Mountain of Lies

Speaker 1 Hi 911, what is the address to your emergency?

Speaker 3 This 911 call began an investigation that would turn the town of Ashland, Ohio, into a crime scene.

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Speaker 6 Tonight, a mother's tragic fall from a mountaintop, but is that the only accident in the family?

Speaker 7 For the first time, her daughter is speaking out about a childhood filled with mystery only on 2020.

Speaker 8 I told Harold, I'm sorry, but she's gone.

Speaker 9 Park Rangers recovering the body of a woman who fell to her death while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 11 Did you realize at that point that your mother was dead?

Speaker 1 I love you.

Speaker 12 I don't think anybody, normal, is okay

Speaker 12 after the passing of their mom. And I certainly wasn't.

Speaker 13 Tony's camera was destroyed, but the SD card was still intact. These are the last moments of Tony Hemthorne's life.

Speaker 14 How important were these pictures in piecing together your investigation?

Speaker 13 There's a photo of Tony and Harold sitting where I'm standing.

Speaker 10 She kind of tumbled down the rock face.

Speaker 17 When you saw the autopsy report, what did you think?

Speaker 13 I was taken aback by the size of her head wound.

Speaker 20 That's when I felt like something's not right here.

Speaker 16 I filed it as undetermined homicide cannot be entirely excluded.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 Hello again.

Speaker 11 Hello, Katie. You've never told your story before.

Speaker 11 I haven't.

Speaker 11 Let's start at the very beginning.

Speaker 1 There you go. I remember my mom.

Speaker 22 She was amazing.

Speaker 12 She was so intelligent and so wise and eloquent.

Speaker 11 Do you remember your parents' anniversary that day that they went on that surprise trip?

Speaker 12 I definitely knew that something was wrong. Everyone was acting so weird to me and I didn't know what was happening.

Speaker 14 Were you scared?

Speaker 12 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Hello, my name is Harold Hitler. I'm in the Rocky Man National Park.
Okay. My wife has fallen from a rock on the north summit of Hear Mountain when he's in really critical condition.

Speaker 16 Every year on their anniversary, Harold would plan a trip with Tony.

Speaker 1 Typically a phone would ring, Haley, this is Harold.

Speaker 24 Tony and I are going to go on this little honeymoon trip.

Speaker 9 Could you take care of Haley for the weekend?

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 25 They were about to have their 12th anniversary. He was going to surprise her.

Speaker 26 She was just going to be overwhelmed.

Speaker 25 She was going to love it.

Speaker 27 The Henthorns live just outside of Denver.

Speaker 30 Tony is an ophthalmologist and Harold is a fundraiser.

Speaker 32 After dropping their seven-year-old daughter, Haley, at a neighbor's house, they leave for a weekend at Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 34 I ended up texting Dr. Henthorne just to say congratulations, have a great weekend, be safe, have a great time, see you Monday.

Speaker 12 And I never heard back from her.

Speaker 1 I need an Albright Mountain Rescue team immediately. I already have Rangers getting ready to come up there.

Speaker 8 We got the call about six o'clock of an accident on Deer Ridge Mountain.

Speaker 8 My primary concern was finding where the patient was quickly.

Speaker 8 I'd only been hiking 30 minutes when I heard radio traffic.

Speaker 1 Hey, Tell me, you need some assistance doing some CPR.

Speaker 36 What have you been doing so far?

Speaker 8 Hanthorne was performing CPR.

Speaker 8 It made me realize that this was probably not going to have a good ending.

Speaker 8 As I got closer, I started blowing my whistle. And Hanthorne also had a whistle, and he responded.

Speaker 8 As I approached, she was laying on her back and her head was wrapped. It was obvious she had a head wound.
Her eyes were partially open and I evaluated her for a pulse and respirations.

Speaker 8 I told Harold, I'm sorry, but she's gone.

Speaker 11 How did you find out something happened to your sister?

Speaker 39 There was a series of text messages saying Tony had been involved in an accident and then things were critical.

Speaker 41 The first call

Speaker 42 we got from Barry, he said that Tony had an accident and she was in serious condition and it didn't look good.

Speaker 41 Of course, we prayed.

Speaker 42 that God would intervene and save Tony.

Speaker 42 And then he called back and said that

Speaker 13 she was gone.

Speaker 41 Three horrible words.

Speaker 29 What was Tony like growing up?

Speaker 39 She was very athletic and she really excelled and she was very, very smart at the top of her class.

Speaker 43 Tony always wanted to be a medical doctor. She felt like ophthalmology would basically allow her to do what she loved and give her some downtime and some family time.

Speaker 45 She was married pretty young. Someone she'd met in medical school, he was a dentist.

Speaker 43 But ultimately, it ended up in a divorce and to have a failed marriage and have that disappointment, I don't think she ever really accepted that.

Speaker 39 I think that she went through a period where she had to, you know, recollect herself. She did pour herself into her medical practice.

Speaker 22 She also began spending a lot of time at her church.

Speaker 32 She especially loved singing in the choir.

Speaker 45 The clock unfortunately was ticking for her. The divorce had set her back and she wasn't meeting the kind of people she apparently wanted to meet in Mississippi.

Speaker 26 I was pretty shocked one day when Tony and I were having a conversation and she just outright said, I met a guy online.

Speaker 25 this guy named Harold.

Speaker 13 When he was wooing her online, some of the things that they talked about was that they both wanted children. It's a Christian dating site, so they were both Christian.

Speaker 32 Harold raises money specifically for nonprofits.

Speaker 45 And if you've just met him, you already know that he has made himself a fortune doing this.

Speaker 11 I'm curious what you guys thought of Harold when you first met him.

Speaker 39 When you first meet Harold, you are very impressed. He does come across as polite, he's cordial, he's very engaging.

Speaker 50 He always a plan, very much a person in control.

Speaker 26 They got engaged in February, got married in September.

Speaker 14 They didn't see each other but six or seven times during that whole period.

Speaker 51 And there's the girl.

Speaker 41 Here we go.

Speaker 39 One, two, right here.

Speaker 44 We go.

Speaker 1 All right, all right, Captain.

Speaker 52 The wedding day for Tony and Harold was just beautiful.

Speaker 52 Tony was just stunning.

Speaker 39 Mr. and Mrs.
Harold came for him.

Speaker 45 So Harold and Tony, two years after they get married, are leaving Mississippi.

Speaker 13 It's so pretty, isn't it?

Speaker 45 Apparently, he always wanted to go to Colorado. He always wanted to bring Tony there.

Speaker 15 So she sells her practice in Mississippi, and they move to a suburb just outside Denver called Highlands Ranch.

Speaker 25 They wanted children right away.

Speaker 48 Both of them did.

Speaker 25 She was in her mid-40s when she got buried with Haley. So she got her dream.

Speaker 13 That's right. We will.
We protest. We will.

Speaker 45 We promised. From the outside looking in, Tony and Harold's marriage looked ideal.
It certainly looks like the perfect life.

Speaker 1 We love you.

Speaker 1 We love you.

Speaker 9 Park Rangers recovering the body of a woman who fell to her death while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. Authorities say that victim was from Littleton.

Speaker 21 She was in her 50s.

Speaker 16 She'd been hiking in the area with a family member.

Speaker 49 Now we have a fatality investigation we have to conduct.

Speaker 49 And the first thing we want to do is document the scene.

Speaker 38 There's a tree that on one side, the branches had been kind of knocked off or broken off. I called the impact tree.

Speaker 38 But you can see that that was a place where I imagined Tony probably impacted as she fell to the ground. There were small things that didn't totally add up.

Speaker 38 It was an obscure area, not a place where I would expect your average hiker to just happen across because it was just so steep.

Speaker 38 I noticed there's a shoe that was there, an untied boot. Usually in the course of a fall, shoes tend not to untie themselves.

