here's this woman smiling, about to take a hike for her anniversary. there's nothing you can see from those photos that they took that would ever begin to suggest how it would all end. it's chilling. >> she was a beloved doctor, amazing mom, sunday school teacher. >> she'd given so much love to others. finally, she'd found it for herself. a handsome widower touched by tragedy. >> his first wife died in a car accident. >> my heart went out for him. >> now he and the doctor were bound for adventure. a surprise weekend away. >> i was excited for her.

mountain spot. the scenery was breath-taking. the danger was, too. >> my wife has fallen from a rock. >> an accidental fall, and she was gone. >> i remember going, what? >> my heart sank. i fell to my knees. >> so why did it seem so suspicious? >> there's something going on here. >> his first wife died. it just clicked. this was not an accident. >> two wives, two deaths, two mysteries. >> nobody saw him push toni off that cliff. >> he wouldn't do that. why would he? >> tragic. horrible. cruel. i was broken. >> i'm lester holt. and this is "dateline." >> i'm roped in at 10,000 feet up. >> tonight andrea canning takes us "over the edge." >> my name's anna kate, and i'm

i'm in fourth grade. >> reporter: anna kate once had an aunt named toni. they lived a few states apart but were never more than a phone call or a letter away. >> dear aunt toni, how are you? i have no homework. we finished "little pear" eight days till christmas. i'm so excited. i love you. anna kate. >> reporter: she still writes her letters even though toni can no longer respond. >> dear aunt toni, are you enjoying it in heaven? i miss you very much. i read a book about heaven. it must be great. love, your niece, anna kate. >> reporter: anna kate was 7 when her aunt died. it was sudden, scary and heartbreaking. so she took out an old shoe box, decorated it and filled it with thoughts of aunt toni. >> now she's dead. now we can't see her again. and our lives will never be the same again. >> reporter: the ripple effect of toni's death was huge.

ophthalmologist who had a thriving practice first in jackson, mississippi, and later in denver, colorado. a devout christian who sang in her church choir. a mother to a little girl named haley. a wife to man named harold, and the older sister to anna kate's dad todd bertolet. this story is about toni and what happened to her one bright sunny day high up in the mountains. >> 911. what's the address of your emergency? >> i need an alpine mountain rescue team immediately. >> reporter: it's also about how secrets long buried sometimes don't stay that way. where did toni fit into your family? >> she was the middle between two brothers. sometimes she thought that was an advantage and sometimes she thought it was a disadvantage being an only girl with two brothers. obviously we're not going to sit

you know, we needed the extra wide receiver during the backyard football game. and she had to oblige us. into a little bit of a tomboy? >> i wouldn't say she was a tomboy, but she was a great athlete. of course, she could do anything she put her mind to. >> reporter: toni bertolet grew up with her two brothers around natchez, mississippi. the epitome of the old south. she was ambitious academically and athletically and yet -- did toni embrace the hair and the makeup and sort of the things that you would think of as a southern belle? >> we went to ole miss i mean, it's coat and tie and sunday dresses for football games.o sweatpants? >> no, no. >> not to go out. >> she would never go out in public in sweatpants, never. >> reporter: toni did have one flaw when it came to being a belle.when i first got to college, she felt like, you know, i was a little bit too skinny and needed to bulk up a little bit.

to come over and cook some fried chicken. >> reporter: well, mississippi's the place to be for that.ippi. and every southern lady ought to be able to cook some fried chicken. and little did she know that, you know, when you took it out of the freezer you'd have to let it thaw.rozen fried chicken aside, toni was someone who set goals and made them happen. after college she went to medic graduated in the top 10% of her class. then she settled into a new practice and a new marriage with a young dentist. but the woman who could do it al that wasn't working. she tried. but after seven years the marriage ended. >> i don't think my sister took failure well.so i think that was a disappointing time in her life. >> reporter: todd's wife rhonda remembers how toni continued to thrive at work, but her love life stalled.her career was extremely important, and so there was a

she didn't have a lot of time togo places to meet guys. she went to church, and she went to her job. and to be honest, i really don't think that there was very good ly. >> reporter: and the clock was ticking when it came to starting a family.30s, toni turned to a place many do to find a mate -- the internet. she chose a christian dating site.o shared her faith was very important to her. she didn't tell her little brother or his wife rhonda right away about her online adventure. but she did share her secret with her good friend allison talley.ive you updates on how it was going and if she was meeting anybody? >> i didn't really ask. but i did know that she had met a couple of guys.en toni met the one. >> handsome guy, little bit older than her, charming, incredibly charming. iately and well-dressed and very

>> reporter: his name was harold henthorn. according to his dating profile, he lived in colorado and worked to non-profits. he didn't smoke, rarely drank, and he said he was a planner. eventually harold flew out to toni in person. and with them both being methodical types, they devised a formula for lasting love. >> they had come up with a ompatibility. and it was five cs. and i don't remember what they all stood for. compatibility was one of them.s one of them. >> reporter: chemistry, maybe? >> chemistry was one of them. when they met for the first time, they would know if the was there. they'd confirmed four out of the five before their first meeting. >> reporter: so when they met it was combustion.as one of them. >> reporter: toni ticked off her cs. then she introduced harold to

>> way more outgoing, way more vocal than she -- she was quiet. i thought, this is great for her. this gets her out of her shell. and it gives her somebody to do so >> reporter: harold was a widower, and told the bertolets he had waited a long time for another chance at love. >> his first wife died in a car accident.t out to him. i was like, wow, he deserves his happiness, you know. and if it's with toni, then >> you know, he said he had been lonely. >> reporter: harold's friend, , had been best friends with harold's first wife, lynn. what did harold tell you about this new woman in his >> he didn't tell me a lot. but he did tell me that he really liked her. >> reorter: after lynn died, now he wanted kim to meet the new woman in his life. i couldn't talk about lynn anymore which i understood that. but i was happy that he moved

that he was starting a new life.now harold, the planner, as he'd said in his dating profile, was ready. on valentine's day 2000, he set out to orchestrate the perfect proposal. the jackson area to find out the perfect place to propose. and he found this beautiful place in jackson that we all love. >> reporter: and how excited was she to tell you her news? >> very.cited. and she had a beautiful ring. it was a nice ring. and just -- she was very happy.it seemed like it was all coming together and she was going to be very happy. >> reporter: on september 30th, a year after they had met in person, toni bertolet married harold henthorn wedding in jackson. >> 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. >> reporter: the future was bright. tocus for so long. harold promised something

