but i think most people genuinely think, it's not going to happen to me. i'm somehow going to be smarter, wiser, more informed. >> i think you never know who you're going to run into in that kind of business. >> through the investigation, we quickly realized that she had a separate cell phone that she was using for an escort business.

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♪ ♪ i always knew this was a difficult case, and part of what made it so hard is there were so many little disconnected pieces that had to be put together to understand the full picture. >> cops have been stymied on several fronts in the investigation that could have helped them pinpoint where paige

was at certain times, most notably that day planner with its pages ripped out. so now they decide to follow another paper trail -- her phone records. >> we determined that she had numerous phone calls made to her on the day of her disappearance, and those phone calls we had traced back to several different people. >> specifically, they examine all calls paige made or received on the drive home after that day long picnic with former husband ron beigler. >> when she finishes her meeting with mr. beigler, early evening of the 28th, she starts heading back to grand junction. that's about a two-hour drive from grand junction to eagle, and so you can see she starts making some phone calls. >> she had no plans to have any sort of appointments after this until she got in her car, so it really narrowed the possible suspects to people who spoke to her between the time she got in

her car in eagle and the time she got back to grand junction. >> we had obtained her cell phone records and determined that she had received numerous calls that day, and determined that her last call had happened around 9:00 p.m. we determined who those people were. we determined that many of them were clients for her adult service. >> it makes logical sense if you are headed home and you're going to see some clients, you're going to schedule possible sessions with each of them. >> obviously, some of those people were a little bit more seedy in character. they had criminal histories and backgrounds that some of whom were violent, some of whom were not. >> tim zotto was one such client. he's on probation. he wears an ankle monitor. claims he hasn't been out in two weeks, but he says the reason he calls models inc. is because he was checking to see how much it would cost to send an escort over. he says he never did meet anyone from models inc.

>> john livingston calls paige from a motel 6. he tells investigators that he spends most nights sleeping in hotels or in his truck. and on the night paige disappeared, he arranged for an escort to come to his room. >> at the motel 6, he was one of the last people to call her and kept on calling her to come and visit. >> i was just checking to see if you had somebody coming out or not. >> john livingston, of course, who was at the motel 6, wondering why paige had never shown up. but he had had contact with her, and he at least could have known where she might be. >> stephen heald claims he had sex with paige numerous times, the last time a week before she disappeared. >> mr. heald did not visit her on the 28th, but had a prior relationship with her for several years, a sexual relationship. >> cops found out the married man was stealing company funds

at his job to pay for the sex. >> george coralluzo here -- mr. coralluzzo had visited with page birgfeld and made several phone calls to her on the night of her disappearance. >> george is a heavy drinker and drug user with a criminal history for theft, burglary and kidnapping. >> the information we had about george coralluzzo was that he was extremely intoxicated the day that she disappeared, that he had been using cocaine. >> we were trying to look at all different angles, and so first, was she kidnapped? we couldn't eliminate that right away. second of all, was she murdered? we couldn't eliminate that right away. >> mark holkum. repeat customer of paige. cops say holcomb had a dispute with paige over money. >> he couldn't afford the amount she was asking. >> joseph carruth knew paige because their kids played on the same soccer team. imagine carruth's surprise when paige showed up at the door after he called for a massage. >> did they have an opportunity or means to do this? were they in the area? were they with her?

try to either alibi them out, try to determine that they couldn't have been in the locations to be around her. >> three of the men on the list drove a white truck. now, that detail was of some interest to investigators after they spoke to carol linderholm. >> paige was on her own and she had leased an office space. she was looking for somebody who was supposed to show up, and the person never did, so she eventually closed her office, went downstairs to her car. as she was getting ready to leave, she sees this truck pull up right behind her to block it in. she was in her minivan, and as it was relayed to me by paige, she just threw the car in reverse and just gunned it real hard. she was just going to back into that car just to make space for her to get out. she didn't care what happened, the consequences of hitting the car or anything.

she just wanted out of there. and the white pickup took off. >> was she shaken by this? >> oh, she was extremely scared. she told me about it and she says i've never been so scared in my life. >> one by one, the suspects are cleared. >> those people gave us the information. we were able to quickly and easily eliminate them. >> except for one. ♪ take my soul ♪ >> we pulled him in for an interview and during the course of the interview, investigator norcross immediately identified him as a likely suspect. >> does it make you nervous that we may think you did something? >> no. >> it should. okay? it should.

