suddenly disappears, and in this case there was a clue buried in the past. bigler was once cited for domestic violence, spent the night in jail. though paige did not pursue the charge. investigators decided a conversation with mr. bigler, the last person after all known to have seen her was certainly in order. it was a typical, you know, late teenage romance that turned into love and marriage. they were, said bigler high school sweethearts. they got married in 1995. began quarrelling soon after. they had known each other when they were young. and they, she had told me they had both said we don t want kids. and she just had this really the maternal instinct became very, very strong. she wanted babies. and he didn t. and that that was most of the problem. so, after two years, they divorced in 1997. paige was just 24 then. what could she be doing ten
not too brief but and i expected to hear from her later that night after she got home. but he never did hear from her after that, he told police, though, repeatedly, he tried calling her the next day. went to voicemail. hello, you have reached the home offices for brain dance, pampered chef and maya wrap baby slings. please leave a message and i will get back to you within the next few days. so when ron bigler talked to the mesa county sheriff s department, it was actually he who first called them. did they believe his story? well, said paige s friend, yes they could. she told me they were starting to get back together. she had been texting him. and she kind of told me, in a giggly school girl kind of way, maybe she felt really excited. would a man falling in love
evidence, though, that have been submitted to our state crime lab that have yet to come back. reporter: i assume he s denied any responsibility? that would be a fair assumption? very fair, yes. reporter: a background check revealed a criminal record. includes some violence against his spouse. reporter: including a five-year sentence for assault and kidnapping involving his ex-wife and shooting but missing her male friend. most of his troubles have begun with jealousy, aggression and women. but at work, said his customers, he seemed perfectly fine. he was a friendly person to be around. when he worked on my car he was professional. he fixed what needed to be fixed. reporter: a detective named david duncan had once actually hired jones as a mechanic. it was kind of a shocker to me, because ralph was i ll say was i don t know what it s like today, but was a pleasant person to be around. reporter: then, this was
she did out of necessity. paige is a very fun person to be around. when you re with her, you feel like you re the only person in the room. she makes you feel like you have been her best friend. and that kind of personality works really well in this industry. so it does. but once discovered here in grand junction it colored everything. paige s parents were as desperate as ever to find their daughter. when i get up in the morning, i think, paige, we re coming. she needs my protection and i can t give it, but we re coming as best we can. but the crowds of volunteers declined. there was a small judgmental faction of people in town that i would say that just didn t approve and it seemed like the turnout slowed down for a while. the sheriff revealed that paige s clients knew her as carrie. her escort business was called
i m not sure what to make of that other than to know her stuff was there. trouble is that the sheriff s department couldn t make much sense of it either. opened the door for a lot of speculation. could that have been placed there by paige as a trail? could have been placed there by a suspect as a diversion. could it have been blown out of a vehicle going down the road unwittingly. alas, apparently a romantic meeting with an ex-husband. a burned out car, hers, yielded no useful clues. papers scattered by a highway, miles out of town. who left them there? a search that by now covered hundreds of square miles of high desert around grand junction and no signs of paige birgfeld. but were police looking in the right places? paige s first husband, ron bigler, told a believable story about the last night with paige, but what about ex-husband number two?