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A fatal fall
in the Rocky Mountains.

Toni had fallen

from the top of a cliff face.

It was 160 feet down.

A life cut short
in the blink of an eye.

Never in a million
years did I

ever think I would
never see her

again after that phone call.

Was it simply
tragic misfortune--

Harold claimed that Toni had
fallen in an absolute freak

accident when they'd
taken a spontaneous detour

off the path on their hike.

- or murder?

My name
is Allison Talley.

I live in Jackson, Mississippi,
and Toni Bertolet Henthorn

was one of my best friends.

You always want
to surround yourself

with people who lift you up
and make you a better person,

and she was
absolutely that person

that makes you a better person
in every aspect of your life.

Toni grew
up in nearby Natchez.

Her parents owned a prosperous
oil and gas business,

so Toni had quite
a privileged upbringing

alongside her two brothers.

At school, Toni was
always top of her class.

She loved athletics and she
set her sights on a career

in medicine.

Toni was the smartest, most
intelligent, most beautiful,

wisest person I knew.

She was an ophthalmologist, and
she used her gift of creativity

to be able to make
people see better.

And I loved that about her.

She was really well-liked
to have a lot of patients.

In 1999, she called me and she
said, I've met somebody.

And she said that she had met
him through a dating site.

When I met Harold in person
for the first time,

he was so handsome.

He had on a nice suit
and he's so outgoing.

We loved him.

We thought, this is great
because she was the opposite.

She was an introvert.

She was quiet.

That seemed like that would
be a good fit for her.

At the time of their meeting,
Harold was newly widowed.

He'd just lost his wife,
Lynn, five years earlier.

He came across
as a wealthy businessman.

He said he'd recently
sold his diamond business,

and now he was retired and
wanting to relax a little bit

and had moved into a new
venture raising money

for non-profit organizations.

He was excited about
meeting someone like Toni,

starting a new
life together, and

hopefully another
happily-ever-after story.

It was a bit of a whirlwind.

It moved really,
really quickly.

Within a few weeks, they-- they
got engaged on Valentine's Day,

exactly six weeks after
they met for the first time,

and the wheels really
turned fast after that.

They were married
in September of the same year.

It was just beautiful.

It was picture-perfect,
very traditional,

and we were so thrilled
that she had met somebody

that we thought would
be a long-lasting love,

and we were
so excited about it.

After two years of
happy marriage in Toni's home

state of Mississippi,
they moved nearer

to Harold's home city
of Denver, Colorado,

to begin the next
chapter of their lives.

Toni has
always wanted to be a mom,

and in June of 2005, gave birth
to a beautiful little girl.

And, um, that just--
that changed her world.

That was the most wonderful
thing that had happened

to her up to that point.

Every
year, Harold and Toni

would celebrate the life
they'd built together.

And in September 2012, 12 years
after their whirlwind marriage,

Harold had something
special planned.

This
year, he called me just

to tell me that he
has some grand plans,

this is the best anniversary
ever-- that he was

taking her on a hiking trip.

He was going to pick her
up and sweep her away.

He would have her
bags packed and

then go to the Rocky
Mountain National Park

and just spend
the weekend on a hike.

This
was their 12th

wedding anniversary,
so Harold had planned

a special surprise trip.

He'd put a lot of effort
into this, in fact.

He told Toni's colleagues
to clear her diary

and they'd got
a babysitter as well

for their seven-year-old
daughter.

So this was an extra special
trip that he had planned.

At the time,
Valeria Spencer

was assistant US attorney
for the District of Colorado.

Her jurisdiction covered 64
counties across 100,000 square

miles, including incidents on
federal land such as the Rocky

Mountain National Park.

The Rocky Mountains

range all the way from up
in Canada down to New Mexico.

So they cover most
of the Western United States

and specifically in Colorado,
about 50 miles away

from where Toni
and Harold Henthorn lived

in the Denver metro area.

The Rocky
Mountain National Park

is visited by millions of
people and tourists every year.

They go there to enjoy
the vast landscapes

and the beautiful wildlife.

There's, of course, lots
of safe paths for visitors

to enjoy, but there's
also a lot

of dangerous mountain trails
around in the National

Park, too.

This includes some
narrow cliff edges

with sheer drops
of up to 300 feet,

looking down on rocky
terrain and ravines.