>> marry me. i'm wealthy. i can take you away from, you d, you know, working all the time. and allow you to be the mother, which is the main thing she wanted to be. >> reporter: her knight in shining armor? >> that's it. it's amazing how life has a way of intruding on our fairy tales. we come back, a romantic surprise. >> hi. >> she is like, what's going on? and he says, you know, we're going away for the weekend. whirlwind escape to the mountains. >> she couldn't say no. he had it all worked out. >> it seemed toni's thoughtful husband almost. >> i need an alpine mountain

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after toni and harold got married, friends and loved ones knew the couple wanted to start a family. but it turned out to be fheir marriage their careers kept them apart. toni in mississippi, harold in colorado.

harold -- fertile ity issues and had miscarriages.adness to her. >> reporter: back in mississippi, toni's brother todd and sister-in-law rhonda were also struggling to have a baby. years of disappointment for both couples, all their prayers were answered. >> we both ended up pregnant at the same time.t must have been a really happy time given what you went through to get there. >> absolutely. >> all of sudden, you know, good news here, and, you know, get ready because, you know, you're going to have a houseful.n june of 2005, toni and harold welcomed their baby girl, haley. by then, todd and rhonda already had anna kate. were a little over a year old, the henthorns came to mississippi and the who eet.

and i do remember toni just being so happy to have haley, - and so was harold. >> reporter: and although toni had always wanted to be a mom, it was pretty clear harold was mr. mom.ne in charge. the diaper change. most women have to beg their husbands to do that kind of stuff. he was the one -- he was like a nanny. nds-on dad? >> yeah. he was in charge of everything about that child. >> reporter: with harold such a able to go back to work. she soon built a thriving practice in colorado. >> she was a beloved doctor.y great bedside manner. >> reporter: tammi abruscatto managed the practice. >> she took time. she treated her patients as a just their eyes. she was interested in their family life.od old-fashioned southern hospitality. >> reporter: tammi saw how committed toni was to her patients. sometimes it was hard to get her

day in september harold asked her for help. >> you get a phone call out of the blue from harold.wo weeks before their anniversary he phoned and said, hey, tammi, i want to surprise toni for our anniversary. out? >> reporter: it was their 12th wedding anniversary. harold wanted to celebrate with a surprise trip to one of colorado's wonders, rocky national park. so you're being really sneaky in all of this. >> i am. i mean we'd all love for our husbands to call and do fun like that. so i made her schedule so that she could be done and out of the office by 3:00, but it looked like she would be there till 5:00.ter: the big day was september 28, 2012. >> he came into the office, and the other girls thought it wouldo really surprise her. so they put him in an exam room. >> reporter: a colleague shot e video. >> so she picks up a chart, walks into the room like she

her husband. and she's like, what's going on? and he says, you know, we're he weekend, happy anniversary. and she's like, no, no, no, no. i can't do that.u can. tammi fixed the schedule so you're ready to leave. >> reporter: this was well orchestrated. >> yes. >> reporter: this anniversary plan. >> reporter: harold thought of everything.tters for haley. he'd even packed toni's clothes. >> she couldn't say no. i mean, she just, you know, he had it all worked out, so off they went. >> reporter: harold henthorn, planner, had pulled it off. now the perfect anniversary weekend could begin. the couple left denver on a friday afternoon and headed north.a room at the stanley, a historic beautiful hotel in estes park. >> my name is jack torrance. >> reporter: famous for en king's "the shining." >> thank you.

early dinner so they could turn in early. it was a romantic weekend, after all. saturday afternoon, they set out for rocky mountain national park to go on a hiking trail harold had scouted out a hs earlier. but just about 24 hours in, the perfect weekend turned tragic. >> 911, what's the address of your emergency?e is harold henthorn, and i'm in the rocky mountain national park. >> okay. >> i need an alpine mountain rescue team immediately. >> reporter: it was just before 6:00 and harold needed help urgently. has fallen from a rock on the north summit of deer mountain.ntain trail. and she's in really critical condition. >> reporter: harold told the 911 operator that toni had ff. >> we need to be sure that you know my location first. i have really bad cell coverage. >> okay. >> okay. i'm on deer mountain.immediately, the park launched a ranger who was

way to get there from the trail head was on foot, and that would >> is she conscious and breathing? >> reporter: no, she's not. she's not been conscious. she is breathing. >> reporter: harold, desperate, licopter. >> here's the thing. i will pay any and all expenses for a helicopter. i don't care if it's private, i don't care if it's commercial, i all expenses right now if you drop a paramedic down here. >> reporter: the operator tried to explain that no aircraft could do what harold was asking, not at that altitude over that terrain.an't like drop somebody out of the helicopter. >> from a 10-foot rope? >> no, sir. that has not been done in my experience.er: harold knew toni's situation was grave. >> she needs to get out of here. she needs to get to the hospital. >> reporter: harold didn't stay on with the 911 operator.use he was worried his cell phone battery might die. then at 6:16, he texted toni's olde cardiologist, back in mississippi.

fall from rock. critical. requested flight for life. emt rangers on way. will be dark when arrive. todd got a call from his brother barry. >> barry said that toni had been in an accident and that he was being texted the vital signs, dn't look good. you know, he said, i don't think she's going to make it. >> reporter: back on the mountain, the rescuers were having trouble finding rns. >> they're asking you to put as many bright items out as possible to see if they can see you., sir? >> no. >> reporter: the henthorns were all alone and time was running out. the sun was setting. so harold lit a fire.d a small fire in a completely enclosed rock enclosure with wet moss on it thinking you can see the smoke.er: now in the dark, the henthorns were off the grid. and still waiting. just before 7:00, an hour after

operator called back to talk himr. >> hello? >> harold, this is julia, estes park police department. they tell me you need some g some cpr. >> any help you could give me would be good. >> okay. is she awake? >> no, unconscious. >> okay. i'm going to go through my questions really fast with you.ng? >> her breathing has gone from ten to five -- and nothing, to zero. >> okay.g to do now is i'm going to count for you as you go through the breaths. i've got my computer on and i can count. so we can make sure we're that blood flow. >> reporter: but harold said he wanted to keep the line free. >> i've got to turn off because e to find me. >> okay. i will let you go. call 911 any time and you get me, okay?arold continued to text toni's brother with details, none were good. "can't find a pulse." he texted a friend asking if he could drive up to rocky mountain national park to pick him up. he called back dispatch.

