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Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crime Watch Daily from
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Speaker 1: here in New York. Soccer mom by day, sexy escort
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Speaker 1: by night. A mother of three mysteriously goes missing.
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Speaker 2: She would never have not come home.
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Speaker 1: As detectives probe her two ex husbands, her torch carr
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Speaker 1: turns up, along with a trail of scattered clues. Does
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Speaker 1: her secret life hold the key to her murder?
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Speaker 3: I won't kill anybody over sex.
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Speaker 1: Plus, he's the man accused of pure evil under arrest
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Speaker 1: for the sexual assault and brutal murder of Queen's jogger
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Crime Watch Daily.
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Speaker 7: I'm Chris Hansen.
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Speaker 2: First up today.
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Speaker 1: How well do you know your neighbor? If they were
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Speaker 1: doing something illegal behind closed doors? Would you know everyone
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Speaker 1: who knew Paige Bergfeld thought they had her figured out,
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Speaker 1: a soccer mom with three kids, But as our nurse
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Speaker 1: and Night found out, Paige had another side, one that
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Speaker 1: would put her in danger.
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Speaker 4: She raised kids by day.
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Speaker 8: Page was a soccer mom.
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Speaker 4: And pedaled fantasies by night.
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Speaker 2: Hello, you've reached modeled.
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Speaker 4: Inc But this loving mother's double life caught up to her,
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Speaker 4: leading to a shocking disappearance.
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Speaker 9: Hey, well you are really really mean. You would be badly.
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Speaker 2: She would never have not come home.
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Speaker 4: A bounty of suspects.
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Speaker 2: Ilan killing anybody over sex.
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Speaker 4: And a mystery that would take nearly a decade to unravel.
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Speaker 8: We were still stuck with the reality that we didn't
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Speaker 8: have a body.
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Speaker 4: Paige Bergfeld, a thirty four year old mother of three
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Speaker 4: young children, was living the picture perfect life.
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Speaker 5: Page was one of those people that just exuded happiness.
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Speaker 5: When she showed up, you knew she was going to
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Speaker 5: show up with a smile because she just had that
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Speaker 5: in her all the time.
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Speaker 10: Page was always very big about having her family on display.
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Speaker 10: She would just be radiant when her kids were out playing,
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Speaker 10: and the most so when it was her brother and
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Speaker 10: his family. That was even the highest degree of radiancy.
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Speaker 4: She loved family.
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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, then her kids were everything.
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Speaker 4: Her husband, Rob Dixon, came from a wealthy family and
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Speaker 4: settling in Grand Junction, Colorado. Paige enjoyed a cavy our
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Speaker 4: life in a corn dog town.
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Speaker 10: He was wealthy, so they bought the house in Grand
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Speaker 10: Junction and then added to it.
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Speaker 4: But according to District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, Paradise was not
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Speaker 4: without its troubles.
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Speaker 8: They had somewhat of its multuous relationship. He would get angry,
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Speaker 8: he would yell loudly. He would make, you know, threats
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Speaker 8: or statements that would cause people to be very concerned.
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Speaker 4: As the couple's finances grew more strained, Page's father, Frank,
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Speaker 4: was concerned for his daughter's safety.
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Speaker 10: Dixon is a person that's kind of two personalities. We
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Speaker 10: think of him.
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Speaker 2: As good Rob and bad Rob.
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Speaker 10: And at the first part it was one hundred percent
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Speaker 10: good Rob, and I think is his financial situation deteriorated,
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Speaker 10: we saw a lot more of bad Rob.
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Speaker 5: She had told me she was very concerned about something
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Speaker 5: bad happening.
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Speaker 4: In October of two thousand and four, Page made a distressing.
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Speaker 5: Nine one one call, Where's your emergency?
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Speaker 6: My husband and I were in a fight.
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Speaker 11: He wanted the children to stay with him, and he
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Speaker 11: said that I would come home and friend of all
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Speaker 11: murdered to name aim Paige Dixon.
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Speaker 4: The situation was diffused by police and no charges were
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Speaker 4: filed against Rob, but a year later Page placed a
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Speaker 4: second call claiming physical abuse.
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Speaker 10: After the second incident, I set up a bank account.
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Speaker 10: It was getaway money. I wanted her to be able
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Speaker 10: to pick up and leave with the kids if.
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Speaker 2: She needed to.
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Speaker 4: After eighty years of marriage, Paige and Dixon divorced, But
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Speaker 4: now she faced the burden of maintaining that luxurious lifestyle
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Speaker 4: on her own.
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Speaker 10: Page was enormously entrepreneurial. She started out by setting up
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Speaker 10: this little series of dance studios for kids that she
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Speaker 10: called it Brain Dance, And then she went into pamper
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Speaker 10: Chef and was taking trips for awards, so she looked
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Speaker 10: like she was doing well there. She had another business
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Speaker 10: where she was selling these slings for nursing mothers. She
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Speaker 10: was cobbling together things.
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Speaker 5: She was one of those people that could juggle an
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Speaker 5: incredibly full life and yet still be there with her children.
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Speaker 8: She had a pretty nice house, I think four thousand
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Speaker 8: r plus square foot house, and her three kids slept
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Speaker 8: in her bed with her every night.
