1 00:00:04,725 --> 00:00:06,727 [ bear roars ] 2 00:00:06,727 --> 00:00:09,129 NARRATOR: Wild places. 3 00:00:09,129 --> 00:00:11,251 Wilder crimes. 4 00:00:11,251 --> 00:00:14,615 These are the stories of the elite team that solves them 5 00:00:14,615 --> 00:00:18,458 in the most dangerous crime scenes in the world ‐‐ 6 00:00:18,458 --> 00:00:20,741 our national parks. 7 00:00:20,741 --> 00:00:22,222 ♪♪ 8 00:00:22,222 --> 00:00:24,825 BETH: A man having one wife die is tragic. 9 00:00:24,825 --> 00:00:28,468 A man having two wives die is suspicious. 10 00:00:28,468 --> 00:00:30,751 LORA: He could see that the vehicle had dropped 11 00:00:30,751 --> 00:00:32,192 and was laying on his wife. 12 00:00:32,192 --> 00:00:37,558 ♪♪ 13 00:00:37,558 --> 00:00:39,960 ‐ We all had that kind of sick feeling that, 14 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,762 not only did he kill Toni, 15 00:00:41,762 --> 00:00:44,685 but that would mean that he killed Lynn, too. 16 00:00:44,685 --> 00:00:47,487 ‐ There's no way that that was an accident. 17 00:00:47,487 --> 00:00:49,770 HAROLD: Hey, Gracie girl, it's Harold calling. 18 00:00:49,770 --> 00:00:51,812 ‐ Was she his lover? 19 00:00:51,812 --> 00:00:53,574 ‐ Oh, my gosh! 20 00:00:53,574 --> 00:00:55,576 [ voice breaking ] How have I not seen through this guy? 21 00:00:55,576 --> 00:00:58,098 [ animal howls ] 22 00:01:09,590 --> 00:01:11,391 ‐ Come on. [ laughs ] 23 00:01:11,391 --> 00:01:13,073 BETH: Harold's story was that 24 00:01:13,073 --> 00:01:15,275 they were coming up on their 12th‐year anniversary, 25 00:01:15,275 --> 00:01:17,357 and he was planning 26 00:01:17,357 --> 00:01:19,319 a surprise for Toni, 27 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,843 and they decided to hike Deer Mountain. 28 00:01:22,843 --> 00:01:25,566 TODD: It's not something that you would want to do 29 00:01:25,566 --> 00:01:27,447 on, supposedly, your anniversary ‐‐ 30 00:01:27,447 --> 00:01:29,369 go on this extreme hike. 31 00:01:29,369 --> 00:01:32,813 That didn't make sense to us. 32 00:01:32,813 --> 00:01:34,414 BETH: When you get to the scene, 33 00:01:34,414 --> 00:01:37,297 you realize the only reason to be where you are 34 00:01:37,297 --> 00:01:39,379 is to commit murder. 35 00:01:39,379 --> 00:01:42,102 It's a moment where you're absolutely sure 36 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:44,384 that this person killed this woman. 37 00:01:46,146 --> 00:01:48,348 Pretty quickly after Ranger Faherty's 38 00:01:48,348 --> 00:01:50,390 first and only interview with Harold, we found out 39 00:01:50,390 --> 00:01:52,633 that Harold had retained a criminal attorney, 40 00:01:52,633 --> 00:01:56,396 which basically precluded us interviewing Harold again. 41 00:01:58,238 --> 00:02:01,762 And so to get information about Harold, 42 00:02:01,762 --> 00:02:04,965 we started doing interviews with everybody. 43 00:02:04,965 --> 00:02:07,167 I talked to the Bertolets several times. 44 00:02:07,167 --> 00:02:08,609 While they believe that Harold 45 00:02:08,609 --> 00:02:11,251 might be responsible for the death of Toni, 46 00:02:11,251 --> 00:02:13,614 they maintain contact with Harold 47 00:02:13,614 --> 00:02:15,536 to keep an eye on Haley. 48 00:02:15,536 --> 00:02:17,738 They wanted to make sure Haley was okay. 49 00:02:17,738 --> 00:02:21,301 But they also were giving me updates on Harold, 50 00:02:21,301 --> 00:02:22,743 and they felt that that was a way 51 00:02:22,743 --> 00:02:25,626 that they could help in the investigation. 52 00:02:25,626 --> 00:02:27,548 We talked to the nannies, 53 00:02:27,548 --> 00:02:30,631 and they were able to tell us some things about the house. 54 00:02:30,631 --> 00:02:32,072 One of the nannies told us 55 00:02:32,072 --> 00:02:34,555 that Harold and Toni didn't sleep together, 56 00:02:34,555 --> 00:02:38,999 that they had separate areas where they slept. 57 00:02:38,999 --> 00:02:41,882 He had an office in his basement, 58 00:02:41,882 --> 00:02:45,926 but occasionally, he would also go on business trips. 59 00:02:45,926 --> 00:02:49,690 And he would go on these trips, but he wouldn't have luggage, 60 00:02:49,690 --> 00:02:52,172 and then he would just kind of show up the next day. 61 00:02:52,172 --> 00:02:55,616 And the nanny was wondering if Harold was having an affair. 