The Secret Life of Paige Birgfeld

Grand Junction is situated on the western slope of Colorado, and it's very mountainous and beautiful. [MUSIC] I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but one thing is apparent, it is very tough to reign the search in.

[MUSIC] There are hundreds of thousands of places where you could hide the body

and we might never find it.

I'm Frank Bergfeld. I'm the father of Paige Meredith Bergfeld. She's the mother of three children. My sister did not return from a meeting she had with a previous husband of hers. Paige was within five miles of the house here in Grand Junction and disappeared.

My sister was missing.

“You started asking, missing, what do you mean missing?”

My name is Pete Houtsinger. I'm the District Attorney for Mesa County, Colorado. [MUSIC] We're looking at somebody who is disappeared. We don't know why.

I said you're in the midst of a crime. This is not someone who would run off.

Paige would have never, never abandoned her children.

Loves are kids appears to be a typical divorced mom. I was in a nice house in one of the nicer neighborhoods in Grand Junction. I'm an 825. They found her car abandoned in a parking lot and lit on fire a couple days after she went missing. This led investigators to believe that there was foul play involved.

“We searched fields, national parks, mountains.”

And I am committed to search for her until we find her and bring her home. Then we started finding out some things that really pretty much changed everything. First you find out Paige is missing. And then within a couple of days we started finding out about this other life that we didn't know about. You start hearing things about your own daughter that you didn't know about.

We got more details about the extent of Paige's business and the type of person she was in the type of lifestyle she led her. After Jess was born she had told me that she wasn't doing it anymore. She kept all these secrets from her friends and family. She said she had been making 400,000 a year doing it and she didn't need to do it anymore.

She had a couple things in her computer. I said okay well that certainly puts a different twist on this investigation. Where is my girl? She may be a 34-year-old woman. A mother of three children. But to me she's just my little girl.

We first brought you the story of Paige Bergfeld in 2008. Shortly after the young Colorado mother of three disappeared,

“a police discovered that she was leading a secret life.”

A life that may have led to her disappearance. We've tracked her story ever since. And tonight at long last the mystery of what happened to Paige Bergfeld may finally be solved.

Paige was always the one that was family first and she was always the one that was keeping us together.

How many would like a cookout out by the pool? No one loved a family gathering more than the one person missing from this one. 34-year-old Paige Bergfeld. I mean she would literally beam, she would radiate. Those were the absolute cherished times that she enjoys most.

So when their daughter Paige vanished, Frank and Susie Bergfeld feared the worst. This is a crime. There's a crime here. Instantly I knew this was a problem. She didn't want to even go out to dinner without her children.

For them we need to find her and we need to bring her home. Paige's older brother, Dr. Craig Bergfeld, is a long way from his home in Seattle. By day he specializes in the facial reconstruction of children. And by night he's dad to his own young family. Is that the T-rexport?

Yes. And a devoted husband to his wife, Cali. But now living in his sister's home, Dr. Bergfeld has a new full-time job on the Craig to pages three young children.

be family there for them, just help them.

“And I just remembered, you know, little girl just going,”

"So do you know what happened to my mom? Do you know where she is?" And I was like, "What do I say?" So I said, "Wherever she is, she wants to be with you right now." Paige had a circle of close friends.

Her kids love her. They glow when she's around.

And Paige was the type of parent that always was around according to her friends as a single mother she had to be.

Her ex-husband Rob Dixon was living in Philadelphia. After their divorce in 2006, Paige was the primary caregiver for their three children. It wasn't an easy job. Paige is the most patient and loving mother I've ever seen. But it was the only job Paige had ever wanted.

“I think as long as I can remember what she wanted to be was a mom,”

and she just couldn't wait to be that mom. So when Paige Bergfeld disappeared, Sheriff Stan Helke was pretty convinced this mother three would not leave on her own. There's nothing in our investigation. At all, that leads us to believe that she is a band in her life or a band in her children.

And gone off in that regard. My daughter, if she had two broken legs, she'd crawl in her. She'd crawl in her elbows to the twitch of her. Authorities started by looking at those closest to Paige. It's kind of police investigations 101 that you usually will look at the emotionally involved people.

