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00:05A fatal fall in the Rocky Mountains.
00:08My wife had fallen from a rock and she's in really critical condition.
00:13Tony had fallen from the top of a cliff face.
00:15It was 160 feet down.
00:17A life cut short in the blink of an eye.
00:20Never in a million years did I ever think I would never see her again after that phone call.
00:26Was it simply tragic misfortune?
00:29Harold claimed that Tony had fallen in an absolute freak accident
00:33when they'd taken a spontaneous detour off the path on their hike.
00:37Or murder.
00:59My name is Allison Talley.
01:02I live in Jackson, Mississippi.
01:05And Tony Bertolet Hintthorne was one of my best friends.
01:09You always want to surround yourself with people who lift you up and make you a better person.
01:13And she was absolutely that person that makes you a better person in every aspect of your life.
01:20Tony grew up in nearby Natchez.
01:23Her parents owned a prosperous oil and gas business.
01:26So Tony had quite a privileged upbringing alongside her two brothers.
01:31At school, Tony was always top of her class.
01:34She loved athletics and she set her sights on a career in medicine.
01:38Tony was the smartest, most intelligent, most beautiful, wisest person I knew.
01:44She was an ophthalmologist and she used her gift of creativity to be able to make people see better.
01:49And I loved that about her.
01:51She was really well liked to have a lot of patients.
01:54In 1999, she called me and she said, I've met somebody.
01:57And she said that she had met him through a dating site.
02:00When I met Harold in person for the first time, he was so handsome.
02:05He had on a nice suit and he's so outgoing.
02:09We loved him.
02:09We thought this is great because she was the opposite.
02:12She was an introvert.
02:13She was quiet.
02:14That seemed like that would be a good fit for her.
02:16At the time of their meeting, Harold was newly widowed.
02:19He'd just lost his wife, Lynn, five years earlier.
02:22He came across as a wealthy businessman.
02:25He said he'd recently sold his diamond business.
02:27And now he was retired and wanting to relax a little bit and had moved into a new venture,
02:33raising money for nonprofit organizations.
02:35He was excited about meeting someone like Tony, starting a new life together, and hopefully
02:41another happily ever after story.
02:45It was a bit of a whirlwind.
02:47It moved really, really quickly.
02:49Within a few weeks, they got engaged on Valentine's Day, exactly six weeks after they met for the
02:54first time.
02:55And the wheels really turned fast after that.
02:57They were married in September of the same year.
02:59It was just beautiful.
03:00It was picture perfect.
03:01Very traditional, and we were so thrilled that she had met somebody that we thought would
03:06be her long-lasting love.
03:07And we were so excited about it.
03:11After two years of happy marriage in Tony's home state of Mississippi, they moved nearer
03:17to Harold's home city of Denver, Colorado, to begin the next chapter of their lives.
03:24Tony has always wanted to be a mom, and in June of 2005, gave birth to a beautiful little
03:30girl, and that just, that changed her world.
03:34That was the most wonderful thing that had happened to her up to that point.
03:40Every year, Harold and Tony would celebrate the life they'd built together.
03:45And in September 2012, 12 years after their whirlwind marriage, Harold had something special
03:52planned.
03:53This year, he called me just to tell me that he had some grand plan.
03:57This is the best anniversary ever.
03:58That he was taking her on a hiking trip.
04:01He was going to pick her up and sweep her away.
04:03He would have her bags packed and then go to the Rocky Mountain National Park and just spend
04:08the weekend on a hike.
04:12This was their 12th wedding anniversary, so Harold had planned a special surprise trip.
04:18He'd put a lot of effort into this, in fact.
04:20He'd told Tony's colleagues to clear her diary, and they'd got a babysitter as well for their
04:25seven-year-old daughter.
04:26So this was an extra special trip that he had planned.
04:31At the time, Valeria Spencer was Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado.
04:37Her jurisdiction covered 64 counties across 100,000 square miles, including incidents
04:44on federal land, such as the Rocky Mountain National Park.
04:49The Rocky Mountains range all the way from up in Canada down to New Mexico, so they cover
04:55most of the western United States, and specifically in Colorado, about 50 miles away from where Tony
05:01and Harold Henthorne lived in the Denver metro area.
05:05The Rocky Mountain National Park is visited by millions of people and tourists.
05:11Every year, they go there to enjoy the vast landscapes and the beautiful wildlife.
