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00:00:00I told Harold, I'm sorry, but she's gone.
00:00:09Park Rangers, recovering the body of a woman who fell to her death while hiking in Rocky
00:00:12Mountain National Park.
00:00:14Did you realize at that point that your mother was dead?
00:00:17I love you.
00:00:18I don't think anybody normal is okay after the passing of their mom, and I certainly
00:00:27wasn't.
00:00:28Tony's camera was destroyed, but the SD card was still intact.
00:00:31These are the last moments of Tony Henthorne's life.
00:00:34How important were these pictures in piecing together your investigation?
00:00:39There's a photo of Tony and Harold sitting where I'm standing.
00:00:43She kind of tumbled down the rock face.
00:00:46When you saw the autopsy report, what did you think?
00:00:49I was taken aback by the size of her head wound.
00:00:54That's when I felt like something's not right here.
00:00:58I filed it as undetermined.
00:01:00Homicide cannot be entirely excluded.
00:01:02Oh, my gosh.
00:01:05Hello again.
00:01:08Hello, baby.
00:01:11You've never told your story before.
00:01:16I haven't.
00:01:19Let's start at the very beginning.
00:01:20We love you.
00:01:21We love you.
00:01:22There you go.
00:01:24We love you.
00:01:27I remember my mom.
00:01:28She was amazing.
00:01:29She was so intelligent and so wise and eloquent.
00:01:34Do you remember your parents' anniversary that day that they went on that surprise trip?
00:01:41I definitely knew that something was wrong.
00:01:44Everyone was acting so weird to me, and I didn't know what was happening.
00:01:47Were you scared?
00:01:48Absolutely.
00:01:49Hello.
00:01:50My name is Harold Henthorne.
00:01:51I'm in the Rocky Madness Park.
00:01:52Okay.
00:01:53On the north summit of Deer Mountain, the wind is in really critical condition.
00:02:13Every year on their anniversary, Harold would plan a trip with Tony.
00:02:19Typically, I'd phone and ring.
00:02:20Hey, this is Harold.
00:02:22Tony and I are going to go on this little honeymoon trip.
00:02:24Could you take care of Haley for the weekend?
00:02:26Sure.
00:02:27They were about to have their 12th anniversary.
00:02:29He was going to surprise her.
00:02:31She was just going to be overwhelmed.
00:02:32She was going to love it.
00:02:33The Henthornes live just outside of Denver.
00:02:36Tony is an ophthalmologist, and Harold is a fundraiser.
00:02:40After dropping their 7-year-old daughter Haley at a neighbor's house, they leave for a weekend
00:02:45at Rocky Mountain National Park.
00:02:49I ended up texting Dr. Henthorne just to say,
00:02:51congratulations, have a great weekend, be safe, have a great time, see you Monday.
00:02:57And I never heard back from her.
00:03:09We got the call about 6 o'clock of an accident on Deer Ridge Mountain.
00:03:15My primary concern was finding where the patient was quickly.
00:03:21I'd only been hiking 30 minutes when I heard radio traffic.
00:03:31Henthorne was performing CPR.
00:03:35It made me realize that this was probably not going to have a good ending.
00:03:40As I got closer, I started blowing my whistle.
00:03:43And Henthorne also had a whistle, and he responded.
00:03:50As I approached, she was laying on her back, and her head was wrapped.
00:03:55It was obvious she had a head wound.
00:03:57Her eyes were partially open.
00:03:59And I evaluated her for a pulse and respirations.
00:04:05I told Harold, I'm sorry, but she's gone.
00:04:10How did you find out something happened to your sister?
00:04:13There was a series of text messages saying Tony had been involved in an accident,
00:04:18and then things were critical.
00:04:21The first call we got from Barry, he said that Tony had an accident
00:04:29and she was in serious condition and it didn't look good.
00:04:34Of course, we were very concerned.
00:04:37Of course, we prayed that God would intervene and save Tony.
00:04:43And then he called back and said that she was gone.
00:04:50Three horrible words.
00:05:00What was Tony like growing up?
00:05:03She was very athletic, and she really excelled, and she was very, very smart at the top of her class.
00:05:10Tony always wanted to be a medical doctor.
00:05:13She felt like ophthalmology would basically allow her to do what she loved
00:05:18and give her some down time and some family time.
00:05:22She was married pretty young.
00:05:24Someone she'd met in medical school, he was a dentist.
00:05:28But ultimately, it ended up in a divorce.
00:05:31And to have a failed marriage and have that disappointment,
00:05:36I don't think she ever really accepted that.
00:05:40I think that she went through a period where she had to recollect herself.
00:05:44She did pour herself into her medical practice.
00:05:48She also began spending a lot of time at her church.
00:05:51She especially loved singing in the choir.
00:05:54The clock, unfortunately, was ticking for her.
00:05:57The divorce had set her back.
00:05:59And she wasn't meeting the kind of people she apparently wanted to meet in Mississippi.
00:06:04I was pretty shocked one day when Tony and I were having a conversation.
00:06:08And she just outright said, I met a guy online.
00:06:12This guy named Harold.
00:06:14When he was wooing her online, some of the things that they talked about
00:06:18was that they both wanted children.
00:06:20It's a Christian dating site, so they were both Christian.
00:06:24Harold raises money specifically for non-profits.
00:06:29And if you've just met him, you already know that he has made himself a fortune doing this.
00:06:35I'm curious what you guys thought of Harold when you first met him.
00:06:39When you first meet Harold, you are very impressed.
00:06:42He does come across as polite. He's cordial. He's very engaging.
00:06:48He always had a plan. Very much a person in control.
00:06:52They got engaged in February and got married in September.
00:06:55They didn't see each other but six or seven times during that whole period.
00:07:00And there's the groom.
00:07:02Here we go. One, two, right here. Bingo.
00:07:08The wedding day for Tony and Harold was just beautiful.
00:07:14Tony was just stunning.
00:07:16Mr. and Mrs. Harold.
00:07:22So Harold and Tony, two years after they get married, are leaving Mississippi.
00:07:28It's so pretty, isn't it?
00:07:30Apparently, he always wanted to go to Colorado. He always wanted to bring Tony there.
00:07:35So she sells her practice in Mississippi and they move to a suburb just outside Denver called Highlands Ranch.
00:07:43They wanted children right away. Both of them did.
00:07:47She was in her mid-forties when she got married with Haley.
00:07:52So she got her dream.
00:07:58From the outside looking in, Tony and Harold's marriage looked ideal.
00:08:02It certainly looks like the perfect life.
00:08:05We love you.
00:08:07We love you.
00:08:13Park rangers recovering the body of a woman who fell to her death while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park.
00:08:19Authorities say that victim was from Littleton. She was in her fifties.
00:08:22She'd been hiking in the area with a family member.
00:08:26Now we have a fatality investigation we have to conduct.
00:08:30And the first thing we want to do is document the scene.
00:08:36There's a tree that on one side the branches had been kind of knocked off or broken off.
00:08:41I called the impact tree.
00:08:43We could see that was a place where I imagine Tony probably impacted as she fell to the ground.
00:08:48There were small things that didn't totally add up.
00:08:50It was an obscure area.
00:08:52Not a place where I would expect your average hiker to just happen across.
00:08:57Because it was just so steep.
00:09:01I noticed there was a shoe that was there, an untied boot.
00:09:05Usually in the course of a fall, shoes tend not to untie themselves.
00:09:09And there was a really key piece of evidence.
00:09:12Tony's camera was destroyed but the SD card was still intact.
00:09:17We were able to look at the photos and these pictures are very important to us.
00:09:22Because these are the last moments of Tony Henthorne's life.
00:09:36What was supposed to be a romantic anniversary hike has turned deadly.
00:09:40Tony Henthorne's husband Harold says she accidentally slipped and fell to her death
00:09:46off a 160 foot cliff in Rocky Mountain National Park.
00:09:50That puts this case in the jurisdiction of the Federal Park Service.
00:09:55And they launch an investigation into exactly what happened up on that mountain.
00:10:05Ranger Faradian made arrangements to go to Harold Henthorne's house
00:10:10and interview him.
00:10:11Because there's still a lot of questions we need to ask.
00:10:14One of the things I had brought with me was a memory card from Tony's camera.
00:10:19And I showed him some of the pictures off the camera and he acted upset.
00:10:25He said, that's my wife, Mark.
00:10:27That's my wife.
00:10:28As he looked at pictures of Tony.
00:10:32You guys were able to get pictures from Tony's camera and Harold's cell phone.
00:10:38How important were these pictures in piecing together your investigation?
00:10:41The pictures were extremely important to the investigation
00:10:44in terms of building a footprint of what they did that day.
00:10:49So this is them in front of the Stanley which is a big hotel in Estes Park the night before.
00:10:55The next morning they had breakfast and then they went and picked up some sandwiches.
00:11:00But you can see Tony's in the car.
00:11:02She's got her lipstick on.
00:11:04She's looking happy.
00:11:05This photo is them at what we've dubbed the lunch spot.
