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21 mai 2021 · Where is Lester Ralph Jones Now? The 2007 disappearance and murder of a 34-year-old single mother of three, Paige Birgfeld, has been profiled on ’20/20: Missing Escort Service Mom’ to give us a look into the case that had baffled the nation for nearly ten years.
22 mai 2021 · Lester Ralph Jones was arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing Paige Birgfeld in Colorado. Where is he today?
- Paige Birgfeld Vanishes Without A Trace
- Paige Birgfeld’s Car Is Discovered in Flames
- Spotlight Falls on Paige Birgfeld’s Ex-Husbands
- Paige Birgfeld’s Secret Life Revealed
- Paige Birgfeld’s Phone Records Lead Police to Potential Suspects
- Investigators’ Spotlight Focuses on Lester Jones
- After Five Long Years, Paige Birgfeld’s Remains Are Found
- Lester Jones Is Arrested, Stands Trial
- Lester Jones’ Second Trial
On June 28, 2007, a Thursday, Paige Birgfeld disappeared, leaving her kids with her live-in nanny. She had promised to return later that evening. “I tried to get in touch with Paige and she didn’t return my phone calls, which I thought was rather odd. I thought she was just really busy and I would hear from her later,” Linderholm recalled. Paige Bi...
Investigators made a shocking discovery three days after Paige Birgfeld was reported missing. On July 1, 2007, they came upon her red Ford Focus engulfed in flames. “It was very clear that it was an arson, because there was nothing else around it that was burned. It was just the car itself, and it was parked in a location that Paige really had no a...
Investigators and volunteers launched a desperate search for Paige in the neighboring muddy areas and deserts. “Mesa County is 3,300 square miles, and as we began our search for Paige, we had to be concerned about if there’s a body and if there’s a body buried,” Weyler said. Craig Birgfeld left his life on the West Coast to support the search for h...
Several days after Paige Birgfeld’s car was discovered in flames in Grand Junction, a motorist on the highway leading southeast out of the town got a flat tire. When the driver pulled over to fix it, they found Paige’s checkbook. Along the same road, a health card, insurance card and other items tied to the missing mother were found. “One check was...
Investigators soon learned that Paige Birgfeld had a separate cell phone that she used for her escort business, and investigators honed in on the clients who called her on the night she vanished. “She had received numerous calls that day, and [we] determined that her last call had happened around 9 p.m. that night of June 28,” Weyler said. “We dete...
One by one, all of the potential suspects on the phone Paige Birgfeld used while escorting were eliminated, except for a man named Lester Jones, a 55-year-old local RV mechanic who had tried to book Paige Birgfeld for a rendezvous the day before she went missing. “Paige said she had met with him previously through the escort service and it was unco...
Paige Birgfeld’s family waited for updates in the case for five agonizing years, during which the case went cold. But in March 2012, a breakthrough came when a hiker venturing near the highway where her personal items had been found came upon her remains in a gulch -- a dry streambed -- amid rocks, weeds and brush. “It didn't take any of us more th...
Jones was arrested in November 2014 and charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and kidnapping in relation to Paige Birgfeld’s death. His trial began in July 2016, nine years after her disappearance. During the trial, prosecutors laid out a motive for why Jones killed Birgfeld: He had prior incidents of using violence to control wome...
Lester Jones’ second trial began on Nov. 21, 2016, just 10 weeks after the first trial and nine years after Paige disappeared. “We pared the trial down. We just needed to get it done. But my strategy, really, was I needed to listen to what the first jury told me about what was important to them, and focus on the right things,” Rubinstein said. He s...
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28 déc. 2016 · Lester Ralph Jones was convicted Tuesday, in his second murder trial, of killing Paige Birgfeld — a Colorado mother of three who authorities say ran an escort service before she went missing...
Lester Ralph Jones, one of Birgfeld's clients, was the prime suspect in Birgfeld's disappearance. In December 2016, Jones was found guilty and received a life sentence for the kidnapping, first-degree murder, felony murder, and second-degree murder of Paige Birgfeld.
28 déc. 2016 · Lester Ralph Jones was convicted Tuesday, in his second murder trial, of killing Paige Birgfeld — a Colorado mother of three who authorities say ran an escort service before she went missing...
3 juin 2022 · Convicted murderer Lester Ralph Jones will see part of his conviction vacated, but it won’t impact his sentence of life without the possibility of parole, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled...