This is why even experienced
hikers and walkers are

advised to stick to the route.

But on September 29,
2012, Harold, a seasoned hiker,

chose to take Toni on a
challenging three-mile route,

10,000 feet up Deer Mountain.

Setting off around 1:30 PM,
they took photos along the way,

ending at a lunch
spot where they

enjoyed the incredible views.

But as the sun began to set on
a perfect anniversary weekend,

a frantic call was made.

Harold called 911

a little bit before 6:00 PM.

He gave them information
about where he was,

but it turns out that that
information was incorrect.

And so it took park rangers
longer to get to him

than it might have otherwise.

A park ranger went
up immediately

with a pack full
of medical supplies,

not knowing exactly
what he was getting to.

And for a few hours tried
to find Harold Henthorn and

Toni Henthorn.

It was very dark by then.

He was calling out to Harold,
calling back to headquarters

to try and triangulate more
specifically where he was,

and to have him
start making noise

so that he could hear him
and be able to find him,

which eventually did.

But it was hours after
the first 911 call.

When the park
ranger eventually

arrived at the scene,
the severity of the situation

quickly became apparent.

Toni had fallen from
the top of a cliff face.

It was 160 feet down.

She landed in some
trees, and they

could tell that
because of the severity

of the broken branches,
and they could follow the blood

trail from the tree,
then down some rocks

to where she eventually lay.

Despite best
efforts from the park ranger

to save her, Toni was
pronounced dead at the scene.

After 50-year-old Toni
Henthorn's fatal fall

in the Rocky
Mountains, the news

of her tragic accident
spread quickly

to her family and friends.

On the day
of the accident, Harold

notified Toni's brother,
who is a surgeon,

a physician, that there had
been a critical accident.

Back then, they notified us.

As soon as I found out about
the accident, there's--

there's nothing worse.

Anybody that's
experienced loss or

trauma like that knows what--

what a gut-wrenching
experience it is.

And we stayed
on the phone with them

the rest of the evening
until we found

out that she had passed away.

It was an excruciating
experience

for everybody that night.

It was just
something that I hope

nobody ever has to go through.

While Toni's
loved ones in Mississippi

processed the devastating
news, park rangers

followed standard procedure
for all deadly falls

in the National Park.

They initiated
a fatality investigation,

which would eventually
be escalated

to assistant US attorney
Valeria Spencer.

Well, there was
a lot of odd things

when the investigators went
to the scene the next morning.

One of the things that was very
odd was where Toni's body was.

Her camera was found
right next to her.

Now, she didn't fall right
where she was laying,

and so that seemed to be odd
that her camera would be there.

As well, she was
out of her boots,

and Harold had indicated
that he had not

removed the boots that they
had fallen off during her fall

down the cliff side.

For the investigators,
in their experience

at the National Park,
that's very odd for somebody

to actually fall out
of their hiking boots.

And so that seemed
to be very unusual.

And the placement
of them, again

just seemed off
to the investigators.

So this
is another odd thing

that her hiking boot was
found flung really far away.

Yet her digital
camera was found

perfectly next to her body.

There's some
inconsistencies here

that they raised questions over
in terms of how she'd fallen.

Despite the peculiar
placement of Toni's camera

and hiking boots,
the scene still

suggested an unfortunate fall.

But as part of their fatality
investigation,

park rangers proceeded
to search Harold's vehicle.

They searched
through the jeep

and they found a map of Rocky
Mountain National Park,

which is not unusual.

What was unusual is
that the map was open.

There were some
things written on it,

but there was a red X right
in the area of Deer Mountain,

not on the trail, but where
Toni actually died.

Alarm bells are now ringing,

so it gets escalated
to the investigative services

branch of the National Park.

That's basically the FBI
for this kind of jurisdiction.

So the obvious question once
we have the X marking the spot

as it were is, did Toni
fall or was she pushed?

But could
a husband really

bring himself to push his
wife off a cliff to her death?

A tragic accident remained
the strongest possibility,

but the discovery
of the map led

investigators to drive
to Harold's house

to question him further.

Harold claimed that Toni had
fallen in an absolute freak

accident when they'd
taken a spontaneous detour

off the path on their hike.

They walk
at least a third of a mile

to get to the spot that
we call the lunch spot,

because we have photos where
they're eating their meal.

