Multitude of people that we needed to start looking at rmpt a they had a list of names and whether or not they would have sex. Could investigators get their man before he struck again. I turned around and he said i am going to kill you. It has been years since she vanished but few people in Grand Junction, colorado have forgotten paige. The story of the Young Mothers disappearance has woven itself into local lore. It is a mystery we have been following since it began and now as thunder heads darken the high desert sky, finally a trial. What he told me is that he knew how to get rid of a body so that nobody could find it. He said i am going to kill you and he slapped me repeatedly. Finally rumors and gossip would be dispelled or made fact and the secrets, known not only by the guilty and also the shamed. It would finally be revealed. Why so many secrets, whispers, rumors. Because in this town where Everybody Knows everybody elses business there were enough suspects to fill a minivan. I was put on care for the first 48 hours and then sent to jail. I did not kill paige. Bottom line. It was late june, 2007. News of the disappearance spread like the morning sun. Over the mountains in denver, four hours away frank was driving to his office and the phone rang. Voice on the phone say this is is somebody with the mesa county Sheriffs Office. He said are you paiges dad. He said did you know she is missing. Barbara campbell got the call from her husband who told her paige is missing. What do you mean she is missing. Andrea lamb got the news in an email. Paige is missing. I knew something horrible had to have happened. It did not make any sense that she would be missing. No way to prepare for such a thing. One of those women that was just a little bit intimidating at first if you are more of an average mom. Andrea land and the other Young Mothers could have been forgiven for feeling a little envy. She had the look, the money, the big house on the hill and three attractive kids. But no. It wasnt like that at all. The way that she talked and the way that she acted and treated you. Everything about her was just so wonderful. Barbara campbell, andrea and paige were members of Grand Junctions moms club international. The kind of social and support group for young stay at home mothers. Once a year they would throw a spring fling and put on prom for moms. Fancy clothes. Red carpet entry. Even a pretend reporter throwing fashion questions. Paige was always the star, of course. And this year the party was held at her place which made it a very special event. Most of us did not live in a home that large. She was so down to earth and humble about it. Once you got over the artwork on the walls and how beautiful of a home that it was, you almost forgot you were in this really very high end home. She was so comfortable hosting people that she made anybody there feel comfortable. Sometimes you meet someone and you instantly have a good feeling about them. You are going to be friends with them and it will be an instant match. They said that after meeting a friend on the after of thursday june 27th, paige simply did not come home. As they drove from denver to Grand Junction, paiges parents tried to understand what was happening. I dont know that i was very tense or i thought of the worst. Gee, i wonder where she is. But as the drive went on it became more and more anxious and more and more tight. I will be calling the kids on the home phone just saying that we are going to be there and trying to sound reassuring. The kids just had a nanny with them because paige parted with her husband who moved out of state. As a single mom with three kids paige had her life well in control due in no small part to her obsessive organizational skills, ran several Small Businesses and kept track of every soccer and dentist appointment in a oldfashioned day planner. She would come over to visit and it came in the door and right there in front of her. She was always checking it and phoning. Overbooked, divorced, three kids. The first question you was there a chance that paige simply walked out on her life. We talked about, boy, sometimes i just want top run away. And she said you know i never feel that way. I never want to run away even if i did want to run away just to get away from here i would want to take my kids with me. There is no way she would leave without her children. If she needed to hide she would have found a way to do it with them. What happened to paige, her friends and parents did not know what to do or where to look. Maybe a clue could be found, tucked away in her day planner. Except it too was missing. Planr except it too was missing. Coming up. Hi mom. I was just wondering police piece together the hours leading up to paiges disappearance. Hi. Im at the corner of 23 and logos. 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The big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. It was a thursday, june 28th when paige birdfeld of Grand Junction, colorado quite suddenlily went off of the radar. The mesa county sheriffs investigators set out to trace her steps that day. We found out that she had been at eagle visiting her exhusband and they were reconciling at that point. He having been the last person to see her would be a person of interest. Yes, obviously he was a person of interest. This person of interest was paiges first exhusband. 