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everybody's worried about you. everybody's looking for you. please let us know you're ok. keith morrison (voiceover): paige was a woman with a premonition. she said she knew something bad was going to happen. a couple day later, she was missing. keith morrison (voiceover): we found out that she had this second life. quite obviously, it's dangerous. keith morrison (voiceover): she'd been playing a risky game. henry stoffel: that opened up the door to a multitude of people we needed to start looking at. keith morrison: he was a scam artist. correct. megan williams: he was a liar. he was manipulative. he had a list of names, their bra size, and whether or not they would have sex. keith morrison (voiceover): could investigators get their man before he struck again? i turned around, and he was just sitting in the dark. and he said, i'm going to kill you. [theme music] keith morrison (voiceover): it's been years since she vanished,

but few people in grand junction, colorado have forgotten paige birgfeld. how could they? the story of this young mother's disappearance has long since woven itself into a local lore. she's a great mother, a great friend. keith morrison (voiceover): it's a mystery we've been following since it began. and now, as thunder heads dark in the high desert sky, finally, a trial. what he told me is that he knew how to get rid of a body so that nobody could find it. he said, i'm going to kill you. and then he just slapped me repeatedly. keith morrison (voiceover): finally, rumors and gossip would be dispelled-- or made fact. and the secrets known, not only by the guilty, but also the shamed, would finally be revealed. why so many secrets, whispers, rumors? because in this town, where everybody knows everybody else's business, there were enough potential suspects to fill a minivan.

man: do you have anything to do with the disappearance of paige birgfeld? no. i was put under psychiatric care for the first 48 hours and then sent to jail. i did not kill paige. i mean, that's the bottom line. keith morrison (voiceover): it was late june 2007 when news of paige birgfeld's disappearance first spread like the morning sun. over the mountains in denver, four hours away, frank birgfeld was driving to his office. the phone rang. frank birgfeld: voice on the phone says, this is somebody with the mesa county sheriff's office. and he said, are you paige's dad? and i said, yep. he said, did you know she's missing? keith morrison (voiceover): barbara campbell got the call from her husband, hans, who told her-- paige is missing. i was-- what do you mean she's missing? andrea land got the news in an email. andrea land: it said paige is missing in the subject line, and i knew something horrible had to have happened because it didn't make any sense that she would be missing.

keith morrison (voiceover): no way for even a best friend to prepare for such a thing. andrea land: stunningly beautiful, one of those women that was almost a little bit intimidating at first if you were a more average mom. keith morrison (voiceover): andrea land and the other young mothers of grand junction could have been forgiven for feeling a little envy. she had the look, the money, the big house on the hill, and three attractive kids. but no, it wasn't like that at all. barbara campbell: the way she talked, the way she acted, the way she treated you, everything about her was just so wonderful. keith morrison (voiceover): barbara campbell, andrea, and paige were members of grand junction's moms club international, a kind of social and support group for young, stay-at-home mothers. [ladies cheering] once a year, they'd throw a spring fling, a sort of put-on prom for moms. fancy clothes, red carpet entry, even a pretend reporter

throwing session questions. so tell us, who are you wearing? keith morrison (voiceover): paige was always the star, of course. and this year, the party was held at her place, which made it a very special event. most of us did not live in a home that large. she was just so down to earth and humble about it that once you got over the artwork on the walls and how, you know, beautiful a home it was, you almost forgot that you were in this really very high end home. so the winner is-- drum roll, please-- paige birgfeld! [cheering] barbara campbell: she was so comfortable hosting people that it made anybody there feel comfortable. sometimes you meet someone, and you just instantly have a good feeling about them. mm-hm. you're going to be friends with them. it's just going to be an instant match. [sob] that's what i had with paige.