62 00:02:55,616 --> 00:02:58,218 He seemed to have a secret life, 63 00:02:58,218 --> 00:03:02,182 so, alright, let's find out what we can about his business. 64 00:03:02,182 --> 00:03:06,547 CALEB: Now, the address for the business was in his basement, 65 00:03:06,547 --> 00:03:08,629 but if you talked to him, he would say, 66 00:03:08,629 --> 00:03:11,752 "I've got 10 to 12 managers reporting to me daily. 67 00:03:11,752 --> 00:03:15,676 I've got 90 employees working all over the country." 68 00:03:15,676 --> 00:03:17,397 RHONDA: We thought there was plenty of money ‐‐ 69 00:03:17,397 --> 00:03:20,240 he always portrayed himself as a wealthy person, 70 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:21,922 and we were getting word 71 00:03:21,922 --> 00:03:24,925 that they were needing money. 72 00:03:24,925 --> 00:03:27,327 I do remember that Mr. and Mrs. Bertolet 73 00:03:27,327 --> 00:03:31,491 were confused why the money seemed to be missing. 74 00:03:31,491 --> 00:03:33,614 TODD: My parents are buying the house. 75 00:03:33,614 --> 00:03:36,817 They're buying the car. They're paying for the tuition. 76 00:03:36,817 --> 00:03:39,580 That doesn't make sense. 77 00:03:39,580 --> 00:03:42,262 BETH: We couldn't find any concrete evidence of his work. 78 00:03:42,262 --> 00:03:44,505 There was no online presence, and almost everybody 79 00:03:44,505 --> 00:03:47,107 has an online presence of some sort if they have a business, 80 00:03:47,107 --> 00:03:48,989 especially if you're a fundraiser. 81 00:03:48,989 --> 00:03:50,951 All businesses need to be registered 82 00:03:50,951 --> 00:03:52,392 with the Secretary of State, 83 00:03:52,392 --> 00:03:54,354 so I was able to determine 84 00:03:54,354 --> 00:03:56,517 that Resource Development Services 85 00:03:56,517 --> 00:03:59,119 was not registered in Colorado. 86 00:03:59,119 --> 00:04:02,082 Also, on his business cards, 87 00:04:02,082 --> 00:04:05,045 Harold had CFR, Certified Fundraiser, 88 00:04:05,045 --> 00:04:08,769 and there is actually an agency that issues that certification. 89 00:04:08,769 --> 00:04:11,852 So I contacted that agency, and they indicated, 90 00:04:11,852 --> 00:04:13,894 "No, we have no idea who he is, 91 00:04:13,894 --> 00:04:16,336 and no, he's not a certified fundraiser." 92 00:04:16,336 --> 00:04:20,140 Oh, my gosh. He doesn't even have a business. 93 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:22,583 And then we received a letter 94 00:04:22,583 --> 00:04:25,465 about his first wife. 95 00:04:25,465 --> 00:04:27,868 Her name was Lynn Henthorn. 96 00:04:27,868 --> 00:04:30,751 ‐ Most people didn't know that Harold was married before 97 00:04:30,751 --> 00:04:32,633 and that his first wife had died. 98 00:04:34,555 --> 00:04:36,717 BETH: Harold's first wife, Lynn Henthorn ‐‐ 99 00:04:36,717 --> 00:04:40,200 described as a very beautiful, loving Christian woman, 100 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,643 but tragically died in an accident ‐‐ 101 00:04:42,643 --> 00:04:45,646 deemed an accident at that time, in 1995. 102 00:04:45,646 --> 00:04:47,728 CALEB: What Harold tells most people 103 00:04:47,728 --> 00:04:51,652 is Lynn died in a car accident, 104 00:04:51,652 --> 00:04:54,494 and most people aren't going to press. 105 00:04:54,494 --> 00:04:58,138 But I think what Harold says about how she died 106 00:04:58,138 --> 00:04:59,700 was completely dependent on 107 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,342 what he thought he could get away with. 108 00:05:02,342 --> 00:05:05,626 Harold said that his first wife died in a car accident, 109 00:05:05,626 --> 00:05:09,990 and he doesn't say much more than that. 110 00:05:09,990 --> 00:05:13,514 ‐ We didn't get much information out of how Lynn died. 111 00:05:13,514 --> 00:05:16,837 You know, he was very, very short on a lot of details. 112 00:05:16,837 --> 00:05:18,959 ‐ We got told that she had cancer, 113 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:20,601 then we got told it was a car accident. 114 00:05:20,601 --> 00:05:23,684 So you got told different stories, so we didn't know. 115 00:05:23,684 --> 00:05:25,686 KATHY: But I thought, "Oh, my gosh, you know, 116 00:05:25,686 --> 00:05:28,849 this is two wives for Harold that have died now." 117 00:05:30,210 --> 00:05:32,973 CALEB: In the aftermath of Toni's death, 118 00:05:32,973 --> 00:05:35,215 anonymous letters and phone calls 119 00:05:35,215 --> 00:05:38,859 and warnings start going out to a number of people. 