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i'm pretty sure there's not a day that passes that i don't think about her. >> the mother of three has been missing for three weeks now in grand junction. >> when i first heard about finding the car on fire, i knew then that something horrible had happened to her. >> so that dog smelled a dead body in the backseat of this car. >> yes. >> it didn't take any of us more than a couple minutes to realize that had to be paige. >> she must have been so scared. it is hard to imagine what would have been growing through her head. >> the suspect list grows way the minute. >> i looked at him, and said,

we're not going to ea are we? he said, no, i'm going kill. >> you who's the real killer? we don't know. it's not acceptable to commit people of murder just because they're a creepy guy. ♪ ♪ >> beyond the shadow of a doubt, he did this. more than 90 days, still no paige birgfeld and no arrests. >> weeks after the disappearance of paige birgfeld, investigators sill have lit toll go on. her burned out ford focus, y with missing pages, and the clues scattered like breadcrumbs along a barren colorado highway. >> we found hundreds of pieces of items that belonged to paige

birgfeld. business cards, checks, and clothing, at one point we even found a driver's license. >> if i knew where she was, i'd -- i'd go get her. she's out there somewhere, and i can't protect her. >> a terrible sense of helplessness that you feel? >> oh, yeah, just a huge void. i mean, it's in the a good feeling that i want anybody else to experience. >> then the investigation takes a shocking left turn -- >> we have a major break about a colorado mother who led a secret double life. >> it's discovered that paige led a secret life as an escort, calling herself carrie and advertising her own agency online called models inc. >> you have to talk to a lot of different people when you're talking to somebody who's running an escort business. so we start working through what i'll call a client list. >> lester jones was one of them that had called her service. >> lester ralph jocal rvnic who calls paige for a rendezvous just the day before she goes missing. it turns out that jones had recognized her as being rob dixon's wife.

>> paige said she had met him previously through the escort service and it was uncomfortable because he knew her. paige instead asks her friend carol linderholm, who occasionally gave massages for the escort agency, to go in her place. >> that time when lester jones was calling and calling her, she asked me if i wanted to stop by over there. and she -- she basically kind of talked me into it. >> what's your first impression when you walked in the door? >> fear. >> really? >> yeah. he's a very large, overpowering person. >> what's the first thing he said to you? >> i want sex. i looked at him, and i said, then you should probably call another escort service. because it's not going to happen with me. he says, i was told you give a massage. and i said, well, that's probably the extent of what i would do. and i gave him a light one, but

i didn't really want to touch him. >> but there's another reason police are suspect of lester jones -- the location where he works. >> we check our name files and find that mr. jones actually works across the street at a rv shop and happens to be catty-corner to where the car was found on fire. >> one of the key things that we found is that the driver's side front seat had been pushed all the way back. we knew that the last person that drove this car had to be tall, and extremely tall. and in this case, lester ralph jones was 6'5." >> lester was a very good employee. very honest, hard working. he could very easily talk to customers and put them at ease about problems. most everybody seemed to like him. >> as we checked into the background of lester jones, we had determined that he had been married twice prior to his wife elaine. he had several children before elaine through other wives. >> he was tall.

he was handsome. he was a hard worker, and he was just all-around good guy. i mean, he was. he was a good guy. >> lisa nance was married to jones for two years back in the '90s. >> we never fought. we never had any kind of argue mnlts or anything like that. it was good. it was just after like a year or so, i just didn't want to be married anymore. i never knew if he was into using escorts or anything like that. no, i never knew of it. never heard of it. >> is he the guy? i don't know. >> did he know paige? >> not that i know of, but i don't know. i don't know. >> if he has any clues, any indication for the police to follow, we hope that he'll do that. >> have a seat. >> thanks. >> we contacted mr. jones at work on july 5th and asked him if he'd be willing to talk to us, and he was. he voluntarily came down.

>> i'm guessing you can probably guess as to what we're investigating? >> he just said he's investigating the disappearance of a young lady. >> okay, right. we talked to him about this case and what he may or may not know. >> during the interrogation, jones admits that he was at paige's escort service a year before her disappearance. >> and who did you see at that time? >> well, i don't really know. i think they call her blondie and that's all i can tell you. >> let's start with some honesty. what happened during that one? how did it start? >> well, it starts with a massage. >> okay. and what eari? >>kahe had nothing o wdit have>> she tel mup front does >> a further, he eventually admits that this is indeed the time he's talking about where he did recognize her as paige birgfeld and he did know her.