Speaker 13 And there was a really key piece of evidence.

Speaker 13 Tony's camera was destroyed, but the SD card was still intact.

Speaker 13 We were able to look at the photos and these pictures are very important to us because these are the last moments of Tony Henthorne's life.

Speaker 32 What was supposed to be a romantic anniversary hike has turned deadly.

Speaker 32 Toni Henthorne's husband, Harold, says she accidentally slipped and fell to her death off a 160-foot cliff in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 48 That puts this case in the jurisdiction of the Federal Park Service and they launch an investigation into exactly what happened up on that mountain.

Speaker 13 Ranger Faraday made arrangements to go to Harold Henthorne's house and interview him because there's still a lot of questions we need to ask.

Speaker 8 One of the things I had brought with me was a memory card from Tony's camera and I showed him some of the pictures off the camera and

Speaker 8 he acted upset. He said, that's my wife, Mark.
That's my wife, as he looked at pictures of Tony.

Speaker 27 You guys were able to get pictures from Tony's camera and Harold's cell phone.

Speaker 14 How important were these pictures in piecing together your investigation?

Speaker 13 The pictures were extremely important. to the investigation in terms of building a footprint of what they did that day.

Speaker 13 So this is them in front of the Stanley, which is a big hotel in Estes Park the night before. The next morning, they had breakfast and then they went and picked up some sandwiches.

Speaker 13 But you can see Tony's in the car. She's got her lipstick on.
She's looking happy.

Speaker 13 This photo is them at what we dubbed the lunch spot. We know that they had lunch there.
It's a very key spot to the investigation.

Speaker 13 What Harold had told Mark was they hiked up till the trail plateaued. They wanted to get off the trail for some privacy.

Speaker 13 When we recreated their steps, there's no trail where Tony and Harold had lunch.

Speaker 13 It's not cleared in any way and it's pretty difficult hiking.

Speaker 13 We were actually able to determine that this is indeed where they did have lunch.

Speaker 13 That is a very distinct rock feature with a very distinct dead tree in the photos.

Speaker 13 And there's a photo of Tony and Harold sitting right where I'm standing.

Speaker 13 The lunch spot is a very beautiful spot, and there's really no reason to go any further.

Speaker 13 However, they go further.

Speaker 13 We know that this is the spot that they stopped because there are several photos of Harold Henthorne standing right on that ledge with this death grip on this tree because it's a sheer drop on the other side of him.

Speaker 13 15 minutes later, there's another picture of him, identical, but he's wearing a blue denim shirt.

Speaker 32 This strikes investigators as odd. Why would Harold stand at the edge of such a dangerous cliff and then do it again 15 minutes later?

Speaker 13 This photo, you're actually looking up from where her body was recovered.

Speaker 13 This is 160 feet. This is where Tony fell.

Speaker 9 She had what we call multiple blunt force injuries.

Speaker 16 She kind of tumbled down the rock face.

Speaker 16 She had abrasions of her forehead and she had

Speaker 16 a large

Speaker 16 laceration or tearing injury to the top of her head to the scalp.

Speaker 59 When you saw the autopsy report,

Speaker 19 what did you think?

Speaker 13 I was taken aback by the size of her head wound. She probably would have bled out very quickly.

Speaker 33 Okay, what's your main injury?

Speaker 1 Good question.

Speaker 13 Never once did Harold mention in any of the 911 calls that she was bleeding.

Speaker 48 And a curious discovery.

Speaker 33 As Rangers go through Harold Henthorne's vehicle, they find a map with markings on it.

Speaker 13 What's interesting on this map is there's an X and it says hike.

Speaker 11 Yeah, you can see it. It's in that gray right there.

Speaker 13 That's almost exactly where her body was found, where that X was.

Speaker 13 There's a lot of things here that don't add up.

Speaker 11 When you look at these pictures, particularly because they're 15 minutes apart,

Speaker 28 what stands out to you about that?

Speaker 13 Our theory was that he was trying to lure her to stand where he is, that he's saying, look, honey, this is safe. You can stand here.

Speaker 13 One of the things that was very suspicious was Harold's story that they stopped at this cliff ledge and that he received a text message from his nanny saying that his daughter had just won a soccer game and that out of the corner of his eye he looked up and Tony was gone.

Speaker 13 Very specific moment in time. And we realized that, well, that text message came in at the same time that he called 911.

Speaker 1 Hi, my mom. What do you address the emergency? Come on.
My name is Harold. Hit George.

Speaker 13 He told Mark it took him about 45 minutes to get down to the bottom of the cliff where Tony's body was and then he called 911.

Speaker 13 We know when he called 911 and when that text message came in and those don't match up to his story.

Speaker 13 He then subsequently starts making more phone calls. He calls Barry Birdley, Tony Hunthorne's brother.
He is a surgeon.

Speaker 11 He's sending you the doctor vital signs.

Speaker 39 Initially he told me that her

Speaker 39 heart rate was

Speaker 39 good and her respiration rate was somewhat low and that she was not conscious.

Speaker 13 Harold never says she's got a massive head wound, never says that she's bleeding out, none of that, just that she fell and is unconscious.

Speaker 1 You know how to perform CPR? I do. I do.

Speaker 61 Harold said he did CPR from the whole time that the 911 call came in to when the Park Service got there.

Speaker 13 In the autopsy photos, her lipstick was intact. I've personally done CPR and it's extremely messy.

Speaker 52 And

Speaker 13 you don't end up with intact lipstick like Tony did.

Speaker 13 So Harold's texting with Barry while he's allegedly helping his wife, while he's telling people that Tony has fallen from a cliff.

Speaker 13 He ended up receiving and sending over 90 texts that night.

Speaker 21 I guess it was about 10 o'clock at night. We got a text from Harold.

Speaker 21 Tony's been hurt. She's critical.

Speaker 37 Please pray.

Speaker 21 There was one more text that followed and it said, my bride is gone.

Speaker 21 Just was inconceivable.

Speaker 21 We just couldn't believe it.

Speaker 11 At what point did you find out that your sister had passed?

Speaker 39 It was probably about 10.30 Central Time that night.

Speaker 59 Who told you?

Speaker 11 Was it Harold or the Rangers?

Speaker 39 Actually, Harold.

Speaker 39 He had texted.

Speaker 50 He texted a lot of people.

Speaker 1 The same text.

Speaker 50 My blood is gone.

Speaker 32 Almost immediately, family and friends begin to notice Harold behaving in a way they think is strange.

Speaker 11 And I thought, wow, he just seemed kind of together for having gone through what he went through.

Speaker 13 No tears.

Speaker 20 No sign that he had been crying. No.

Speaker 32 you know, struggling with his voice to get the words out.

Speaker 13 This is not a normal, grieving husband.

Speaker 20 That's when I felt like something's

Speaker 20 not right here.

Speaker 64 Harold called me and asked me to officiate the memorial service. He had this service entirely planned.
He'd already put together a video montage of Tony.

Speaker 45 Somehow, in the 36 hours since he was in this cold, dark place next to his dead wife. He's put this together.

Speaker 64 It felt like to me that he had been planning this for a while.

Speaker 45 In the hours and days after Tony's death, everyone's watching Harold.

Speaker 45 And he is, for the most part, showing no signs of what you would expect. How can it not put your antenna up?

Speaker 43 We arrive in Denver and the whole time time he never saw him cry. He never said, you know, I loved your sister, you know,

Speaker 43 never heard any of that kind of thing out of him.

Speaker 45 Tony's funeral is the ultimate chance for Harold to kind of control the narrative. And what Harold chooses to do with that moment is pretty telling.

Speaker 45 Everybody notices, the birdales especially, where everyone's sitting in the funeral.

Speaker 45 They're brought in, they're seated away from the rest of the family. Harold is one of the last people escorted in.

