Over the Edge

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Speaker 5 I'm Andrea Canning, and this is a story that literally took me high up into the Rocky Mountains.

Speaker 8 I wanted to see for myself where this all happened, so I was harnessed to a tree in the very same spot where the mother and doctor fell to her death.

Speaker 8 It was absolutely terrifying, and I can only imagine the fear she felt in those final moments.

Speaker 7 Her death opened up a lot of questions about her husband, not just from their marriage, but his first one too.

Speaker 14 I knew this would be a tough case to prove.

Speaker 15 Here's Over the Edge.

Speaker 16 My name's Anna Kate, and I'm nine years old.

Speaker 17 I'm in fourth grade.

Speaker 18 Anna Kate once had an aunt named Tony.

Speaker 21 They lived a few states apart, but were never more than a phone call or a letter away.

Speaker 17 Dear Aunt Tony, how are you? I have no homework. We finished little pear, eight days till Christmas.
I'm so excited. I love you.
Anna Kate.

Speaker 18 She still writes her letters, even though Tony can no longer respond.

Speaker 17 Dear Aunt Tony, are you enjoying it in heaven? I miss you very much. I read a book about heaven.
It must be great. Love your niece, Anna Kate.

Speaker 25 Anna Kate was seven when her aunt died.

Speaker 27 It was sudden, scary, and heartbreaking.

Speaker 30 So she took out an old shoebox, decorated it, and filled it with thoughts of Aunt Tony.

Speaker 17 Now she's dead, now we can't see her again, and our lives will never be the same again.

Speaker 33 The ripple effect of Tony's death was huge.

Speaker 10 She was a respected doctor, an ophthalmologist who had a thriving practice first in Jackson, Mississippi, and later in Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 25 A devout Christian who sang in her church choir.

Speaker 32 A mother to a little girl named Haley.

Speaker 40 A wife to a man named Harold, and the older sister to Anna Kate's dad, Todd Bertalay.

Speaker 42 This story is about Tony and what happened to her one bright sunny day high up in the mountains.

Speaker 43 Hi Mama, what's here emergency?

Speaker 44 I'm your now bringing mountain rescue team vanilla.

Speaker 41 It's also about how secrets long buried sometimes don't stay that way.

Speaker 46 Where did Tony fit into your family?

Speaker 47 She was the middle between

Speaker 47 two brothers.

Speaker 47 Sometimes she thought that was an advantage and sometimes she thought it was a disadvantage being the only girl with two brothers. Obviously we're not gonna sit down and play Barbies with her.

Speaker 47 You know, we needed the extra wide receiver during the backyard football game and she had to oblige us.

Speaker 46 Did it turn her into a little bit of a tomboy?

Speaker 47 I wouldn't say she was a tomboy, but she was a great athlete. Of course, she could do anything she put her mind to.

Speaker 34 Toni Bertalay grew up with her two brothers around Natchez, Mississippi, the epitome of the old South.

Speaker 51 She was ambitious academically and athletically, and yet.

Speaker 46 Did Tony embrace the hair and the makeup and sort of the things that you would think of a Southern belle?

Speaker 47 Oh, it don't miss.

Speaker 47 Yeah, I mean, it's coat and die and Sunday dresses for football games.

Speaker 46 No sweatpants?

Speaker 52 No. No, no.

Speaker 16 Not to go out.

Speaker 47 She would never go out in public in sweatpants.

Speaker 53 Never.

Speaker 38 Tony did have one flaw when it came to being a a bell.

Speaker 47 When I first got to college, she felt like, you know, I was a little bit too skinny and needed to bulk up a little bit. And so she decided she's going to come over and cook some fried chicken.

Speaker 46 Well, Mississippi is the place to be for that.

Speaker 47 Mississippi and every

Speaker 47 southern lady ought to be able to cook some fried chicken. And little did she know that, you know, when you took it out of the freezer, you would have to let it thaw.

Speaker 42 Frozen fried chicken aside, Tony was someone who set goals and made them happen.

Speaker 10 After college, she went to medical school and in 1988, graduated in the top 10% of her class.

Speaker 34 Then, she settled into a new practice and a new marriage with a young dentist.

Speaker 14 But the woman who could do it all couldn't save a relationship that wasn't working.

Speaker 42 She tried, but after seven years, the marriage ended.

Speaker 47 I don't think my sister took failure well, and so I think that was a disappointing time in her life.

Speaker 34 Todd's wife Rhonda remembers how Tony Tony continued to thrive at work, but her love life stalled.

Speaker 16 Her career was extremely important, and so there was a time issue there. She didn't have a lot of time to probably go places to meet guys.
She went to church, and she went to her job.

Speaker 16 And to be honest, I really don't think that there was very good pickings, possibly.

Speaker 61 And the clock was ticking when it came to starting a family.

Speaker 28 So in her late 30s, Tony turned to a place many do to find a mate, the internet.

Speaker 13 She chose a Christian dating site.

Speaker 45 Finding a man who shared her faith was very important to her.

Speaker 38 She didn't tell her little brother or his wife Rhonda right away about her online adventure, but she did share her secret with her good friend, Allison Talley.

Speaker 46 Did she give you updates on how it was going and if she was meeting anybody?

Speaker 48 I didn't really ask,

Speaker 48 but I did know that she had met a couple of guys.

Speaker 65 Then, Tony met the one.

Speaker 48 A handsome guy, a little bit older than her, charming, incredibly charming. Just extended a hand immediately and well-dressed and very polished and well-spoken, very professional looking.

Speaker 34 His name was Harold Henthorne.

Speaker 68 According to his dating profile, he lived in Colorado and worked as a consultant to non-profits.

Speaker 35 He didn't smoke, rarely drank, and he said he was a planner.

Speaker 50 Eventually, Harold flew out to Jackson to meet Tony in person, and with them both being methodical types, they devised a formula for lasting love.

Speaker 48 They had come up with a system for compatibility, and it was five Cs. And I don't remember what they all stood for.
Compatibility was one of them. Christianity was one of them.

Speaker 46 Chemistry, maybe?

Speaker 48 Chemistry was one of them. When they met for the first time, they would know if the chemistry was there.
They had confirmed four out of the five before their first meeting.

Speaker 46 So when they met, it was combustion.

Speaker 48 Maybe that was one of them.

Speaker 34 Tony ticked off her C's.

Speaker 39 Then she introduced Harold to everyone.

Speaker 55 First impression?

Speaker 48 Way more outgoing, way more vocal than she. She was quiet.
I thought, this is great for her. This gets her out of her shell and it gives her somebody to do some really fun things with.

Speaker 50 Harold was a widower and told the Bertelaise he had waited a long time for another chance at love.

Speaker 47 His first wife died in a car accident.

Speaker 16 My heart went out to him. I was like, wow, you know, he deserves his happiness, you know.
And if it's with Tony, then that's awesome.

Speaker 77 You know, he said that he had been lonely.

Speaker 50 Harold's friend, Kim LeFerrier, had been best friends with Harold's first wife, Lynn.

Speaker 46 What did Harold tell you about this new woman in his life, Tony?

Speaker 77 He didn't tell me a lot, but he did tell me that he really liked her.

Speaker 42 After Lynn died, Kim and Harold remained close.

Speaker 34 Now, he wanted Kim to meet the new woman in his life.

Speaker 77 I felt like I couldn't talk about Lynn anymore, which I understood that.

Speaker 77 But I was happy that he had moved on and I felt like it was time and that he was starting a new life.

Speaker 58 So now, Harold, the planner, as he'd said in his dating profile, was ready.

Speaker 40 On Valentine's Day, 2000, he set out to orchestrate the perfect proposal.

Speaker 48 Harold really studied the Jackson area. to find out the perfect place to propose.
And he found this beautiful place in Jackson that we all love.

Speaker 46 And how excited was she to tell you her news?

Speaker 12 Very. She was excited.

Speaker 48 And she had a beautiful ring. It was a nice ring.
And just, she was very happy. Very happy that it seemed like it was all coming together and she was going to be very happy.

Speaker 63 On September 30th, 2000, less than a year after they had met in person, Toni Bertalay married Harold Henthorne in a big church wedding in Jackson.

Speaker 47 She looked fantastic,

Speaker 47 happy, glowing.

Speaker 27 It was a lovely day.

Speaker 16 It was beautiful.

Speaker 48 It looked like the first day of the rest of her life. It really did.

Speaker 49 The future was bright. Tony's career had been her focus for so long.

Speaker 50 Harold promised something different.

Speaker 47 Mary, I'm wealthy. I can take you away from, you know,

Speaker 47 your career and, you know, working all the time and allow you to be the mother, which is the main thing she wanted to be.

Speaker 81 Her knight in shining armor.

Speaker 82 That's it.

Speaker 72 But it's amazing how life has a way of intruding on our fairy tales.

Speaker 83 Coming up, a romantic surprise.

Speaker 84 She's like, What's going on? And he says, You know, we're going away for the weekend.

Speaker 83 A whirlwind escape to the mountains.

Speaker 84 She couldn't say no, he had it all worked out.

Speaker 83 It seemed Tony's thoughtful husband had planned everything, almost.

Speaker 44 I need an Alfray mountain rescue team immediately.

Speaker 8 After Tony and Harold got married, friends and loved ones knew the couple wanted to start a family, but it turned out to be difficult.

Speaker 39 For the first two years of their marriage, their careers kept them apart.

Speaker 25 Tony in Mississippi, Harold in Colorado.

Speaker 48 And when Tony was finally able to move west to be with Harold, they suffered a lot of fertility issues and had, you know, had miscarriages. It was a sadness to her.

Speaker 56 her.

Speaker 69 Back in Mississippi, Tony's brother Todd and sister-in-law Rhonda were also struggling to have a baby.

Speaker 31 But then, after years of disappointment for both couples, all their prayers were answered.