05:17There's, of course, lots of safe paths for visitors to enjoy, but there's also a lot of dangerous
05:22mountain trails around in the national park, too.
05:25This includes some narrow cliff edges, with sheer drops of up to 300 feet, looking down
05:32on rocky terrain and ravines.
05:35This is why even experienced hikers and walkers are advised to stick to the route.
05:42But on September 29th, 2012, Harold, a seasoned hiker, chose to take Tony on a challenging three-mile
05:51route, 10,000 feet, up Deer Mountain.
05:58Setting off around 1.30 p.m., they took photos along the way, ending at a lunch spot where they
06:06enjoyed the incredible views.
06:12But as the sun began to set on a perfect anniversary weekend, a frantic call was made.
06:209-1-1, what's the address, the emergency?
06:23Hello, my name is Harold Hidford.
06:24I'm in the Rocky Mountain Park.
06:26Okay.
06:26I need an alpine mountain rescue team immediately.
06:29Okay, I'm going to transfer you to the park, so hang on the line.
06:34Go ahead, sir.
06:36My wife had fallen from a rock on the north summit of Deer Mountain, on the Deer Mountain
06:42Trail, and she's in really critical condition.
06:46Harold called 911 a little bit before 6 p.m. He gave them information about where he was,
06:53but it turns out that that information was incorrect. And so it took park rangers longer
06:58to get to him than it might have otherwise. A park ranger went up immediately with a pack
07:04full of medical supplies, not knowing exactly what he was getting to, and for a few hours
07:09tried to find Harold Henthorne and Tony Henthorne. It was very dark by then. He was calling out
07:15to Harold, calling back to headquarters to try and triangulate more specifically where he was and
07:21to have him start making noise so that he could hear him and be able to find him, which eventually
07:26did. But it was hours after the first 911 call.
07:31When the park ranger eventually arrived at the scene, the severity of the situation quickly
07:36became apparent. Tony had fallen from the top of a cliff face. It was 160 feet down. She landed in
07:45some
07:45trees. And they could tell that because of the severity of the broken branches. And they could follow
07:51the blood trail from the tree, then down some rocks to where she eventually lay. Despite best efforts from
07:58the park ranger to save her, Tony was pronounced dead at the scene.
08:10After 50-year-old Tony Henthorne's fatal fall in the Rocky Mountains, the news of her tragic accident
08:17spread quickly to her family and friends.
08:20On the day of the accident, Harold notified Tony's brother, who is a surgeon, a physician,
08:28that there had been a critical accident. Back then, they notified us. As soon as I found out about
08:36the accident, there's nothing worse. Anybody that's experienced loss or trauma like that knows
08:42what a gut-wrenching experience it is. And we stayed on the phone with them the rest of the evening
08:49until
08:49we found out that she had passed away.
08:54It was an excruciating experience for everybody that night. It was just something that I hope nobody
09:00ever has to go through. While Tony's loved ones in Mississippi processed the devastating news,
09:09the park rangers followed standard procedure for all deadly falls in the national park.
09:15They initiated a fatality investigation, which would eventually be escalated to Assistant U.S. Attorney
09:22Valeria Spencer.
09:24Well, there was a lot of odd things when the investigators went to the scene the next morning.
09:29One of the things that was very odd was where Tony's body was. Her camera was found right next to
09:36her.
09:37Now, she didn't fall right where she was laying, and so that seemed to be odd that her camera would
09:41be there.
09:43As well, she was out of her boots, and Harold had indicated that he had not removed the boots,
09:47that they had fallen off during her fall down the cliffside. But the investigators,
09:52in their experience at the national park, that's very odd for somebody to actually fall
09:57out of their hiking boots. And so that seemed to be very unusual. And the placement of them,
10:02again, just seemed off to the investigators.
10:04So this is another odd thing that her hiking boot was found flung really far away,
10:10yet her digital camera was found perfectly next to her body. There's some inconsistencies here
10:15that they raised questions over in terms of how she'd fallen.
10:20Despite the peculiar placement of Tony's camera and hiking boots, the scene still suggested an
10:26unfortunate fall. But as part of their fatality investigation, park rangers proceeded to search
10:34Harold's vehicle.
10:36They searched through the Jeep, and they found a map of Rocky Mountain National Park, which is not
10:40unusual. What was unusual is that the map was open. There were some things written on it, but there was
10:46a
10:46red X right in the area of Deer Mountain, not on the trail, but where Tony actually died.
