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
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
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
cause he had to fight tha battle constantly for years. oh, i think you hit it hit it right on. meaning they were ready t pick up jones, but d. a. hautzinger was not. why didn t you decide to pull the pin o lester ralph jones i didn t have a body. and that was the defining - absolutely, that was really i mean, there are lots of n body cases that go to trial. not a lot of no body case where the victim has a doubl life and has been lying to her family and friends. because of her double life the possibilit that a defense attorney coul throw out there that she ra off with some rich client an is living on a beach in brazil or something - and as the years passed paige s story went from th front of the paper to bein filed away on microfiche. wher was she? coming up - they were about to find out and it would transform the case now we need to make a critical decision. and then, a brand-new theor of what happened to paige. i think that triggers something and somethi
corroborate what the witness was saying. this was piecing together a time line of wher he was, where we could prove h was during the relevant window of opportunity - right that evening or next day when paige went missing. b interviewing lots of people wh had been with coralluzzo or ha talked to him, we were able to painstakingly essentially alib him. hautzinger finally felt the had enough to take the case to a jury. in november 2014, 7 1/ years after paige vanished police arrested lester ralph jones for her murder. but di they know the whole story now? oh, no, they certainly did not they didn t know where or even how paige was killed it would have been nice t have that additional piece o evidence or additional puzzl piece to put into the jigsaw it would help you tell th story too.