rangers? >> there's actually a ranger in the area. if you could start using your whistle.ind you. >> okay, okay. great. thanks a lot. >> reporter: he texted barry again "cpr. hel finally, 8:09 pm -- more than two hours after harold called 911 -- the ranger arrived prepared for a rescue, but thereo be made. coming up -- >> i just said is she okay?y knees. >> exactly what had happened up there on the mountain? >> this is a spot that most s to approach. >> the investigation begins. so i can love my hair longer.

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it was supposed to be the perfect weekend in the rtragedy struck during a hike. toni henthorn tumbled off the edge of a steep cliff. 8:41 mountain time, her husband er family two horrible words. "she's gone." >> i'd never seen my dad cry. never.ay for probably the next two weeks -- >> all the time. >> -- just constant. >> reporter: she was his little girl.h-huh.

are, you know, a parent can never accept it.i's friends at work couldn't believe it either. >> i got a call from christy at our office and all she said is, . >> reporter: what did you think when she said she fell? >> i just said, is she okay? no, she died.l to my knees. and my husband said, oh, my gosh, what's going on? and i said, dr. henthorn fell off a cliff. >> reporter: everyone was tbroken for toni. harold. and, most of all, the henthorns' 7-year-old daughter haley.f on the mountain and at the moment that she probably knew, well, this is it, you know. i know her thoughts were of haley.ut 150 people die in national parks each year. in rocky mountain national park, the leading cause of death is falling.i wrote this book, i

park had investigators. >> reporter: journalist michael fleeman covered the henthorn. >> i just thought the extent of their police work was to tell you to put out a rogueething, or don't park here, don't feed the bears. >> reporter: but there's more to it. every death in our national parks is investigated.ase the same emt ranger who came to rescue her now switched roles from rescuer to cop. >> people wear different hats atice. the guy who schlepped out there in the middle of the night and tried to both save toni's life arold off the mountain the next day became an investigator. >> reporter: the ranger set out to learn everything he could ld and what happened on that quiet mountain. harold told him the couple had set out around 1:45 on the deer mountain trail as part of their anniversary weekend.

harold took that the henthorns ving fun, on a track that many would find challenging. >> hikers call it a moderate hike. but these are hikers who are, you know, scaling the sides of mountains.ut toni and harold kept at it, following the trail as it snaked up and around the mountain to a point where it flattened out.ful fall day here in the rockies, much like this. harold said he and toni wanted to be alone. it was their anniversary, after all.ere, they got of the trail and headed into the woods. most people stay on the trails in national parks, that's what the park service wants visitors to do.harold told the ranger the trail was so crowded that they left it to be alone. although toni was a lifelong athlete, she had knee issues since her basketball playing chool. but if the hike was tough for her, it probably seemed worth it when the trees opened up to this.und 3:30 toni and harold

once they finished eating lunch,further into the back country. before they set out, harold took this photo of toni. she's smiling, relaxed. it doesn't look like she had any inkling that anything bad was to come.old told the ranger the ridge where they had lunch wasn't private enough. so they climbed down these loose rocks looking for another spot. at this point they were several o their hike with not much daylight left and not much time to keep a 7:00 p.m. dinner reservation. , flat area with not a lot of wiggle room and steep drops all around. it's where this pictures was taken at 5:00 p.m.e last pictures on toni's camera. rangers believe toni fell from 8 feet down. this is a spot that most people would be too nervous to approach without the proper safety gear, but harold said toni was trying cture of some wild turkeys and

the edge. harold said by thecrambled down the mountain and found his wife, toni wasn't talking. she was barely breathing, and she was lying in an awkward position.ranger, he pulled her to a flatter area. then he made that first call to 911. >> 911, what's the address of the emergency? >> i need an alpue team immediately. >> reporter: but there never was a rescue. toni died too soon. her friend allison talley says fter toni died, everyone's focus was dealing with their grief while trying tod harold. he's the greefbing widower with the young daughter. >> right. there was no shortage of people over there trying to help and be in the home.to him several times and every conversation had that element in it of how wonderful all his friends and his church family were being to him. hin a day of toni's death, harold reached out

there for him, kim laferriere. at 10:30 on sunday night. toni fell. my bride is gone.ooking at this going what? and i ran upstairs. my husband was asleep. and i said, toni's gone. found the tragedy almost unimaginable. remember, she'd known harold for decades and had been best is first wife lynn who died 17 years earlier. >> i just felt so sad. i felt like i could not believe that toni was gone. it just felt like i wish i could have changed it. i wish i could have brought her back. >> reporter: but soon for some ould be coupled with another feeling -- suspicion. coming up -- id, we can't let this go. please investigate this. >> turns out this was not the first time toni's life had been

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almost from the moment toni's friends and family heard had fallen off a cliff to her death, they all realized they shared the same uneasy feeling and it centered on usband harold. charming, outgoing, a hands-on dad. harold was all of those things. but now toni's friend allison toni had said years earlier when the couple was struggling with infertility. how was haroldtimes, when she was losing the baby? was he very supportive? >> i asked her how this was going, that this had to be incredibly stressful.she said, her exact comments -- i'll never forget these words. life with harold is hard. >> reporter: brother todd and also looked back and thought how difficult it could be to get toni on the phone without harold listening in. >> you call their home number, you call her cell phone number, and you could call his cell >> reporter: and he would answer?

