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

[mrs. red]

Watching this story right now on Fox... the are blathering about how because she lived in a million dollar home, she should have been a different person...

she ran an acupuncture clinic... her first husband met her in a parking lot before she disappeared and he has since said he doesn't think he will ever see her again.

I have to wonder if the first husband is involved and he is trying to frame the mechanic...

[bleachedblack]

Sleeks wrote;

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 have to agree Sleeks there is definately something wrong with the whole picture. Priorities that are screwed up, people doing things for money that they wouldn't need in the first place if they didn't live in million dollar homes and have live-in nanny's. Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming this woman for being the victim...but I do blame the life she was living for what are apparently many of the wrong reasons. There are those that argue,"Well someone could be killed easier  crossing the street,than working for an escort service."
My response to them would be, "You greatly increase the odds of being hit if you cross with your eyes shut." Paige Birgfeld seemed to have her eyes closed IMO.

[mrs. red]

I think that hubby #1 holds some answers still... watching Greta..

the first hubby knew she was going to meet two johns... and he didn't think anything was wrong with that... ummm I think he set something up.

[Sleeks]

BB I could not have said that better myself!!!  Especially the part about 'crossing the street with your eyes closed.'  EXACTLY!!!  Let's see this is really the example one would want to set for their children, in order to live this well, we need to do sleezy things.  NO - SORRY!!!

Again I too have sympathy for her if she did indeed come to a horrible end, I have sympathy for her family & kids.  But I still do not agree with what she was doing to 'support' them.

And Mrs. Red, I have a problem with that one too.  First husband knowing that she was off to meet  other men.  As I said yesterday, what person (man or woman) says they love someone and thinks it acceptable to go out and do that???  What a mess!!!

[Jennifer34]

Who's house did they search?  Was that the mechanics, in Fuitvale or somewhere?  I bet LE has an idea huband #1 is involved in this and is  probably trying to get more evidence.

[Sleeks]

In all my reading of this case; Idid not know they found checks!  


http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5630929,00.html

I am having an extremely hard time hearing the way her closest family and friends are talking about this.  Almost like nothing about what she was doing was wrong.  Perhaps they think if they don't speak about it, nobody else will.  Don't misuderstand me, I realize they miss her and want her back.  But nobody wants to cut to the chase.  IMO, that lifestyle, she really was playing with fire.  Whether it was her husband(s) who would had something to do with it or a complete stranger.  How can one play in the mud without getting muddy???

[mrs. red]

I think they are trying to combat the media's saliciousness over her business and they are afraid that people won't take the fact that she is missing seriously, so they are going the girl scout route...

I personally truly believe that HUBBY #1 is the culprit... or is involved.  He stated she was too trusting.. uh, she was in business with the seediest side of ppl.

[klaasend]

http://**/breakingnews/ci_6424336

Clifton man 'of interest' in missing mom case
By Kirk Mitchell Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 07/20/2007 02:31:40 PM MDT


Authorities today named Lester Ralph Jones as a person of interest in the disappearance of Paige Birgfeld, whose car was found ablaze three weeks ago.

Heather Gierhart, spokeswoman for the Mesa County Sheriff's Office, said a home at 3072 Hill Ave. was searched for the second time on Wednesday.

She did not say who lived in the home but real estate records indicate it is where the 56-year-old Jones lives.

Gierhart declined to say why Jones was a person of interest, but she said he is not a suspect in Birgfeld's disappearance.

"We're naming no suspects," Gierhart said. "There are a lot of people who are persons of interest."

Authorities have said they suspect foul play in Birgfeld's disappearance. Recently, about two dozen items that likely belong to her were found scattered along U.S. 50, south of Grand Junction.

"The investigation is going very well," Gierhart said.

Jones did not return a phone message on Friday.

Gierhart said she couldn't comment on whether Jones has cooperated with authorities during the investigation.

According to the CBI, Jones served at least five years in prison for convictions of first-degree assault and second-degree attempted kidnapping in 1999 in Delta County.

Staff writer Kirk Mitchell can be reached at 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com.

[klaasend]

Lester Ralph Jones, 56, has been identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of Paige Birgfeld, the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department said this morning.

“Through the process of our investigation Lester (Jones) has come to our attention,” said Heather Gierhart, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department.

“Lester Jones is a person of interest.”

— Le Roy Standish

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.

On Jan. 13, 1999, Jones was arrested by the Paonia Police Department on suspicion of obstructing justice by intimidating a witness or victim and contempt of court for violating a restraining order.

On Feb. 9, 1999, Jones was arrested by the Delta County Sheriff’s Department on suspicion of contempt of court for violating a restraining order, false imprisonment, assault in the third degree, sexual assault and burglary.

On Oct. 10, 1999, Jones was sentenced to five years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for kidnapping in the second degree, according to the CBI.

[Sleeks]

Klaasend - this guy sounds like a real prize.  Does not sound good AT ALL.

[klaasend]

Klaasend - this guy sounds like a real prize.  Does not sound good AT ALL.

No it doesn't sound good.  

[Rob]

LESTER RALPH JONES - POI

[klaasend]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5638423,00.html

[Rob]

LESTER 'RALPH' JONES

[AZSunny]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19919780/
Too many missing women, too few answers
Will Paige Birgfeld, Lisa Stebic, or Mahalia Xiong be found alive?

