so tom hanks it is. and look at the time. that is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. thank you for being here with us, have a good weekend unless you have other plans and be careful out there please, on behalf of all of our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. goodnight. here is this woman smiling, about to take her out for her anniversary. there is nothing you can see from those photos, that would even begin to suggest how would all end? one it's chilling. >> she was a beloved doctor, an amazing mom. sunday school teacher. she had given so much love to others. finally, she found it for herself. a handsome widow were touched by tragedy. >> my heart went out for them. >> now, she in the doctor were bound for adventure. a surprise weekend away.

>> i was excited for her. >> a romantic hike to a mountain spot, the scenery was breathtaking. the danger was to. >> my wife has fallen from iraq. >> an accidental fall, and she was gone. >> i remember going, what's? >> my heart sank, i fell to my knees. >> so why did it seem so suspicious? >> there is something going on here. >> his first wife died, this is not an accident. >> two wives, two deaths, two mysteries. >> nobody saw her push tony off that cliff. why would he? >> gosh, horrible, cruel. i was broken. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ my name is harry kaye, and i am

in fourth grade. once had an end name tony, they lived a few states apart but we're never more than -- marion tony, how are you? i have no homework, we had a little prayer, eight days till christmas? i'm excited, i love you, mary kate. >> she still writes her letters, even though tony can no longer respond. >> are you enjoying it in heaven? i miss you very much. i read a book about heaven, love your knees, it -- mary k was seven when her and died. it was sudden, scary and heartbreaking. so she took out an old shoe box, decorated it, and filled it with thoughts of ants toni. >> now she's dead, i cannot see her again, and our lives will never be the same again. >> the ripple effect of toni's

death was huge. she was very respected doctor, on ophthalmologist, a thriving practice she had in jackson mississippi. she was a mother, who sang in her church choir, a wife to a man named harold, and an older sister to -- this story is about toni and what happened to her white one bright sunny day up in the mountains. >> it's also about how secrets, long buried, sometimes out stay that way. >> where did toni fit into your family? >> she was the middle between two brothers. sometimes she thought that was an advantage in sometimes she thought it was a disadvantage. being the only girl, with two brothers. obviously, we are not going to

sit down and play barbies with her. [laughs] we needed the extra wide receiver, the backyard football game, and she had a -- i wouldn't say she was a tomboy, but she was a great athlete. she can do anything she put her mind to. >> toni grew up with her two brothers around mississippi, the epitome of the old south. she was ambitious, academically and athletically. and yet -- >> did tony embrace the hair in the makeup? the things you would think of from a southern belle? >> it's southern dresses, four football games. -- no sweatpants? >> no, she would never go out in public and sweatpants. never. >> tony did have one flaw when it came to being a bell. >> when i first got to college, she felt i was a bit too skinny,

and need to bulk up a little bit. so she said she would come over and cook some fried chicken. >> mississippi is the place to be for that. >> mississippi, and every southern lady would be able to cook southern fried chicken. little did you know, when you took it out of the freezer, you would have to let it thaw. >> frozen fried chicken aside, tony was someone who set goals and made them happen. after college she went to medical school, and in 1988, graduated in the top 10% of her class. then she settled into a new practice and new marriage with a young dentist. but the women who could do it all couldn't say their relationship that wasn't working. she tried, but after seven years, the marriage ended. >> i don't think my sister took way home. i think that was a disappointing time in her life. todd's wife rhonda remembers how toni continue to try that work, but her love life stalled. >> there was a time issue there,

she didn't have a lot of time to probably go places to me guys. she went to church and she went to her job. to be honest, i really don't think that there was a very good picking possibly. >> and the clock was ticking, when it came to starting a family. so in her late thirties, tony turn to a place many due to find a mate. the internet. she told a kristen dating site, finding a man who shared her faith was very important to her. she did not tell her little brother or his wife rhonda right away about her online adventure. but she shared her secret with her friend allison talley. >> did you give you updates. >> i didn't really ask. but i did know that she had met a couple of guys. >> then toni met the one. >> she made a guy, a little bit older than her, incredibly charming, extended a hand immediately, well dressed and

polished. well spoken. very professional looking. >> his name was harold henthorn. he worked as a consultant to nonprofits, he didn't smoke, rarely drank and said he was a planner. eventually, harold flew out to jackson, and with them being methodical types, they developed a formula for a lasting love. >> they came up with a system for compatibility, and it was five seas. i don't remember what they all were, christianity was one of them, -- >> chemistry, maybe. >> when they met for the first time, they would know that the chemistry was there, they confirmed four out of the five before their first meeting. >> so when they met it was kim combustion? toni ticked off the 5 cs. >> first impression she.

she's way more vocal, she's quiet, i thought this was great for her. it gets her out of her shell and -- harold was a widower and told the family that he had waited a long time for love. >> his wife died in a car accident. >> my wife heart went out to him. >> he said that he had been lonely. >> harold's friend had been best friends with harold's first wife. >> he didn't tell me a lot about his first wife but he did tell me that he really liked her. >> after lynn died, harold and her remained close. now he wanted him to meet the new woman in her's life. >> i felt like i couldn't talk about limb anymore. but i was happy that he had moved on. and i felt like it was time, and that he was starting a new

life. so now, harold, the planner, as he had said in his dating profile, was ready. on valentine's day, 2000, he set out to orchestrate the perfect proposal. >> he really studied jackson, to find the perfect place to proposal. -- how excited was she? it was a nice ring, she's very happy. it seemed like it was all coming together. it seemed like it was all coming together and that she was very happy. s alon september 30th, 2000, les than a year after they had met in person, tony and harold married in a big church wedding. >> she looked fantastic, happy, glowing. >> it was a lovely day, it was beautiful. >> it looked like the first day of the rest of her life. >> the future was bright. >> her career was her focus for so long, and harold promised

something different. >> i'm wealthy, marry me, i can take you away from your career. working all the time. and allow you to be the mother, which is the main thing that she wanted to be. >> her knight in shining armor? >> that's it. >> but it's amazing how life has a way of intruding on fairytales. >> coming up, what's going on? >> we're going away for the weekend. >> a whirlwind escape to the mountains. she couldn't say no, she had it all worked out. >> it seemed tony's doubtful husband had planned everything. almost. >> i need a mound rescue team immediately. >> when dateline continues. hen dateline continues don't get me wrong, i love my rv, but insuring it is such a hassle. same with my boat. the insurance bills are through the roof. -[ sighs ] -be cool. i wish i could group my insurance stuff. -[ coughs ] bundle. -the house, the car, the rv. like a cluster. an insurance cluster.