10:56Alarm bells are now ringing, so it gets escalated to the investigative services branch of the national park.
11:02That's basically the FBI for this kind of jurisdiction.
11:06So the obvious question, once we have the X marking the spot, as it were, is did Tony fall or
11:12was she pushed?
11:13But could a husband really bring himself to push his wife off a cliff to her death?
11:20A tragic accident remained the strongest possibility, but the discovery of the map led investigators to
11:26drive to Harold's house to question him further. Harold claimed that Tony had fallen in an absolute
11:33freak accident when they'd taken a spontaneous detour off the path on their hike.
11:39They walk at least a third of a mile to get to the spot that we call the lunch spot
11:44because we have
11:44photos where they're eating their meal. It is a beautiful view. You can really see a lot of the
11:50park there. It's quite lovely. And then they end up walking over to the spot that we then call the
11:57cliff spot. That is the point at which we know Tony died.
12:02But getting to the cliff's edge involved walking on ground not normally favored by the average hiker.
12:08You had to climb up all these really difficult terrains that would have even been tricky for
12:13really experienced hikers. And Tony was known to have had three knee surgeries. So it kind of
12:19suggests that that would have been quite an extreme excursion for what was supposed to be a nice,
12:25relaxing anniversary weekend trip. He said this was a spontaneous hike. They ended up where they ended
12:32up by surprise, by chance. And in fact, when you look at the X and where it is on the
12:37map,
12:38it seems that Harold had planned it all along. So now we have two very different stories.
12:45Harold then changed the reason he gave for clambering across rocks to the cliff's edge.
12:50Harold gave several different stories. He started off by telling the ranger the next day that they
12:57had seen some wild turkeys and Tony wanted to get some photographs of that. And the ranger was a
13:03little skeptical and Harold picked up on that. We checked into that later from one of the scientists
13:07in the park and said there's no wild turkeys on that side of the park. So X on that one.
13:13So then Harold said, well, we saw some deer, which would not be unusual to see some deer,
13:18but not something that you would go down bouldering for if you had some knee surgeries,
13:22as Tony did, to get some pictures of them. Then he says, we wanted to hike down to another area
13:28to
13:28have some romantic time. And when you see that area, it is inhospitable. It's very rocky,
13:34and there's absolutely no possible way that there's anything going on there, romantic time or otherwise.
13:42Investigators continued to keep an open mind on whether it was an accident or something more
13:47sinister. Meanwhile in Mississippi, Tony's friend Allison began to reflect on a phone call Harold
13:54had made to her before Tony's death. It was a really weird conversation, especially since he was
14:01excited about telling me about the trip. And then it just changed direction so many times. Excited at first,
14:07and then he went into down a rabbit hole of kind of critical, very critical of Tony and her family,
14:12Tony and her job. He wished she would just quit her job and stay home full time. She didn't spend
14:16enough time with her daughter. And I started getting that they were probably having marital problems
14:21and that she's probably planning on leaving. And this was his last ditch attempt at saving the
14:28marriage is what I honestly felt like. So it was a roller coaster of emotions on that phone call. It
14:33was very
14:34interesting and very not typical of a phone call with him. Never in a million years did I ever think
14:40I would never see her again after that phone call.
14:46When Allison met with Tony's family the day after Tony's passing, she discovered they'd had similar
14:52experiences, too. It was her parents and people that were part of the immediate family. When we started saying,
14:59OK, well, he called me Monday and then somebody said, well, he called me Tuesday. We thought about it and
15:04all shared our stories and they were all the same.
15:08Family and friends were also alarmed by Harold's behavior the day after Tony's passing.
15:15After Tony died, we wanted to make contact with Harold. And by the time we made our first contact
15:22within 24 hours, there was already a full website up on the funeral home site, full website, full of pictures,
15:28a complete bio, a complete history with everything. And we all felt like that was strange, especially since
15:35that website was more about Harold than it was about Tony. So that was kind of a red flag right
15:41there.
15:41And then it went immediately into planning a funeral. To be able to plan a funeral within a day of
15:48a death,
15:48there's no emotion attached to it. Most people wouldn't even be able to write an obituary. Within days,
15:54the medical examiner released Tony's body. From the fall, she had a massive head wound, 12 broken ribs,
16:02which then lacerated her liver, punctured her lungs, just caused massive internal injuries,
16:08as well as the head wound. At a funeral service five days after Tony's death, her family were shocked
16:16to discover that as soon as Tony's body had been released, Harold had quickly arranged for her to
16:21be cremated in secret against their wishes. That was about the second or third thing in a series of events
16:28immediately after the death that were, whoa, that's not right.
