On June 28, 2007, Page, a young American divorced woman, got up very early. After carefully dressing up, she said goodbye to her nanny and three children, and drove to a park in Igor City to have a picnic with her first ex-husband, Ron.
Picture | Page and her three children
Page is a 34-year-old single mother. She and her three children live in a mansion in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. This mansion was left to her by Rob after she divorced her second ex-husband.
Perhaps her life after the divorce was too lonely, so she took the initiative to contact her first ex-husband Ron, and the two soon had a lively chat. However, because Ron lived in Denver, 400 kilometers away from Grand Junction, the two never had the opportunity to meet.
In order to quench her thirst for lovesickness, Page took the initiative to ask Ron to have a picnic in Igor City Park between the two cities. Ron readily agreed after hearing this.
Before setting off, Page specifically told the nanny and the children that she would be back before dark, but maybe she was so happy after seeing Ron that the two of them forgot about the time while chatting.
At around 7 o'clock that night, Page drove back. In order not to worry the children, Page thoughtfully called her home and said she would be home in two hours. However, no one expected that this would be the last call between Page and her family.
At around 11 o'clock that night, 4 hours had passed since Paige called home. She should have arrived home long ago even if there was a traffic jam, but her child, who was anxiously waiting for her at home, never saw her.
At this time, Page's eldest daughter began to call Page's phone constantly, but no one answered. Ron, who had already arrived home, also realized that something was wrong, because when he and Page parted, they had agreed to call each other to report that they were safe.
Picture丨Photos of Page and her first husband Ron when they were married
But not only did Ron not receive a call from Page to report that she was safe, but he also found that Page's phone was never answered. Ron hesitated and decided to call Page's home number. It turned out that Page did not come home at all, so Ron called the police.
After the police received the case, they immediately placed their suspicion on Ron, because Page disappeared after having a picnic with Ron, and the relationship between the two was relatively complicated. Ron was both Page's first ex-husband and the subject of Page's emotional entanglements.
The police believe that Ron may have harmed Page because of some conflicts, and what Ron said about the two getting together and what happened after they broke up is not credible.
But after a brief investigation, the police eliminated their suspicion of Ron, because according to the call records between the two, Page called Ron around 9 o'clock on the night of the incident.
At that time, Page's cell phone signal was near Grand Junction, while Ron's cell phone signal was near Denver, 400 kilometers away. Ron had no time to commit the crime.
Moreover, after the police contacted Page's friends and family, they found that Page and Ron had no conflict at all. The reason why the two divorced that year was entirely due to different concepts of marriage, which led to an amicable breakup.
It turns out that Page likes children very much, but Ron hates children very much, and he doesn't want to have children with Page, so the two divorced after more than 2 years of marriage.
Since Ron had no motive or time to commit the crime, the police could only adjust the direction of the investigation. At this time, the police discovered that Page's second ex-husband, Rob, was very suspicious.
Picture | Page and her second husband Rob
Rob is a standard rich second generation. After marrying Page in 1998, he bought Page a luxurious villa, and then gave birth to three children with Page. On the surface, the family lived a very happy life.
However, according to reports from Page's father Frank and the police, Rob is a person with character flaws. Rob is usually gentle and gentle, but when something bad happens, he will lose his temper at Page and even fight against her.
However, every time Rob quarreled with Page, he would quickly apologize to Page and promise that similar things would not happen. In addition, both parties have three children, so Page would tolerate it.
But when the time came to 2004, Rob's financial crisis came into being, which made Rob very stressed and his temper became more and more irritable. Moreover, Rob began to threaten Page with his three children.
One day in October 2004, after a quarrel with Page, Rob said that if the two divorced, he would take away the custody of the three children, and then find a deserted place to kill the three children.
Page couldn't understand why Rob would say such cruel words even though he was his biological father. In order to prevent such a thing from happening, Page immediately called the police.
After investigation, the police believed that this was an ordinary quarrel between husband and wife. They did not take it seriously and did not deal with Rob. However, Page's call to the police this time intensified the conflict between the two parties. After that, the two parties began to quarrel frequently and intensified.
