evidence or additional puzzle piece to put into the jigsaw. it would help you tell the story too. exactly. and telling the story is an important thing for a prosecutor to do. it s really the entire thing. i don t have to prove motive, for example, but i usually try to anyway because the jury wants to know, why did this person do this. so tell us the story. what happened in your view? i think lester jones was obsessed with paige and she had not enjoyed her time with him and was putting him off. and i think that triggered something. that s why he got the tracfone, and something went wrong. my guess is that he physically subdued her and drove her down to where her body was found, but she was conscious and had the ability to throw things out the window or trunk or whatever it was leaving the trail going down to delta, and that she was ultimately killed not far from where her body was found. but the defense had its own compelling story to tell or rather stories, a separate tal
had been found alongside the roadside. it had to be paige that left the trail. a call for help or arrow pointing where to find her. all that while restrained. they found remnants of duct tape still wrapped around her jaw. we really think the searchers were here. to miss it, you know, it s like, darn, how did that happen? probably, said the detectives, her killer buried her five years earlier, way back in 2007 when she first disappeared. eventually, what was left of her was unearthed by a heavy spring runoff. and so said d. a. hautzinger here we go, this is what we have been waiting for. now we need to really put pedal to the medal and make a decision. now, finally with a body, they decided to fashion a murder case against one of the eight possible suspects, the two ex husbands, rob dixon and rob biegler had solid alibis. both being hundreds of miles away when paige was kidnapped and kill. so, that left the six clients. of course, lester ralph jones was at the top of the list.
caused the airbags and stuff to go off. the new boyfriend took off running. but jones had a gun. he shot at him twice. one bullet hole went through his cap. and i think the other one grazed his head. and you were going to be next. uh-huh. i thought. i thought that. you must have been shaking like a leaf. it was scary. i asked him to put the gun down, you know, cause he had it pointed right at me. and finally he put it in the backseat, the back floorboard. and then, you know, i talked to him and tried to calm him down, you know? what was he saying to you? that i didn t love him anymore. and i didn t want him anymore. stuff like that. and i was trying to convince him otherwise. eventually he left, she called the police, he was arrested. but in no time made bail. and then lisa was at home a few weeks later. i came out of my room and i went to the kitchen and i turned around, and he was just sitting on the couch. i mean, just sitting in the dark. my stomach just, y
volunteers that are coming up. and people do have to return to their own lives. but that was not an option for paige s family. her parents rented an apartment in town and carried on the search alone. this is my life now. i really wish i could get into a different line of work. even offered a $15,000 reward, no questions asked. it s about 100 days, and if she s out there, we need to find her. and, uh, if this will help stimulate that, so be it. but, no useful tips. not a one. even though frank stayed on in grand junction for a whole fruitless year. at some point, you have to say, do i want to stay here doing this, or is it time to go back to denver? what was it like on the way back to denver, as you realized you were leaving for good? i would say kind of a heaviness to it, that somewhere she s back there and i m leaving her. but while no one knew where paige was, there was one woman who had an idea as to what may have happened to her. this is lisa nance, who was rat
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 you. 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. because nobody had asked him where he buried the body? nobody had asked him about 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 out of it. he d 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