Around. Tonight, a 20 20 investigation piecing it all together. Its like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It is. And we found a lot of needles. She was extremely scared. 911 what is your emergency . That car smelled a dead body in the backseat of this car . And dozens of calls from men who wanted her her last night. This is buddy. Hey, this is jason. I many name is bill. With no lack of suspects. I have lied about a lot of things. Do you think he killed her . Now the jury says it knows who kill ed a soccer mom of threes secret life has become open in a courtroom. Ryan smith has the very latest on this long journey to justice. Reporter Grand Junction. The largest city on colorados western slope, home to these breathtaking mesas, and a Pleasure Center for adventurers. A place where its easy to get lost, and hard to be found. Hi mom, i was just wondering where you been . Reporter thursday, june 28th, 2007. 8year old jess dixon picks up the phone and calls her mom, Paige Birgfeld. Hey mom, you are really, really mean. You said you would be back before dark and you havent even been back. Reporter jess is worried. Its getting late and the 34year old single mother of three hasnt come home. Paige. Please, please, please call someone. Reporter by friday morning, even more worry. Paiges father, frank, cant reach his daughter either. Give me a call on my cell phone. This is dad, bye. Reporter all of the calls going straight to voicemail. Paige, this is carol. Whats going on . I hope youre all right. Reporter close friend and babysitter Carol Linderholm remembers becoming increasingly concerned. At first i thought, well, shes probably really busy, and then i kept calling her and there was no response. Its carol. Where the heck are you . She said it was completely out of character to abandon her kids. She always created costumes for her kids and had dance classes for the toddlers. Her life was centered around the children. Reporter so the children were really attached to paige . Definitely so. Reporter by saturday, its a full panic. A family friend walks daughter jess, the oldest of three, into the Mesa County Sheriffs Department to file a missing persons report. They gave her father the news she has vanished. I thought this isnt someone who wouldnt come home. Theres a crime here. Frank doesnt waste a minute. He jumps in the car and drives the 200 miles from denver to Grand Junction. When my dad called me to tell me that paige was missing, its the first time i had heard him cry since i was a little kid. Reporter saturday evening, Frank Birgfeld finally arrives in grand b junction. We searched the house, we ser searched the property. By about 9 30 they had blood hounds on the grounds trooing to see whether there was a trail leading away from the house. Then sunday night, a disturbing development. Whats your emergency . Theres a car on fire in the parking lot. Paiges ford red focus is discovered on fire in a parking lot two miles from her home. Do you see flames or smoke . Yeah, theres a lot of flames. But theres nobody around that i could see. Reporter by the time firefighters rooi s arrive, the able to salvage little. The car is vandalized. The fire ruled arson. We have a lot of work to do and we dont know where paige is at. The front seat on the drivers side is pushed all the way back. They asked a woman paiges height to try to reach the pedals. She cant. Plus theres this paiges Daily Planner survives the blaze, almost laminated by the plastic keeping it intact. But someone has ripped out four days of pages. They found the dates, 26, 27, 28, 29 had been torn out. Tells me somebody thought those days were incriminating. Reporter suddenly, the missing persons case is beginning to look more like a kidnapping. This isnt a situation where paige left on her own volition. Reporter Frank Birgfeld goes to the crime scene, and the reality begins to sink in. You know, it occurred to me, i havent cried in a long time. Ive learned how to do that. Thats it. Reporter the family prays, waits, and worries. But paiges mom, suzie, never gives up hope. I hope that shes safe. We want her to come home for her children and family. Reporter she wonders who would want to hurt her daughter . The stunning young woman with the long, strawberry blonde hair, just 34 years old. Shed enter a room and people turn heads. Reporter tell me about the time you first met. I drove up to her house, knocked on the door, she opened the door and i said, oh, my gosh, i said, youre so beautiful. [ laughter ] and she says so sweetly, i havent been told that in so long. Reporter but linderholm soon learns theres trouble lurking behind paiges facade. The soccer mom with model looks is twice divorced. She struggles emotionally and financially after her second marriage crumbles. Paige had definitely fallen on hard times. Reporter journalist Carol Mckinley is following the case for 20 20. Shes suddenly broke, but shes used to living the high life. Her friends told me her exhusband wasnt helping at all with all of those bills. Things happened. They got divorced. She ended up with the house, and that was her home. Reporter but this was no ordinary home. At one point, paige is paying a staggering 6,000 a month for that Million Dollar home. So paige starts taking odd jobs to pay fer mounting bills. All these crazy jobs. Shes selling cooking products for a Company Called pampered chef, selling baby slings shes even teaching children dance classes. Reporter and suddenly her three small children have no idea if theyll ever see mom alive again. As soon as paiges car is discovered abandoned in that parking lot, the search parties assemble. Back in 2007, 20 20 accompanied frank, and more than 200 volunteers flanked out in fields just south of Grand Junction looking for any sign of paige in the scorching colorado heat. Connie led those official searches back in 2007. How many people would be out here . We had anywhere from 150 to 220 a day. Reporter so 150 to 220 people a day walking these mountains and hills looking for paige. Anything they could find . Yes. Reporter when we come back, Frank Birgfeld expands his search, desperate for any clue that might lead to his daughters recovery. Shes out there somewhere and i cant protect her. Reporter while investigators seem to wonder if paiges complicated love life with two exhusbands has something to do with her disappearance. Hat is y . 