Paige Birgfeld 34yr Colorado missing since 6/28/07(Remains Found)

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288173,00.html

Case of Missing Colorado Woman Paige Birgfeld Baffles Investigators
Thursday , July 05, 2007




GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. —

Colorado authorities are baffled by the case of a missing mother of three and are investigating whether she may have staged her own disappearance.

Paige Birgfeld, 34, of Grand Junction, Colo., has not been seen or heard from since June 28. The Mesa County Sheriff's Department is still listing it as a missing persons case.

"We're looking into all possibilities, whether she walked away or someone took her away," Heather Gierhart, a spokeswoman for the Mesa County Sheriff's Department, told FOXNews.com. "At this point we really don't have anything that would indicate one over the other."

On Sunday night, Paige Birgfeld's red Ford Focus was found ablaze in a business parking lot about two miles from her home. Lt. Jim Fogg of the Mesa County Sheriff's Department said authorities have not ruled out a random act of vandalism.

Click here to read more at MyFOXColorado.com.

"It definitely does raise suspicion, but there isn't anything additional than that at this point that would indicate that we should change our investigation to something other than a missing person," Gierhart told FOXNews.com.

Authorities have used bloodhounds to search Birgfeld's home and torched car.

Her family, who reported her missing on June 30, believes she may have run into foul play in her work with a modeling agency and escort service.

"She was here in Grand Junction, and there was nothing out of the ordinary," her father, Frank Birgfeld, told the Denver Post. "And then she simply vanished."

Click here to read the Denver Post report.

Birgfeld posted messages in March on www.chefsuccess.com indicating she feared the return of one of her ex-husbands, Rob Dixon, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports. She wrote that her children asked if their dad was going to kill her.

Dixon was arrested on charges of domestic violence after allegedly shoving Birgfeld during an argument and later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of harassment, the Denver Post reported.

Investigators have questioned Dixon and said he is cooperating fully. Dixon's attorney told the Post he was in Philadelphia working as a paramedic the week that Paige Birgfeld disappeared.

On Monday night, about three dozen family and friends held a candlelight vigil for Birgfeld to pray for her safe return.

Paige Birgfeld is described as 5-foot-4-inches tall, weighing 110 pounds. She has sandy hair and hazel eyes and was last seen wearing a blue strapless top with flowers and blue denim shorts. She also goes by Paige Dixon and Paige Beigler, authorities said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Mesa County Sheriff's Department at 970-244-3500.

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Focus narrowed in search for missing mom
Paige Birgfeld of Grand Junction may have been working for an escort service, investigators said.
 07/06/2007 03:51:23 AM MDT

Mesa County sheriff's investigators are focusing on "some individuals" who had contact with a Grand Junction mother days before her disappearance, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

Paige Birgfeld, 34, has been missing since June 28.

A few days later, her car was found in flames in an empty parking lot less than 3 miles from her home.

Sheriff's spokeswoman Heather Gierhart would not identify the people they were focusing on or say what investigators are looking at.

Gierhart confirmed that investigators think Birgfeld, a mother of three, had been working for an escort service.

Birgfeld's father, Frank Birgfeld, said earlier in the week he believed she might have a side job either as a model or an escort.

She was known by friends and family to have sold Pampered Chef products.

Birgfeld posted messages online earlier this year saying she was afraid of one of her ex-husbands, Rob Dixon.

Dixon was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence against Birgfeld in 2005. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

At the time, he told police he was angry because he learned Birgfeld was giving topless massages to men.

Gierhart said Dixon has been cooperating fully with investigators. No suspects have been named in Birgfeld's disappearance.

http://**/headlines/ci_6308558

[mrs. red]

do we know if the ex was abusive?

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Police Suspect Foul Play in Disappearance of Colorado Mom Paige Birgfeld
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288556,00.html

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The Secrets We Keep

http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3361526&page=1[/img]

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More than 70 volunteers join in search for missing woman

 7/14/2007 3:00:39 PM
More than 70 volunteers search for a Grand Junction woman, missing for more than two weeks. 9NEWS at 5 p.m. 7/14/07
GRAND JUNCTION – On Saturday, more than 70 volunteers searched for a woman who had been missing for two weeks, but came up empty-handed.

The nine teams of volunteers searched several areas, including a field that was approximately one mile from Paige Birgfeld's car was found burned and abandoned on July 1. The last anyone heard from her was on June 28.

Investigators said earlier in the week they now suspect foul play in her disappearance. They also released information about her employment in the sex industry for a number of years.

Birgfeld's older brother, Craig, joined the searchers looking in the field. He told 9NEWS why it was important for him to do that.

"Selfishly, for myself, I want to find my sister because I love and miss her. More so, I want to find my parents' daughter because I don't want them to go through any more time without her, but mostly I want her kids to have their mom. That breaks your heart more than anything else," Craig Birgfeld said.

Don Bedford is leading the volunteers for the Abby & Jennifer Rescue Foundation.

"We want to bring her home. She's got family members that are wondering, 'You know, Where's Mom? Where's my daughter?'" Bedford said.

The search was scheduled to resume Sunday at 7 a.m.