It is a beautiful view.

You can really see
a lot of the park there.

It's quite lovely.

And then they end up
walking over to the spot

that we then call
the cliff spot.

That is the point at which
we know Toni died.

But getting
to the cliff's edge

involved walking
on ground not normally

favored by the average hiker.

You had to climb up all
these really difficult terrains

that would have even
been tricky for really

experienced hikers.

And Toni was known to have
had three knee surgeries.

So it kind
of suggests that that

would have been quite
an extreme excursion for what

was supposed to be
a nice, relaxing

anniversary weekend trip.

He said
this was a spontaneous hike.

They ended up where they ended
up by surprise, by chance.

And in fact, when
you look at the X

and where it is on the map,
it seems that Harold

had planned it all along.

So now we have two
very different stories.

Harold then
changed the reason

he gave for clambering across
rocks to the cliff's edge.

Harold gave
several different stories.

He started off by telling the
ranger the next day that they

had seen some wild
turkeys and Toni wanted

to get some
photographs of that,

and the ranger was
a little skeptical,

and Harold picked up on that.

We checked into that later
from one of the scientists

in the park and said,
there's no wild turkeys

on that side of the park.

So X on that one.

So then Harold said, well, we
saw some deer, which would not

be unusual to see some
deer, but not something

that you would go
down bouldering

for if you had some knee
surgeries, as Toni did,

to get some pictures of them.

Then he says, we wanted
to hike down to another area

to have some romantic time,
and when you see that area,

it is inhospitable,
it's very rocky

and there's absolutely
no possible way

that there's anything
going on there,

romantic time or otherwise.

Investigators continued

to keep an open mind
on whether it was an accident

or something more sinister.

Meanwhile, in Mississippi,
Toni's friend, Allison,

began to reflect on a phone
call Harold had made

to her before Toni's death.

It was a really
weird conversation,

especially since he was
excited about telling me

about the trip,
and then it just changed

direction so many times.

It started at first,
and then he

went into down a rabbit hole of
kind of critical, very critical

of Toni and her family,
Toni and her job.

He wished she would
just quit her job

and stay home full-time.

She didn't spend enough
time with her daughter.

And I started getting that
they were probably having

marital problems
and that she was

probably planning on leaving.

And this was his last ditch
attempt at saving the marriage,

is what I honestly felt like.

So it was a roller coaster
of emotions on that phone call.

It was very interesting and--
and very not typical of a phone

call with him.

Never in a million
years did I ever

think I would never see her
again after that phone call.

When Allison met
with Toni's family the day

after Toni's passing,
she discovered they'd

had similar experiences, too.

It was her
parents and people that

were part of the immediate
family, when we started saying,

OK, well, he called me Monday,
and then somebody said,

well, he called me Tuesday.

We thought about it and we
all shared our stories

and they were all the same.

Family
and friends were

also alarmed by Harold's
behavior the day

after Toni's passing.

After Toni died, we wanted
to make contact with Harold.

And by the time we made our
first contact within 24 hours,

there was already
a full website

up on the funeral homes site.

Full website, full
of pictures, a complete bio,

a complete history
with everything.

And we all felt like
that was strange,

especially since that
website was more about Harold

than it was about Toni.

So that was kind of a red
flag right there.

And then it went immediately
into planning a funeral.

To be able to plan a funeral
within a day of a death?

There's no emotion
attached to it.

Most people wouldn't even be
able to write an obituary.

Within days,
the medical examiner

released Toni's body.

From the fall, she

had a massive head
wound, 12 broken ribs,

which then lacerated her
liver, punctured her lungs,

just caused massive
internal injuries

as well as the head wound.

At a funeral service
five days after Toni's death,

her family were
shocked to discover

that as soon as Toni's
body had been released,

Harold had quickly arranged for
her to be cremated in secret,

against their wishes.

That was about
the second or third thing

in a series
of events immediately

after the death that were,
whoa, that's not right.

About three weeks after
the funeral in Colorado,

we had a Memorial
service here in Jackson

where everybody came down,
including a few friends,

and Harold
and their daughter came down,

and we were all grieving.

And, you know, it was
just an emotional event.

And we look over
and Harold is--

he's got his two or three
friends from Colorado

and they're shaking
hands, joking around,

talking about
playing golf and very

detached from the situation.