keith morrison (voiceover): and then that call, the sheriff's deputy told the birgfelds that after meeting a friend on the afternoon of thursday, june 28, 2007, paige simply didn't come home. as they drove from denver to grand junction, paige's parents tried to understand what was happening. as we started out, i don't know that i was very tense or i thought of the worst. i guess, gee, i wonder where she is. i hope she's-- but as the drive went on, it became more and more anxious, more and more tight, more and more-- and i would be calling the kids on the home phone just saying, we're gonna be there and trying to sound reassuring. keith morrison (voiceover): the kids had just a nanny with them because paige had parted ways with her husband, rob dixon, who had since moved out of state. still, as a single mom with three little kids, paige had her life well in control, due in no small part to her obsessive organizational skills.

she runs several small businesses and kept track of every soccer practice and dentist appointment in an old fashioned, hand-written day planner. i mean, every page was full and cross referenced, and-- and she was always with it. when she come over to visit, it came in the door right there in front of her. she was always checking it and phoning. keith morrison (voiceover): overbooked, divorced, three kids, first question-- was there a chance paige birgfeld simply walked out on her life? we talked about, boy, sometimes i just want to run away. and she said, you know, i never feel that way. i never want to run away. even if i did want to run away just to get away from here, i would want to take my kids with me. there was no way she would leave without her children. they were her life. if she needed to hide, she would have found a way to do it with them.

keith morrison (voiceover): so what, then? what happened to paige? her friends, her parents didn't know what to do or where to look. maybe a clue could be found tucked away in her day planner, except it, too, was missing. coming up. keith morrison (voiceover): police piece together the hours leading up to paige's disappearance. keith morrison (voiceover): and one encounter grabs their attention. we found out that she had been visiting her ex-husband. obviously, he was a person of interest. keith morrison (voiceover): when "dateline" continues. (♪♪)

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i suppose would be a person of interest in the-- yes. obviously, he was a person of interest. keith morrison (voiceover): this person of interest, ron beigler, was paige's first ex-husband. they married right out of high school, young, immature, and soon divorced. but funny how this works. 10 years had sanded off their sharp-edged disputes, and they saw, anew, why they fell in love. it seemed like as if no time had passed and all. keith morrison (voiceover): this is ron beigler talking to a "dateline" producer soon after paige's disappearance. producer: at what point did you start to rekindle your relationship? ron beigler: about six months ago. we tried to take it slow, but there was no denying that it was just as it was before. keith morrison (voiceover): problem was beigler lived in denver, a four hour drive east. so the two lovers would often meet at some midway point. on the day of paige's disappearance, they chose eagle, colorado. ron beigler: we were going to have a picnic and hang out together all day.

we went to subway and brought it back to where we were sitting outside down by the river. it was very familiar, and i brought some pictures. and we just sat there and relaxed and enjoyed the day and the weather. it was a special, wonderful day. keith morrison (voiceover): and then around 7:00 pm, they kissed, and said goodbye, and drove back to their respective sides of the state. two hours later, at 8:57 pm, paige called beigler. to see if i made it back into denver. and then we had a brief conversation. keith morrison (voiceover): paige told beigler she wasn't home yet. she was stuck behind a bad traffic accident in grand junction. and, indeed, investigators confirmed there was a fatal traffic accident right here at this intersection. somebody saw paige's car here, too, that very evening. thing is this is five miles past her house. why was she here? an hour later, 9:56 pm, paige's 8-year-old daughter, jess,

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keith morrison (voiceover): not a single call was returned. and that night, again, the children, with their nanny, waited in vain for their mother. the following day, saturday, june 30, ron beigler called the house and spoke to paige's 8-year-old daughter, jess. she didn't sound particularly that distraught. i don't think she had an idea what was going on. of course she didn't. keith morrison (voiceover): beigler's next call was to 911. to talk to you. >> about a. missing person emergency. >> okay. >> and who is missing? >> her name is paige dixon. >> how old is paige? >> she's 33. >> she's 33. >> okay. and she hasn't been

keith morrison (voiceover): and that's when word of paige's disappearance began to spread across colorado. investigators didn't have a clue what happened to paige. but they wondered if beigler did. producer: have police questioned you? yes, they have. producer: and have they released you as a potential suspect? i don't know what they've done on that. i know that was never a concern or worry of mine, having it get pinned on me. producer: you have an alibi for that night. just i'm confident that the police know that i had nothing to do with it. producer: do you feel like you have any thoughts as to what may have happened or what's happening? i think it was a major, premeditated abduction or a completely random incident. i think that it's more likely that it's a premeditated abduction. keith morrison (voiceover): but sometimes those not asking questions find answers.

