GUILTY CO - Paige Birgfeld, 34, Grand Junction, 28 June 2007

[englishleigh]

I think this is a case that Texas Equusearch needs to take on. That's amazing that they found some of her stuff...I hope it means she was leaving a trail for investigators to follow, and not that a perp was dumping her things.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I have followed this case in the media some, but had not heard of the articles they found on the roadway. It sounds like a good lead, however, it could be a way to throw LE off the real course.

She sounds like a type-A personality/workaholic. They don't define themselves financially, but with the challenge to excel at everything they do. The money isn't the driving force.

Could she have gotten herself into an unsavory situation? Of course, but she was a very smart woman. It doesn't sound to me as if she were meeting anyone in a business capacity. She would have dressed for it and been prepared. I tend to think her going missing had nothing to do with any of her activities related to her lifestyle or business ventures myself.

Her car being burned and left to be found is quite telling. If they wanted to leave no traces behind...they would not have parked it where they did for the FD and LE to find. They would have driven it into the water somewhere and allowed it to sink so not to be found. The person or persons responsible are taunting LE or they are leaving blatant clues to foul play for another reason.

 

[Rle7]

Information surrounding a traffic accident could help authorities piece together clues in the case of a missing Grand Junction woman.

Mesa County Sheriff’s investigators want information from motorists who were diverted around an accident the evening of June 28 at 23 and G roads. Paige Birgfeld’s Ford Focus was found burned out at about 10:30 that night at 727 Road 23 near the location of the crash.

“We can’t say why we’re looking but we’re interested in the detour routes that people took,” said spokeswoman Heather Gierhart of the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department. “I think there were many detour routes. There are so many people who could have information or could have seen something.”

Gierhart said investigators aren’t interested in the accident itself, but in things people may have seen while rerouted around the accident. People with information should call Mesa County Sheriff’s investigator Peter Burg at 244-3263.

In other news, authorities haven’t found evidence of body in the Grand Valley Canal, as reported to police by a passer-by on Monday. Deputies have been checking traps at various points two miles downstream from the possible sighting in the canal between Seventh and 12th streets. Gierhart said deputies will continue to visually check the canal for about a week.

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/07/18/7_18_6a_Birgfeld_sidebar.html

 

[Rle7]

Authorities are searching a Grand Junction home this afternoon in connection with the disappearance of Paige Birgfeld. Agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations and the Mesa County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant this morning.

http://www.nbc11news.com/home/headlines/8578917.html

I hope they find her.

 

[Bobbisangel]

LE must have something if they were able to get a warrent for this home. I would love to know whose home it is. Hope this gal is found soon. My heart goes out to her little kids. I hope they have good daddy's that love them a lot.

 

[InterestedNHelping]

Story on Paige is updated at crimelibrary....seems alot of items have been found along the highway...


http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0707/1701_paige_birgfeld.html

 

[chicoliving]

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.

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

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289958,00.html

 

[Taximom]

LE must have something if they were able to get a warrent for this home. I would love to know whose home it is. Hope this gal is found soon. My heart goes out to her little kids. I hope they have good daddy's that love them a lot.

I thought I heard on Greta's show last night that the neighbors say the man is a mechanic and lives there with his wife. Seemed like your normal nice, quiet guy. The neighbors also said they don't recall seeing anyone looking like Paige in their neighborhood or at that home.

The fact that it's the 2nd search gives me goosebumps though. This is such a strange case....

 

[Sally]

LE must have something if they were able to get a warrent for this home. I would love to know whose home it is. Hope this gal is found soon. My heart goes out to her little kids. I hope they have good daddy's that love them a lot.

The house is owned by a woman named Elaine J. Jones. Doesn't mean she lives there necessarily, just that she is on record as owning it.
I have been trying to learn why the volunteer search has been on Highway 50. Obviously it was fruitful, as they found personal belongings there, but her home is some distance from there as were all her reported activities of that day. Does anyone know why the search started there?

 

[Taximom]

The very last reporter on Greta's show tonight said that Lester Jones was confirmed to them (radio station news?) as a client of Paige's.

I still have a hard time with ex-H#1 being the last one to see her alive, and he's giving all these details about that night. I hope LE is confirming them.

If their marriage broke up after 3-4 yrs (per the report on Greta's show) because he was uncomfortable with her stripping, I don't see how he's comfortable with her running an escort service while renewing their relationship. Then there's ex-H#2 that supposedly has a hot temper....

 

[Bobbisangel]

It was said on Greta tonight that the 1st husband thought that him and Paige had a relationship going and that he had come to terms with her being an escort. Her friend on Greta said that she hadn't known that Paige ran an escort service or did it herself but she said that Paige didn't try to keep it a secret and if she was asked about it she would talk about it...some of her friends were aware of it. She said that Paige had told her that Paige and her lst husband were getting back together or working on it.