It was more like he was
hosting a party than--

than being a part of his
wife's final goodbye,

because that was
going to be the last--

really the last tribute
to her in public.

And that is not normal at all.

By now,
Valeria and her team

were working with the FBI
and park investigators,

piecing together
the timeline of events,

and they turned their attention
to Harold's initial phone calls

to the emergency services.

During
one of the calls,

the operator was instructing
Harold how to perform CPR.

Midway through that
process, Harold

blurted out that his phone was
dying and that he needed to go,

and he hung up.

But after Harold
told the operator

that his phone was
dying, our records

showed that he made
over 20 phone calls

and 100 texts were sent.

It just told us that Harold
was not being truthful

about what was happening
that evening with Toni,

and made us question whether
or not he was performing,

um, CPR at all.

Harold had claimed
to the authorities

that he'd been given Toni
CPR for over an hour,

yet the coroner said
there were no marks

on her body, no fractures
to her ribs or her chest,

and even her lipstick
was perfectly intact.

If you'd been
giving someone CPR,

mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation, the body

would not look this way.

Investigators
also started

to zero in on Harold's claims
about the immediate moments

before Toni fell.

When Harold spoke
to investigators the day

after Toni's death, he
indicated that she was walking

and he didn't
really see her when

she fell over the cliff side.

He indicated, in fact, that
he was looking at his phone.

He'd received a text
from their babysitter

indicating their daughter
had won her soccer game.

And what Harold had said
was that Toni had fallen,

and that it took him
45 minutes to get down.

When someone's providing
a lot of very specific details,

it can also indicate
that they've

rehearsed the story,
at least internally,

because they're trying to add
some legitimacy to that story.

But actually, it
starts to indicate

that there is an element
of planning involved

in the telling of that story.

When the timeline of
Harold's story was checked out,

call records showed that
he received the text from

the babysitter at 5:54
PM at the cliff edge,

the exact same time he
called 911 after getting down

to the bottom of the cliff.

The timing just
doesn't add up.

So Valeria and her
team decided to visit

the site to find out more.

We talked about that we
needed to go up to the scene

and see it ourselves,
to be able to really

picture the different events
and how things happened.

So Harold claimed
that it took him

45 minutes from
the top of the cliff,

down to the point where
Toni had fallen to.

So when we were there, we
hiked it in two different ways.

One is that we were a spouse
who had just seen their spouse

fall, possibly to their death.

And the other way
is just to hike

it down carefully and safely.

Neither one took
more than 15 minutes.

What we know later
from the coroner

is that Toni was dead
within about 45 minutes

of the incident, and so we were
thinking the reason he said

that is he needed to build
time into the timing

so that by the time
he called 911,

Toni Henthorn was already dead.

While
visiting the scene,

Valeria made another
important discovery.

What I want to say
about the cliff

area that's very
important to know

is that the cliff
actually is raised.

That is to say that
you can't walk over it.

You have to step over several
feet to fall down the cliff.

So you have a natural
barrier between you

and falling down it.

Our conclusion
in looking at it was

that Toni had to have
been pushed because she

couldn't have fallen.

Harold Henthorn
was now the prime suspect

in the murder
of his wife, Toni,

who investigators believed
had been pushed to her death.

But with no witnesses
and no murder weapon,

investigators
were going to find

it hard to prove Toni's death
was nothing but an accident.

So people like to think that
most murder cases are found

with a smoking gun
in someone's hand

and they're
immediately arrested.

But in most cases,
that's not what happens.

What we had in Rocky Mountain
National Park that day

was a woman who died, period.

We don't know
at that time if that

was somebody who
slipped and fell

or somebody who was pushed.

And that takes some time to put
a case together to prove that.

In a bid
to find more evidence,

investigators turned
their attention to the camera

found by Toni's body.

Toni's camera
had been broken in the fall,

but the memory card
was still intact

and there was photos
on there from Toni

and Harold's time
on Deer Mountain.

There are photos of Harold
stood gripping the tree.

In one of these photos he's
wearing a white t-shirt,

but the 15 minutes later,
he's in the same spot

wearing a denim shirt.

Toni's body was found
directly under the tree

where they had that photo.

Investigators began to wonder,
was Harold luring her there?