00:11:09We know that they had lunch there.
00:11:11It's a very key spot to the investigation.
00:11:16What Harold had told Mark was they hiked up till the trail plateaued.
00:11:21They wanted to get off the trail for some privacy.
00:11:25When we recreated their steps, there's no trail where Tony and Harold had lunch.
00:11:31It's not cleared in any way and it's pretty difficult hiking.
00:11:36We were actually able to determine that this is indeed where they did have lunch.
00:11:41It's a very distinct rock feature with a very distinct dead tree in the photos.
00:11:47And there's a photo of Tony and Harold sitting right where I'm standing.
00:11:52The lunch spot is a very beautiful spot and there's really no reason to go any further.
00:11:58However, they go further.
00:12:01We know that this is the spot that they stopped because there are several photos of Harold Henthorne
00:12:08standing right on that ledge with this death grip on this tree
00:12:12because it's a sheer drop on the other side of him.
00:12:16Fifteen minutes later, there's another picture of him.
00:12:19Identical, but he's wearing a blue denim shirt.
00:12:23This strikes investigators as odd.
00:12:27Why would Harold stand at the edge of such a dangerous cliff and then do it again 15 minutes later?
00:12:39This photo, you're actually looking up from where her body was recovered.
00:12:45This is 160 feet. This is where Tony fell.
00:12:52She had what we call multiple blunt force injuries.
00:12:57She kind of tumbled down the rock face.
00:13:04She had abrasions of her forehead and she had a large laceration or tearing injury to the top of her head to the scalp.
00:13:16When you saw the autopsy report, what did you think?
00:13:20I was taken aback by the size of her head wound.
00:13:24She probably would have bled out very quickly.
00:13:27Okay, what's her main injury?
00:13:29Concussion.
00:13:31Never once did Harold mention in any of the 911 calls that she was bleeding.
00:13:36And a curious discovery.
00:13:38As rangers go through Harold Henthorne's vehicle, they find a map with markings on it.
00:13:46What's interesting on this map is there's an X and it says hike.
00:13:51Yeah, you can see it. It's in that gray right there.
00:13:54That's almost exactly where her body was found, where that X was.
00:13:59There's a lot of things here that don't add up.
00:14:02When you look at these pictures, particularly because they're 15 minutes apart, what stands out to you about that?
00:14:09Our theory was that he was trying to lure her to stand where he is.
00:14:14That he's saying, look honey, this is safe. You can stand here.
00:14:21One of the things that was very suspicious was Harold's story that they stopped at this cliff ledge
00:14:27and that he received a text message from his nanny saying that his daughter had just won a soccer game
00:14:33and that out of the corner of his eye he looked up and Tony was gone.
00:14:36Very specific moment in time.
00:14:38And we realized that, well that text message came in at the same time that he called 911.
00:14:44911, what's the address of the emergency?
00:14:47Hello, my name is Harold Henthorne.
00:14:49I told Mark it took him about 45 minutes to get down to the bottom of the cliff where Tony's body was
00:14:54and then he called 911.
00:14:56We know when he called 911 and when that text message came in.
00:15:00And those don't match up to his story.
00:15:04He then subsequently starts making more phone calls.
00:15:08He calls very barely Tony Henthorne's brother.
00:15:11He is a surgeon.
00:15:14He's sending you the doctor vital signs.
00:15:17Initially he told me that her heart rate was good and her respiration rate was somewhat low
00:15:26and that she was not conscious.
00:15:30Harold never says she's got a massive head wound, never says that she's bleeding out,
00:15:33none of that, just that she fell and is unconscious.
00:15:36Do you know how to perform CPR?
00:15:38I do, I do.
00:15:41Harold said he did CPR from the whole time that the 911 call came in
00:15:46to when the park service got there.
00:15:48In the autopsy photos, her lipstick was intact.
00:15:51I've personally done CPR and it's extremely messy.
00:15:56And you don't end up with intact lipstick like Tony did.
00:16:03So Harold's texting with Barry while he's allegedly helping his wife,
00:16:07while he's telling people that Tony's fallen from a cliff.
00:16:11He ended up receiving and sending over 90 texts that night.
00:16:14I guess it was about 10 o'clock at night, we got a text from Harold.
00:16:19Tony's been hurt, she's critical.
00:16:24Please pray.
00:16:26There was one more text that followed and it said my bride is gone.
00:16:30It just was inconceivable.
00:16:33We just couldn't believe it.
00:16:36At what point did you find out that your sister had passed?
00:16:41It was probably about 10.30 central time that night.
00:16:45Who told you, was it Harold or the Rangers?
00:16:47Actually Harold, he had texted.
00:16:50He texted a lot of people.
00:16:52The same text, my bride is gone.
00:16:59Almost immediately, family and friends begin to notice Harold behaving in a way
00:17:03they think is strange.
00:17:06And I thought, wow, he just seemed kind of together
00:17:09for having gone through what he went through.
00:17:12No tears, no sign that he had been crying,
00:17:15no struggling with his voice to get the words out.
00:17:20This is not a normal, grieving husband.
00:17:25That's when I felt like something's not right here.
00:17:31Harold called me and asked me to officiate the memorial service.
00:17:37He had this service entirely planned.
00:17:41He'd already put together a video montage of Tony.
00:17:46Somehow in the 36 hours since he was in this cold, dark place
00:17:52next to his dead wife, he's put this together.
00:17:58It felt like to me that he had been planning this for a while.
00:18:07In the hours and days after Tony's death,
00:18:10everyone's watching Harold.
00:18:12And he is, for the most part, showing no signs of what you would expect.
00:18:17How can you not put your antenna up?
00:18:20We arrive in Denver, and the whole time he never saw him cry.
00:18:25He never said, you know, I loved your sister.
00:18:28You know, never heard any of that kind of thing out of him.
00:18:33Tony's funeral is the ultimate chance for Harold
00:18:35to kind of control the narrative.
00:18:37And what Harold chooses to do with that moment is pretty telling.
00:18:42Everybody notices, the Bertale's especially,
00:18:44where everyone's sitting in the funeral.
00:18:47They're brought in, they're seated away from the rest of the family.
00:18:50Harold is one of the last people escorted in.
00:18:54We had to live with that.
00:18:56We had to live with that.
00:18:58Harold is one of the last people escorted in.
00:19:01We had to literally line up in order
00:19:04in order to walk back in for Tony's funeral.
00:19:08It's like we were sequestered.
00:19:10You know, and we could only come out
00:19:12when we were told to come out.
00:19:15You know, I'm all the way positioned at the back
00:19:17because everything was planned out
00:19:19just like Harold always does.
00:19:22He had already had a slideshow
00:19:25ready and prepared.
00:19:28Everyone experiences some feeling of deep discomfort
00:19:32that this isn't right.
00:19:34And that extends to the slideshow too
00:19:36because one of the first people Harold contacted
00:19:38the day after Tony died
00:19:40was the photographer to create the slideshow
00:19:42for her funeral.
00:19:44And she's expecting some loose collection
00:19:46of photos over the years.
00:19:48And that's not what she gets.
00:19:50What she gets are 70 carefully selected photos.
00:19:54Somehow in the 36 hours
00:19:57since he was in this cold, dark place
00:19:59next to his dead wife
00:20:01he's put this together.
00:20:07I'm thinking to myself
00:20:09now if Paula died
00:20:11I'd be over here in a little puddle of mush.
00:20:13He has all this ready to go
00:20:15and he's proud of it.
00:20:17The odd thing is that Tony was the one that died
00:20:20but Harold's got most of the photos
00:20:22in there of him.
00:20:24What do you mean?
00:20:26There were pictures of him and Haley
00:20:28or him, Tony and Haley
00:20:30but not all of them were even about Tony.
00:20:34It was like Tony's life started
00:20:36when she got married to Harold.
00:20:38And I thought
00:20:40how insulting and hurtful
00:20:42to Tony's family.
00:20:44We talked to other people
00:20:46who were at the service
00:20:48and he didn't say any nice things about Tony
00:20:50that he was more angry
00:20:52that there was an investigation
00:20:55In fact at one point he said to somebody
00:20:57Tony had to go and get herself killed
00:20:59on federal lands.
00:21:03Soon after the funeral
00:21:05Harold hires an attorney
00:21:07who puts a stop to any more interviews
00:21:09so investigators turn to friends and family
00:21:11to get more information
00:21:13and some aren't buying Harold's story
00:21:15about this being an accident.
00:21:18I talked to the Berthelais several times
00:21:20they maintain contact with Harold
00:21:22to keep an eye on Haley
00:21:25we wanted to make sure Haley was okay
00:21:27but they also were giving me updates
00:21:29on Harold
00:21:31and they felt that that was a way
00:21:33that they could help in the investigation.
00:21:35We were taking notes
00:21:37How can you keep being around him
00:21:39and not just explode?
