with rob they already knew dixon had been looking for dirt abou paige, something he could us in family court as a way o getting custody of their kids. so, as the cops saw it, ro dixon had the motive while lester ralph jones had the means. so, maybe murder fo hire? but, big but, they couldn t find evidence of an contact between jones and dixo before paige vanished. no phon calls. no wire transfers nothing suspicious. nothing at all, really. jones himself, on the other hand, well, ther were just too many holes in hi story. for starters, no alib the night paige went missing even worse, jones admitted tha when paige s car was set o fire, he was at bob scott r. v s, practically across th street you re there. by your own admission you re there when th fire s - i understand that tell me that. explain that. i can t explain it to you and guess what they found a jones work site? a discarded package that once contained pre-paid, tracfone, th
say, do i want to stay here doing this, or is it time to g back to denver? what was it like on the way back to denver, as you realize you were leaving for good? i would say kind of a heaviness to it, that somewher she s back there and i m leaving her. but while no one knew where paige was, there was one woman who had an idea as to what may have happened to her. this i lisa nance, who was rather briefly married, once upon a time, to lester ralph jones. lisa will always remember him. coming up the ex-wife s tale he looked at me and said, i m going to kill you. when dateline continues
itself was all burned out an you can see where it s still kind of intact over here. it was really obvious to see that more intense was on th driver s side. meaning that s where th fire started. that s where the arsonist wanted to be sure t erase evidence. under the car, damaged skid plates and strand of wild grass caught in th suspension, meaning somebody had driven off road very recently. and after? dumped an torched the car in a industrial area just a quarter mile from where paige made her last phone call. it was way beyond her house right? correct didn t fit for the car to b there. news of the car fire was turning point. no longer did the public suspect this was case of an overwhelmed run-away mom. the response was an outpouring of volunteers, a spontaneous community projec to find paige. just seeing the dad on tv and everything like that, have some children of my own and i know what i d be feeling
if you have any outbursts o you do anything in an attemp to harm anybody in the courtroom, that will result in serious consequences i think it wa overexaggerated. taken out o context. all right sarcasm may be taken out of context. chastened, but stil insisting it was all a misunderstanding, beigler took the stand and testified abou his last day with paige. we talked about me moving into her house in gran junction. we talked about he quitting that business which business? the adult entertainment business did you give her reasons wh you wanted her to quit mm-hmm. what were the reasons you said because she could get killed, for one. the jury heard about it all
district pete hautzinger was, at tha time, the mesa county d. a i made the decision to take that case to the grand jury an ultimately, the grand jury decided felony s stupid, but not worthy of criminal charges then one day a repo man showed up for that shiny new fire truck dixon had donated it turned out the fire truc was leased and they came and took it away from the fire department that s when frank and paige and the whole town found out dixon s money was gone, too. he gave it to someone who pyramid schemed it the missing money, th repoed truck, the grand jury investigation, it all kept dixon on the front pages of th local paper for months. series of public humiliation ending with an exclamation point when he wa