Was he trying to show her that
this was a safe place for her

to come and have a photo?

And then once he'd
lured her there

under the pretense
of taking the photo,

had he pushed her to her death?

But then that begs the
question, why was Toni's camera

found so close to her body?

Did Harold want investigators
to find these photos of them

looking like a happy
couple so they

would never suspect he could
push his wife off a cliff?

It's highly suspicious.

Police continued to
build their case by honing in

on Harold's cell phone data.

One of the things

that people may not
realize is their phone

receives messages and phone
calls by pinging off a tower.

And so we wanted to see
where Harold's phone

had been during various
periods of time.

And we were able to trace
his phone going up

I-25, which is the road
from Harold's home up

to Rocky Mountain National Park
repeatedly over the weekends

before Toni's death.

So Harold told park
rangers that he'd only

visited the National Park once
as a kind of scouting tryout

before this anniversary trip.

But the phone
records then showed

eight or nine visits that he'd
actually made to this location.

By seeing
the cell phone tower records

and seeing his
activity on his phone,

we realized that he
was actually step

by step planning
this trip so that he

could take the opportunity
to murder his wife.

The evidence
against Harold was building,

and unbeknownst to him,
Toni's friends and family

in Mississippi were also
assisting investigators

in their case against him.

The FBI asked us to continue
talking to Harold and be

completely non-suspicious, that
we're team Harold, we're loyal,

we're on your side.

We're here to help
you out, but call

us every time you
talk to him and

give us the information back.

We became his safe space.

We became his trusted advisors
on how to navigate this.

He would make comments,
can you believe they

think I could kill my wife?

Very non-grieving,
very non-emotional.

But very-- like,
I made it this far

and then they're going to try
to convict me of something

or accuse me of something.

It may seem like
that's a hard thing

to do, giving the information
back to law enforcement,

but I'll tell you,
it's not hard.

When someone killed
your best friend,

it's actually pretty easy.

But to strengthen
their case further,

investigators needed a motive.

Harold had
indicated that Toni

had one life insurance policy
on her, a $1.5 million policy.

Within two days
of Toni's death,

and before her body
had been released

by the medical examiner, he
was asking for $1.5 million

from one of the life
insurance companies.

This is highly suspicious
because it suggests

that he was more interested
in financial gain

than grieving a loved one.

Even more unusual when
detectives started

to dig around was
that Toni didn't

have just one life insurance
policy, she had four.

We know that
Toni did not know

of that, because she had a life
insurance policy with her work,

and indicated to them that she
had no life insurance on her,

other than the policy
that she drew at work.

She had, in fact,
$4.5 million total,

which would have
made Harold a very

wealthy man upon her death.

This is really significant
because not only is there now

a large sum of money
attached to Toni's passing,

but also Harold has lied
to investigators yet again.

And they
wanted to know

why Harold Henthorn,
a supposedly

wealthy and successful
businessman in his own right,

needed this money.

Harold had told everyone that
he had a successful business

in fundraising for nonprofits,
for hospitals, and churches,

and that he was
the primary breadwinner.

Harold claimed
to friends and associates

that his fundraising
consultancy

had as many as 90 employees.

What we found out from
looking at various records

and from a search warrant
that was executed on the home

and looking through
his records,

is that Harold hadn't
worked in about 20 years.

We found business
cards that he had

made pretending
that he was doing

this entrepreneurial
business, and

the address for those business
cards was actually his home,

and he listed, like,
suite A or suite

B, which was the basement.

And so it was all a facade
and none of it was true.

It's incredibly significant
that Harold had this extreme

long-standing
deceit playing out

in the background when
we're thinking about

this potential murder case.

That really strikes
as someone who's

very capable of extreme
manipulation and deceit

and is potentially a very
narcissistic individual.

The truth about
Harold's financial situation

became even clearer when
police analyzed the couple's

shared banking accounts.

What we found
from all of those

was that Toni never
wrote a single check off

of their bank account, that
she was completely unaware

of their financial situation.

That is, Harold took
care of everything.

There were no
deposits whatsoever

from any business of Harold's
because he didn't have one.

So all the money came from
Toni, from her business,

and from oil and gas royalties
that were through her family.

You can imagine
someone like Harold

rationalizing this
behavior because he's spent

years lying about who he is.