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we were hopeful when we found the car things would fall into place, and maybe they will. keith morrison (voiceover): this interview, though, was one frank just couldn't get through. you know, it occurred to me i hadn't cried in a long time. i've learned how to do that. that's it. keith morrison (voiceover): firefighter robert thomason helped with the arson investigation. you can see that the glass itself was all burned out, and you can see where it's still kind of intact over here. was really obvious to see that more intense was on the driver's side, so-- keith morrison (voiceover): meaning that's where the fire started. that's where the arsonist wanted to be sure to erase evidence. under the car? damaged skid plates and strands of wild grass caught in this suspension, meaning somebody had driven off road very recently. and after? dump and torched the car in an industrial area just a quarter mile from where paige made her last phone call.

it was way beyond her house, right? correct. it didn't fit for the car to be there. keith morrison (voiceover): news of the car fire was a turning point, no longer did the public suspect this was a case of an overwhelmed, runaway mom. the response was an outpouring of volunteers, a spontaneous community project to find paige. just seeing the dad on tv and everything like that, and i have some children of my own. and i know what i'd be feeling like if one of my children was gone, and i just wanted to try to help if i could. keith morrison (voiceover): paige's dad was there every day, greeting a small army of volunteers. thanks for helping us. you know, it's just really tough. for people to give of them themselves to that degree, i just-- one of our moms was gone, and her kids needed her. and we needed our friend, and our kids needed to know that if someone's mom is missing,

that people are going to work hard to find her. keith morrison (voiceover): paige's brother and his wife came from seattle to help. the thing is i know that somebody out there knows where she is, and we're looking for clues to find that person. but there's somebody, maybe who's watching this, who knows where she is. keith morrison (voiceover): but this seemed odd, not helping to find paige was her ex-husband and current boyfriend, ron beigler. do you feel like you wish you could go there and help search for her? a part of me does, definitely. producer: what's keeping you away from there? um, i don't know if i can handle being right in this situation. keith morrison (voiceover): then, knowing we were preparing a report about the case, beigler made a strange request. try to keep me out as much as possible. like, just a few words here and there, but i don't want to, like-- producer: you just don't want to talk about how you love her? --be on talking about things. keith morrison (voiceover): but hundreds of people, many who'd never once met paige, searched

on horseback, on atvs, on foot. they peered under bushes. they walked miles of desert brush in 100 degree heat. and nothing. truth be told, paige could have been anywhere. but then, four days after paige's disappearance, a driver stopped along a lonely stretch of highway 50. and as he stepped out of his truck, a piece of litter caught his eye-- a blank check trapped in the roadside weeds. the name on it? paige dixon. paige's married name. so then the flock of searchers descended on that road. andrea land: making my way back west along the median, i saw a check book. it was an awful feeling of dread thinking, how did this get here? why is it here? what does it mean? keith morrison (voiceover): then more-- paige's wallet, charm bracelet, the shoe, various cards, bank registers, and dozens of checks from both paige's

personal and professional accounts, nearly 100 items spread along 13 miles of road, which left investigators with two very different theories. either paige's abductor was trying to throw them off track or-- wayne weyler: she was in the trunk of a car or something and dumped these items out to leave a trail. keith morrison (voiceover): and while volunteers gathered this sad detritus of paige's life, a new wrinkle. paige's most recent ex-husband, rob dixon, came back to town to look after the kids and help out with the search. and his reappearance stopped volunteers in their tracks. because of the stories paige told while they were married, many thought him the most obvious suspect. she was afraid of him. keith morrison (voiceover): coming up.

