people don t really want to have it out in public that, oh, yeah, i was patronizing a call girl. reporter: 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. yeah, this is john at motel 6, room 237. reporter: 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 she disappeared. but for some reason didn t want to go, asked linderholm to meet jones instead. he was expecting her. and then i think and then you showed up at his door. right.
reporter: this former client, who allegedly discussed killing paige. did you tell ms. waylan that you had killed ms. birgfeld by putting ms. birgfeld through a woodchipper? [ laughs ] no, ma am. somebody had said something about, did you do this to paige? did you murder paige? and i said, just out of context, had i had i they wouldn t find her because i would have used a woodchipper. and it was totally out of context. reporter: the client who admitted embezzling his company s money to pay paige. did you kill ms. birgfeld? no. are you responsible for her disappearance? absolutely not. reporter: and then the defense went after jose tavera, who admitted he was so tight with coralluzzo he would have done just about anything for his friend. including burning a car to help him if he needed that done. i wouldn t do that. you wouldn t do that? no. that s the one thing you wouldn t do? yeah. reporter: meagan williams
reporter: and sure enough, two years later, in june 2007, the week before she vanished, paige got a call from dixon. said he missed the kids. said he was moving back to colorado. she said that she knew that rob was coming back and that he was going to do something. and i was floored. i thought do something? what does do something mean? and she just said she knew something bad was gonna happen. but murder did not enter my mind. kidnapping did not enter my mind. that must have been very strange to hear that. it it was a staggering conversation. i mean, we were just two moms with small children faced with an unknown situation, and a couple days later she was missing. coming up inside the wreckage of paige s burned-out
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in brazil or something reporter: and as the years passed, paige s story went from the front of the paper to being filed away on microfiche. where was she? coming up they were about to find out. and it would transform the case. now we need to make a critical decision. and then, a brand new theory of what happened to paige. i think that triggers something and something went wrong. when dateline continues. ons oh, come on! sriracha? woo! don t fight your cravings. eat em. all the flavors you crave in a superfood. blue diamond almonds. crave victoriously. geico would like to take a moment to say thank you to our military service members at home and abroad for all their hard work and sacrifice. we all sleep easier knowing you re out there keeping us safe.