>> when we spoke to her it was never just her.ys him and her in the background. >> reporter: tammi recalled how harold used to come into toni's owned the place and how in his presence, toni, the self-confident doctor, seemed to melt away somehow. just learned long ago it's just better to let harold be right. >> reporter: did that make you kind of sad?e very sad, and that's when i really thought things are not right. >> reporter: tammi says that even though toni seemed to adore her daughter haley, she often time, staying late at the office instead. >> we would be done. patients gone, staff gone. and she would still be on her computer.sn't work-related. it was playing games. and so we thought, that's so odd. why does she stick around the office?hink that maybe she just didn't want to go home

>> reporter: if there was marriage toni never said so directly. not to friends, not even to family. todd and rhonda worried maybe to say too much. >> i think he had held control h haley, you know? his parents heard conversation that they weren't meant to hear that he held, you know, divorce over her head.ou." >> yeah. and you won't see haley and, you know, that kind of thing. >> reporter: that's probably the that would cut the deepest with her. >> right. >> reporter: not being able to see her daughter. >> right. >> reporter: and then there was isode that occurred a year before toni's death at a mountain cabin she and harold owned. did she tell you at all about the accident with the beam at the cabin? >> no. but harold did. he made a joke that he almost he cabin. and he, you know, laughed it off that, did you hear i almost killed toni? >> reporter: it happened around 10:00 p.m.the late hour, was

>> she said that she was cleaning underneath the deck and harold was walking across and asalked across, a beam came loose and fell directly on the back of her head. >> reporter: toni had to be hospitalized.to work bandaged and bruised. did she seem at all rattled by it? did she seem -- did it change her at all? >> she just seemed depressed, people get depressed when they hurt. >> reporter: toni's family looked back on that incident and wondered.ng to think that maybe the beam falling wasn't an accident?re there at the time, maybe not admitting it, but enough to say there's something going on here. >> reporter: after the cabin mother told her she didn't think toni should be alone with harold. ut it is when my mother had that conversation with my sister, my

mother. she just said okay.h i think her silence probably spoke a little bit more. >> reporter: almost like she knew? >> i think she knew it probably n accident. >> reporter: and now toni had accidentally fallen off a cliff. >> it was as if the moment people within their circle heardth, that they all instantly suspected something was wrong. >> my husband said, we can't let this go.led the park rangers and basically just said, we're close with toni. we halease investigate this, please. he begged them. >> i felt immediately upon o find out exactly what was -- to be her voice because the only story we were going to get was be his story.

discovered even getting harold's story wasn't easy. did you ask harold, tell me what happened?l times. i said, what happened, harold? and he blew me off. >> reporter: when harold came to mississippi for toni's memorial ly thought he was more interested in watching a football game than talking about toni's last day on earth. >> he announced to us that day to sit down with us and talk. and he said, oh, he totally brushed off. it will take about ten minutes.e game. at halftime, we'll have -- we'll talk. >> reporter: rhonda couldn't believe what she was hearing. >> nope.g to happen. it's going to be a lot longer than that. we weren't letting him off for ten minutes. they would all have to cross many miles and many years to get the whole truth. coming up -- an easy descent. >> a revealing trip to the scene. halting steps and haunted

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three months after toni henthorn fell to her death in rocky mountain national park, her husband harold sent out a murio en el parque nacional su a photo of him and daughter haley hiking in the forest. the inscription, "we appreciate

now, many people who had loved toni saw these sentiments less as hear a cover-up. did people see harold as the husband in mourning who had just been through an absolutely horrible tragedy trying to save his wife? >> i mean, that was so odd. we never saw any emotion out of him when we went to denver. the only time he cried was when my sister's death certificate was going to say, "pending." and that was -- he was more hing else. >> reporter: friends and family were suspicious of harold for many reasons, including that he story straight about what happened to toni. the night she died, harold told toni's older brother barry on toni had lagged behind on the trail and he lost sight of her until he saw her at the bottom of the cliff where she fell. but later, when he spoke to brother todd,

details. >> toni was taking a picture andgotten -- received a text. it was that haley was playing in a soccer game and it was a picture of haley playing soccer. looked up, my sister was gone. and she had fallen off the cliff. told many people toni was taking pictures of wild turkeys while the ranger recalled harold saying toni was shot of him. journalist michael fleeman. >> harold gave several versions of what happened.the stories begin to diverge is really what was exactly happening at the time that she went off the cliff. a picture of him? was he on his cell phone looking at text messages? >> reporter: friends and family weren't the only ones comparing notes and clues.toni died in a national park, the fbi joined the investigation.

happened, the more reasons they ern. starting with the trail itself. easy descent, and people who knew toni couldn't understand why a woman who had had bad knees since high school sk it. "dateline" retraced harold and toni's path with the help of joey thompson, a climbing and hiking guide who often works in rocky mountain national parkath well-traveled? do a lot of people come down here? it seems tricky. >> no. this path is way out of the way for any recreational uting about and having fun in the mountains. >> reporter: would you recommend somebody who is not an expert hiker or rock climber come down here?not. this is a place that's very loose, high classification of how we rate the terrain. this takes a lot of technical footing. this is definitely out of the way. >> reporter: what about a woman in her 50s with bad knees?

looked closely at harold's story of what happened after toni fell. remember, he said it took a longs way down the mountain to his bleeding wife's side. and sure enough, nearly an hour etween the last photos on toni's camera and harold's call to 911. >> 911, what's the address of the emergency? >> i need an alpine mountain >> re problem. when investigators retraced harold's steps, it took just a few minutes to get from where she fell to where she landed.arold's statement that before calling for help, he had to move toni to flatter ground so he could do cpr. but the ground wasn't flat at all.r on the scene wondered why harold placed toni's head below her body. harold had told friends he was trained in first aid.when there's a head injury one elevates the head. >> if everything else had been normal, you would just say this was a guy who freaked out and

i mean, you have to give people a certain amount of leeway. >> reporter: but everything else was not normal.ple, harold cut his call to 911 short because he said his phone was dying. >> can you hang on one second for me?y phone's -- i'll check -- i'll check back in uh -- >> okay. >> text me. maybe text me because my -- my battery's really low. >> okay. >> thanks. harold. >> reporter: yet when the fbi examined his phone records, they found that over the six hours following his first call to ld made or received 22 calls and 98 text messages. >> he's texting his brother-in-law. he's texting his friends about picking them up.e with different agencies. when was he actually performing cpr on her? >> reporter: the first ranger to arrive on the scene wondered the same thing. ng there not doing much of anything. i think he has a fire going.