Speaker 39 We had to literally line up in order in order to walk back in for Tony's funeral.

Speaker 50 It's like we were sequestered, you know, and we could only come out when we were told to come out.

Speaker 43 You know, I'm all the way positioned at the back because everything was planned out just like Harold always does.

Speaker 39 He had already had a slideshow

Speaker 39 ready and prepared.

Speaker 45 Everyone experiences some feeling of deep discomfort that this isn't right.

Speaker 45 And that extends to the slideshow too, because one of the first people Harold contacted the day after Tony died, is the photographer to create the slideshow for her funeral.

Speaker 45 And she's expecting some loose collection of photos over the years. And that's not what she gets.
What she gets are 70 carefully selected photos.

Speaker 45 Somehow in the 36 hours since he was in this cold dark place next to his dead wife, he's put this together.

Speaker 39 I'm thinking to myself now if Paula died I'd be over here in a little puddle of mush. He has all this ready to go and he's proud of it.
The odd thing is that Tony was the one that died.

Speaker 39 But Harold's got most of the photos in there of him.

Speaker 56 What do you mean?

Speaker 39 There would be pictures of him and Haley or him, Tony and Haley, but not all of them were even about Tony.

Speaker 20 Tony's life started when she got married to Harold.

Speaker 20 And I thought, how insulting and hurtful to Tony's family.

Speaker 13 We talked to other people who were at the service and he didn't say any nice things about Tony, that he was more angry that there was an investigation.

Speaker 13 And in fact, at one point he said to somebody, Tony had to go and get herself killed on federal lands.

Speaker 32 Soon after the funeral, Harold hires an attorney who puts a stop to any more interviews. So investigators turn to friends and family to get more information.

Speaker 32 And some aren't buying Harold's story about this being an accident.

Speaker 13 I talked to the Burtalays several times. They maintained contact with Harold to keep an eye on Haley.
They wanted to make sure Haley was okay.

Speaker 13 But they also were giving me updates on Harold, and they felt that that was a way that they could help in the investigation.

Speaker 39 We were taking notes.

Speaker 11 How can you keep being around him

Speaker 11 and not just explode?

Speaker 39 I thought that I was helping by doing that. We were making on our part to get justice.

Speaker 39 He had established a wall there and so for us to continue to see Haley, we had to see him.

Speaker 49 And so so it was like a price of admission.

Speaker 39 The real jewel was Haley.

Speaker 13 We talked to the nannies.

Speaker 13 One of the nannies told us that Harold and Tony didn't sleep together, that they had separate areas where they slept.

Speaker 13 He had an office in his basement, but occasionally he would also go on business trips.

Speaker 13 And he would go on these trips, but he wouldn't have luggage, and then he would just kind of show up the next day. And the nanny was wondering if Harold was having an affair.

Speaker 13 He seemed to have a secret life. So, all right, let's find out what we can about his business.

Speaker 45 Now, the address for the business was in his basement. But if you talk to him, he would say, I've got 10 to 12 managers reporting to me daily.
I've got 90 employees working all over the country.

Speaker 52 We thought there was plenty of money. He always portrayed himself as a wealthy person.

Speaker 52 And we were getting word that they were needing money.

Speaker 48 It wasn't just Harold who seemed to be doing well financially.

Speaker 32 Tony's family had money of their own, money she had access to.

Speaker 52 I do remember that Mr. and Ms.
Vertalay were confused why the money seemed to be missing.

Speaker 43 My parents are buying the house, they're buying the car, they're paying for the tuition. That doesn't make sense.

Speaker 33 And as investigators start to dig deeper, they make a series of head-scratching discoveries.

Speaker 13 We couldn't find any concrete evidence of his work. There was no online presence, and almost everybody has an online presence of some sort if they have a business, especially if you're a fundraiser.

Speaker 13 On his business cards, Harold had CFR, certified fundraiser. And there is actually an agency that issues that certification.
So I contacted that agency. and they indicated no.

Speaker 13 We have no idea who he is and no, he's not a certified fundraiser. Oh my gosh, he doesn't even have a business.

Speaker 32 But that's nothing compared to what they're about to learn. Anonymous tips start pouring in, raising questions about Harold's past.

Speaker 20 Most people didn't know that Harold was married before, but I thought, oh my gosh, you know, this is two wives for Harold that have died now.

Speaker 13 The similarities are too eerie to ignore.

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Speaker 20 Most people didn't know that Harold was married before and that his first wife had died.

Speaker 13 Her name was Lynn Henthorne.

Speaker 45 What Harold tells most people is Lynn

Speaker 56 died in a car accident.

Speaker 45 And most people aren't going to press.

Speaker 54 But I thought, oh my gosh, you know, this is two wives for Harold that have died now.

Speaker 20 Because we had had some suspicions that Tony's death was not as Harold was making it sound, I made the phone call to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 20 I did do it anonymously, and other people had done the same thing.

Speaker 45 The coroner in charge of Tony's autopsy, an investigative reporter at a TV station in Denver, the FBI, National Park Service were on the receiving end of what ended up being 17 anonymous letters.

Speaker 13 The consistent theme was Harold's first wife died in similar unusual circumstances. You got to look into it.

Speaker 13 Remote locations,

Speaker 13 odd places, why were they there in the first place?

Speaker 13 Harold was not injured in any way in either of these incidents, but his spouse was killed.

Speaker 21 Getting these types of anonymous calls and anonymous letters is unusual. That hasn't happened to me before.
I've done about 8,000 cases now.

Speaker 21 It took me three months to get enough of the investigative details together that I felt comfortable filing the death certificate. And I filed it as undetermined

Speaker 16 homicide cannot be entirely excluded.

Speaker 10 I've never written that kind of a comment before.

Speaker 23 What did you learn about Lynn?

Speaker 13 Very religious. She and Harold married fairly young.

Speaker 13 Never had any kids. He really wanted a child with Lynn.
We also learned that he was very controlling of his relationship with Lynn.

Speaker 11 Was the control a red flag for you?

Speaker 13 Absolutely, because

Speaker 13 he drove the relationship.

Speaker 51 My first impressions of Harold was he was an outgoing, gregarious salesman type.

Speaker 51 And I'm being a salesman myself at that time, I was fine with that energy.

Speaker 67 Harold is bigger than life.

Speaker 29 He smiles all the time. He laughs all the time.
So when I first met him, I thought, gosh, this is a great guy.

Speaker 13 When we were moving quickly towards Lynn's and Harold's wedding, it was clear that Harold...

Speaker 65 was in charge.

Speaker 21 So Lynn and Harold got married, but then almost immediately Harold was saying we need to move to Colorado, so he takes her away.

Speaker 12 I called Lynn one day and I said,

Speaker 65 can we talk?

Speaker 13 You know, this is a good time for me.

Speaker 12 And she said, no, no, no,

Speaker 1 can you call back later when Harold's here?

Speaker 55 And she said, as a couple, we've decided that whenever we talk to family, we want to both be on the phone at the same time.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 65 And I remember thinking again, that's so weird.

Speaker 1 That's so controlling.

Speaker 53 Lynn's sister-in-law, Grace Rochelle, also sensed something was off.

Speaker 59 She confided in me and she said,

Speaker 18 Grace, I don't...

Speaker 63 I don't know what to do.

Speaker 18 Like, we're having some marital issues, but he

Speaker 59 doesn't want me to talk to anyone. He would consider that disloyal, and she didn't know where to go, like what to do.

Speaker 22 While family members may have quietly had concerns about Harold and Lynn's relationship, her death is ruled an accident and it stays that way for years until a local coroner in Colorado takes a second look at the night Lynn died and finds similarities between Lynn's death and Tony's.

Speaker 65 Harold claims that he was driving the road

Speaker 36 and the right front tire seems spongy so he pulled over to change the tire.

