jose tavera: i had a bandage on it, and the cop asked me, what is that?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. keit

multiple witnesses said he was partying that night at jose tavera's apartment, but what time exactly? on who you spoke to. but what everybody did agree was this. carluccio was out of control. he was intoxicated. like slurring his words, you know, and not being able to focus. he wouldn't have been able to, you know, murder her and then go get rid of the body. you know, he was incapable of it. keith morrison: of course, the vera might have been lying to protect his friend. detectives wanted to talk to carluccio himself, but they couldn't find him. so they asked tavera for help. they're like, well, would you know where george-- george is? i said george was-- is dead. keith morrison: drowned the year before while swimming in a river in new jersey. still dissatisfied, the da, investigators had to make a case that carluccio was either guilty or innocent. but because dead men don't talk, it meant they had to slog through seven years of reports and interviews and statements. and it was two years after paige's body was discovered. while wading through that mountain of material, and investigato