suddenly harold zips over and g cpr on his now dead wife. >> reporter: remember a 911 operator had coached harold on cpr.e ranger noticed toni's lipstick wasn't smeared. no signs of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. >> we're not heroes all the time. we do the best we can with what we have. and it's a very traumatic situation.i think even factoring in all of that, harold's behavior was extremely suspicious. >> reporter: perhaps most suspicious of all, a clue from cell phone records that he may have been on that mountain before. in the weeks just prior to toni's death, pings from show him traveling north toward rocky mountain national park many times, something he never told investigators.old said that he and toni came to this reapot for the views and they are remarkable. but they're not that much better than the views where they ate

here. after the fbi found out that had to come to rocky mountain national park at least nine times alone before that trip. they started to believe he was on a scouting mission for the location. lured toni to this dangerous ledge, then a deadly push. if that sounded chilling, there lse to consider. >> after toni died, within literally hours law enforcement g, you have to look into the first wife. >> reporter: yes, the first wife. there was a whole other story to tell there. >> he was always with us. he was always involved in every conversation. and we were neverone. >> what had happened to wife number one? er was added to this? my skin definitely feels

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she first heard that her old friend, harold henthorn, had lost his wife toni in a fallff, kim laferriere was stunned that tragedy had visited the same man twice. it is possible that someone could be married to two women rom accidents.

and at the time we thought how sad. >> reporter: a little less than ore he met toni, harold had lost his first wife. her name was lynn. kim was lynn's best friend. they met at a christian youth camp.first met her, she came flying into the room bigger than life and she jumped up on one of the bunks and said, tell ou like here. >> reporter: was she talking about boys then? >> yeah, she was. i'm like looking at her going, who is this wild woman?nn was funny and fiery and full of life. kim knew she liked lynn right away, but it was their shared spirituality that cemented their >> we both were committed to serving god, and she would just draw you in. and she cared about you. and she wanted to pray for you.d to know what you needed. >> reporter: lynn was already out of college and working. kim was still in school. but they shared prayers and secrets.d kim what she wanted in

>> a christian husband, somebody who loved the lord, was a leader general. and we talked about it. you know, if i started dating someone or if she did and -- we had a check and, you know, we talked about that. i don't know if that's the best you. >> reporter: did you have to approve? >> i did. >> reporter: after all that girl, lynn found a man kim did approve of, an old friend she had first met in college. his name?. >> she just said, there's this really neat guy. you know, we went to school together.was in the years before e-mail, lynn and kim weren't living in the same town. so kim would hand write the latest about her new love. >> she would write me letterhow she felt about him and that she longed to be with him and wondered if he felt the same about her. >> reporter: you must have been happy for her. >> i was. i mean, i felt like it was a good thing.would make a good husband for her. >> reporter: was harold charming?

he was always bigger than life, , always laughing, always the center of attention. >> reporter: soon kim heard the big news from lynn, harold proposed. do remember that she was so excited. you know, couldn't wait for me to really be able to spend time and to help plan the wedding andl of that. >> reporter: and did you do all those fun things, wedding shower? >> we did.arold and lynn married on september 11, 1982. kim was happy for her friend, but she saw something in harold gave her pause. you're saying even on the wedding day he was being controlling. >> he was just -- everything is always planned with harold. another. >> reporter: but kim put her concerns aside and enjoyed the festivities. rted their new life together in colorado where he had a job as a geologist. lynn got a job as a social worker.

her friend was slipping away. maybe it was the distance, maybe it was her commitment to her marriage, but just like it wouldrs later, kim could never seem to get lynn on the phone without harold listening in.idn'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 phone? and he would always say, "hey, kimmy." >> reporter: 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 ion. and we were never allowed to be alone even if we were together. and he would even make comments o to the bathroom, you know, you girls hurry up in there. you know. he would always make those, you ng comments. >> reporter: that's got to start to get on your nerves? >> at times it did.ismissed it as, i want to get to know you. lynn loves you.

does. know, crazy woman that she loves. >> reporter: 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.lled 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.she would say. >> reporter: kim thought lynn was okay doing what harold said, because she believed that was her role as the perfect stian wife. there was some awe to the fact that she really did honor her husband. speak negative about him. so i always looked at her and thought, man, maybe she's the better woman. >> reporter: as the years went m spoke less and less frequently. but then in the fall of 1994 union of sorts

the east coast for a visit.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.ays all together. i mean, even when it was time to go to bed, harold didn't go to >> reporte harold hadn't changed. but kim thought lynn seemed happy. did you think harold was good for her? >> i did, yes. didn't know, it was the last time she would ever see lynn alive.- >> i said, i got to get her some help. >> a husband in distress. a wife in danger.call from a friend who said that, i'm sorry to inform you, but there's been a bad accident. nsodyne.

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anniversary weekend. but that's not how it ended. toni henthorn has died after a e rocky mountain national park.wful coincidence, or was it? we're about to hear exactly what happened to wife number one.anning. >> reporter: may 6th, 1995. it was a cool spring evening in ountryside. a little after 9:00 p.m., patricia montoya was with her family on highway 67 about an hour and half south of denver.

nowhere.around a bend. and there was a flare in the street and a man trying to flag cars down.e man was harold henthorn, and he was in a panic. >> harold was at the driver window asking us for help 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 rneath. >> reporter: lynn, his wife of 12 years, was under the jeep. it was a horrible scene. pened, and he said that they had stopped to fix a flat and his wife somehow went under the car a lug nut and the jack fell from underneath the car and she got pinned. >> reporter: lynn was face down otor resting on her back. the montoyas carefully lifted the jeep.us got her out

and she was -- her lips were already turning colors, and she wasn't breathing. >> reporter: it was a cold night.iled coats on lynn. >> and so at that point, the two gentlemen that i was with, they started cpr., i got to get her some help. >> reporter: time was ticking down for lynn henthorn. no one had cell phones, so oward 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.e could bring a couple of blankets to cover her. and he grabbed some blankets and