Ex-husbands or current husbands, etc. And they quickly learned that Paige Bergfeld had not won, but two ex-husbands.

Her first husband was her high school sweetheart, Ron Bigler.

He was the first big hard-throb, the first big to love. In fact, for the past few months, the two had been dating again. She was very excited about rekindling her relationship with Ron. Ten years after divorcing her first husband, Paige said she was in love with him again. An ex-husband number one became the focus of the investigation in June 2007.

When it's learned, he was with Paige the day she disappeared. We believe that, yes, she was with her first ex-husband that day of the 28th. Paige and Bigler had their last date at this rest stop. A halfway point between her home in Grand Junction and his home were them four hours away. I understand that Paige and Ron Bigler had planned to meet had a picnic spent part of the afternoon together.

When she was driving home later that night around 9pm, Paige called Bigler from her cell phone. They spoke briefly and Paige told him she'd call him later. It has helped us identify persons of interest. Cell phone record show the page was just a few miles from her home when she made that call to Bigler, and that phone call was one of her last.

Paige never did call Bigler back that night.

So the next day he tried calling her. And her phone rolled over to the voice message right away. So just indicate the phone was turned off or the battery was down. On Saturday morning, two days after seeing Paige, Bigler finally tried calling her at home. Paige's live in Nanny was taking care of her three children.

He actually called the house and got her granddaughter. And she was the one to told him that Paige hadn't been home since Thursday night. At that point, the alarm start going off. And he touched base with us, touch base with the sheriff's office, and things started getting in gear then.

And ironically, after Bigler called authorities to report Paige missing, he became one of the first they wanted to question. And I'm sure he was open and willing to have them look at him. Although Bigler was one of the last to see and speak with Paige, those who know him believe he's also one of the last who'd want to harm her.

“We met with him recently and I think he is very devoted to Paige and very emotional that she's not here.”

I've spoken to him on the phone since she went missing. Obviously, he's pretty distraught and upset that she's not around.

Paige's friends were far more suspicious about her second ex-husband, Rob Dixon,

the father of her three children.

“A lot of her friends would say, "Where was Rob? I'm afraid Rob is involved."”

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To be a good morning. But Paige's family knew they'd have to start somewhere. If they were ever going to find her.

“You want to get out and start looking and try and figure out where she is.”

So Craig and Callie Birdfelt set off in one direction. Thank you. Hopefully we'll find her today. And Frank Birdfelt headed off in another. My daughter's the one who's missing. So when you're out there, keep your eyes open.

While the Birdfelt family searched for Paige, the sheriff's department continued its own investigation. Deputies brought in specialty divers to search the river.

And they got one of their first big leads in the case

when someone called 911 after seeing a car and flames parked in an empty lot. It turned out to be Paige's car. The car she was driving when she disappeared. The next morning authorities discovered that the fire was started from inside the car on the passenger side.

DA Pete Haltsinger. It at least suggests to me that that person is fairly savvy. And intelligent enough to think that there's a real possibility law enforcement could find evidence in that car that would implicate him or her. It looks like whoever is involved here is not afraid of committing to crime.

And the realization of what that might mean for his daughter was too much to bear. You know what occurred to me? I hadn't cried a long time. I've learned how to do that. What's it? While Paige's family clung to hope that she was still alive.

The reality is creeping in that something bad has certainly happened here.

Investigators turned their attention to Paige's second ex-husband, Rob Dixon. The most recent ex-husband is a logical person to take a close look at. Paige met Dixon in 1997. And back then, he seemed like a real catch. Rob had a business success with his father.

Had a significant amount of wealth. It was a whirlwind courtship. And the following year, the two had a wedding and started a family together. And they moved to Grand Junction together. You know, moved into that house together.

Built onto that house together. But Dixon had extravagant taste. And he was reckless with his money. Investing millions of dollars in risky business ventures when the bills started piling up.

Paige did what she could to pitch in. She started a little preschool dance business. She called brain dance. She would have recitals twice a year and make costumes for all those students. Paige also sold high-end kitchen supplies out of her home for a company called The Pampered Chef.

