that we have both your cars ready, both of them are down at the sheriff s office right now. 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 where i would bury a body. i m sorry? you asked me where i should bury a body. which came out of nowhere, which surprised us. nobody had asked him where he buried the body. nobody had asked him where he buried the 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 prayed all night and this morning, i ve asked for his
pedal to the metal and make the critical decision. so now finally with a body investigators once again attempted to fashion a murder case against one of the eight possible suspects. the two ex-husbands, rob dixon and ron beigler had what looked like solid alibis with both their cell phones being hundreds of miles away when paige was kidnapped and killed. so that left the six clients. of course, lester ralph jones was at the top of the list, but george coralluzzo, remember him? coralluzzo was the alternate suspect that gave me as the da heartburn and concerns. that s because coralluzzo s alibi was so hard to pin down. multiple witnesses said he was partying that night at josé tavara s apartment. but what time? but what everybody did agree was this, coralluzzo was out of control.
because someone using that particular tracfone called paige at models inc. five times the night she disappeared. if there was one thing that rose above all else it was the video of him buying the tracfone that was used to call her that evening. except jones denied that was him in the video. i have you on video buying the tracfone on walmart. i didn t buy no tracfone at walmart. well, i don t know. there is no video. jones, as you can see, was unflappable. talked for five hours. and then they had to let him go. a couple of days later a detective called jones to say his two cars which had been impounded were now free to pick up and jones wife answered the phone. hello. yes, may i speak with ralph, please. hold on, please. hello. mr. jones into yes. this is art smith with the sheriff s office. just calling to let you know
hield attempted suicide. that da 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. paige had scheduled an appointment with jones the night before she disappeared, but for some reason didn t want to go, asked her friend to meet jones instead. he was expecting her and then i think and then you showed up at his
they make that determination. he had to fight that battle constantly for years. i think he hit it right on. meaning they were ready to pick up jones, but da thought sfwlinger was not. why didn t you decide to pull the pin on lester ralph jones? we didn t have a body. and that was deet fining absolutely. that was really i mean, there are lots of no body cases that go to trial. not a lot of no body cases where the victim has a double life and has been lying to her family an friends. because of her double life.the possibility that defense attorney could throw out there that she ran off with some rich client and is living on a beach in brazil or something. 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