00:21:41I thought that I was
00:21:43helping by doing that
00:21:45we were making on
00:21:47our part to get justice
00:21:51He had established a wall there
00:21:53For us to continue to see Haley
00:21:55we had to see him
00:21:57and so it was like a price of admission
00:21:59the real jewel was Haley
00:22:03We talked to the nannies
00:22:05one of the nannies told us
00:22:07that Harold and Tony didn't sleep together
00:22:09that they had separate areas
00:22:11where they slept
00:22:13He had an office
00:22:15in his basement
00:22:17but occasionally he would also
00:22:19go on business trips
00:22:22and he would go on these trips
00:22:24but he wouldn't have luggage
00:22:26and he would just kind of show up the next day
00:22:28and the nanny was wondering
00:22:30if Harold was having an affair
00:22:32He seemed to have a secret life
00:22:34so alright let's find out
00:22:36what we can about his business
00:22:38Now the address
00:22:40for the business was in his basement
00:22:42but if you talked to him
00:22:44he would say I've got 10 to 12 managers
00:22:46reporting to me daily
00:22:48I've got 90 employees
00:22:50We thought there was plenty of money
00:22:52he always portrayed himself as a wealthy person
00:22:54and we were getting
00:22:56word that they were needing money
00:22:58It wasn't just Harold
00:23:00who seemed to be doing well financially
00:23:02Tony's family
00:23:04had money of their own
00:23:06money she had access to
00:23:08I do remember that
00:23:10Mr. and Mrs. Bertolet were confused
00:23:12why the money seemed to be missing
00:23:14My parents
00:23:16are buying the house
00:23:19they're paying for the car
00:23:21they're paying for the tuition
00:23:23that doesn't make sense
00:23:25And as investigators start to dig deeper
00:23:27they make a series of head scratching discoveries
00:23:29We couldn't find any concrete
00:23:31evidence of his work
00:23:33There was no online presence
00:23:35and almost everybody has an online presence
00:23:37of some sort if they have a business
00:23:39especially if you're a fundraiser
00:23:41On his business cards
00:23:43Harold had CFR
00:23:45Certified Fundraiser
00:23:48So I contacted that agency
00:23:50and they indicated no
00:23:52We have no idea who he is
00:23:54and no he's not a certified fundraiser
00:23:56Oh my gosh
00:23:58he doesn't even have a business
00:24:00But that's nothing compared to what
00:24:02they're about to learn
00:24:04Anonymous tips start pouring in
00:24:06raising questions about Harold's past
00:24:08Most people didn't know
00:24:10that Harold was married before
00:24:12I thought oh my gosh
00:24:14this is two lives for Harold
00:24:16He could have died now
00:24:18The similarities are too eerie
00:24:20to ignore
00:24:30Most people didn't know
00:24:32that Harold was married before
00:24:34and that his first wife had died
00:24:36Her name was Lynn Henthorn
00:24:38What Harold tells most people
00:24:40is Lynn died in a car accident
00:24:42and most people aren't going to press
00:24:46But I thought oh my gosh
00:24:48this is two lives for Harold
00:24:50that have died now
00:24:52Because we had some
00:24:54suspicions that Tony's death
00:24:56was not as
00:24:58Harold was making it sound
00:25:00I made the phone call to
00:25:02the Larimer County Sheriff's Office
00:25:04I did do it anonymously
00:25:06and other people had done the same thing
00:25:08The coroner in charge of
00:25:10Tony's autopsy
00:25:12an investigative reporter at a TV station in Denver
00:25:15The FBI, National Park Service
00:25:17were on the receiving end of
00:25:19what ended up being 17 anonymous letters
00:25:21The consistent theme
00:25:23was Harold's first wife
00:25:25died in similar
00:25:27unusual circumstances
00:25:29You gotta look into it
00:25:31Remote locations
00:25:33odd places
00:25:35why were they there in the first place
00:25:37Harold was not
00:25:39injured in any way
00:25:41in either of these incidents
00:25:43His spouse was killed
00:25:49Getting these types of anonymous calls
00:25:51and anonymous letters
00:25:53is unusual
00:25:55It hasn't happened to me before
00:25:57I've done about 8,000 cases now
00:25:59It took me three months to get
00:26:01enough of the investigative details together
00:26:03that I felt comfortable filing
00:26:05the death certificate
00:26:07and I filed it as
00:26:09undetermined
00:26:12My side cannot be entirely excluded
00:26:14I've never written that
00:26:16kind of a comment before
00:26:18What did you learn about Lynn?
00:26:20Very religious
00:26:22She and Harold married fairly young
00:26:24Never had any kids
00:26:26He really wanted
00:26:28a child with Lynn
00:26:30We also learned that
00:26:32he was very controlling
00:26:34of his relationship with
00:26:36Lynn
00:26:38Was the control a red flag for you?
00:26:41Absolutely
00:26:43because he drove
00:26:45the relationship
00:26:47My first impressions of Harold
00:26:49was he was an outgoing
00:26:51gregarious salesman type
00:26:53and I being
00:26:55a salesman myself at that time
00:26:57I was fine with that energy
00:27:01Harold is bigger than life
00:27:03He smiles all the time
00:27:05He laughs all the time
00:27:07So when I first met him I thought
00:27:09When we were moving
00:27:11quickly towards
00:27:13Lynn's and Harold's wedding
00:27:15it was clear that Harold
00:27:17was in charge
00:27:19So
00:27:21Lynn and Harold got married
00:27:23but then
00:27:25almost immediately Harold was saying
00:27:27we need to move to Colorado
00:27:29so he takes her away
00:27:32How did you two meet?
00:27:38I called Lynn one day
00:27:40and I said
00:27:42Can we talk?
00:27:44This is a good time for me
00:27:46and she said no no
00:27:48can you call back later when Harold's here
00:27:50and she said
00:27:52as a couple we decided
00:27:54that whenever
00:27:56we talk to family we want to both
00:27:58be on the phone at the same time
00:28:00and I remember thinking
00:28:02again that's so weird
00:28:04that's so controlling
00:28:06Lynn's sister in law Grace Rochelle
00:28:08also sensed something was off
00:28:10she confided in me
00:28:12and she said
00:28:14Grace I don't know what to do
00:28:16like we're having some marital
00:28:18issues but he
00:28:20doesn't want me to talk to anyone
00:28:22he would consider that disloyal
00:28:24and she didn't know
00:28:26where to go
00:28:29what to do
00:28:33While family members may have quietly
00:28:35had concerns about Harold and Lynn's
00:28:37relationship, her death is ruled an accident
00:28:39and it stays that way
00:28:41for years until a local coroner
00:28:43in Colorado takes a second
00:28:45look at the night Lynn died
00:28:47and finds similarities between
00:28:49Lynn's death and Tony's
00:28:53Harold claims that he was driving
00:28:55the road
00:28:58and the right front tire
00:29:00seemed spongy
00:29:02so he pulled over to change
00:29:04the tire. There's two types of jacks
00:29:06involved in this incident
00:29:08one is a regular car jack
00:29:10the other jack
00:29:12was a boat jack which is basically
00:29:14a tube with another
00:29:16telescoping tube that comes out of it
00:29:18not safe
00:29:20for a car
00:29:22his story is that this car jack
00:29:24this more stable one
00:29:26didn't work so he used a boat jack
00:29:28to jack up the car
00:29:30so then he said he had taken
00:29:32the lug nuts off of
00:29:34the wheel
00:29:36and he said that Lynn
00:29:38had a cloth in her hand
00:29:40and he handed her the lug nuts
00:29:44he pulled the tire off
00:29:48his version was that
00:29:50Lynn must have dropped the lug nuts
00:29:52and gone to crawl
00:29:55the car to get the lug nuts
00:29:57because there were lug nuts
00:29:59in the photos of the scene
00:30:01there were lug nuts under the car
00:30:03and then he said he went to the back
00:30:05of the jeep and he tossed
00:30:07the tire into the back
00:30:09of the jeep and that when he
00:30:11did that it dislodged
00:30:13the jeep and he
00:30:15heard a scream and he said
00:30:17he ran to the front of the vehicle
00:30:19and he could see that the vehicle
00:30:21had dropped and was laying on his wife
00:30:25As the coroner
00:30:27reviews the 1995 death of Lynn
00:30:29Henthorne, Beth Schott
00:30:31decides to double down and enlist
00:30:33Dave Weaver, an investigator
00:30:35with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office
00:30:37to also take a second
00:30:39look. I was given the Lynn
00:30:41Henthorne case to reinvestigate
00:30:43in January of
00:30:452013
00:30:47I discovered in the documentation
00:30:49one of the first witnesses
00:30:51on scene
00:30:53When I called her up I said
00:30:55can you think of any reason why a detective
00:30:57from Douglas County would want to call you and talk to you
00:30:59and her response to me was
00:31:01that lady
00:31:03I still have nightmares about that
00:31:05The woman on the phone
00:31:07Patricia Montoya
00:31:09in detail Montoya remembers
00:31:11that late evening drive in 1995
00:31:13like it happened
00:31:15yesterday
00:31:20There's a man standing in the middle
00:31:22of the road with a flasher
00:31:24We pulled over
00:31:26and he told us
00:31:28that there was an accident
00:31:30that they had a flap
00:31:32and his wife got stuck under the car
00:31:34We could see
00:31:36some legs
00:31:38coming out from the bottom of the car
00:31:40We all got out of the truck
00:31:42and we
00:31:44got her out of the car from underneath
00:31:46the car and we were
00:31:48gently turning her over because she was on
00:31:50her stomach
00:31:52We're doing the CPR and her husband
00:31:54came over and he started screaming at us
00:31:56Don't touch her
00:31:58Leave her alone
00:32:00You could hear the sirens coming
00:32:02and that's when
00:32:04the guys started asking him
00:32:06how did she get underneath that car
00:32:10and when he heard the sirens
00:32:12coming
00:32:14the look on his face was like
00:32:16in a panic, more of a panic
00:32:18instead of gladness
00:32:20that there's help coming
00:32:22for my wife
00:32:24It was creepier than ever
00:32:26There's no way that
00:32:28that was an accident
00:32:32Could the Jeep have fallen
00:32:34off the jack accidentally?
