PAIGE BIRGFELD UPDATE 7-19-2007

EX-HUSBAND SAYS MISSING MOM, WHO MOONLIGHTED AS AN ESCORT, WAS PLANNING ON MEETING CLIENTS THE NIGHT SHE VANISHED.
FOX NEWS 7-19-2007


PAIGE BIRGFELD

DENVER — The first husband of missing mom Paige Birgfeld says his ex-wife visited him the night she disappeared, and that she was planning on keeping two appointments with escort-service clients before heading home, according to an exclusive interview with FOX31-TV in Denver.

Ron Beigler also said he doubted he would ever again see his former wife, who vanished three weeks ago.

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Investigators are not focusing their investigation on Beigler, the station reported, though they have not cleared him or Birgfeld's second ex-husband, Rob Dixon, as suspects.

Beigler also told the station his ex-wife had knack for milking money out of men, but that he had hoped the two of them could rekindle their relationship.

Authorities have said they suspect foul play in the disappearance of 34-year-old mother of three who led a double life as "Carrie," a popular escort with service called Models Inc.

Searchers last weekend found items belonging to Birgfeld along U.S. 50.

Birgfeld's car, a 2005 red Ford Focus, was found June 1, ablaze in a parking lot in an industrial area located about two miles from her Grand Junction home.

She was last seen alive on June 28.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel newspaper reported that Birgfeld posted messages on chefsuccess.com indicating she feared the return of her second ex-husband Rob Dixon.

"Nothing during the course of our investigation has lead us to believe that Paige walked away from her family or that she left of her own free will," Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said in a written statement.

"Unfortunately, we do suspect foul play in her disappearance and the subsequent arson of her vehicle."

Birgfeld, meanwhile, appeared to be living a life of contradictions.

The Denver Post reported that in the middle of her home office was a sheet of smiley-face stickers she used to reward her three children.

Smiley faces also appear on Birgfeld's "Naughtynightlife" Web site, where she advertised her services as "Carrie," the Post reported.

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HOME OF ELAINE J. JONES & LESTER "RALPH" JONES - SEARCHED FOR THE SECOND TIME YESTERDAY - UNKNOWN CONNECTION TO PAIGE BIRGFELD AT THIS TIME

ANOTHER SEARCH IN BIRGFELD CASE
By AMY HAMILTON The Daily Sentinel
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Information from a Hill Avenue house could be a key piece of evidence in deciphering the case of a missing Grand Junction woman, said Heather Gierhart, a spokeswoman of the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department.

For the second time in two weeks, investigators obtained a warrant and searched the home at 3072 Hill Ave. for clues on the whereabouts of Paige Birgfeld, 34, who has been missing for three weeks.

A search warrant affidavit in the case has been sealed.

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HOME SEARCHED TWICE IN BIRGFELD CASE
By Paul Shockley
Free Press Staff Writer
July 19, 2007

Authorities investigating Paige Birgfeld’s disappearance searched a Pear Park home Wednesday — the second search warrant executed there in six days.

Mesa County Sheriff’s investigators, accompanied by crime scene technicians with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, arrived at 3072 Hill Ave., in Pear Park, around 8:30 a.m. — CBI staff packed up around noon while local investigators stayed through late afternoon.

The search warrant was one of two executed by investigators on Wednesday related to Birgfeld’s case. Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey declined to identify the second property searched.

“All along we’ve been narrowing our persons of interest,” Hilkey said. “Part of our interest is on a resident of that (3072 Hill Ave.) household.”

Hilkey declined to elaborate.

Elaine and Ralph Jones, the home’s residents, were not around and authorities declined to say if they were interviewed.

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