Speaker 16 We both ended up pregnant at the same time.

Speaker 46 That must have been a really happy time, given what you went through to get there.

Speaker 16 Absolutely.

Speaker 47 And all of a sudden, you know, good news here, good news here.

Speaker 47 you know, get ready because, you know,

Speaker 47 you're going to have a house full.

Speaker 41 In June of 2005, Tony and Harold welcomed their baby girl, Haley.

Speaker 86 By then, Todd and Rhonda already had Anna Kate.

Speaker 64 When the girls were a little over a year old, the Henthorns came to Mississippi and the new cousins got to meet.

Speaker 16 It was a very happy occasion, and I do remember Tony just

Speaker 16 being so happy, you know, to have Haley.

Speaker 16 And so was Harold.

Speaker 15 We will, we promise.

Speaker 13 And although Tony had always wanted to be a mom, it was pretty clear Harold was Mr.

Speaker 29 Mom.

Speaker 48 He was the one in charge. The diaper change.
Most women have to beg their husbands to do that kind of stuff. He was the one, he was like a nanny.

Speaker 55 Hands-on dad?

Speaker 48 Yeah, he was in charge of everything about that child.

Speaker 47 She's just having a good little day here.

Speaker 45 With Harold such a doting father, Tony was able to go back to work.

Speaker 15 She soon built a thriving practice in Colorado.

Speaker 22 She was a beloved doctor. She had a really great bedside manner.

Speaker 89 Tammy Abroscato managed the practice.

Speaker 84 She took time. She treated her patients as a whole body, not just their eyes, but she was interested in their family life.
She just had the good old-fashioned, you know, southern hospitality.

Speaker 34 Tammy saw how committed Tony was to her patients.

Speaker 49 Sometimes it was hard to get her to leave the office.

Speaker 90 So Tammy was charmed when one day in September, Harold asked for her help.

Speaker 46 You get a phone call out of the blue from Harold.

Speaker 84 Yes, about two weeks before their anniversary, he phoned and said, hey Tammy, I want to surprise Tony for our anniversary. Can you help me out?

Speaker 11 It was their 12th wedding anniversary.

Speaker 57 Harold wanted to celebrate with a surprise trip to one of Colorado's wonders, Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 91 So you're being really sneaky in all of this.

Speaker 84 I am. I mean, we'd all love for our husbands to call and do something fun like that.

Speaker 84 So I made her schedule so that she could be done and out of the office by three o'clock, but it looked like she would be there till five.

Speaker 54 The big day was September 28th, 2012.

Speaker 84 He came into the office,

Speaker 84 and the other girls thought it would be fun to really surprise her, so they put him in an exam room.

Speaker 74 A colleague shot this cell phone video.

Speaker 84 So she picks up a chart, walks into the room like she normally would, and then there's her husband.

Speaker 84 And she's like, what's going on? And he says, you know, we're going away for the weekend, happy anniversary. And she's like, no, no, no, no.
I can't do that. And he says, you can.

Speaker 84 Tammy fixed the set schedule so you're ready to leave.

Speaker 22 This was well orchestrated.

Speaker 46 Yes. This anniversary plan.
Yes.

Speaker 68 Harold thought of everything.

Speaker 34 He hired babysitters for Haley.

Speaker 28 He'd even packed Tony's clothes.

Speaker 84 She couldn't say no. I mean,

Speaker 84 she just, you know, he had it all worked out. So off they went.

Speaker 29 Harold Henthorne, the consummate planner, had pulled it off.

Speaker 50 Now, the perfect anniversary weekend could begin.

Speaker 66 The couple left Denver on a Friday afternoon and headed north.

Speaker 27 Harold booked a room at the Stanley, a historic, beautiful hotel in Estes Park, famous for inspiring Stephen King's The Shining.

Speaker 13 He scheduled an early dinner so they could turn in early.

Speaker 72 It was a romantic weekend, after all.

Speaker 78 Then, Saturday afternoon, they set out for Rocky Mountain National Park to go on a hiking trail Harold had scouted out a few months earlier.

Speaker 64 But just about 24 hours in, the perfect weekend turned tragic.

Speaker 29 Hi, my mom.

Speaker 88 What's your dressing merchant?

Speaker 44 Hello, my name is Harold Hitler. I'm in the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 88 Okay.

Speaker 44 I need an Alpine Mountain Rescue team immediately.

Speaker 14 It was just before six, and Harold needed help urgently.

Speaker 94 My wife had fallen from a rocket on the north south summit of Deer Mountain on the Deer Mountain Trail

Speaker 94 when she's in really critical condition.

Speaker 50 Harold told the 911 operator that Tony had fallen from the edge of a cliff.

Speaker 94 Let me be sure that you know my location first. I have really bad cell coverage.
Okay. Okay, I'm on Deer Mountain.

Speaker 49 Immediately, the park launched a ranger who was also a trained EMT, but the only way to get there from the trailhead was on foot, and that would take hours.

Speaker 94 She's conscious of breathing. No, she's not.
She's not been conscious. She is breathing.

Speaker 49 Harold, desperate, pleaded for a rescue helicopter.

Speaker 94 Here's the thing. I will pay any and all expenses for a helicopter.

Speaker 52 I don't care if it's private. I don't care if it's commercial.

Speaker 94 I'll pay any and all expenses right now.

Speaker 94 Have you dropped a pair of medicine here?

Speaker 63 The operator tried to explain that no aircraft could do what Harold was asking, not at that altitude, over that terrain.

Speaker 94 They can't like drop somebody out of the helicopter. They can't.

Speaker 94 That has not been done in my experience.

Speaker 54 Harold knew Tony's situation was grave.

Speaker 94 She needs to get out here. She needs to get the hospital.

Speaker 96 Harold didn't stay on with the 911 operator.

Speaker 34 He hung up because he was worried his cell phone battery might die. Then, at 6.16, he texted Tony's older brother Barry, a cardiologist back in Mississippi.

Speaker 36 Barry, urgent.

Speaker 34 Tony is injured in Estes Park.

Speaker 36 Fall from rock.

Speaker 31 Critical. Requested flight for life.

Speaker 58 EMT Rangers on way.

Speaker 96 Will be dark when arrive.

Speaker 97 Pray.

Speaker 49 Todd got a call from his brother Barry.

Speaker 47 Barry said that Tony had been in an accident and that he was being texted the vital signs and it didn't look good.

Speaker 47 You know, he said, I don't think she's going to make it.

Speaker 63 Back on the mountain, the rescuers were having trouble finding the henthorns. They're asking you to put as many bright items out as possible to see if they can't see you.

Speaker 63 Anybody near you, sir?

Speaker 90 No.

Speaker 90 The henthorns were all alone and time was running out.

Speaker 49 The sun was setting, so Harold lit a fire. I have started a small fire in a completely closed lock enclosure with wet moth on it, thinking you can see the smoke.

Speaker 23 Now in the dark, the Henthorns were off the grid and still waiting.

Speaker 96 Just before seven, an hour after Harold's first call to 911, an operator called back to talk him through CPR.

Speaker 96 Harold, this is Julia, this

Speaker 88 police department. They tell me you need some assistance doing some CPR.

Speaker 88 Okay, is she awake?

Speaker 44 No, in conscious.

Speaker 88 Okay, I'm going to go through my questions really fast with you.

Speaker 43 Is she breathing?

Speaker 44 Her breathing has gone from 10 to 5 to just nothing, to zero.

Speaker 43 Okay, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to count for you as you go through the breaths. I've got my computer on and I can count so we can make sure we're getting that blood flow.

Speaker 34 But Harold said he wanted to keep the line free.

Speaker 44 I've got to turn off the text.

Speaker 52 Okay.

Speaker 52 Okay.

Speaker 88 I will let you go.

Speaker 43 Call 911 anytime and you get me, okay?

Speaker 28 Harold continued to text Tony's brother with details.

Speaker 54 None were good.

Speaker 66 Can't find Pulse.

Speaker 38 He texted a friend asking if he could drive up to Rocky Mountain National Park to pick him up.

Speaker 29 He called back dispatch.

Speaker 94 You guys have an EK of the Rangers.

Speaker 94 You can start using your whistle. He's trying to find you.
Okay, okay, great.

Speaker 64 Thanks a lot.

Speaker 64 He texted Barry again.

Speaker 58 CPR, help 10 minutes out.

Speaker 71 Finally, 8:09 p.m., more than two hours after Harold called 911, the ranger arrived, prepared for a rescue.

Speaker 34 But there was no rescue to be made.

Speaker 99 Coming up.

Speaker 84 I just said,

Speaker 84 is she okay?

Speaker 84 And I fell to my knees.

Speaker 83 Exactly what had happened up there on the mountain.

Speaker 30 This is a spot that most people would be too nervous to approach.

Speaker 15 The investigation begins.

Speaker 42 It was supposed to be the perfect weekend in the Rockies, but the tragedy struck during a hike. Toni Henthorne tumbled off the edge of a steep cliff.

Speaker 33 8.41 mountain time, her husband Harold texted her family two horrible words. She's gone.

Speaker 47 I'd never seen my dad cry.

Speaker 2 Never.

Speaker 47 And I'd say for probably the next two weeks

Speaker 52 constantly.

Speaker 100 She was his little girl.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 47 I can tell you it doesn't matter, you know, what age they are, you know.

Speaker 47 A parent can't ever accept it.

Speaker 49 Tony's friends at work couldn't believe it either.

Speaker 84 I got a call from Christy at our office. And all she said is, Tammy, Tony fell.

Speaker 62 What did you think when she said she fell?

Speaker 84 I just said,

Speaker 101 is she okay?

Speaker 84 No, she died. And I fell to my knees.
And my husband said, oh my gosh, what's going on? And I said, Dr.

