Around. Tonight, a 20 20 investigation piecing it all together. Its like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It is. And we found a lot of needles. She was extremely scared. 911 what is your emergency . That car smelled a dead body in the backseat of this car . And dozens of calls from men who wanted her her last night. This is buddy. Hey, this is jason. I many name is bill. With no lack of suspects. I have lied about a lot of things. Do you think he killed her . Now the jury says it knows who kill ed a soccer mom of threes secret life has become open in a courtroom. Ryan smith has the very latest on this long journey to justice. Reporter Grand Junction. The largest city on colorados western slope, home to these breathtaking mesas, and a Pleasure Center for adventurers. A place where its easy to get lost, and hard to be found. Hi mom, i was just wondering where you been . Reporter thursday, june 28th, 2007. 8year old jess dixon picks up the phone and calls her mom, Paige Birgfeld. He
named john livingston, who, the night paige vanished, called her again and again from a motel 6. desperate, apparently, for her attention. yeah, this is john at motel 6, room 237. except there was no evidence paige ever went to see him. but then there was this client, lester ralph jones. that s him standing in the shadow of his front door. investigators got a tip about jones from this friend of paige s named carol linderholm. paige had scheduled an appointment with jones the night before she disappeared. but for some reason didn t want to go, asked linderholm to meet jones instead. and he was expecting her. and then i think and then you showed up at
that d.a. hautzinger assumed was not guilt but shame. people don t really want to have it out in public that, yeah, i was patronizing a call girl. they checked out a drifter named john livingston, who the night paige vanished called her again and again from a motel 6, desperate, apparently, for her attention. this is john at motel 6, room 237. except there was no evidence paige ever went to see him. but then there was this client, lester ralph jones. that s him, standing in the shadow of his front door. investigators got a tip about jones from this friend of paige s named carol linderholm. paige had scheduled an appointment with jones the night before he disappeared, but for some reason didn t want to go. asked linda to meet him instead. he was expecting her. and then you showed up at his door. right. i m sure he had some expectations, right?
i mean, he called an escort service. well, he let it be known almost immediately that he wanted sex. linderholm said that didn t happen. instead, they talked for an hour or so, and then she left. a couple of days later, she said she called paige. it s carol. where the heck are you? got no response. at first i thought she was just busy and she couldn t call back. and then when i heard on the news that the kids actually went to the police department about it, that s when i knew something terrible had happened to her. paige, this is carol. i hope you re all right. i hope this isn t rob. oh my god. linderholm mentioned paige s second husband rob dixon because she knew paige was afraid of him. then the next day, linderholm heard about paige s car and the fire. i wanted to go over and look at it. and i arrived just in time
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Lester Jones was found guilty of kidnapping and murder in December 2016.
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Prosecutor recalls discovering new evidence presented in Lester Jones’ second trial
Between the first and second trials of Lester Jones, prosecutors discovered surveillance video showing Jones’ whereabouts around the time of Paige Birgfeld’s disappearance. Birgfeld Family
Upon first glance, Paige Birgfeld was a hard-working single mother-of-three who juggled multiple odd jobs to make ends meet.
But an investigation into the 34-year-old twice divorcee s disappearance from Grand Junction, Colorado, in the summer of 2007 revealed she had been living a secret double life as an escort.