Speaker 13 There's two types of jacks involved in this incident.

Speaker 40 One is a regular car jack.

Speaker 13 The other jack was a boat jack which is basically a tube with another telescoping tube that comes out of it.

Speaker 47 Not safe for a car.

Speaker 13 His story is that this car jack, this more stable one, didn't work, so he used a boat jack to jack up the car.

Speaker 29 So then he said he had taken the lug nuts off of the wheel and he said that Lynn had a cloth in her hand and he handed her the lug nuts.

Speaker 36 He pulled the tire off.

Speaker 13 His version was that Lynn must have dropped the lug nuts and gone to crawl crawl under the car to get the lug nuts because there were lug nuts in the photos of the scene.

Speaker 13 There were lug nuts under the car.

Speaker 36 And then he said he went to the back of the Jeep and he tossed the tire into the back of the jeep

Speaker 36 and that when he did that, it dislodged the jeep

Speaker 36 and he heard a scream and he said he ran to the front of the vehicle and he could see that the vehicle had dropped and was laying on his wife.

Speaker 33 As the coroner reviews the 1995 death of Lynn Henthorne, Beth Schott decides to double down and enlist Dave Weaver, an investigator with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, to also take a second look.

Speaker 69 I was given the Lynn Henthorne case to reinvestigate in January of 2013.

Speaker 69 I discovered in the documentation one of the first witnesses on scene,

Speaker 1 but I called her up and I said, can you think of any reason why a detective from Douglas County would want to call you and talk to you?

Speaker 37 And her response to me was, that lady, I still have nightmares about that.

Speaker 22 The woman on the phone, Patricia Montoya, in detail, Montoya remembers that late evening drive in 1995 like it happened yesterday.

Speaker 17 There's a man standing in the middle of the road with a flasher.

Speaker 17 We pulled over and he told us that there was an accident, that they had a flap and his wife got stuck under the car.

Speaker 17 We could see, you know, some legs, you know, coming out from the bottom of the car.

Speaker 17 We all got out of the truck and we got her out of the car, from underneath the car.

Speaker 17 And we were gently turning her over because she was on her stomach. We're doing the CPR and her husband came over and he started screaming at us: Don't touch her, leave her alone.

Speaker 17 You could hear the sirens coming,

Speaker 17 and that's when the guys started asking him, Well, how did she get underneath that car?

Speaker 17 And when he heard the sirens coming,

Speaker 17 the look on his face was like in a panic, more of a panic, instead of gladness, you know, that there's help coming for my wife. It was creepier than ever.

Speaker 17 There's no way that that was an accident.

Speaker 19 Could the Jeep have fallen off the jack accidentally?

Speaker 13 Let's try this now.

Speaker 33 A recreation puts Harold's version of events to the test.

Speaker 1 Nothing.

Speaker 13 So let me put a little pressure this way.

Speaker 1 Nothing.

Speaker 37 You You can't replicate the way he says it happened.

Speaker 37 Oh!

Speaker 13 We were trying to pull in elements of Lynn's death into our case.

Speaker 45 Laura Thomas is the coroner in Douglas County, and she has a lot of questions about Lynn's death. So much so that she hires someone to reconstruct the accident that took Lynn.

Speaker 57 Accident reconstruction is sort of like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. You take the pieces of information and factual information and try to put them together to see if they fit.

Speaker 57 Where was the vehicle positioned? What's the terrain look like? You look at the gravel surface that this Jeep was parked on.

Speaker 13 When Dave Weaver was assigned to the case, he opened it up as a possible homicide and he was looking at is that even physically possible for someone to crawl under a car to get lug nuts and then have this jack collapse?

Speaker 66 We're going to replicate with this exemplar vehicle the layout of all the physical evidence.

Speaker 41 That includes the lug nuts, the positioning of the bottle jacks,

Speaker 66 and then hopefully also replicate the vehicle's movement off of the bottle jacks.

Speaker 60 Is that about right?

Speaker 33 Yeah. Going by Harold's story, they try to recreate what he says happened that night.

Speaker 37 So one of the versions that Harold gave, Lynn's here six feet away from the Jeep.

Speaker 37 He takes the tire, he walks to the back, puts the tire to the back.

Speaker 37 Whatever he did caused the Jeep to fall off the jack. But

Speaker 41 look at the time interval.

Speaker 41 From the time he picks up the flat tire, goes roughly 12 feet to the back corner

Speaker 41 to put the tire in.

Speaker 66 She moves closer to the vehicle, then drops the lug nuts, allegedly,

Speaker 10 and then

Speaker 41 gets down on her stomach and crawls up underneath.

Speaker 57 So, I mean, that timing just doesn't make sense because it would take...

Speaker 10 more time, I believe, for her to do all of those activities than it would for him to come around and put the tire in the back of the Jeep.

Speaker 13 No logical person would crawl under a rotor.

Speaker 41 The other inconsistency is both the medical people as well as the coroner's office, when they did the autopsy, there was nothing in her fingernails, there was nothing on her hands indicating that she was struggling.

Speaker 13 If I was Harold, who allegedly had a bad back, you wouldn't just pick the tire up and throw it in, but that's what he said he did, right?

Speaker 13 So I'm gonna pick the tire up,

Speaker 13 which is pretty heavy, and I'm gonna throw it in,

Speaker 1 okay.

Speaker 13 Didn't do anything, didn't knock it off. Realistically, if you were gonna put a tire in a jacked-up car, you probably wouldn't throw it in,

Speaker 59 you'd probably place it in.

Speaker 13 Nothing. So, let me put a little pressure this way.

Speaker 13 Nothing.

Speaker 19 If it wasn't the tire being placed or thrown into the vehicle that caused the Jeep to fall off the jack, what or who did?

Speaker 13 Let's try this now.

Speaker 41 Lowering the bottle jack.

Speaker 41 Oh!

Speaker 13 That's it. That's it.
That makes a lot more sense. That's something Harold could control.

Speaker 37 You can't replicate it the way he says it happened.

Speaker 13 Our conclusion is Harold could have actually released that bottle jack and it could have lowered directly onto her very rapidly.

Speaker 13 Releasing it down is the most controlled.

Speaker 15 Harold Henthorne's attorney says the simulation doesn't prove anything.

Speaker 13 We're not proving that Harold killed Lynn, but we wanted to introduce Lynn Henthorne's death into our case of Tony's as a precursor to killing Tony.

Speaker 30 Harold Henthorne maintains that he did not kill either of his wives.

Speaker 57 When Laura Thomas got our report and finished her investigation, she changed the official cause of death from accidental to indeterminate on the death certificate and reissued that.

Speaker 15 The official change on the death certificate doesn't change anything for Harold. He simply continues on with his life.
He's not charged in Lynn's death, and the case is eventually closed.

Speaker 36 What was really important to me was for Lynn's family to know that the death certificate had been changed. So they would know that Lynn was still remembered and that she wasn't forgotten.

Speaker 15 In fact, even after Lynn's death, Harold Henthorne stays close to her family, especially Lynn's sister-in-law.

Speaker 33 Grace Rochelle.

Speaker 63 I felt like my relationship with Harold got closer.

Speaker 13 I had gotten cell records and one of the individuals that kept popping up in the cell record was Grace Rochelle.

Speaker 13 Harold and Grace texted and called each other all the time before Tony died. And we had to ask the question, was Grace his paramour? Is this why he killed Tony?

Speaker 23 And Harold's daughter says his need need to be in control continues.

Speaker 12 That moment was horrible. And right after, he didn't want me to cry about it.
He told me not to cry. He told me that people would be watching.

Speaker 54 I thought, oh my gosh, this is two wives for Harold that have died now.

Speaker 13 Has some really eerie similarities.

Speaker 56 One is under a car in the middle of the night. And then Tony was on the edge of a dangerous cliff.