And as one of the top sales agents, she earned a free trip to the Caribbean. But Dixon was losing money a lot faster than Paige was making it. In a few short years, his business investments fell through. And he'd lost almost everything.

“And I think as financial strain came on the relationship that got worse and worse.”

By 2004, the problems in the marriage took a term for the worse.

There are times where Rob is just really a good, good, funny guy, bright.

“But at other times, Rob is a difficult person to be around.”

He can be violently angry, condescending, derice it. You walk on egg shells, a feeling of tension. She stuck by him through a lot.

But when he started getting more angry and then finally violent,

she had to draw the line there. Finally, in October, Paige had to call the police for help. 911, where's your emergency? My husband and I were in a fight. He wanted the children to stay with him. And he said that I would come home and find him all murdered.

Such a name, Paige Gibson. By the time, police a local media arrived, the crisis was diffused. Dixon was allowed to leave after authorities decided he wasn't a threat to himself or anyone else. No charges were filed. Rob, what happened?

But one year later, the police were called again.

“Paige said Dixon had pushed her to the ground.”

Then later, he punched her while she was holding their baby. This time, in October 2005, Dixon was arrested. But the case was later settled after he completed a course in anger management.

When everything went rocky and she finally decided enough was enough

when the kids in her were put in jeopardy, she decided it was over. By the time the couple divorced in September 2006, Rob Dixon had declared bankruptcy. And he was living in Philadelphia when Paige disappeared. That's exactly where Dixon said he was in Philadelphia. 2000 miles away.

But when Paige's family found disturbing entries about Dixon, written on a website message board by Paige herself. They were hard to ignore. I've read the things that have been written on her website on the pamper chef website. And you know, they're pretty scary.

Just three months before she disappeared, Paige wrote,

“"My children would ask me if Daba was going to kill me.”

I can't imagine what they were thinking, life would be like after he killed me." Investigators questioned Dixon about his whereabouts the day his ex-wife vanished. But they didn't release details to the public. They didn't say that we have had contact with Rob Dixon, and that's all that we'll say about him.

But Paige's family got word that is alibi held up. I understand that a person's biography might make them a suspect at the same time if you're 2000 miles away. I think it paid you off the ruster. Both of Paige's ex-husband seemed to have had solid alibies.

So who impages life had any motive to harm her? And that led investigators to an even bigger mystery. This one about Paige herself. Please read your message and I'll get back to you in the next few days. Who knows why people make those sort of choices?

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Two weeks have passed since Paige had vanished. You realize, unless you know where to look, you could spend the rest of your life looking around out there. It's just so remote. This is big country out here.

It is vast. And the question remained, where to look when the VISTA stretches out as far as the eye can see. There are hundreds of thousands of miles around us, which could be used to hide a body.

But the investigation was about to get a lucky break. Her name, Connie Flooky. We'll never quit.

I will never, ever give up.

Connie's can do spirit inspired the dozens of other volunteers here to help find Paige Bergfeld.

Ah, no. She just gave hope. We were starting to become so dejected. And she just walked in and took charge.

“Everybody, I'm getting right to send a team out, okay?”

That's the work. Greg and Kelly got ready to search. And the punishing desert heat. I'm Greg, Paige is my sister. I wanted to thank you guys for coming to look for her.

Today's going to be the day. I know today's going to be the day. Today's the day we're going to find her. We'll go up this road. Loop back down that one.

As the volunteers pressed on, the birdfelds had to navigate through a darker, more difficult terrain. The mysterious double life that Paige had apparently been leading. She had a couple things on her computer. We were saying, wait a minute, what's this computer doing here?

Yeah, why don't the police have this computer? So they called police because they were convinced that her computer held clues that could have put her in danger. It doesn't change what I think of her. I would give anything to see her again right now and give her a big hug.

As Craig's concern grew, the search paid off with a discovery that could lead them closer to Paige.

They did find some pretty critical pieces of information for us down on Highway 50.

