Paige Birgfeld
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- Date: Jun 11,2008
Three months ago Paige Birgfeld disappeared and it didn’t take long for her secrets to come to the surface. Now, it is her secret life that may unravel the mystery to her disappearance and perhaps as horrible as it may be, her death — though no body has been found to date.
Birgfeld had tumultuous relationships, and two failed marriages. She intertwined herself with danger when she secretly ran an escort service, and the night she was last seen, she was tempting fate again by rekindling a volatile relationship with her first husband.
While many people commented that Birgfeld was not a caring mother, I think it would be more poignant to say that Birgfeld didn’t think through her choices in life. Birgfeld was a woman who was driven by desire. She was a woman who was driven by her emotions, and threw logic and reasoning out the door. When the reality of her choices came to mind, Birgfeld would push them away and deny them so she could continue to moved forward in the world she wanted to create. In many respects, Birgfeld wanted to live in a fantasy.
For the last six months, police in Grand Junction, Colo., have been working to solve the disappearance of Paige Birgfeld, a 34-year-old mother of three, who was reported missing on June 30, 2007, following a meeting with her ex-husband, Ron Biegler.
According to statements Biegler made to police, he and Paige had several contacts over the previous month to discuss the possibility of rekindling their relationship. Biegler said that on the night of Paige’s disappearance, the couple had a brief rendezvous, and at 9 p.m., he spoke with her on her cell phone as she drove through the north suburbs of Grand Junction en route to her house.
Birgfeld was a mother of three, held down odd jobs to support her family, and was twice divorced. Life wasn’t coming easy for Birgfeld who ironically lived in a million dollar home.
When she disappeared, it didn’t take people long to point the finger at her ex-husband, Rob Dixon. Birgfeld had posted her fears online in a Pampered Chef forum that she was afraid of her ex-husband who was moving within a four hour drive of her and the children.
But Birgfeld had domestic disputes with both of her husbands, and before she disappeared the last known person to publicly speak of seeing Birgfeld alive was her first husband, Howard (Ron) Beigler.
Police have said that both husbands are talking with police and are cooperating, but neither has been ruled out as a suspect.
Paige Birgfeld, a 34-year-old single mother, was last seen in Grand Junction, Colo., on June 28. Her father and a friend discuss the investigation into her disappearance with Julie Chen. | Share/Embed
(CBS) Paige Birgfeld, a 34-year-old single mom, was last seen by her friends and neighbors in Grand Junction, Colo., on June 28. Investigators still don’t know what happened to her, but they are now looking into what appear to be ties to an online escort service.
Paige’s father, Frank Birgfeld, and a friend, Andrea Land, spoke Thursday to The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen about the emotionally draining ordeal.
Asked about the latest in the search for his daughter, Birgfeld says, “We’ve been having search teams out in what is really rugged country out here since Saturday. We’ve found some items of hers on the highway. But other than that, I don’t think we found anything of significance.”
“Her car was found three days after her disappearance. It was there miles from her house in a light industrial area, set on fire from the inside, presumably to destroy evidence,” he adds.
“Frank, is it out of character for Paige to just get up and leave her family for an extended period of time?” Chen asks.
“I made the statement that if Paige broke both her legs three miles from her house, she’d have crawled on her elbows to get back to her kids,” Birgfeld replies.
Paige Birgfeld was involved in a number of different jobs, including selling “The Pampered Chef” products, and teaching dance to preschoolers. Then it turned out she was likely involved with an online escort service.
Asked if he thinks that line of work put his daughter in harm’s way, Frank Birgfeld says, “Well, I would say that’s the most fertile area. I mean, I don’t think she’s going to have attackers who come at her because of her ‘Pampered Chef’ products.”
Birgfeld, who says he didn’t know about his daughter’s line of work, thinks investigators knew about the service right from the beginning when the search for Paige began.
Andrea Land knows Paige from the Mom’s Club Chapter they both belong to. “Paige is somebody that lights up the room. She’s probably the most patient and loving mother out of all of us in our group of 46 members. We all wished we could be more like her. She always has a smile on her face. And I’ve never heard her raise her voice to her kids. She just has a wonderful, loving, patient way about her.”
Asked how Paige’s children are coping with the disappearance of their mother, Frank Birgfeld tells Chen, “You know, we’re starting to worry a little bit about it. they don’t say much, but they seem to cry more easily.”
“Do you think Paige is still alive out there, Frank?” Chen asks.
“You know, look, we know what the odds are in this thing. But there’s also, from now and then, a bizarre ending in these things. We look at the Elizabeth Smart case, where actually some of these searchers went to Salt Lake City, couldn’t find her, and found her alive with some religious zealot nine months later. So there can be a happy ending. As parents, that’s what we hope for,” Birgfeld says.
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