paige, if you get this, please, please call somebody everybody s worried about you. everybody s looking for you. please let us know you re ok paige was a woman with premonition. she said she knew something bad was gonna happen a couple of days she, wa missing. we found out she had this second life. quite obviously it dangerous. she had been playing a risk game that opened up the door t the a multitude of people that we needed to start looking at. he was a scam artist. correct he was a liar, manipulative he had a list of names, and whether or not they would have sex with them. could investigators get their man before he struck again? i turned around and he wa sitting in the dark. and sai i m doing to kill you. it s been years since she vanished but few have forgotte paige, how could they, the story of the young mother disappearance has woven itself in to local lore, as thunder hits, finally a trial. it s a mystery we ve been followin
i don t think they knew exactl what had happened other than that he was covered in blood she was just broken and lost there is a murderer out ther and it is terrifying it was supposed to be a anniversary celebration. 32 years together. they were in love even afte all those years. they were very happy together. suddenly, an intimate momen turn to infinite terror. i just heard, help, someone is in trouble. i was scared i was scared a husband found murdered in a closet a wife, tied up in another they found her on the groun with her hands by hundred back she had bruising on her arm and on her face. inconsolable. screaming, crying. who could be behind this? well their only daughte desperate for justice for he dad. be careful what you wish for everybody gasped. nobody could believe it. this terrifies me because this can happen to anybody. hello, and welcome to dateline she was his teenage crush, then, puppy love turned into a lifelong love affair event
but we still had to keep an ey open on mr. livingston, mr heald, mr. coralluzzo. and remember that these are th ones we know about. is there somebody else out there we don t even know about yet? didn t help when lab result from paige s car came back negative. the fire burned it clean of evidence. so th sheriff s office turned to a volunteer search dog team fo help. and sure enough, the dog appeared to hit on jones scent in paige s charred car. an then they sniffed their wa down this gravel road that dea ends at the gunnison river when given paige s scent, th dogs followed exactly the same path along highway 50 down the gravel road into the gunniso river. so was paige s body i here somewhere? they called in divers basically, we go across the river about 100 feet. they let us out five feet. we come back across the river, 100 feet. an basically just searching b
of the tub after jaime left to fetch the dogs at first, she was vague. and he just, you know, wa taking a while, so i got out then, more specific about 15 minutes, 2 minutes. later, another revision maybe about five minutes. and detectives were perplexed by what sandra claimed she did and did no hear that night. hear anybody scream no. hear the dogs well you could hear the do barking? yeah, because they were right outside the window but after almost two hours, as investigators pushed her, sandra seemed to tweak this ke element of her story actually, i don t eve remember hearing the dogs. my husband was the one tha says - he s got better hearing than i of course, the changes in sandra story could b attributed to shock. but as the detectives unit sandra was being deliberatel evasive. enhancing her story to align with a conjured up crime scene a sounds like a bloody event was it it was bloody in the area
and sometimes her story t the detectives didn t seem t follow the facts she was telling a tale so she could go on with her lif so she would have to go to prison for instance, her story o jamie going out to quiet the barking dogs there is a neighbor who lived next to the melgar s who constantly complained about th dogs barking she didn t hear the dogs tha night, she slept wonderfully but of course, the was main problems for sandra was a big picture. you want us to believe that home invaders wer slashing your husband to death just feet away from you, and you remember nothing really nobody running? nobody saying anything shouting no. nothing. sandra s explanation wa that she had suffered from seizures and memory loss for years. reporter amanda we went into sandra s medical history refuting that. she did go to the doctor office that she wasn t havin