20 20 saturday continues with soccer mom by day. I mean, this is big country here. Reporter 24 days after Paige Birgfeld vanishes without a trace we look along the bank, look in a snag. Reporter her father, frank, moves his search to this vast canvas, the winding colorado river. I dont know when you give up. When do you say, shes gone . I dont know. Reporter weeks turn into months as investigators and volunteer searchers paddle through murky waters and trudge through dessert scrub brush, but connie flukey says there is no sign of paige. How daunting was this search . This was one of the hardest searches that i personally have been on. Reporter like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It was, but we found a lot of needles. Reporter perhaps the biggest clue came from the unlikeliest of sources. A motorist got a flat tire and pulled along the side of this road to fix it and then notices something strange paiges checkbook. Investigators soon find paiges personal checks, business cards and other personal items dropped all along this road. How important was that trail of breadcrumbs left along highway 50 for your search . I think it was very important for the case, and i think it was very important for the family too, just to know she was brought to that area. Reporter but, who abducted Paige Birgfeld . When a divorced mother goes missing, its only a matter of time before the police zero in on the ex. In paiges case, she had two. Starting with ron beigler. Journalist Carol Mckinley says the two were teenage sweethearts. Paige did have big dreams out of high school. She went to florida to go to school, wanted to be a midwife. But ron beigler followed her out there. Her grades start failing and she drops out. Reporter ron and paige move back to colorado. They have a huge wedding set on a peak over looking the denver skyline, but their youthful rush to the altar ends as quickly as it starts. Early on paige made it real clear to ron she wanted children. She adored children. But ron wanted no part of that. It turned out to be a deal breaker. Her friends say she got a divorce after two years. Reporter in the wake of that divorce, she meets rob dixon, an emergency medical technician who friends say really didnt need to work because he came from a wealthy family. Her inlaws, the dixons, were loaded. They made a fortune getting in on Early Technology with cell phones. Reporter that family fortune lined their son robs pockets for years. He loved spending his daddys money. He had six sports cars. Reporter in a town full of pick up trucks, rob dixon is driving a bright yellow ferrari. That definitely got everyones attention. She was being showered with gifts. There were bracelets, a 12,000 necklace. Reporter rob pops the question with an 85,000 thousand engagement ring. The newlyweds start a family right away. First, theres daughter jess, followed by two adorable boys taft and trigger. Im six and a half, and my sister is eight, and my baby brother is 3 and a half. They appear to be the perfect family. They have beautiful children in the expensive home, theyre living a champagne life in whats really a six pack town. Everything is going well, but then the bottom falls out. Reporter paiges dad says dixon makes a series of bad investments, and those bad investments lead to some bad blood. I think as robs wealth kind of toppled, i think he came under more and more pressure, and it bled out into the relationship. Reporter then one night in 2004, this what is your emergency . My husband and i were in a fight, and he was supposed to watch my children while i went to work. And he said that i would come home and find them all murdered. Reporter no charges were filed against dixon that year. But twelve months later he is charged with assault slapping and punching paige. Later this year, the couple divorced. She had some scary times but she got out of them. Reporter paiges friends barbara campbell, rina stockmeyer and andrea land spoke to 20 20s John Quinones in 2007. Lately, she was very concerned about him being around the kids. She had a lot of worry that it wasnt a healthy situation. Reporter then in march 2007, paige writes this bonechilling blog my children would ask me if dad was going to kill me. I cant imagine what life would be like for them after he killed me. The first person you thought might have done this . Rob was the first person that came to mind. My immediate thought on this thing was, rob dixon. Reporter to investigators, that all sounds like homicide 101 a roadmap leading right to rob dixon. Except dixon has an airtight alibi the night paige disappears. His cell phone records indicate hes 2,000 miles away at his new home in philadelphia the night paige goes missing. It quickly scratches dixon