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 a new why they fell in love. It was like no time passed at all. This is ron taking to a dateline producer soon after paiges disappearance. What point did you rekindle your relationship . About six months ago. We tried to take it slow but there was no denying it was just as it was before. He lived in denver, a fourhour drive east. The two lovers would often meet on a midway point. We were going to have a picnic and hang out together all day. We went to subway and brought it back to where we were sitting outside down by the river. It was familiar. I brought pictures. You know we just sat there and relaxed and enjoyed the day and the weather. It was a special, wonderful day. Around 7 00 p. M. , they kissed and said goodbye and drove back to their respective sides of the state. Two hours later paige called. To see if i made it back in to denver and then we had a brief conversation. Paige told him she wasnt home yet and was stuck behind a bad Traffic Accident in Grand Junction and investigators confirmed there was a fatal Traffic Accident at this incident. Somebody saw paiges car here that very evening. The thing is this is five miles past her house. Why was she here . An hour later, 9 56, paiges 8yearold daughter left the anxious voicemail on her mothers cell phone. I was wondering when you will get home. Love you. Bye. No response. Her daughter waited and worried and called again. Hi mom. I was just wondering when you were go to get home, bye. They slept them best they could all three children and awoke the next day, friday june 29th to a whole new kind of anxiety. She still wasnt home. Hi mom. You said you would be back last night and youre not even back today, bye. Something in the pit of the stomach, paiges old and new love. Hi. Where are you . Call me if you get a chance. Im getting worried about you. Hour and hour they piled up. Phone messages like a normal day. Hi paige. Hi this is sears repair service. Your pool cleared up. Give me a call. Not a single call was returned. Again that night the children with their nanny waited for their mother. The following day, saturday june 30th ron called the house and spoke to paiges 8yearold daughter. She didnt sound that distraug distraught. I dont think she had any idea what was going on. Of course she didnt. The next call was to 911. I need to talk to you about a missing person emergency. Who is missing . Her name is paige dixon. How old is paige. She hasnt been home all night thursday, today. And that is when word of paiges disappearance began to spread across colorado and investigators did not have a clue what happened to paige. They wondered if he did. Have police questioned you . They have. Have they released you as a potential suspect . I dont know what they have done on that. I know that was never a concern or worry of mine and having anything pinned on me, you know. You have an alibi for that night . I am confident that the police know that i have nogueira do wi anything to do with it. Do you have any idea what was happen something. A major premedidatated abduction or a random incident. But sometimes those not asking questions find answers. It was the third day, sunday july 1st, 2007, 9 58 p. M. A woman driving home from work slammed on her brakes and called 911. Hi. I am at the corner of 23 and logos and there is a car on fire in the parking lot of the building right here. There is a car in fire. Flames and smoke . Yeah. A lot of flames. Coming up, paiges car. What will it reveal . It was on the drivers side. And something else, belonging to paige. It was an awful feeling of dread thinking how did it get here and what did it mean. Either paiges abductor was trying to throw them off track. She was in the car or dumped the items out. When dateline continues. E it. When dateline continues top i yeah. Whoops but julie has resolve pet expert. Its latest formula attacks odors at the source. No odor. No stain. No nothin. Whatever happens, no big deal. Resolve. Find your getupandgo. Find pants that arent sweats. Find your friends. Find your sense of wander. Find the world is new, again. At chevy wed like to take you there. 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Meaning that is where the fire started and where the arsonist wanted to be sure to erase evidence. Under the car, damaged skid plates and strands of wild grass caught in the suspension meaning someone had driven off road very recently, afterwards dumped and torched the call in an industrial area. Didnt fit for the car to be there. News of the car fire was a turning point. No longer did the public suspect it was the case of an overwhelmed run away mom. The response was an outpouring of volunteers and a Spontaneous Community project to find paige. I know what i would be feeling like. I wanted to try to help if i could. Paiges dad was there every day greeting a small army of volunteers. For people to give of themselves to that degree. One of our moms was gone. Her kids needed her. We needed our friend. Our kids needed to know that if someones mom is missing that people are going to work hard to find her. Paiges brother and wife came from seattle to help. We are looking for clues to find that person. But this seemed odd. Not helping to find paige was her exhusband and current boyfriend. Do you feel you wish you could go there and help search for there. A part of me does, definitely. What is keeping you away from there . I dont know if i can handle being right in the situation. And then knowing that we were preparing a report about the case he made a strange request. Try to keep me out as much as possible. I dont