mountain.er: when the 911 call finally went out, accident on route 67, roxanne burns was one t out to help. >> when we got on scene, there were two emts working lynn. they were doing cpr on her. ime to do, if there was anything i could help them with. they said, no. we want you to go talk to the husband. >> reporterhow it happened. he said he wasn't entirely sure. >> he did tell me that some lug nuts had fallen underneath must have gone underneath the car to get those lug nuts and somehow jarred the car. >> reporter: or, harold thought, he might have jarred the car tossed the bad tire into the trunk. roxanne tried to reassure him that they could still save lynn. was she hanging by a thread?ink she had already died and they were trying to revive her? >> when you're doing cpr, they're actually dead at that u know, so you're

we had called for a helicopter because sometimes when you do cpr you can actually, you know, ebody. >> reporter: and miraculously, it seemed, they did manage to revive lynn. >> we actually had a paramedic the scene, gave her a shot of epinephrine. her heart started beating again, so we were all real hopeful at t she was going to survive and got her on a helicopter and flew her. >> reporter: but lynn didn't make it. she died at the hospital.st 37 years old. >> i remember the day as if it was yesterday.from a friend who said that, i'm sorry to inform you, but there's been a bad accident. and lin died yesterday. was heartbreaking for kim that her friend was dead and that she died in a way that was not quick and certainly was painful.autopsy concluded after the

lynn hemorrhaged into her lungs and died from asphyxiation. on her body, imprints from the brake rotor. the local douglas county sheriff's department opened an investigation, but a few days er ruled lynn's death an accident. the case was closed. did you have any reason to believe this wasn't an accident? >> no.lieved him and took him at his word. any thoughts that i might have had i just dismissed. 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.married toni, and lynn's death became a distant memory. for some people, anyway, but not all.rly 18 years later after toni fell off that cliff, the sheriff's office called patricia montoya. >> i don't understand why it

got a similar call and had a >> it made the hair on my neck stand up straight. >> this guy was all over the map from the get-go. ft bars.

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it was 2013, nearly 18 years since she'd arrived as an emt at the scene of lynn henthorn's when the phone rang, a sheriff's detective on the line. roxanne burns felt a great sense of relief.of a chance to -- >> to make it right. to make it right, yep. >> reporter: she hadn't forgotten that night back in

it wasn't just the horrible way d, her own jeep crushing her, it was the husband, harold. roxanne remembered he just wasn't acting right.een a lot of these? >> oh, yeah. oh, yeah. and he was just so calm about the whole thing and didn't ask ans or anything like that. he wasn't screaming at me, grabbing at me, saying, you have to do something. you know --esperate. >> desperate. yeah. >> reporter: instead, as roxanne remembers it, harold seemed to be avoiding her. >> he kept walking around the car. he kept, you know, making me ow him. so i would ask him a question, and he would walk away from me.tricia montoya, the good samaritan, also remembers thinking that harold was acting strangely that night. for one thing, even though agged down her family's

seem to want their help.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. >> reporter: she also noticed the night was chilly lynn was wearing just jeans and a t-shirt. harold, on the other hand, had a nice, warm coat.n't even attempt to take his coat off and cover his wife with it. so we all covered her with our coats. >> reporter: then when the lynn's heart started, roxanne said harold said something she never forget. >> when we put her in the ambulance and she did have a y? she has a heartbeat? he was more surprised than thankful. >> reporter: now that harold had wife toni in a second strange incident, the douglas county coroners office which had originally ruled accident hired private investigator and former denver homicide detective charlie mccormick to review the case file. about harold right away. >> on face value, he's

and that's never a good sign. >> reporter: for starters, ltiple 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. we're going to dinner. be had been at dinner. we left the house at 3:00. we left the house at 6:00. >> reporter: in the police repo days after lynn died, harold is quoted giving different reasons as to why exactly they pulled over. >> he contradicted himself on oblem was. was it a flat? was it spongy? was it soft? what caused this to happen?r: whatever shape the tire was in, the henthorns apparently tried to change it normally used for a boat because harold told the cops the jack that came with the jeep was broken. >> and he even said that he sprayed

to get it to work, and it uldn't work. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: once again, harold seemed to tell multiple stories. patricia montoya remembers him saying lynn went under the jeep etrieve a lug nut. lynn's old friend kim laferriere says harold told her lynn was going after a flashlight, not a lug nut.ns remembered harold saying something else entirely. >> he said, she was changing the tire, which made the hair on my straight because that -- i was like, women don't usually change tires when a man is around.vestigator charlie mccormick couldn't see any good reason for lynn to get under a jeep held up by . >> you'd have to be a fool under those circumstances, and from all the other interviews that no fool to

already were insecure about. >> reporter: mccormick believes the original investigation was incomplete.t of things that could have been looked at that would be easier to look at then than now.r example, what caused the jeep to fall? harold said he thought it happened when he tossed the tire into the trunk. but this p print on the front right fender. >> i would've jumped all over that footprint. that have been analyzed, e shoes that everybody had on that was at the scene, whether it be harold henthorn or his wife or fire nybody. >> reporter: but no one did. and no one ever checked the jack harold said wasn't working to see if it was really broken.cked with the restaurant that the henthorns were either heading to or coming from, depending on which version of harold's story, if any, was employees to see if they

that night. did they have a fight? were they getting along all right? or were they not there at all? >> reporter: whatever happened that night, by the time he met toni, harold was telling stories about lynnentirely 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 -- those cars or trucks or vehicles where the back part opens up. it hit her on the neck and it and she died instantly. >> reporter: what toni's family said harold had told them was much more vague. when they learned the truth, it plete shock. your belief was that harold's first wife had died in a car accident. that's all you knew. >> yeah.nd then you get this bombshell that she didn't die in a car accident. >> correct. >> reporter: it was a lie. >> and the first comment out of - and i'm talking to

sounds worse than my sister's case. especially in light of toni's death, they wished lynn's case had been investigated more thoroughly. the douglas county sheriff's to speak with us. but michael fleeman who has written a book about the henthorn cases says sheriff's igate, at least initially. >> everything was progressing as if this was suspicious, and then all of a sudden the brakes were put on the investigation.ed an accident and forgotten for nearly 20 years. >> reporter: detective charlie mccormick thinks the reason for that was the coroing that lynn's death was accidental. >> if you're a policeman and you're trying to investigate a f a sudden the coroner, who really has jurisdiction over all, says it's an accident, you're a little bit the pass. two days after a death like this, to call it an accident, it's unfortunate. all the facts would indicate

to judgment.ter: the former coroner says there was no rush to judgment. he didn't remember the case, butoner's report at "dateline's" request and says, quote, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but at the time everything fit.uspicions raised and no reason to drag our feet. nevertheless, after toni's cormick's review, the douglas county coroner changed the manner of lynn's death from accidental to undetermined. still, harold henthorn hadn't g not in toni's death or his first wife lynn's? so sheriff's detectives called on lynn's old friend, kim.they ask you to do? >> they asked if we were willing to be wired. >> reporter: best friend under cover. what would she find out about harold?up -- >> my husband and i were looking at each other going, i can't believe this. >> were you a little scared?

