GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—Family members and volunteers resumed their search over the weekend for a mother of three who disappeared nearly a year ago, looking for clues they may have missed the first time around.
“Whoever did this to Paige is still out there,” said Frank Birgfeld, whose daughter Paige Birgfeld was last seen in June. “And the question is, who’s next?”
Paige Birgfeld was last seen in late June. No arrests have been made.
Friends and family have described the 34-year-old, twice-divorced woman as a devoted mother who sold kitchen products and held other jobs to support her children. Authorities said she also had an escort service, a discovery that surprised many who knew her.
On Saturday, Frank Birgfeld and several volunteers returned to places they had already searched, looking through brush, along canals and in wood piles for anything that might have overlooked.
They said they didn’t find anything noteworthy.
Paige Birgfeld’s burned-out car was found in July, a few miles from her home. Police later found a gun about a half-mile from where the car was, and they have also recovered some of her belongings, although they have not described them.
Dive teams and a sonar-equipped boat searched about 15 miles of the Gunnison River in August.
Over the winter, volunteers looked over maps to decide where to look when spring came.
“It was a relief to be able to come out and do something because the waiting has been hard,” said Andrea Land, a friend of the missing woman.
Frank Birgfeld said he often feels he’s not making any progress.
“At the end of the night I don’t seem any closer, but the next day I get up and do it again,” he said.
