megan williams: sheriffs came to our house, and they said, is george coralluzzo here? 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,

keith morrison: megan williams told the jury she was sure the killer was really carluccio.al liar, and anything that came out of his mouth was a lie, and any story that he made up was made up. keith morrison: so many suspects, said the defense. and they put on a retired detective to accuse the police of tunnel vision. because if you're doing shoddy work in the beginning and you're not paying attention to all the details and all of the information and vetting all of the leads, your investigation becomes sick. it's almost impossible to make it well again. keith morrison: as for forensic evidence, said the defense, forget about it. they called an expert to say there is no way a dog can follow a month-old scent. my opinion is is that's not possible. keith morrison: if true, that meant there was no proof jones had ever been in paige's car or along the highway where her belongings were found. but at the end of the six-week trial, the jury had heard from more than a hundred witnesses testifying about a nine-year investigation involving multiple suspects. so it wasn't surprising du