A year later, Page called the police again because of a quarrel with Rob, but the police still ignored the matter. The sad Page told his father Frank about the incident.
Picture | Page's father Frank
Father Frank is definitely a pure man. When he heard that his daughter was bullied, he couldn't help but flew into a rage. Frank directly threw a bank card to his daughter Page, asked her to divorce Rob, and said that he would raise his daughter and three grandchildren.
With the support of her father, Page naturally became a lot tougher. Seeing that Robert would never change his ways, she divorced Robert in 2006. Page not only obtained custody of their three children, but also obtained Robert's villa.
's father, Frank, believes that Rob is likely to have a grudge against Page and thus hurt Page. Especially if Rob discovers that Page is dating her first ex-husband, he will have sufficient motives and reasons to commit the crime.
Moreover, Frank also said that after the two divorced, Rob had repeatedly threatened to find an opportunity to take care of Page and their three children. When the police heard that such a violent person had such an obvious motive for committing the crime, they quickly began to investigate Rob.
But the police were disappointed again after investigating, because on the day Page disappeared, Rob was in Philadelphia 3,000 kilometers away, and there was no time to commit the crime. In other words, this clue was broken again.
Who else could be the murderer? The police immediately investigated Page's circle of friends and found that Page's friends were full of praise for her, saying that she was a very capable single mother.
Picture丨Page
It turns out that after her divorce from Rob, Page worked three jobs at the same time. Not only did she work in a media company, she also opened a toddler dance training company and a milk powder sales company.
Moreover, Page not only works multiple jobs, but also takes good care of her three children. She insists on fully participating in the children's parent-child activities at school. She is a typical strong mother.
Could such an excellent mother abandon her child and hide? It's obviously impossible. Not only Page's family doesn't believe it, but even the police don't believe it.
How could such a living person disappear out of thin air? The police can only bite the bullet and search blindly. Will this kind of search be fruitful? Not to mention, the police soon made new discoveries.
On July 1, 2007, three days after Page disappeared, the police found the red car driven by Page in an abandoned parking lot in Grand Junction. Although the car had been burned, the police still found something special.
First of all, the police can confirm that the last person driving the car was definitely not Page himself, but a very tall person. Because the driver's seat of the car was adjusted very far back, it could not have been adjusted by Page, who was only 162 centimeters tall.
Picture丨Page’s burned car
Secondly, the police found an unburned notebook in the trunk of the car. The text recorded in the notebook only showed the date until June 25, and the following pages were artificially torn out.
The police speculated based on this that Page was most likely controlled or even murdered. The content that was torn out from June 26 to 28 just showed that the murderer was an acquaintance and was recorded in the notebook.
After receiving this information, the police mobilized a large number of police officers and local residents to form a search team of more than 150 people to search for Page. At the same time, they retrieved Page's call records and bank card transaction records to find people who may have contacted Page. The
search team searched for a long time but did not find any valuable clues. However, the police officers investigating Page's phone calls and bank cards made a major discovery.
The police found that Page's phone calls were very active and he frequently contacted strangers. At the same time, Page's bank card transactions were also very complicated, far beyond the scope of normal social activities.
After further verification, the police discovered a little-known side of Page. She was actually a social girl. Especially after Page's divorce, she also established a private club to organize a large number of models to provide services to wealthy people.
Picture | Paige
Paige even went by the pseudonym Carly and provided services in person. Her price was around US$2,000, and Paige had worked as a social girl as early as 1990, under the pseudonym Madison.
Since there is such a little-known scene about Page, the police speculate that her disappearance is likely to be directly related to the customers she serves. After all, the customers have various identities and backgrounds, and the situations they encounter are also very complicated.
After careful combing, the police successfully found a guest with the greatest suspicion, named Jim. On the day of Page's disappearance, he made three phone calls to Page, and two of the calls were made at around 9 p.m. that night.
After that, Page never received any calls on her cell phone. In other words, this person named Jim was the last person to contact Page.
But after investigation, the police found that "Jim" was a fake name, and the mobile phone was a prepaid mobile phone purchased from a local Wal-Mart supermarket on June 26.
