material an investigator stumbled on an overlooked piece of evidence that would change the case. it was security camera video of coralluzzo s friend. including tavera at a market the night paige disappeared. coralluzzo wasn t in the video but the time stamp backed up the story minute by minute that tavera had been telling the cops, lifting his credibility and in turn helping to establish coralluzzo s whereabouts the night paige disappeared. that video helped to corroborate what the witness was saying. this was piecing together a time line of where he was, where we could prove he was during the relevant window of opportunity right. that evening or next day when paige went missing. by interviewing lots of people who had been with coralluzzo or had talked to him, we were able to painstakingly essentially alibi him. hautzinger finally felt they had enough to take the case to a jury. in november 2014, 7 1/2 years after paige vanished, police arrested lester ralph jones for her m
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?
cops, suddenly lifting his credibility and in turn helping to establish coralluzzo s whereabouts the night paige disappeared. that video helped to corroborate what the witness was saying. it was piecing together a timeline of where he was, where we could prove he was during the relevant window of opportunity. right. that evening and the next day when paige went missing. and by interviewing lots of different people who had been with coralluzzo, or who had talked to him, we were able to painstakingly essentially alibi him. hautzinger felt he finally had enough to take the case to a jury. and in november 2014, 7 1/2 years after paige vanished, police arrested lester ralph jones for her murder. but did they know the whole story now? oh, no. they certainly did not. they didn t know where or even how paige was killed.
coralluzzo himself, but they couldn t find him. so they asked tavara for help. do you know where george is? i said george is dead. drowned the year before while swimming in a river in new jersey. still, to satisfy the d.a., investigators had to make a case that coralluzzo was either guilty or innocent. but because dead men don t talk, it meant they had to slog through seven years of reports and interviews and statements. and it was two years after paige s body was discovered, while wading through that mountain of material, an investigator stumbled on an overlooked piece of evidence that would change the whole case. it was security camera video of coralluzzo s friends, including tavar at a market the night paige disappeared. coralluzzo wasn t in the video, mind you. but the time stamp backed up the story minute by minute that tavara had been telling the