120 00:05:38,859 --> 00:05:40,741 KATHY: Because we had some suspicions 121 00:05:40,741 --> 00:05:46,106 that Toni's death was not as Harold was making it sound, 122 00:05:46,106 --> 00:05:49,069 I made the phone call to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office. 123 00:05:49,069 --> 00:05:50,711 I did do it anonymously, 124 00:05:50,711 --> 00:05:54,154 and other people had done the same thing. 125 00:05:54,154 --> 00:05:56,997 ‐ The coroner in charge of Toni's autopsy, 126 00:05:56,997 --> 00:05:59,840 an investigative reporter at a TV station in Denver, 127 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:03,283 the FBI, National Park Service were on the receiving end 128 00:06:03,283 --> 00:06:07,487 of what ended up being 17 anonymous letters. 129 00:06:07,487 --> 00:06:11,692 ‐ The consistent theme was, "Harold's first wife died 130 00:06:11,692 --> 00:06:15,255 in similar, unusual circumstances. 131 00:06:15,255 --> 00:06:17,377 You got to look into it." 132 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:20,460 Remote locations, odd places ‐‐ 133 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:23,744 why were they there in the first place? 134 00:06:23,744 --> 00:06:26,026 Harold was not injured in any way 135 00:06:26,026 --> 00:06:27,988 in either of these incidents, 136 00:06:27,988 --> 00:06:31,431 but his spouse was killed. 137 00:06:31,431 --> 00:06:33,794 JAMES: Getting these types of anonymous calls 138 00:06:33,794 --> 00:06:36,236 and anonymous letters is unusual. 139 00:06:36,236 --> 00:06:38,318 That hasn't happened to me before. 140 00:06:38,318 --> 00:06:40,721 I've done about 8,000 cases now. 141 00:06:40,721 --> 00:06:42,963 "To whom it may concern, 142 00:06:42,963 --> 00:06:46,527 Mr. Henthorn lost his first wife about 17 years ago 143 00:06:46,527 --> 00:06:49,530 after a suspicious accident in a remote location. 144 00:06:49,530 --> 00:06:51,532 Sadly, there are many similarities 145 00:06:51,532 --> 00:06:53,413 in these two cases." 146 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:56,817 ♪♪ 147 00:06:56,817 --> 00:06:58,659 It took me three months to get 148 00:06:58,659 --> 00:07:01,461 enough of the investigative details together 149 00:07:01,461 --> 00:07:05,145 that I felt comfortable filing the death certificate, 150 00:07:05,145 --> 00:07:09,309 and I filed it as "Undetermined." 151 00:07:09,309 --> 00:07:12,833 Homicide cannot be entirely excluded. 152 00:07:12,833 --> 00:07:16,276 I've never written that kind of a comment before. 153 00:07:16,276 --> 00:07:19,920 BETH: We needed to build a history of Harold, 154 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,043 so our strategy was to start looking 155 00:07:23,043 --> 00:07:25,205 at Lynn Henthorn's death. 156 00:07:25,205 --> 00:07:27,207 ♪♪ 157 00:07:36,977 --> 00:07:40,220 ♪♪ 158 00:07:40,220 --> 00:07:45,666 BETH: So we're in where Harold and Lynn Henthorn lived 159 00:07:45,666 --> 00:07:48,188 in the early '90s, 160 00:07:48,188 --> 00:07:50,270 in Centennial, Colorado. 161 00:07:50,270 --> 00:07:52,993 ♪♪ 162 00:07:52,993 --> 00:07:58,078 Harold lived here up until he actually married Toni. 163 00:07:58,078 --> 00:08:00,480 Hearing that Harold Henthorn had a first wife, Lynn, 164 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,163 that died in suspicious circumstances ‐‐ 165 00:08:03,163 --> 00:08:05,045 we wanted to get as much information 166 00:08:05,045 --> 00:08:07,167 as we could about that. 167 00:08:07,167 --> 00:08:10,531 Harold and Lynn got married in 1984. 168 00:08:10,531 --> 00:08:13,854 ‐ Hi, Grace! Hi, Eric! 169 00:08:16,296 --> 00:08:19,339 ‐ And then she passed away in 1995. 170 00:08:19,339 --> 00:08:22,663 And what people told us about their marriage 171 00:08:22,663 --> 00:08:27,548 is Lynn's a very sweet, loving woman, very religious, 172 00:08:27,548 --> 00:08:31,351 and nothing really hugely negative about Harold 173 00:08:31,351 --> 00:08:34,875 except for it did come out that he was controlling of her. 174 00:08:34,875 --> 00:08:37,197 ♪♪ 175 00:08:37,197 --> 00:08:39,439 KIM: My name is Kim Laferrier. 176 00:08:39,439 --> 00:08:43,163 Lynn was my best friend. 