Speaker 36 Henthorne fell off a cliff.

Speaker 63 Everyone was heartbroken for Tony, Harold, and most of all, the Henthorne seven-year-old daughter, Haley.

Speaker 16 I put myself on the mountain. And at the moment that she probably knew, well, this is it, you know, I know her thoughts were of Haley.

Speaker 51 About 150 people die in national parks each year.

Speaker 78 In Rocky Mountain National Park, the leading cause of death is falling.

Speaker 73 Before I wrote this book, I didn't know that the National Park had investigators.

Speaker 50 Journalist Michael Fleman covered the death of Tony Henthorne.

Speaker 73 I just thought the extent of their police work was to tell you to put out a rogue campfire or something or don't park here or don't feed the bears.

Speaker 54 But there's more to it.

Speaker 50 Every death in our national parks is investigated.

Speaker 45 And in Tony's case, the same EMT ranger who came to rescue her now switched roles from rescuer to cop.

Speaker 73 People wear different hats at the park service.

Speaker 73 The guy who slept out there in the middle of the night and tried to both save Tony's life and get Harold off the mountain, the next day became an investigator.

Speaker 42 The ranger set out to learn everything he could about Tony, Harold, and what happened on that quiet mountain.

Speaker 89 Harold told him the couple had set out around 1.45 on the Deer Mountain Trail as part of their romantic anniversary weekend.

Speaker 34 You can see in this selfie Harold took that the Henthorns seemed to be having fun on a trek that many would find challenging.

Speaker 73 Hikers call it a moderate hike, but these are hikers who are, you know, scaling the sides of mountains.

Speaker 72 But Tony and Harold kept at it, following the trail as it snaked up and around the mountain to a point where it flattened out.

Speaker 8 It was a beautiful fall day here in the Rockies, much like this.

Speaker 91 Harold said he and Tony wanted to be alone.

Speaker 8 It was their anniversary after all.

Speaker 61 So right about here, they got off the trail and headed into the woods.

Speaker 50 Most people stay on the trails in national parks.

Speaker 72 That's what the Park Service wants visitors to do.

Speaker 34 But Harold told the ranger the trail was so crowded that they left it to be alone.

Speaker 72 Although Tony was a lifelong athlete, she had knee issues since her basketball playing days in high school.

Speaker 11 But if the hike was tough for her, it probably seemed worth it when the trees opened up to this.

Speaker 30 Around 3.30, Tony and Harold ate lunch right here with this amazing view as their backdrop. Once they finished eating lunch, they continued further into the backcountry.

Speaker 15 Before they set out, Harold took this photo of Tony.

Speaker 25 She's smiling, relaxed.

Speaker 19 Doesn't look like she had any inkling that anything bad was to come.

Speaker 35 Harold told the ranger, the ridge where they had lunch lunch wasn't private enough, so they climbed down these loose rocks looking for another spot.

Speaker 10 At this point, they were several hours into their hike with not much daylight left and not much time to keep a 7 p.m.

Speaker 20 dinner reservation.

Speaker 64 They ended up on a small, flat area with not a lot of wiggle room and steep drops all around.

Speaker 13 It's where this picture was taken at 5 p.m.

Speaker 35 It's one of the last pictures on Tony's camera.

Speaker 105 Rangers believe Tony fell from right here, 128 feet down.

Speaker 30 This is a spot that most people would be too nervous to approach without the proper safety gear.

Speaker 87 But Harold said Tony was trying to capture the perfect picture of some wild turkeys and apparently just got too close to the edge.

Speaker 35 Harold said by the time he scrambled down the mountain and found his wife, Tony wasn't talking. She was barely breathing and she was lying in an awkward position.

Speaker 34 So he told the ranger he pulled her to a flatter area.

Speaker 33 Then he made that first first call to 911.

Speaker 88 Hi, my mama to address the emergency.

Speaker 44 I need an Al-Fraying Mountain Rescue team immediately.

Speaker 31 But there never was a rescue.

Speaker 32 Tony died too soon.

Speaker 25 Her friend Allison Talley says in the days after Tony died, everyone's focus was dealing with their grief while trying to help Haley and Harold.

Speaker 5 He's the grieving widower with a young daughter.

Speaker 73 Right.

Speaker 48 There was no shortage of people over there trying to help and be in the home.

Speaker 48 We talked to him several times, and every conversation had that element in it of how wonderful all his friends and his church family were being to him.

Speaker 34 Within a day of Tony's death, Harold reached out to someone who had always been there for him, Kim LeFerrier.

Speaker 77 I got a text at 10.30 on a Sunday night. Tony fell.
My bride is gone.

Speaker 101 And I remember looking at this going, what?

Speaker 77 And I ran upstairs. My husband was asleep and I said, Tony's gone.

Speaker 85 gone.

Speaker 86 Kim found the tragedy almost unimaginable.

Speaker 72 Remember, she'd known Harold for decades and had been best friends with his first wife, Lynn, who died 17 years earlier.

Speaker 101 I just felt so sad.

Speaker 77 I felt like I could not believe that Tony was gone. It just felt

Speaker 77 like I wished I could have changed it.

Speaker 5 I wish I could have brought her back.

Speaker 64 But soon, for some people, sorrow would be coupled with another feeling, suspicion.

Speaker 99 Coming up.

Speaker 22 My husband said, We can't let this go.

Speaker 84 Please investigate this.

Speaker 57 Turns out, this was not the first time Tony's life had been in danger.

Speaker 48 He made a joke and laughed it off. Did you hear almost kill Tony?

Speaker 25 Almost from the moment Tony's friends and family heard that she had fallen off a cliff to her death, they all realized they shared the same uneasy feeling, and it centered on Tony's husband, Harold.

Speaker 10 Charming, outgoing, a hands-on dad.

Speaker 11 Harold was all of those things.

Speaker 50 But now, Tony's friend Allison remembered what Tony had said years earlier when the couple was struggling with infertility.

Speaker 46 How was Harold through the bad times when she was losing the baby?

Speaker 16 Was he very supportive?

Speaker 48 I asked her how this was going, that this had to be incredibly stressful. And she said her exact comments, I'll never forget these words.

Speaker 48 Life with Harold is hard.

Speaker 68 Brother Todd and sister-in-law Rhonda also looked back and thought about how difficult it could be to get Tony on the phone without Harold listening in.

Speaker 47 You call her home number, you call her cell phone number, you could call his cell phone number.

Speaker 46 He would answer.

Speaker 107 He would answer.

Speaker 16 When we spoke to her, it was never just her, it was always him

Speaker 16 and her in the background.

Speaker 31 Tammy recalled how Harold used to come into Tony's office as if he owned the place and how in his presence, Tony, the self-confident doctor, seemed to melt away somehow.

Speaker 84 She said, Well, I've just learned long ago.

Speaker 22 It's just better to let Harold be right.

Speaker 5 Does that make you kind of sad?

Speaker 84 That made me very sad. And that was when I really thought things are not right.

Speaker 50 Tammy says that even though Tony seemed to adore her daughter Haley, she often gave up mommy time, staying late at the office instead.

Speaker 84 We would be done, patients gone, staff gone, and she would still be on her computer.

Speaker 22 But it wasn't work related.

Speaker 84 It was playing games. And so we thought, that's so odd.
Why does she stick around the office? We started to think that maybe she just didn't want to go home and maybe because of Harold.

Speaker 41 If there was trouble in the marriage, Tony never said so directly, not to friends, not even to family.

Speaker 58 Todd and Rhonda worried.

Speaker 72 Maybe she was afraid to say too much.

Speaker 16 I think he had held control over Tony with Haley.

Speaker 16 You know, his parents heard conversation that they weren't meant to hear that he held divorce over her head. I'll divorce you.

Speaker 47 Yeah,

Speaker 47 you won't see Haley and that kind of thing.

Speaker 46 That's probably the one thing that would cut the deepest with hers. Right.
Not being able to see her daughter.

Speaker 73 Right.

Speaker 11 And then there was a very strange episode that occurred a year before Tony's death at a mountain cabin she and Harold owned.

Speaker 5 Did she tell you at all about the accident with the beam

Speaker 46 at the cabin?

Speaker 48 No, but Harold did. He made a joke that he almost killed Tony at the cabin.
And he laughed it off that did you, did you hear her almost kill Tony?

Speaker 28 It happened around 10 p.m.

Speaker 42 Tony, despite the late hour, was under the deck.

Speaker 84 She said that she was cleaning underneath the deck and Harold was walking across. And as he walked across, a beam came loose and

Speaker 84 fell directly on the back of her head.

Speaker 31 Tony had to be hospitalized.

Speaker 69 She came back to work bandaged and bruised.

Speaker 46 Did she seem at all rattled?

Speaker 55 by it? Did she seem,

Speaker 55 did it change her at all?

Speaker 84 She just seemed depressed, but you know, people get depressed when they hurt.

Speaker 50 Tony's family looked back on that incident and wondered.

Speaker 46 Are you starting to think that maybe the beam falling wasn't an accident?

Speaker 47 I think we were there at the time, maybe not admitting it, but enough to say

Speaker 47 there's something going on here.

Speaker 58 After the cabin incident, Tony's mother told her she didn't think Tony should be alone with Harold.

Speaker 47 What's interesting about it is when my mother had that conversation with my sister, my sister didn't try to correct my mother.

Speaker 47 She just said, okay,

Speaker 47 which I think her silence probably spoke a little bit more.

Speaker 46 Almost like

Speaker 5 she knew.

Speaker 47 I think she knew it probably wasn't an accident.

Speaker 45 And now Tony had accidentally fallen off a cliff.

Speaker 73 It was as if the moment people within their circle heard about Tony's death, that they all instantly suspected something was wrong.

Speaker 22 My husband said, we can't let let this go.