Speaker 59 The last thing that Tony ever had going through her mind was him pushing her off.

Speaker 11 Do you think he targeted Tony from the very beginning?

Speaker 49 Absolutely.

Speaker 2 Tony's next. Oh, Ivan is.

Speaker 16 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 30 He had the person that he could control a thousand percent above any wife or anyone else in his life, and that was his daughter.

Speaker 67 So at this point, are you worried about Haley's safety?

Speaker 28 The last thing you wanted was him going home to his child.

Speaker 12 I thought thought there must have been some mistake because he would never do that.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 29 I definitely felt that I could have been the third victim.

Speaker 71 I'm like,

Speaker 1 oh my gosh.

Speaker 72 I believe that the closer you are to Harold, the more likely that he's going to harm or kill you.

Speaker 13 Within days of Tony dying, the park received a letter about Harold's first wife, Lynn Henthorne.

Speaker 33 Harold's first wife, Lynn, died when she was crushed under a car during a roadside tire change.

Speaker 32 Authorities deemed it an accident.

Speaker 29 But when his second wife, Tony, falls to her death in Rocky Mountain National Park, investigators aren't convinced that fall is just another random accident.

Speaker 13 A man having one wife die is tragic. A man having two wives die is suspicious.

Speaker 13 So we started questioning, did he have a mistress? Did he have another family somewhere?

Speaker 25 I seriously thought that there may be somebody else involved in this.

Speaker 13 At that point, I had gotten cell records, and one of the individuals that kept popping up in the cell record was Grace Rochelle.

Speaker 13 So Grace Rochelle was Harold's former sister-in-law, Lynn Rochelle, his first wife's brother's ex-wife.

Speaker 45 Harold's relationship with Grace Rochelle and her four daughters starts off as totally understandable, with Harold being a more doting uncle and brother-in-law than just about anybody you'd ever meet.

Speaker 13 But Harold and Grace texted and called each other all the time.

Speaker 13 We had had to ask the question,

Speaker 13 was Grace Harold's lover?

Speaker 13 Is this why he killed Tony?

Speaker 59 They were very suspicious of me.

Speaker 12 And I'm like, I am an open book and I will tell you everything I know.

Speaker 18 I was not romantically involved with Harold

Speaker 59 in December of 2007. My husband Kevin and I separated so that was hard.

Speaker 59 That was difficult.

Speaker 32 We went through bankruptcy, foreclosure.

Speaker 59 I was devastated. I did not want my marriage to end.
I had no savings,

Speaker 70 no nothing at that point.

Speaker 59 And I thought of my girls.

Speaker 58 Harold saw, I believe, an exact way to fit in and bond with four girls, which was the fun,

Speaker 58 goofy uncle.

Speaker 59 Harold really began to step it up. He's giving me all this mentoring budget advice, and he says, Tony and I really, we just want to help you.

Speaker 13 Grace sat with us for five hours and talked with us. We pretty quickly determined that she was not Harold's paramour.

Speaker 13 Grace was concerned about her children's financial future and Harold said, I tell you what, why don't you get in an insurance policy policy and we'll make the girls a beneficiary.

Speaker 59 At first the insurance policy seemed like a gracious gift that I could accept because it was for my girls.

Speaker 29 Yeah there's that one.

Speaker 63 This is one of the things he would do as like you know the fun uncle.

Speaker 58 There's an odd sense of

Speaker 58 like we were the family that maybe Harold always wanted.

Speaker 34 There's another Christmas one where he just looks like like it's just always looks like our dad.

Speaker 59 So in about March of 2010, the divorce was final, and I'm gonna move to Texas. And Carol and I got into basically a big fight about it.
And Harold was trying to get us to come to Colorado.

Speaker 70 He gets really mad at me.

Speaker 11 He came back at me with:

Speaker 27 after all, I've spent investing in you, and you're not grateful.

Speaker 36 I saw him as being very controlling at a whole new level.

Speaker 29 So I called his broker and I said, I am not going through with this policy.

Speaker 13 No way.

Speaker 45 I'm done.

Speaker 13 And then we dropped the bomb on her that Harold never canceled this policy.

Speaker 13 The policy had Harold Henthorne as the primary beneficiary. Her daughters weren't mentioned at all.
And the policy was $400,000.

Speaker 28 I said, that can't be possible.

Speaker 59 I told him to cancel it. That was done.

Speaker 29 She said it's paid through till August of this year.

Speaker 59 I was just shocked.

Speaker 29 I definitely felt that I could have been the third victim.

Speaker 71 I'm like,

Speaker 1 oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 What have I done? How am I not seen through this guy?

Speaker 33 According to investigators, it isn't just Grace Rochelle's insurance that is set up to benefit Harold.

Speaker 32 You actually found a pattern of this.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 13 When we looked at Lynn's death, we found there was $600,000 that he received. But then we saw over time that Harold had taken out several policies also on Tony that nobody seemed to know about.

Speaker 13 The year that they're married, he takes out a $1.5 million policy on Tony. Then he takes out another $1.5 million policy in 2005.
In 2008, he takes out yet another $1.5 million.

Speaker 13 So we're seeing this pattern of building up her net worth, so to speak, if she were to die.

Speaker 22 At the time she died, how much was she worth dead?

Speaker 13 She was worth dead, $4.7 million.

Speaker 32 This pattern pattern with the insurance isn't the only one that stands out to investigators.

Speaker 53 It looks to them like Harold set his sights on a very specific type of woman to marry.

Speaker 13 Both women were described as extremely loving Christian women, successful, strong women, but at the same time, very controlled by Harold.

Speaker 45 One of the things that Tony's personal experience with Christianity taught her was that women are to look to their husbands as the authority in a marriage.

Speaker 45 That control is exactly what Harold was after.

Speaker 11 Do you think he targeted Tony from the very beginning?

Speaker 43 Absolutely.

Speaker 39 I think that he was preying on and utilizing Christian ideals to manipulate people.

Speaker 13 After Tony moved to Colorado, Harold started controlling her communication with the family.

Speaker 39 When I would call out there, he would answer the phone.

Speaker 11 Did you see a change in your sister?

Speaker 39 When she moves to Colorado,

Speaker 39 she's in the shadow

Speaker 39 and she's now a different person. She's a trained person.
She's almost like a beaten dog.

Speaker 26 We started seeing things being taken from her one painful step at a time.

Speaker 25 She dropped out of her choir that she loved.

Speaker 19 She quit teaching Sunday school.

Speaker 25 He had asked her to give that up because it was taking away from their marriage.

Speaker 2 Tony's next.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 30 Merry Christmas to Tony I flew in last evening from Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 43 I later found out from the neighbors, they said her face was empty. She didn't smile.

Speaker 43 It was kind of like a blank stare.

Speaker 13 Tony's mother said this wasn't the first time something bad happened to Tony.

Speaker 38 It looked like a freak accident.

Speaker 19 Is it possible that Harold Tenthorne had tried but failed to kill Tony before?

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Speaker 13 The Henthorns had a cabin up at Grand Lake.

Speaker 13 They had been up at the cabin, and it was late at night.

Speaker 45 Nobody else is around.

Speaker 45 Haley's already asleep.

Speaker 45 And Harold, for whatever reason, wants to clean up outside almost in the middle of the night.

Speaker 13 It's a small one-story cabin with a fairly sizable deck that goes to a sloping area.

Speaker 32 There's a broken light.

Speaker 13 Harold was outside on the deck, and he called Tony to come help him.

Speaker 43 And she was bending over to pick it up.

Speaker 45 And And what happens next, nobody really knows for sure.

Speaker 43 Something hits her in the back of the neck.

Speaker 13 Her story to the medic is that there was a broken light and she was picking up the broken light bulb when her husband threw a piece of wood over the deck.

Speaker 38 It looks like a freak accident.

