sheriff s office. just calling to let you know that we have both your cars ready. both of them obviously are down here at the sheriff s office right now. so are you with elaine right now? no. i m sorry? i don t think so. mr. jones, i m not following ya. you asked me if i would bury a body. i m sorry? you asked where i could bury a body. which came out of nowhere, which surprised us. because nobody had asked him where he buried a body. nobody had asked him about where he buried a body. we were calling him about his vehicle. and the day before we never talked about burying the body. very, very strange. and most certainly interesting. when they found out why jones seemed so out of it, he had just taken an overdose of sleeping pills. after leaving for his wife what appeared to be a suicide note. my dearest love, he wrote, i ve
call jones had with the deputy when jones said you asked me where i would bury a body. lisa nance told the jury the harrowing tale of the night jones took her into the mountains. and he looked at me and said i m going to kill you. and there was this. hi, mom. it s me. i m just wondering when you will get home. the prosecution played the fearful phone messages paige s then 8-year-old daughter jesse left on her mother s cell phone. love you, bye. and here was jess today, a senior in high school, but still able to give a child s perspective of a very loving mother. she was pretty much typical soccer mom. she we did everything with her. we all slept in the same bed with her. and we always went shopping together. and she took us to all of our soccer games and to school. she provided us with everything that we needed, whatever that may have been.
determination. he had to fight that battle constantly for years. i think you hit it. you 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 piece? absolutely. there are lots of no-body cases that go to trial. not a lot of no-body cases where the victim as a double life and has been lying to her family and friends. because of her double life, the possibility that the defense attorney could throw out there that she ran off with some rich client and is living on a beach in brazil or something. and 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
earlier, way back in 2007 when she first disappeared. and eventually what was left of her was unearthed by a heavy spring runoff. i guess there was the expectation that, okay, this has been a milestone. and now we might see this thing moving along. but i still didn t have any guarantees just because they found her. this is a complex case. as far as i knew, there was no direct evidence. so i wasn t sure. but it certainly was towards the investigation a positive thing. and so said d.a. hautzinger. here we go. this is what i ve been waiting for. now we need to really medal to the metal and make a critical decision. so now, finalably a body, investigators again attempted to fashion a murder case against one of the eight possible suspects. the two ex-husbands, rob dixon and ron biegler had what looked like solid alibis with both
coralluzzo himself, but they couldn t find him. so they asked tavara for help. do you know where george is? i said george is dead. drowned the year before while swimming in a river in new jersey. still, to satisfy the d.a., investigators had to make a case that coralluzzo was either guilty or innocent. but because dead men don t talk, it meant they had to slog through seven years of reports and interviews and statements. and it was two years after paige s body was discovered, while wading through that mountain of material, an investigator stumbled on an overlooked piece of evidence that would change the whole case. it was security camera video of coralluzzo s friends, including tavar at a market the night paige disappeared. coralluzzo wasn t in the video, mind you. but the time stamp backed up the story minute by minute that tavara had been telling the