The Abby & Jennifer Rescue Foundation was established in May 2002, after an initial organization and search for Jennifer Blagg of Grand Junction and her daughter, 6-year-old Abby Blagg.

Jennifer Blagg's body was found in a landfill seven months after her 2001 disappearance. In April 2004, Jennifer's husband Michael was convicted of her murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Abby Blagg's body has never been found.

http://www.9news.com/news/top-article.aspx?storyid=73707

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Searchers Find Items Belonging to Missing Colorado Mom Paige Birgfeld

Monday, July 16, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289435,00.html

[pdh3]

Uh-oh. It sounds like they may have found her clothes, or her purse.
Here's another young woman who may not be alive either.
I feel terrible for her children.

[Easywriter]

Clint Van Zandt wrote an interesting article about this situation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19791840/

[Sleeks]

Clint Van Zandt wrote an interesting article about this situation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19791840/

WOW        - I guess you just never know.  I am a firm believer in; the truth ALWAYS come out.  Whatever the truth may be.

[pdh3]

Clint Van Zandt wrote an interesting article about this situation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19791840/

Thanks, Easy. That was a very good article.
 I do hope her children are being cared for by a father who loves them, and I hope he is shielding them from all the stories about their Mom. They are so young, and now they are probably Motherless. Very sad.

[mrs. red]

I have to wonder if husband 1 or 2 wasn't exacting a little revenge?  I think the husband will be found to be involved....

[mrs. red]

On Greta it was reported that a mechanic in the area had some clues at his house?  I missed most of what was said, I hope Sleeks or BB you heard this one...

apparently they suspect him?  maybe that ties into the burned car?

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On Greta it was reported that a mechanic in the area had some clues at his house?  I missed most of what was said, I hope Sleeks or BB you heard this one...

apparently they suspect him?  maybe that ties into the burned car?

Missed Greta, hadn't heard about a mechanic Mrs Red...but i'll keep my eyes and ears  open  

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Information from accident could help in Birgfeld case

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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.

Gierhart said authorities haven’t resorted to dredging the waterway.

“Bodies can get caught under-water and pop up later,” she said.

Authorities have not confirmed there is a body in the canal. Birgfeld is the county’s only reported missing persons case.

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

[Sleeks]

On Greta it was reported that a mechanic in the area had some clues at his house?  I missed most of what was said, I hope Sleeks or BB you heard this one...

apparently they suspect him?  maybe that ties into the burned car?

Mrs. Red I did not catch this one - unfortunately.  I do have to agree with you, I think husband # 1 or even # 2 could have very easily got upset and angered by what she was doing.  I am also wondering if either of them had any access to her computer postings.  Especially since she didn't have any positive words to say about husband #1.  But also that unanimous poster who was 'so in love with her.'  It just takes one obsessed person or one very angered person .... it really is too bad she was playing such a game of Russian Roulette with her life.

I am going to try to see what if anything I can find out about his mechanic.

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Ex-Husband Says Missing Mom, Who Moonlighted as Escort, Planned on Meeting Clients the Night She Vanished

Thursday, July 19, 2007

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

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Well thank you for that post BB - I don't know what the heck I read yesterday, I was under the impression she was afraid of the first ex.  So it is the second husband that she was posting about.   I still have a problem with the first ex being 'OK' with her life choices and wanting to rekindle the relationship.  What type of person says they love someone thinks those choices are acceptable???  And the worst part is, these people have children.  It would be bad enough if they were just single and living that way.  But to have your children with a live-in nanny while your off doing unimaginable things with strangers, come on.  

I don't know I think about these poor children of today growing up with (or in some cases not with) these twisted less than suitable parents.  I don't mean to upset anyone.  But these kids have to now live with what she was doing.  I cannot foresee them growing up saying 'well gee we had a beautiful million dollar home....'  All they are going to remember is their absentee mother who was off doing _______ with strangers who paid her for it.

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Jul 19, 2007 8:28 am US/Mountain

Police Search Home In Hunt For Missing Woman
Father Of Grand Junction Woman Appears On CBS Early Show
Paige Birgfeld Last Seen June 28

(CBS4) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. Investigators in Mesa County searched a home in Fruitvale for a second time in less than a week Wednesday, looking for evidence in the case of a missing woman. The woman's father talked about the case Thursday morning on the CBS Early Show.

Paige Birgfeld, 34, was last seen June 28 and was reported missing two days later. Her car was found on fire one day after she was reported missing.

Police have said her disappearance may be related to her work for an escort service.

"We know what the odds are in this thing," said Frank Birgfeld, Paige's father, while appearing on the CBS Early Show.

Investigators spent 8 hours at the house in Fruitvale Wednesday. A search over the weekend of the area where her car was found also revealed some clothes and other personal belongings of Birgfeld's.

The personal items were about 10 miles from where her burned car was found on the highway July 1, a few miles from her home in Grand Junction

http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_200102946.html

[mrs. red]

I also heard on the news that the mechanic lived close and had prior incidents  - I want to say he was a sex offender, but I am not sure it I am hearing that correctly.  It was rushing around getting dressed this morning...