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Speaker 3: That's really who she was.
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Speaker 4: She had quietly begun a romance with her first husband,
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Speaker 4: Ron Beigler, a high school sweetheart she briefly married after graduation.
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Speaker 2: He was the first big love.
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Speaker 8: Ron and Paige kept in touch and started rekindling their relationship.
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Speaker 4: Weigler lived two hundred and fifty miles away in Denver.
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Speaker 4: The two arranged to meet halfway at a rest stop
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Speaker 4: in the town of Eagle on the day she was
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Speaker 4: last seen. Paige Bergfeld left her million dollar home here
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Speaker 4: to meet with one of her ex husbands. Sadly, the
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Speaker 4: young mother would never be seen again. Thursday, June twenty eighth,
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Speaker 4: Paige and Bigler enjoy a picnic lunch before she begins
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Speaker 4: the two hour drive back to Grand Junction around seven pm.
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Speaker 4: By eleven o'clock that night, she still wasn't home and
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Speaker 4: her young kids were growing distraught. You can hear the
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Speaker 4: worry on this voicemail. Oh, even her first ex, Ron Bigler,
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Speaker 4: was growing distressed when Page still wasn't home. The next morning,
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Speaker 4: he makes a call to the Grand Junction police.
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Speaker 12: I needed to talk to you about the missing person.
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Speaker 4: Emergency.
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Speaker 8: We really have very little sense of exactly what happened.
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Speaker 8: What we do know is that her kids were expecting
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Speaker 8: her home. They ultimately reported her missing on that Saturday morning,
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Speaker 8: after leaving countless messages for her. Her first husband, Ron Biegler,
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Speaker 8: was leaving messages for her.
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Speaker 9: You are really really mean you think it would be
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Speaker 9: badly lord, bad, really, please call that quickly.
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Speaker 4: Free gets a call. He can still remember as if
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Speaker 4: it were yesterday.
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Speaker 10: And he said, are you Paige Bergfell's dead? And I said, yes,
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Speaker 10: I am. And then he said, did you know she's missing?
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Speaker 10: This was Saturday morning, about ten thirty on June thirtieth.
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Speaker 10: And I said, if she didn't come home even a night,
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Speaker 10: you're dealing with a crime. This isn't a missing person's matter.
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Speaker 10: This is a crime age on Saturday. Give me a
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Speaker 10: call on my cell phones to Staffy.
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Speaker 2: She would never have not come home.
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Speaker 5: There is nothing ever in her life that would cause
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Speaker 5: her to just pack up and leave her kids at home.
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Speaker 5: They meant so much to her.
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Speaker 10: We never assume that's gonna happen, and we never assume
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Speaker 10: it's gonna be me.
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Speaker 4: Police Investigation one oh one start looking at those closest to.
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Speaker 10: Page, everyone's a suspect and ex husbands immediately or right.
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Speaker 4: Up there, Detectives seek out Ron Bigler in Denver, Page's
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Speaker 4: last known contact and the same man who made the
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Speaker 4: initial missing person's call.
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Speaker 10: Well, he was the last one to see her, which
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Speaker 10: made him a person to talk to.
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Speaker 4: Phone records indicate he and Page called each other on
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Speaker 4: the drive home, with Bigler's phone peeing cell towers in Denver,
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Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty miles away. Wait, the last call
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Speaker 4: was made by Page at approximately nine pm, saying that
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Speaker 4: she was pulling into Grand Junction.
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Speaker 3: And that was the last phone call she ever made.
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Speaker 4: Her first ex is quickly eliminated, so cops turned their
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Speaker 4: attention to Rob Dixon, Page's second husband, who was now
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Speaker 4: living in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 8: A lot of people thought that Rob was the most
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Speaker 8: likely suspect, just because their breakup was not the most amicable.
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Speaker 4: What was their breakup line?
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Speaker 8: There was a misdemeanor domestic violence case reported. You know,
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Speaker 8: I think that sort of volatility led a lot of
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Speaker 8: people to think that he was part of this.
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Speaker 4: The last time Page's close friend, Barbara Campbell saw her,
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Speaker 4: Paige confided that she had an ominous feeling.
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Speaker 5: She was really upset with something, and she was worried
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Speaker 5: because she felt that something bad was about to happen.
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Speaker 4: Detectives want to speak with Page's X, but have no
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Speaker 4: idea that this case is about to be blown wide open.
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Speaker 6: Up.
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Speaker 4: Next.
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Speaker 12: Hey, I'm at the corner of twenty three and Logos
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Speaker 12: and there is a car on fire in the parking lot.
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Speaker 4: CoP's fine Pages car and you won't believe What else
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Speaker 4: are you saying?
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Speaker 2: When I killed her?
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Speaker 3: Is that what you're telling me?
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Speaker 1: Yes, I'll back to our investigation into the Paige Bergfeld case.
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Speaker 1: The soccer mom of three is missing, and as police
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Speaker 1: investigate where she might be, they discover that Page was
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Speaker 1: also living a dangerous double life. Here's Nurisa Knight.
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Speaker 4: Paige Bergfeld, a mother of three young children, is missing.