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it turned out to be difficult. for the first two years of their marriage, their careers kept them apart. tony in mississippi. harold, in colorado. and when tony was finally able to move west to be with harold, they suffered a lot of fertility issues and had miscarriages. it's a sadness to her. back in mississippi, tony's brother todd and sister in law rhonda were also struggling to have a baby. but after years of disappointment for both couples, all their prayers were answered. >> we both ended up pregnant at the same time. >> that must of been a very happy time considering what you went through to get there. >> exactly. >> and all of a sudden, good news here, good news there. get ready because you are going to have a house full. >> in june of 2005, tony and harold welcomed their baby girl, haley. by then, todd and wanda had already had an in kate. when the girls were a little

over a year old, they came to mississippi and the new cousins got to meet. >> it was a very happy occasion, and i have to remember tony just being so happy, to have haley, so. so is harold. well >> and although tony had always wanted to be a mom, it was pretty clear harold was mr. mom. >> he was the one in charge. the diaper change. most women have to beg their husbands to do that kind of stuff, he was like a nanny. >> hands on dad? >> yeah. he was in charge of everything about the child. >> with harold such a doting father, tony was able to go back to work. she soon built a thriving practice in colorado. >> she was a beloved doctor, she had a bedside manner. >> i abbruscato manage the practice. >> 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 fashion southern hospitality. >> tammy saw how tierney was committed to her patients. sometimes it is hard to get her to leave the office. so she was charmed when one day in september harold asked for her help. >> you got a phone call out of the blue from herald. >> he has he found and said, hey tammy i want to surprise tony for her anniversary, can you help me out? >> it was their 12th wedding anniversary. harold wanted to celebrate with a surprise trip to one of colorado's when there's, rocky mountain national park. >> so are being sneaky in all of this? >> i am. we had all of her husband's to call and do something fun like that. so i made her schedule so that she could be done and out of the office by 3:00. but it looks like she would be till five. >> the big day was some september 28th, 2012. he came into the office and the other girls thought it would be

fun to really surprise her. so they put him in an exam room. >> a colleague shot this cell phone video. >> so she picks up the charred and walks in the room as she normally would and there is her husband. and she is like, what's going on? and he says, you know, we're going away for the weekend, happy anniversary! and she is like no no no i can do that. and he says you can. tammy fix the schedule so you're able to leave. >> this was well orchestrated. >> yes it was. >> this anniversary plan. >> yes harold thought of everything. he hired babysitters for haley he even packed tony's clothes. >> she couldn't say no. she just -- he had it all worked out, so off they went. >> harold, the consummate planner, had pulled it off. now, the perfect anniversary weekend could begin. the couple left denver on a friday afternoon and headed north. harold booked a room at the

stanley, a historic, beautiful hotel in the park. famous for inspiring stephen kings the shining. he scheduled an early dinner so they could turn in early. it was a romantic weekend, after all. then, saturday afternoon, they set out for rocky mountain national park to go on a hiking trail that he scouted out a few months earlier. but just about 24 hours in, the perfect weekend turned tragic. >> 9-1-1 what's your emergency? >> hello my name is harold, i'm in the rocky mountains part -- i need >> it was just before six, and harold needed help. urgently. >> where at the summit of deer mountain. i'm at the deer mountain trail. she's in really critical condition. >> harold told the 9-1-1 operator that tony had fallen from the edge of a cliff. >> can you get my location

first, ever really bad feeling about. this opium on deer mountain. >> immediately, the park launched a ranger who is also a trained emt, but the only way to get there from the trail head was on foot, and that would take hours. >> is she conscious and? breathing >> no she's not. she's not been conscious. she is breathing. >> harold, desperate, pleaded for a rescue helicopter. >> i will pay all expenses for a helicopter. i don't care if it's private or commercial. i'll pay all of the expenses right now. please get a paramedic right here. >> the operator tried to explain that no aircraft could do what harold was asking, not at that altitude. over that terrain. >> we can't, like, drop somebody out of the helicopter. >> from a ten-foot rope? >> no that's, it's not been done in my experience. >> harold knew tony situation was grave. >> she needs to get out of here. she needs to get to the hospital. >> harold didn't stay on with the 9-1-1 operator. he hung up because he was worried his cell phone battery

my die. then, at 6:16, he texted tony's older brother berry, a cardiologist in mississippi, berry, urgent, tony's are injured, fell from, rock critical, requested, flight for life. emt ranges on way, will be dark when arrive. pray. todd got a call from his brother barry. barry said that tony had been in an accident and that he was being texted the vital signs and didn't look good. he said, i don't think she's gonna make. it back on the mountain, the rescuers were having trouble finding the hen thorns. >> they're asking -- to see if they can't see you. >> is anyone your use? or >> no. the henthorn's war alone and time was running out. the sun was setting so harold lit a fire. >> i started to make a small fire, in completely and closed rock and closure with wet moss

on it, thanking you can see the smoke. >> now in the dark, the henthorn were's off the grid and just still waiting. just after seven, an hour after howard's first call to 9-1-1, an operator called him back to talk him through cpr. >> hi harold this is julie, from the police department. they tell me you need is some assistance to do some cpr. is she awake? >> no. unconscious. >> okay i'm -- is she breathing? >> breathing has gone from 10 to 5 to nothing, to zero. >> what i'm going to do now, i'm going to count for you as you go through the breaths. i have my computer on and we can count so we can make sure we're getting that blood flow. >> but harold said that he wanted to keep the line free. >> okay. >> the range is about to find me. >> okay i will let you go, call 9-1-1 anytime when you get me okay? >> harold continue to text tony's brother with details, none were. good >> can't fund pulse.

he texted a friend asking if he could drive up to mountain deer national park to find him. he called dispatch. >> there is a ranger in the area he's trying to use -- >> thanks a lot. >> he texted berry again, cpr, help ten minutes out. finally, 8:09 pm, more than two hours after harold called 9-1-1, the ranger arrived, preparing for a rescue. but there was no rescue to be made. coming up, i just said is she okay? and i fell to my knees. >> exactly what had happened up there on the mountain? when dateline continues. dateline continues.

