The Secret Life of Paige Birgfeld
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On June 28, 2007, Colorado mother Paige Birgfeld disappeared and police uncovered a subsequent double-life she led as an escort. Initially the investigation focused on her two ex-husbands, but when both men were ruled out, police looked into the possibility that Paige was murdered by one of her clients. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 7/1/2017.
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| 0:00.0 | Grand Junction is situated on the western slope of Colorado, and it's very mountainous and beautiful. |
| 0:20.0 | I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but one thing is apparent. |
| 0:25.6 | It is very tough terrain to search in. |
| 0:31.6 | There are hundreds of thousands of places where you could hide a body and we might never find it. I'm Frank Bergfeld. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm the father of Paige Meredith Bergfeld. |
| 0:42.3 | She's the mother of three children. |
| 0:44.3 | My sister did not return from a meeting she had with a previous husband of hers. |
| 0:51.3 | Paige was within five miles of the house here in Grand Junction and disappeared. |
| 0:57.0 | My sister was missing. |
| 0:58.0 | You start asking, missing, what do you mean missing? |
| 1:02.0 | My name is Pete Houdsinger. I'm the district attorney for Mesa County, Colorado. |
| 1:07.0 | We're looking at somebody who has disappeared. |
| 1:11.6 | We don't know why. |
| 1:13.6 | I said you're in the midst of a crime. |
| 1:16.6 | This is not someone who had run off. |
| 1:19.6 | Page would have never, never abandon her children. |
| 1:23.6 | Loves her kids, appears to be a typical divorced mom, lives in a nice house in one of the nicer neighborhoods in Grand Junction. |
| 1:34.4 | They found her car abandoned in a parking lot and lit on fire a couple days after she went missing. |
| 1:41.3 | This led investigators to believe that there was foul play involved. |
| 1:47.0 | We search fields, national parks, mountains, and I am committed to search for her until we find |
| 1:54.0 | her and bring her home. |
| 1:56.0 | Then we started finding out some things that really pretty much changed everything. First you find out pages missing and then within a couple of days we started finding out some things that really pretty much changed everything. First you find out Paige is missing, and then within a couple of days, |
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