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es. two lonely places. lynn and toni never knew each other, but they shared so much. th married harold henthorn, and in death harold had them both cremated against the wishes of their ind out my sister's been cremated until her memorial service.o 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 mated. i mean, as soon as he got that body released, boom, cremated.d 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 in that he spread the first wife's ashes. >> same spot. did the exact same thing. >> and he always claims that rite spot.

the exact same things from start to finish with both wives. crazy.en the same photo pose. >> reporter: the families thought what harold did with his wives' remains was insensitive.ederal and local, were looking for something else. evidence of murder. in douglas county, the detectives went down the list of anything about lynn's case. they talked to patricia. they talked to rockies been, anded to talk to harold. when he wouldn't agree, they turned to someone he would talk to -- his old friend 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 >> reporter: after all, kim and harold had been close friends for years. >> we prayed about it.r pastor. and he said, if he is innocent,

that. and so then we agreed to do it.ow she and her husband were meeting harold for a meal near her home in virginia, but first getting wired up by police.ping to use harold's words against him. kim still hoping to exonerate him. were you a little scared? scared. >> reporter: i would be scared to do something like that. >> was scared. >> reporter: at first, she could only think of one thing. round 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.they said, no, he can't. and i was trying to process what am i going to do? >> reporter: so don't hug me. that's kind of hard.icious. >> and so when he hugged me i put my hand in front of me to guard the wires. >> reporter: crisis averted,

anything was up? >> we don't know.any times, my attorney has told me that my friends will be wired. >> reporter: did that send a chill? >> no.that's terrible, would they really do that? i could play the game. >> reporter: kim and her husband were told not to mention toni and to drill down on what reallyn lynn died. this wasn't about saying did you do this? did you cause your death? it was more about catching him ies? >> right, right. >> reporter: 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 cret. >> he told us the reason he didn't work and didn't tell us is that toni had asked him not to.l us because he was afraid that if we ever met up with the bertolets, that we'd's a stay at home dad. i'm like, we would never see them. and he goes, well, i couldn't take that chance.n there was a

working. >> repor|er: how did you know it wasn't working? e phone and -- >> reporter: so you were taking a call in front of harold from the police?ld me to get in the bathroom and they would fix it. >> reporter: wire fixed, kim went back to the table.never shy about anything, launched into a sad story about life without toni. >> we didn't do much talking. he did. i m hard it was and how, you know, it was hard to be a mom and a dad. >> reporter: but there was one thing harold, who loved to talk, never said.er asked him, did you kill her? but he never said, i didn't kill her.tatements like, why would i do that? they're accusing me of this. why would i do that?said, i didn't kill either one of them.

bring herself to believe that harold was capable of murder. even after all of this, you still aren't convinced that he's >> not 100%, no. but we have lots of questions, lots of unanswered questions, s, lots of things that my husband and i were looking at each other saying, i can't believe this. >> reporter: after that night continued to talk. it took kim some time to process she considered his inconsistencies, the differing stories he'd told her and others.ime she grew to believe that neither of harold's wives, her friends, had died accidentally. how did that sink in? >> sad. i felt like he was such a broken person. and i just felt sad that he ome clean and tell the truth. >> reporter: sad in part that a

do you think he is the master manipulator? >> yes.otally controls every situation and tries to control everyone. and i think when he can't ou, he becomes angry. and i'd never experienced his anger until he was going on and fbi contacted me or if anyone contacted me, they would tell me lies about him. i said, no, they don't.at are you talking about? and i said, they don't tell you lies. they ask you questions. and he said, well, is? and i said, because i've talked to them. >> reporter: did he freak out? >> oh, he freaked. >> reporter: harold must have was talking to the fbi, who else was and what were they saying about him.-

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come into a small fortune, although there's no evidence he gave any of it away.ife lynn died, harold told police she had about $300,000 in life insurance. but when they re-examined the y found the amount was more than double that, more than $600,000. >> after lynn's death, he collects hundreds of thousands life in insurance money, and as best anyone can tell, that's how he supported himself. >> reporter: harold wasn't living the high life on that after lynn's death. but by 1999, when he met toni, he may have been trying to upgrade his lifestyle.idence that he was researching a number of women's financial situations including toni's. it had been several years >> reporter: it was during those years he met sonserae leese-calvar.

actually -- you know, could be a good find. >> reporter: sonserae was on ian dating site that harold and toni were using. she found harold's profile appealing and reassuring. his late 40s might have a lot of weird ticks or, you know, haven't had any relationship experience, but a oh, a widower. that's nice. so you think that's safe. >> reporter: she agreed to meet fee. >> he knew how to carry himself. he dressed nice. . he had a tan and seemed to present himself physically. >> reporter: she says harold was very interested in her work in d how she was making a lot of money. >> and i went into detail about what i did.ood living and was living by myself in a three-bedroom house. so he knew i was well established.

to share about his work in charities. >> he just seemed like he was -%9 >> reporter: sonserae saw that as a huge red flag and decided harold wasn't for her. she can't remember the exact nks it was the spring of 2000. if that's correct, harold was already engaged to toni, who thought he was a successful nt to charities, able to support her if she decided to quit her medical practice and be a stay-at-home mom.everyone, including a friend making a home video shortly after haley's birth. >> i work with nonprofits, that would be churches, schools or hospitals.rold 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 er for nonprofits. he had an address, a post office

he had a business card.was his story. >> reporter: remember, harold had told kim in that undercover restaurant meeting that when haley was born he decided to be at-home dad for a while. he just didn't want toni's family to know. >> exciting year. we love you all. and why don't you come out an er? >> reporter: but there was much more to it than that. when fbi investigators dug deep into harold's financial history,tax returns, no pay stubs, no efld harold had held a job since lynn died in 1995. after toni's death, they could find no evidence at all that he ever made a dime. >> reporter: apparently g he ever said about his job was a lie. including nearly every thursday when he said he wens. just as there was no business, there were no business trips.