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Speaker 4: Police want to speak with her and battledex husband Rob Dixon,
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Speaker 4: a man accused of domestic violence before their divorce.
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Speaker 8: You know, a lot of the leads that we got
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Speaker 8: were related to him, just because their breakup was not
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Speaker 8: the most amicable.
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Speaker 4: But Dixon was also one of those making distress calls
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Speaker 4: to Page's phone.
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Speaker 11: If you get this, please please call somebody, Please come home.
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Speaker 11: Please tell us that you're all right. Everybody's worried about you,
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Speaker 11: everybody's looking for you. Please Page, let us know that
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Speaker 11: you're okay.
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Speaker 4: Police quickly confirmed that Dixon was in Philadelphia during the
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Speaker 4: time of her disappearance. So what and who was Paige
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Speaker 4: so afraid of? Police began looking more closely at Page's
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Speaker 4: phone records and make a shocking discovery, one that will
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Speaker 4: turn this case upside down. In addition to her work
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Speaker 4: as a dance teacher, representing pampered chef and pushing nursing slings,
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Speaker 4: Paige Bergfeld was selling sex, operating a secret escort business
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Speaker 4: called Models in.
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Speaker 11: Hello, you've reached Models in Colorado's Premier Gentlemen, sirris.
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Speaker 10: Stunning news to friends and family, He said, well most
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Speaker 10: of us on the side. Did you know she was
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Speaker 10: operating an adult business, to which my response was, I'm
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Speaker 10: not sure what that means, but no, I didn't know.
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Speaker 4: Investigators wrestle with the reality of what could be a
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Speaker 4: very large number of suspects or maybe even more secrets.
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Speaker 8: Given that she was living a double life both as
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Speaker 8: a pamper chef saleswoman and as an escort. How do
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Speaker 8: we even know she's dead because she could have just disappeared.
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Speaker 4: But then on Sunday, July first, three days after Page
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Speaker 4: went missing, that theory goes up in smoke.
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Speaker 12: Hi, I'm at the corner of twenty three in logos
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Speaker 12: and there is a car on fire in the tarking lot.
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Speaker 4: Page's car is found torched. When did you realize that
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Speaker 4: you may not have her anymore?
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Speaker 10: I would say that when I saw the car and
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Speaker 10: seeing it burnt, you knew.
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Speaker 2: You knew we were in a bad spot.
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Speaker 4: While any physical evidence appears to be destroyed, detectives do
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Speaker 4: make some interesting discoveries. For instance, the driver's seat is
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Speaker 4: all the way back, even though Page is only five
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Speaker 4: foot four. When an investigator of similar height sits in
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Speaker 4: the seat, her feet can't even reach the pedals. They
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Speaker 4: also found pages day planner in the trunk, which somehow
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Speaker 4: wasn't burned. However, the last four days of entries are
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Speaker 4: torn out. Was someone else driving pages car? Someone much taller?
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Speaker 4: And did they remove any evidence of their name from
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Speaker 4: Page's records? Unwilling to give up hope, the community of
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Speaker 4: Grand Junction rallies around the Bergfeld family for a massive search.
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Speaker 10: And we probably had one hundred and fifty people that
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Speaker 10: first day, a day that was over one hundred degrees,
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Speaker 10: and people were there who none of whom I knew
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Speaker 10: I didn't live in the community, and it was an
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Speaker 10: overwhelming display of just community spirit and people who care
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Speaker 10: for one another.
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Speaker 4: The search hits paid. Heired along Highway fifty, just south
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Speaker 4: of town, a veritable trail of bread crops with Page's
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Speaker 4: fingerprints all over it. One hundred volunteers out searching found
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Speaker 4: a fifteen mile stretch of Page's personal items strewed along
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Speaker 4: Highway fifty here just south of Grand Junction.
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Speaker 8: It's very difficult to know what to make of the
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Speaker 8: strewn items. They also weren't the type of items that
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Speaker 8: Page would throw out unless she really needed to. They
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Speaker 8: were blank checks on her business account, they were her
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Speaker 8: kid's medical cards.
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Speaker 4: Was Paige kidnapped and trying to tell searchers where to
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Speaker 4: find her. Tracking dogs were brought in and alerted to
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Speaker 4: Pagees scent, but the trail ended at a river bank
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Speaker 4: with no sign of Page. Investigators needed a break, and
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Speaker 4: they were about to get it.
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Speaker 8: One of the first things we did was look at
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Speaker 8: the phone calls she had made the day she went missing.
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Speaker 4: The last call Page made was to her first husband,
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Speaker 4: Ron Beigler, at approximately nine pm, but she also received
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Speaker 4: several calls from potential clients of Models Inc.
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Speaker 2: Yeah this motel six thirty seven.
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Speaker 11: Let's just check and see if you had somebody coming
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Speaker 11: out or not.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Another one of those calls to Page, or Carrie as
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Speaker 4: she was known at night, was from a man named Jim,
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Speaker 4: who called while she was visiting Bigler.
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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, this is Jim, just calling this if carry
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Speaker 11: was available tonight.
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Speaker 4: Turns out Jim called Page three times the day she
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Speaker 4: went missing and twice the evening of June twenty eighth,
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Speaker 4: but all these calls were made from a prepaid track phone.
