paige s 8-year-old daughter, jess, left this anxious voice mail message on her mother s cell phone. hi, mom, it s me, i was just wondering when you would get home. love you, bye. reporter: no response. her daughter waited, worried, and called again. hi, mom, i was just wondering when you were gonna get home. bye. reporter: they slept then. best they could. all three children. and awoke the next day, friday, june 29th to a whole new kind of anxiety. she still wasn t home. hi, mom, you said you would be back last night and you re not even back today. bye. reporter: something in the pit of the stomach. paige s old, and new love, ron beigler, seemed to feel it, too. hi, where are you? call me if you get a chance. i m getting worried about you.
bye. reporter: something in the pit of the stomach. paige s old, and new love, ron beigler, seemed to feel it, too. hi, where are you? call me if you get a chance. i m getting worried about you. reporter: and, hour by hour, they piled up. phone messages. like a normal day. hi, paige, laura just wanted me to give you a call and let you know hi, this is sears repair service for the fan, calling to let you know hi, paige, it s kevin from performance pool. curious if your pool cleared up. please give me a call. thank you. reporter: not a single call was returned. and, that night, again, the children, with their nanny, waited in vain for their mother. the following day, saturday, june 30th.
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thing is, this is five miles past her house. why was she here? an hour later, 9:56 p.m., paige s 8-year-old daughter, jess, left this anxious voice mail message on her mother s cell phone. hi, mom, it s me, i was just wondering when you would get home. love you, bye. reporter: no response. her daughter waited, worried, and called again. hi, mom, i was just wondering when you were gonna get home. bye. reporter: they slept then. best they could. all three children. and awoke the next day, friday, june 29th to a whole new kind of anxiety. she still wasn t home. hi, mom, you said you would be back last night and you re not even back today. bye. reporter: something in the pit of the stomach. paige s old, and new love, ron beigler, seemed to feel it, too. hi, where are you?
still she was unprepared for the news that greeted her when she returned home from a late shift two days after christmas 2003. the minute i opened the door, i saw my husband on the phone. and it was like something hit me in the pit of the stomach, just by his face. and then he said, russell s gone. josh mankiewicz: gone? gone where? as far as gail knew, her son s rocky marriage was on the mend. and i m thinking, so, is this another drama filled call from brenna that they had another argument or something? and what bob had done is just repeated the words that brenna had given him, was that russell had been killed. and then all i could do is just go sit down and just sit there for a while. josh mankiewicz: russell s sister, holly, got the same call from russell s wife. she instantly assumed russell s personal troubles were to blame. my first thought was that he probably committed suicide. so i was in shock, and then realized