177 00:08:43,163 --> 00:08:45,125 And I would definitely say 178 00:08:45,125 --> 00:08:47,528 that I was her best friend. 179 00:08:47,528 --> 00:08:49,009 Lynn told me that she had met 180 00:08:49,009 --> 00:08:50,891 somebody very special at a wedding 181 00:08:50,891 --> 00:08:53,534 and that she was very, very interested in him, 182 00:08:53,534 --> 00:08:56,577 and she told me, "His name is Harold." 183 00:08:56,577 --> 00:08:59,780 And she said, "I think you're really going to like him. 184 00:08:59,780 --> 00:09:04,264 He's a great guy, and he really seems to care about me." 185 00:09:04,264 --> 00:09:08,348 [ crickets chirping ] 186 00:09:08,348 --> 00:09:10,711 KEVIN: What are your memories from that day? Was she happy? 187 00:09:10,711 --> 00:09:12,793 ‐ She was ‐‐ Oh, yeah. She was beaming. 188 00:09:12,793 --> 00:09:15,075 KEVIN: Yeah, I seem to remember that. 189 00:09:17,197 --> 00:09:19,880 ERIC: Lynn was ‐‐ She was truly a gem. 190 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,724 She was definitely the most sensitive and loving sister, 191 00:09:23,724 --> 00:09:25,726 and she was also very timid 192 00:09:25,726 --> 00:09:27,848 in some regards and skittish. 193 00:09:27,848 --> 00:09:32,813 My gosh, there's just so many ways to try and describe her. 194 00:09:32,813 --> 00:09:34,855 I feel like she was a Christian. 195 00:09:34,855 --> 00:09:39,459 I feel like the light of God shined through her. 196 00:09:39,459 --> 00:09:43,463 As a child, she was sugar and spice and a little fireball 197 00:09:43,463 --> 00:09:44,745 at the same time. 198 00:09:44,745 --> 00:09:46,667 She was an organizer, 199 00:09:46,667 --> 00:09:49,830 and she was very competitive in sports. 200 00:09:49,830 --> 00:09:53,634 She played field hockey. She was a cheerleader. 201 00:09:53,634 --> 00:09:57,157 She wore her emotions on her sleeve. 202 00:09:57,157 --> 00:09:59,920 ♪♪ 203 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,002 LISANNE: Actually, leading up to the rehearsal dinner, 204 00:10:02,002 --> 00:10:04,244 I did not know Harold very well. 205 00:10:04,244 --> 00:10:06,286 ‐ Did you? Did any of us feel like we knew him? 206 00:10:06,286 --> 00:10:08,088 ERIC: No. No. LISANNE: Not really well. 207 00:10:08,088 --> 00:10:10,290 KEVIN: My first impressions of Harold 208 00:10:10,290 --> 00:10:15,616 was he was an outgoing, gregarious salesman type. 209 00:10:15,616 --> 00:10:18,739 And I, being a salesman myself at that time, 210 00:10:18,739 --> 00:10:22,422 I was fine with that energy. 211 00:10:22,422 --> 00:10:25,145 KIM: Harold is bigger than life. 212 00:10:25,145 --> 00:10:28,028 He smiles all the time. He laughs all the time. 213 00:10:28,028 --> 00:10:29,750 So when I first met him, I thought, 214 00:10:29,750 --> 00:10:32,873 "Gosh, this is a great guy. This guy seems wonderful." 215 00:10:32,873 --> 00:10:35,075 He was hugging Lynn all the time 216 00:10:35,075 --> 00:10:37,117 and very touchy with her 217 00:10:37,117 --> 00:10:40,440 and smiling and just made you feel warm. 218 00:10:41,962 --> 00:10:43,804 When we were moving quickly 219 00:10:43,804 --> 00:10:47,407 towards Lynn's and Harold's wedding, 220 00:10:47,407 --> 00:10:49,489 it was clear that Harold 221 00:10:49,489 --> 00:10:52,132 was in charge. 222 00:10:54,014 --> 00:10:56,857 I found it strange that Harold 223 00:10:56,857 --> 00:11:00,140 had binders and binders ‐‐ 224 00:11:00,140 --> 00:11:03,343 one binder devoted to finding a photographer, 225 00:11:03,343 --> 00:11:06,507 one binder devoted to the reception, 226 00:11:06,507 --> 00:11:10,070 one binder to the outfits they were going to wear. 227 00:11:10,070 --> 00:11:11,752 ‐ The flowers. LISANNE: The flowers. 228 00:11:11,752 --> 00:11:15,516 And he had Lynn doing research on all of these areas 229 00:11:15,516 --> 00:11:18,599 and filling in the binders with information 230 00:11:18,599 --> 00:11:21,522 so they could make the best choice. 231 00:11:21,522 --> 00:11:26,166 I remember just thinking, "Oh, my gosh, why?" 232 00:11:26,166 --> 00:11:29,449 ♪♪ 233 00:11:29,449 --> 00:11:32,292 ERIC: So Lynn and Harold got married, 234 00:11:32,292 --> 00:11:34,695 but then, almost immediately, 235 00:11:34,695 --> 00:11:37,858 Harold was saying, "We need to move to Colorado." 