>> ou knew when you saw her the first time that she was rob dixon's ex-wife. >> yeah, i knew that. >> okay. hmm. her car is found a stone's throw from where you work. does that bother you? >> no. >> doesn't bother you at all. okay. does it make you nervous that we may think you did something? >> no. >> it should. okay? it should. i think that clip speaks for itself. i think he looks concerned. >> during the two and a half hours of questioning, jones cooperates fully. letting them take his fingerprints, giving his dna, and handing over the keys to his truck. >> what are you driving right now? >> it's a white dodge pickup. >> white? >> now, that's an eye-opener right there. remember, paige had told her friend carol how a white pickup truck had frightened her outside of her office one night. >> do you know where she is? >> no. >> do you know what happened to her? >> no. >> now i have to be convinced of that.

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when you make a living as an escort and you go missing, it's clear that your phone calls are going to be critical to the investigation. >> we quickly realized that she had a separate cell phone that she was using for an escort business, and very few people knew about it. >> before she disappeared, paige had received a series of calls from a mystery man who was phoning her from a disposable tracfone. >> the tracfone only was responsible for five calls in the life of that phone.

it was activated wednesday morning, the same day that ms. linderholm had her appointment with mr. jones. >> when investigators sat jones down, they asked him point blank, do you own a tracfone? >> did you buy a tracfone? >> no, sir. >> never bought a tracfone? >> never. >> during that search of the rv garage where jones worked, police uncovered some curious items -- wigs, condoms, viagra, and a gas can. but they also find something else. >> in a trash can we found a box to a tracfone, and it h distinct coloring on it. >> through using that packaging, we were able to identify it was purchased at the walmart on north avenue in grand junction. so we contacted security there, and they were able to find us video footage of the person buying that phone. >> lo and behold, to our

surprise, right there as clear as day, was lester ralph jones. >> when mr. jones is interviewed later, a second time and he was shown the video, he adamantly denied that was him. >> i have you on video buying a tracfone at walmart. >> no, sir. >> yes, sir. >> no, sir. >> we're asking you -- how did the tracfone get in your trash? how did that barcode relate to that number being purchased at walmart at that time? so, i mean, there's a chain of events that -- >> i can't answer that. i do not know that. >> we put a picture right in front of his face saying, is this you? he said, yes, it looks like me, but i did not buy a tracfone. >> so what brought pictures of you in there? wednesday night, on that date, on that time, that -- their video system's lying? >> i guess it is lying.

>> how? >> how? well, i don't know. but i was not in there wednesday night. i did not buy a tracfone. >> we had, again, provable lies, which tend to be as good as an admission. so we continued checking into lester jones. >> determined to uncover more evidence against jones, detectives bring in specially trained search dogs to do something humans can't -- to sniff out clues in paige's torched car. >> good job. the scent stays a long time. there are lipids and fats and things like that that don't necessarily get destroyed, even with fire. >> k-9 handler julie jones shows us with a different dog how she says they found the scent of death. so that dog smelled a dead body in the back seat. >> yeah. >> body in the back of this car. >> who else did the dog find in this car?

>> he was given the scent of lester jones, and he found the scent of lester jones in the driver's seat of this vehicle. >> how confident do you feel in the dog's ability to detect that lester jones was right there? >> i personally feel 100% sure, because my dog has never been wrong doing this sort of thing. >> while you have this seemingly overwhelming circumstantial evidence against jones, no charges were filed in the disappearance of paige birgfeld. >> we really felt very confident that lester jones was the person. however, because of her lifestyle and that alternate business that she had, we really needed to have the body. >> the case went cold until an afternoon in march of 2012. a hiker hiking not far from the highway, just a short distance from where paige's personal

items were found, made an astonishing discovery. down in this gulch in a dry streambed, amid all of these rocks and weeds and brush, were human remains. the daughter that frank and suzie had been searching for for five long years. >> it didn't take any of us more than a couple of minutes to realize that that had to be paige. and sure enough, fairly quickly through dental records, and ultimately through dna, we were able to verify that that was in fact the remains of paige birgfeld. >> part of the body was found partially dressed, and that was duct tape along the mouth. we can surmise that she was taken out to that area, tied up and duct taped to keep silent.lo location, along with that of none other than lester jones. both them alive coming down here? >> yes, yes. >> now, she's following paige's

