afraid he might actually attack jones in the courtroom because beigler had actually threatened to kill him. and indicated that he wanted mr. jones to be found not guilty so that he could kill him and feed him his genitals, although he used a different word than that. proceedings ground to a sudden halt. beigler was hauled before the judge. if you have any outbursts or you do anything in an attempt to harm anybody in the courtroom, that will result in serious consequences. i think it was overexaggerated. taken out of context. all right. sarcasm may be taken out of context. chastened, but still insisting it was all a misunderstanding, beigler took the stand and testified about his last day with paige. we talked about me moving into her house in grand junction. we talked about her quitting that business. which business? the adult entertainment business. did you give her reasons why you wanted her to quit? mm-hmm. what were the reasons you said? because she coul
nothing suspicious. nothing at all, really. jones himself, on the other hand, there were just too many holes in his story. for starters, no alibi the night paige went mission. and even worse, jones admitted that when paige s car was set on fire, he was at bob scott rv s, practically across the street. you re there. by your own admission, you re there where the fire. i understand that. tell me that. explain that. i can t explain it to you. and guess what they found at jones work site? a discarded package that once contained a prepaid tracfone, the disposable kind that doesn t reveal the identity of the user, except on the package was the phone s serial number. and from that we were able to determine that the phone was bought at walmart on north avenue. so they got the security camera video, and well, well, well, the buyer looked a lot like lester ralph jones.
that d.a. 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 linderholm. paige had scheduled an appointment with jones the night before he disappeared, but for some reason didn t want to go. asked linda to meet him instead. he was expecting her. and then you showed up at his door. right. i m sure he had some expectations, right?
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
why was that important? because someone using that particular tracfone called paige at models inc. five times the night she disappeared. if there is one thing that rose above all else is 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 at walmart. i didn t buy no tracfone at walmart. how do you explain the video? 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? yes, sir. this is art smith with the