you know? it was a traumatic time, here in grand junction, colorado, that summer of 2007. what with the fruitless search for the missing mother of three, loved by so many, who turned out to have secrets. and the day planner and voice mails and phone records that seemed to point eight different ways at once, two ex-husbands and six clients. i don t think that i ve ever seen a more difficult case in my entire career. one by one, the detectives cleared their suspects or tried to. ex-husband number one and current boyfriend, ron beigler. we were able to determine that mr. beigler had been in the denver area, through cell phone records. second husband, rob dixon,
coming up at trial the defense goes hard at the original lead detective in the case. did you actually receive an official reprimand for the poor quality of work you did in this case? maybe the case against jones never stood a chance. if you re doing shoddy work in the beginning, your investigation becomes sick. it s almost impossible to make
pretty soon most people in town knew. there were, people who wrote to the paper and said horrible things like, why are we spending all this time looking for a dead hooker? dirt. spread, said andrea, by those who didn t even know paige. we knew her heart. we knew who she was every day with us and with her kids. and if anything, it only put us into hyper vigilant defender mode and and made us all want to get out there and talk about what a good person she was as much as possible. a much bigger problem, though, was that paige s secret life made an already complicated missing person case far more difficult. we started looking at the phone that she was using for models inc. and you start identifying people who had the most recent contact with her. and you came across multiple people. hello, you ve reached models inc, colorado s premier gentlemen s service. now every client who contacted paige on june 28th and there were many, was a potential suspect. here s just
fight he was supposed to watch my children while i went to work and he said that i would come home and find them all murdered. police were dispatched but there was no arrest according to paige s parents the fighting only got worse. it was, you know, very ugly, the psychological, emotionally abuse that she endured all the time. and when i was there visiting, i saw an awful lot of it. after a 2nd incident, dixon was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault. we had misdemeanor domestic violence case against him with paige as the victim. dixon pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of harassment and got a deferred sentence. the entire case, though, was later thrown out. anyway, paige filed for divorce and dixon for bankruptcy. and moved away to philadelphia to work as an emt again. and paige did what she could to keep the kids in the only home they d ever known, that big place with the mortgage to match, close to six grand a month.
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