Various personal items such as Paige's checkbook and a membership card to a local video store were found scattered along this highway. Fifteen miles from where her burned out car was discovered. Obviously our focus is still on Paige, not just her things,

but her things do hopefully lead us to her. For all its beauty, there is clearly a darker side of the mesa. It's beautiful, let's scary for me now. Every search I pray that we find my sister. We're halfway through this canyon, we haven't found her yet.

Still hoping we do the part of me still praying that we don't. I haven't found her not alive. As long as that condition exists, I presume she is. I choose to hold out hope. We're coming Paige, we're coming.

We are coming to get you. [Music]

First you find out Paige is missing.

Then within a couple of days, we started finding out about this other life that we didn't know about.

“It was a life-capped secret from our family.”

Well at first blush, she looked us to be a really good mom, very active with her kids. District Attorney Pete Houtsinger. Then some things came out that really pretty much changed everything. And that's when Grand Junction began asking,

not just where Paige Bergfeld was, but also who she was. Who she really was. She had a side industry and it wasn't just any side business. It turns out Paige wasn't just teaching dance classes

and selling kitchen products. In provocative ads on the internet, Paige was also known as Carrie, a high-priced escort. I for one was shocked. I've been a prosecutor for 20 years.

This is the first time I've encountered somebody from that kind of socioeconomic level

and that kind of family involvement to be involved in this business. Sections with Carrie could include stripping, dancing, and role playing. On one website, she suggests that clients can pay for extras, such as topless and nude massage. Those were things that we didn't know anything about before she went missing.

But have unfortunately learned about since.

“I think we're frank and Susie that the thought of their daughter,”

even doing that. It didn't even cross their minds because it's their daughter. You don't think your daughter's going to do that. So I think for them it was a really, really big shock. As upsetting as it was for Paige's family to learn about her secret life,

they were convinced she turned to the escort world for one reason and one reason only her children.

Paige was overwhelmed with debt.

“She had three children and her ex-husband was bankrupt.”

Paige only $500 a month in child support. Plus Paige's mortgage was huge, almost $6,000 a month.

It never really made sense to me that she would be able to come up with a mortgage

for that place for more than a couple of months. Her friends, I page did what she had to do. And turned to the one job she knew would pay well. She always saw a situation and got it under control. If something needed to be done, she made sure it happened.

I would say that whatever she was doing was for her children. And it has no bearing on the kind of mother friend that she is. And her sister-in-law, Callie, now thinks she knows where Paige got the idea to become an escort in the first place. Many years earlier, Callie had asked Paige how she was able to afford her first home

on a dance teacher's salary. I flat out after she was doing something other than teaching dance. And she told me that she had been stripping before becoming a mother. Paige had worked as a stripper at a place called The Mile High Saloon. And Denver, when she was 21 years old,

she said she had been making 400,000 a year doing it. And that, you know, she didn't need to do it anymore. But apparently, she later did. And so they were like, OK, you can kind of see where Paige made the next step to escort. I wish I had been given the opportunity to be involved

and perhaps been able to sort it out. I would have counseled her that that strikes me as dangerous. It doesn't sound totally moral. Paige's family knew this new information could help investigators. Figure out who was responsible for Paige's disappearance.

It opens up a whole, another list of people, a whole, another group of people.

“But will it also bring them closer to learning what happened to Paige?”

News that is difficult to hear. She was probably murdered by one of her clients.

Police never found a diary or a black book with names.

But she did have that cell phone, and that helped investigators track down everyone who had had contact with Paige. We have looked very carefully at all of her clients, and have made every effort to investigate everybody who may have been on that list of people.

She was going to be contacting later that night. That included George Coraluso, a 30-year-old house painter, who called Paige 20 times on the day she disappeared. He also left town hurriedly two days after her disappearance. And there was also this man, a 56-year-old father of two,

named "Lester Ralph Jones." Actually, I was out searching,

and that's the first time I heard of him.

At that time, the rumor was that he had known Paige through the escort service. Mr. Jones was a client of Miss Burkebelts. My understanding is there had been at least more than one encounter. Authorities got warrants to conduct searches of his home, where he lived with his third wife.

They spent hours searching through his belongings, but wouldn't talk about what they found, not even with Paige's family. I can't comment specifically as to what was or was not found in Mr. Jones's home.

