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Want to run away. she said, yeah, but i would want to take my kids with me. that's the thing. we all knew she would never leave her kids intentionally. but something bad must have happened. >> mesa county sheriff stanley hilkey was inclined to agree and began retracing paige's last movements to look for any evidence of foul play. >> you have really got to look at the relationships first. >> and almost immediately at a person of interest. as far as police could determine unless something came up, the last person to have seen paige was the first of her two ex-husbands ron bigler. >> i have a har...

Years later in the company of ron bigler in the hours that led up to her disappearance. >> we were going to meet for the day in eagle together. we were going to have a picnic and hang out together all day. >> here's the story bigler told to police and us and it sounded, frankly, a little morrow man tick a tale than we expected to hear. >> we went to subway, brought it back. we were sitting outside down by the river. it was very familiar. i brought some pictures. we just sat there and relaxed and enjoyed the day and the weather. i mean it was a special wonderful day. but i can't see it that way...

To be dangerous lead to foul play and her disappearance? everybody wondered that now. >> we have various different crime issues around here especially with meth. i know that that makes people pretty crazy. and you know, who knows? she was, is a beautiful woman. and when you are a beautiful woman by yourself you are vulnerable. >> but it was the detail offered by ron bigler, paige's first ex-husband that sent the search in a very particular new direction. >> she told me she would go visit a client and maybe two. >> one client, maybe two. who were these people? did they have something to do with...

Search poles for rescuers to use. even by then, searchers were not confident they were looking for a person who was still alive. >> i felt paige would be home. within a day or two. that whatever held her up had to have been something wrong or she would have never been away from her children overnight. but i don't think that we thought it was -- i never thought it was something more serious than that. >> paige's friends hoped of course she would turn up safe and sound. but -- >> suddenly, the small quiet town has a tragedy. and a mom with three kids is missing. so they want to come help because...