He wants to project image
of this wealthy, powerful man

of stature.

So you can just imagine that
he's lived this life of a lie,

and he never wants the world
to know who the real Harold is.

I actually think
it's quite significant

as well, you know, Toni is
a very smart, educated woman,

and Harold was able
to maintain these lies and

this level of deceit with her.

And she didn't
notice any red flags.

And that, I think, is really
indicative of how good

Harold was at masking
his true identity.

But investigators were soon

to discover even more
shocking information

relating to Harold's past.

In the aftermath
of Toni's death,

a total of 17 warnings,
phone calls, and letters

were received by various
sources relating

to suspicions about Harold.

All these phone calls and
warnings said the same thing,

that Harold's
first wife had also

died in suspicious
circumstances,

and it needed
to be looked into.

Harold had been
married before.

He had been married
to Lynn Henthorn.

They were married
for a number of years.

There are a lot of stories
surrounding Lynn's death.

What we know is
that Harold and Lynn

had gone on a car
ride that day,

and they were in a remote
area of what's

called Douglas County, that
is South of the Denver area.

Harold and Lynn

had been out
for a nighttime drive

on a remote stretch
of highway, and

they'd stopped to change
a tire on their jeep.

According to Harold,

who was the only witness,
Lynn crawled under the car

to retrieve a lug nut that
had rolled under the car.

He told two different versions.

One is that the jack just
broke and the wheel well fell

on Lynn, and the other
one is that he

tossed the flat into the back
of the truck, which

then caused it to fall off
of the jack, and that

crushed Lynn.

Lynn sadly
died from those injuries

as she was essentially
crushed to death by the car.

Lynn's tragic
death was officially

ruled as an accident
by the coroner,

but one that ultimately
proved lucrative for Harold.

Harold was able

to receive over
$600,000 in life

insurance against Lynn's life.

One of those policies
had been taken out just

months before Lynn's death.

It turns out
Harold had actually

been living on that insurance
payout from Lynn's death,

and that was what
had enabled him

to have this image of wealth
and maintain his lifestyle.

When you compare the death
of these two women,

Lynn and Toni, two decades
apart, the circumstances

are eerily similar.

You have their partner,
Harold, taking them

on a trip in a remote place
when he is the only witness,

yet claims to never
have seen what happened.

One of the strange things
after Lynn's death was

that Harold said to a friend
that he didn't know how

a grieving husband
was supposed to act,

and that he was trying
to figure that out,

how a grieving husband should
behave after his wife has died.

That comment
from Harold, again,

speaks to somebody who wants
to, how can I manipulate you?

how can I make you believe
I'm a man in grief?

How do I need to act
to look the part?

Coupled with everything else

we know about Harold and his
levels of deception and

masking, this can be really
significant for investigators

because they might
not only be looking

at someone capable
of murder, but

perhaps even multiple murders.

But there
were even more

shocking revelations to come.

Investigators found that
Toni's fatal accident

wasn't the first
time she had been

injured in Harold's company.

Harold and Toni had
a cabin in Granby,

which is a little remote town.

They were up there
and late at night,

this is after 10:00 PM,
Harold was removing some

wood from the back balcony.

He
called Toni to come out

to bring him something
or pick up something,

and as soon as she got
to a certain point on the deck,

a beam fell-- a big large beam
that would have killed anybody.

She had turned in a way
that it missed hitting her

in a vital spot that
would have killed her,

but she was rushed
to the local hospital there.

They both insist
that there was

no domestic violence
involved, that this

was simply an accident.

But yet again, a woman
that Harold is married to

has a freak accident
in a remote location,

and Harold is the only witness.

We had heard about
the accident and--

and my husband being--
being in the medical field,

asking him about
is, hey, is she OK?

And, um, Harold blew it off.

He just kind of laughed.

He said, yeah, I
guess you heard.

I tried to kill Toni.

I didn't originally
think that was anything

to be suspicious
of until everybody

said, wake up, that was
the first attempt to kill her.

Harold Henthorn
was under investigation

for the murder
of his wife, Toni,

who was found dead
at the bottom of a cliff

in the Rocky Mountains.

The net was closing
in on him, and he knew it.

During the
investigation, towards the end,

Harold came over to the house.

He seemed worried.

He seemed, um, drained.