Speaker 84 So he called the Park Rangers and basically just said

Speaker 84 we're close with Tony.

Speaker 22 We have suspicions.

Speaker 84 Please investigate this. Please, he begged them.

Speaker 16 I felt immediately upon hearing the news that we had to find out exactly what was what happened and that we had to be her voice.

Speaker 16 because the only story we were going to get was going to be his story.

Speaker 50 But they all soon discovered even getting Harold's story wasn't easy.

Speaker 8 Did you ask Harold, tell me what happened?

Speaker 48 Several times. I said, what happened, Harold? You know, and he blew me off.

Speaker 75 When Harold came to Mississippi for Tony's memorial service, her family thought he was more interested in watching a football game than talking about Tony's last day on Earth.

Speaker 16 He announced to us that day that he wanted to sit down with us and talk. And he said, oh, I mean, he totally brushed it off.
It'll take about 10 minutes. You know, I want to watch the game.

Speaker 16 At halftime, halftime,

Speaker 16 we'll have a, we'll talk.

Speaker 32 Rhonda couldn't believe what she was hearing.

Speaker 16 Nope, that's not going to happen. It's going to be a lot longer than that.
We weren't letting him off for 10 minutes.

Speaker 97 A lot longer.

Speaker 89 They would all have to cross many miles and many years to get the whole truth.

Speaker 99 Coming up.

Speaker 30 This is not an easy descent.

Speaker 13 A revealing trip to the scene.

Speaker 25 Halting steps and haunting questions.

Speaker 91 Would you recommend somebody who's not an expert come down here?

Speaker 108 Definitely not.

Speaker 91 What about a woman in her 50s with bad knees?

Speaker 108 Absolutely not.

Speaker 58 Three months after Toni Henthorne fell to her death in Rocky Mountain National Park, her husband Harold sent out a Christmas card, a photo of him and daughter Haley hiking in the forest.

Speaker 39 The inscription, we appreciate your prayer for us as we walk through this difficult time.

Speaker 25 Now, many people who had loved Tony saw these sentiments less as heartfelt and more as part of a cover-up.

Speaker 46 Did people see Harold as the husband in mourning who had just been through an absolutely horrible tragedy trying to save his wife?

Speaker 47 I mean, that was what was so odd. We never saw any emotion out of him when we went to Denver.

Speaker 47 The only time he cried was was when he got the phone call that my sister's death certificate was going to say pending.

Speaker 47 And he was

Speaker 47 more angry than anything else.

Speaker 21 Friends and family were suspicious of Harold for many reasons, including that he couldn't seem to get his story straight about what happened to Tony.

Speaker 19 The night she died, Harold told Tony's older brother Barry on the phone that Tony had lagged behind on the trail and he lost sight of her until he saw her at the bottom of the cliff where she fell.

Speaker 45 But later, when he spoke to Tony's younger brother Todd, Harold added several new details.

Speaker 47 Tony was taking a picture

Speaker 47 and he had gotten it, received a text. It is that Haley was playing in the soccer game and it was a picture of Haley playing soccer.
And then when he looked up, my sister was gone.

Speaker 60 And she had fallen off the cliff.

Speaker 75 Harold told many people Tony was taking pictures of wild turkeys, while the ranger recalled Harold saying Tony was trying to get a shot of him.

Speaker 50 Journalist Michael Fleman.

Speaker 73 Harold gave several versions of what happened. And where the stories begin to diverge is

Speaker 73 really what was exactly happening at the time that she went off. the cliff.
Was she taking a picture of him? Was he on his cell phone looking at text messages?

Speaker 34 Friends and family weren't the only ones comparing notes and clues.

Speaker 86 Because Tony died in a national park, the FBI joined the investigation.

Speaker 34 And the more they looked at what happened, the more reasons they found for concern, starting with the trail itself.

Speaker 30 This is not an easy descent.

Speaker 91 And people who knew Tony couldn't understand why a woman who had had bad knees since high school would even risk it.

Speaker 38 Dateline retraced Harold and Tony's path with the help of Joey Thompson, a climbing and hiking guide who often works in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 9 Is this path a path well traveled?

Speaker 91 Do a lot of people come down here? It seems...

Speaker 108 No, this path is way out of the way for any recreational hiker to be, you know, scouting about and having fun in the mountains.

Speaker 91 Would you recommend somebody who's not an expert hiker or rock climber come down here?

Speaker 108 Definitely not. This is a place.
It's very loose, high classification of how we rate the terrain. This takes a lot of technical ability and sure footing.
This is definitely out of the way.

Speaker 91 What about a woman in her 50s with bad knees?

Speaker 108 Absolutely not.

Speaker 49 Investigators also look closely at Harold's story of what happened after Tony fell.

Speaker 34 Remember, he said it took a long time to pick his way down the mountain to his bleeding wife's side.

Speaker 34 And sure enough, nearly an hour elapsed between the last photos on Tony's camera and Harold's call to 911.

Speaker 88 Hi, my mama to address the emergency.

Speaker 44 I need an Alprine Mountain Rescue team immediately.

Speaker 89 But here's the problem.

Speaker 50 When investigators retraced Harold's steps, it took just a few minutes to get from where she fell to where she landed.

Speaker 50 Then there was Harold's statement that before calling for help, he had to move Tony to flatter ground so he could do CPR.

Speaker 69 But the ground wasn't flat at all.

Speaker 89 The first ranger on the scene wondered why Harold placed Tony's head below her body.

Speaker 58 Harold had told friends he was trained in first aid. Usually when there's a head injury, one elevates the head.

Speaker 73 If everything else had been normal, you would just say this was a guy who freaked out and made some bad decisions after his wife fell off a cliff.

Speaker 73 I mean, you have to give people a certain amount of leeway.

Speaker 34 But everything else was not normal. For example, Harold cut his call to 911 short because he said his phone was dying.

Speaker 94 Can you hang on one second for me? My phone's in the blackboard. I've got to all check back.

Speaker 94 Okay, text me. Maybe text me because my pattern is really low.
Okay, sounds okay, Harold.

Speaker 41 Yet, when the FBI examined his phone records, they found that over the six hours following his first call to 911, Harold made or received 22 calls and 98 text messages.

Speaker 73 He's texting his brother-in-law. He's texting his friends about

Speaker 73 picking them up. He's on the phone with different agencies.
When was he actually performing CPR on her?

Speaker 34 The first Ranger to arrive on the scene wondered the same thing.

Speaker 73 Harold is sort of standing there, not doing much of anything. I think he has a fire going.

Speaker 73 And the Ranger shows up and suddenly Harold zips over and starts performing CPR on his now dead wife.

Speaker 34 Remember, a 911 operator had coached Harold on CPR, but the Ranger noticed Tony's lipstick wasn't smeared.

Speaker 56 No signs of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Speaker 73 We're not heroes all the time. We do the best we can with what we have, and it's a very traumatic situation.
But I think even factoring in all of that, Harold's behavior was extremely suspicious.

Speaker 31 Perhaps most suspicious of all, a clue from Harold's cell phone records that he may have been on that mountain before.

Speaker 34 In the weeks just prior to Tony's death, pings from Harold's phone show him traveling north toward Rocky Mountain National Park many times, something he never told investigators.

Speaker 30 Harold said that he and Tony came to this really hard-to-get to spot for the views, and they are remarkable, but they're not that much better than the views where they ate lunch just up the hill from here.

Speaker 105 After the FBI found out that Harold Henthorne had come to Rocky Mountain National Park at least nine times alone before that trip, they started to believe he was on a scouting mission for the perfect lonely location, lured Tony to this dangerous ledge, then a deadly push.

Speaker 31 If that sounded chilling, there was something else to consider.

Speaker 73 After Tony died within literally hours, law enforcement got tips saying you have to look into the first wife.

Speaker 31 Yes, the first wife.

Speaker 72 There was a whole other story to tell there.

Speaker 77 Coming up, he was always with us. He was always involved in every conversation, and we were never allowed to be alone.

Speaker 83 What had happened to wife number one?

Speaker 66 When she first heard that her old friend, Harold Henthorne, had lost his wife Tony in a fall from a cliff, Kim LeFerrier was stunned that tragedy had visited this same man twice.

Speaker 5 It is possible that someone could be married to two women who both died from accidents.

Speaker 104 Right.

Speaker 77 And at the time, we thought, how sad.

Speaker 8 A little less than five years before he met Tony, Harold had lost his first wife.

Speaker 33 Her name was Lynn.

Speaker 35 Kim was Lynn's best friend.

Speaker 42 They met at a Christian youth camp.

Speaker 77 When I first met her, she came flying into the room bigger than life and she jumped up on one of the bunks and said, tell me who you like here.

Speaker 46 Was she talking about boys then?

Speaker 92 Yeah, she said, who do you

Speaker 84 like looking at her going, who is this wild woman?

Speaker 42 Lynn was funny and fiery and full of life.

Speaker 11 Kim knew she liked Lynn right away, away, but it was their shared spirituality that cemented their friendship.

Speaker 77 We both were committed to serving God and she would just draw you in and she cared about you and she wanted to pray for you. She wanted to know what you needed.

Speaker 21 Lynn was already out of college and working.

Speaker 25 Kim was still in school, but they shared prayers and secrets.

Speaker 21 Lynn told Kim what she wanted in a man.

Speaker 77 A Christian husband, somebody who loved the Lord, was a leader and strong,

Speaker 77 but yet gentle.

Speaker 14 And we talked about it.

Speaker 77 You know, if I started dating someone or if she did and we had a check and, you know, we talked about that. I don't know if that's the best person for you.

Speaker 55 Did you have to approve?

Speaker 92 Yeah, I did.

Speaker 65 After all that girl talk about boys, Lynn found a man Kim did approve of, an old friend she had first met in college.

Speaker 70 His name, Harold Henthorne.