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perfect weekend in the rockies, but the tragedy struck during a hike. the toni henthorn tumbling off the edge of a cliff. her husband texted her family to horrible words, she's gone. >> i had never seen my dad cry, never. and i would say for probably the next two weeks. it was constant. >> all the time. >> she was his little girl. >> i can tell you it doesn't matter what age they are. a parent can never accepted.

>> tony's friends at work could not believe it either. >> i got a call, from christina in our office. and all she said was that toni fell. >> what did you think when that she fell? >> i said, is she okay? >> they said, no she died. >> i fell to my knees. >> my husband said, what's going on? >> and i said, doctor fell henthorn off a cliff. >> everyone was worried. for most of all, there are seven year old all their, haley. >> the moment that she knew this is it, i put myself in her shoes, i know her thoughts were of haley. >> about 150 people die of national parks in national parks each year. in rocky mountain national park, the leading cause is falling. >> before i wrote this park, i

did not know that the national park had investigators. >> investigative journalist michael fleeman -- was don't feed the bears. but there is more to it. every death in our national parks investigated. in toni case, the same empty that came to investigate save her, now served as a cop. >> people work different arms of the park service. the guy who came out there in the middle of the night, and tried to save tony's life, and tried to get their old off the mountain, the next day became an investigator. >> the ranger set out to learn everything he could about harold and toni. harold told him the couple had set out at 1:45 on the deer mountain trail, as part of their anniversary weekend. >> you can see in this photo that the --

hikers call it a moderate hike. but these are hikers who are scaling the sides of mountains. tony and harold kept at it. following the trail as snaked up around the mountain, to a point where flattened out. >> it was a beautiful fall day here in the rockies, much like this. harold said he and toni wanted to be alone. it was the anniversary after all,. so right here, they got off the trail and headed into the woods. >> most people stay on the trails in national parks, that's what's the park service wants it to be able to. >> although tony was a lifelong -- if the hike was tough for her, it probably seemed worth it when the trees opened up to this. around 3:30 tony and harold a lunch right here, with this amazing view as their backdrop. once they finished eating lunch,

they continue into the country. she is shown in this photo given -- >> harold told arranger the ridge where they had lunch wasn't private enough, so they climbed down these rocks looking for another spot. at this point they were several hours into their hike without much daylight left. and how much time to keep a 7 pm dinner reservation. they ended up on a small fly area, with steep drops all around. it's where this picture was taken at 5 pm. it's one of the last pictures on tony's camera. >> rangers believe tony fell from right here, 128 feet down. this is a spot that most people would be too nervous to approach without the proper safety gear. but harold said that was toni trying to capture the perfect

picture of some wild turkeys and apparently got too close to the edge. >> harold said that by the time he got down, was toni not talking. she was barely breathing and lying in an awkward position. he told the ranger he pulled her to another area, and then made the first call to 9-1-1. >> i need now find miscue team emergency immediately. >> but there never was a rescue, what toni too soon. her friend allison says that their focus in the early days was -- there was no shortage of people they're trying to help, and be in the home. we talked him several times, and every conversation had that element in it, of how wonderful all of his friends and his church family were being to him. >> within a day of tony's death, harold reached out to someone who had always been there for him, kim law farrier.

>> i got a text and 7:30, tony fell, my bride is gone. i remember looking at this going, what's? and i ran upstairs, my husband was asleep. and i said tony's gone. kim found the tragedy almost unimaginable. >> remember, she had known harold for decades, and head been best friends with his first wife lynn, who died 17 years earlier. >> i felt so sad, i felt like i could not believe that tony was gone. i just felt like i wished i could have changed it, i wish i could have brought her back. but soon, for some people, sorrow would be coupled with another feeling, suspicion. >> coming up. my husband said we cannot let this go. please investigate this. when dateline continues. >>when dateline continues. >>when dateline continues. >> called tardive dyskinesia - td.

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struggling with infertility. >> when she was losing the baby, he was he very supportive? >> i asked her how this was going, if this had to be incredible stressful. and she said, her exact, comments all never forget these words. she said life with herald is hard. >> brother todd and sister rhonda all the fog back on how difficult it was to get tony on the phone without harold listening in. >> you called her some cell phone, number when you called his cell phone, number. he >> he answered? >> when we spoke to her, it was never just her, it was her and him in the background. >> she recalled how howard with him into tony's office and like he owned the place and how in his presence, tony this self doctor, pam melted away. >> did that make you kind of? sad >> that made me very sad

and that's when i really thought, things are not right. >> tammy says that even though tony seemed to adore her daughter haley, she often gave up mommy time, staying late at the office instead. >> we would be gone, patients, gone staff, gone and she would still be on her computer. but it wasn't work related, it was playing games, so we thought that is 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. yet >> if there was trouble in the marriage, what toni never said so directly, never to, france never directly. what tom and rhonda were worried that they would say too much. >> he would control his -- his parents, her conversation that they weren't meant here, that he held divorce overhead. i'll divorce you.