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the ex was in town, the most recent ex that is, rob dixon, the one paige and all the trouble with. of course, the relationship didn't start out that way, never does. frank birgfeld: at first, we only saw what we refer to as the good rob side. that's certainly what paige only saw. and we-- he was part of our family, and we loved him as much as an in-law would be. he was a good guy to have. keith morrison (voiceover): dixon had been a hardworking paramedic, until his dad made a one-time fortune in the tech industry and passed that windfall onto his kids. and not long after getting his millions, dixon met and married paige. and they had three kids and moved into a fine, big house. he had admitted to having over $10 million. and i think when you admit to that, you have maybe twice that much. keith morrison (voiceover): and paige's parents watched him change. the whole town saw that, actually.

in his garage, i saw three range rovers, a jaguar, two porsches, and then, later, he had lemon-yellow ferrari. if you've been to grand junction and you want to fit in, a lemon-yellow ferrari is not exactly what you do. did he make any effort to meet you or the other guys? the moms club would get together. they would have occasions when all the families would get together. but he would never-- he would never come to any of them. i never once saw him attend. i was so baffled how someone as upbeat and just eternally happy as paige could have this grump around. keith morrison (voiceover): but in hopes of promoting either goodwill, or himself, dixon joined the grand junction fire district board and then donated a brand-new fire truck. his generosity made news, had locals wondering if they'd misjudged him. but soon it turned to dust.

dixon got himself in charge of fire district investments, put public money in what he said was a sure thing. it wasn't. the money vanished. blew, as i recall, about $750,000 in bad investments for the fire district. keith morrison (voiceover): peter hautzinger was, at that time, the mesa county da. and i made the decision to take that case to the grand jury. and ultimately, the grand jury decided felony stupid, but not worthy of criminal charges. keith morrison (voiceover): then, one day, a repo man showed up for that shiny new fire truck dixon had donated. it turned out the fire truck was leased, and they came and took it away from the fire department. keith morrison (voiceover): that's when frank, and paige, and the whole town found out dixon's money was gone, too. he gave it to someone who pyramid schemed. keith morrison (voiceover): the missing money, the repo truck,

the grand jury investigation, it all kept dixon on the front pages of the local paper for months. a series of public humiliations ending with an exclamation point when he was embarrassingly picked newsmaker of the year. frank birgfeld: it was clear rob-- he was a big deal because he had a lot of money. and then to lose it and be disgraced in a relatively small community-- they're writing about him in the local paper. and i said he has taken a gigantic fall, and he will change dramatically for the worse. and i think that was very predictable. and i think for rob, that's what happened. at the end, it was almost always bad rob that we were dealing with. she told friends, and we saw an email. she was afraid he'd kill her. he said he would kill her several times. keith morrison (voiceover): in 2004, paige, in the midst of this downward spiral, called 911. my

husband. keith morrison (voiceover): police were dispatched, but there was no arrest. according to paige's parents, the fighting only got worse. it was very ugly, the psychological and emotional abuse that she endured all of the time. and when i was there visiting, i saw an awful lot of it. keith morrison (voiceover): after a second incident, dixon was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault. we had a misdemeanor domestic violence case against him, with paige as the victim. keith morrison (voiceover): dixon pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of harassment, got a deferred sentence. the entire case, though, was later thrown out. anyway, paige filed for divorce. and dixon, for bankruptcy, and moved away to philadelphia to work as an emt again. and paige? did what she could to keep the kids in the only home