Speaker 77 She just said, there's this really neat guy, you know, we went to school together.

Speaker 39 It was in the years before email.

Speaker 54 Lynn and Kim weren't living in the same town, so Kim would handwrite the latest about her new love.

Speaker 77 She would write me letters about him and how she felt about him and that she longed to be with him and wondered if he felt the same about her.

Speaker 109 You must have been happy for her.

Speaker 77 I was. I mean, I felt like it was a good thing.
I felt like he would make a good husband for her.

Speaker 110 Was Harold charming?

Speaker 82 Very charming.

Speaker 77 He was always bigger than life, always smiling, always laughing, always the center of attention.

Speaker 28 Soon, Kim heard the big news from Lynn.

Speaker 18 Harold proposed.

Speaker 77 I do remember that she was so excited, wanted, you know, couldn't wait for me to really be able to spend time and to help plan the wedding and to be part of all of that.

Speaker 46 And did you do all those fun things, wedding shower?

Speaker 14 We did.

Speaker 28 Harold and Lynn married on September 11th, 1982.

Speaker 18 Kim was happy for her friend, but she saw something in Harold on that day that gave her pause.

Speaker 46 You're saying even on the the wedding day he was being controlled.

Speaker 77 He was just everything is always planned with Harold.

Speaker 77 You move from one plan to another.

Speaker 78 But Kim put her concerns aside and enjoyed the festivities.

Speaker 76 Lynn and Harold started their new life together in Colorado where he had a job as a geologist.

Speaker 41 Lynn got a job as a social worker.

Speaker 34 Kim was happy for Lynn, of course, but she also felt like her friend was slipping away.

Speaker 11 Maybe it was the distance.

Speaker 71 Maybe it was her commitment to her marriage.

Speaker 34 But just like it would be with Tony years later, Kim could never seem to get Lynn on the phone without Harold listening in.

Speaker 77 Many times I didn't know he was on the phone, but I would sense that he was on the phone and I would say before I said something personal, Lynn, is Harold on the phone?

Speaker 77 And he would always say, hey, Kimmy.

Speaker 18 Kim couldn't even get alone time with Lynn when she went to visit her in Colorado.

Speaker 77 He was always with us and he was always involved in every conversation and we were never allowed to to be alone, even if we were together.

Speaker 77 And he would even make comments when we would go to the bathroom. You know, you girls, hurry up in there.
You know, he would always make those, you know, like joking comments.

Speaker 46 That's going to start to get on your nerves.

Speaker 77 At times it did, but he always dismissed it as, I want to get to know you. Lynn loves you.
I want to love you like Lynn does.

Speaker 5 I want to know who this, you know, crazy woman is she loves.

Speaker 54 But when Harold wouldn't let Lynn go to Kim's wedding, even after Kim offered to help pay for the trip, Kim felt like she'd really lost her best friend.

Speaker 101 She called me and said, I can't come.

Speaker 77 And I said, why?

Speaker 77 Can you tell me why? And she said, I need to honor my husband. And that's all she would say.

Speaker 34 Kim thought Lynn was okay doing what Harold said because she believed that was her role as the perfect Christian wife.

Speaker 77 There was some awe.

Speaker 101 to the fact that she really

Speaker 77 did honor her husband. She would never speak negative about him.
So I always looked at her and thought, man, maybe she's the better woman.

Speaker 63 As the years went on, Lynn and Kim spoke less and less frequently.

Speaker 28 But then in the fall of 1994, there was a reunion of sorts when the Henthorns went back to the East Coast for a visit. Lynn and Harold got to meet Kim's children.

Speaker 28 And as true friends do, the two women picked up right where they left off.

Speaker 5 We talked and we laughed and it was a good time.

Speaker 77 but we were always all together. I mean even when it was time to go to bed, Harold didn't go to bed until Lynn was in bed.

Speaker 61 In other words, Harold hadn't changed, but Kim thought Lynn seemed happy.

Speaker 8 Did you think Harold was good for her?

Speaker 16 I did, yes.

Speaker 28 What Kim didn't know, it was the last time she would ever see Lynn alive.

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Speaker 55 I'm sorry to inform you, but there's been a bad accident.

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Speaker 115 It started as a romantic anniversary weekend, but that's not how it ended. Toni Henthorne has died after a fall from a cliff in the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Speaker 115 Her husband, Harold's first wife, also died in a terrible accident. Such an awful coincidence.

Speaker 2 Or was it?

Speaker 115 We're about to hear exactly what happened to wife number one.

Speaker 115 Again, Andrea Kenning,

Speaker 34 May 6th, 1995.

Speaker 50 It was a cool spring evening in the Colorado countryside.

Speaker 34 A little after 9 p.m., Patricia Montoya was with her family on Highway 67, about an hour and a half south of Denver, basically in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 81 Came around a bin, and there was a flare in the street and a man trying to fly cars down.

Speaker 39 The man was Harold Henthorn, and he was in a panic.

Speaker 81 Harold was was at the driver window asking us for help because

Speaker 81 the car was here and it had fallen on top of his wife. And looking over

Speaker 81 to the area, you could see her legs coming from underneath.

Speaker 39 Lynn, his wife of 12 years, was under their Jeep.

Speaker 75 It was a horrible scene.

Speaker 81 We asked him what happened and he said that they had stopped to fix a flat and his wife somehow went under the car,

Speaker 81 possibly to get a a lugna and the jack fell from underneath the car and she got pinned.

Speaker 34 Lynn was face down with the brake rotor resting on her back.

Speaker 6 The Montoyas carefully lifted the Jeep.

Speaker 81 All four of us got her out and we gently flipped her over and she was, her lips were already turning colors and she wasn't breathing.

Speaker 15 It was a cold night.

Speaker 59 The Montoyas piled coats on Lynn.

Speaker 81 And it's at that point

Speaker 81 the two gentlemen that I was with, they started CPR and I said I got to get her some help.

Speaker 45 Time was ticking down for Lynn Henthorne.

Speaker 33 No one had cell phones, so Patricia raced toward the nearest town, nearly two miles away.

Speaker 6 It was late.

Speaker 8 It was desolate.

Speaker 15 She drove up to one of the few houses.

Speaker 81 I drove directly up to as far as I could get. to the door and I flashed my lights and I honked a horn until the man came out and I asked him if he could please call 911.

Speaker 45 The man quickly went inside and made the call then.

Speaker 81 He came back out. He said that help was on its way.
I asked him if he could bring a couple of blankets to cover her

Speaker 81 and

Speaker 81 he grabbed some blankets and he followed me back up the mountain.

Speaker 56 When the 911 call finally went out, accident on Route 67, Roxanne Burns was one of the EMTs sent out to help.

Speaker 79 When we got on scene, there were two EMTs working Lynn. They were doing CPR on her.
I asked them what they wanted me to do, if there was anything I could help them with.

Speaker 79 They said, no, we want you to go talk to the husband.

Speaker 51 She asked Harold how it happened.

Speaker 8 He said he wasn't entirely sure.

Speaker 79 He did tell me that some lug nuts had fallen underneath the car, and she must have gone underneath the car to get those lug nuts and somehow jarred the car.

Speaker 72 Or Harold thought he might have jarred the car himself when he tossed the bad tire into the trunk.

Speaker 8 Roxanne tried to reassure him that they could still save Lynn.

Speaker 5 Was she hanging by a thread?

Speaker 55 Do you think she had already died and they were trying to revive her?

Speaker 79 When you're doing CPR,

Speaker 79 they're actually dead at that point. And, you know, so you're trying to pump their heart.
We had called for a helicopter because sometimes when you do CPR, you can actually,

Speaker 79 you know, revive somebody.

Speaker 45 And miraculously, it seemed, they did manage to revive Lynn.

Speaker 79 We actually had a paramedic show up also on the scene, gave her a shot of epinephrine. Her heart started beating again.

Speaker 79 So we were all real hopeful at that point that she was going to survive and got her on a helicopter and flew her.

Speaker 56 But Lynn didn't make it.

Speaker 8 She died at the hospital.

Speaker 58 She was just 37 years old.

Speaker 5 I remember the day as if it was yesterday.

Speaker 100 I received a call from a friend who said that,

Speaker 55 I'm sorry to inform you, but there's been a bad accident and lynn died yesterday

Speaker 34 it was heartbreaking for kim that her friend was dead and that she died in a way that was not quick and certainly was painful the autopsy concluded after the 3 000 pound suv fell on her lynn hemorrhaged into her lungs and died from asphyxiation the only marks on her body imprints from the brake rotor the local douglas county sheriff's department opened an investigation but a few days later, the coroner ruled Lynn's death an accident.

Speaker 54 The case was closed.

Speaker 46 Did you have any reason to believe this wasn't an accident?

Speaker 77 No, we all believed him and took him at his word. Any thoughts that I might have had, I just dismissed.

Speaker 34 Harold had his wife cremated, spread her ashes on a mountain he said she loved, and then went on with his life. He even kept driving this same Jeep for a while.

Speaker 56 Eventually, he married Tony, and Lynn's death became a distant memory.

Speaker 42 For some people, anyway, but not all.

Speaker 26 Nearly 18 years later, after Tony fell off that cliff, the sheriff's office called Patricia Montoya.

Speaker 81 I don't understand why it took so long.

Speaker 72 EMT Roxanne Burns got a similar call and had a similar reaction.

Speaker 8 When you got the call, was it sort of like I was expecting this call?

Speaker 14 Yeah, I did say that to him.

Speaker 79 I said, is this about the car accident up on 67?

Speaker 36 And he said, yeah, it is.

Speaker 79 And I go, is it about that woman that the car fell on her?

Speaker 71 And he goes, yep.

Speaker 107 I go, oh, thank God.

Speaker 30 Coming up, was there reason to be suspicious of this accident too?