00:32:36Let's try this now
00:32:38A recreation
00:32:40puts Harold's version of events
00:32:42to the test
00:32:44Let me put a little pressure this way
00:32:48Nothing
00:32:52Nothing
00:32:54You can't replicate it the way he says it happened
00:32:56Oh
00:33:06We were trying
00:33:08to pull in elements of Lynn's death
00:33:10into our case
00:33:12Laura Thomas
00:33:14is the coroner in Douglas County
00:33:16There were a lot of questions about Lynn's death
00:33:18So much so that she hired
00:33:20someone to reconstruct the accident
00:33:22that took Lynn
00:33:24Accident reconstruction
00:33:26is sort of like putting a jigsaw puzzle together
00:33:28You take the pieces
00:33:30of information, factual information
00:33:32and try to put them together
00:33:34to see if they fit
00:33:36Where was the vehicle positioned?
00:33:38What's the terrain look like?
00:33:40You look at the gravel surface
00:33:42that this Jeep was parked on
00:33:46When Dave Weaver
00:33:48was assigned to the case
00:33:50he opened it up as a possible homicide
00:33:52and he was looking at
00:33:54is that even physically possible
00:33:56for someone to crawl under a car
00:33:58to get lug nuts
00:34:00and then have this jack
00:34:02collapse
00:34:06We're going to replicate
00:34:08with this exemplar vehicle
00:34:10the layout of all the physical evidence
00:34:12that includes the lug nuts
00:34:14the bottle jacks
00:34:16and then hopefully also replicate
00:34:18the vehicle's movement
00:34:20off of the bottle jacks
00:34:22Yeah there you go
00:34:24Is that about right?
00:34:26Going by Harold's story
00:34:28they try to recreate what he says
00:34:30happened that night
00:34:32So one of the
00:34:34versions that Harold gave
00:34:36Lynn's here six feet away
00:34:38from the Jeep
00:34:40He takes the tire
00:34:42he walks to the back
00:34:44puts the tire to the back
00:34:46Whatever he did
00:34:48caused the Jeep to fall off the jack
00:34:50Look at the time interval
00:34:52from the time
00:34:54he picks up the
00:34:56flat tire
00:34:58goes roughly 12 feet to the back
00:35:00to put the tire in
00:35:02she moves
00:35:04closer to the vehicle
00:35:06then drops the lug nuts allegedly
00:35:08and then
00:35:10gets down on her stomach
00:35:12and crawls up underneath
00:35:14So I mean that timing
00:35:16just doesn't make sense
00:35:18because it would take
00:35:20more time I believe
00:35:22for her to do all of those
00:35:24activities than it would for him
00:35:26to come around
00:35:28and put the tire in the back of the Jeep
00:35:30No logical person
00:35:32would crawl under a rotor
00:35:34The other inconsistency is
00:35:36both the medical people
00:35:38as well as the coroner's office
00:35:40when they did the autopsy
00:35:42there was nothing in her fingernails
00:35:44there was nothing on her hands
00:35:46indicating that she was struggling
00:35:48If I was Harold who allegedly
00:35:50had a bad back
00:35:52you wouldn't just pick the tire up
00:35:54and throw it in, but that's what he said he did, right?
00:35:58So I'm going to pick the tire up
00:36:00which is pretty heavy
00:36:02and I'm going to throw it in
00:36:06Ok
00:36:08Didn't do anything
00:36:10didn't knock it off. Realistically
00:36:12if you were going to put a tire in a jacked up car
00:36:14you probably wouldn't throw it in
00:36:16You'd probably place it in
00:36:20Nothing
00:36:22So let me put a little pressure
00:36:24this way
00:36:30Nothing
00:36:32If it wasn't the tire
00:36:34being placed or thrown into the vehicle
00:36:36that caused the Jeep to fall off the jack
00:36:38what or who did?
00:36:40Let's try this now
00:36:42Lowering the bottle jack
00:36:48Oh
00:36:52That's it
00:36:54That makes a lot more sense
00:36:56That's something Harold could control
00:36:58You can't replicate it the way he says it happened
00:37:00Our conclusion is
00:37:02Harold could have actually released that bottle jack
00:37:04and it could have
00:37:06lowered directly onto her
00:37:08very rapidly
00:37:10Releasing it down is the most controlled
00:37:14Harold Henthorne's attorney says the simulation
00:37:16doesn't prove anything
00:37:18We're not proving that Harold killed Lynn
00:37:20but we wanted to introduce Lynn Henthorne's death
00:37:22into our case
00:37:24of Tony's as a precursor to killing Tony
00:37:26Harold Henthorne maintains
00:37:28that he did not kill
00:37:30either of his wives
00:37:32When Laura Thomas
00:37:34got our report
00:37:36and finished her investigation
00:37:38she changed the official cause of death
00:37:40from accidental to indeterminate
00:37:42on the death certificate
00:37:44and reissued it
00:37:46The official change on the death certificate
00:37:48doesn't change anything for Harold
00:37:50He simply continues on
00:37:52with his life
00:37:54He's not charged
00:37:56in Lynn's death
00:37:58and the case is eventually closed
00:38:00What was really important to me
00:38:02was for Lynn's family
00:38:04to know
00:38:06that the death certificate had been changed
00:38:08So they would know
00:38:10that Lynn was still remembered
00:38:12and that
00:38:14she wasn't forgotten
00:38:16In fact, even after Lynn's death
00:38:18Harold Henthorne stays close to her family
00:38:20especially Lynn's sister-in-law
00:38:22Grace Rochelle
00:38:24I felt like my relationship with Harold
00:38:26got closer
00:38:28I had gotten cell records
00:38:30and one of the individuals
00:38:32that kept popping up in the cell record
00:38:34was Grace Rochelle
00:38:40Harold and Grace
00:38:42texted and called each other all the time
00:38:44before Tony died
00:38:46and we had to ask the question
00:38:48was Grace his paramour?
00:38:50Is this why he killed Tony?
00:38:56And Harold's daughter says
00:38:58his need to be in control
00:39:00continues
00:39:02That moment was horrible
00:39:04and right after he didn't want me to cry about it
00:39:06He told me not to cry
00:39:08He told me that people would be watching
00:39:16I thought oh my gosh
00:39:18These are people that have died now
00:39:20It has some really eerie similarities
00:39:22One is under a car
00:39:24in the middle of the night
00:39:26and Tony was on the edge of a dangerous cliff
00:39:30The last thing that Tony ever had
00:39:32going through her mind
00:39:34was him pushing her off
00:39:36Do you think he targeted Tony
00:39:38from the very beginning?
00:39:40Absolutely
00:39:42Tony's next
00:39:44Yeah
00:39:46He had the person that he could control
00:39:48a thousand percent above
00:39:50any wife or anyone else in his life
00:39:52and that was his daughter
00:39:54So at this point are you worried about Haley's safety?
00:39:56The last thing I wanted
00:39:58was him going home to his child
00:40:02I thought there must have been some mistake
00:40:04because he would never do that, right?
00:40:06I definitely felt that I could have been
00:40:08the third victim
00:40:10I'm like oh my gosh
00:40:12I believe that the closer
00:40:14you are to Harold
00:40:16the more likely that he's going to harm
00:40:18or kill you
00:40:28Within days of Tony dying
00:40:30the park received a letter
00:40:32about Harold's first wife Lynn Henthorn
00:40:36Harold's first wife Lynn died
00:40:38when she was crushed under a car
00:40:40during a roadside tire change
00:40:42Authorities deemed it an accident
00:40:46But when his second wife Tony
00:40:48falls to her death in Rocky Mountain National Park
00:40:50investigators aren't convinced
00:40:52that fall is just another
00:40:54random accident
00:40:58A man having one wife die is tragic
00:41:00A man having two wives die is suspicious
00:41:04So we started questioning
00:41:06Did he have a mistress?