I thought it was said that Paige received a phone call around 10:00 and left the house right after that and that she had a pair of shorts and a halter top on when she left. Now it is said that she never went home but was meeting with two different clients before she went home that night. I wonder what the truth is? Odd that she would meet with clients in shorts and a halter top.

I also heard on Greta that no one knows where this Jones couple are. That they weren't home when the house was searched several times. I wonder what led LE to the Jones house. Was Paige supposed to meet with the husband/client that night? Did the couple do something to her?

 

[Taximom]

It was said on Greta tonight that the 1st husband thought that him and Paige had a relationship going and that he had come to terms with her being an escort. Her friend on Greta said that she hadn't known that Paige ran an escort service or did it herself but she said that Paige didn't try to keep it a secret and if she was asked about it she would talk about it...some of her friends were aware of it. She said that Paige had told her that Paige and her lst husband were getting back together or working on it.

I thought it was said that Paige received a phone call around 10:00 and left the house right after that and that she had a pair of shorts and a halter top on when she left. Now it is said that she never went home but was meeting with two different clients before she went home that night. I wonder what the truth is? Odd that she would meet with clients in shorts and a halter top.

I also heard on Greta that no one knows where this Jones couple are. That they weren't home when the house was searched several times. I wonder what led LE to the Jones house. Was Paige supposed to meet with the husband/client that night? Did the couple do something to her?

I heard that too, thanks for more details!

Here's where I have a problem. I know how I felt when I heard "Laci was ok with my affair" and other comments like that from other cases. Yeah, right.

I think men have a more difficult time 'sharing'a woman they are in a relationship with in. I know there are exceptions, but this ex-h said that their marriage broke up because she was stripping. Sure, somehow he accepted all that and moved on? Now it's ok that she's actually sleeping with (insert #) strangers? I think the ex#1 had something to do with this.

Where's Cal when you need him for that male point of view?

 

[kwatson696]

The very last reporter on Greta's show tonight said that Lester Jones was confirmed to them (radio station news?) as a client of Paige's.

I still have a hard time with ex-H#1 being the last one to see her alive, and he's giving all these details about that night. I hope LE is confirming them.

If their marriage broke up after 3-4 yrs (per the report on Greta's show) because he was uncomfortable with her stripping, I don't see how he's comfortable with her running an escort service while renewing their relationship. Then there's ex-H#2 that supposedly has a hot temper....

ot home


I also heard that Lester Ralph Jones was a "client" of Paige's, Wonder what his wife thought about that and where ARE they? the news said they are not at home...:doh:

 

[SeriouslySearching]

This case gets stranger by the day!

I forgot we were on the support thread. Sorry.

 

[twinkiesmom]

At least, she was trying to "earn" her way by working and not sitting on her duff being given handouts by Daddy.

Nope...instead she was working it....

 

[Quincy]

According to the GJ Sentinel, Lester Jones has now been named a person of interest.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/blogs/con...007/07/20/person_of_interest_named_in_mi.html

Please forgive me if this link has already been posted but it looks like
Lester Ralph Jones has had some previous run-in's with the law..domestic violence. LE isn't confirming if it's the same person, but it sure seems possible.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/07/20/7_20_1a_Ralph_Jones.html


Also, according to the Grand Junction Free Press the search for Paige has been moved to the north part of Grand Junction.

http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20070720/COMMUNITY_NEWS/70719015

 

[SeriouslySearching]

Unless you sign up, it won't allow access for that second story. Could someone just post it here please?

 

[chicoliving]

The house at 3072 Hill Ave. is owned by Elaine J. Jones, according to the Mesa County Assessor’s Office. She lives there with her husband, Lester Ralph Jones, who was born in 1951, according to Mesa County voting records.

A man named Lester Ralph Jones, who was born March 4, 1951, has a slew of domestic-violence-related convictions for crimes committed in Delta County. All of the convictions stem from three dates in early 1999.

Jones’ CBI record shows 12 separate charges stemming from a Jan. 1, 1999, arrest by the Delta County Sheriff’s Department. The charges included two counts of harassment or false imprisonment; two counts of assault or menacing and second-degree kidnapping; a weapons offense; two misdemeanor traffic offenses; reckless endangerment; and false imprisonment.

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/07/20/7_20_1a_Ralph_Jones.html

 

[chicoliving]

Investigators in Mesa County have, for the first time, named a person of interest in the disappearance of 34 year old mother Paige Birgfeld.

Investigators have twice searched the home of Lester Ralph Jones in connection with the disappearance, and Friday named him a person of interest in the case.

Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hikley has said their investigation was focusing on the escort service Birgfeld was running at the time of her disappearance. Sources tell Fox News that Jones was a client of the escort service, Models, Inc.

http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/...n=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

 

[chicoliving]

This case gets stranger by the day!

I forgot we were on the support thread. Sorry.

I went ahead and moved this to the discussion forum so the previous reports would all be in the same place. It just seems more appropriate here.