Speaker 79 Made the hair on my neck stand up straight.

Speaker 82 This guy was all over the map from the get-go.

Speaker 14 It was 2013, nearly 18 years since she'd arrived as an EMT at the scene of Lynn Henthorne's bizarre death, when the phone rang.

Speaker 78 A sheriff's detective on the line.

Speaker 97 Roxanne Burns felt a great sense of relief.

Speaker 61 Finally, sort of a chance to make it right.

Speaker 79 To make it right. Yep.

Speaker 86 She hadn't forgotten that night back in 1995.

Speaker 34 It wasn't just the horrible way Lynn died, her own Jeep crushing her.

Speaker 59 It was the husband, Harold.

Speaker 34 Roxanne remembered he just wasn't acting right.

Speaker 30 You've seen a lot of these.

Speaker 60 Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 79 And he was just so calm about the whole thing and didn't ask any questions about how she was or anything like that. He wasn't screaming at me, grabbing at me, saying you have to do something.

Speaker 79 You know, desperate.

Speaker 8 Desperate, yeah.

Speaker 75 Instead, as Roxanne remembers it, Harold seemed to be avoiding her.

Speaker 79 He kept walking around the car. He kept, you know, making me follow him.
So I would ask him a question, and he would, he would walk away from me.

Speaker 49 Patricia Montoya, the Good Samaritan, also remembers thinking that Harold was acting strangely that night.

Speaker 49 For one thing, even though Harold flagged down her family's car, Patricia says he didn't seem to want their help.

Speaker 81 We started to get her out from underneath the car, and that's when he started telling us, you know, get away from her, don't touch her.

Speaker 34 She also noticed that although the night was chilly, Lynn was wearing just jeans and a t-shirt.

Speaker 31 Harold, on the other hand, had a nice warm coat.

Speaker 81 He didn't even attempt to take his coat off and, you know, cover his wife with it. So we all covered her with our coats.

Speaker 34 Then, when the EMTs got Lynn's heart started, Roxanne says Harold said something she never forgot.

Speaker 79 When we put her in the ambulance and she did have a heartbeat,

Speaker 84 he said,

Speaker 61 Really? She has a heartbeat?

Speaker 79 He was more surprised than thankful.

Speaker 58 Now that Harold had lost his second wife, Tony, in a second strange incident, the Douglas County Coroner's Office, which had originally ruled Lynn's death an accident, hired private investigator and former Denver homicide detective Charlie McCormick to review the case file.

Speaker 58 He noticed something about Harold right away.

Speaker 82 On face value, he's inconsistent, and that's never a good sign.

Speaker 49 For starters, Harold told multiple stories about why he and Lynn were on that back road in the first place.

Speaker 82 This guy was all over the map from the get-go. You know, we were going to dinner, we had been at dinner, and we left the house at three o'clock, we left the house at six o'clock.

Speaker 51 In the police reports written in the hours and days after Lynn died, Harold is quoted giving different reasons as to why exactly they pulled over.

Speaker 73 He contradicted himself on what the tire problem was. Was it a flat? Was it spongy? Was it soft? What caused this to happen?

Speaker 34 Whatever shape the tire was in, the Henthorns apparently tried to change it using jacks they normally used for a boat because Harold told the cops the jack that came with the Jeep was broken.

Speaker 82 He couldn't get it to work and he even said that he he sprayed some oil or solvent on it to try to get it to work and it didn't wouldn't work.

Speaker 39 But no oil or solvent was ever found to corroborate his story.

Speaker 34 Then there was the biggest question of all.

Speaker 79 How do you get under a car and have a car fall on you? It just didn't make sense to me. It never has.

Speaker 50 Once again, Harold seemed to tell multiple stories.

Speaker 64 Patricia Montoya remembers him saying Lynn went under the Jeep to retrieve a lug nut.

Speaker 31 Lynn's old friend, Kim LeFerrier, says Harold told her Lynn was going after a flashlight, not a lug nut.

Speaker 50 And Roxanne Burns remembered Harold saying something else entirely.

Speaker 79 He said she was changing the tire, which made the hair on my neck stand up straight because that, I was like, women don't usually change tires when a man is around.

Speaker 34 Investigator Charlie McCormick couldn't see any good reason for Lynn to get under a Jeep held up by makeshift jacks.

Speaker 82 You'd have to be a fool. Under those circumstances, and from all the other interviews that were done, Lynn was no fool to crawl under a car that you already were insecure about.

Speaker 34 McCormick believes the original investigation was incomplete.

Speaker 82 There's a lot of things that could have been looked at that would be easier to look at then than now.

Speaker 69 For example, what caused the Jeep to fall?

Speaker 34 Harold said he thought it happened when he tossed the tire into the trunk.

Speaker 11 But this photograph shows a shoe print on the front right fender.

Speaker 82 I would have jumped all over that footprint. That should have been analyzed compared to

Speaker 82 the shoes that everybody had on that was at the scene, whether it be Harold Henthorne or his wife or fire department or anybody.

Speaker 15 But no one did.

Speaker 54 And no one ever checked the jack Harold said wasn't working to see if it was really broken.

Speaker 50 No one ever checked with the restaurant that the Henthorns were either heading to or coming from.

Speaker 72 Depending on which version of Harold's story, if any, was true.

Speaker 82 I interviewed the restaurant employees to see if they actually did did have dinner there that night. Did they have a fight? Were they getting along all right, or were they not there at all?

Speaker 58 Whatever happened that night, by the time he met Tony, Harold was telling stories about Lynn's death that were entirely different from the original.

Speaker 31 Once, while addressing a Sunday school class, he said his first wife had died of cancer.

Speaker 49 And here's what Tony's friend Allison heard.

Speaker 48 It was one of those cars or trucks or vehicles where the back part opens up, it hit her on the neck and broke her neck, and she died instantly.

Speaker 34 What Tony's family said Harold had told them was much more vague.

Speaker 31 When they learned the truth, it was a complete shock.

Speaker 8 Your belief was that Harold's first wife had died in a car accident.

Speaker 46 That's all you knew.

Speaker 60 Yeah.

Speaker 109 And then you get this bombshell that she didn't die in a car accident.

Speaker 16 Correct. It was a lie.

Speaker 47 And the first comment out of my mouth, and I'm talking to an investigator, I said,

Speaker 47 that sounds worse than my sister's case.

Speaker 50 And especially in light of Tony's death, they wished Lynn's case had been investigated more thoroughly.

Speaker 21 The Douglas County Sheriff's Office declined to speak with us, but Michael Fleman, who has written a book about the Henthorne cases, says sheriff's detectives did investigate, at least initially.

Speaker 73 Everything was progressing as if this was suspicious, and then all of a sudden the brakes were put on the investigation, it was was declared an accident and forgotten for nearly 20 years.

Speaker 34 Detective Charlie McCormick thinks the reason for that was the coroner's quick ruling that Lynn's death was accidental.

Speaker 82 If you're a policeman and you're trying to investigate a crime and all of a sudden the coroner, who really has jurisdiction overall, says it's an accident, you're

Speaker 82 a little bit cut off at the pass.

Speaker 82 Two days after a death like this, to call it an accident, that's unfortunate. All the facts would indicate that this was, I think, a rush to judgment.

Speaker 69 The former coroner says there was no rush to judgment.

Speaker 25 He didn't remember the case, but reread the coroner's report at Dateline's request and says, quote, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but at the time, everything fit.

Speaker 39 There were no suspicions raised and no reason to drag our feet.

Speaker 21 Nevertheless, after Tony's death and McCormick's review, the then Douglas County coroner changed the manner of Lynn's death from accidental to undetermined.

Speaker 10 Still, Harold Henthorne hadn't been charged with anything, not in Tony's death or his first wife, Lynn's.

Speaker 57 So sheriff's detectives called on Lynn's old friend, Kim.

Speaker 62 What did they ask you to do?

Speaker 77 They asked if we were willing to be wired.

Speaker 50 Best friend undercover.

Speaker 70 What would she find out about Harold?

Speaker 99 Coming up.

Speaker 77 My husband and I were looking at each other, going, I can't believe this.

Speaker 54 Were you a little scared?

Speaker 16 I was very scared.

Speaker 34 Two dead wives, two lonely places.

Speaker 37 Lynn and Tony never knew each other, but they shared so much. In life, they both married Harold Henthorne, and in death, Harold had them both cremated against the wishes of their families.

Speaker 47 We didn't find out my sister's being cremated until her memorial service. We would like to be able to go to a grave somewhere and see her.
I mean, First Family said the same thing.

Speaker 47 You know, devastated.

Speaker 47 Never heard that, you know, she wanted to be cremated.

Speaker 2 I mean, as soon as he got that body released, boom, cremated.

Speaker 34 And the Bertelaise added, if that wasn't enough, he then took those ashes and put them where he wanted them.

Speaker 16 Tony's ashes are spread on the same mountain that he spread the first wife's ashes.

Speaker 47 Same spot, did the exact same thing. And he always claims it's their favorite spot.

Speaker 87 I mean, we're talking...

Speaker 47 He did the exact same things from start to finish with both wives.

Speaker 47 Crazy. I mean, even the same photo pose.

Speaker 34 The families thought what Harold did with his wife's remains was insensitive.

Speaker 49 But the cops, federal and local, were looking for something else, evidence of murder.

Speaker 31 In Douglas County, the detectives went down the list of who might know anything about Lynn's case.

Speaker 34 They talked to Patricia, they talked to Roxanne, and they wanted to talk to Harold.

Speaker 37 When he wouldn't agree, they turned to someone he would talk to, his old friend, Kim LeFerrier, and asked her and her husband to secretly record a conversation with him.

Speaker 77 We said no

Speaker 77 at the time because we felt like he was innocent.

Speaker 26 After all, Kim and Harold had been close friends for years.

