account. i looked where the iphone was, i saw it wasn t at her office, it was in a weird location. i convinced myself she was at a client s house because that was my excuse at the time for why she wasn t home. still, their mom was the center of their universe, they told themselves they d be laughing about this later or they d be relieved, anyway. we said, let s just get ready for school, keep on with our day. she ll be home when we get home? yeah. same time, same morning, two doors down the streets, one of pam s friend julie was still in her pajamas. my home phone ranks. which is odd, it never rings that early. it hardly rings anyway. i m one of the rare people that still have a home phone. so i picked it up, it was scott. he lived a few hours away fear chicago. he was her fiancee. he
they knew what i bought. reporter: and detectives wanted to know more about who peggy might have had contact with in the hours before her murder. so they made this list of numbers they found on peggy s home phone. and as they looked at them, one stood out. it was a call from an odd area code, and it came in at 1:17 in the morning. that was from what turned out to be a tracfone. they re commonly referred to as burner phones or throwaway phones. reporter: these are the phones used by drug dealers, killers, cheating spouses? exactly. reporter: a few minutes after that tracfone call, the alarm at peggy s front door was tripped. and at 1:23 a.m., the alarm company called. hello? this is the monitoring center with bullet security. this is peggy nadell. the code word is max, i m sorry. that s okay, ma am. everything s fine.
know that i was very tense or i thought of the worst. i guess, gee, i wonder where she is. i hope she s but as the drive went on, it became more and more anxious, more and more tight, more and more and i would be calling the kids on the home phone just saying we re going to be there, you know, and trying to sound reassuring. the kids had just a nanny with them, because paige had parted ways with her husband, rob dixon, who since moved out of state. still, as a single mom with three little kids, paige had her life well in control, due in no small part to her obsessive organizational skills, she ran several small businesses and kept track of every soccer practice and dentist appointment in an old-fashioned handwritten day planner. every page was full and cross-referenced. she was always with it. she d come over to visit, it