>> you won't see haley, and that kind of thing. >> that's probably the one thing that cut the deepest? not being able to see her daughter. >> exactly. >> and then there was a very strange episode that occurred a year before toni's death at a cabin that she and harold owned. >> did you tell you about the incident of the be at the cabin? >> but heralded, he made a joke that he almost killed toni at the cabin. and he made a joke about it. >> it happened around 10 pm, toni despite the late hour was under the deck. >> she said she was cleaning underneath the deck and harold was walking across, and as he walked across, be came loose and fell directly on the back of her head. >> toni had to be hospitalized. she came back to work bruised and bandaged. >> did she seem rattled by it, did a change or at all? >> she just seemed depressed, but people get depressed when

they're hurt. >> toni the's family look back on that incident and wonder. >> are you starting to think that the been falling was not an accident? >> i think that had we been there at the time maybe not admitting it but enough to say there is something going on there. >> after the cabin incident, toni police's mother said that she didn't think she should be alone with harold. >> what's interesting about it, when my mother had that conversation with my sister, my sister did try to correct my mother. she said, okay. which, i think her silence probably spoke a little more. >> almost like, she knew? >> i think she knew probably it wasn't an accident. >> and dow toni had accidentally fallen off a cliff. >> it was as if the moment people within their circle heard about toni police's death, they all instantly suspected

something was wrong. >> my husband said, we can't let this go. so he called the park rangers and said we are close with toni, we have suspicions, please investigate this. please, he begged them. >> i felt immediately, upon hearing the news, that we had to find out exactly what had happened a and that it had to be her voice. because the only story we're gonna get was going to be his story. >> but they all soon discovered even getting harold story was not easy. >> did you ask harold, tell me what happened? >> several times. i said, what happened herald? and he blew me off. >> when harold came to mississippi for a toni's memorial service, her family thought that he was more interested in watching a football game then talking about toni a's last day on earth. >> he told us that day that he wanted to sit down and talk.

and he brushed it off and he said that he wanted to watch the game, at halftime will talk. >> rhonda can believe which was herring. >> i said no, that's not gonna have, and it's gonna be longer than that. we were not letting him off for ten minutes. >> a rock longer that they would have to cross many miles and many years to get the whole truth. >> coming up, a revealing trip to the scene. halting steps and haunting questions. >> would you recommend somebody who is not an expert come down? >> definitely not. >> what about a woman with bad knees in her 50s? >> absolutely. not >> when dateline continues. teline continues [swords clashing] - had enough? - no... arthritis. here. new aspercreme arthritis.

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henthorn fell to her death in rocky mountain national park, her husband harold sent out a christmas card. a photo of him and his daughter hiking in the forest. the inscription, we appreciate your prayer for us as we walk through this difficult time. now, many people saw these sentiments less heartfelt and more as a cover-up. >> did people see harold as the husband in mourning? who had been through a horrible tragedy? >> i mean, that is what was so odd. we never saw any emotion. the only time he cried was when he got the phone call that my

sister's death certificate was going to say pending. and he was more angry than anything else. >> friends and family were suspicious of harold, for many reasons. including, that he could not seem to get his story straight about what happened to tony. the night she died, john harold told her older brother on the phone that tony lagged behind on the trail, and he lost sight of her, until he saw her on the cliff. later, however, he added several new details. tony was taking a picture, and he had gotten and received a text that said haley was playing in a soccer game, and it was a picture of haley playing soccer. and when he looked up, my sister was gone. and she had fallen off the cliff. harold told many people that

were she was taking pictures of wild turkeys. >> harold told the ranger that tony was taking a picture of him. >> harold gave many different stories. where the stories will diverge is what was happening when she went off the cliff? was he on his cell phone? was she taking a picture of him? >> friends and family were not the only ones comparing notes and clues. because tony died in a national park, the fbi joined the investigation. the more they looked at what happened, the more reasons they found for concern, starting with the trail itself. >> this is not an easy dissent. people who knew tony could not understand why a woman who had bad knee since high school would even risk it. >> dateline retraced their path with the help of this hiking

guide who often works in rocky mountain national park. >> -- is this path well traveled? do a lot of people come down here? >> no, this path is way out of the way for a recreational hiker, to be having fun and mountains. >> would you recommend it for someone who is not an expert rock climber or hiker? >> definitely not. this is a place that is loose, hi classification of how we rate the terrain, this takes a lot of technical ability and sure footing. this is how i look at that. >> what about a woman in her 50s with bad knees? >> absolutely not. >> investigators also looked closely at harold story, after tony fell. remember, he said it took a lot of time to get down the mountain to his wife side. and surely enough, nearly an hour elapsed between the last photos on tone on his camera, and the new call to 9-1-1?

i >> but here's the problem. when investigators retraced harold steps, it took just a few minutes to get from where she fell to where she landed. then, there was harold statement that before calling for help, he had to move tony to flatter ground so he could do cpr. but the ground wasn't flat at all. the first one ranger wondered why i harold placed the head below the body. usually, when elevates the head. >> if this had been normal, this was just the guy who freaked out, and made some bad decisions, i mean, you have to give some people leeway. >> but everything else was not normal. for example, harold cut his call to 9-1-1 short because he said his phone was dying. yeah, when the fbi examined his

phone records, they found that over six hours, over the six hours, harold made or received 122 calls and made 98 text messages. >> he's texting his brother a lot, he's texting his friends, he's on the phone different agencies. when was he actually performing cpr on her? >> the first ranger to arrive on the scene wondered the same thing. >> harold is standing there, not doing much of anything, i think he has a fire going. and the ranger shows up, and suddenly harold zips over and starts performing cpr on is now dead wife? >> remember a 9-1-1 operator head coached herald on cpr, but the ranger noticed there were no signs of mouth to mouth resuscitation, her lipstick was not's neared, for example. >> we do the best we can, but even factoring in all of that,

heralds behavior was extremely suspicious. perhaps most suspicious of all? a clue from herald cell phone records that he may have been on that mountain before, in the weeks just prior to tony then and her death. things from his cell phone records, show him traveling to the national park many times, something he did not tell investigators. >> when harold told investigators that they came for the spot for the views, and they are remarkable. but they're not that much more remarkable than other spots. he had come to this park, it turned out, at least nine times. they started to believe he was on a scouting mission for the perfect location, lord tony to this dangerous location, and then a deadly push. if that sounds chilling, there is something else to consider. >> after tony died, within