16:37About three weeks after the funeral in Colorado, we had a memorial service here in Jackson,
16:42where everybody came down, including a few friends, and Harold and their daughter came down. And we were
16:48all, you know, grieving and, you know, it was just an emotional event. And we look over and Harold is,
16:54he's got his two or three friends from Colorado, and they're shaking hands, joking around, talking
16:59about playing golf, and very detached from the situation. It was more like he was hosting a party
17:04than being a part of his wife's final goodbye, because that was going to be the last,
17:11really the last tribute to her in public. And that is not normal at all.
17:17By now, Valeria and her team were working with the FBI and park investigators, piecing together
17:24the timeline of events. And they turned their attention to Harold's initial phone calls to the
17:29emergency services.
17:47During one of the calls, the operator was instructing Harold how to perform CPR.
17:53Midway through that process, Harold blurted out that his phone was dying and that he needed to go,
17:58and he hung up. But after Harold told the operator that his phone was dying,
18:03our records showed that he made over 20 phone calls and 100 texts were sent.
18:09It just told us that Harold was not being truthful about what was happening that evening with Tony,
18:15and made us question whether or not he was performing CPR at all.
18:19Harold had claimed to the authorities that he'd been giving Tony CPR for over an hour,
18:25yet the coroner said there were no marks on her body, no fractures to her ribs or her chest,
18:30and even her lipstick was perfectly intact. If you'd been giving someone CPR, mouth-to-mouth
18:36resuscitation, the body would not look this way.
18:42Investigators also started to zero in on Harold's claims about the immediate moments before Tony fell.
18:49When Harold spoke to investigators the day after Tony's death, he indicated that she was walking,
18:55and he didn't really see her when she fell over the cliffside. He indicated in fact that he was
18:59looking at his phone, he'd received a text from their babysitter indicating their daughter had won her
19:04soccer game. And what Harold had said was that Tony had fallen, and that it took him 45 minutes to
19:10get down.
19:11When someone's providing a lot of very specific details, it can also indicate that they've rehearsed
19:17the story, at least internally, because they're trying to add some legitimacy to that story. But
19:24actually, it starts to indicate that there is an element of planning involved in the telling of that
19:30story. When the timeline of Harold's story was checked out, call records showed that he received the
19:36text from the babysitter at 5 54 p.m. at the cliff edge, the exact same time he called 911
19:44after getting
19:45down to the bottom of the cliff. The timing just doesn't add up. So Valeria and her team decided to
19:52visit the site to find out more. We talked about that we needed to go up to the scene and
19:58see it
19:58ourselves to be able to really picture the different events and how things happened. So Harold claimed that
20:05it took him 45 minutes from the top of the cliff down to the point where Tony had fallen to.
20:10So
20:10when we were there, we hiked it in two different ways. One is that we were a spouse who had
20:14just
20:15seen their spouse fall, possibly to their death. And the other way is just to hike it down carefully
20:19and safely. Neither one took more than 15 minutes. What we know later from the coroner is that Tony was
20:28dead within about 45 minutes of the incident. And so we were thinking the reason he said that is he
20:34needed to build time into the timing so that by the time he called 911, Tony Henthorn was already dead.
20:44While visiting the scene, Valeria made another important discovery.
20:49What I want to say about the cliff area that's very important to know is that the cliff
20:53actually is raised. That is to say that you can't walk over it. You have to step over several
21:00feet to fall down the cliff. So you have a natural barrier between you and falling down it.
21:06Our conclusion in looking at it was that Tony had to have been pushed because she couldn't have fallen.
21:17Harold Henthorn was now the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Tony, who investigators believed
21:23had been pushed to her death. But with no witnesses and no murder weapon, investigators were going to
21:30find it hard to prove Tony's death was nothing but an accident. So people like to think that most murder
21:37cases are found with a smoking gun in someone's hand and they're immediately arrested. But in most cases,
21:42that's not what happens. What we had in Rocky Mountain National Park that day was a woman who died,
21:48period. We don't know at that time if that was somebody who slipped and fell or somebody who was pushed.
21:54And that takes some time to put a case together to prove that.
21:58In a bid to find more evidence, investigators turned their attention to the camera found by Tony's body.