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Speaker 4: Police trace the number and find that it was purchased
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Speaker 4: two days earlier, on June twenty sixth, at a local
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Speaker 4: Walmart by the man in this surveillance video. Detectives finally
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Speaker 4: managed to find Jim, whose real name is Lester Jones,
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Speaker 4: and get this, he works across the street from where
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Speaker 4: Page's car was found burning.
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Speaker 8: That track phone in its entire history, only had five
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Speaker 8: phone calls to or from it, and the first phone
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Speaker 8: calls were placed from it to Page's Model z Inc
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Speaker 8: phone and the last one was back from the model
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Speaker 8: zincphone to that track phone. And after that the trackphone
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Speaker 8: went dead. It never made another phone call again.
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Speaker 4: A little digging reveals that Jones was convicted of first
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Speaker 4: degree sexual assault and kidnapping back in ninety nine. He's
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Speaker 4: also a big man, six foot five, the kind of
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Speaker 4: man who might drive with a car seat pushed all
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Speaker 4: the way back up. Next have to see detectives put
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Speaker 4: the screws to Lester Jones.
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Speaker 13: Does it make you nervous that we may think you
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Speaker 13: did something?
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Speaker 2: It should?
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Speaker 1: Now back to our investigation into the page Bergfeld case.
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Speaker 3: Here's Narissa Knight.
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Speaker 4: Chris page Bergfeld was a soccer man with a huge secret,
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Speaker 4: and investigators wanted to know was that secret big enough
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Speaker 4: to get her killed? A week after page Bergfeld goes missing,
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Speaker 4: the search for suspects has narrowed down to this man,
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Speaker 4: Lester Ralph Jones, a man convicted of sexual assault against
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Speaker 4: and the kidnapping of his ex wife, and.
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Speaker 8: Told her he was going to take her out to
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Speaker 8: a lake, kill her, and bury her where nobody would
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Speaker 8: ever find her.
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Speaker 4: To see, officers are anxious to have a little chat
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Speaker 4: with mister Jones.
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Speaker 13: Does it bother you at all that.
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Speaker 4: Somebody's missing and you know that somebody could be involved
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Speaker 4: in this service, and you know you used the service.
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Speaker 13: Yes, that should, sure should. Her car has found a
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Speaker 13: stone's throwaway from where you work. Does that bother you?
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Speaker 13: Doesn't bother you at all? Okay, her car is found
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Speaker 13: torched stones throwaway from where you work. That doesn't bother you.
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Speaker 13: Does it make you nervous that we may think you
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Speaker 13: did something?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 13: He should shame.
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Speaker 4: What Lester doesn't know is that cops are at this
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Speaker 4: very minute searching his workplace and talking to his wife.
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Speaker 4: Seems she was out of town the night Page went
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Speaker 4: missing on.
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Speaker 8: The week of June twenty eighth. Lester Jones was first
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Speaker 8: out of town on the weekend prior to with his
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Speaker 8: wife in California, and then he came back to Grand
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Speaker 8: Junction and she went on to Georgia.
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Speaker 4: And how about three nights after Page's disappearance when her
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Speaker 4: car was found. Bernie, what you do the.
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Speaker 13: Rest of sendulas?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 13: I mean we hung around. That's good, okay, Actually that's
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Speaker 13: not it, all right. I haven't messagers out talking to
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Speaker 13: your wife, Okay, correct? You said less went to bed incorrect,
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Speaker 13: okay less, I need to be able to tell this
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Speaker 13: family usually kids where mom is good, better and different
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Speaker 13: day closure? Would you know how great day needs.
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Speaker 1: Some e closure?
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Speaker 4: Jones finally confessed that he left the house Sunday night
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Speaker 4: between nine and ten pm, the same time Page's car
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Speaker 4: was reported on fire to take care of a task
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Speaker 4: at work.
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Speaker 13: Why'd you leave the house Sunday night?
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Speaker 3: You shut the shop lights off?
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Speaker 13: How long were you done? Minimal time to come down
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Speaker 13: and go right back? Why would I.
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Speaker 4: The search of his workplace, a local RV shop reveals
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Speaker 4: more startling evidence well.
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Speaker 8: At Leicester Jones' workplace, he had a whole host of items,
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Speaker 8: such as hand written notes about other escorts, what their
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Speaker 8: bra sizes were, what type of sex they would have
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Speaker 8: if they would have.
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Speaker 3: Sex at all.
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Speaker 8: He also had the trackphone packaging for the trackphone that
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Speaker 8: was used to call Page. He had bras that happened
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Speaker 8: to be the same bra size as Page.
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Speaker 4: Other suspicious items include a stash of viagra, two male wigs,
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Speaker 4: and a food scale from pappered chef Page's employer.
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Speaker 8: There was also a gas can that was found at
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Speaker 8: his work workspace that his boss said was out of
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Speaker 8: place that shouldn't have been there, and that space is
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Speaker 8: located about five hundred yards from where that car was
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Speaker 8: found burning.
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Speaker 4: Yet, during a second interrogation, Jones continues to deny any wrongdoing.
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Speaker 2: I never met Page.