scent. >> yep, he's following the scent. and we go as far as we can go. when he stopped here, i knew that her life had ended right here. and afterwards, lester jones had the exact same path. >> what did that tell you? >> that he went to the same place as she did. you know, i can't say or speculate anything else other than his trail is the same as hers. >> there were some new clues discovered near the remains. >> hopefully can answer the question, who killed paige birgfeld? >> how can one human being treat another human being so bad? i mean, what a bad person. >> a lot of things that we figured out as a result of finding paige's remains were key to us putting the investigation together and realizing that we had enough evidence to charge. >> 2014, deputies went and

arrested mr. jones, and at that point he was arrested without incident and didn't have anything to say. >> sheriff's office arrested lester joans this morning in paige birgfeld's death. >> lester jones was charged with first-degree murder, felony murder. >> nine years after the disappearance of paige birgfeld, there will finally be a trial for her murder. but if prosecutors think they've got a slam-dunk case, they're in for quite a surprise. >> so, let's me talk to you about a few of the real killers in this case. >> i've lied about a lot of things to protect me. >> he told me that he killed paige and that he could put my body in a woodchiper. >> thank you. mr. jones is not guilty. ok, at at&t everyone gets our best deals on all smartphones. let me break it down. you got your new customers — they get our best deals. you got your existing customers — they also get our best deals. everyone. gets. the deals. questions?

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today a man accused of murdering a single mother is set to stand trial in grand junction. >> lester jones charged with kidnapping and murdering paige birkfeld. >> so, frank, it's been nine long years. for you to get to this place, that courthouse right there. >> right. >> do you think that you can get justice for paige? >> listen, i don't know what the outcome of this is going to be, if that's the moment of justice. the prosecutor has to convince absolutely, positively 12 people that jones is the murderer. >> the trial lasted seven weeks. i believe we called 160 witnesses between the prosecution and the defense.

>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. the people of the state of colorado are going to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that lester ralph jones, that man sitting right there, that he committed first-degree murder and committed the kidnapping by taking her against her will. >> right from the top, prosecutors start laying out a motive for lester jones to kill paige birgfeld. >> during the course of this investigation they also found out that the defendant had had some prior incidents of efforts to control women by resorting to violence. >> we know that jones had used paige escort services before, and now they say he seemed frustrated that he couldn't see her again. >> he had a desire to use her services again on the week that she disappeared. he called and he called. >> it was behavior of somebody who was obsessed. it was the behavior of somebody who really just wanted nothing more than to see and be with paige. >> the calls show that the defendant called her on the

tracfone that day and that she called him back. >> the cell phone records were critical as evidence. he only used it to make four phone calls, all to paige, and then a fifth call only from paige. it was used for nothing else. it was bought right before she went missing, and then it was never used afterward and tossed. >> after that last call, which happens at about 9:00 p.m., prosecutors say lester jones now knows where paige is located, and he kidnaps and kills her. >> the prosecution's star witness is lester jones' ex-wife, lisa nance. >> good morning, ma'am. >> hi. >> remember she's the one who told us what a nice guy he was during their marriage. >> he was a hard worker and just an all-around good guy. >> but she also told us that as their marriage crumbled, she saw a very different side of lester jones. a dangerous one.

>> only whenever we were going through divorce did he ever get aggressive or mean. >> and that's the lester jones she's called in to testify about. >> lisa had split up with him, and he was not willing to accept that. she had taken up with a younger man named joe bear. and ultimately mr. jones had followed the two of them. >> we're trying to get away, and so went down this dirt road, hit me and knocked me over into a ditch. and then rammed us really hard, which caused the airbags to go off. and joe said, oh, my god, he's got a gun. and joe was trying to pull me up. he said, wendy, we have to get out of here. joe got out and he took off running and that's when i heard -- you know, it was still dark, and i heard two gunshots over the top of the car. >> i ran to the train tracks, and a few moments later heard a second one and felt it hit me. >> where did it hit you? >> in the back of my head.

