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. >> reporter: peter hautzinger was at that time the mesa county d.a. >> i made the decision to take that case to the grand jury and ultimately the grand jury decided felony's stupid but not worthy of criminal charges. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: that's when frank and paige and the whole town found out dixon's money was gone, too.