He-- he was a different person.

He was not naive to the fact
that this investigation

had progressed
to the point where

there were going to be
some serious charges,

um, on him for this.

He said, I do believe
that I'm in trouble here.

They think I killed Lynn and
they think I killed Toni, too.

I could never do that.

I loved-- I loved them both.

I would never-- I'm
not capable of that.

And then we got into the--
to more of the details about--

about the job situation
and financial situation.

Toni and I-- he pitched it
as Toni and he did this--

made up a story
about me working

when I really don't work.

But he said that they concocted
the whole story of him working

because they didn't
want her parents

to think that she
was not going to be

financially taken care of.

And I know for a fact
that that is not true.

That was not true.

And I knew that I had
been lied to again.

When Harold left that
night, we were emotionally

and physically drained.

We had just seen the face
of a cold-blooded murderer

in our home.

After
an investigation spanning

over two years, the FBI
were close to arresting

Harold Henthorn
for the murder of his wife.

But just as they were
preparing their case,

a critical situation emerged,
forcing them to act quickly.

We were actually
watching his financials,

and what we realized is that
Harold was moving money,

and he had moved over
$500,000 to his brother,

who lived on the East Coast,
far away from Colorado.

And that's what brought us
into action very quickly.

We felt that Harold
was going to flee.

7 News on top of a
developing story all evening.

A Highlands ranch
man already being

investigated for murdering
his first wife, arrested today

accused of murdering
his second wife.

On November
6, 2014, Harold

was arrested and charged
with the first-degree murder

of Toni Henthorn.

I was sitting
in a meeting at work

and I received a text message.

Harold's been arrested.

And my mind, it was
just a rush of emotions.

Finally, this has happened.

Everybody has done their job.

It was a great feeling
to know that he

would be held accountable.

But there was also
the possibility that he

would not be convicted.

The FBI was very clear with
us from the very beginning

that this was going
to be a difficult case.

In September 2015, three
years after Toni's death,

Harold's trial began.

In this trial, there
were no eyewitnesses,

there was no confession.

So they were relying
on convincing

this jury on circumstantial
evidence alone.

Circumstantial
evidence is often

a very difficult thing
to build, particularly

a murder case off the back of.

But there have been
very successful

convictions worldwide based on
circumstantial evidence alone.

The theme
of the case was greed.

Harold had one
compelling reason

to kill Toni Henthorn,
as that she was worth

more dead than she was alive.

When we looked at the timing
of why Harold decided

to kill Toni, it really
came down to the fact

that Toni opened her
own bank account.

She was diverting the money
from the oil and gas monies

into that account, as well
as her paycheck from work,

and she'd never
done that before.

And once she opened
that account,

Harold knew that his facade of
being a successful entrepreneur

was coming to an end, that
everyone would find out

that, in fact, he wasn't this
person who was fundraising

for non-profits,
and the way he made himself

look like such a big person
and a big businessman

was all a front.

And how was he going
to live this lifestyle?

This wasn't going
to work anymore.

Well, this is a case that's
gained national attention.

A husband accused
of pushing his wife

to her death to collect
on her insurance policies.

The life
insurance policies

were really key,
and the way in which Harold

went about getting
those policies,

that he lied to Toni,
that she didn't know she

had any of those policies.

So he had all this
money waiting for him

to make the decision
about the timing of when

he was going to, as we
would like to say,

pull the trigger on it.

And that's what
he decided to do

on their anniversary
in September 29, 2012,

was that he was going
to get rid of her.

The prosecution
team tried

to persuade the jury
that Toni's fatal fall

was no accident,
but a calculated and

cold-blooded act.

We also honed in on the fact
that this was premeditated,

and we had the records
to show from his cell phone

every time he went up to Rocky
Mountain National Park

to show that this was not,
again, a spontaneous thing.

The prosecution
also highlighted

Harold's similar patterns of
behavior on previous occasions.

The judge ruled
that the evidence

from the Lynn
Henthorn death and

from the beam incident
at the Granby cabin

could both come in at trial
and be presented to the jury.

This is really
critical to our case.

In order to prove
the premeditation

of the death
of Toni, we felt we

needed to show that this
wasn't the first time

that he had done it.

As we said to the court
and we said to the jury,

if you win the lottery,
it's a celebration.