Speaker 77 We prayed about it and we asked our pastor and he said if he is innocent,

Speaker 77 then you will be able to reveal that.

Speaker 77 And so then we agreed to do it.

Speaker 89 Now she and her husband were meeting Harold for a meal near her home in Virginia, but first getting wired up by police.

Speaker 39 The cops were hoping to use Harold's words against him.

Speaker 15 Kim still hoping to exonerate him.

Speaker 54 Were you a little scared?

Speaker 25 I'm very scared.

Speaker 46 I would be scared to do something like this.

Speaker 42 At first, she could only think of one thing.

Speaker 77 We had a huge wire around my waist, and I kept saying, he's going to hug me.

Speaker 77 And they said, no, he can't. And I said, he's going to hug me.
He does that.

Speaker 77 And

Speaker 77 they said, no, he can't.

Speaker 77 And I was trying to process, what am I going to do?

Speaker 5 So don't hug me. That's kind of hard.

Speaker 8 That looks suspicious.

Speaker 77 When he hugged me, I put my hand in front of me to guard the wires.

Speaker 12 Crisis averted, they sat down.

Speaker 5 Do you think he could tell anything was up?

Speaker 77 We don't know. I mean, he said many times,

Speaker 77 my attorney has told me that my friends will be wired.

Speaker 62 Did that send a chill?

Speaker 18 No, I said, golly, that's terrible.

Speaker 11 Would they really do that?

Speaker 77 I could play the game.

Speaker 23 Kim and her husband were told to not mention Tony and to drill down on what really happened when Lynn died.

Speaker 62 So this wasn't about you saying, did you do this?

Speaker 8 Did you cause her death?

Speaker 46 It was more about catching him in lies and inconsistencies.

Speaker 56 Then Harold said something which didn't make sense to Kim, that he'd put his career on hold when Haley was born.

Speaker 40 And he and Tony decided to keep that a secret.

Speaker 77 He told us the reason he didn't work and didn't tell us is that Tony had asked him not to.

Speaker 77 He couldn't tell us because he was afraid that if we ever met up with a Bertalais, that we would tell them that he was a stay-at-home dad. And I'm like, we would never see them.

Speaker 77 And he goes, well, I couldn't take that chance.

Speaker 11 Then there was a technical glitch.

Speaker 77 At one point, my wire wasn't working.

Speaker 46 How did you know it wasn't working?

Speaker 77 They called me on the phone.

Speaker 7 So you were taking a call in front of Harold from the police?

Speaker 77 And they told me to get in the bathroom and they would fix it.

Speaker 59 Wire fixed?

Speaker 61 Kim went back to the table.

Speaker 11 Harold, who was never shy about anything, launched into a sad story about life without Tony.

Speaker 77 We didn't do much talking. He did.

Speaker 77 I mean, he cried and said how hard it was and how, you know, it was hard to be a mom and a dad.

Speaker 75 But there was one thing Harold, who loved to talk, never said.

Speaker 77 We never asked him, did you kill her?

Speaker 77 But he never said,

Speaker 77 I didn't kill her.

Speaker 77 He would make statements like, why would I do that?

Speaker 77 They're accusing me of this. Why would I do that?

Speaker 77 But he never said,

Speaker 77 I didn't kill either one of them.

Speaker 69 Still, as a longtime friend, Kim couldn't bring herself to believe that Harold was capable of murder.

Speaker 8 Even after all of this, you still aren't convinced that he's a killer?

Speaker 77 Not 100%.

Speaker 77 No, but we have lots of questions. Lots of unanswered questions, lots of concerns.
Lots of things that my husband and I were looking at each other going, I can't believe this.

Speaker 28 After that night, Kim and Harold continued to talk.

Speaker 74 It took Kim some time to process what Harold had said.

Speaker 6 She considered his inconsistencies, the differing stories he'd told her and others.

Speaker 28 In time, she grew to believe that neither of Harold's wives, her friends, had died accidentally.

Speaker 62 How did that sink in?

Speaker 104 How did that feel?

Speaker 85 Sad.

Speaker 101 I felt like he was such a broken person,

Speaker 101 and I just felt sad that he

Speaker 77 wouldn't even come clean and tell the truth.

Speaker 45 Sad in part that a man she thought she knew seemed to be someone else entirely.

Speaker 46 Do you think he is the master manipulator?

Speaker 82 Yes.

Speaker 77 I think he totally controls every situation and tries to control everyone.

Speaker 77 And I think when he can't control you, he becomes angry.

Speaker 77 And I had never experienced his anger until he was going on and on about if the FBI contacted me or if anyone contacted me, they would tell me lies about him.

Speaker 62 I said, no, they don't.

Speaker 77 And he goes, what are you talking about?

Speaker 61 And I said, they don't tell you lies.

Speaker 62 They ask you questions.

Speaker 77 And he said, well, how do you know this?

Speaker 77 And I said, because I've talked to them.

Speaker 55 Did he freak out? Oh, he freaked.

Speaker 59 Harold must have wondered if Kim was talking to the FBI, who else was, and what were they saying about him?

Speaker 99 Coming up.

Speaker 105 I work with nonprofits.

Speaker 73 Harold told people he was a fundraiser for nonprofits.

Speaker 85 Fundraiser?

Speaker 15 That's about to raise some questions with the FBI.

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Speaker 34 On the Christian dating site where Harold and Tony met, there's a question for members.

Speaker 50 What would you do if you inherited a fortune?

Speaker 56 Harold wrote he'd give a good chunk away and set up a foundation to fund various ministries.

Speaker 42 As it turned out, Harold had come into a small fortune, although there's no evidence he gave any of it away.

Speaker 49 When his first wife, Lynn, died, Harold told police she had about $300,000 in life insurance.

Speaker 11 But when they re-examined the case, they found the amount was more than double that, over $600,000.

Speaker 73 After Lynn's death, he collects hundreds of thousands of dollars in life insurance money. And as best anyone can tell, this is how he supported himself.

Speaker 66 Harold wasn't living the high life on that money.

Speaker 58 He lived frugally in the years after Lynn's death.

Speaker 23 But by 1999, when he met Tony, he may have been trying to upgrade his lifestyle.

Speaker 73 There was evidence that he was researching a number of women's financial situations, including Tony's. It had been several years between wives.

Speaker 34 It was during those years he met Sanserie Lise Calvar.

Speaker 117 When you're dating on the internet, a widower is actually, you know, could be a good find.

Speaker 34 Sanseray was on that same Christian dating site that Harold and Tony were using.

Speaker 51 She found Harold's profile appealing and reassuring.

Speaker 117 Because a guy in his late 40s might have a lot of weird tics or has, you know, haven't had any relationship experience, but a widower, oh, a widower, that's nice.

Speaker 117 So you think that's safe?

Speaker 38 She agreed to meet Harold for coffee.

Speaker 117 He knew how to carry himself. He dressed nice.
He was good looking.

Speaker 117 He had a tan and

Speaker 117 you know, and seemed to present himself physically.

Speaker 28 She says Harold was very interested in her work in the film industry and how she was was making a lot of money.

Speaker 117 And I went into detail about what I did, and I made a very good living and was living by myself in a three-bedroom house, so he knew I was well-established.

Speaker 50 But Sanseray remembers Harold had few details to share about his work in charities.

Speaker 117 He just seemed like he was making more of his life than what was going on. He was pretty vague in his career.

Speaker 11 Sanseray saw that as a huge red flag and decided decided Harold wasn't for her.

Speaker 42 She can't remember the exact date they met, but she thinks it was the spring of 2000.

Speaker 12 If that's correct, Harold was already engaged to Tony, who thought he was a successful consultant to charities, able to support her if she decided to quit her medical practice and be a stay-at-home mom.

Speaker 19 It's what he told everyone, including a friend making a home video shortly after Haley's birth.

Speaker 48 I've worked with nonprofits, whether churches, schools, or hospitals.

Speaker 39 Harold and Tony had even lived apart for two years after their wedding, supposedly due to the demands of their careers.

Speaker 73 Harold told people he was a fundraiser for nonprofits. He had an address, a post office box.
He had a business card. And this was his story.

Speaker 34 Remember, Harold had told Kim in that undercover restaurant meeting that when Haley was born, he decided to be a stay-at-home dad for a while. He just didn't want Tony's family to know.

Speaker 73 It's been an exciting We love you all and we want to come out to visit in Denver.

Speaker 13 But there was much more to it than that.

Speaker 102 When FBI investigators dug deep into Harold's financial history, they found no tax returns, no pay stubs, no evidence Harold had held a job since Lynn died in 1995.

Speaker 73 When he was investigated after Tony's death,

Speaker 73 They could find no evidence at all that he ever made a dime.

Speaker 34 Apparently, everything he ever said about his job was a lie, including nearly every Thursday when he said he went on business trips.

Speaker 39 Just as there was no business, there were no business trips.

Speaker 20 The FBI looked at Harold's cell phone and credit card records and found out that he really spent Thursdays at this Panera bakery a few miles from his house, eating and surfing the web.

Speaker 14 So, after the wedding, why did Harold say he needed to stay in Colorado for his work? Why eventually did Tony have to leave Mississippi?

Speaker 20 Tony's family wondered if Harold's real purpose was to separate her from them so she'd be easier to control and maybe to kill.

Speaker 46 Do you think that there's the chance that he knew his plan for Tony from the very beginning? From the time they said, I do?

Speaker 47 Well, they got a life insurance policy as soon as they got back from...

Speaker 47 their honeymoon.

Speaker 47 And so I think he was probably going down that path.

Speaker 49 The life insurance policy they bought after the honeymoon was just the first one.

Speaker 42 By the time Tony died, there were more.

Speaker 73 A huge part of this investigation was just untangling the life insurance policies and what he took out and what Tony signed off on and what she may not have known about and where the documents went.