>> one shot grazes her boyfriend's head. nance would later get a restraining order but says jones can't let her go. less than a month later he returns and forces her into a car. >> and i said what are we going to do? and he looked at me, he said i'm going to kill you. he told me he was going to put me in the bottom of the lake where no one would find me. >> that was important to us because ultimately when we found paige's remains she was buried in a gulch. so it was very, very interesting to us that he might have this pattern of conduct. >> the evidence of lisa nance was fascinating and gave a lens into who lester jones was. >> during the trial, jessica, paige's daughter, took the stand, and it was such an emotional, touching testimony. >> tell me about your mom. >> she was pretty much the typical soccer mom.

we did everything with her. >> she recalls the night when she was just 8 years old and leaving those frantic voice mails after her mom hadn't returned home. >> hi, mom, it's me. i was just wondering when you get home. please answer the phone. >> the prosecution put her on to show she was a loving mother who her daughter looked up to and needed, who was taken away from her. >> so, her not being there friday morning was surprising to you. >> yes. >> normally when she went out on those appointments at night she'd be home a few minutes after the appointment s that right? >> yes. >> and finally, frank birgfeld gets his day in court. >> who was your daughter? >> my daughter is paige birgfeld. my daughter will always be paige birgfeld. not was. >> do you recall when you learned that paige was missing?

>> i remember exactly. it's etched in my memory. it's just one of those moments that you remember every second.. >> when it was the defense's turn, their strategy was to say that, in essence, investigators had let everyone else slip through the cracks when it comes to paige's clients. that instead of focusing on lester jones, investigators should have been checking them out more thoroughly. >> the defense's strategy was pick on as many little things as they could. >> so, let me talk to you about a few of the real killers in this case. these are men that the sheriff's office let slip through their fingers while they were busy fixating on mr. jones, ignoring leads, and losing evidence. first, wayne damico. he's a used car salesman. >> the defense puts on a witness, a former escort by the name of kristy steves, who testifies that damico said he

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>> good morning. >> he's that guy who'd admitted stealing thousands of dollars from his boss to pay for his encounters with paige. >> the prosecution hit back with, of all people, heald's wife. she gives him an alibi, saying they were together at the time of the murder. but she's clearly not thrilled to be helping him. >> when law enforcement got there and they told you about these things, a lot of stuff that was very disturbing to you. >> yes. >> every reason at that point to basically throw him under the bus, wont you say? >> yes. and i would have. >> and you would have. >> but the prosecution's got some potentially game changing evidence. >> good morning, captain. >> good morning. >> a groggy lester jones on this recording saying some very strange things. >> you're asking where i could bury a body. >> when did i ask you that? i'm still exploring what's next. and still going for my best. even though i live with a higher risk of stroke

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thought this month long trial, the jury never hears in lester jones. he never takes the stand become you there was one day the jury did hear him speak when prosecutors play a very cryptic records. >> hello? >> mr. jones? >> yes, sir. >> it's a phone call police made to joans the day after he had gone through an intense five-our interrogation. >> i called mr. joans to let him know we were done processing their two vehicles. >> this is art smith with the sheriff's office. just calling to you let you know we have both your cars ready for you and your wife. >> so i can come pick them up? >> you bet. >> i don't think so. >> mr. jones, i'm not following you.

>> you ask me where i could bury a body? >> i'm sorry? >> you're asking where i could bury a body. >> when did i ask you that? mr. jones, are you there? >> this is out of nowhere and jaws dropped in the courtroom. the jurors are like, what? so they didn't hear him, but they heard him, and it didn't sound good. >> this is a couple of weeks after ms. birgfeld went missing. we hadn't found her remains until five years >> then mrs. jones got on the phone. >> this is elaine. can i help you? >> yeah, that was kind of an odd conversation there. i'm not exactly sure what just transpired. >> i don't know what he's

talking about, either. i think he took some sleeping pills. >> you think he took some sleeping pills? >> we're going to be on our way there. >> if he stops breathing or anything else -- >> i think he's okay. >> call 911, okay? >> he's okay. just a minute. are you okay? you were talking about weird thi things. i think he's okay. >> don't know if he's trying to commit suicide or not, maybe try to get some rest because everybody had been hounding him. the stress of it. wasn't sleeping very good. very strange phone call. >> mr. jones did attempt to overdose and left a note saying he didn't do this to his wife. >> my dearest love i prayed all night and this morning. i've asked for his forgiveness. tell the cops to get [ bleep ] i never did it but i want be