want to be on talking about things. Hundreds of people, many who never met paige searched on horse back and foot appeared under bushes and walked miles in desert brush in 100 degree heat and nothing. Paige could have been anywhere. Four days after paiges disappearance, a driver stopped along a lonely stretch of highway 50 and as he stepped out of his truck a piece of litter caught his eye. A blank check trapped in the roadside weeds. The name on it paige dixon, paiges married name. So then the flock of searchers descended on that road. Making my way back west, i saw a checkbook. An awful feeling of dread thinking how does it get here or what does it mean. Paiges wallet, charm bracelet, the shoes, cards, dozens of checks from paiges personal and professional accounts, nearly 100 items spread along 13 miles of road leading investigators with two different theories. Either paiges abductors was trying to throw them off track. Or she was dumping the items out to create a trail. Paiges most recent exhusband, rob dixon came back to town to look after the kids and help with the search. His reappearance stopped volunteers in their tracks because of the stories that paige told while they were married, many thought him the most obvious suspect. She was afraid of him. Coming up. 911, what is your emergency . My husband and i had a fight. He was supposed to watch my children and he said i would come home and find them all murdered. What else paige told loved ones about rob dixon. D ones about rob dixon robinhood believes now is the time to do money. Without the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Here is what is happening. There are over 5. 4 million cases of the coronavirus in the United States and more than 170,000 people have died from the virus. Earlier california became the first state to report over 600,000 cases of covid19. The u. S. Postal service announced they will postpone removing collection boxes for the next 90 days following complaints about the removal of dozen of usps collection boxes. Now back to dateline. A wave of whispers spread of the speed of suspicion among the search ares missing from the missing mother. The ex was in town, rob dixon. The one that paige had all of the trouble with. The relationship did not start out that way. It never does. At first we only saw what we referred to as the good rob side. That is certainly what paige only saw. And we he was part of our family. We loved him as much as an inlaw would be. He was a good guy to have. Dixon had been a hard working paramedic until his dad made a onetime fortune in the Tech Industry and passed it on to his kids. Not long after getting his millions dixon met and married paige. They had three kids and moved into a fine, big house. He admitted to having over 10 million. I think when you admit to that you have maybe twice that much. Paiges parents watched him change. The whole town saw that actually. In his garage, i saw three range rovers, a jaguar, two porsches and later a lemon yellow ferrari. If you have been to Grand Junction and want to fit in a yellow ferrari is not what you do. Moms club would get together. They would have occasions when all of the families would get together but he would never come to any of them. I was so baffled as someone as upbeat and eternally happy as paige could have this grump around. But in hopes of promoting good will or himself dixon joined the Grand JunctionFire District board and donated a brandnew fire truck and his generosity made news and had locals wondering if they misjudged him but soon it turned to dust. Dixon got himself in charge of Fire District investments, put public money in what he said was a sure thing. It wasnt. The money vanished. I recall about 750,000 in bad investments. I made the decision to take that case to the grand jury and ultimately the grand jury decided felony stupid but not worthy of criminal charges. One day a repo man showed up for the shiny new fire truck. Turned out the fire truck was leased. They came and took it away from the Fire Department. That is when frank and paige and the whole town found out dixons money was gone too. He gave it to someone who pyramid schemed it. It all kept dixon on the front pages of the local paper for months, a serious of public humiliations extending with an exclamation point. He was a big deal because he had a lot of money. Then to lose it and to be disgraced in a relatively small community. I think that was predictable and i think for rob that is what happened. She told friends that she was afraid he would kill her. He said he would kill her several times. In 2004 paige in the midst of the downward spiral called 911. What is your emergency . My husband and i were in a fight and he was supposed to watch my children when i went to work. He said i would come home to find them all murdered. Police were dispatched but no arrest. According to paiges parents, the fighting got worse. It was very ugly the psychological and Emotional Abuse that she endured all of the time. When i was there visiting i saw an awful lot of it. After a second incident, dixon was arrested on suspicion of third degree assault. We have a misdemeanor do mystic violence case with him as the victim. Dixon pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and the entire case was later thrown out. Paige filed for divorce. Dixon for bankruptcy and moved away to philadelphia to work as an emt again. Paige did what she could to keep the kids in the only home they had ever known, that big place with th