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her name was lynn. kim met her at a camp. >> when i first met her she jumped on one of the banks and she asked me, tell me who you like here? >> we are talking about boys? >> and i was thinking, who is this wild woman? >> lynn was funny and fiery and full of life. kim knew that she liked lynn right away. but it was their shared spirituality that cemented their friendship. >> we were both into serving god and she just drew you, and she wanted to pray for, you show need to know what you needed. >> lynn was already out of college and working. kim was still in school. but they shape prayed and secrets. she told him what she wanted in an. man >> a christian husband, someone who loved the lord, who is a leader and strong. yet gentle. and we talked about, it if i started dating someone, or is she, did and we had a check and --

we talked about it. >> did you have to prove? >> yes i did. >> after all that girl talk about boys, i lynn found a man that she did approve of. a man who she found in college. his name, harold henthorn but. >> she said there was this guy, we went to school together. >> was he charming? >> very charming. he was always bigger than life, always laughing, always the center of attention. >> sun kim heard the big news from lynn, harold proposed. well harold and lynn married on september 11th 1982. kim was happy for her friend, but she would seize something and herald that would give her pause. was it just a run for the but -- >> you would say that even on the wedding day i? >> you move from one plans to another.

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she put her concerns aside. lynn and harold started their new life together in colorado where he had a job as a geologist. lynn got a job as a social worker. kim was happy for lynn, of course, but she also felt like her friend was slipping away. maybe it was the distance, maybe it was her commitment to her marriage, but just like it would be with toni years later, kim could never seem to get lynn on the phone without harold listening in. >> 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? and he would always say, "hey, kimmy." >> kim couldn't even get alone time with lynn when she went to visit her in colorado. >> he was always with us. and he was always involved in every conversation. and we were never allowed to be alone even if we were together. 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. >> that's got to start to get on

your nerves? >> 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. i want to know who this, you know, crazy woman is she loves. >> 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. >> she called me and said, i can't come. and i said why? can you tell me why? and she said, i need to honor my husband. and that's all she would say. >> kim thought lynn was okay doing what harold said because she believed that was her role as the perfect christian wife. >> there was some auto the fact that she really 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. >> as the years went on, lynn

and kim spoke less and less frequently. 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. and as true friends do, the two women picked up right where they left off. >> we talked and we laughed. and it was a good time. 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. >> in other words, harold hadn't changed. but kim thought lynn seemed happy. did you think harold was good for her? >> i did, yes. >> what kim didn't know, it was the last time she would ever see lynn alive. may 6th, 1995. it was a cool spring evening in the colorado countryside.

a little after 9:00 p.m., patricia montoya was with her family on highway 67 about an hour and half south of denver. basically in the middle of nowhere. >> came around a bend. and there was a flare in the street and a man trying to flag cars down. >> the man was harold henthorn, and he was in a panic. >> harold was at the driver window asking us for help because the car was here and it had fallen on top of his wife. and looking over to the area, you could see her legs coming from underneath. >> lynn, his wife of 12 years, was under the jeep. it was a horrible scene. >> we asked him what happened, and he said that they had stopped to fix a flat and his wife somehow went under the car possibly to get a lug nut and the jack fell from underneath the car and she got pinned. >> lynn was face down with the brake rotor resting on her back. the montoyas carefully lifted the jeep. >> 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. >> it was a cold night. the montoyas piled coats on lynn. >> and so at that point, the two gentlemen that i was with, they started cpr. and i said, i got to get her some help. >> time was ticking down for lynn henthorn. no one had cell phones, so patricia raced toward the nearest town, nearly two miles away. it was late. it was desolate. she drove up to one of the few houses. >> i drove directly up to as far as i could get to the door. and i flashed my lights and i honked the horn until the man came out. and i asked him if he could please call 911. >> the man quickly went inside and made the call. then -- >> 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. and he grabbed some blankets and

he followed me back up the mountain. >> when the 911 call finally went out, accident on route 67, roxanne burns was one of the emts sent out to help. >> 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. they said, no. we want you to go talk to the husband. >> she asked harold how it happened. he said he wasn't entirely sure. >> 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. >> or, harold thought, he might have jarred the car himself when he tossed the bad tire into the trunk. roxanne tried to reassure him that they could still save lynn. was she hanging by a thread? do you think she had already died and they were trying to revive her? >> when you're doing cpr, 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, you know, revive somebody. >> and miraculously, it seemed, they did manage to revive lynn. >> we actually had a paramedic show up also on the scene, gave her a shot of epinephrine. her heart started beating again, so we were all real hopeful at that point that she was going to survive and got her on a helicopter and flew her. >> but lynn didn't make it. she died at the hospital. she was just 37 years old. >> i remember the day as if it was yesterday. i received a call from a friend who said that, i'm sorry to inform you, but there's been a bad accident. and lynn did yesterday. >> 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. the case was closed. >> did you have any reason to believe this wasn't an accident? >> no. we all believed him and took him at his word. any thoughts that i might have had i just dismissed. >> 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 the same jeep for a while. eventually he married toni, and lynn's death became a distant memory. for some people, anyway, but not all. nearly 18 years later after toni fell off that cliff, the sheriff's office called patricia montoya. >> i don't understand why it took so long.

>> emt roxanne burns got a similar call and had a similar reaction. when you got the call, was it, sort of like i was expecting this call? >> yeah. i did say that to him. is this about the car accident up on 67? and he said, yeah, it is. and i go, is it about that woman that the car fell on her? and he goes, yep. i go, oh, thank god. coming up -- was there reason to be suspicious of this accident too? >> it made the hair on my neck stand up straight. >> this guy was all over the map from the get-go. >> when "dateline" continues. hes . okay, everybody, let's do a ticket check. paper tickets. we're off to a horrible start. ...but we can overcome it. we're not gonna point out our houses, landmarks, or major highways during takeoff. don't buy anything. i packed so many delicious snacks. -they're -- -nope. would you say, ballpark, when group two is gonna get boarded?