22:06Tony's camera had been broken in the fall, but the memory card was still intact. And there was photos on
22:12there
22:12from Tony and Harold's time on Dear Mountain. There were photos of Harold stood gripping the tree.
22:20In one of these photos, he's wearing a white T-shirt. But 15 minutes later, he's in the same spot
22:26wearing
22:26a denim shirt. Tony's body was found directly under the tree where they had that photo. Investigators began
22:35to wonder, was Harold luring her there? Was he trying to show her that this was a safe place for
22:40her to come
22:40and have a photo? And then once he'd lured her there under the pretense of taking the photo,
22:46had he pushed her to her death? But then that begs the question, why was Tony's camera found so close
22:53to her body? Did Harold want investigators to find these photos of them looking like a happy couple
23:00so they would never suspect he could push his wife off a cliff? It's highly suspicious.
23:08Police continued to build their case by honing in on Harold's cell phone data.
23:15One of the things that people may not realize is their phone receives messages and phone calls
23:20by pinging off a tower. And so we wanted to see where Harold's phone had been during various periods
23:27of time. And we were able to trace his phone going up I-25, which is the road from Harold's
23:34home
23:34up to Rocky Mountain National Park repeatedly over the weekends before Tony's death.
23:39So Harold told park rangers that he'd only visited the national park once as a kind of scouting tryout
23:46before this anniversary trip. But the phone records then showed eight or nine visits that he'd actually
23:52made to this location. By seeing the cell phone tower records and seeing his activity on his phone,
24:00we realized that he was actually step-by-step planning this trip so that he could take the opportunity
24:06to murder his wife. The evidence against Harold was building. And unbeknownst to him, Tony's friends and
24:15family in Mississippi were also assisting investigators in their case against him.
24:19The FBI asked us to continue talking to Harold and be completely non-suspicious that we're team
24:27Harold. We're loyal. We're on your side. We're here to help you out. But call us every time you talk
24:33to
24:33him and give us the information back. We became his safe space. We became his trusted advisors on how to
24:39navigate this. He would make comments. Can you believe they think I could kill my wife? Very non-grieving,
24:45very non-emotional, but very, like I've made it this far and then they're going to try to convict me
24:50of something or accuse me of something. It may seem like that's a hard thing to do,
24:54giving the information back to law enforcement. But I'll tell you it's not hard when someone killed
24:59your best friend. It's actually pretty easy. But to strengthen their case further, investigators
25:08needed a motive. Harold had indicated that Tony had one life insurance policy on her,
25:14a $1.5 million policy. Within two days of Tony's death and before her body had been released
25:20by the medical examiner, he was asking for $1.5 million from one of the life insurance companies.
25:27This is highly suspicious because it suggests that he was more interested in financial gain
25:33than grieving a loved one. Even more unusual when detectives started to dig around
25:38was that Tony didn't have just one life insurance policy. She had four.
25:44We know that Tony did not know of that because she had a life insurance policy with her work
25:49and indicated to them that she had no life insurance on her other than the policy that she drew at
25:54work.
25:55She had, in fact, $4.5 million total, which would have made Harold a very wealthy man upon her death.
26:02This is really significant because not only is there now a large sum of money attached to Tony's
26:07passing, but also Harold has lied to investigators yet again.
26:13And they wanted to know why Harold Henthorne, a supposedly wealthy and successful businessman in
26:20his own right, needed this money. Harold had told everyone that he had a successful business in
26:27fundraising for nonprofits, for hospitals and churches, and that he was the primary breadwinner.
26:34Harold claimed to friends and associates that his fundraising consultancy had as many as 90 employees.
26:41What we found out from looking at various records and from a search warrant that was executed on the
26:46home and looking through his records is that Harold hadn't worked in about 20 years.
26:51We found business cards that he had made pretending that he was doing this entrepreneurial business.
26:58And the address for those business cards was actually his home. And he listed like suite A or suite B,
27:04which was the basement. And so it was all a facade. And none of it was true.
27:10It's incredibly significant that Harold had this extreme longstanding deceit playing out in the
27:19background when we're thinking about this potential murder case. That really strikes as someone who's
27:24very capable of extreme manipulation and deceit and is potentially a very narcissistic individual.