If you win it twice,
it's an investigation.

And that's what we
use with the fact

that now Harold had two
dead wives, both under what

we painted as unusual
circumstances.

The defense really
focused on the fact

that this was really a fall,
and the fact that Lynn died

was also a tragic
accident and the two

were completely unrelated.

But Harold's defense team
did not call any witnesses,

and Harold elected not
to testify at the trial.

So the case closed with
the end of our witnesses.

With the two-week
trial now over,

the jury retired
to begin deliberations.

With each passing hour, you
start to get a little more

nervous that we have to prove
the case beyond a reasonable

doubt,
to the satisfaction of all

12 jurors on each
one of the elements

of first-degree murder.

So there's just so many
places where you might trip up

and where the jury
might think we just

didn't have quite
enough evidence.

And so you just don't know.

I was on pins and needles all
day, checking my phone all day.

It was a day that could
not pass by fast enough,

because we literally had no
idea how this was going to end.

After 10
hours of deliberations,

the jury returned
to give their verdict.

The verdict was unanimous.

It was guilty beyond
a reasonable doubt

as to the single count
first-degree murder.

So Harold Henthorn was found
guilty of first-degree murder

by the jury.

Harold's
years of deceit

had finally been exposed.

As soon as the verdict was
read, the courtroom went crazy.

I mean,
people just really

had so much pent-up
emotion and they just were

finally able to release it.

The judge had
the jury come back in

and they celebrated
with the family.

We were in the courtroom
for over an hour.

It was the time to finally
have the emotional release

that someone had
heard the story

and the jurors believed it.

And so the jurors needed
that release, too.

They wanted to come and be with
the family and say, I saw you,

I heard you.

Once the verdict was
read, an emotional exchange

between Toni Henthorn's
mom and a juror.

Take a listen as what was
said after the two hugged.

Take a listen.

I appreciated it very much,
and she just said, as one mom

to another, I feel your pain.

When I read the headline
"found guilty,"

I sat down and just--

it's like, after
such an intense day,

being able to relax
for the first time.

We all in the room cried tears
of joy and tears of sadness.

Sadness because we had lost our
friend and our-- our sister and

our mother and, you know,
happiness that this would

not happen to another person.

On December
8, 2015, Harold Henthorn

appeared in court
for sentencing,

and it was a chance
for Toni's loved ones

to look Harold in the eye
as they read out their victim

impact statements.

Toni's daughter elected
not to come to court,

and instead she had written
a letter that the family read

to the court and to Harold to
say that she no longer regarded

him as her father, and she
would only refer to him

in the future as Mr. Henthorn.

The daughter's
decision to refer to him

only as Mr. Henthorn
moving forward

goes to show the significant
emotional damage

that this family
have all experienced

as a result of his actions.

And further than that, it goes
to show that despite the fact

that there is only
circumstantial evidence, even

those closest to Harold,
to Toni and to Lynn,

are all convinced
by Harold's guilt.

The judge
then delivered

the news that Toni's loved
ones were waiting for.

Harold was sentenced
to a life sentence

without any chance of parole.

Harold will die in prison.

Then it was just
this great relief of,

we did it and it's over now.

I think it was the toughest
case that I have been a part of

and it was so rewarding
to get the verdict that we did

and to get justice for Toni
and for her daughter.

It was really quite a result
that I'm very proud of.

Harold will
spend the rest of his life

behind bars for Toni's murder.

His first wife
Lynn's cause of death

has been changed from
accidental to undetermined,

and the charge against
Harold for her murder

has been deferred until all
appeals against his life

sentence have been exhausted.

You have two
women here who've

died in such tragic,
unimaginable circumstances,

where the last person
that they've seen on earth

is this man, their husband,
who was meant to protect

them and keep them safe.

But I really hope that
for Lynn's family, who

had a lot of unanswered
questions and things

were up in the air about what
really happened to her, that

through this trial
and the answers

that we got about
Toni, that they

got that closure in the end.

But for Toni's family,

there was one final
issue to resolve.

After the trial,

Toni's daughter, after going
through the custody process,

was placed with and adopted
by Toni's brother,

who has a loving family,
very healthy, loving family.

She's now in college,
a college student, very smart,

and I'm very proud
of that young lady.

She's going to be
a life-- a world-changer.

I can already tell.