236 00:11:37,858 --> 00:11:39,499 So he takes her away. 237 00:11:39,499 --> 00:11:45,305 ♪♪ 238 00:11:45,305 --> 00:11:47,588 GRACE: We did visit the Inglewood home, 239 00:11:47,588 --> 00:11:49,189 and I didn't notice anything 240 00:11:49,189 --> 00:11:51,311 about their relationship at that time. 241 00:11:51,311 --> 00:11:52,472 We had a blast. 242 00:11:52,472 --> 00:11:55,235 I mean, we ‐‐ we had so much fun 243 00:11:55,235 --> 00:11:57,117 going up into the Rocky Mountains, 244 00:11:57,117 --> 00:12:01,722 and I thought everything was ‐‐ was great. 245 00:12:01,722 --> 00:12:04,525 ‐ But then, over time, 246 00:12:04,525 --> 00:12:07,367 it seemed like she became quieter 247 00:12:07,367 --> 00:12:10,731 and Harold became louder. 248 00:12:10,731 --> 00:12:14,895 We began to see more of this controlling behavior. 249 00:12:14,895 --> 00:12:17,898 LISANNE: I remember I called Lynn one day, 250 00:12:17,898 --> 00:12:20,541 and I said, "Can we talk?" 251 00:12:20,541 --> 00:12:23,063 You know, "This is a good time for me." 252 00:12:23,063 --> 00:12:24,905 And she said, "No, no, no. Can ‐‐ 253 00:12:24,905 --> 00:12:27,788 Can you call back later when Harold's here?" 254 00:12:27,788 --> 00:12:31,231 And I said, "Well, you know, can't we just talk?" 255 00:12:31,231 --> 00:12:33,954 And she said, "As a couple, 256 00:12:33,954 --> 00:12:38,118 we've decided that whenever we talk to family, 257 00:12:38,118 --> 00:12:41,001 we want to both be on the phone at the same time." 258 00:12:41,001 --> 00:12:42,442 KEVIN: Hmm. ERIC: Wow. 259 00:12:42,442 --> 00:12:45,405 ‐ And I remember thinking again, "That's so weird. 260 00:12:45,405 --> 00:12:47,487 That's so controlling." ERIC: Mm‐hmm. 261 00:12:48,609 --> 00:12:52,292 KIM: Lynn always felt like she had to honor Harold. 262 00:12:52,292 --> 00:12:55,816 It was back in the time where a lot of Christian women 263 00:12:55,816 --> 00:12:58,939 were taught that the husband was the head of the house 264 00:12:58,939 --> 00:13:02,983 and that anything they said, they had the final word there. 265 00:13:02,983 --> 00:13:06,066 And so she didn't ever buck him. 266 00:13:06,066 --> 00:13:10,791 She didn't ever question what he was saying. 267 00:13:10,791 --> 00:13:13,273 NANCY: Harold came to work many times. 268 00:13:13,273 --> 00:13:15,315 The first I met him, he came in to work. 269 00:13:15,315 --> 00:13:17,357 My first impression of Harold 270 00:13:17,357 --> 00:13:21,121 was almost immediately to want to take a step back. 271 00:13:21,121 --> 00:13:23,443 I felt him to be overbearing. 272 00:13:23,443 --> 00:13:25,405 As Lynn talked about her relationship 273 00:13:25,405 --> 00:13:27,928 with her husband and some of her personal life, 274 00:13:27,928 --> 00:13:31,011 it didn't always gel with the same Lynn we saw. 275 00:13:31,011 --> 00:13:33,053 Lynn was not a pushover. 276 00:13:33,053 --> 00:13:36,697 GRACE: Harold was early on complaining about back issues, 277 00:13:36,697 --> 00:13:39,259 and Lynn was always having to 278 00:13:39,259 --> 00:13:40,541 [ laughing ] serve him in some way. 279 00:13:40,541 --> 00:13:41,942 It always seemed like 280 00:13:41,942 --> 00:13:43,664 he was flat on his back for two weeks, 281 00:13:43,664 --> 00:13:49,149 and she was trying to work and take care of him. 282 00:13:49,149 --> 00:13:50,831 NANCY: Lynn was diagnosed ‐‐ 283 00:13:50,831 --> 00:13:52,392 I believe it's rheumatoid arthritis, 284 00:13:52,392 --> 00:13:55,155 and she was in quite a lot of pain. 285 00:13:55,155 --> 00:13:57,277 And she took medication, 286 00:13:57,277 --> 00:13:59,359 and the medication became a concern. 287 00:13:59,359 --> 00:14:01,481 She wanted to make certain that it wasn't doing anything 288 00:14:01,481 --> 00:14:03,483 to interfere with her ability to get pregnant 289 00:14:03,483 --> 00:14:05,485 or to have a child. 290 00:14:05,485 --> 00:14:07,487 There was pressure from Harold. 291 00:14:07,487 --> 00:14:09,890 She spoke often about how much Harold 292 00:14:09,890 --> 00:14:12,372 wanted her to have a child. 293 00:14:12,372 --> 00:14:15,495 I felt that that was the first time I got some indication 294 00:14:15,495 --> 00:14:18,418 that she was not comfortable with Harold right then. 295 00:14:18,418 --> 00:14:21,982 ‐ She confided in me, and she said, 296 00:14:21,982 --> 00:14:24,264 "Grace, I don't ‐‐ I don't know what to do. 297 00:14:24,264 --> 00:14:26,747 Like, we're having some marital issues, 298 00:14:26,747 --> 00:14:30,310 but he doesn't want me to talk to anyone. 