Speaker 43 We found out later that, you know, Tony's actually crying in the ambulance on the way over. and she said, Well, what really happened to me?

Speaker 13 The final outcome was that she suffered damage to her cervical spine.

Speaker 25 I really believe that was his first attempt at murder.

Speaker 45 There's no police report, right? There's no crime.

Speaker 13 As an investigator, you're looking at this, you're like, What else is he capable of?

Speaker 13 And that's what we really needed to dive into.

Speaker 13 So, we needed to do a presentation to the United States Attorney's Office to see who we could get assigned to the case.

Speaker 13 And it was at that time that we got assigned Sunita and Valeriat.

Speaker 13 And I said, look, you guys need to come up to Rocky Mountain National Park and see the scene.

Speaker 13 So we hike up Deer Mountain

Speaker 13 and we start going off trail.

Speaker 45 And they're like, wait a minute.

Speaker 30 We just turned off at nowhere.

Speaker 30 There was no indication that there was a spot to turn off.

Speaker 13 His story that he told the Rangers is they went off to have some romantic time.

Speaker 35 There's just no way. We knew Tony Hanthorne had bad knees.
It just didn't make sense.

Speaker 13 And then we wander through the woods and then we get to the lunch spot

Speaker 13 and they had the aha moment.

Speaker 13 They looked down that rocky slope and they said there's no reason for Harold and Tony to be here.

Speaker 30 And as soon as Sunita and I saw the site, we were totally on board with them and said, okay, we're in 100%.

Speaker 30 What are we going to do to prove this case now?

Speaker 13 And so we realized we were going to have to do a search warrant for his house.

Speaker 30 What Harold was was a pack rat and so every single piece of paper from the last 20 years was in there.

Speaker 13 The boat, the cabin, how much is in this account, that account.

Speaker 13 There were tax returns which were very interesting to us.

Speaker 13 I'm one of a fundraising consultant.

Speaker 13 I've worked with nonprofits, whether it be churches, schools, or hospitals.

Speaker 45 Over the course of 20 years, not only has he not set the world on fire.

Speaker 45 but Harold made almost nothing for two decades.

Speaker 1 Almost zero dollars.

Speaker 13 He had posed for almost 20 years as somebody he's not and worked really hard at it.

Speaker 35 I reached out to Special Agent Johnny Grusing of the FBI and asked him if he would jump in and assist and work with Beth.

Speaker 72 If Harold truly killed not only Tony, but his first wife, Lynn, and we had him still running around in society, we needed to act quickly.

Speaker 72 What did you see?

Speaker 13 Friends and family told us that once Tony had Haley, it was almost like Tony was a third wheel in that family.

Speaker 30 He had the person that he could control a thousand percent above any wife or anyone else in his life, and that was his daughter.

Speaker 35 So we all felt like we were dealing with a ticking time bomb.

Speaker 13 That has some really eerie similarities. The information that we did piece together from his childhood was little bits and pieces from friends that did speak with us.

Speaker 73 My name is Myra Weitner, and I went to junior high school, high school with Harold.

Speaker 73 We remained friends throughout our whole lives.

Speaker 73 For all of us, honestly, he was obnoxious, but you just kind of overlook that because he was so charming, too.

Speaker 45 Casting around for ideas of why Harold is who he is. I mean, I think it all comes down to his dad.

Speaker 45 He was an alcoholic.

Speaker 1 He was violent.

Speaker 56 It was bad.

Speaker 73 That's one thing Harold always said.

Speaker 59 I will never drink and I will never hit a woman, he said.

Speaker 13 Which is why it's shocking.

Speaker 27 Well, Harold always wanted to have a family.

Speaker 59 He wanted to be a family man.

Speaker 56 If you're going to be a good predator, if you're going to be a good wolf in sheep's clothing, you have to look like a sheep. Harold had to condition himself to show emotion.

Speaker 45 And he's all about presentation. He needed everybody to know how smart and how powerful and how rich he was.

Speaker 59 He has lied to me about

Speaker 29 everything.

Speaker 25 He lied so much that he forgot who he lied to.

Speaker 2 I think Harold is different than most psychopaths because he's not someone who's going to hurt a stranger. He's fine to strangers.

Speaker 56 But I believe that the closer you are to Harold, the more likelihood that he's going to harm or kill you.

Speaker 67 So at this point, are you worried about Haley's safety?

Speaker 47 Yeah, Yeah, we were very concerned about Haley.

Speaker 56 He wasn't treating her like a dad should treat his daughter.

Speaker 47 He was controlling her in a very unhealthy way.

Speaker 15 But it's Haley who is in control now, and she's talking exclusively to 2020.

Speaker 19 My name is Haley Bertale.

Speaker 12 I'm ready now to tell the story that happened behind the scenes.

Speaker 15 Haley Bertalay was just seven years old when her mother, Toni, died.

Speaker 11 You've never told your story before.

Speaker 60 I haven't.

Speaker 22 She sat down with me to tell her story for the first time.

Speaker 53 We love you. We love you.

Speaker 52 We love you.

Speaker 1 I remember my mom.

Speaker 12 She was amazing. She was so intelligent and so wise

Speaker 12 and eloquent.

Speaker 12 You know, we always watched like movies together and we played together and I remember her taking me on trips sometimes and I just I remember her always being a warm and loving presence in my life.

Speaker 12 I just really, really loved her.

Speaker 11 When you think about what your house was like when you were little growing up, do you have any memories of what the interactions between your mother and your

Speaker 11 biological father were like?

Speaker 12 Yes, all of the memories that I have of me and my mom together with Harold

Speaker 44 were

Speaker 12 I was always with him and she was separate.

Speaker 12 He was always holding me, and she was standing there. The only times that I really got to experience my mom in her full capacity was when he was away.

Speaker 12 All she ever wanted was a baby, and when she finally got me, she just was ecstatic. I think he

Speaker 12 wanted to squeeze her into a box.

Speaker 12 Not really let her be the mother that she wanted to be for me.

Speaker 11 Do you remember your parents' anniversary that day that they went on that surprise trip?

Speaker 12 I was at a soccer game

Speaker 12 and I remember I was picked up by his friends and we went to their house and I definitely knew that something was wrong. Everyone was acting so weird to me and I didn't know what was happening.
And

Speaker 12 after a while they took me to a park where I met up with Harold.

Speaker 12 He sat me down and he told me that she had lost consciousness forever is how he put it to me. And I just remember that moment was horrible.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 12 right after he didn't want me to cry about it.

Speaker 12 He told me not to cry. He told me that people would be watching.

Speaker 11 He told you not to cry.

Speaker 12 He told me not to cry about it. Yes.
As we walked out of the park, he wanted me to be fine. I remember feeling shameful that I wasn't supposed to cry, like something must be wrong with me if I do cry.

Speaker 12 Because Harold told me not to.

Speaker 11 Did you realize at that point that your mother was dead?

Speaker 12 Yes, but for some reason I thought she was coming back because of the way he phrased it,

Speaker 12 unconscious. You know, in my mind, I thought that she might just be out there somewhere and maybe they hadn't found her yet.
And I'd pray at night that she would come back.

Speaker 11 What was the point that you realized that

Speaker 35 she was gone?

Speaker 12 We had one funeral in Colorado and one in Mississippi and that time was the time that I really felt like, you know, oh man, she's really gone.

Speaker 11 I know he told you you shouldn't cry, but what are there moments that you cried?

Speaker 12 I mean,

Speaker 12 when I usually was alone

Speaker 12 when he wasn't there it was just a lot and I didn't understand

Speaker 12 that it was okay to be emotional and it was okay to show that you're not okay. I mean I don't think anybody normal is okay

Speaker 12 after the passing of their mom and I certainly wasn't.

Speaker 11 Did he ever talk about your mom after all of this happened?

