know? the detective goes, what happened there? i said, well, i burned myself at work. he s like, well, are you good enough of a friend to burn a car down for george, you know. it was a traumatic time in grand junction, colorado. what with the fruitless search for the 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 i ve ever seen a more difficult case in my entire career. one by one the detectives cleared their suspects. or tried to. ex-husband number one and current boyfriend ron beigler. we were able to determine that mr. beigler had been in the denver area through cell phone
and now detectives had two ex-husbands to investigate. ron beigler, the last person known to have seen her alive, and rob dixon, the man she told friends she lived in fear of. most people that she knew, friends, believed that rob dixon had something to do with this. so he pops right up to the top of your list? absolutely. he and rob beigler, both. reporter: as for hard evidence, there was very little. except for the investigators little secret, the one bit of evidence they d been hiding from everyone, even the birgfelds, something that by pure luck survived that car fire. paige s day planner. the melted dash had fallen down onto the floor covering up the day planner and so it was protected from the heat as well as from the fire because it had an upper layer on it. what sort of condition was it in? it was in i mean, it was
but it couldn t have come from the youngest, marshall, who learned in the process that he was not clay s biological son, was conceived during a relationship chanin had after their first divorce. murder, as we say, exposes all kinds of secrets. the evidence they have is trace dna. it s like i go up to you and touch you on the hand. it s that small. reporter: but there is starbuck dna. yeah. reporter: and there are some who have said, if it s not him, was it one of you guys. there s starbuck dna in the starbuck house. kind of funny how that works. we all lived there. my dad lived there months before this happened. his hair everywhere, his sweat. the kids coming over back and forth from our house to her house. reporter: according to the starbuck children, their father was essentially a victim of a kind of marital profiling. a suspect simply because husbands and ex-husbands of murder victims are always suspects.
of the baby. was it an amicable divorce or did they fight? they had some disagreements, you know. they definitely had some disagreements. ex-husbands, husbands, spouses are always looked at? they are. did you feel he was an important person to talk to as well? we did. did you call him right away? we actually went and seen him. reporter: it was the middle of the night, just hours after brooke s body was discovered, when investigators arrived at clayton s house. chief phillips woke him up. so what do you say to him then? we didn t tell him that brooke was deceased and and our main objective is to try to find out what he had been doing that evening. you want to hear his story before you talk about what happened to brooke? that s right. reporter: clayton told investigators he had their son that weekend. he said he was at work all day saturday and then spent the evening at home. could he have left the child and gone out? he could have. coming up
and now detectives had two ex-husbands to investigate. ron beigler, the last person known to have seen her alive and rob dixon, the man she told friends she lived in fear of. most people that she knew, friends, believed that rob dixon had something to do with this. so he pops right up to the top of your list? absolutely. he and rob beigler, both. reporter: as for hard evidence, there was very little. except for the investigators little secret, the one bit of evidence they d been hiding from everyone, even the birgfelds, something that by pure luck survived that car fire, paige s day planner. the melted dash had fallen down onto the floor covering up the day planner and so it was protected from the heat as well as from the fire because it had an upper layer on it. what sort of condition was it in?