The police rushed to Wal-Mart and retrieved the videos of all the people who bought prepaid mobile phones that day. In order to identify the suspect as quickly as possible, the police also looked for tall buyers based on the fact that the driving seat of Page's car was set far back.
Fortunately, among the people who bought prepaid mobile phones that day, there was only one tall man. Although the video of that day was relatively blurry, the police still found a suspicious man named Lester.
Picture | Lester
Lester is a 55-year-old car mechanic, and coincidentally, the car repair shop where Lester works is directly opposite the parking lot where Page's car was found.
The police quickly found Lester to inquire about the situation. Faced with the police's inquiry, Lester was very cooperative. He not only explained his whereabouts on the day of the incident, but also cooperated with the police in collecting fingerprints and DNA.
But Lester said that he did not know Page at all, and he had never gone to Wal-Mart to buy a prepaid mobile phone. Seeing that Lester was very candid, the police really thought they had found the wrong person at first.
But then, after watching the video of the tall man buying a mobile phone, Lester's wife told the police that she was sure that the man was Lester. Moreover, Lester's wife also said that she was traveling out of town at the time of the incident and Lester was at home alone.
In other words, no one knew what Lester had done, and he had no alibi. Upon seeing this, the police immediately applied for a search warrant, and soon found the prepaid mobile phone used to call Page in Lester's office.
At the same time, the police also discovered that Lester had a bad temper and a moody personality. In 1999, he was caught and served in prison for assaulting his ex-wife.
After a further search of Leicester's office, police also discovered a notebook hidden in a secret location, which contained detailed information about many women, including Page.
Picture | Lester
It can be said that at this time, the police were almost certain that Lester was definitely related to Page's disappearance, but Lester still denied it. Since Page was never found, the police had no way to deal with Lester, and the case slowly reached a deadlock.
In the blink of an eye, five years later, in March 2013, just when everyone had almost forgotten about Page, a travel companion suddenly discovered scattered remains while exploring the canyons around Grand Junction.
After the police arrived at the scene, they spent a lot of effort to collect most of the remains scattered nearby. After identification, it was confirmed that these remains belonged to Page. At this point, the case of Page's disappearance was officially transformed into the case of Page's murder.
In November 2014, Lester was indicted by the prosecutor as a major suspect in the case. However, because the case occurred so long ago, it took too long for Page's remains to be discovered.
The medical examiner was not only unable to determine the time of Page's death, but also the manner of his death. Therefore, the case spent a lot of time investigating and no more evidence was found. All evidence that could prove Lester's guilt was indirect evidence.
In July 2016, the case officially opened for trial. Faced with Lester’s sophistry and the weak evidence provided by the prosecutor, the jury still acquitted Lester after 22 days of discussion.
However, the police responsible for investigating the case did not give up. They went through all the files on the case in the past nine years to try to find a breakthrough.
Picture丨Lester
As the saying goes, "God pays off his heart". After careful investigation, the police found that on the day of the incident, Lester drove his wife's car and drove around in the parking lot where Page's car was found.
Subsequently, the police submitted this evidence to the prosecutor. At the same time, the police also submitted the recording of the phone call to Lester. The recording showed that Lester was very impatient with the police and asked the police: "Do you want to know where I buried Page?"
But Page's remains were not found at that time, and no one knew that Page had been killed. Unless the other party was the murderer, the police also believed that Lester's motive for killing Page was also very simple.
Since Lester was just a car mechanic and had limited money, he could not get enough money to satisfy Page when dealing with him. During the dispute between the two parties, Lester accidentally killed Page.
On November 21, 2016, the case entered the second trial stage. Based on the prosecution's accusations and new clues provided by the police, the jury found Lester guilty of first-degree murder after four days of intense discussion and sentenced Lester to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole..
At this point, the case lasted for nearly 10 years and finally came to a successful conclusion. At this time, Page's eldest daughter was already 18 years old. Faced with this result, Page's eldest daughter cried and said that she and her two younger brothers missed their mother very much.
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