credit card records and found out that he really spent thursdays at this panera bakery a few miles from his house, ing d surfing the web. so after the wedding, why did harold say he needed to stay in colorado for his work?oni have to leave mississippi? toni's family wondered if harold's real purpose was to hem so she'd be easier to control and maybe to kill. do you think that there's the knew his plan for toni from the very beginning? from the time they said "i do"? ance policy as soon as they got back from their honeymoon. ably going down that path. >> reporter: the life insurance policy they bought after the honeymoon was just the first one.ed there were more.

untangling the life insurance policies and what he took out ff on and what she may not have known about and where the documents went. at the end of the day, harold o 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 this life insurance policy on toni would benefit their daughter in some kind of a trust. >> reporter: and one of the s had named haley as a beneficiary, but harold hadn't bought it. toni's parents had.daughter's name removed. his name put on it instead. and he did it just weeks before ly fell on toni at their mountain cabin. then just days after toni

those millions but couldn't get the money because the case was being investigated., the fbi had found the insurance policies and the cell phone pings to the park. they knew about the near miss at the cabin.ll the lies. finally, they decided it was november 6, 2014, a little over two years after toni henthorn died, harold ff at school then headed for home. he never got there. law enforcement stopped him near his house. they arrested harold and charged murder. a good day in amongst all the bad? >> yeah.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.t was a good moment. and it just so happened to be on my parents' 55th wedding

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by 2015, the bertolets had been waiting for justice for three years.

incredible connection to her h haley. ony for toni's family. then immediately after his arrest, a lawyer assigned to represent haley's interests in got to see the bertolets. it had been a year since they had even been allowed to talk to her.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 om jail made it clear he was not going to let

>> he is a horrible person that ut in prison for the rest of his life. he deserves to be there, and he be a parent to this beautiful child. >> reporter: haley stayed in with her godparents. the bertolets only chance to gain custody of her would be if her mother's murder. harold pleaded not guilty, and that meant the stakes were doubly high when on 2015, ten months after his arrest, harold henthorn went on trial. it would be a battle for both daughter. the burden of proof is always on the prosecution, which in this evidence, no physical evidence, no fingerprints or dna. and no witnesses who saw harold f the cliff. juror john johnson was skeptical. >> right at the start because i about it, i was thinking, okay, this is

no witnesses, no evidence at that point.ou have? >> reporter: but there was all that life insurance. there were the cell phone pings that seemed to show harold 's last hike. the prosecution even showed the jury a map found in harold's carthe spot where toni fell. and there were all those versions of what harold said untain. >> this was a case in which the evidence was not so much the physical evidence.the lies. and it was lie after lie after lie after lie. >> reporter: the defense said o-called evidence added up to murder. they said the pings on harold's phone didn't show trips to the r him taking a back route to his weekend cabin. and, as for the life insurance, toni knew all about it.esides, they argue you'd, toni e argued, toni would still be alive if the park service had sent a helicopter to

to do and even offered to pay for.he defense was harold henthorn is an odd duck. he says more than he should. and that may make him a blowhardannoying person to be around at a cocktail party but doesn't make him a killer.racter and focus on the evidence. toni off that cliff. there is no video of it happening.little physical evidence to prove anything other than it was just a fall. >> reporter: but the prosecutionl card to play. although the defense objected, testimony about harold's first wife lynn, about her death, her life n and about harold's many versions of . >> and the question was, is thisnlucky or is he a double murderer?

case went to the jury.with fellow jurors peter christofolo and jerry taboada, told us that over the course of the trial, they at toni was a victim from the time she first met harold online. was toni just really unluckyse harold henthorn on that website? or he chose her? >> i think he chose her.target. >> because of her age, for one thing, you know? and she wanted to have kids. >> she was vulnerable. >> yup.urors thought that harold had conned her when they met on the dating site, controlled her while they were married, and when they looked at took before she died, they thought they saw harold duping toni one last time. she was doing the same pose he did. the last photo of him is he's on the edge of the cliff holding ke, looking over. well, if she gets there at the , it's like, oh, poof. >> reporter: and while harold

lynn, they believed harold was death also. did everyone believe that somehow there was a pattern there? >> there was certainly -- >> absolutely. >> yeah. the similarities were just too much to push aside.nighttime incidents. desolate areas. it was like domino effect, everything was falling into place. >> reporter: in the end, they had no doubt. >> it was guilty. >> absolutely guilty. >> reporter: kim cried when she heard the verdict. cried because she knew it was cause she thought last moments on earth. >> i feel sad because lynn was afraid. and i know toni was afraid. and that saddens me.

were, held their hand, loved them and told them it was going to be okay. >> reporter: harold has never killing his wife lynn. three months after the verdict in toni's case, harold was back sentencing. toni's family asked that harold be spared the death penalty so that haley wouldn't lose both parents forever.has filed an appeal, was sentenced to life in federal prison without the possibility of release.told the court that day that he never killed anyone. he also said that he loved his daughter haley.cus then turned to the custody of haley. you hope to resolve that custody issue that she can be with the ever? >> i think that's exactly what we're hoping for. >> and praying. ht hard for that little girl. >> oh, yeah. her mother went through life, was a great person, worked hard.

and she needs a secured life going forward. we're doing all that for haley, ne else. >> reporter: december 23, 2015. a court in colorado granted toni's oldest brother and his nship of haley. we won't show her face as she looks now, but it was the best gift the bertolets could have hoped for.s with them in mississippi in time for christmas. now, this little girl who has gone through so much is starting to heal.usin 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.h haley is expected to get all that insurance money harold had been

but everyone who knew toni wants to make sure haley never forgets her.came into the office, and her mom's lab coat was hanging behind the door.aley, would you like your mama's work coat? and she said, miss tammi, i ke that a lot. so i put it on her. and she went, it smells like my mmy. that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. @ irs security hack, @personal information's from