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Speaker 4: He even denies that he's the man in this surveillance
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Speaker 4: video buying the track phone.
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Speaker 1: I know fact you might have been Models Incorporated.
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Speaker 14: Should call said one with that track phone? No, sir, yes,
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Speaker 14: explain to me why the trackphone is in your trash
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Speaker 14: at your workspace.
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Speaker 2: I have no clue why it's in there.
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Speaker 13: How did that get there? I don't know.
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Speaker 8: First he denied being at the Walmart at all, Then
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Speaker 8: he said he was there to buy a soda. Ultimately,
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Speaker 8: when shown the picture, he said he was there buying
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Speaker 8: a monster cable.
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Speaker 14: How did you picture you get on a video at
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Speaker 14: the very same time the track phone is being ordered.
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Speaker 14: I can't tell you that I was in Walmart and
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Speaker 14: I bought a monster a Monage cable.
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Speaker 13: Even though the receipt comes back to.
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Speaker 1: A TRACKLOM, I did not, even though clerk members.
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Speaker 13: Used at the tatphone.
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Speaker 2: I do not buy a track So.
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Speaker 14: Videos lying clerked flying receipts.
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Speaker 4: Lying the scening nail in the coffin trap. Dogs are
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Speaker 4: taken to Page's car and alert to the scent of
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Speaker 4: Lester Jones in the front seat.
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Speaker 14: Did you guys go from right to go a pira
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Speaker 14: figew to achieved?
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Speaker 2: I didn't. I haven't been.
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Speaker 5: Anywhere with this lady.
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Speaker 4: So much evidence, yet no definitive proof that Lester Jones
22:17
Speaker 4: was responsible for Paige Bergfeld's disappearance.
22:20
Speaker 8: Now, everybody who knew her knew that she was a
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Speaker 8: very devoted mother and knew that there is no way
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Speaker 8: she would ever leave her kids. But convincing twelve people
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Speaker 8: beyond a reasonable doubt I'm at a jury trial that
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Speaker 8: she's deceased and that we have the right person was
22:34
Speaker 8: just too much of a challenge.
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Speaker 4: Up next, cops have to kick Lester Jones loose. Then
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Speaker 4: police unearthed the final piece in the puzzling disappearance of
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Speaker 4: Paige Burgfeld.
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Speaker 1: Now to the conclusion of our all new investigation into
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Speaker 1: the double life of Paige Bergfeld, demure single mother by day,
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Speaker 1: high priced escord by night, And when the thirty four
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Speaker 1: year old mom of three disappears, cops wonder if one
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Speaker 1: of her clients may have taken things too far here's
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Speaker 1: Nurisa Night.
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Speaker 4: This thirty four year old mother and part time escort
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Speaker 4: went missing in two thousand and seven. Nearly five years later,
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Speaker 4: there was still no arrest in her disappearance, although police
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Speaker 4: had a strong belief that Lester Ralph Jones was their man.
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Speaker 2: I didn't touch Page, I did not kill him.
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Speaker 3: I have not heard her.
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Speaker 4: They had suspicious items at Jones's workplace. They had pages
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Speaker 4: torch sedan across the street from his job. They had
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Speaker 4: surveillance footage and phone records that showed Jones was the
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Speaker 4: last one to contact Page on a prepaid phone that
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Speaker 4: no longer exists. Yet there was one key piece of
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Speaker 4: evidence that left this convicted felon free.
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Speaker 10: Certainly you can't bring this to a conclusion a trial.
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Speaker 2: What have you?
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Speaker 10: The absence of the body certainly muddies that water.
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Speaker 4: In the spring of twenty twelve, that Muddy Water finally
24:11
Speaker 4: gave up its secret, a hiker was exploring a dry
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Speaker 4: creek bed sixty miles south of where searchers had found
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Speaker 4: a trail of clues laid out like bread crops, pages,
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Speaker 4: personal items such as checkbooks and clothing scattered along Highway fifty.
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Speaker 8: A hiker in the well sculpt area just happened by
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Speaker 8: a human skull, and when they unearthed it, it had
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Speaker 8: duct tape that was sort of around the jawline area
24:38
Speaker 8: and around the back of the head.
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Speaker 4: A team of forensic examiners soon find more bones strewn
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Speaker 4: across a mile stretch of the creek, and they quickly
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Speaker 4: determine that they do indeed belong to Page Bergfeld, even
24:54
Speaker 4: after all this time. It's a devastating blow.
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Speaker 10: I would tell you without a doubt, a piece of me,
25:03
Speaker 10: I mean, in terms of my emotions, A piece of
25:06
Speaker 10: me is missing.
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Speaker 2: Part of my life is gone.
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Speaker 5: There is no possibility of having her in my life again.
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Speaker 4: For Prosecutor Dan Rubinstein, the crime scene paints a gruesome
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Speaker 4: yet incomplete picture.
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Speaker 8: The reality is is we don't know exactly how Page died.
25:26
Speaker 8: What we do know is that she was kidnapped, and
25:28
Speaker 8: we know that because of the items that were strewn
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Speaker 8: down Highway fifteen, and we know that because of the
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Speaker 8: duct tape. You don't duct tape a person who's already deceased,
25:36
Speaker 8: And ultimately, through a mountain of circumstantial evidence, we're able
25:41
Speaker 8: to determine that Lester Jones was the only person who
25:44
Speaker 8: could have done it.
