Spoke to her. And her second. She said that she was afraid of him. Was it one of her exes or was there someone else who would want to harm paige . Turns out this mother of three had a double life. She was fooling so many people that were close to her. A parallel existence where paige went by carrie and carrie took risks. Quite obviously its dangerous. Had that danger turned deadly . To uncover the truth, they would comb miles of desert and every inch of one womans complicated past. We were trying to find her and we werent going to stop until we found the truth. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with the secret life of a soccer mom. Reporter the news spread like the morning sun across Grand Junction in the high desert on colorados western fringe. As inexplicable and frightening as the burned car, the tossed wallet, the vanishing. It was june 28, 2007. Over the mountains, in denver, four hours away, Frank Birgfeld was driving to his office. Phone rang. Voice on the phone says, this is somebody with the mesa county Sheriffs Office. And he said, are you paiges dad . And i said, yep. And he said, did you know shes missing . Reporter Barbra Campbell got the call from her husband, hans, who told her. Paige is missing. What do you mean shes missing . Reporter andrea land got the news in an email. It said paige is missing in the subject line. I knew something horrible had to have happened because it didnt make any sense that she would be missing. Reporter no way for even a best friend to prepare for such a thing. Nor any way to understand just how much of it was going to be a mystery. How much they did not, could not know about the life and disappearance of Paige Birgfeld. Or what theyd be called on to do to bring her home. Stunningly beautiful. One of those women that was almost a little bit intimidating at first if you were, you know, your more average mom. Reporter andrea land and the other Young Mothers of Grand Junction could have been forgiven for feeling a little envy. Paige had the look, the money, the big house on the hill, three attractive kids. But no, it wasnt like that. Not at all. The way she talked, the way she acted, the way she treated you, everything about her was just so wonderful. Taking care of kids now every day reporter Barbra Campbell and andrea and paige were members of Grand Junctions moms club international, kind of a social and support group for young, stayathome moms. Woo reporter once a year theyd throw a spring fling, a sort of puton prom for moms. What with fancy clothes, red carpet entry and a pretend reporter throwing fashion questions. Tell us who youre wearing. Reporter paige was always the star, of course, and this year the party was held at her home, which made it a very special event. Most of us did not live in a home that large. She was just so downtoearth and humble about it that once you got over the artwork on the walls and how, you know, beautiful home it was you almost forgot that you were in this really very highend home. So the winner is drum roll, please Paige Birgfeld. She was so comfortable hosting people that made it made anybody there feel comfortable. Sometimes you meet someone and you just instantly have a good feeling about them. Youre going to be friends with them. Its just going to be an instant match. Thats what i had with paige. Reporter and then that call. The sheriff told the birgfelds that after meeting a friend on thursday afternoon paige simply didnt come home. Leaving her three children alone with a babysitter. As they drove from denver to Grand Junction, paiges parents tried to understand what was happening. Well, as we started out, i dont know that i was very tense or i thought of the worst. I guess, gee, i wonder where she is. I hope shes but as the drive went on, it became more and more anxious, more and more tight, more and more. And i would be calling the kids on the home phone just saying, were going to be there, you know, and trying to sound reassuring. Reporter the kids were alone because their father was long gone by then. Rob dixon had once been an emergency medical technician but had stumbled into some sort of family fortune whispered to be worth millions, drove a yellow ferrari. In a town full of pickup trucks. But money that comes easy can also leave that way. In robs case, according to paiges dad, one bad investment after another. When youre a big deal, when youre flying high, when youre a big guy around town and you go from there, the drop is a long, long way. Reporter and so money problems led to marriage problems. And paige and rob divorced, and he moved out of state and started working as an emt again while paige did her best to maintain the status quo for the three kids. Kept them in their huge house with the mortgage to match, close to six grand a month. It had a gigantic mortgage. And she was trying to hang on to keep the kids in that place. She would just sit and ponder how can a single mom with three kids make enough money to stay in the house that her husband used to support . Reporter paige launched several businesses, sold cooking products for a Company Called the pampered chef and slings for carrying babies. And she taught dancing classes for little kids. Anything to turn a buck. I have to tell you, entrepreneur wise, she was innovative. She just tried to keep her mind open to anything that would allow her a flexible schedule to still be with her kids and keep them at home. Reporter divorced woman. Three kids. A heavily mortgaged house. First question, was there a chance Paige Birgfeld simply walked out on her life . We talked about, boy, sometimes i just want to run away. And she said, you know, i never feel that way. 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While we dont know what, we were hopeful when we found the car things would fall into place, and maybe they will. Reporter this interview, though, was one frank just couldnt get through. You know, it occurred to me i havent cried in a long time. Ive learned how to do that. Reporter and it wouldnt be the last time. But it was the beginning of something, a fathers journey to bring his lost daughter home. The last person known to have seen paige the day she disappeared was a new Love Interest who was actually an old Love Interest. Her first husband ron beigler. He adored her. They had dated her last year of high school. Reporter she dropped out of college to marry him. And he wrote her poetry. If anyone wants to know the path to a womans heart. And hes very sweet but shy. Reporter did you like him . What did you think of him . We did. But he was not a wage earner. He had made the statement somewhere along the line he thought he had married up. And he probably did. Reporter their marriage came undone pretty quickly. But now, a decade later, after her divorce from the oncewealthy rob dixon, paige started seeing ron beigler again. Women know when another woman is, you know, suddenly in love with somebody. And you could tell that she was, you know, in love and giddy and happy. Reporter in fact, she was with ron beigler just hours before she vanished. With him all day. Biegler spoke to us in 2007 soon after paiges