“And remember her burned-out car discovered a few miles from her home?”

Search stars led investigators from that parking lot to an RV shop across the street. It turns out that's where Ralph Jones worked as a mechanic. The fact that her car was burning so close to his place of employment is at least one significant fact.

Common sense certainly would indicate that it's something more than a coincidence. There's something else that links Ralph Jones to the disappearance of Paige Burkebelts. One of the last conversations she had that night was with someone using a throw away phone like this. According to investigators, there's surveillance video from a local Walmart. Showing a man, they say his Jones finds such a phone.

Jones declined our request for an interview, and denied having anything to do with Paige's disappearance. But Ralph Jones does have a criminal record, a record that shows he was more than capable of violence.

It's pretty scary stuff.

“Jones was arrested for two incidents involving his estranged wife Lisa back in 1999.”

In one of them, he threatened to take her someplace remote and killer.

Jones served three years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and assault charges, both felonies. Those are by definition kind of violent offenses, none of that bodes well if Paige had any kind of involvement with him at all. It's not the kind of person you want to be out alone with your sister. And so, more than three months after Paige Burkebelts disappeared, authorities publicly cleared her two ex-husbands.

Although George Coraloozo remained a person of interest, they named the main target of their investigation. We have narrowed it down to one primary suspect that being Lester Ralph Jones.

“Lester Jones has been our primary suspect from the very beginning of the case.”

Chief Deputy District Attorney Dan Rubenstein was now heading up the Paige Burkebelts murder investigation. He was convinced that Lester Ralph Jones, a convicted felon and a client of Paige's escort service, was the man who killed her. But without Paige's body, he didn't feel he could prove it.

Paige went missing in June of 2007. We always knew that the case wasn't something we were ever going to be able to prosecute until we found her.

Let's go. Come on. Let's go find Paige. Frank Birdfell never stopped searching for his daughter. There's so many acres. His determination to find her fuel by his concern that the investigation was stalled. Many of these cases were never solved. You know, how many times do we see one of these in the paper

and you never hear anything more about it? There's no doubt that the family was frustrated and I do not blame them at all.

But then, five years after Paige went missing, a break.

A hiker came across partial human remains in a galley, right where a team of volunteers had been searching. There were people that were in that area at time after time over that five year period from 2007 to 2012, so her body must have been buried at least deep enough to have hidden it from people going by. Investigators had little trouble identifying the remains. Pages were found in detail.

It was Paige. We had her jaw and her skull were found intact with the teeth and we were able to get her dental records and verify that the dental records matched up with the teeth. Although investigators couldn't determine how she died, Paige's bones gave clues. Among other injuries, her cheekbone was badly fractured, a sign she may have been beaten. That fracture occurred at or near the time of her death.

Other findings helped the investigators piece together the circumstances of the last hours of her life. There was also some duct tape that appeared to be right around the area where the skull was found. Suggesting she may have been tied and gagged and there was more. Knowing where she had been found, now helped explain the objects that had been discovered when she was initially reported missing. Checks.

Business cards, drivers, license, other documents that had pages or her kids' names on them that were strewn about the highway about five miles before the area where her remains were found.

“That I think is indicative of somebody who is kidnapped throwing those items out.”

Investigators believe that Paige desperately reaching out for help was leaving a trail to wherever she was being taken. For Bergfeld's family, all these discoveries were hard to bear. My feelings were heavy dose of sadness. Even when we were searching, you wanted to find her, but you didn't want to find her. Adding to their pain, they would have to wait for a proper burial for their daughter. When she was found, I went ahead and made arrangements with the local funeral home to go ahead and retrieve her.

We would then decide what to do with the remains. We were told that they weren't going to give her to us. In fact, I assume that she is in a cardboard box in the corners office.

If it was any consolation, with Paige's remains discovered, the case could finally move forward.

“Once you find the body, you've taken away one of the important reasonable doubts that are going to be in a criminal trial.”

The evidence is still circumstantial, but Rubenstein believes he now has enough to make his case against Leicester Ralph Jones. He's confirmed that the only other potential suspect, George Coraluso, had a solid alibi for the time-page disappeared. And was in New Jersey, the night her car was set on fire. The car was in the parking lot across from where Jones worked. The seat pushed back to accommodate someone much taller than Paige.