25:46
Speaker 4: After years of not knowing, Page's family was finally able
25:50
Speaker 4: to look at her accused killer in the eyes at
25:52
Speaker 4: his trial, But the jury was about to surprise everyone.
25:57
Speaker 4: In September of twenty sixteen, Jones is another break. Believe
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Speaker 4: it or not, it looks as if he may walk
26:03
Speaker 4: free again. It's a hung jury, nine to three in
26:07
Speaker 4: favor of guilt. But the dog of DA wasn't about
26:11
Speaker 4: to let this case go.
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Speaker 10: I think a lot of das with a less bunk
26:18
Speaker 10: and backbone would have said, you know, well, why don't
26:23
Speaker 10: we wait and see if some new evidence comes in
26:26
Speaker 10: and duck the case.
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Speaker 4: What made you so passionate about this?
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Speaker 8: Every life matters, And it bothered me the idea that
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Speaker 8: people might think that because Page had this double life,
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Speaker 8: that she didn't deserve justice.
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Speaker 15: Please rise for a jury.
26:41
Speaker 4: In November of twenty sixteen, Rubinstein takes another shot his
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Speaker 4: first witness, Page's daughter, Jess, now eighteen. She was the
26:51
Speaker 4: child who left tearful please on her mother's voicemail nine
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Speaker 4: years earlier.
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Speaker 9: Era on you are really really me? You would be
27:01
Speaker 9: that way, Lord Dark any back?
27:05
Speaker 8: When was the last time you saw your mom?
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Speaker 6: The last time I saw my mother was on June
27:12
Speaker 6: twenty eighth, before she went to work. She said that
27:19
Speaker 6: she would be back around dinner time. My mom was
27:24
Speaker 6: a very kind lady. She she did everything for her kids.
27:30
Speaker 6: We even we all slept in her bed and her
27:32
Speaker 6: bedroom because we just all loved to be around her.
27:36
Speaker 2: And that was one of the low moments in the trial.
27:39
Speaker 4: Jones's wife, a reluctant witness, gives key testimony about the
27:44
Speaker 4: night pages car was found on fire.
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Speaker 3: Did he leave at any point Sunday evening?
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Speaker 2: Yes? He did.
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Speaker 3: Did he tell you why he was leaving?
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Speaker 4: He had to turn off the lights.
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Speaker 5: He thought he had maybe left them on at the
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Speaker 5: shop where he worked.
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Speaker 3: Was it suspicious for you when he left that evening?
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Speaker 6: Yes?
28:04
Speaker 3: Can you explain to the jury why that was suspicious
28:06
Speaker 3: to you? I had suspected him of.
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Speaker 4: Other women, and I thought he was going to meet
28:17
Speaker 4: someone else. Another damning tidbit came from a recorded phone
28:22
Speaker 4: call between police and Lester Jones regarding his impounded vehicles.
28:27
Speaker 8: One of the big surprises that came out of this
28:31
Speaker 8: investigation was a phone call that went from then Sergeant
28:36
Speaker 8: Art Smith, who was trying to return his vehicles to
28:39
Speaker 8: mister Jones, and he placed a simple phone call. And
28:42
Speaker 8: what Art was trying to figure out was how do
28:44
Speaker 8: I get these vehicles to you?
28:46
Speaker 15: If you need us to bring one to your come
28:49
Speaker 15: and pick one of you.
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Speaker 2: If we can do that for you, I don't thank so.
28:55
Speaker 4: I'm mister Jones, I'm not following you, he asked me.
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Speaker 2: I'man urilidy.
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Speaker 11: I'm sorry you asked me where I should bury body?
29:09
Speaker 2: When did I ask you that?
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Speaker 8: The jury had a question at one point during their deliberations,
29:15
Speaker 8: and the question was can we hear that phone call again?
29:18
Speaker 10: And when the closing came, I thought there was no
29:22
Speaker 10: doubt that Lester Ralph Jones murdered my daughter.
29:27
Speaker 15: And I've been informed by the bailiff that our jury
29:29
Speaker 15: has reached a verdict.
29:31
Speaker 4: After five weeks the moment, Frank Bergfeld has been waiting
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Speaker 4: nine and a half years for.
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Speaker 15: Jury verdict count number one charge of murder in the
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Speaker 15: first degree felony murder. We the jury find the defendant,
29:44
Speaker 15: Lester Ralph Jones, guilty of count one murder and the
29:49
Speaker 15: first degree.
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Speaker 4: The sentencing is just as satisfying life in prison.
29:57
Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 5: Popo elation that he was really going to take the
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Speaker 5: blame for this, and that we had an answer.
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Speaker 10: I'd say, this is a life that God put on
30:12
Speaker 10: the earth that he absolutely wasted, and frankly, it would
30:16
Speaker 10: have been better if they had skipped his name when
30:21
Speaker 10: God decided who to place on earth. He has contributed nothing,
30:25
Speaker 10: and all he is is a burden on society.