Speaker 12 He never talked to me about her passing after that one conversation in the park.

Speaker 12 We never spoke about her.

Speaker 11 In the days, in the months after,

Speaker 11 what was it like in your house, just you and Harold?

Speaker 59 He definitely wanted to keep me acting normal.

Speaker 12 Like everything that we were up to was just as life was before, except now my mom wasn't there.

Speaker 11 I just want to show you this picture. Do you remember this?

Speaker 12 I don't remember taking this, but it looks like this was right after the funeral.

Speaker 11 It's interesting

Speaker 11 to look at for me, just kind of like looking at your hands.

Speaker 14 You look like you're clenching your fists.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I mean, that definitely could be some of the subconscious tension, you know.

Speaker 11 He's holding you in this picture. Do you feel like he ever used you as like a prop?

Speaker 12 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 12 Absolutely.

Speaker 11 How often did he he actually hold you like this?

Speaker 12 Not ever when we were alone. I can't remember a time that he ever hugged me

Speaker 12 if it was not in public. Really? Yeah.
Looking at that picture, I can't imagine that that wasn't staged.

Speaker 11 Did you feel like Harold was controlling you?

Speaker 12 Not in the moment. I mean, I thought that was normal.
I thought that's what all parents did for their kids.

Speaker 12 I couldn't get like food or snacks or water for myself without like asking for permission.

Speaker 12 I couldn't play with my toys without asking for permission. He had to be there when I was playing with my toys.

Speaker 11 You couldn't get like food or something. No, I couldn't leave my room.

Speaker 12 And he had a baby monitor in my room watching me. And so he would know if I came downstairs to get anything before he said it was allowable.

Speaker 12 When he did allow me to socialize with other girls my age, it was always in a very strict setting where he could watch.

Speaker 12 I never spent probably an hour without him during my daytime, if it was a Saturday or a Sunday.

Speaker 14 Were you scared of Harold?

Speaker 13 Absolutely.

Speaker 12 And I thought that that was normal to be scared of your parents too.

Speaker 13 We were concerned that his relationship with Haley was almost to a point of obsession.

Speaker 35 We thought, really, he's a danger.

Speaker 39 We were literally on bated breath. What's he he going to do with her?

Speaker 13 So Harold knew that we were investigating him, and he had told people that he had a bag packed for when he got arrested.

Speaker 32 Two years after Tony died, federal authorities finally have enough evidence to arrest Harold for her murder.

Speaker 30 We needed to indict him pretty quickly.

Speaker 59 Harold was starting to move money, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 30 So that elevated our concern.

Speaker 35 We thought, really, he's a danger. This man has killed supposedly two wives, and the last thing we wanted was him going home to his child.

Speaker 32 By now, the Burlay say nine-year-old Haley is being isolated from the rest of her family, and she's completely under Harold's control.

Speaker 47 Our primary concern when we arrested Harold was that he was going to create some sort of hostage or dangerous situation with Haley if he knew his freedom was at risk.

Speaker 47 So we had FBI agents watch his routine from when he woke up to when he took her to the church, school, and then when he went back home.

Speaker 24 So when we got the warrant, we knew exactly what he was going to do.

Speaker 11 So you really did think she was in danger?

Speaker 24 Yeah, we did.

Speaker 61 A Highlands ranch man already being investigated for murdering his first wife, arrested today accused of murdering his second wife.

Speaker 75 Two years after her death, her husband Harold is in federal custody, charged charged with first-degree murder.

Speaker 12 The day that he got arrested, I was at school and I remember that I got called down to the principal's office.

Speaker 12 At that point, my principal and the lady that worked in the office told me that my father had been arrested.

Speaker 12 I just remember feeling just so cold and detached. Because I didn't know what was going on and I didn't know what was happening to me.

Speaker 12 And at this point, I thought there must have been some mistake because he would never do that, right?

Speaker 32 At a bond hearing the following week, a judge denies Harold bail, declaring him a substantial flight risk.

Speaker 12 I stayed with a lovely family called the Heddicks, and they helped me to see that he was not the person that I thought he was.

Speaker 48 According to the indictment, Harold willfully, deliberately, maliciously killed his wife, Toni.

Speaker 33 Harold pleads not guilty.

Speaker 12 Little did I know that that in the background, people were fighting for me from all over. From Mississippi, my family, the Berdelays, were fighting for me.

Speaker 12 Beth Schott, special agent, was fighting for me.

Speaker 33 The thing both family and investigators are most worried about, a not guilty verdict would put Haley back in the hands of a man they are certain is a cold-blooded killer.

Speaker 2 My superiors were wondering if we should strike some sort of deal with Harold ahead of time just because everybody's primary concern was Haley.

Speaker 32 With Haley's safety weighing on them, prosecutors begin building their case against Harold.

Speaker 14 Harold turns out to be a not very nice person.

Speaker 30 That doesn't mean you murdered your wife.

Speaker 45 Tony was set to inherit a lot of money. She was set for life.
She knew it, they knew it, and certainly Harold knew it.

Speaker 35 Tony Hanthorne got regular royalty checks from her family because they're in the oil industry.

Speaker 13 These checks that Tony would get for oil and gas, Harold would deposit them.

Speaker 13 And at one point, Tony's father found out that all of the oil and gas checks went into Harold's account. And he confronted Tony with this.
He's like, why don't you have your own account?

Speaker 13 Why don't you separate your finances from Harold?

Speaker 52 And

Speaker 13 That spurred Tony to open up her own bank account. And she actually took the next checks and she deposited them.
Harold was not on that account.

Speaker 26 I thought to myself,

Speaker 26 she's about to leave him.

Speaker 13 Our theory is that Tony was starting to pull away from him and if Tony were to ever leave him it would all come out financially that he didn't have a job, that he had been lying, and that he would probably lose custody of Haley.

Speaker 13 And we think that that would have been absolutely unacceptable for Harold. And we think that was the motivating factor to kill her then.

Speaker 71 The money.

Speaker 13 The money.

Speaker 50 And control.

Speaker 13 Motive started solidifying pretty quickly.

Speaker 32 But prosecutors know they need more than motive. They have to be able to convince 12 jurors that Tony's death was no accident, that her fall was carefully planned and executed.

Speaker 13 I had a big pile of cell tower information as well as call information and I gave that pile to Johnny. I said, try to figure out where Harold was going on these business trips.

Speaker 40 I think he had laid a trap for Tony, and he was committed now to carrying that through.

Speaker 35 He'd found a spot.

Speaker 40 He'd found a spot.

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Speaker 1 Hello, my name is Harold Hipborge. I'm in the Rocky Man that's parked.
Okay. My wife has fallen to the robot.

Speaker 27 Beth Shot discovered a mountain of cell tower data linked to Harold's cell phone.

Speaker 30 So when you're using your cell phone, it is pinging off the local tower. So we can find where your phone has been on given dates and times.

Speaker 72 Once I saw him using that tower, I'm like, that planning goes back over a month and a half before her death.

Speaker 47 Everything else made sense from this because how Harold knew the location when he called 911, how he had geo coordinates, how he would know he even had cell service there, how he knew that there was a cliff there.

Speaker 30 It started once Harold figured out Tony had opened up her own bank account.

Speaker 56 On September 9th, he spent from 10.30 a.m.

Speaker 47 to almost 9 p.m. in the park, 11 hours up there.

Speaker 47 I think this is when he found his spot.

Speaker 40 On the way back is when he started calling Tony's eye clinic.

Speaker 47 He started arranging everything for this anniversary trip.

Speaker 13 After this trip.

Speaker 47 After this trip.

Speaker 40 He wanted an isolated spot where nobody would be there to save Tony. And then here's where he starts making the calls to set everything in motion.

Speaker 13 We had to strategize on what circumstantial evidence would be key to our investigation.

