paige, if you get this, please, please call somebody everybody s worried about you. everybody s looking for you. please let us know you re ok paige was a woman with premonition. she said she knew something bad was gonna happen a couple of days she, wa missing. we found out she had this second life. quite obviously it dangerous. she had been playing a risk game that opened up the door t the a multitude of people that we needed to start looking at. he was a scam artist. correct he was a liar, manipulative he had a list of names, and whether or not they would have sex with them. could investigators get their man before he struck again? i turned around and he wa sitting in the dark. and sai i m doing to kill you. it s been years since she vanished but few have forgotte paige, how could they, the story of the young mother disappearance has woven itself in to local lore, as thunder hits, finally a trial. it s a mystery we ve been followin
killer still walking free. i would say tiktok, you r coming and we re not giving up. hello and welcome t dateline melvin roberts was a vip in hi tight-knit community, and juli phillips was the light of hi life the couple seemed inseparable, then, a murder shattered the love affair and exposed th dark underbelly of a zip code, where it s considered polite t smile at your friends and your enemies. here is andrea campaigning wit death in the driveway. awesome york, south carolina, a town seeped with america history and southern manners its charm is deeply embedded a the pride of the people wh live here. it s a nice southern count, it s very quiet. it s not the sort of plac you d expect evil to com knocking my life just changed, forever. and these are not the sor of people you d expect to be victims of a vicious crime he s a prominent man in a small town she s a good christian woman sweet southern belle and in the end, what woul forever haunt this peacefu place
with rob they already knew dixon had been looking for dirt abou paige, something he could us in family court as a way o getting custody of their kids. so, as the cops saw it, ro dixon had the motive while lester ralph jones had the means. so, maybe murder fo hire? but, big but, they couldn t find evidence of an contact between jones and dixo before paige vanished. no phon calls. no wire transfers nothing suspicious. nothing at all, really. jones himself, on the other hand, well, ther were just too many holes in hi story. for starters, no alib the night paige went missing even worse, jones admitted tha when paige s car was set o fire, he was at bob scott r. v s, practically across th street you re there. by your own admission you re there when th fire s - i understand that tell me that. explain that. i can t explain it to you and guess what they found a jones work site? a discarded package that once contained pre-paid, tracfone, th
find anyone to charge. and the prosecutor worried tha that would make this murder fo hire case a tough one to prove there is no evidence, whatsoever, linking julia to a hit man? that s right. nothing. we tracked her bank records, w saw no exchanges of any type she kept her phone clean there are no odd calls, an that was the hurdle that i fel like we faced having an empt chair. you re trying julia and th empty chair. after three and a half years, working to build a case, i august 2015, julia phillip
swapping suspects, hoping to find a match i have over 80 dna sample that i have collected from everybody connected to thi case did you interview all those people as well all those people had been interviewed by me or at leas one of the other 3 to detectives that had assisted with that case 80 people yes clearly it would be a tough case to crack. is it like fighting a suspec in a haystack? in a stack of her specs probably but worthy looking in the right haystack coming up a secret kept in a bedroom free found a lot of empty prescription pill bottles and lot of pharmacy receipts had the police also found the motive for melvin s murder when dateline continues. eww, the toilet sneeze. every flush spews harmful bacteria onto surfaces. that when touched, can quickly spread throughout your home. help stop the spread with microban24.