both the peterson cases and the last case, the arrogance of the husbands who are appearing on camera doing interviews, you know, thinking they can get away with it. and look who we re talking about. a renowned plastic surgeon, a guy who was an engineer for a car company. we just saw a police officer. another respected professional. these are people whose arrogance comes from, they ve been highly capable at everything they ve ever done. but murder is hard. and cleaning up behind it is harder than anybody thinks, as we re learning again. you ve been in law enforcement. you have a long history in law enforcement. are you shocked at all anymore? you ve seen every form of depravity. so i ve been in a couple dismembered body cases. what i m not shocked by the depravity of the crimes. i m always surprised by the ability to stream together the evidence.
enforcement. you have a long history in law enforcement. are you shocked at all anymore? you have seen every form of depravity. i have been in the couple of dismembered body cases. but what i am not shocked by the depravity of is the crimes. i am always surprised by the ability to string together the evidence. because there is so many more things we have today license plate readers, easy passes, cell phone tower signals. and just when you think you know them all, new ones come online. the google searches, the cameras in the stores where you are buying the things that you need to use in the cover-up. it is very hard in this electronic world to do
looking for your daughter. lester ralph jones was convicted of assault and kidnapping and served three years. but now he was out and remarried and the by the fall of 2007, a pile of circumstantial evidence connected him to paige birgfeld s disappearance. why didn t you just go arrest him? our job is to gather the facts and then present it to the district attorney s office and they make that determination. you wanna add cause he had to fight that battle constantly for years. oh, i think you hit it hit it right on. meaning they were ready to pick up jones, but d. a. hautzinger was not. why didn t you decide to pull the pin on lester ralph jones? i didn t have a body. and that was the defining absolutely, that was really i mean, there are lots of no body cases that go to trial. not a lot of no body cases where the victim has a double life and has been lying to her family and friends. because of her double life the possibility that a defense attorney could thr
it appeared cari unfriended dave. the fact that they had the temerity to actually be facebook friends. this is one of the very first acts the defendant takes to actually eliminate that facebook friendship. reporter: and from then on in cyperspace liz became cari. all for the purpose for the reason of convincing people, her friends, her family relatives, everyone, that she was still alive. reporter: nancy went to court every day for the trial, heard the details for the very first time. when i heard all of those what this person was doing in her name, it just made me so angry cause it cari, she didn t deserve that at all. reporter: so, strong case? the prosecutors hoped so, though no body cases are tough to prove, but was it luck? divine intervention? before the trial began, detective avis and tech-guru
they make that determination. he had to fight that battle constantly for years. i think he hit it right on. meaning they were ready to pick up jones, but da thought sfwlinger was not. why didn t you decide to pull the pin on lester ralph jones? we didn t have a body. and that was deet fining absolutely. that was really i mean, there are lots of no body cases that go to trial. not a lot of no body cases where the victim has a double life and has been lying to her family an friends. because of her double life.the possibility that defense attorney could throw out there that she ran off with some rich client and is living on a beach in brazil or something. as the years passed paige s story went from the front of the paper to being filed away on microfiche. where was she? coming up, they were about to find out and it would transform the case. now we need to make a