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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. >> report...

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 t...

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 coralluzz...

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 taver...

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 su...