railroaded. >> so you solemnly swear or affirm -- >> when lester's wife takes the stand, she's in shock finding out just how often her husband was paying for prostitutes. >> how do you feel about all of this? >> i feel horrible. feel crushed. it's horrible. >> okay. >> hard. >> you testified you're still married to him. >> yes. >> why? >> i'm still married to him because i'm a christian and my faith asked me to forgive him. and i feel like i need to give him another chance. >> what she wasn't able to give her husband was an alibi to explain where he was during the crucial hours when paige went missing or when her car went up in flames. she even i.d.s him buying that

tracfone at walmart. >> do you recognize that man? >> my husband, lester jones. >> and as jones watches his wife, he appears to mouth the words, it wasn't me -- standing by his denial. >> i'll now advise the lawyers to make their closing arguments. we'll start with the prosecution. >> after 21 days of testimony, it's time for closing arguments. and the prosecutor paints an emotional picture of the paige birgfeld's last moments. >> paige must have been so scared. it is hard to even imagine what would have been going through her head as she was laying either in the back of the vehicle or in the trunk, when she decided it was time to start throwing items out of the car for about 12 miles. those items were strewn about the highway. person checks. her driver's license. her kids' medical card.

leading in a trail of bread crumbs to the area where she was buried. >> we'll continue with the closing argument. >> the defense hits their biggest theme, that those alternate suspects just weren't looked at closely enough by investigators. >> but the investigation was deficient, and they have made the facts they have fit their hypothesis. that is polar opposite of what you should do. >> but prosecutors say they thoroughly looked at and cleared all of them. >> so, who is the real killer? we don't know. it is not acceptable to convict people of murder just because they're creepy guys. despite the fact that mr. jones has done bad things, there is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

>> the jury deliberated for four days and that's four agonizing days for a prosecutor. >> jurors themselves told us what it was like in the deliberation room. how they wrestle with what they think may have happened. >> when the prosecution rested i was just stunned. i said, this is all you got? >> there was a lot on the fence. some went towards the guilty side. i felt like the defense did a good job in displaying some shortcomings of the sheriff's office. >> i just said yes, yes, there are holes in this case. there are. there are still three, four things here that make him a viable suspect and guilty. >> in my heart i believed he was guilty. >> please rise for our jury. >> we were told that it was 10-2 at various times and 9-3 at various times. i was disheartened. >> the jury remains in the same position of being unable to reach a unanimous position, so ladies and gentlemen, at this time i am declaring a mistrial in this matter.

>> people were stunned by the hung jury. i think everybody in that courtroom thought one way or another we were going to hear guilty or not guilty. >> so that's it, guys, it's all over. but maybe there will be another shot. before that second trial, new evidence comes out that can change everything. >> we had downloaded the surveillance video of her work site, and we pulled it up. >> who is lurking behind the wheel of this car?

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the jury, at this point, has indicated that they are unable to reach a verdict. >> our jury is now here, including the alternate. >> it had been a grueling seven weeks for the family of paige birgfeld. tey were hoping and praying for justice. all they had to show for it was a hung jury and a mistrial. >> so, ladies and gentlemen, at this time, i am declaring a mistrial on this matter.

>> i was devastated when the jury was hung, because i had seen the evidence. i didn't think lester was guilty going in, but i was beyond a shadow of a doubt coming out. he did this. >> i was disheartened. i had put my heart and soul into this case. >> i wondered, okay, did we not present enough? >> we had to make the decision whether or not we were going to retry the case, and we made it quickly, we made it on the spot, and we let the judge know, we want new trial dates. i was convinced that there was proof beyond a reasonable doubt. >> a man accused of kidnapping and killing a grand junction mom who also ran an escort service, well, he is set to go back on tril. >> just ten weeks after the begins at the mesa county n - courthouse for the second trial of lester jones. and prosecutor dan rubenstein is determined to win. >> paige birgfeld was kidnapped

and murdered on june 28, 2007. lester ralph jones is the one who did this. my strategy really was i needed to listen to what the first jury told me about what was important to them and focus on the right things. the result is that he caused the death of another, murdering her, duct-taping her, killing her and burying her body. the right things seemed to be identifying where lester jones was at any given moment. he was on the computer around 8:00. how can we rule out everybody other than lester jones? and then add to that the mountain of evidence. so he stares at the tracfones for a while, picks out the one he wants. the dog evidence. defendant's scent on the driver's seat of ms. birgfeld's car. the location of the fire right by his workspace. >> and this time, rubenstein has an ace in his sleeve after making a startling new discovery that could upend this case. >> between the first trial and the second trial, we had realized lester jones was trying