00:41:08Did he have another family somewhere?
00:41:12I've seriously thought
00:41:14that there may be somebody else
00:41:16involved in this
00:41:20At that point I had gotten
00:41:22cell records and one of the individuals
00:41:24that kept popping up in a cell record
00:41:26was Grace Rochelle
00:41:28So Grace Rochelle
00:41:30was Harold's former
00:41:32sister-in-law
00:41:34Lynn Rochelle, his first wife's
00:41:36brother's
00:41:38ex-wife
00:41:42Harold's relationship with Grace Rochelle
00:41:44and her four daughters
00:41:46starts off as totally understandable
00:41:48with Harold being
00:41:50a more doting uncle and
00:41:52brother-in-law than just about anybody
00:41:54you'd ever meet
00:41:56But Harold and Grace
00:41:58texted and called each other all the time
00:42:02We had to ask the question
00:42:04Was Grace Harold's lover?
00:42:08Is this why he killed Tony?
00:42:12They were very suspicious of me
00:42:18And I'm like, I am an open book
00:42:20and I will tell you
00:42:22everything I know
00:42:24I was not romantically involved
00:42:26with Harold
00:42:30In December of 2007
00:42:32my husband Kevin and I
00:42:34separated, so that was hard
00:42:36That was, that was difficult
00:42:38We went through bankruptcy
00:42:40foreclosure
00:42:42I was devastated
00:42:44I did not want my marriage to end
00:42:46I had no savings, no nothing
00:42:48at that point
00:42:50and I thought of my girls
00:42:54Harold saw, I believe
00:42:56an exact way to fit in
00:42:58and bond with four girls
00:43:00which was the fun
00:43:02goofy uncle
00:43:04Harold really
00:43:06began to step it up
00:43:08He's giving me all this mentoring
00:43:10budget advice
00:43:12and he says, Tony and I really
00:43:14we just want to help you
00:43:16Grace sat with us
00:43:18for five hours and talked with us
00:43:20We pretty quickly determined
00:43:22that she was not Harold's paramour
00:43:24Grace was concerned about
00:43:26her children's financial future
00:43:28and Harold said, I tell you what
00:43:30why don't you get in an insurance policy
00:43:32and we'll make the girls a beneficiary
00:43:34At first
00:43:36the insurance policy
00:43:38seemed like a gracious gift
00:43:40that I could accept
00:43:42because it was for my girls
00:43:44Yeah, there's that one
00:43:46This is one of the things he would do
00:43:48is like, you know, the fun uncle
00:43:50There's an odd sense of
00:43:52like we were the family
00:43:54that maybe Harold always wanted
00:43:56There's another Christmas one
00:43:58where he just looks like
00:44:00always looks like our dad
00:44:02So in about March of 2010
00:44:04the divorce was final
00:44:06and I'm going to move to Texas
00:44:08and Harold and I got into
00:44:10basically a big fight about it
00:44:12and Harold was trying to get us
00:44:14to come to Colorado
00:44:16He gets really mad at me
00:44:18He came back at me with
00:44:20after all I've spent
00:44:22investing in you
00:44:24and you're not grateful
00:44:30I saw him as being very
00:44:32controlling
00:44:34at a whole new level
00:44:36So I called his broker
00:44:38and I said
00:44:40I am not going through with this policy
00:44:42No way
00:44:44I'm done
00:44:46And then we dropped
00:44:48the bomb on her
00:44:50that Harold never canceled this policy
00:44:56The policy had Harold Henthorne
00:44:58as the primary beneficiary
00:45:00Her daughters weren't mentioned at all
00:45:02and the policy was $400,000
00:45:06I said that can't be possible
00:45:08I told him to cancel it
00:45:10That was done
00:45:12She said it's paid through
00:45:14till August of this year
00:45:18I was just shocked
00:45:20I definitely felt that
00:45:22I could have been the third victim
00:45:24I'm like
00:45:26Oh my gosh
00:45:28What have I done?
00:45:30How have I not seen through this guy?
00:45:32According to investigators
00:45:34it isn't just Grace Rochelle's insurance
00:45:36that is set up to benefit Harold
00:45:40You actually found a pattern of this
00:45:42Correct
00:45:44When we looked at Lynn's death
00:45:46we found there was $600,000
00:45:48that he received
00:45:50But then we saw
00:45:52over time that Harold
00:45:54had taken out several policies
00:45:56also on Tony
00:45:58that nobody seemed to know about
00:46:00The year that they're married
00:46:02he takes out a $1.5 million policy on Tony
00:46:04Then he takes out another
00:46:06$1.5 million policy in 2005
00:46:08In 2008
00:46:10takes out yet another
00:46:12$1.5 million
00:46:14So we're seeing this pattern of building up
00:46:16her net worth
00:46:18so to speak if she were to die
00:46:20At the time she died
00:46:22how much was she worth dead?
00:46:24She was worth dead $4.7 million
00:46:32This pattern with the insurance
00:46:34isn't the only one that stands out
00:46:36to investigators
00:46:38It looks to them like Harold
00:46:40set his sights on a very specific
00:46:42type of woman to marry
00:46:44Both women were
00:46:46described as extremely loving
00:46:48Christian women
00:46:50Successful, strong women
00:46:52At the time very controlled by Harold
00:46:54One of the things that
00:46:56Tony's personal experience with Christianity
00:46:58taught her was that women are to look
00:47:00to their husbands as the authority
00:47:02in a marriage
00:47:04That control is exactly what Harold
00:47:06was after
00:47:08Do you think he targeted Tony
00:47:10from the very beginning?
00:47:12Absolutely. I think that he was
00:47:14preying on
00:47:16and utilizing Christian ideals
00:47:18to manipulate
00:47:20people
00:47:22After Tony moved to
00:47:24Colorado, Harold started controlling
00:47:26her communication with the family
00:47:28When I would call out there
00:47:30he would answer the phone
00:47:32Did you see
00:47:34a change in your sister?
00:47:36When she moves to
00:47:38Colorado
00:47:40she's in the shadows
00:47:42and she's now a different person
00:47:44she's a trained person. She's almost like a
00:47:46beaten dog
00:47:48She started seeing things being
00:47:50taken from her
00:47:52one painful step at a time
00:47:54She dropped out of her choir that she loved
00:47:56She quit teaching Sunday school
00:47:58He had asked her to give that up
00:48:00because it was taking away
00:48:02from their marriage
00:48:04Who's next?
00:48:06Yeah
00:48:08Merry Christmas and a Merry Christmas
00:48:10from Denver, Colorado
00:48:12I later found out
00:48:14from the neighbors
00:48:16Her house was empty. She didn't smile
00:48:18It was kind of like a blank stare
00:48:24Tony's mother said this wasn't the first time
00:48:26something bad happened to Tony
00:48:28It looked like a freak accident
00:48:30Is it possible
00:48:32that Harold Tenthorne had tried
00:48:34but failed to kill
00:48:36Tony before?
00:48:46The Henthornes
00:48:48had a cabin
00:48:50up at Grand Lake
00:48:52They had been up at the cabin
00:48:54and it was late at night
00:48:56Nobody else is around
00:48:58Haley's already asleep
00:49:00and Harold
00:49:02for whatever reason wants to clean up
00:49:04outside, almost in the middle of the night
00:49:06It's a small
00:49:08one-story cabin
00:49:10with a fairly sizable deck
00:49:12that goes to a sloping area
00:49:14There's a broken light
00:49:16Harold was outside
00:49:18on the deck
00:49:20and he called Tony
00:49:22to come help him
00:49:24And she was bending over
00:49:26to pick it up
00:49:28And what happens next
00:49:30nobody really knows for sure
00:49:32Something hits her
00:49:34in the back of the neck
00:49:40Her story to the medic
00:49:42is that there was a broken light
00:49:44and she was picking up
00:49:46the broken light bulb
00:49:48when her husband threw a piece of wood
00:49:50over the deck
00:49:52It looked like a freak accident
00:49:54We found out later that
00:49:56Tony's actually crying
00:49:58in the ambulance on the way over
00:50:00And she said,
00:50:02what really happened to me?
00:50:04The final outcome
00:50:06was that she suffered damage
00:50:08to her cervical spine
00:50:10I really believe that was
00:50:12his first attempt at murder
00:50:14There's no police report, right?
00:50:16There's no crime
00:50:18As an investigator, you're looking at this,
00:50:20you're like, what else is he capable of?