Speaker 73 At the end of the day,

Speaker 73 Harold arranged it so that his wife's life was worth millions of dollars and that if she died, he would get all of it.

Speaker 11 Investigators discovered four policies totaling $4.7 million.

Speaker 73 On the surface, he would make it sound like this life insurance policy on Tony would benefit their daughter in some kind of a trust.

Speaker 34 And one of the policies had named Haley as a beneficiary, but Harold hadn't bought it.

Speaker 31 Tony's parents had.

Speaker 96 And Harold had his daughter's name removed, his name put on instead.

Speaker 11 And he did it just weeks before that beam mysteriously fell on Tony at their mountain cabin.

Speaker 69 Then, just days after Tony died, he alerted the insurance companies hoping to collect all those millions, but couldn't get the money because the case was being investigated.

Speaker 50 By late 2014, the FBI had found the insurance policies and the cell phone pings to the park.

Speaker 34 They knew about the near miss at the cabin.

Speaker 59 They had dissected all the lies.

Speaker 40 Finally, they decided it was enough.

Speaker 42 November 6, 2014, a little over two years after Tony Henthorne died, Harold dropped Haley off at school, then headed for home.

Speaker 93 He never got there.

Speaker 34 Law enforcement stopped him near his house.

Speaker 23 They arrested Harold and charged him with Tony's murder.

Speaker 42 A good day in amongst all the bad.

Speaker 47 Yeah. This won't have a happy ending because we won't be able to bring my sister back.
But, you know, from here on out, there will be good moments for us. And that was a good moment.

Speaker 47 And it just so happened to be on my parents' 55th wedding anniversary.

Speaker 93 But there was still a trial to come and another battle with even more at stake.

Speaker 13 Coming up, Harold Henthorne heads to court.

Speaker 118 I'm thinking, okay, well, this is going to be hard to prove. No witnesses, no evidence.

Speaker 108 What do you have?

Speaker 13 Would a jury buy the case against him?

Speaker 42 Thank you.

Speaker 34 By 2015, the Bertolais had been waiting for justice for three years.

Speaker 68 They missed Tony, but felt an incredible connection to her through Haley.

Speaker 46 Do you see your sister in Haley?

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 47 I mean, tremendously smart girl. I mean, they are just alike.

Speaker 47 I think she'd grow up to be just like her mother.

Speaker 34 But when the Bertelais went to the media with their suspicions about Harold soon after Tony's death, he cut off their contact with Haley completely. It was agony for Tony's family.

Speaker 34 Then, immediately after his arrest, a lawyer assigned to represent Haley's interests in court made sure she got to see the Bertelais.

Speaker 23 It had been a year since they had even been allowed to talk to her.

Speaker 47 She finally got to be a little nine-year-old girl, and

Speaker 47 she just needs to be able to grow up without a lot of adult issues around her.

Speaker 40 The Bertelais also went to court to seek custody of Haley.

Speaker 39 But Harold was still her father and even from jail made it clear he was not going to let his in-laws take his daughter.

Speaker 16 He is a horrible person that I want to be put in prison for the rest of his life.

Speaker 16 He deserves to be there and he does not deserve to be a parent

Speaker 77 to this beautiful child.

Speaker 68 Haley stayed in Colorado and lived with her godparents.

Speaker 75 The Berdelay's only chance to gain custody of her would be if Harold was convicted of her mother's murder.

Speaker 50 Harold pleaded not guilty, and that meant the stakes were doubly high when on September 8th, 2015, 10 months after his arrest, Harold Henthorne went on trial.

Speaker 58 It would be a battle for both his freedom and his daughter.

Speaker 41 The burden of proof is always on the prosecution, which in this case had no forensic evidence, no physical evidence, no fingerprints or DNA, and no witnesses who saw Harold push Tony off the cliff.

Speaker 57 Juror John Johnson was skeptical.

Speaker 118 Right at the start,

Speaker 118 because I didn't know anything about it, I'm thinking, okay, well, this is going to be hard to prove. No witnesses, no

Speaker 118 evidence at that point.

Speaker 108 So, what do you have?

Speaker 103 But there was all that life insurance.

Speaker 49 There were the cell phone pings that seemed to show Harold scouting out Tony's last hike.

Speaker 50 The prosecution even showed the jury a map found in Harold's car with an X marking the spot where Tony fell.

Speaker 49 And there were all those versions of what Harold said happened on that mountain.

Speaker 73 This was a case. in which the evidence was not so much the physical evidence, the evidence were the lies.
And it was lie after lie after lie after lie.

Speaker 50 The defense said none of the so-called evidence added up to murder.

Speaker 58 They said the pings on Harold's phone didn't show trips to the park, but rather him taking a back route to his weekend cabin.

Speaker 59 And as for the life insurance, Tony knew all about it.

Speaker 49 Besides, they argued, Tony would still be alive if the Park Service had sent a helicopter to rescue her, as Harold begged them to do and even offered to pay for.

Speaker 73 The crux of the defense was

Speaker 73 Harold Henthorne is an odd duck. He says more than he should.

Speaker 73 And that may make him a blowhard and an annoying person to be around at a cocktail party, but doesn't make him a killer. Look past his character and focus on the evidence.

Speaker 73 Nobody saw Harold Henthorne push Tony off that cliff. There is no video of it happening.
There's very little physical evidence to prove anything other than it was just a fall.

Speaker 50 But the prosecution had another powerful card to play.

Speaker 23 Although the defense objected, the judge allowed in testimony about Harold's first wife, Lynn, about her death, her life insurance, and about Harold's many versions of what happened.

Speaker 73 And the question was, is this man just horribly unlucky, or is he a double murderer?

Speaker 41 After 10 days, the case went to the jury.

Speaker 75 John Johnson, along with fellow jurors Peter Cristofilo and Jerry Tabawada, told us that over the course of the trial, they came to believe that Tony was a victim from the time she first met Harold online.

Speaker 8 Was Tony just really unlucky when she chose Harold Henthorne on that website, or he chose her?

Speaker 2 I think he chose her. I think she was a target.

Speaker 95 Because of her age, for one thing, you know, and she wanted to have kids.

Speaker 118 She was vulnerable. Yeah.

Speaker 50 The jurors thought that Harold had conned her when they met on the dating site, controlled her while they were married, and when they looked at this last photo Tony took before she died, they thought they saw Harold duping Tony one last time.

Speaker 73 In my mind,

Speaker 118 she was doing the same pose he did. The last photo of him is he's on the edge of the cliff holding onto a tree, like looking over.

Speaker 118 Well, if she gets there at the same time, it's like, oh, poo.

Speaker 50 And while Harold was not on trial for killing Lynn, they believed he was responsible for her death also.

Speaker 91 Did everyone believe that they were somehow that there was a pattern there?

Speaker 2 There was certainly a pattern. Absolutely.

Speaker 95 Yeah, the similarities were just too much to

Speaker 95 push aside. The nighttime incidents, I mean,

Speaker 95 desolate areas. I mean, it was just like everything was just like the domino effect.
It was falling into place.

Speaker 51 In the end, they had no doubt.

Speaker 3 Guilty. He was guilty.

Speaker 2 Absolutely guilty. Yes.

Speaker 50 Kim cried when she heard the verdict.

Speaker 58 Cried because she knew it was right.

Speaker 70 And because she thought about her two friends and their last moments on earth.

Speaker 100 I feel sad because Lynn was afraid.

Speaker 100 And I know Tony was afraid.

Speaker 84 And that saddens me.

Speaker 100 But I have to believe in a God and met them right where they were.

Speaker 60 Held their hand.

Speaker 100 Not that I told him it was going to be okay.

Speaker 34 Harold has never been charged with killing his wife, Lynn.

Speaker 67 Three months after the verdict in Tony's case, Harold was back in court for sentencing.

Speaker 34 Tony's family asked that Harold be spared the death penalty so that Haley wouldn't lose both parents forever.

Speaker 31 Harold was sentenced to life in federal prison without the possibility of release.

Speaker 96 Harold told the court that day that he never killed anyone.

Speaker 75 He also said he loved his daughter Haley.

Speaker 40 Tony's family's focus then turned to the custody of Haley.

Speaker 46 Do you hope to resolve that custody issue that she can be with the Bertalais forever?

Speaker 47 I think that's exactly what we're hoping for.

Speaker 16 And praying.

Speaker 46 You fought hard.

Speaker 60 Fought hard for her, for that little girl.

Speaker 47 Oh, yeah. Her mother went through life, was a great person, worked hard.
We're doing that because

Speaker 47 Haley needs to inherit all the good things that her mother did, and she needs a secured life going forward. We're doing all that for Haley and no one else.

Speaker 13 December 23rd, 2015, a court in Colorado granted Tony's oldest brother and his wife guardianship of Haley.

Speaker 11 We won't show her face as she looks now, but it was the best gift the Bertalais could have hoped for.

Speaker 69 Haley was with them in Mississippi in time for Christmas.

Speaker 75 Now, this little girl who has gone through so much is is starting to heal.

Speaker 35 She has her cousin Anna Kate to help.

Speaker 17 People are saying I'm therapeutically helping her through this. I don't really understand,

Speaker 16 but

Speaker 17 I don't know how I'm doing this, but I guess I'm just keeping her entertained and happy.

Speaker 19 Though all that money Harold was after is now in a trust for Haley, it won't bring her mom back.

Speaker 45 But everyone who knew Tony wants to make sure Haley never forgets her.

Speaker 84 She came into the office, and her mom's lab coat was hanging behind the door.

Speaker 84 And I said, Haley, would you like your mama's work coat?

Speaker 84 She said, Miss Tammy,

Speaker 84 I would like that a lot.

Speaker 84 So I put it on her

Speaker 84 and she went,

Speaker 82 It smells like my mommy.

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