299 00:14:30,310 --> 00:14:32,112 He would consider that disloyal." 300 00:14:32,112 --> 00:14:35,756 And she didn't know where to go, 301 00:14:35,756 --> 00:14:37,157 like, what to do. 302 00:14:37,157 --> 00:14:38,959 She wanted that to be a private thing, 303 00:14:38,959 --> 00:14:44,044 for me not to say anything to Harold, so I just said, 304 00:14:44,044 --> 00:14:46,647 which I feel so awful for now, 305 00:14:46,647 --> 00:14:49,730 you know, "I'll pray ‐‐" 306 00:14:49,730 --> 00:14:51,371 Um... 307 00:14:52,973 --> 00:14:54,735 [ sighs ] 308 00:14:54,735 --> 00:14:56,336 [ voice breaking ] "I'll pray for you. 309 00:14:56,336 --> 00:14:59,339 I'm so sorry you're going through that." 310 00:14:59,339 --> 00:15:00,981 [ sighs ] 311 00:15:00,981 --> 00:15:02,663 ♪♪ 312 00:15:02,663 --> 00:15:06,026 ‐ I think when Toni died, we all had that feeling that... 313 00:15:06,026 --> 00:15:07,467 ‐ Sort of sick feeling. KEVIN: ...the kind of 314 00:15:07,467 --> 00:15:09,950 sick feeling that he did it. ‐ Oh, my gosh. 315 00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:13,554 ‐ And not only did he kill Toni, but that would mean... 316 00:15:13,554 --> 00:15:18,078 ‐ That means he killed Lynn. ‐ ...that he killed Lynn, too. 317 00:15:18,078 --> 00:15:20,681 ‐ Someone driving past on this dark, deserted road 318 00:15:20,681 --> 00:15:22,322 sees Harold and Lynn's Jeep, 319 00:15:22,322 --> 00:15:26,567 and they do see Lynn, and she does look scared. 320 00:15:26,567 --> 00:15:29,570 ‐ I remember sitting up in bed thinking, 321 00:15:29,570 --> 00:15:32,412 "No one changes a tire like that." 322 00:15:32,412 --> 00:15:37,618 Nobody changes a tire the way he said he changed the tire. 323 00:15:37,618 --> 00:15:39,459 ♪♪ 324 00:15:39,459 --> 00:15:41,061 Huh. 325 00:15:41,061 --> 00:15:43,504 That's ‐‐ That's not right. 326 00:15:47,748 --> 00:15:49,429 CALEB: It's hard to know when an investigation picks up speed, 327 00:15:49,429 --> 00:15:51,071 but in the case of Toni and Lynn's deaths, 328 00:15:51,071 --> 00:15:53,193 there's an overwhelming number of people 329 00:15:53,193 --> 00:15:56,637 voicing their suspicions as loudly as they can 330 00:15:56,637 --> 00:15:58,879 to anybody who will listen. 331 00:15:58,879 --> 00:16:02,202 It was a tidal wave of people who had been involved 332 00:16:02,202 --> 00:16:06,046 in Harold or Toni or Lynn or all three of their lives 333 00:16:06,046 --> 00:16:08,488 who finally sort of snapped. 334 00:16:08,488 --> 00:16:11,051 More than a dozen said, "Something isn't right," 335 00:16:11,051 --> 00:16:13,654 and not only said it, but went so far 336 00:16:13,654 --> 00:16:17,217 as to take specific action to make sure it was investigated. 337 00:16:17,217 --> 00:16:20,380 ♪♪ 338 00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:22,142 LORA: My name is Lora Thomas. 339 00:16:22,142 --> 00:16:25,105 I was coroner in Douglas County, Colorado. 340 00:16:25,105 --> 00:16:26,827 [ knock on door ] 341 00:16:26,827 --> 00:16:30,711 In 2012, I was here at my house on a Sunday afternoon 342 00:16:30,711 --> 00:16:33,634 when someone was banging on my front door. 343 00:16:33,634 --> 00:16:36,717 So I went to the front door, and I saw a gentleman 344 00:16:36,717 --> 00:16:40,320 who I knew from the neighborhood from seeing him walk around, 345 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,324 and he says to me, "Hey, aren't you the coroner?" 346 00:16:44,324 --> 00:16:47,728 And I said, "Yes, I am the coroner." 347 00:16:47,728 --> 00:16:52,533 He told me that he belonged to Cherry Hills Community Church 348 00:16:52,533 --> 00:16:55,295 and that Toni Henthorn, who belonged to that church, 349 00:16:55,295 --> 00:17:00,220 had died in a strange fall in Rocky Mountain National Park. 350 00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:02,543 And I told him, "Well, Rocky Mountain National Park 351 00:17:02,543 --> 00:17:04,224 isn't in Douglas County." 352 00:17:04,224 --> 00:17:06,747 But he said, "This guy's first wife 353 00:17:06,747 --> 00:17:08,268 died in Douglas County 354 00:17:08,268 --> 00:17:10,711 many years ago." 355 00:17:10,711 --> 00:17:14,835 And he proceeded to tell me the story about Harold Henthorn 356 00:17:14,835 --> 00:17:17,758 and that people at the church had always thought 357 00:17:17,758 --> 00:17:20,400 that Harold was a little strange. 