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Speaker 8: It really was, you know, a case that took many,
30:33
Speaker 8: many years to put together.
30:35
Speaker 10: The highlight of being around Page was seen how radiant
30:38
Speaker 10: she would be around her children. When I'm around her children,
30:44
Speaker 10: I feel this elation. But then it's like checked because
30:49
Speaker 10: I realized she isn't here to appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Jones continues to maintain his innocence, and his lawyers have
30:58
Speaker 1: promised to appeal the fiction.
31:02
Speaker 13: Up next Hard to Do It?
31:04
Speaker 1: Inside the mind of an accused madman? Was he an
31:08
Speaker 1: angry young man? An all new interview with the father
31:11
Speaker 1: of the suspect arrested in the death of New York
31:14
Speaker 1: City jogger Karina Vitrano. How did his DNA get on
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Speaker 1: her fingernails, her phone, and her name? The disturbing message
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Speaker 1: he reportedly had for all the girls in his high school.
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Speaker 1: Why detectives think he picked Vitrano.
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Speaker 2: That's next?
31:32
Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: Now, let's get to a story still dominating headlines here
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Speaker 1: in New York and arrest in the death of jogger
31:38
Speaker 1: Karina Vitrano, murdering your return? Is this the face of evil?
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Speaker 13: Hard to do it?
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Speaker 1: Did this twenty year old man commit one of the
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Speaker 1: most savage and senseless crimes New York has ever seen?
31:54
Speaker 1: The assault and murder for which he's been arrested beyond
31:58
Speaker 1: brutal and now really think it's Chris Hansen and Crime
32:04
Speaker 1: Watch Daily is on the ground searching for answers from
32:07
Speaker 1: the people who should know the accused killer best, his
32:11
Speaker 1: own parents.
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Speaker 7: I know he's been accused of this crime, and I
32:15
Speaker 7: wanted to get some perspective from his family.
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Speaker 1: These are the last haunting images of Karina Vitrano, captured
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Speaker 1: on a security camera, just minutes before she was murdered
32:27
Speaker 1: on a remote jogging trail. Crime Watch Daily was the
32:30
Speaker 1: first to bring you this exclusive video of that faithful
32:33
Speaker 1: August second a day. Karina's father, Phil.
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Speaker 3: Will never forget.
32:38
Speaker 1: What strikes me out of all these pictures is her
32:41
Speaker 1: incredible zest for life.
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Speaker 16: There was so much in her and she achieved so
32:47
Speaker 16: much as she would have achieved so much more, that
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Speaker 16: this guy was the limit.
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Speaker 1: Karina, described by friends and family as the life of
32:56
Speaker 1: the party, was found dead along this jogging trail near
32:59
Speaker 1: JFK Airport. She had been dragged into the tall weeds
33:02
Speaker 1: and strangled, left face down. Karina's dad usually ran with her,
33:07
Speaker 1: but he was nursing a back injury that terrible day.
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Speaker 3: Does that haunt you a little bit? Of course it does.
33:13
Speaker 1: Shortly after the shocking murder, New York Chief of Detectives
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Speaker 1: Robert Boyce sat down with me for his first national
33:19
Speaker 1: interview to discuss the case. Give me a sense for
33:22
Speaker 1: the injuries Karina.
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Speaker 17: Summer facial injuries.
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Speaker 2: She also had bruising on her Bobby.
33:28
Speaker 3: What does that tell you she put not to go
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Speaker 3: into those ways.
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Speaker 1: At the time, Boyce told me they had a DNA
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Speaker 1: profile of the killer based on samples found on Karina's back,
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Speaker 1: under her fingernails, and on her cell phone. And yet
33:44
Speaker 1: it doesn't hit on any database.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: It was a lack of answers Karina's father, Phil found
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Speaker 1: nearly unbearable, especially considering his role in the case.
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Speaker 3: You found your daughter, I did.
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Speaker 2: With the help of the p D.
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Speaker 1: As a parent, I have a hard time even getting
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Speaker 1: my arms around that.
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Speaker 16: I think as a parent, you would rather you find
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Speaker 16: your child than someone else. It's the last act of
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Speaker 16: protection you can give you a child.
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Speaker 1: After the murder, police did release this sketch of a
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Speaker 1: man in a wool cap who was in the location
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Speaker 1: around the time Karina was killed. But still nothing.
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Speaker 7: This is going to be seen around the country.
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Speaker 3: What message do you have for people?
34:34
Speaker 2: Well, looking for a break. We need a break in
34:36
Speaker 2: a case.
34:38
Speaker 1: Now finally that break has come.
34:41
Speaker 2: This is a very good day for justice in New
34:43
Speaker 2: York City.
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Speaker 17: Yesterday evening, Channell Lewis, a twenty year old mal who
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Speaker 17: resides in East New York, Brooklyn, was taken into custody
34:49
Speaker 17: and connection with the August two, twenty sixteen murder of
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Speaker 17: Karina Patrano.
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Speaker 1: As it turns out, when police were going back through
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Speaker 1: their files, they uncovered a nine to one to one
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Speaker 1: call months before the murder reports of the same man,
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Speaker 1: Chanel Lewis, lurking suspiciously near the area Karina was killed.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the original nine to one to one call
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Speaker 1: came from one of the investigators working the case, who
35:12
Speaker 1: after remembering the incident, helped track Lewis down to his
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Speaker 1: mother's house and bring him in for questioning.