By Clint Van Zandt
MSNBC
Updated: 3:05 p.m. MT July 23, 2007
 
 
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Of the 51,000 adults currently listed as missing in the United States, most know the story of 34-year-old Paige Birgfeld, the Colorado mother of two who has been missing since June 28.

What makes Birgfeld’s story different is the two lives that she led up to her disappearance, one as the twice-divorced woman who sold Pampered Chef products and taught dance lessons to preschoolers, and another as a one-woman escort service who used the Internet to advertise the various personal services she offered to meet the needs of some men.
Paige, known to her escort service clients as “Carrie,” may have been attempting to rekindle her relationship with her first husband the night she disappeared. He apparently was one of the few who knew of her night time activities with other men, indicating that she had told him that she had two clients to see after she left him that evening. Her cellphone was later used within a few miles from her home, and her burned down car was subsequently found in an auto parts lot, but Paige never made it home that night and has not been seen since. MSNBC video

 
  Missing Colo. mom led double life
July 16: Police searching for Paige Birgfeld have learned that the mother of three was living another life under the name “Carrie” and running an escort service.  MSNBC’s Clint Van Zandt takes a closer look at what may have made Birgfeld live this second life.
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Investigators would need to consider her two former husbands and the clients of her escort service as possible suspects in her disappearance— especially the two clients she allegedly told her first husband she was going to meet the night she disappeared. She also had other business dealings, but it was her escort service clients that attracted the attention of investigators after they accounted for her two former husbands.

It is from that client list that a current “person of interest” has been identified, this after authorities searched his home twice seeking evidence that could further link him to the missing woman. 56-year-old Lester Ralph Jones has a history of domestic violence, including a 1999 arrest for kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon against his then-wife, for which he was convicted and sentenced to a five years the state prison. One media report suggests the obvious: that Jones was a client of Birgfeld's escort service. What makes him perhaps even more interesting to law enforcement is the fact that the RV repair company where he works is just a short distance from where Paige’s burned out car was found.

If you were an investigator trying to find Paige, you might also consider the possibility that one of the clients she was allegedly going to spend time with the night she disappeared could have been Jones. If evidence was developed— perhaps a record of a telephone call between Paige and Jones or an appointment noted on her personal calendar in reference to him— then she could have met him at a location convenient for both of them, like the parking lot of the auto parts facility. Somehow, though, the working theory would also need to explain how items from her purse (her video store card, her checkbook registry and checks, etc.) were found strewn along the median of a highway miles from where her car was found. Could her assailant, in that theory Ralph Jones, have thrown them out of his car after being with Paige? Or could she have sensed her peril and surreptitiously dropped them from the car that was taking her away from her home and children?

Jones, whose current wife was out of town on the 28th, is a man who chased his former wife at speeds of over 100 mph, rammed her car, ran her off the road, and forced her at gunpoint to come with him. If Jones or another client of Paige’s escort service (known to its clients as Models, Inc.) had an appointment with her the night she disappeared, it’s likely that they will be much more than “persons of interest” should they not be able to account for their activities on that night.

Meanwhile there are two children who now have no mother. They’re now with their father, Paige’s second husband. Paige’s father has been named by a judge as his missing daughter’s conservator until she returns. It's a thread of hope that her family clings to, and they continually cite the case of Elizabeth Smart as evidence that Paige could still come home.

[pdh3]

This poor family. I have a feeling their hopes will be crushed, and I really hate that for them. The burned out car is a very bad omen, IMHO. I think it was set on fire to destroy evidence of a murder.

[Grande]

Search moves to Delta...

http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6842130

Lester Ralph Jones is from Delta where he was previously married and then later convicted of aggravated assault among other crimes after he chased down his ex-wife at high speed, and then later shot at her boyfriend at the time.  Attempted murder charges were dropped in lieu of his guilty plea.  Now it seems he may be back on the prowl...  

Coincidentally, there is another missing woman from Colorado with similar features, Nonnie Dotson, who disappeared November 19, 2006.  The two areas of interest are appx. 120 miles apart.

[Grande]

Archived article from 199?

Man gets10-year termfor shooting,kidnapping
By AARON PORTER

DELTA — A Crawford man who shot at his estranged wife's boyfriend early this year and later kidnapped her was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

While driving through Hotchkiss on Jan. 6, Ralph Jones, 48, encountered his 31-year-old wife, Lisa Jones, in a vehicle with her boyfriend, Joe Bear, according to court documents. Jones tried to force his wife to stop several times during an ensuing high-speed chase on Colorado Highway 133.

The chase ended abruptly after Jones sideswiped the couple's vehicle on a county road near Paonia. After firing two shots at Bear, who was fleeing down a nearby railroad track, Jones pulled his wife from the car and threatened to kill her, court documents state.

Shortly after his release from jail, Jones violated his bond conditions by kidnapped his estranged wife on Jan. 30, according to an arrest warrant. She escaped in Jones' vehicle when he entered a Delta hotel to obtain a room for the night.

Authorities captured Jones the next day, after he flew to Oklahoma in search of his wife.

Jones pleaded guilty Aug. 18 to six felony charges stemming from the original assault and violence charges, as well as violating conditions of the bond from the shooting incident.

http://web.archive.org/web/200001161...5712.0484.html

[Grande]

Not only was Lester Ralph Jones a 'client' of Paige's, but her vehicle was found in flames in the parking lot at of HIS place of employment, Bob Scott's RV.

[mrs. red]

thanks Grande...