358 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,964 And there were a lot of stories going around the church 359 00:17:23,964 --> 00:17:25,766 about Harold's first wife, 360 00:17:25,766 --> 00:17:29,329 who had died in some kind of a car accident. 361 00:17:29,329 --> 00:17:31,772 ♪♪ 362 00:17:31,772 --> 00:17:34,214 The next morning, I went to the Sheriff's office 363 00:17:34,214 --> 00:17:38,058 and asked if I could get the case for this death, 364 00:17:38,058 --> 00:17:39,580 and they looked it up and they said, 365 00:17:39,580 --> 00:17:42,503 "Oh, that's a closed case. We'll print it for you." 366 00:17:42,503 --> 00:17:44,585 So I came home that night. 367 00:17:44,585 --> 00:17:48,308 I settled here in my office with my highlighters, 368 00:17:48,308 --> 00:17:50,310 and I started reading this case 369 00:17:50,310 --> 00:17:53,313 and highlighting all the things in it 370 00:17:53,313 --> 00:17:56,837 that were interesting of some way to me. 371 00:17:56,837 --> 00:17:59,920 ♪♪ 372 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:03,163 And by the time I was done reading that case file, 373 00:18:03,163 --> 00:18:06,607 I thought, "I agree with my neighbor. 374 00:18:06,607 --> 00:18:09,129 Something here isn't right." 375 00:18:09,129 --> 00:18:13,213 ♪♪ 376 00:18:13,213 --> 00:18:17,257 ♪♪ 377 00:18:17,257 --> 00:18:21,662 Harold claims that he was driving the road, 378 00:18:21,662 --> 00:18:25,666 and the right front tire seemed spongy, 379 00:18:25,666 --> 00:18:29,790 so he pulled over on this dirt side of the road, 380 00:18:29,790 --> 00:18:34,194 and he decided to change the tire. 381 00:18:34,194 --> 00:18:38,358 And he said he got the Jeep jack out 382 00:18:38,358 --> 00:18:42,683 and went to put it under the right front wheel well 383 00:18:42,683 --> 00:18:46,006 and realized the jack didn't work. 384 00:18:46,006 --> 00:18:47,968 So he put that jack back, 385 00:18:47,968 --> 00:18:50,410 but he happened to have two boat jacks 386 00:18:50,410 --> 00:18:52,212 in the back of the Jeep, 387 00:18:52,212 --> 00:18:56,577 and he used the boat jacks to jack up the vehicle. 388 00:18:56,577 --> 00:19:00,460 ‐ There's two types of jacks involved in this, um, incident. 389 00:19:00,460 --> 00:19:03,023 One is a regular car jack. 390 00:19:03,023 --> 00:19:05,265 The other jack was a boat jack, 391 00:19:05,265 --> 00:19:08,909 which is basically a tube with another telescoping tube 392 00:19:08,909 --> 00:19:10,551 that comes out of it ‐‐ 393 00:19:10,551 --> 00:19:13,834 not safe for a car. 394 00:19:13,834 --> 00:19:16,637 His story is that this car jack, 395 00:19:16,637 --> 00:19:19,039 this more stable one, didn't work, 396 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:23,924 so he used a boat jack to jack up the car. 397 00:19:23,924 --> 00:19:29,570 ‐ So then he said he had taken the lug nuts off of the wheel, 398 00:19:29,570 --> 00:19:34,054 and he said that Lynn had a cloth in her hand, 399 00:19:34,054 --> 00:19:37,417 and he handed her the lug nuts. 400 00:19:37,417 --> 00:19:40,180 He pulled the tire off, 401 00:19:40,180 --> 00:19:43,183 and then he said he went to the back of the Jeep, 402 00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:47,347 and he tossed the tire into the back of the Jeep, 403 00:19:47,347 --> 00:19:51,351 and that when he did that, it dislodged the Jeep. 404 00:19:51,351 --> 00:19:53,554 And he heard a scream, 405 00:19:53,554 --> 00:19:56,436 and he said he ran to the front of the vehicle 406 00:19:56,436 --> 00:19:58,559 and he could see that the vehicle had dropped 407 00:19:58,559 --> 00:20:00,320 and was laying on his wife. 408 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,524 ♪♪ 409 00:20:03,524 --> 00:20:07,127 ‐ There's Lynn, trapped under the rotor, the brake rotor, 410 00:20:07,127 --> 00:20:09,690 'cause he hadn't put the other tire back on yet. 411 00:20:09,690 --> 00:20:14,454 His version was that Lynn must have dropped the lug nuts 412 00:20:14,454 --> 00:20:18,899 and gone to crawl under the car to get the lug nuts, 413 00:20:18,899 --> 00:20:22,743 because there were lug nuts in the photos of the scene. 