rumors? because in this town where everyone knows everybody else s business, there wer enough potential suspects to fill a minivan do you have anything to d with the disappearance of paig birgfeld i was put under psychiatric care for 48 hours and then sen to jail. i did not kill paige, that the bottom line. it was late june 2007, when the news of paige birgfeld thi appearance first spread like the morning some over the mountains and denve for hours away, frank birgfeld was driving to his office. the phone rang the boys on the phone say this is somebody with the maso county sheriff s office. and he said is paige that? and i said, yeah and he said, did you know sh is missing barbara campbell got th full from her husband, who tol her paige is missing. i ask, what do you mean? andrea got the news in an
these revelations hit paige mom and dad. they just couldn 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. mean, if nothin else, quit obviously it s dangerous so, it was a shock, obviously, but they said the could understand her motives after all, rob dixon s money had run out. she was doing what she ha to do to keep life as normal a possible for the children. the news spread, of cours pretty soon most people in tow knew there were, people who wrot to the paper and said horrible things like, why are we spending all this time looking for a dead hooker? dirt. spread, said andrea by those who didn t even kno paige. we knew her heart. we kne who she was every day with u and with her kids. and i anything, it only put us int hyper vigilant defender mode
feel, i just got out of ther and it s pitch black on th bottom but there just wasn t a bod down there. swept away by th river perhaps? anyway, the labor-intesive search of the countryside, which had bee going on for two long months now seemed rather pointless. so, at summer s end, the command post closed. i guess that s the only thing at this point to d because there isn t any more volunteers that are coming up. and people do have to return t their own lives. but that was not an optio for paige s family. her parent rented an apartment in town an carried on the search alone. this is my life now. really wish i could get into a different line of work even offered a $15,00 reward, no questions asked it s about 100 days, and if she s out there, we need t find her. and, uh, if this wil help stimulate that, so be it. but, no useful tips. not one. even though frank staye on in grand junction for a whole fruitless year at some point, you have t
it was, you know, very ugly the psychological, emotionally abuse that she endured all the time. and when i was there visiting, i saw an awful lot o it after a 2nd incident, dixon was arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault we had misdemeanor domestic violence case against him with paige as the victim. dixon pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of harassment an got a deferred sentence. the entire case, though, was later thrown out. anyway, paige file for divorce and dixon fo bankruptcy. and moved away t philadelphia to work as an emt again. and paige did what sh could to keep the kids in th only home they d ever known, that big place with th mortgage to match, close to si grand a month. she would just sit an ponder how can a single mo with three kids make enoug money to stay in the house tha her husband used to support? she had no lack of ideas or
it was a thursday, june 28th, when paige birgfeld, of gran junction, colorado, quit suddenly went off the radar. which was, at least a place to start. so mesa county sheriff investigators henry stoffel an wayne weyler set out to trac her steps that day we found out that she had been at eagle visiting her - ex-husband and they had been reconciling at that point. but he, having been the las person known to have seen her, i suppose would be a person of interest in your - yes, obviously he was person of interest this person of interest, ro beigler, was paige s first ex-husband. they married right out of high school. young, immature, and soon, divorced but, funny how this works. ten years had sanded off their sharp edged disputes, and they saw anew why they fell in love