disappearance. We were sitting outside down by the river. It was very familiar. And, you know, i brought some pictures. You know. And we just sat there and relaxed and enjoyed the day and the weather. Reporter and that night, after their romantic picnic she called me before i got home to see if i made it back into denver. And then we had a brief conversation, you know, not too brief, but and i expected to hear from her later that night after she got home. Reporter instead, silence. And when he called her next morning, friday, his call went to voice mail. Hello. Youve reached the home offices for brain dance, pampered chef and maya wrap baby slings. Please leave a message and ill get back to you within the next few days. Reporter he called again and again, he said, ever more worried. Next Morning Saturday he called the sheriffs department. And four days after paige vanished, the search was on as volunteers turned a familys chaotic tragedy into a community project. Paiges dad was there every day greeting a small army of volunteers. Thanks for helping us. Reporter an outpouring of support that was, for frank, simply overwhelming. You know its just really tough. For people to give of themselves to that degree, i just reporter paiges 8yearold daughter, eager to help, decorated ski pole walking sticks for volunteers like Barbra Campbell. When we were first told that we could help with the searches it seemed strange. Just didnt make sense what we were doing. Was there a reality that we hadnt accepted possibly . Reporter they were desperate to find her. And they dreaded what they might find. One of our moms was gone. And her kids needed her, and we needed our friend. And our kids needed to know that if someones mom is missing, that people are going to work hard to find her. Reporter and then, days in and miles away, a driver pulled off the road on lonely stretch of highway 50 south of Grand Junction to check his tire pressure. And as he stepped out of his truck, a piece of litter caught his eye. It was a blank check trapped in the roadside weeds. The name on it . Paige birgfeld. Coming up as the search continues, the focus shifts to paiges second husband. She said that she had to call the police a few times and that she was afraid of him. Does your makeup remover take it all off . Every kissproof cryproof, stayproof look . Neutrogena® makeup remover does. It erases 99 of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. 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Now you can book appointments with our groomers online at petsmart. Com it was a pure fluke that the truck driver stopped to check his tires at the very spot be lying near an isolated stretch of highway. And the driver just happened to see it. No fluke what happened next though. One of the sudden flock of searchers who descended along that road was paiges good friend andrea land. Making my way back west along the median, i saw a checkbook. Reporter one of paiges checkbooks. And it just hit us like a ton of bricks. It was an awful feeling of dread, thinking how did this get here . Why is it here . What does it mean . Reporter so was paiges abductor just sloppily getting rid of evidence or was he trying to mislead searchers or did paige herself toss the contents of her purse out the window like a trail of so many breadcrumbs . So the search continued, on horseback, on atvs, on foot. They peered under bushes. They walked miles of desert brush in 100degree heat. They dragged the murky Gunnison River through the canyon floor. Nothing. During a short break in the search frank showed us a little sanctuary paige had built amid a stand of cottonwoods near her house. This is kind of life where it just stopped. It just stopped, and she vanished. Reporter then one day, said frank, he suddenly thought there she is. Thought hed spotted paige, shaded by the trees, playing with her children. And then i realized it was my daughterinlaw and her son. So you just all of a sudden plunge when you go from it was a dream to, boom, shes not here. Reporter paiges most recent exhusband, rob dixon, came back to town to look after the kids and help out with the search. And his reappearance stopped volunteers in their tracks. Because of the stories paige told while they were married, many thought him the most obvious suspect. He was always screaming and yelling and using bad language. Y demeaning and difficult for her. She said that she had to call the police a few times, and that she was afraid of him. At one of the birthday parties rob actually started to blow up on her and just got really upset with her. Some problem with the internet. I said, if he gets that upset over something that minor in his life, i cant imagine how he gets if something actually really makes him mad. Reporter in the fall of 2004, during the dark days of the couples financial collapse, paige called 911. 911, where 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 police were dispatched but apparently found no crime had been committed because no charges were ever filed. Attorney Scott Robinson represented rob dixon in the months right after paiges disappearance. The physical evidence made clear that what paige said happened simply did not happen. Reporter that is not what paiges friend Barbra Campbell believed, not after this. She said that she knew that rob was coming back and that he was going to do something. And i was floored. I thought reporter that must have been very strange to hear that. It was a staggering conversation. And a couple days later she was missing. Reporter phone records indicated dixon called paige at 7 42 p. M. The night she disappeared. Didnt look good to paiges friends. But, whoever took paige could not have been rob dixon. Couldnt have been. Because that phone call at 7 42 p. M. Pinged off a cell tower in philadelphia, 2,000 miles away. With rob dixon in the clear, what about paiges first husband ron beigler . He was actually the last person who spoke to her. Reporter Dan Rubinstein is a prosecutor with the mesa County District attorneys office. So obviously, an exhusband you want to look at. Reporter but when he last spoke to paige at 8 57 p. M. , beigler was in denver, a fourhour drive away. We got a lot of information from him, and we were able to eliminate him as a suspect fairly early on. Reporter beigler told detectives everything he knew about paige, including what she told him she was going to do after that picnic of theirs. A secret latenight business trip. Business trip . Well, investigators couldnt find Paige Birgfeld, but they found her secrets. That business of hers was about to rock the whole town. Coming up a revelation that would blow the case and the suspect list wide open. Paige was living a double life. And then investigators recover paiges date book and an unnerving clue. The four days surrounding her disappearance were pulled out of the day planner. E in return. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. Get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. When im out in the hot sun, i know how to hydrate on the inside. But what about my skin . 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