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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.