ablaze, so jarrell let him go. reporter: if he didn t burn the car, doesn t that let him out? no. reporter: why not? because his actions lead me to believe that he did something so disgusting and vile that he had to leave grand junction and lie about his family dying. something happened. reporter: and there was something else, said meagan. he told multiple people that he did something so terrible that he could never take it to the grave and that he would never be forgiven. what was that besides murdering somebody? george was a sketchy person and he totally did this. reporter: the coralluzzo she knew, she said, was cunning enough to have one of his pals help him, somebody like this guy, his best friend, jose tavera. detectives suspected that too. so they found tavera, brought him in for questioning, and what do you know, he d recently injured his arm. i had a bandage on it and the cop asked me he s all, what what is that, you
murder her and get rid of the body. he wasn t capable of it. reporter: of course, he might have been lying to protect his friend. detectives wanted to talk to coralluzzo himself but they couldn t find him. they asked for help. they re like, well, do you know where george is? i said george is dead. drowned the year before while swimming in a river in new jersey. still, to satisfy the d.a., investigators had to make a case that coralluzzo was either guilty or innocent, but because dead men don t talk, they had to go through seven years of reports, interviews and statements. and it was two years after paige s body was discovered, while wading through that mountain of material, an investigator stumbled on an overlooked piece of evidence that would change the case. it was security camera video of
here from new jersey and eager to hustle a buck or a woman or whatever. george corraluzzo was a george corraluzzo was a con man, a sick person. reporter: meagan williams knew coralluzo because he and her then husband had partnered in a house painting business. knowing coralluzzo as she did, she was not surprised by a visit she got on july 1st, 2007. sheriffs came to our house. and they said, is george corraluzzo here? i actually thought they were there to talk about this kidnapping case. reporter: to meagan this kidnapping case meant one six months earlier in which coralluzzo allegedly took this woman against her will on a long scary ride across state lines. i spilled to them everything i knew up to that point. reporter: thinking you were talking about a different crime altogether? correct. reporter: deputies didn t let on, but of course they were really looking into the disappearance of paige birgfeld, three days earlier. where was coralluzzo that day? well, very
to the metal and make a decision. reporter: now, finally with a body, they decided to fashion a murder case against one of the eight possible suspects, the two ex-husbands, rob dixon and ron beigler, had solid alibis. both being hundreds of miles away when paige was kidnapped and kill. so that left the six clients. of course, lester ralph jones was at the top of the list. but george coralluzzo, remember him? coralluzzo was the alternate suspect that gave me as the d.a. heartburn and concerns. that s because his alibi was so hard to pin down. witnesses say he was partying at jose tavera s apartment. but what time exactly? that depended on who you spoke to. what everybody did agree was this, coralluzzo was out of control. he was intoxicated, like slurring his words, not being able to focus. he wouldn t have been able to
know? the detective goes, what happened there? i said, well, i burned myself at work. he s like, well, are you good enough of a friend to burn a car down for george, you know. it was a traumatic time in grand junction, colorado. what with the fruitless search for the mother of three loved by so many who turned out to have secrets. and the day planner and voicemails and phone records that seemed to point eight different ways at once. two ex-husbands and six clients. i don t think i ve ever seen a more difficult case in my entire career. one by one the detectives cleared their suspects. or tried to. ex-husband number one and current boyfriend ron beigler. we were able to determine that mr. beigler had been in the denver area through cell phone