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Found scattered by the highway, but still no paige, alive or dead. and now detectives had two ex-husbands to investigate. ron beigler, the last person known to have seen her alive and rob dixon, the man she told friends she lived in fear of. >> most people that she knew, friends, believed that rob dixon had something to do with this. >> so he pops right up to the top of your list? >> absolutely. he and rob beigler, both. >> reporter: as for hard evidence, there was very little. except for the investigators' little secret, the one bit of evidence they'd been hiding from everyone, even the birgf...

For one. >> reporter: the jury heard about it all. the day planner, items along the roadside, the bits of paper left along the highway, the search dogs who scented on jones, the tracfone jones bought then lied about. and the apparent suicide note he'd left for his wife, and the jury heard that strange call jones had with a deputy when jones said -- >> you asked me where i would bury a body. >> reporter: lisa nance told the jury the harrowing tale of the night jones took her into the mountains. >> and he looked at me. he said, "i'm going to kill you." >> reporter: and there was this. >> hi, mom...

So with that new perspective on the case, dove revisited sandra's old interview. the hours of mostly useless chatter. >> how many times did you listen to that interview? >> at least ten times. >> reporter: and then it jumped out at him. right about here on the tape. sandra is going through slips of paper in her day planner. she looks at one and says -- >> this is my son's friend. >> reporter: listen to it again. >> this is my son's friend. >> reporter: "this is my son's friend." one phrase in hours of material but it got dove's mind racing. if the bartender was right that the killers were frie...

We've put the phone in his hand. >> reporter: but as they continue to sift through trash they find something more important than the phone bill, something quite unexpected. this day planner. >> from the years '96, '97, 1998. >> reporter: what were the chances of that? here, six years later, was the day planner for 1998, the year jack jessee was murdered. crucial evidence tossed in schrauben's garbage. >> a treasure we didn't expect to find, but what that day planner did was connected all the people back in 1998 that were associated with brett schrauben >> what did you think? >> this is too goo...

Sandra's old interview. the hours of mostly useless chatter. >> how many times did you listen to that interview? >> at least ten times. >> reporter: and then it jumped out at him. right about here on the tape, sandra is going through slips of paper in her day planner. she looks at one and says -- >> this is my son's friend. >> reporter: listen to it again. >> this is my son's friend. >> reporter: "this is my son's friend." one phrase in hours of material but it got dove's mind racing. if the bartender was right that the killers were friends of sandra's son, could that slip of paper hold the ke...