off the list. Hes effectively alibied because hes on the east coast. But then investigators turn their focus to paiges first husband who lives four hours away in aurora, colorado. Reporter and heres why it turns out that paige had rekindled her romance with her first love, ron beigle, and was with him just hours before she vanishes, having a picnic at this park in eagle, colorado. It wasnt anything that was out of the ordinary. We just decided to meet that day. Eagle was the Halfway Point for both of us. We left at the same time and arrived back in our towns at approximately the same time. She called me to make sure i made it back into denver and thats the last i ever heard from her. I need to talk to you about a missing person emergency. Reporter two days later, beigler calls 911 to report his exwife missing. I saw her all day on thursday and then i talked to her when she got back in town. She is definitely missing because she would never leave her children. Reporter her first husband, ron. She was with him that day. She leaves him. Hes the last person to see her. But he was ruled out pretty quickly . Effectively alibied by cell phone, et cetera. Reporter former District Attorney pete hautziner says like dixon, beigler has an alibi, too. Cell phone records place biegler four hours away in denver the night paige disappears, making it impossible for him to be in Grand Junction. So if it wasnt either of paiges exes, who might have had it in for paige . A major complication in the case was the fact that theres such a large number of alternative suspects who have to be eliminated by virtue of what she did for a living. Reporter when we come back, the secret life of the soccer mom exposed. Was it just massages or was it something more . The babysitters revelation about why Paige Birgfeld may have been in harms way with dozens of men. It was after hours. And as she was getting ready to leave, she sees this truck pull up. She just wanted out of there. She was extremely scared. Reporter see wha did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. 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Reporter in the light of day, paiges office, where she was selling pampered chef cookware, was located in this nondiscript, cluster of commercial office spaces. But after hours, paige reveals to only a few Close Friends it was also a front for pampering a much different brand, a sidebusiness she was running named, models, inc. What did she do . Bachelor parties. Reporter paiges double identity is still a touchy subject for those with whom she shared this dirty little secret, as we found when talking to some of them in 2007. She was learning to give massages. But, you know, lots of people give massages. So, i knew she was doing a little extra on the side, but it fit perfectly. Reporter the little extra was that paige, for the right price, would perform those ma e a massages topless. Surprisingly, even her ex ron beigler knew, and seemed to give it a rubber stamp. Average call was 450. There was no sexual touch touching. No sexual contact. No intercourse. That kind of thing, she charged more for each little thing that came off. Reporter in fact, she had this ad in the local paper, calling herself, carrie, and even posting a picture on a website called, naughty nightlife. Former District AttorneyPete Hautzinger puts it this way. I cant really say i ever knew exactly what specific services she was running. It was clearly an adult Escort Service. It was clearly highly unusual for western colorado. Reporter in her profile, paige seemed pretty adept at doubleentendre, boasting, tired of chopped meat showing up when you ordered filet mignon . She didnt tell you about this other life she was leading . Reporter 2020s John Quinones first spoke to paiges family in 2007. I think she realized that we would not approve. And actually now that i know about it, i think she was trying to keep the house and the kids together. Its not exactly what a brother likes to hear his little sister is doing. Im continually having to talk about things that if i heard people talking about them in the locker room after a football game, id beat the crap out of the guys. But, it was part of her life. And, like it or not, thats the way she chose to provide for her kids. Reporter paiges former roomate, jaime sivernail says that was the only conceivable reason the otherwise wholesome single mom of three would moonlight as a sexy massuese. She felt like its something she needed to do to be able to keep a roof over their head and put food on the table. She needed the money . Yeah, yeah. Shes one more single mom out there trying to figure out a way to make ends means without her kids suffering. Reporter it wasnt until after paiges disappearance, that the shocking news of her Side Business came to light. When it did, it spread like a wildfire across a dry colorado mesa. Investigators say she was a mom who led a secret double life, running her own Escort Service. Reporter paige now had the proverbial Scarlet Letter on her chest. When it came out that she ran an Escort Service it dwindled down to practically nothing. Nobody cared anymore because she was that sort of woman. Reporter but investigators care, and they learn the night Paige Birgfeld disappears, she receives dozens of calls from men seeking her services. Yes this is buddy. I was wondering if you had any girls available this afternoon. Hey this is jim. Im going to go get me a motel room now. Hello my name is bill. Just calling to see if anybodys Still Available for the night. A major complication in the