00:50:22And that's what we really needed
00:50:24to dive into
00:50:28So we needed to do
00:50:30a presentation to the
00:50:32United States Attorney's Office
00:50:34to see who we could get assigned
00:50:36to the case
00:50:38It was around the time that we got assigned
00:50:40Sinead and Valeria
00:50:42And I said, look, you guys need to come up
00:50:44to Rocky Mountain National Park
00:50:46and see the scene
00:50:56So we hike up Deer Mountain
00:51:00and then we start going off-trail
00:51:04And they're like, wait a minute
00:51:06We just turned off at nowhere
00:51:08There was no indication
00:51:10that there was a spot to turn off
00:51:12His story that he told
00:51:14the Rangers is they went off
00:51:16to have some romantic time
00:51:18There's just no way
00:51:20We knew Tony Henthorn had bad knees
00:51:22It just didn't make sense
00:51:24And then we wander through the woods
00:51:26and then we get to the lunch spot
00:51:28And they had the aha moment
00:51:30They looked down
00:51:32that rocky slope and they said
00:51:34There's no reason for Harold and Tony
00:51:36to be here
00:51:38And as soon as Sunita and I saw the site
00:51:40we were totally on board with them
00:51:42and said, okay, we're in 100%
00:51:46What are we going to do to prove this case now?
00:51:54And so we realized
00:51:56we were going to have to do a search warrant
00:51:58for his house
00:52:04What Harold was was a pack rat
00:52:06and so every single piece of paper
00:52:08from the last 20 years was in there
00:52:10The boat, the cabin
00:52:12How much is in this account, that account?
00:52:14There were tax returns
00:52:16which were very interesting to us
00:52:18I'm a fundraising consultant
00:52:20I work with non-profits
00:52:22whether it be churches, schools, or hospitals
00:52:24Over the course of 20 years
00:52:26not only has he not
00:52:28set the world on fire
00:52:30But Harold
00:52:32made almost nothing for two decades
00:52:34Almost zero dollars
00:52:36He had
00:52:38posed for almost 20 years
00:52:40as somebody he's not
00:52:42and worked really hard at it
00:52:44I reached out
00:52:46to Special Agent Johnny Gruesing
00:52:48of the FBI and asked him
00:52:50if he would jump in
00:52:52and assist and work with Beth
00:52:54If Harold
00:52:56truly killed not only Tony
00:52:58but his first wife Lynn
00:53:00and we had him still running around in society
00:53:02we needed to act quickly
00:53:06What'd you see?
00:53:08Friends and family told us that
00:53:10once Tony had Haley
00:53:12it was almost like Tony was a third wheel
00:53:14in that family
00:53:16He had the person that he could control
00:53:18a thousand percent above any wife
00:53:20or anyone else in his life
00:53:22and that was his daughter
00:53:24So we all felt like
00:53:26we were dealing with a ticking time bomb
00:53:28It has some really eerie similarities
00:53:30The information that we
00:53:32did piece together from his childhood
00:53:34was little bits and pieces
00:53:36from friends that did speak with us
00:53:42My name is Myra Whitener
00:53:44and I went to junior high school
00:53:46high school with Harold
00:53:48We remained friends
00:53:50throughout our whole lives
00:53:52For all of us honestly
00:53:54he was obnoxious
00:53:56but you just kind of overlook that
00:53:58because he was so charming too
00:54:02Casting around for ideas
00:54:04of why Harold is who he is
00:54:06I think it all comes down to his dad
00:54:10He was an alcoholic
00:54:12He was violent
00:54:14It was bad
00:54:16That's one thing Harold always said
00:54:18I will never drink
00:54:20and I will never hit a woman
00:54:22he said
00:54:24which is why it's shocking
00:54:30Harold always wanted to have a family
00:54:32He wanted to be a family man
00:54:34If you're going to be a good predator
00:54:36if you're going to be a good wolf
00:54:38in sheep's clothing
00:54:40you have to look like a sheep
00:54:42Harold had to condition himself
00:54:44to show emotion
00:54:46And he's all about presentation
00:54:48He needed everybody to know
00:54:50how smart and how powerful
00:54:52and how rich he was
00:54:54He has lied to me about
00:54:56about everything
00:55:00He lied so much
00:55:02that he forgot who he lied to
00:55:06I think Harold is different
00:55:08than most people
00:55:10I think Harold is different
00:55:12than most psychopaths
00:55:14because he's not someone
00:55:16who's going to hurt a stranger
00:55:18he's fine to strangers
00:55:20but I believe that the closer
00:55:22you are to Harold
00:55:24the more likelihood
00:55:26that he's going to harm or kill you
00:55:28So at this point are you worried
00:55:30about Haley's safety?
00:55:32Yeah, we were very concerned
00:55:34about Haley
00:55:36He wasn't treating her
00:55:38in a very unhealthy way
00:55:40But it's Haley who is in control now
00:55:42and she's talking exclusively to 2020
00:55:44My name is Haley Berdele
00:55:46I'm ready now
00:55:48to tell the story
00:55:50that happened behind the scenes
00:56:00Haley Berdele
00:56:02was just 7 years old
00:56:04when her mother, Toni, died
00:56:06You've never told your story before
00:56:08I haven't
00:56:10She sat down with me to tell her story
00:56:12for the first time
00:56:14We love you
00:56:16We love you
00:56:18I remember my mom
00:56:20She was amazing
00:56:22She was so intelligent
00:56:24and so wise
00:56:26and eloquent
00:56:30We always watched movies together
00:56:32and we played together
00:56:34I remember her
00:56:36always being a warm and loving presence
00:56:38in my life
00:56:40I just really
00:56:42loved her
00:56:44When you think about
00:56:46what your house was like
00:56:48when you were little growing up
00:56:50do you have any memories
00:56:52of what the interactions
00:56:54between your mother
00:56:56and your biological father were like?
00:56:58Yes, all of the memories
00:57:00that I have of me and my mom
00:57:02I was always with him
00:57:04and she was separate
00:57:06He was always holding me
00:57:08and she was standing there
00:57:10The only times that I really got to experience
00:57:12my mom in her full capacity
00:57:14was when he was away
00:57:16All she ever wanted
00:57:18was a baby
00:57:20and when she finally got me
00:57:22she just was ecstatic
00:57:24and I think he wanted to
00:57:26squeeze her into a box
00:57:28not really let her
00:57:30be the mother that she wanted to be for me
00:57:38Do you remember
00:57:40your parents' anniversary
00:57:42that day that they went on that surprise trip?
00:57:48I was at a soccer game
00:57:50and I remember
00:57:52I was picked up by his friends
00:57:54and we went to their house
00:57:56and I definitely knew that something was wrong
00:57:58Everyone was acting so weird to me
00:58:00and I didn't know what was happening
00:58:02and after a while
00:58:04they took me to a park where I met up with Harold
00:58:06He sat me down
00:58:08and he told me that
00:58:10she had lost consciousness forever
00:58:12is how he put it to me
00:58:14and I just remember that moment
00:58:16it was horrible
00:58:20and right after he didn't want me to cry about it
00:58:22He told me not to cry
00:58:24He told me that people would be watching
00:58:26He told you not to cry?
00:58:28He told me not to cry about it, yes
00:58:30As we walked out of the park he wanted me to be fine
00:58:32I remember feeling shameful
00:58:34that I wasn't supposed to cry
00:58:36like something must be wrong with me if I do cry
00:58:38because Harold told me not to
00:58:46Did you realize at that point
00:58:48that your mother was dead?
00:58:50Yes, but
00:58:52for some reason I thought she was coming back
00:58:54because of the way he phrased it
00:58:56unconscious
00:58:58you know
00:59:00in my mind I thought that she might just
00:59:02be out there somewhere and maybe they hadn't found her yet
00:59:04and I'd pray at night
00:59:06that she would come back
00:59:08What was the point that you realized that
00:59:10that she was gone?
00:59:16We had one funeral in Colorado and one in Mississippi
00:59:18and that time was the time that I
00:59:20really felt like, you know
00:59:22oh man, she's really gone
00:59:28I know he told you you shouldn't cry
00:59:30but were there moments that you cried?
00:59:32I mean, when I usually was alone
00:59:36when he wasn't there
00:59:38it was just a lot
00:59:40and I didn't understand
00:59:42that it was okay
00:59:44to be emotional
00:59:46and it was okay to show that you're not okay
00:59:48I mean, I don't think anybody normal
00:59:50is okay
00:59:52after the passing of their mom
00:59:54and I certainly wasn't
00:59:58Did he ever talk about your mom
01:00:00after all of this happened?
01:00:02He never talked to me about her
01:00:04passing after that one conversation in the park
01:00:06We never spoke about her
01:00:10In the days, in the months after
01:00:12what was it like in your house
01:00:14just you and Harold?
01:00:17He definitely wanted to keep me
01:00:19acting normal
01:00:21like everything that we were up to
01:00:23was just as life was before
01:00:25except now my mom wasn't there
01:00:31I just want to show you this picture
01:00:33do you remember this?
01:00:35I don't remember taking this
01:00:37but it looks like this was right after the funeral
01:00:39It's interesting to look at for me
01:00:41just kind of like looking at your hands
01:00:44You look like you're clenching your fists
01:00:46Yeah, I mean that definitely could be
01:00:48some of the subconscious tension
01:00:50you know
01:00:52He's holding you in this picture
01:00:54Do you feel like he ever used you
01:00:56as like a prop?
01:00:58Oh, absolutely
01:01:00Absolutely, yes
01:01:02How often did he actually hold you like this?