they'd ever known, that big place with the mortgage to match, close to $6,000 a month. she would just sit and ponder, how can a single mom with three kids make enough money to stay in the house that her husband used to support? keith morrison (voiceover): she had no lack of ideas or ambition. she sold cooking products for a company called the pampered chef and slings for carrying babies. she taught dancing classes for little kids, anything to turn a buck, keeping track of it all in that big day planner of hers, the one that was almost an hour-to-hour record of her life. and even though he was now far away, she also kept an eye out for dixon. flat out, she was afraid of him. she was afraid of him coming back to town. she was always nervous he was going to be coming back into town. keith morrison (voiceover): and sure enough, two years later in june 2007, the week before she vanished,

paige got a call from dixon, said he missed the kids, said he was moving back to colorado. she said that she knew that rob was coming back and that he was going to do something. and i was floored. do something? i thought, what does do something mean? and she just said she knew something bad was going to happen. but murder did not enter my mind. kidnapping did not enter my mind. it must have been very strange to hear that. it was a staggering conversation. i mean, we were just two moms with small children faced with an unknown situation. and couple days later, she was missing. keith morrison (voiceover): coming up, inside the wreckage of paige's burned out car? her day planner. it still had the pages intact. keith morrison (voiceover): inside the planner, a shock for everyone in the case.

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and rob dixon, the man she told friends she lived in fear of. most people that she knew, friends, believed that rob dixon had something to do with this. so he pops right up to the top of your list. absolutely, he and ron beigler both. keith morrison (voiceover): as for hard evidence, there was very little, except for the investigators little secret, the one bit of evidence they had been hiding from everyone, even the birgfelds, something that, by pure luck, survived that car fire-- paige's day planner. the melted dash had fallen down onto the floor, covering up the day planner, and so it was protected from the heat as well as from the fire because it had an upper layer on it. what sort of condition was it in? it was in-- i mean, it was smoke damaged, and it had heat damage. but it still had the pages intact. keith morrison (voiceover): the day planner, as you can see, still very readable was full of appointments, and plans, and contact numbers, most mundane,

routine. but, and this was strange, three key pages, june 26th through the 29th, the dates surrounding paige's disappearance, had been ripped out. and there was something else-- one particular business card that just didn't belong for a company called ladies en confidante, an enterprise that, oddly, shared the same phone number with a business called models inc, whose cards were found scattered along highway 50 among paige's personal effects, which appeared to support a strange story told by ex-husband ron beigler that paige had clients she would see. was, you know, lonely, older married men buying companionship from a really intelligent woman that they wanted to spend time with. keith morrison (voiceover): as hard as paige tried, what with the dancing classes, the baby slings, the cooking products, she simply couldn't keep up with the bills.

and so paige, investigators learned, had taken on one more job-- she started moonlighting as an escort. pete hautzinger: finding out that paige was running a rather high class, high quality sort of prostitution business was kind of stunning. i had no idea that took place in my jurisdiction. living in a very nice house in a nice part of town. and known to a number of people that i knew. i mean, she was a soccer mom, one of my best friends daughter, i believe, played on the same soccer team as paige's kids. keith morrison (voiceover): so how did paige manage to keep her escort service a secret from everybody but clients for so long? well, she went by the name carrie, selling her services through a front company she ran called models inc, a name that implied, intentionally, that several women worked with her when, in fact, it was just her. some friends suspected, most didn't.

andrea land: it was very hard for me to believe that she would want to have sex with men for money. keith morrison (voiceover): but she did. according to this investigative report, paige would charge up to $1,000 a session. you can imagine how these revelations hit paige's mom and dad. they just couldn't believe it. if i had known about it, i definitely would have tried to use whatever persuasion i have to turn her away from it. i mean, if nothing else, quite obviously, it's dangerous. keith morrison (voiceover): so it was a shock, obviously. but they said they could understand her motives. after all, rob dixon's money had run out. she was doing what she had to do to keep life as normal as possible for the children. keith morrison (voiceover): the news spread, of course. pretty soon, most people in town knew. andrea land: there were people who wrote to the paper and said horrible things like, why are we spending all this time looking for a dead hooker?