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it was 2013, nearly 18 years since she'd arrived as an emt at the scene of lynn henthorn's bizarre death, when the phone rang, a sheriff's detective on

the line. roxanne burns felt a great sense of relief. >> finally sort of a chance to -- >> to make it right. to make it right, yep. >> she hadn't forgotten that night back in 1995. it wasn't just the horrible way lynn died, her own jeep crushing her. it was the husband harold. roxanne remembered he just wasn't acting right. >> you've seen a lot of these. >> oh, yeah. oh, yeah. 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. you know -- >> desperate. >> desperate. yeah. >> instead, as roxanne remembers it, harold seemed to be avoiding her. >> he kept walking around the car. he kept, you know, making me follow him. so i would ask him a question, and he would walk away from me. >> patricia montoya, the good samaritan, also remembers

thinking that harold was acting strangely that night. for one thing, even though harold flagged down her family's car, patricia says he didn't seem to want their help. >> 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. >> she also noticed that although the night was chilly, lynn was wearing just jeans and a t-shirt. harold, on the other hand, had a nice warm coat. >> he didn't even attempt to take his coat off and cover his wife with it. so we all covered her with our coats. >> then when the emts got lynn's heart started, roxanne said harold said something she never forget. >> when we put her in the ambulance and she did have a heartbeat, he said, really? she has a heartbeat? he was more surprised than thankful. >> now that harold had lost his second wife toni 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. he noticed something about harold right away. >> on face value, he's inconsistent. and that's never a good sign. >> for starters, harold told multiple stories about why he and lynn were on that back road in the first place. >> this guy was all over the map from the get-go. you know, we were going to dinner. we had been at dinner. we left the house at 3:00. we left the house at 6:00. >> 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. >> he contradicted himself on what the tire problem was. was it a flat? was it spongy? was it soft? what caused this to happen? >> 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. >> he couldn't get it to work. and he even said that he sprayed some oil or solvent on it to try to get it to work, and it didn't, wouldn't work. >> but no oil or solvent was ever found to corroborate his story. then there was the biggest question of all -- >> 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. >> once again, harold seemed to tell multiple stories. patricia montoya remembers him saying lynn went under the jeep to retrieve a lug nut. lynn's old friend kim laferriere says harold told her lynn was going after a flashlight, not a lug nut. and roxanne burns remembered harold saying something else entirely. >> 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. >> investigator charlie

mccormick believes the original investigation was incomplete. >> there's a lot of things that could have been looked at that would have been easier to look at than now. >> for example, what caused the jeep to fall? harold said he thought it happened when he tossed the tire into the trunk. but this photograph shows a shoe print on the front right fender. >> i would've jumped all over that footprint. that should have been analyzed, compared to the shoes that everybody had on at the scene, whether it be harold henthorn or his wife or fire department or anybody. >> but no one did. and no one ever checked the jack harold said wasn't working to see if it was really broken. no one ever checked with the restaurant that the henthorns were either heading to or coming from, depending on which version of harold's story, if any, was true. >> i interviewed the restaurant employees to see if they actually did have dinner there that night. did they have a fight? were they getting along all right? or were they not there at all?

>> whatever happened that night, by the time he met toni, harold was telling stories about lynn's death that were entirely different from the original. once, while addressing a sunday school class, he said his first wife had died of cancer. and here's what toni's friend allison heard -- >> it was one of those cars or trucks or vehicles where the back part opens up. it hit her on the neck and it broke her neck. and she died instantly. >> what toni's family said harold had told them was much more vague. when they learned the truth, it was a complete shock. your belief was that harold's first wife had died in a car accident. that's all you knew. >> yeah. >> and then you get this bombshell that she didn't die in a car accident. >> correct. >> it was a lie. >> and the first comment out of my mouth -- and i'm talking to an investigator -- i said, that sounds worse than my sister's case.

>> and especially in light of toni's death, they wished lynn's case had been investigated more thoroughly. the douglas county sheriff's office declined to speak with us. but michael fleeman who has written a book about the henthorn cases says sheriff's detectives did investigate, at least initially. >> everything was progressing as if this was suspicious, and then all of a sudden the brakes were put on the investigation. it was declared an accident and forgotten for nearly 20 years. >> detective charlie mccormick thinks the reason for that was the coroner's quick ruling that lynn's death was accidental. >> if you're a policeman and you're trying to investigate a crime and all of a sudden the coroner, who really has jurisdiction over all, says it's an accident, you're a little bit cut off at the pass. two days after a death like this, to call it an accident, it's unfortunate. all the facts would indicate that this was, i think, a rush to judgment. >> the former coroner says there was no rush to judgment.

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. there were no suspicions raised and no reason to drag our feet. nevertheless, after toni's death and mccormick's review, the then douglas county coroner changed the manner of lynn's death from accidental to undetermined. still, harold henthorn hadn't been charged with anything, not in toni's death or his first wife lynn's. so sheriff's detectives called on lynn's old friend, kim. what did they ask you to do? >> they asked if we were willing to be wired. >> best friend under cover. what would she find out about harold? coming up -- >> you're taking a call from harold in front of the police?

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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. you know, devastated. never heard that, you know, she wanted to be cremated. i mean, as soon as he got that body released, boom, cremated. >> and the bertolets added, if that wasn't enough, he then took those ashes and put them where he wanted them. >> toni's ashes are spread on the same mountain that he spread the first wife's ashes. >> same spot. did the exact same thing. and he always claims that it's their favorite spot. i mean, we're talking -- he did the exact same things from start to finish with both wives. crazy. i mean, even the same photo pose. >> the families thought what harold did with his wives' remains was insensitive. but the cops, federal and local, were looking for something else. evidence of murder. in douglas county, the detectives went down the list of who might know anything about lynn's case.

they talked to patricia. they talked to roxanne. and they wanted to talk to harold. when he wouldn't agree, they turned to someone he would talk to -- his old friend kim laferriere, and asked her and her husband to secretly record a conversation with him. >> we said no at the time because we felt like he was innocent. >> after all, kim and harold had been close friends for years. >> we prayed about it. and we asked our pastor. and he said, if he is innocent, then you'll be able to reveal that. and so then we agreed to do it. >> now she and her husband were meeting harold for a meal near her home in virginia, but first getting wired up by police. the cops were hoping to use harold's words against him. kim still hoping to exonerate him. were you a little scared? >> i was very scared. >> i would be scared to do something like that.