01:01:04Not ever when we were alone
01:01:06I can't remember a time
01:01:08that he ever hugged me
01:01:10if it was not
01:01:13in public
01:01:15Really?
01:01:17Yeah, looking at that picture
01:01:19I can't imagine that that wasn't staged
01:01:21Did you feel like Harold was controlling you?
01:01:23Not in the moment, I mean I thought that was normal
01:01:25I thought that's what all parents did for their kids
01:01:27I couldn't get like food or snacks
01:01:29or water for myself
01:01:31without like asking for permission
01:01:35I couldn't play with my toys
01:01:37without asking for permission
01:01:39He had to be there when I was playing with my toys
01:01:41No, I couldn't leave my room
01:01:43And he had a baby monitor
01:01:45in my room
01:01:47watching me
01:01:49so he would know if I came
01:01:51downstairs to get anything
01:01:53before he said it was allowable
01:01:55When he did allow me to
01:01:57socialize with other girls
01:01:59my age
01:02:01it was always in a very strict setting
01:02:03where he could watch
01:02:05I never spent
01:02:07probably an hour without him
01:02:09during my day time
01:02:11if it was a Saturday or a Sunday
01:02:13Were you scared of Harold?
01:02:15Absolutely, and I thought that was normal
01:02:17to be scared of your parents too
01:02:19We were concerned
01:02:21that his relationship
01:02:23with Haley was almost
01:02:25to a point of obsession
01:02:27We thought, really, he's a danger
01:02:31We were literally
01:02:33on bated breath, what's he gonna do with her?
01:02:39So Harold knew that we were investigating him
01:02:41and he had told people
01:02:43that he had a bag packed
01:02:45for when he got arrested
01:02:47Two years after Tony died
01:02:49federal authorities finally have enough
01:02:51evidence to arrest Harold
01:02:53for her murder
01:02:55We needed to indict him
01:02:57pretty quickly
01:02:59Harold was starting to move money
01:03:01hundreds of thousands of dollars
01:03:03so that elevated our chances
01:03:05of arresting him
01:03:07We thought, really, he's a danger
01:03:09This man has killed
01:03:11supposedly two wives
01:03:13and the last thing we wanted
01:03:15was him going home to his child
01:03:17By now the Burleys say
01:03:19nine-year-old Haley is being isolated
01:03:21from the rest of her family
01:03:23and she's completely under Harold's control
01:03:25Our primary concern
01:03:27when we arrested Harold
01:03:29was that he was going to create
01:03:31some sort of hostage
01:03:33or dangerous situation with Haley
01:03:35if he knew his freedom was at risk
01:03:39So we had FBI agents
01:03:41watch his routine
01:03:43from when he woke up
01:03:45to when he took her to church school
01:03:47and then when he went back home
01:03:49so when we got the warrant
01:03:51we knew exactly what he was gonna do
01:03:53So you really did think she was in danger
01:03:55Yeah, we did
01:03:57A Highlands ranch man already being investigated
01:03:59for murdering his first wife
01:04:01arrested today accused of murdering his second wife
01:04:03Two years after her death
01:04:05her husband Harold is in federal custody
01:04:07charged with first degree murder
01:04:11The day that he got arrested
01:04:13I was at school and I remember that
01:04:15I got called down to the principal's office
01:04:17At that point
01:04:19my principal and the lady that worked in the office
01:04:21told me that my father
01:04:23had been arrested
01:04:25I just remember
01:04:27feeling just so cold
01:04:29and detached
01:04:31because I didn't know what was going on
01:04:33and I didn't know what was happening to me
01:04:35and at this point I thought
01:04:37there must have been some mistake
01:04:39because he would never do that, right?
01:04:41At a bond hearing the following week
01:04:43a judge denies Harold Bale
01:04:45declaring him a substantial flight risk
01:04:49I stayed with a lovely family
01:04:51called the Headaches
01:04:53and they helped me to see that
01:04:55he was not the person that I thought he was
01:04:57According to the indictment
01:04:59Bale willfully, deliberately, maliciously
01:05:01killed his wife, Toni
01:05:03Harold pleads not guilty
01:05:07Little did I know that in the background
01:05:09people were fighting for me
01:05:11from all over, from Mississippi, my family
01:05:13the Berthels were fighting for me
01:05:15Beth Schott, special agent
01:05:17was fighting for me
01:05:19The thing both family and investigators are most worried about
01:05:21a not guilty verdict
01:05:23would put Haley back in the hands of a man
01:05:25they are certain
01:05:27is a cold-blooded killer
01:05:31My superiors were wondering
01:05:33if we should strike some sort of deal
01:05:35with Harold ahead of time
01:05:37just because everybody's primary concern
01:05:39was Haley
01:05:41With Haley's safety weighing on them
01:05:43prosecutors begin building their case
01:05:45against Harold
01:05:51Harold turns out to be a not very nice person
01:05:53That doesn't mean you murdered your wife
01:05:55Toni was set to inherit a lot of money
01:05:57She was set for life
01:05:59She knew it, they knew it
01:06:01and certainly Harold knew it
01:06:03Toni Hanthorne got regular royalty checks
01:06:05from her family because they were in the oil industry
01:06:07These checks that Toni would get for oil and gas
01:06:09Harold would deposit them
01:06:11and at one point
01:06:13Toni's father found out
01:06:15that all of the oil and gas checks
01:06:17went into Harold's account
01:06:19and he confronted Toni with it
01:06:21He's like, why don't you have your own account?
01:06:23Why don't you separate your finances from Harold?
01:06:25And that spurred Toni
01:06:27to open up her own bank account
01:06:29and she actually took the next checks
01:06:31and she deposited them
01:06:33Harold was not on that account
01:06:35I thought to myself
01:06:37she's about to leave him
01:06:41Our theory is that
01:06:43Toni was starting to pull away from him
01:06:45and if Toni were to ever leave him
01:06:47it would be because
01:06:49if Toni were to ever leave him
01:06:51it would all come out
01:06:53financially that he didn't have a job
01:06:55that he had been lying
01:06:57and that he would probably lose custody
01:06:59of Haley
01:07:01and we think that that would have been
01:07:03absolutely unacceptable for Harold
01:07:05and we think that was the motivating factor to kill her then
01:07:07The money
01:07:09The money and control
01:07:11Motive started solidifying
01:07:13pretty quickly
01:07:15But prosecutors know
01:07:17more than motive
01:07:19They have to be able to convince 12 jurors
01:07:21that Toni's death was no accident
01:07:23that her fall was carefully
01:07:25planned and executed
01:07:29I had a big pile of cell tower information
01:07:31as well as call information
01:07:33and I gave that pile to Johnny
01:07:35I said, try to figure out where
01:07:37Harold was going on these business trips
01:07:41I think he had laid a trap for Toni
01:07:43and he was committed now
01:07:45to carrying that through
01:07:47He'd found a spot
01:07:49He'd found a spot
01:07:51Hello, my name is Harold Hipwood
01:07:53I'm in the Rocky Mountain National Park
01:07:55Okay
01:07:57My wife has fallen from a rock
01:08:01Beth Schott discovered
01:08:03a mountain of cell tower data
01:08:05linked to Harold's cell phone
01:08:07So when you're using your cell phone
01:08:09it is paying off
01:08:11It's paying off
01:08:13It's paying off
01:08:15It's paying off
01:08:17It's paying off
01:08:19So when you're using your cell phone
01:08:21it is paying off the local tower
01:08:23so we can find where your phone
01:08:25has been on given dates
01:08:27and times
01:08:29Once I saw him using that tower
01:08:31I'm like, that planning goes back
01:08:33over a month and a half before her death
01:08:35Everything else made sense from this
01:08:37because how Harold knew the location
01:08:39when he called 911
01:08:41how he had geo-coordinates
01:08:43how he would know he even had cell service there
01:08:45how he knew that there was a cliff there
01:08:47It started
01:08:49once Harold figured out Tony had opened up
01:08:51her own bank account
01:08:53On September 9th
01:08:55he spent from 10.30am
01:08:57to almost 9pm
01:08:59in the park, 11 hours
01:09:01up there
01:09:03I think this is when he found his spot
01:09:09On the way back is when he started
01:09:11calling Tony's eye clinic
01:09:13He started arranging everything
01:09:15After the anniversary trip
01:09:17After this trip
01:09:19He wanted an isolated spot
01:09:21where nobody would be there to save Tony
01:09:23And then here's where he starts
01:09:25making the calls to set everything in motion
01:09:29We had to
01:09:31strategize on
01:09:33what circumstantial evidence
01:09:35would be key to our investigation
01:09:37Why is it that
01:09:39circumstantial evidence is so
01:09:41tricky for jurors?
01:09:43People want direct evidence, right?