27:32The truth about Harold's financial situation became even clearer when police
27:38analyzed the couple's shared banking accounts. What we found from all of those was that Tony
27:44never wrote a single check off of their bank account, that she was completely unaware of their
27:49financial situation. That is, Harold took care of everything. There were no deposits whatsoever from
27:55any business of Harold's because he didn't have one. So all the money came from Tony from her business
28:00and from oil and gas royalties that were through her family.
28:04You can imagine someone like Harold rationalizing this behavior because he spent years lying about who
28:11he is. He wants to project this image of this wealthy, powerful man of stature. So you can just imagine
28:18that he's lived this life of a lie and he never wants the world to know who the real Harold
28:24is.
28:24I actually think it's quite significant as well. You know, Tony is a very smart,
28:29educated woman and Harold was able to maintain these lies and this level of deceit with her and she didn't
28:37notice any red flags. And that I think is really indicative of how good Harold was at masking his true
28:45identity.
28:47But investigators were soon to discover even more shocking information relating to Harold's past.
28:54In the aftermath of Tony's death, a total of 17 warnings, phone calls and letters were received
29:01by various sources relating to suspicions about Harold. All these phone calls and warnings said the same
29:08thing, that Harold's first wife had also died in suspicious circumstances and it needed to be looked into.
29:15Harold had been married before. He had been married to Lynn Henthorne. They were married for a number of years.
29:21There are a lot of stories surrounding Lynn's death. What we know is that Harold and Lynn had gone on
29:28a car
29:29ride that day and they were in a remote area of what's called Douglas County. That is south of the
29:34Denver area.
29:36Harold and Lynn had been out for a nighttime drive on a remote stretch of highway and they'd stopped to
29:41change
29:41a tire on their Jeep. According to Harold, who was the only witness, Lynn crawled under the car to retrieve
29:47a lug nut that had rolled under the car. He told two different versions. One is that the jack just
29:53broke
29:53and the wheel well fell on Lynn. And the other one is that he tossed the flat into the back
29:58of the truck,
29:59which then caused it to fall off of the jack. And that crushed Lynn. Lynn sadly died from those injuries
30:06as she was essentially crushed to death by the car. Lynn's tragic death was officially ruled as an
30:14accident by the coroner, but one that ultimately proved lucrative for Harold. Harold was able to
30:21receive over $600,000 in life insurance against Lynn's life. One of those policies had been taken
30:27out just months before Lynn's death. It turns out Harold had actually been living on that insurance payout
30:33from Lynn's death. And that was what had enabled him to have this image of wealth and maintain his
30:39lifestyle. When you compare the death of these two women, Lynn and Tony, two decades apart,
30:45the circumstances are eerily similar. You have their partner Harold taking them on a trip in a remote
30:52place when he is the only witness yet claims to never have seen what happened. One of the strange things
31:00after Lynn's death was that Harold said to a friend that he didn't know how a grieving husband was
31:05supposed to act and that he was trying to figure that out, how a grieving husband should behave after
31:11his wife has died. That comment from Harold again speaks to somebody who wants to know,
31:18how can I manipulate you? How can I make you believe I'm a man in grief? How do I need
31:23to act to look the part?
31:25Coupled with everything else we know about Harold and his levels of deception and masking,
31:32this can be really significant for investigators because they might not only be looking at someone
31:37capable of murder, but perhaps even multiple murders. But there were even more shocking revelations to
31:44come. Investigators found that Toni's fatal accident wasn't the first time she had been injured in
31:51Harold's company. Harold and Toni had a cabin in Granby, which is a little remote town. They were up there
31:59and late at night, this is after 10 p.m., Harold was removing some wood from the back balcony.
32:04He called Toni to come out to bring him something or pick up something and as soon as she got
32:10to a certain
32:11point on the deck, a beam fell, a big large beam that would have killed anybody. She had turned in
32:18a way
32:18that it missed hitting her in a vital spot that would have killed her, but she was rushed to the
32:23local hospital there. They both insist that there was no domestic violence involved, that this was
32:28simply an accident. But yet again, a woman that Harold is married to has a freak accident in a remote
32:35location and Harold is the only witness. We had heard about the accident and my husband being in the
32:42medical field asked him about it, hey, is she okay? And Harold blew it off. He just kind of laughed.
32:47He said,
32:47yeah, I guess you heard I tried to kill Toni. I didn't originally think that was anything to
32:52be suspicious of until everybody said, wake up. That was the first attempt to kill her.
33:01Harold Henthorne was under investigation for the murder of his wife Toni, who was found dead at
33:07the bottom of a cliff in the Rocky Mountains. The net was closing in on him and he knew it.