>> i was scared. >> at first she could only think of one thing. >> they had a huge wire around my waist. i kept saying, he's going to hug me. and they said, no, he can't. and i said, he's going to hug me. he does that. and they said, no, he can't. and i was trying to process what am i going to do? >> so don't hug me. that's kind of hard. that looks suspicious. >> and so when he hugged me i put my hand in front of me to guard the wires. >> crisis averted, they sat down. do you think he could tell anything was up? >> we don't know. i mean, he said many times, my attorney has told me that my friends will be wired. >> did that send a chill? >> no. i said, golly, that's terrible, would they really do that? i could play the game. >> kim and her husband were told to not mention toni and to drill down on what really happened when lynn died. >> this wasn't about you saying,

did you do this? did you cause your death? it was more about catching him in lies and inconsistencies? >> right, right. >> then harold said something which didn't make sense to kim, that he'd put his career on hold when haley was born and he and toni decided to keep that a secret. >> he told us the reason he didn't work and didn't tell us is that toni had asked him not to. he couldn't tell us because he was afraid that if we ever met up with the bertolets, that we'd tell them that he was a stay-at-home dad. i'm like, we would never see them. and he goes, well, i couldn't take that chance. >> then there was a technical glitch. >> at one point my wire wasn't working. >> how did you know it wasn't working? >> they called me on the phone and -- >> so you were taking a call in front of harold from the police? >> and they told me to get in the bathroom and they would fix it. >> wire fixed, kim went back to the table. harold, who was never shy about anything, launched into a sad story about life without toni. >> we didn't do much talking. he did. i mean, he cried and said how

hard it was and how, you know, it was hard to be a mom and a dad. >> but there was one thing harold, who loved to talk, never said. >> we never asked him, did you kill her? but he never said, i didn't kill her. he would make statements like, why would i do that? they're accusing me of this. why would i do that? but he never said, i didn't kill either one of them. >> still, as a longtime friend, kim couldn't bring herself to believe that harold was capable of murder. even after all of this, you still aren't convinced that he's a killer? >> not 100%, 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.

>> after that night kim and harold continued to talk. it took kim some time to process what harold had said. she considered his inconsistencies, the differing stories he'd told her and others. in time she grew to believe that neither of harold's wives, her friends, had died accidentally. how did that sink in? how did that feel? >> sad. i felt like he was such a broken person. and i just felt sad that he wouldn't even come clean and tell the truth. >> sad in part that a man she thought she knew seemed to be someone else entirely. do you think he is the master manipulator? >> yes. i think he totally controls every situation and tries to control everyone. and i think when he can't control you, he becomes angry. and i'd 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. i said, no, they don't. and he goes, what are you talking about? and i said, they don't tell you lies. they ask you questions. and he said, well, how do you know this? and i said, because i've talked to them. >> did he freak out? >> oh, he freaked. >> harold must have wondered if kim was talking to the fbi, who else was and what were they saying about him. coming up -- yet another woman in harold's orbit. >> i made a very good linking and was living by myself in a three-bedroom house, so he knew i was well established. >> but what about harold. >> i work for non-profits. >> harold told people he was a fund-raiser for non-profits. >> fund-raiser? that's about to raise some questions with the fbi, and so is this. >> his wife's life was worth

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on the christian dating site where harold and toni met there's a question for members -- what would you do if you inherited a fortune? harold wrote he'd give a good chunk away and set up a foundation to fund various ministries. as it turned out, harold had come into a small fortune, although there's no evidence he gave any of it away. when his first wife lynn died, harold told police she had about $300,000 in life insurance. but when they re-examined the case, they found the amount was more than double that, more than $600,000. >> after lynn's death, he collects hundreds of thousands of dollars in life in insurance money, and as best anyone can tell, that's how he supported himself.

>> harold wasn't living the high life on that money. he lived frugally in the years after lynn's death. but by 1999, when he met toni, he may have been trying to upgrade his lifestyle. >> there was evidence that he was researching a number of women's financial situations including toni's. it had been several years between wives. >> it was during those years he met sonserae leese-calvar. >> when you're dating on the internet, a widower is actually -- you know, could be a good find. >> sonserae was on that same christian dating site that harold and toni were using. she found harold's profile appealing and reassuring. >> because a guy in his late 40s might have a lot of weird ticks or, you know, haven't had any

relationship experience, but a widower, oh, a widower. that's nice. so you think that's safe. >> she agreed to meet harold for coffee. >> he knew how to carry himself. he dressed nice. he was good looking. he had a tan and seemed to present himself physically. >> she says harold was very interested in her work in the film industry and how she was making a lot of money. >> and i went into detail about what i did. i made a very good living and was living by myself in a three-bedroom house. so he knew i was well established. >> but sonserae remembers harold had few details to share about his work in charities. >> he just seemed like he was making more of his life than what was going on. he was pretty vague in his career. >> sonserae saw that as a huge red flag and decided harold wasn't for her. she can't remember the exact date they met, but she thinks it was the spring of 2000. if that's correct, harold was already engaged to toni, 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. it's what he told everyone, including a friend making a home video shortly after haley's birth. >> i work with non-profits. that would be churches, schools, or hospitals. >> harold and toni had even lived apart for two years after their wedding supposedly due to the demands of their careers. >> harold told people he was a fund-raiser for non-profits. he had an address, a post office box. he had a business card. and this was his story. >> remember, harold had told kim >> when fbi investigators dug deep into harold's financial history, they found no tax returns, no pay stubs, no evidence harold held a job since lynn died in 1995. >> when he was investigated after toni's death, they could find no evidence at all that he ever made a dime.

