One is going on True Crime fans. I'm your host Tee. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody. I'm a little less congested today

so hopefully we won't have as annoying as a voice's last episode. She's back up to 100 people. Finally getting better. Yes. Thank you so much to Julie for recommending today's case. This one takes place in Colorado. And it is a wild ride.

So without with further or two without further ado, let's just dive into this one with some further ado in there somewhere. Let's get into it. All right guys, this is episode 308 of Going West. So let's get into it.

7. A newly single mother of three vanished from her Colorado home. Shortly after, her car was found set ablaze. But it would take years for her body to be uncovered.

One's police learned that she was living what they referred to as a double life. Many potential suspects added themselves to her story with one person standing out among the rest.

This is the story of Paige Bergfeld.

Paige Meredith Bergfeld was born on April 27, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia to Suzanne and Frank Bergfeld joining an older brother named Craig.

When Paige was eight years old, the Bergfeld's relocated to Littleton, Colorado, which is a suburb just a few miles south of downtown Denver. So growing up, Paige's parents recall a very warm and gregarious girl who could make friends with anyone. Her obituary reads, quote, when she smiled, she was radiant to a degree that made the sun jealous.

She was known for being kind and gentle and loved animals. Paige started dancing at a young age and became particularly fond of ballet. And she even thought of taking over her childhood dance studio when she got older and wanted to maybe become a career dance teacher.

But back to her upbringing, so as a teenager, she grew into a very confident young woman remembered as fiercely loyal. Her brother Craig shared the story that their father once got a call from her high school principal's office, and he was informed that she had stepped into the middle of a fight to help someone else out and wound up hitting someone in the face.

Her brother Craig stated, quote, Paige promptly punched her in the nose even though the other girl was bigger than she was. She was just sticking up for somebody.

After graduating from heritage high school, Paige moved down to the southeastern United States to live in Florida. So she could attend the University of Florida in Gainesville. And it's actually crazy because she would have started going to the University of Florida and probably the fall of 1991 just based on her age.

I could not find her graduation year, but that's exactly one year after the Gainesville Ripper murdered five students from that school. So yes, Danny rolling, right?

Yes, exactly. And we covered that case. I think it was the very first bonus episode that you can find on Patreon or Apple subscriptions. But yeah, it's a horrific story. And Paige would have started going to that very school soon after that happened. Like I said, probably the year after if my calculations are correct.

But anyway, so her brother had also gone out of state to attend college and was studying to become a plastic surgeon. And he recalled, quote, I always liked the science of medicine with her that wasn't it. She liked the helping people aspect of it.

So Paige enrolled in college to become a nurse.

And while she was going to school in Florida to become a nurse, her high school boyfriend, who was Ron Beagler, moved with Paige to Gainesville to stay close to her.

Ron and Paige met when she was 16 and he was 19 and already at a high school. Admittedly, her family thought that it was a bit of an odd match because Paige was responsible and straight-laced and run with long blonde hair and a lot of tattoos played in a rock band.

Not that, you know, rockers can't be responsible, but from, you know, there are more traditional views it seemed like it was kind of an interesting match for them.

But Ron was kind and doding to Paige, even reminiscing that she had leaned into kiss him for the first time and that he had shied away and kind of inadvertently rejected it.

Ron remembered, quote, she took it as rejection. That wasn't the case at all. I was just nervous.

Ron said that he put Paige on a pedestal and even admitted, quote, I married over my head.

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