of separation, paige birgfeld s disappearance and murder impacted many here. if they didn t know paige personally, then they were in on the search or were a potential witness or knew somebody who was, or in the worst case, knew one of the possible suspects. so when the trial finally got under way, the town s attention was very much focused on this courtroom. we re on the record. 1432. but the trouble began before a single witness could be called. ron biegler was angry, wound up. the new district attorney, dan rubenstein was set to call paige s first husband. he was a key witness, but was afraid he might actually attack jones in the courtroom because biegler 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. use of different word than that. proceedings ground to a