Find out if you could get help paying for Health Insurance with just your age, income, zip code, and the number of people in your household. Information you probably know off the top of your head. Enroll by january 31st to avoid the irs tax penalty. Are you paiges dad . I said yep. Did you know shes missing . Barbara campbell got the call from her husband who told her paige is missing. What do you mean, shes missing . Andrea lan 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. 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 bergfeld 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, youre more average mom. 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 Barbara Campbell and andrea and paige were members of Grand Junctions moms club international, a kind of social and support group for young stayathome moms. Once a year, theyd throw a spring fling, a sort of puton prom for moms. But with fancy clothes, red carpet entry and a pretend reporter throwing fashion questions. Who are you wearing . 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 down to earth and humble about it that once you got over the artwork on the walls and how, you know, beautiful a home it was, you almost forgot that you were in this really very highend home. So the winner is drum roll, please paige bergfeld she was so comfortable hosting people that made it anybody there felt 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. And then, that call. The sheriff told the bergfelds 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. As we started out, i dont know what 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. 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 lead that way. In robs case, according to paiges dad, made 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. 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 6,000 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 . Paige launched several business, 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, entrepreneurwise, 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. Divorced woman, three kids, a heavily mortgaged house. The first question, is there a chance paige bergfeld 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. 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 was no way she would leave without her children. They were her life. If she needed to hide, she would have found a way to do it with them. So what, then . What happened to paige . Her friends, her parents didnt know what to do or where to look. And then it was the morning of the third day. Another phone call. Somebody found paiges car. And it clearly had been burned. The discovery of the torched car was a disturbing clue, but it hardly answered the question of what had happened to paige . When we return, one of the last to see paige was her first husband. Turns out their relationship was anything but ancient history. Women know when another woman is suddenly in love with somebody. You could tell. Sunday night, the 1st of july, the Grand JunctionFire Department was called to an industrial parking lot. A little red car was on fire. By the time they got there, whatever was inside was ash. Frank bergfeld heard about it next morning, roared over there, and it was hers. It was paiges car. That morning frank gave the first of what would be many, many interviews. Paige virtually vanished thursday night. Certainly this isnt a situation where paige left on her own volition. That never would have happened, and all her friends would quickly say that. So something has happened. Well, we dont know what. We were hopeful when we found the car things would fall into place, and maybe they will. This interview, though, was one frank just couldnt get through. You know, it occurred to me, i hadnt cried in a long time. Ive learned to do that. 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 biegler. He adored her. They had dated her last year of high school. She dropped out of college to marry him. And he wrote her poetry. If anyone wants to know the path to a womans heart, very sweet. 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. He probably did. Their marriage came undone pretty quickly. But now a decade later, after her divorce from the oncewealthy rob dixon, paige started seeing ron biegler again. Women know when another woman is suddenly in love with somebody. And you could tell that she was, you know, in love and giddy and happy. In fact, she was with ron biegler just hours before she vanished, with him all day. He spoke to us in 2007, soon after paiges disappearance. We were sitting outside down by the river. It was very familiar. I brought some pictures, you know, and we just sat there and relaxed and enjoyed the day and the weather. That night after their remantic 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. Instead, silence. When he called her next morning, friday, his call went to voice mail. Hello, youve reached the home offices for pampered chef and baby slings. Please leave a message and ill get back to you within the next few days. 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 to a familys chaotic tragedy into a community project. Paiges dad was there every day, greeting a small army of volunteers. Thanks for helping us. An outpouring of support that was for frank simply overwhelming. You know, its just really tough. You know, for people to give of themselves to that degree. Paiges 8yearold daughter, eager to help. Decorated ski pole walking sticks for volunteers like Barbara Campbells. When we were first told that we could help with the searches, it seemed strange. It just didnt make sense what we were doing. Was there a reality that we hadnt accepted, possibly . 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. Then days in and miles away, a driver pulled off the road on a 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 bergfeld. 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. When dateline continues. It was a pure fluke that the truck driver stopped to check his tires at the very spot paiges check just happened to 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. 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 . 