on monday to get ahold of paige. so we thought, i wonder if he's driving around by her work site. in evidence, we had downloaded a surveillance video of her work site, and we pulled it up. >> the prosecution team spends hours poring over this surveillance video looking for signs of lester jones. >> paige's vehicle is parked at the entrance to one of the buildings. this is a normal office. so you would not expect there would be much office there at 9:00 in the evening on a monday. well, this chevy impala circles the parking lot two or three times. and one of the times, just drives right past paige's red ford focus. >> there are no signs of lester jones' white pickup truck, but the team knows that jones' wife is out of town. what kind of car does she own? a chevy impala.

>> we were able to see that his wife's c, iving around right about the that phone number. >> the prosecution is feeling more confident this time around, but one of the witnesses almost jeopardizes the entire trial. carol linderholm. >> i was concerned about her safety because prior to that somebody tried to kill her. i wasn't afraid of lester. i was enraged. >> and what that person's name that you met with? >> lester jones. i would stare at him, and he'd try to stare back as i was leaving the courtroom. i just said -- piece of crap killer. you are such a piece of crap for killing my friend. >> witnesses are never supposed to have any interaction with the defendant in the courtroom. >> it just has gotten to me. i don't know how her parents can sit through this and look at him. i can't help myself when i see him. >> tomorrow we have to decide

whether or not what you did is going to have an impact on this trial. >> the district attorney didn't hear it. i said, the only people that heard it were at the table. piece of crap killer. i wasn't talking to anybody but that piece of crap. >> the judge didn't declare a mistrial because, he said, the jurors couldn't hear her. >> please rise for our jury. >> just before christmas day, closing arguments wrap and the jury goes into deliberations to decide the fate of lester jones. >> right now a jury is deciding the fate of a man accused of killing paige birgfeld in 2007. >> it was a very long four days of deliberation. and, of course, my fear was that there would be another hung jury.

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the evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, lester ralph jones, is the one who did this. >> the birgfeld family has waited so long for this. nine years, two trials, and all the heartache and grief in between. now it all comes down to this. will they finally find justice for paige? >> we, the jury, find the defendant, lester ralph jones, guilty of count one, murder in the first degree. >> they came back guilty on all counts. first-degree murder, felony

murder, second-degree murder for knowingly causing the death of paige, and kidnapping. >> i thought, finally. and that the new jurors were able to perceive what was going on and how bad he was of a person. >> the only available sentence to the court is -- >> the judge gave the only sentence that colorado law allows, which is life without the possibility of parole for the murder charge. >> it was closure for her dad, for her family and her friends. >> i can't even imagine how difficult that would be to -- to go through the emotional ups and downs that they went through. >> elaine jones stood by her husband for years, from the time he was named a person of interest until his conviction. she died in late 2017 convinced

of her husband's innocence. >> frank birgfeld was a guy who told the truth. i mean, he never shied away from the fact that paige was an escort. >> i will tell you one thing. during the trial, i would say more than half the time they referred to her as paige. it was very seldom "the victim" or "the woman" or something like that. and i thought that felt very human to me. >> i feared that a lot of his identity became justice for paige. that took a lot out of him physically and emotionally. and, you know, i wonder if he was ever able to get past that being his identity. dd suddlyf perhaps brought on by the stress of losing his daughter.

>> there's not a day that passes that i don't think about her. i think about her kids. i think about choices. and how we just don't ever know. >> paige's story didn't have to end the way that it did. >> i hope that what happened to paige is a part of a larger conversation of who the buyers are. they create this whole industry that women like her and i end up in, and the harms that happen to most of us at the hands of these men. >> to me, she's this little angel that is looking out over all of us. but particularly her three children. >> despite what's been a traumatic childhood, paige's kids are doing really well, and they're grown up.

>> one of the difficult things of being a prosecutor in a town this size is after you have been here that long, you start to associate various parts of town with various crimes, and it's difficult to drive past that area without thinking about paige. >> the family we followed for more than a decade waiting all those years for justice. >> lester jones remains in prison but is appealing his conviction. >> that is "20/20" for tonight. thank you for watching i'm david muir. >> i'm amy robach. from all of us here at abc news, good night.

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