i m sure he had some expectations, right? i mean, he called an escort service. he well, he let it be known almost immediately that he wanted sex. reporter: linderholm said that didn t happen. instead they talked for an hour or so and then she left. couple of days later, she said, she called paige. it s carol, where the heck are you? reporter: got no response. at first i thought she was just busy and she couldn t call back. then when i heard on the news that the kids actually went to the police department about it, that s when i knew something terrible had happened to her. paige, this is carol. oh, i hope you re all right. i hope this isn t rob. oh, my god. reporter: linderholm mentioned paige s second ex-husband, rob dixon, because she knew paige was afraid of him. then the next day linderholm heard about paige s car and the
i want you to know how much i love you. you re the best thing that has happened to me. please forgive me! and then he added this, tell the cops to get. i never did it, but i can t be railroaded. jones recovered quickly but his actions that day remained a mystery because he wasn t talking anymore to investigators. the evidence was definitely pointing toward lester jones. but we still had to keep an eye open on mr. livingston, mr. heald, mr. coralluzzo. and remember that these are the ones we know about. is there somebody else out there we don t even know about yet? reporter: didn t help when lab results from paige s car came back negative. the fire burned it clean of evidence. so the sheriff s office turned to a volunteer search dog team for help. and sure enough, the dogs appeared to hit on jones scent in paige s charred car. and along highway 50 where all those items were found. and then they sniffed their way down this gravel road that dead
through a front company she ran called models, inc. a name that implied, intentionally, that several women worked with her, when in fact it was just her. some friends suspected, most didn t. it was very hard for me to believe that she would want to have sex with men for money. reporter: but she did. according to this investigative report, paige would charge up to $1,000 a session. you can imagine how these revelations hit paige s mom and dad. they just couldn t believe it. if i had known about it, i definitely would ve tried to use whatever persuasion i had to turn her away from it. i mean, if nothing else, quite obviously it s dangerous. reporter: so, it was a shock, obviously, but they said they could understand her motives, after all, rob dixon s money had run out. she was doing what she had to do to keep life as normal as
spread at the speed of suspicion among the searchers looking for the missing single mother, paige birgfeld. the ex was in town. the most recent ex, that is, rob dixon. the one paige had all the trouble with. of course the relationship didn t start out that way. never does. at first we only saw what we refer to as the good rob side. and that s certainly what paige only saw. and we he was part of our family and we loved him as much as an in-law would be. he was a good guy to have. reporter: dixon had been a hard-working paramedic until his dad made a one-time fortune in the tech industry and passed that windfall on to his kids. and not long after getting his millions dixon met and married paige. and they had three kids and moved into a fine big house. he had admitted to having over $10 million. and i think when you admit to that, you have maybe twice that
here, you know. and he didn t say anything. and that s when i really got scared, because he just didn t look like himself. and he wouldn t say anything. reporter: he had something on his mind? i think so. it seemed like it anyways. i didn t know what it was. but he just didn t and i wanted to get out of the house, you know, as quick as we could. i just wanted to get out in public, around other people. reporter: she said what came into her head, let s go out to dinner, and he agreed, got behind the wheel, started driving but then she realized he wasn t going to dinner. he was headed out of town toward the mountains. i was like, where are we going? and he wouldn t say anything. he just kept rubbin the back of my head, saying, it s gonna be okay. rubbing the back of your head? uh-huh. what sort of tone did he have in his voice when he said that? he wasn t being loud. he wasn t yelling or anything like that. he was just really, really quiet. it s a little creepy.