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 gunnyson river through the canyon floor. Nothing. During a short break in the search, frank showed us a little sanctuary paige had built in the cottonwoods near her house. This is kind of life where it just stopped. It just stopped, and she vanished. Then one day, said frank, he suddenly thought, there she is. He thought he had 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. Paiges most recent exhusband, rob dixon, came back to town to look after the kids and help out with the search. 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. It was very psychologically 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. In the fall of 2004 during the dark days of the couples financial collapse, paige called 911. 911, wheres 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. 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. But that is not what paiges friend Barbara 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. It must have been very strange to hear that. It it was a staggering conversation. And a couple days later, she was missing. Phone records indicated dixon called paige at 7 42 p. M. The night she disappeared. It 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 biegler . He was absolutely the last person who spoke to her. Dan rubenstein is a prosecutor with the mesa County District attorneys office. So obviously an exhusband you want to look at. But when he last spoke to paige at 8 57 p. M. , biegler 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. Bieglor 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 bergfeld, 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 a day planner. A missing persons case can be a complicated affair, far more than a typical homicide investigation. All that speculation, conjecture, uncertainty. And so in the search for muchneeded clues, investigators pried open pages carefully guarded private life, sniffed out her secrets, asked very personal questions. And thats how paiges first husband, ron beigler, spilled the beans. That day they met for their picnic, when paige left, ron knew she was going to work. She told me she was going to go visit a client and maybe two. Client . What kind of client . It didnt take but a minute for the cops to find the evidence. Right there on the internet. A website called models inc. Where an attractive young woman named carrie advertised her services. Tired of chopped meat showing up when you ordered filet mignon, she wrote . Affluent clients are lavishing in delightful sessions. Carrie, of course, was a pseudonym. The woman in question was, in reality, a mother of three, a member of the moms club. Paige birgfeld. Paige was living a double life. Divorced from her oncehealthy husband with a house full of kids and a massive mormg payment, paige found another way to supplement her income. And after a latenight meeting of the moms club, she told her friend Barbara Campbell what she had in mind. She had decided to go into an escort business. Somehow, said barbara, paige made it seem normal. She was very smart. She had thought it out. So she kept it at the level that she was comfortable, that fit with her decisions and her lifestyle. But andrea land said she knew nothing about paiges night work. I felt like whatever escort circumstances were happening that they probably werent as lascivious as it was being made out to be. It was very hard for me to believe that she would want to have sex with men for money. But she did. According to this investigative report, paige would charge up to 1,000 a session. And heres an Online Review of her services by a client named dennis. Her picture does not do her justice. Shes a sexy goddess. Im in love and wish i could see her every day. Rating 4. 0 out of 5 stars. Carrie is simply a very gorgeous woman, a little bit pricey. If you have the money, shes worth every dime. That review was posted just three days before paige vanished. You can imagine how these revelations hit paiges mom and dad. They just couldnt believe it. If i had known about it, i definitely would have tried to use whatever persuasion i had to turn her away from it. I mean, if nothing else, quite obviously, its dangerous. But while paiges parents didnt condone her business, they said, they understood her motives. She was doing what she had to do to keep life as normal as possible for the children. The news spread, of course. Pretty soon most people in town knew. There were people who wrote to the paper and said horrible things like why are we spending all this time looking for a dead hooker . Dirt spread, said andrea, by those who didnt even know paige. We knew her heart. We knew who she was every day with us and with her kids. And if anything, it only put us into hypervigilant defend her mode and made us all want to get out there and talk about what a good person she was as much as possible. A much bigger problem, though, was that paiges secret life made an already complicated case far more difficult to solve. Thats the sort of Business People who are clients dont want to admit. They dont want to come forward because these are the sorts of things that are sensationalized in the media. They break up marriages. Besides, paiges former clients had to know they werent witnesses as much as potential suspects. One of the key pieces of evidence found in the vehicle was her day planner, one of the things that we figured out when we looked at that day planner was the four days surrounding her disappearance were pulled out of the day planner which told us that whoever it is that thought there was evidence in that car important enough to be burned also thought there might be also evidence in that day planner important enough to tear out. So investigators pulled paiges cell phone records for those days. And according to this investigative document, they put together a list of eight possible suspects. Both exhusbands were on that list. But investigators had already cleared them. So that left six of paiges clients. Three of whom she was planning on seeing the night she vanished. One of those on that list was a man named Lester Ralph Jones, a client of models inc. Thats him standing in the shadows by his front door. On july 7th, nine days after paige disappeared, the cops conducted a search of joness house. A week later, they were back. But they didnt arrest him. Not even a