And there is the track phone. Actually, only made five phone calls in its entire history, and all five of those phone calls were either two pages' work phone. The last phone call was from her phone. Despite Jones' denials, that he owns such a phone, Rubenstein says he can prove that Jones lied. We have video evidence of Mr. Jones buying that track phone.

“We've, you know, have the computer records showing the exact date, time, store, and register that that track phone was purchased at.”

And we pulled the video, and it was Mr. Jones purchasing it. And then there is this. Mr. Jones? Mr. Jones? Mr. Jones?

This is Art Smith with the Sheriff's Office. Just going to let you know that we have both your cars ready for you and your wife. A bizarre phone call between Jones and a local sheriff, who would seize two cars belonging to Jones, so that they could be thoroughly searched.

Trying to come and take him off. Sergeant Smith, contact the Mr. Jones, just simply to let him know that the vehicles were ready to be released and to figure out how they wanted to go about doing that. It was a simple routine phone call, and he didn't get the response he was expecting. Mr. Jones, I'm not following you. He asked me to hurt, I'm in very light. I'm sorry. He asked me to hurt, I should bury his body.

When did I ask you that? Mr. Jones, are you there? That was to me a very, very interesting thing for him to say. And certainly would be the sort of thing that would go towards being satisfied with him. Mr. Ralph Jones killed my daughter.

The call, along with all the other evidence, did the trick. In November 2014, just before Thanksgiving, more than seven years since Page Burke felt disappeared. Mr. Ralph Jones was arrested and charged with a murder and kidnapping. He appeared notably unsupprised. Mr. did not react at all when he was told that there was an arrest warrant for him.

He didn't ask what it was for. He just turned around and put his hands behind his back.

Jones went to jail. His bail said it $2 million, but for the prosecutor and pages family, the case was far from over.

We certainly believe we had enough to bring it to a jury, but remember at this stage in the process, these are just allegations. And they must be proven in court. Did Jones kill Page Burke felt? If so, how did he do it? Certainly, our intention to have a front row seat.

And like his commitment to search for his daughter, Frank Burke felt is committed to attend the trial every single day.

“I'd like to say goodbye to her. I think I would do her.”

With all that the family has endured, the years of uncertainty, the discovery of their daughter's secret life and the painful proof of her death, they preferred to remember Page as she was.

And for them, will always be.

Motherhood was central to her life. The kids meant everything. As far as a legacy, a remember Page a smile. I guess I would call it radiant in her obituary. It was said that she was so radiant, it made the sun jealous. And I would think that would be, at least for me, what sticks with me, the most.

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Thank you, please rise for our jury.

In July 2016, nine years after Page Birdfeld went missing, Lester Ralph Jones went on trial for her murder. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

“With no direct evidence, the prosecution's case was circumstantial.”

The only calls from that track phone were to page Birdfeld, and they ended at the time of her disappearance. That makes the county sheriff's. Lester Jones defense team countered by introducing five alternate suspects. These are men that the sheriff's office let slip through their fingers,

while they were busy fixating on Mr. Jones. But after a six week trial, the jury was deadlocked. Although they all thought Jones was guilty, several had reasonable doubt.

“Is there a likelihood of progress towards a unanimous verdict?”

No, no, all right, thank you. [Music] After a mistrial was declared, I'm sorry. One of the jurors apologized to the Bergfeld.

One of this, and I saw you all during the trial, and I see the agony, I'm sorry. [Music] Please rise to our jury.

But there was a second trial,

which would end just days after Christmas 2016. And this jury could reach a verdict. We, the jury, find the defendant, Lester Ralph Jones, guilty of count one, murder in the first degree. Convicted of the kidnapping murder.

Jones was sentenced to life in prison without parole. [Music] But having him brought to justice after almost nine years seemed to give Paige's father Frank little comfort as he expressed in this phone interview.

What happens to him doesn't bring Paige back? If he wanted to make me a deal and skip person and bring a bad guy, it's taken. [Music]