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Speaker 17: We spoke to him that night, that was Thursday night.
35:23
Speaker 17: He freely gave a buckle squab of his DNA to us.
35:26
Speaker 17: Within two days we had a hit. You gotta remember
35:30
Speaker 17: Karina helped us identify this person. She had the DNA
35:33
Speaker 17: in under her nails, she had touched DNA on her back,
35:37
Speaker 17: and it was more DNA on a cell phone.
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Speaker 1: But even without the DNA match, it seems police had
35:42
Speaker 1: enough to make an arrest.
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Speaker 17: Lewis was interviewed by detectives and made detailed incriminating statements
35:48
Speaker 17: and admissions.
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Speaker 2: Charges are now penning.
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Speaker 1: But do police really have the right man the suspects?
35:55
Speaker 1: Sister says no, telling reporters, I think hops framed him
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Speaker 1: because he's a black person. They couldn't find anyone else
36:03
Speaker 1: to pin this on, so they pinned it on my brother.
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Speaker 1: But police remain resolute, saying Lewis told them in a
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Speaker 1: videotape confession that he was out walking and in a
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Speaker 1: quote bad mood when he came across Karina and snapped.
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Speaker 17: We don't believe he knew her at all.
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Speaker 2: It appears to be a.
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Speaker 1: Chance encounter, but we wanted to understand how a young
36:23
Speaker 1: man with no previous criminal history could have suddenly done
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Speaker 1: what he's accused of it.
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Speaker 7: It's Chris Hansen.
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Speaker 1: I'm a reporter for Crime Watch Daily. It's a television show,
36:34
Speaker 1: and I'm looking for Chanell's mom. What do you want well,
36:38
Speaker 1: I would like to talk to you about your son.
36:39
Speaker 1: Right away, Chanell's mom made it clear she had little
36:42
Speaker 1: to say about her son anyway.
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Speaker 13: I don't want to speak to you.
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Speaker 4: I wish to get a head off on the property.
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Speaker 2: I know this is a difficult time.
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Speaker 13: I can only imagine you want to speak to you,
36:52
Speaker 13: but you.
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Speaker 7: See what I'm getting at.
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Speaker 1: I think it's important to know both sides of the story.
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Speaker 7: All right, thank you for your time.
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Speaker 1: There would be no statement from the mom with whom
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Speaker 1: he lived most recently, so then we went looking for
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Speaker 1: the father and before long.
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Speaker 7: Richard, I'm Chris Hansen with Crime Watch Daly. It's a
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Speaker 7: television show and we're working on a story on Chanelle
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Speaker 7: and I wanted to.
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Speaker 13: Let's talk to you. What is that about him?
37:21
Speaker 1: I just want to ask you.
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Speaker 7: I don't know, I mean, I know he's been accused
37:24
Speaker 7: of this crime, and I wanted to get some perspective
37:27
Speaker 7: from his family, and we came to talk to you.
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Speaker 3: Do you hear what you had to say?
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Speaker 2: Does tell me?
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Speaker 13: Okay?
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Speaker 1: To our surprise, Chanell's dad invited us inside because our
37:39
Speaker 1: cameras got into position. What he had to say stood
37:42
Speaker 1: in start contrast to the crime for which Chanell has
37:45
Speaker 1: been accused.
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Speaker 4: Oh, this guy him as a wonderful young man, a
37:50
Speaker 4: wonderful and what way wonderful and just a good guy,
37:55
Speaker 4: just a good guy.
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Speaker 1: But reports say otherwise. Police sources that five years earlier,
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Speaker 1: when Chanelle was just fifteen, he allegedly said he wanted
38:04
Speaker 1: to bring a knife to school to quote, stab all
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Speaker 1: the girls. Why would he lash out?
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Speaker 2: Let me said? Lash out? What do you mean?
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Speaker 7: Attack Karina Viachana?
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Speaker 2: Why would he do that? Why would he do? I
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Speaker 2: don't think he would.
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Speaker 1: You don't think he did.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he did.
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Speaker 1: But how did his DNA get on her fingernails, her phone,
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Speaker 1: and her neck?
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Speaker 11: Oh?
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Speaker 3: That's what?
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Speaker 1: He had no answer to that other than to stick
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Speaker 1: by his son. Do you think your son is capable
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Speaker 1: of murder?
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Speaker 11: Sir?
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Speaker 3: I don't see how he would have.
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Speaker 1: Was your son mentally disturbed? I'm not uncertain, and that's
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Speaker 1: where Chanelle's father cut the interview. As for Karina's parents
38:51
Speaker 1: at Lewis's arrayment, Karina's mother didn't hold back, shouting he's
38:55
Speaker 1: a demon. He's a demon. He can burn in hell.
38:58
Speaker 1: Now your nightmare begins.
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Speaker 12: For now.
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Speaker 1: Chanelle Lewis has been charged with second degree murder, is
39:04
Speaker 1: being held without failed and, according to police, faces twenty
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Speaker 1: five years to life behind bars