>> apparently everything he ever said about his job was a lie. including nearly every thursday when he said he went on business trips. just as there was no business, there were no business trips. 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. so after the wedding, why did harold say he needed to stay in colorado for his work? why eventually did toni have to leave mississippi? toni'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. do you think that there's the chance that he knew his plan for toni from the very beginning? from the time they said "i do"? >> well, they got a life insurance policy as soon as they got back from their honeymoon,

and so i think he was probably going down that path. >> the life insurance policy they bought after the honeymoon was just the first one. by the time toni died there were more. >> a huge part of this investigation was just untangling the life insurance policies and what he took out and what toni signed off on and what she may not have known about and where the documents went. at the end of the day, 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. >> investigators discovered four policies totaling $4.7 million. >> on the surface, he would make it sound like this life insurance policy on toni would benefit their daughter in some kind of a trust. >> and one of the policies had named haley as a beneficiary, but harold hadn't bought it. toni's parents had. and harold had his daughter's name removed. his name put on it instead.

and he did it just weeks before that beam mysteriously fell on toni at their mountain cabin. then just days after toni died, he alerted the insurance companies hoping to collect all those millions but couldn't get the money because the case was being investigated. by late 2014, the fbi had found the insurance policies and the cell phone pings to the park. they knew about the near miss at the cabin. they had dissected all the lies. finally, they decided it was enough. november 6, 2014, a little over two years after toni henthorn died, harold dropped haley off at school, then headed for home. he never got there. law enforcement stopped him near his house. they arrested harold and charged him with toni's murder. a good day in amongst all the bad? >> yeah. >> this won't have a happy ending because we won't be able to bring my sister back. but from here on out there will

be good moments for us. and that was a good moment. and it just so happened to be on my parents' 55th wedding anniversary. >> but there was still a trial to come and another battle with even more at stake. coming up -- harold henthorn heads into court. >> i'm thinking, okay, this is going to be hard to prove. no witnesses, no evidence. what do you have? >> would a jury buy the case against him? >> and the question was is this man just horribly unlucky or is he a double murderer? >> and what would the future hold for little haley. >> he does not deserve to be a parent to this beautiful child. >> when "dateline" continues. c >> when "dateline" continues

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by 2015, the bertolets had been waiting for justice for three years. they missed toni but felt an incredible connection to her through haley. do you see your sister in haley? >> oh, i mean, tremendously smart girl. they are just alike. i think she'd grow up to be just like her mother. >> but when the bertolets went to the media with their suspicions about harold soon after toni's death, he cut off their contact with haley completely. it was agony for toni's family. then immediately after his arrest, a lawyer assigned to represent haley's interests in court made sure she got to see the bertolets. it had been a year since they had even been allowed to talk to her. >> she finally got to be a little 9-year-old girl, and she just needs to be able to grow up without a lot of adult issues

around her. >> the bertolets also went to court to seek custody of haley, 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. >> he is a horrible person that i want to be put in prison for the rest of his life. he deserves to be there, and he does not deserve to be a parent to this beautiful child. >> haley stayed in colorado and lived with her godparents. the bertolets' only chance to gain custody of her would be if harold was convicted of her mother's murder. harold pleaded not guilty, and that meant the stakes were doubly high when on september 8, 2015, ten months after his arrest, harold henthorn went on trial. it would be a battle for both his freedom and his daughter. 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 toni off the cliff. juror john johnson was skeptical.

>> right at the start because i didn't know anything about it, i was thinking, okay, this is going to be hard to prove. no witnesses, no evidence at that point. so what do you have? >> but there was all that life insurance. there were the cell phone pings that seemed to show harold scouting out toni's last hike. the prosecution even showed the jury a map found in harold's car with an "x" marking the spot where toni fell. and there were all those versions of what harold said happened on that mountain. >> 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. >> the defense said none of the so-called evidence added up to murder. 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. and, as for the life insurance, toni knew all about it.

besides, they argued, toni 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. >> the crux of the defense was harold henthorn is an odd duck. he says more than he should. 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. nobody saw harold henthorn push toni 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. >> but the prosecution had another powerful card to play. 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.

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thing, you know. and she wanted to have kids. >> she was vulnerable. >> yup. >> 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 toni took before she died, they thought they saw harold duping toni one last time. >> in my mind, 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. well, if she gets there at the same time, it's like, oh, poof. >> and while harold was not on trial for killing lynn, they believed harold was responsible for her death also. >> did everyone believe that they were somehow -- that there was a pattern there? >> there was certainly -- >> a pattern, absolutely. >> yeah. the similarities were just too much to push aside. the nighttime incidents. i mean, desolate areas. everything was like a domino

effect. everything was falling into place. >> in the end, they had no doubt. >> guilty. >> it was guilty. >> absolutely guilty. >> kim cried when she heard the verdict. cried because she knew it was right and because she thought about her two friends and their last moments on earth. >> i feel sad because lynn was afraid. and i know toni was afraid. and that saddens me. but i have to believe in a god that met them right where they were, held their hand, loved them, and told them it was going to be okay. >> harold has never been charged with killing his wife lynn. three months after the verdict in toni's case, harold was back in court for sentencing. toni's family asked that harold be spared the death penalty so that haley wouldn't lose both parents forever.

harold was sentenced to life in federal prison without the possibility of release. harold told the court that day that he never killed anyone. he also said that he loved his daughter haley. toni's family's focus then turned to the custody of haley. >> you hope to resolve that custody issue, that she can be with the bertolets forever? >> i think that's exactly what we're hoping for. >> and praying. >> you fought hard for that little girl. >> oh, yeah. her mother went through life, was a great person, worked hard. we're doing that because 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. >> december 23rd, 2015. a court in colorado granted toni's oldest brother and his wife guardianship of haley. we won't show her face as she looks now, but it was the best gift the bertolets could have hoped for. haley was with them in

mississippi in time for christmas. now, this little girl who has gone through so much is starting to heal. she has her cousin anna kate to help. >> people are saying i'm therapeutically helping her through this. i don't really understand, but -- i don't know how i'm doing this, but i guess i'm just keeping her entertained and happy. >> everyone who knew her wants to make sure haley never forgets her. >> she came into the office, and her mom's lab coat was hanging behind the door. and i said, haley, would you like your mama's work coat? and she said, miss tammi, i would like that a lot. so i put it on her.

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