keith morrison (voiceover): dirt, spread, said andrea, by those who didn't even know paige. andrea land: we knew her heart. we knew who she was every day with us and with her kids. and if anything, it only put us into hypervigilant-defend-her mode and made us all want to get out there and talk about what a good person she was as much as possible. keith morrison (voiceover): a much bigger problem, though, was that paige's secret life made an already complicated missing person case far more difficult. we start looking at the phone that she was using for models inc, and we start identifying people who had the most recent contact with her. and we came across multiple people. paige birgfeld (answering machine): hello. you've reached models inc, colorado's premier gentleman service. keith morrison (voiceover): now, every client who contacted paige on june 28, and there were many, was a potential suspect. here's just a sampling of her phone messages that day. this

afternoon. yeah. please give me. >> a call back. i'm going to go get me a motel room now. i'm just calling to see if carrie was available tonight. >> hi, this. >> is glenn. i'm just. >> wondering if anybody's. >> still available. i'm at the country inn, and i was just calling to see if anybody's still available for the night. >> yeah. >> hello. >> this is jim. >> i tried calling you last night. give me. >> a call. >> thanks, dave. >> thanks, dave. >> i was t keith morrison (voiceover): so they put together a list, called it possible suspects, the two ex-husbands now joined by six of paige's clients. nothing to do but check out all of them, beginning with the last client paige called-- this guy, george coralluzzo, who, the day paige disappeared, called her 19 times. we're thinking that's our guy. i couldn't get rid of him, and he's still haunting me. keith morrison (voiceover): coming up, what this woman saw.

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and for a moment, you're in the old west, a mystique that clings to the place, as do the drifters attracted to such things, young men who spent their time between odd jobs and the county jail, like, for example, george coralluzzo, here from new jersey and eager to hustle a buck, or woman, or whatever. george coralluzzo was a con man, a sick person. keith morrison (voiceover): megan williams knew coralluzzo because he and her then husband had partnered in a house painting business. knowing coralluzzo as she did, she was not surprised by a visit she got on july 1, 2007. megan williams: sheriffs came to our house, and they said, is george coralluzzo here? i actually thought they were there to talk about this kidnapping case. yeah. keith morrison (voiceover): to megan, this kidnapping case meant one six months earlier in which coralluzzo, allegedly, took this woman against her will on a long, scary ride across state lines.

i spilled to them everything i knew up to that point. thinking you were talking about a different crime altogether. correct. keith morrison (voiceover): deputies didn't let on. but of course, they were really looking into the disappearance of paige birgfeld three days earlier. where was coralluzzo that day? well, very interesting, said megan, he'd failed to show up for work. and later that night, he offered a truly bizarre reason why. that his family had been in an accident. and we said, what kind of accident? oh, well, my brother, and my sister-in-law, and my niece and nephew were beheaded on the turnpike in new jersey. he had to go to new jersey. he had to solidify funeral arrangements. he was sobbing and hands were flying. and he was just like, i don't know what i'm going to do, and just very upset. and we believed him. keith morrison (voiceover): as she told the detectives, coralluzzo took the first available flight back to new jersey. and that was that. the detectives thanked her and left, didn't mention

a thing about paige birgfeld. and then, the very next day, megan was watching the news on tv and saw the story about the burned-out car. reporter: her car was found ablaze in this parking lot off 23 route. megan williams: and then i saw paige's face come across the news. and i looked at my ex-husband, tim, and i said, that's what happened. i said, he murdered that woman. it just-- it hit me. keith morrison (voiceover): then, of course, she had to know. was that wild story about a decapitating accident in new jersey just coralluzzo's excuse to run for what he had done? to get out of town? i scoured the internet and made phone calls. scoured the internet looking for evidence of a big traffic accident. didn't find. mm-hm. nothing there. so who'd you phone? i called their local gazette newspaper, talked to a reporter, nothing happened. i called the coroner, nothing. so newspaper, corner, hospitals-- nothing. keith morrison (voiceover): but megan was able to locate coralluzzo and passed that tip

