the news spread, of course. pretty soon most people in town knew. there were people who wrote to the paper and said horrible things like why are we spending this time looking for a dead hooker. dirt, spread by those who didn t 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 hypervigilant defend-her mode, 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. every contact, and there were
coming up, inside the wreckage of paige s burned-out car, her day planner. it still had the pages intact. inside the planner, a shock for everyone on the case. that was stunning. quite obviously it s dangerous. when the secret life of a soccer mom continues. right. (phone chimes) i jump up on the stage and do my money dance i throw some money up and watch the money land i do my, i do my i do my money dance move your student loan debt to sofi - you could save with low rates and no fees. earn a $500 bonus when you refi. and get your money right. i do my money dance with voltaren arthritis pain gel. my husband s got his moves back. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel for powerful arthritis pain relief. voltaren, the joy of movement.
there? i don t know if i can handle being being right in the situation. then, knowing we were preparing a report about the case, biegler made a strange request. try to keep me out as much as possible, like, just a few words here and there but i don t want to be talking about things. but hundreds of people, many who had never once met paige, searched on horseback, on atvs, on foot. they peered under bushes, walked mimes of desert brush in 100-degree heat, and nothing. truth be told, paige could have been anywhere. but then, four days after paige s disappearance, a driver stopped along a lonely stretch of highway 50. as he stepped out of his truck, a piece of litter caught his eye. a blank check trapped in the roadside weeds. the name on it, paige dixon, paige s married name. so then the flock of searchers
dumped and torched the car in an industrial area just a quarter mile from where paige made her last phone call. it was way beyond her house, right? correct. it didn t fit for the car to be there. reporter: news of the car fire was a turning point. no longer did the public suspect this was a case of an overwhelmed, runaway mom. the response was an outpouring of volunteers, a spontaneous community project to find paige. just seeing the dad on tv and everything like that, i have some children of my own and i know what i d be feeling like if one of my children was gone and i just wanted to try to help if i could. reporter: paige s dad was there every day greeting a small army of volunteers. thanks for helping us. you know it s just really tough, you know, for people to give of themselves to that degree. i just one of our moms was gone. and her kids needed her, and we needed our friend. and our kids needed to know that
murder her and get rid of the body. he wasn t capable of it. reporter: of course, he might have been lying to protect his friend. detectives wanted to talk to coralluzzo himself but they couldn t find him. they asked for help. they re like, well, 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, they had to go through seven years of reports, 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 case. it was security camera video of