Speaker 55 Why is it that circumstantial evidence is so tricky for jurors?

Speaker 13 Well, people want direct evidence, right? They want to see that it's an absolute. In a homicide case, it's even harder to

Speaker 13 show a jury circumstantial evidence and have them come to the conclusion of homicide.

Speaker 47 The planning that Harold put into this, you're not going to have a smoking gun. But that planning and premeditation points towards intent, which points towards first-degree homicide.

Speaker 45 Harold hires an attorney named Craig Truman.

Speaker 30 We talked about those later. He's a very well-respected criminal defense attorney in town who has decades of experience.

Speaker 35 I think Harold's lawyer strategy is to figure out what our case is and where he can poke holes in it.

Speaker 30 One of the things that we did legally was to make a decision that we were going to try and use the 1995 death of Lynn Henthorne in the case.

Speaker 30 And in our case, it was to show that this was not an accident.

Speaker 56 To tie Lynn's death to Tony's death, we needed to show that they were similar in a variety of ways. Harold had a lot to gain financially because of the insurance money.

Speaker 56 One is under a car in the middle of the night.

Speaker 56 Tony was under a deck in the middle of the night when the beam fell on her head.

Speaker 56 And then Tony was on the edge of a dangerous cliff.

Speaker 51 We went to the pretrial very concerned that the evidence was not going to be allowed in.

Speaker 30 We were not proving that Lynn was murdered. They could only use it for the limited purpose to show that it was not likely that Tony's death was an accident based on the similarities of Lynn's death.

Speaker 13 The judge agreed that yes, Lynn's death and the Beam incident, the similarities are too strong to be ignored.

Speaker 61 We expect opening statements today in the trial against a Highlands Ranchman accused of pushing his wife off of a cliff in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 32 Three years after Tony died, Harold Henthor now sits in front of a jury of his peers who will decide, based on the evidence, did she fall or did he push her off that cliff?

Speaker 13 You know, this is it.

Speaker 63 There's no go backs.

Speaker 13 We knew we needed to start strong.

Speaker 13 We showed the autopsy photos of Tony because he never mentions. She's got a massive head wound and that she's bleeding out profusely.

Speaker 13 And so we wanted to ensure that the jury understood that there's no way he could mistake the injuries.

Speaker 35 So Harold's lawyer recognized that you couldn't explain away all of Henthorne's quirks. They sort of embraced him and said, sure, he might be quirky, but that doesn't make him a murderer.

Speaker 35 Truman's strategy in general was to try to make Lynn's death seem very innocent. Law enforcement closed the case within a week, so this is a big nothing.

Speaker 30 He kept saying, no need to look at this again.

Speaker 30 This poor man has lost two wives. How heartbreaking could that be?

Speaker 30 Harold, he's smiling at his friends, and he

Speaker 30 enough of a narcissist that it's all about him.

Speaker 30 Because we couldn't bring the jury to the scene, we instead brought the scene to them.

Speaker 2 What I think had a big impact on the jurors was having about two or three park rangers talk them through how difficult it was to get up there and then how dangerous it was to be there.

Speaker 13 We're looking at the jurors' faces and they had the aha moment.

Speaker 33 So prosecutors rest their case. Now, it's the defense's turn to argue for Harold's innocence.

Speaker 13 Craig Truman didn't bring in any witnesses. He just cross-examined.

Speaker 35 The prosecution gets two closes. I did the first close, and Blarry Dibbits called the rebuttal.

Speaker 59 I will never forget Sunita saying, this is the man that is supposed to guard and protect his wife.

Speaker 70 And the last thing that Tony ever had going through her mind was him pushing her off.

Speaker 32 In closing arguments, Defense Attorney Craig Truman says the government has not met their burden. They have not proven that Tony was murdered.

Speaker 35 Truman really hammered home that you can't tell the difference between a fall from a push. So after closing arguments, the case goes to the jury.

Speaker 51 I felt like we made the case, but there's still a lot of anticipation, a lot of,

Speaker 51 oh my gosh, I don't know.

Speaker 30 You sit down and you think, I hope we did it. It's a lot tougher than you think to get a jury to agree.

Speaker 7 And developing right now, the fate of Harold Henthorne is now in the hands of the jury.

Speaker 30 You're always nervous about what 12 people are thinking.

Speaker 30 You just don't know.

Speaker 26 The judge reads the verdict.

Speaker 35 In the matter of the United States versus Harold Hinthorne, we, the jury, find the defendant

Speaker 26 guilty.

Speaker 35 There was like audible whoops of joy that came out of the courtroom.

Speaker 1 I was just so, so

Speaker 29 happy.

Speaker 42 Just elation.

Speaker 13 All of this is to get justice for Tony.

Speaker 13 Justice for Haley. And it's a really, really satisfying moment.

Speaker 2 The sentence was life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Speaker 22 Harold Henthorne was not charged in connection with Lynn's death.

Speaker 15 The Douglas County Sheriff's Office says that case is considered closed.

Speaker 13 I believe that putting Harold in a position where he cannot control anything is great punishment for Harold.

Speaker 13 He robbed Haley of a mother.

Speaker 1 We love you.

Speaker 1 We love you.

Speaker 12 That day was a really good day because I knew that I'd be going to live with my aunt uncle.

Speaker 43 My brother and sister-in-law adopted Haley.

Speaker 12 At that point, I felt like they were my family and that I belonged with them in Mississippi.

Speaker 50 When Haley came to us, she was almost afraid to do anything without permission.

Speaker 1 So it took her a while to figure that out, but it didn't take her long at all to, I think, attach.

Speaker 50 You know, I think she was hungry for a loving parent.

Speaker 11 Have you spoken to Harold at all? Nope.

Speaker 12 Not at all. And I don't regret that decision.

Speaker 11 Were you worried yourself at any point that maybe there's a part of him that's in me?

Speaker 12 Maybe, but ultimately no.

Speaker 12 Because I know that I'm saved by Jesus Christ and that my personality comes from my mom.

Speaker 12 I'm just like her.

Speaker 12 And I know that no part of him is in me.

Speaker 39 She is a mirror image of her mama.

Speaker 12 I do dye my hair blonde, but

Speaker 12 I think that me and her and pictures that I see of me now, you know, I feel like I look so much like her. And I think that

Speaker 12 choosing every day

Speaker 12 to forgive Harold for what he did.

Speaker 12 Not for his sake, but for mine, so that I know that I'm freed

Speaker 12 from him, from his control,

Speaker 12 that I'm my own person,

Speaker 50 and that I'm grounded to do whatever I want to

Speaker 12 outside of his control.

Speaker 11 It's so crazy to hear you say those words. Do you forgive him?

Speaker 12 I do.

Speaker 50 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Haley gives herself the gift of forgiveness and so she can lead the life that Tony wants her to have.

Speaker 50 Because if she doesn't forgive him, he still controls her in her heart.

Speaker 11 Is there ever things that you wish you could say to your mom?

Speaker 12 All the time, but I think that she is here with me.

Speaker 12 Being who I am is not something that came from easiness. You know, I had to go through something terrible to become as powerful as I am today.
I want to use my story to good

Speaker 12 because

Speaker 12 I know that my story is similar to what happens to a lot of people and I want them to know that regardless of what they've been through, there's always a way out of the darkness.

Speaker 12 And everything that I am, everything that I do, I want to do for the glory of God and for the legacy of my mom.

Speaker 6 What an amazing, resilient young woman. Haley is now a sophomore in college.
She's actually majoring in nuclear engineering.

Speaker 7 Quite impressive, David. As for Harold Hinthorne, he's now exhausted all of his appeals.

Speaker 13 Thanks so much for watching tonight. I'm Deborah Roberts.

Speaker 6 I'm David Muir from All of Us here at 2020 and ABC News.

Speaker 56 Good night.