01:09:45They want to see that it's an absolute
01:09:47In a homicide case
01:09:49it's even harder
01:09:51to show a jury
01:09:53circumstantial evidence
01:09:55and have them come to the conclusion of
01:09:57homicide
01:09:59The planning that Harold put into this
01:10:01You're not going to have a smoking gun
01:10:03But that planning and premeditation
01:10:05points towards intent
01:10:07which points towards first degree homicide
01:10:09Harold
01:10:12He's a very well respected
01:10:14criminal defense attorney in town
01:10:16who has decades of experience
01:10:18I think Harold's lawyer strategy
01:10:20is to figure out
01:10:22what our case is
01:10:24and where he can poke holes in it
01:10:28One of the things that we did legally
01:10:30was to make a decision that we were going to
01:10:32try and use the 1995
01:10:34death of Lynn Henthorne in the case
01:10:36And in our case
01:10:38it was to show that this was not an accident
01:10:42To tie Lynn's death to Tony's death
01:10:44we needed to show that they were similar
01:10:46in a variety of ways
01:10:48Harold had a lot to gain financially
01:10:50because of the insurance money
01:10:52One is under a car
01:10:54in the middle of the night
01:10:58Tony was under a deck
01:11:00in the middle of the night
01:11:02when the beam fell on her head
01:11:04And then Tony was on
01:11:06the edge of a dangerous cliff
01:11:12We went to the pre-trial
01:11:14very concerned that
01:11:16the evidence was not going to be allowed in
01:11:18We were not proving
01:11:20that Lynn was murdered
01:11:22They could only use it
01:11:24for the limited purpose to show
01:11:26that it was not likely that
01:11:28Tony's death was an accident
01:11:30based on the similarities of Lynn's death
01:11:32The judge agreed that yes
01:11:34Lynn's death and the beam incident
01:11:36the similarities are too strong to be ignored
01:11:39We expect opening statements today
01:11:41in the trial against a Highlands ranch man
01:11:43accused of pushing his wife off of a cliff
01:11:45in Rocky Mountain National Park
01:11:47Three years after Tony died
01:11:49Harold Henthorne now sits in front of a jury
01:11:51of his peers who will decide
01:11:53based on the evidence
01:11:55did she fall or did he push her
01:11:57off that cliff
01:11:59You know this is it
01:12:01There's no go backs
01:12:03We knew we needed to start strong
01:12:06We showed the autopsy photos
01:12:08of Tony because
01:12:10he never mentions
01:12:12she's got a massive head wound
01:12:14and that she's bleeding out profusely
01:12:16And so we wanted to ensure
01:12:18that the jury understood
01:12:20that there's no way he could mistake
01:12:22the injuries
01:12:24So Harold's lawyer recognized
01:12:26that you couldn't explain away
01:12:28the fact that he had been
01:12:30pushed off the cliff
01:12:32He couldn't explain away all of Henthorne's quirks
01:12:34He sort of embraced him
01:12:36and said sure he might be quirky
01:12:38but that doesn't make him a murderer
01:12:41Truman's strategy in general
01:12:43was to try to make Lynn's death seem very innocent
01:12:45Law enforcement closed the case
01:12:47within a week so
01:12:49this is a big nothing
01:12:51He kept saying no need to look at this again
01:12:53This poor man
01:12:55has lost two wives
01:12:57how heartbreaking could that be
01:12:59Harold, he's smiling at his friends
01:13:01and he, enough of a narcissist
01:13:03that it's all about him
01:13:09Because we couldn't bring the jury to the scene
01:13:11we instead brought the scene to them
01:13:13What I think had a big impact
01:13:15on the jurors was having
01:13:17about two or three park rangers
01:13:19talk them through how difficult
01:13:21it was to get up there
01:13:23and then how dangerous it was to be there
01:13:26We're looking at the jurors' faces
01:13:28and they had the aha moment
01:13:33So prosecutors rest their case
01:13:35Now it's the defense's turn
01:13:37to argue for Harold's innocence
01:13:42Craig Truman didn't bring in any witnesses
01:13:44He just cross-examined
01:13:48The prosecution gets two closes
01:13:50I don't know what to do
01:13:52I don't know what to do
01:13:55I did the first close and Valeria did what's called
01:13:57a rebuttal
01:13:59I will never forget Senita saying
01:14:01this is the man that is supposed to
01:14:03guard and protect
01:14:05his wife
01:14:07and the last thing that
01:14:09Tony ever had going through her mind
01:14:11was him pushing her off
01:14:15In closing arguments, defense attorney Craig Truman
01:14:17says the government has not met their burden
01:14:19They have not proven
01:14:21that Tony was murdered
01:14:24Truman really hammered home that you can't
01:14:26tell the difference between a fall from a push
01:14:28So after closing arguments
01:14:30the case goes to the jury
01:14:32I felt like we made the case
01:14:34but there's still a lot of anticipation
01:14:36a lot of
01:14:38oh my gosh, I don't know
01:14:40You sit down and you think
01:14:42I hope we did it
01:14:44It's a lot tougher than you think
01:14:46to get a jury to agree
01:14:54And developing right now
01:14:56the fate of Harold Henthorne
01:14:58is now in the hands of the jury
01:15:00You're always nervous
01:15:02about what 12 people are thinking
01:15:04You just don't know
01:15:08The judge reads the verdict
01:15:10In the matter of the United States
01:15:12versus Harold Henthorne
01:15:14We the jury find the defendant
01:15:16guilty
01:15:19There was like audible whoops of joy
01:15:21that came out of the courtroom
01:15:29I was just so, so happy
01:15:35Just elation
01:15:39All of this is to get justice for Tony
01:15:41justice for Haley
01:15:43and justice for Harold Henthorne
01:15:46Justice for Tony
01:15:48Justice for Haley
01:15:50And it's a really, really satisfying moment
01:15:58The sentence was life in prison
01:16:00without the possibility of parole
01:16:02Harold Henthorne was not charged
01:16:04in connection with Lynn's death
01:16:06The Douglas County Sheriff's Office
01:16:08says that case is considered closed
01:16:10I believe that putting Harold
01:16:12in a position
01:16:14where he cannot control anything
01:16:16is great punishment for Harold
01:16:18He robbed Haley of a mother
01:16:30That day was a really good day
01:16:32because I knew I'd be going to live
01:16:34with my aunt and uncle
01:16:36My brother and sister-in-law
01:16:38adopted Haley
01:16:40At that point I felt like
01:16:42I belonged with them in Mississippi
01:16:46When Haley came to us
01:16:48she was almost afraid to do anything
01:16:50without permission
01:16:52so it took her a while to figure that out
01:16:54but it didn't take her long at all
01:16:56to, I think, attach
01:16:58you know, I think she was hungry
01:17:00for a loving parent
01:17:04Have you spoken to Harold at all?
01:17:06Nope, not at all
01:17:08and I don't regret that decision
01:17:10Were you worried yourself
01:17:12at any point that maybe there's
01:17:14a part of him that's in me?
01:17:16Maybe, but ultimately
01:17:18no, because I know
01:17:20that I'm saved by Jesus Christ
01:17:22and that my personality comes
01:17:24from my mom
01:17:28I'm just like her
01:17:30and I know that no part of him is in me
01:17:34She is a mirror image of her mama
01:17:36I do dye my hair blonde, but
01:17:38I think that me and her
01:17:40and pictures that I see of me now
01:17:42you know, I feel like I look so much like her
01:17:44and I think that
01:17:46choosing every day
01:17:50to forgive Harold for what he did
01:17:54not for his sake
01:17:56but for mine, so that I know
01:17:58that I'm freed
01:18:00from him, from his control
01:18:02that I'm my own person
01:18:04and that I'm grounded to do
01:18:06whatever I want to
01:18:08outside of his control
01:18:10It's so crazy
01:18:12to hear you say those words
01:18:14Do you forgive him?
01:18:16I do, yeah
01:18:18Haley gives herself the gift of forgiveness
01:18:20and so she can lead
01:18:22the life that Tony wants her to have
01:18:24because if she doesn't forgive him
01:18:26he still controls her
01:18:28in her heart
01:18:31Is there ever
01:18:33things that you wish you could say to your mom?
01:18:35All the time, but I think
01:18:37that she is here with me
01:18:39Being who I am
01:18:41is not something that came
01:18:43from easiness
01:18:45you know, I had to go through something
01:18:47terrible to become as powerful
01:18:49as I am today
01:18:51I want to use my story to good
01:18:53because I know that
01:18:55my story is similar
01:18:57to what happens to a lot of people
01:18:59and I want them to know that
01:19:01regardless of what they've been through
01:19:03there's always a way
01:19:05out of the darkness
01:19:08In everything that I am
01:19:10everything that I do
01:19:12I want to do for the glory of God
01:19:14and for the legacy of my mom
01:19:21What an amazing, resilient young woman
01:19:23Haley is now a sophomore in college
01:19:25She's actually majoring in nuclear engineering
01:19:27Quite impressive David
01:19:29As for Harold Henthorne
01:19:31he's now exhausted all of his appeals
01:19:33Thanks so much for watching tonight
01:19:35I'm Debra Roberts
01:19:37I'm David Muir
01:19:39from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News
01:19:41Good night
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