33:13During the investigation towards the end, Harold came over to the house. He seemed worried. He seemed
33:21drained. He was a different person. He was not naive to the fact that this investigation had progressed
33:28to the point where there were going to be some serious charges on him for this. He said,
33:35I do believe that I'm in trouble here. They think I killed Lynn and they think I killed Toni too.
33:41I could never do that. I loved, I loved them both. I would never, I'm not capable of that.
33:47And then we got into the, to the more of the details about, about the job situation and financial
33:54situation. Tony and I, he pitched it as Tony and he did this, made up a story about me working
34:01when I really don't work. But he said that they concocted the whole story of him working because
34:06they didn't want her parents to think that she was not going to be financially taken care of.
34:10And I know for a fact that that is not true. That was not true. And I had, I knew
34:15that I had been lied
34:16to again. When Harold left that night, we were emotionally and physically drained. We had just
34:24seen the face of a cold-blooded murderer in our home. After an investigation spanning over two years,
34:33the FBI were close to arresting Harold Henthorne for the murder of his wife. But just as they were
34:39preparing their case, a critical situation emerged, forcing them to act quickly.
34:45We were actually watching his financials. And what we realized is that Harold was moving money.
34:50And he had moved over $500,000 to his brother who lived on the East Coast, far away from Colorado.
34:56And that's what brought us into action very quickly. We felt that Harold was going to flee.
35:02Seven news on top of a developing story all evening. A Highlands ranch man,
35:06already being investigated for murdering his first wife, arrested today, accused of murdering his second wife.
35:13On November 6th, 2014, Harold was arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of Tony Henthorne.
35:20I was sitting in a meeting at work and I received a text message, Harold's been arrested. And my mind,
35:28it was just a rush of emotions of finally, this has happened. Everybody has done their job.
35:34It was a great feeling to know that he would be held accountable. But there was also the possibility
35:41that he would not be convicted. The FBI was very clear with us from the very beginning that this
35:46was going to be a difficult case.
35:51In September 2015, three years after Tony's death, Harold's trial began. In this trial,
35:58there were no eyewitnesses. There was no confession. So they were relying on convincing
36:03this jury on circumstantial evidence alone. Circumstantial evidence is often a very difficult
36:10thing to build, particularly a murder case off the back of. But there have been very successful
36:15convictions worldwide based on circumstantial evidence alone.
36:21The theme of the case was greed. Harold had one compelling reason to kill Tony Henthorne,
36:26is that she was worth more dead than she was alive.
36:30When we looked at the timing of why Harold decided to kill Tony,
36:34it really came down to the fact that Tony opened her own bank account. She was diverting the money
36:40from the oil and gas monies into that account, as well as her paycheck from work. And she'd never
36:46done that before. And once she opened that account, Harold knew that his facade of being a successful
36:51entrepreneur was coming to an end, that everyone would find out that, in fact, he wasn't this person
36:57who was fundraising for nonprofits. And the way he made himself look like such a big person and a big
37:02businessman was all a front. And how was he going to live this lifestyle? This wasn't going to work anymore.
37:10Well, this is a case that's gained national attention, a husband accused of pushing his wife
37:14to her death to collect on her insurance policies. The life insurance policies were really key.
37:21And the way in which Harold went about getting those policies, that he lied to Tony, that she didn't
37:28know she had any of those policies. So he had this all this money waiting for him to make the
37:34decision
37:35about the timing of when he was going to, as we would like to say, pull the trigger on it.
37:40And that's what he decided to do on their anniversary in September 29th, 2012, was that he was going to
37:46get rid of her.
37:48The prosecution team tried to persuade the jury that Tony's fatal fall was no accident,
37:54but a calculated and cold-blooded act.
37:57We also honed in on the fact that this was premeditated. And we had the records to show from his
38:04cell phone
38:04every time he went up to Rocky Mountain National Park, to show that this was not, again, a spontaneous thing.
38:12The prosecution also highlighted Harold's similar patterns of behavior on previous occasions.
38:19The judge ruled that the evidence from the Lynn Henthorne death and from the beam incident at the Grand
38:26Bee cabin could both come in at trial and be presented to the jury. This is really critical to our
38:31case.