onto a lead investigator beverly jarrell who would end up playing a key role. you'll hear more about her later. jarrell caught up with coralluzzo in new jersey, grilled him for five hours. but coralluzzo denied everything. more important, he was in new jersey when paige's car was set ablaze. so jarrell let him go. keith morrison: and if he didn't burn the car, doesn't that let him out? no. why not? because his actions lead me to believe that he did something so disgusting and vile that he had to leave grand junction and lie about his family dying. something happened. keith morrison (voiceover): and there was somebody else, said megan. he told multiple people that he did something so terrible that he could never take it to the grave and that he would never be forgiven. what was that besides murdering somebody? george was a sketchy person, and he totally did this. keith morrison (voiceover): the coralluzzo she knew, she said, was cunning enough to have one of his pals

help him, somebody like this guy, his best friend, jose tavera. detectives suspected that, too. so they found tavera, brought him in for questioning. and what do you know? he'd recently injured his arm. jose tavera: i had a bandage on it, and the cop asked me, what is that? the detective goes, what happened there? well, i said i burned myself at work. he's like, well, are you good enough of a friend to burn a car down for george? keith morrison (voiceover): it was a traumatic time here in grand junction, colorado that summer of 2007, what with the fruitless search for the missing mother of three loved by so many who turned out to have secrets. and the day planner, and voicemails, and phone records that seemed to point eight different ways at once-- two ex-husbands and six clients. i don't think that i've ever seen a more difficult

case in my entire career. keith morrison (voiceover): one by one, the detectives cleared their suspects-- or tried to. ex-husband number one and current boyfriend, ron beigler-- wayne weyler: we were able to determine that mr. beigler had been in the denver area through cell phone records. keith morrison (voiceover): second husband, rob dixon, the one man she said she feared-- henry stoffel: we were able to corroborate with his employer that he was in the philadelphia area at the time. keith morrison (voiceover): and rob dixon's cell phone connected to a tower in pennsylvania the night paige disappeared and three days later when he left this message on paige's phone. keith morrison (voiceover): still, there were caveats to dixon and beigler's alibis. that doesn't eliminate them as far as having some involvement and maybe paying somebody. keith morrison (voiceover): and then there was the list of clients, coralluzzo at the top of it,

given he didn't have a solid alibi and skipped town right after her disappearance. coralluzzo was the one that was most concerning. keith morrison (voiceover): not to mention coralluzzo's friend, jose tavera, the one with the big burn on his arm-- i said-- well, i said i burned myself at work. keith morrison (voiceover): --who swore he did not help coralluzzo by setting fire to paige's car. jose tavera: i said, i don't care if mother teresa comes and asks me to burn a car, i said i'd tell her to to hell, you know. keith morrison (voiceover): so they let him go, too, for the moment. the other clients? hautzinger knew one of them very well, a prominent real estate investor named steven heald. he was almost as well known in town as rob dixon and, like dixon, for the wrong reasons. pete hautzinger: the first major case i handled when i came to this jurisdiction was his multimillion dollar fraud case. i mean, i prosecuted him and sent him to prison back in the early '90s for that. so when he came up again as a suspect in the birgfeld matter,

it was interesting. keith morrison (voiceover): when detectives questioned him, heald admitted he embezzled money from his company to pay for dates with paige. but then he claimed paige turned the tables on him. he made allegations that she was essentially blackmailing him, asking for extra money. keith morrison (voiceover): authorities wondered, could this be a motive for murder? coming up, a startling discovery about one of paige's clients-- i thought, oh my god. keith morrison (voiceover): --triggers a police search. wayne weyler: he had their phone numbers, bra size, and whether or not they would have sex. keith morrison (voiceover): strange? maybe. but did it mean anything? when "dateline" continues. [theme music] keith morrison: paige birgfeld had disappeared, leaving behind three children and a secret life as an escort. one of paige's clients, steven heald, told police she was blackmailing him,