38:32In order to prove the premeditation of the death of Tony, we felt we needed to show that this wasn't
38:37the first time that he had done it. As we said to the court and we said to the jury,
38:42if you win the lottery,
38:43it's a celebration. If you win it twice, it's an investigation. And that's what we used with the
38:49fact that now Harold had two dead wives, both under what we painted as unusual circumstances.
38:58The defense really focused on the fact that this was really a fall, and the fact that Lynn died was
39:05also a tragic accident, and the two were completely unrelated. But Harold's defense team did not call any
39:13witnesses, and Harold elected not to testify at the trial. So the case closed with the end of our
39:19witnesses. With the two-week trial now over, the jury retired to begin deliberations.
39:29With each passing hour, you start to get a little more nervous that we have to prove the case beyond
39:34a reasonable doubt to the satisfaction of all 12 jurors on each one of the elements of first-degree murder.
39:41So there's just so many places where you might trip up and where the jury might think,
39:45we just didn't have quite enough evidence. And so you just don't know.
39:48I was on pins and needles all day, checking my phone all day. It was a day that could not
39:53pass by fast
39:54enough because we literally had no idea how this was going to end. After 10 hours of deliberations,
40:02the jury returned to give their verdict. The verdict was unanimous. It was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
40:10as to the single count, first-degree murder. So Harold Henthorne was found guilty of first-degree murder by the
40:15jury.
40:19Harold's years of deceit had finally been exposed.
40:24As soon as the verdict was read, the courtroom went crazy. I mean, people just really had so much
40:30pent-up emotion and they just were finally able to release it. The judge had the jury come back in
40:36and they celebrated with the family. We were in the courtroom for over an hour. It was the time to
40:42finally have the emotional release that someone had heard the story and the jurors believed it. And so
40:47the jurors needed that release too. They wanted to come and be with the family and say, I saw you,
40:52I heard you. Once the verdict was read, an emotional exchange between Tony Henthorne's mom
40:58and a juror. Take a listen as what was said after the two hugged. Take a listen.
41:04I appreciated it very much. And she just said, as one mom to another, I feel your pain.
41:12When I read the headline, uh, found guilty, I, I sat down and just, it's like, uh, after such an
41:21intense day, being able to relax for the first time. We all in the room cried tears of joy and
41:29tears
41:30of sadness. Sadness because we had lost our friend and our, our sister and our mother and, you know,
41:37happiness that this would not happen to another person. On December 8th, 2015,
41:44Harold Henthorne appeared in court for sentencing. And it was a chance for Tony's loved ones to look
41:51Harold in the eye as they read out their victim impact statements.
41:56Tony's daughter elected not to come to court. And instead, she had written a letter that the family
42:01read to the court, um, and to Harold to say that she no longer regarded him as her father and
42:07she
42:07would only refer to him in the future as Mr. Henthorne. The daughter's decision to refer to him only as
42:14Mr. Henthorne moving forward goes to show the significant emotional damage that this family have
42:20all experienced as a result of his actions. And further than that, it goes to show that despite the
42:26fact that there is any circumstantial evidence, even those closest to Harold, to Tony and to Lynn
42:32are all convinced by Harold's guilt. The judge then delivered the news that Tony's loved ones were
42:40waiting for. Harold was sentenced to a life sentence without any chance of parole. Harold will die in
42:46prison. Then it was just this great relief of we did it and it's over now. I think it was
42:52the toughest
42:52case that I have been a part of. And it was so rewarding to get the verdict that we did
42:59and to
43:00get justice for Tony and for her daughter. It was really quite a result that I'm very proud of.
43:07Harold will spend the rest of his life behind bars for Tony's murder. His first wife, Lynn's cause of
43:15death, has been changed from accidental to undetermined. And the charge against Harold for her murder has been
43:22deferred until all appeals against his life sentence have been exhausted.
43:28You have two women here who've died in such tragic, unimaginable circumstances where
43:34the last person that they've seen on earth is this man, their husband, who was meant to protect them and
43:40keep them safe. But I really hope that for Lynn's family, who had a lot of unanswered questions and
43:47things were up in the air about what really happened to her, that through this trial and the answers
43:53that we got about Tony, that they got that closure in the end. But for Tony's family, there was one
44:00final issue to resolve. After the trial, Tony's daughter, after going through the custody process,
44:08was placed with and adopted by Tony's brother, who has a loving family, very healthy, loving family.
44:15She's now in college, a college student, very smart, and I'm very proud of that young lady. She's going
44:21to be a life, a world changer. I can already tell.
45:00She's now in college.
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