414 00:20:22,743 --> 00:20:24,304 There were lug nuts under the car. 415 00:20:24,304 --> 00:20:28,909 ♪♪ 416 00:20:28,909 --> 00:20:30,511 BETH: One of the questions we had 417 00:20:30,511 --> 00:20:34,234 is actually, how did Lynn get under that rotor? 418 00:20:34,234 --> 00:20:36,917 'Cause when you jack up a car, you do it only to the degree 419 00:20:36,917 --> 00:20:38,438 that you're able to pull the tire off 420 00:20:38,438 --> 00:20:40,040 to replace the tire, 421 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,483 and that space is not that great. 422 00:20:43,483 --> 00:20:45,806 And, again, to get under a rotor 423 00:20:45,806 --> 00:20:47,648 and to eventually get crushed by it 424 00:20:47,648 --> 00:20:51,491 is very unusual. 425 00:20:51,491 --> 00:20:53,534 CALEB: There are multiple eyewitnesses 426 00:20:53,534 --> 00:20:57,538 to the aftermath of the accident that killed Lynn. 427 00:20:57,538 --> 00:20:59,139 MONTOYA: We could see, you know, some legs 428 00:20:59,139 --> 00:21:01,021 coming out from the bottom of the car, 429 00:21:01,021 --> 00:21:04,384 and her husband came over, and he started screaming at us, 430 00:21:04,384 --> 00:21:06,026 "Don't touch her. Leave her alone." 431 00:21:13,674 --> 00:21:15,956 BETH: We felt that our investigation 432 00:21:15,956 --> 00:21:18,599 wasn't into the homicide of Lynn Henthorn. 433 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:22,683 Our investigation was into the death of Lynn Henthorn. 434 00:21:22,683 --> 00:21:24,084 Douglas County's investigation 435 00:21:24,084 --> 00:21:26,086 was into the homicide of Lynn Henthorn. 436 00:21:26,086 --> 00:21:29,049 At the end of the day, we couldn't prosecute that case, 437 00:21:29,049 --> 00:21:31,051 but we wanted to learn as much as we could. 438 00:21:31,051 --> 00:21:34,414 ♪♪ 439 00:21:34,414 --> 00:21:37,738 DAVE: I'm Dave Weaver. Douglas County Sheriff's Office. 440 00:21:37,738 --> 00:21:40,460 I got a call from Beth Shott, asking us to look into 441 00:21:40,460 --> 00:21:44,064 the death of Lynn Henthorn. 442 00:21:44,064 --> 00:21:47,628 This coincided with the death of Toni Henthorn, 443 00:21:47,628 --> 00:21:49,950 who was Harold Henthorn's second wife. 444 00:21:49,950 --> 00:21:52,993 There were some suspicions that both wives had died 445 00:21:52,993 --> 00:21:58,639 in an isolated location under questionable circumstances. 446 00:21:58,639 --> 00:22:01,962 I was given the Lynn Henthorn case to reinvestigate 447 00:22:01,962 --> 00:22:05,085 in January of 2013. 448 00:22:05,085 --> 00:22:07,928 ♪♪ 449 00:22:07,928 --> 00:22:10,651 Getting a case that old, 18 years old, 450 00:22:10,651 --> 00:22:15,135 I had to sit down and analyze what was available to me. 451 00:22:15,135 --> 00:22:17,938 Who are the witnesses I should talk to? 452 00:22:17,938 --> 00:22:20,340 Are they available? How can I find them? 453 00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:22,543 And then, would they have information 454 00:22:22,543 --> 00:22:26,146 that had not been previously known? 455 00:22:26,146 --> 00:22:30,991 ♪♪ 456 00:22:30,991 --> 00:22:33,634 Well, Dwight DeVries, when I interviewed him, 457 00:22:33,634 --> 00:22:36,837 stopped to offer assistance. 458 00:22:36,837 --> 00:22:39,359 Harold was standing outside the car. 459 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,602 Lynn was still in the car. 460 00:22:41,602 --> 00:22:43,083 Dwight described to me 461 00:22:43,083 --> 00:22:47,047 that Lynn had a frightened look on her face. 462 00:22:47,047 --> 00:22:50,611 He also said that Harold just wanted him out of there. 463 00:22:50,611 --> 00:22:52,212 So Dwight said, "Well, if you don't want me 464 00:22:52,212 --> 00:22:55,375 to help you change the tire, you want me to park here 465 00:22:55,375 --> 00:22:57,297 so I can illuminate the area for you?" 466 00:22:57,297 --> 00:22:59,940 Harold was insistent, "I don't need your help." 467 00:22:59,940 --> 00:23:02,062 Essentially, "Get out of here." 468 00:23:02,062 --> 00:23:04,024 You know, "Just leave me alone." 469 00:23:04,024 --> 00:23:07,748 ♪♪ 470 00:23:07,748 --> 00:23:11,592 Then I discovered in the documentation 471 00:23:11,592 --> 00:23:15,435 one of the first witnesses on scene. 472 00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:18,478 When I called her up, just out of the blue, 473 00:23:18,478 --> 00:23:20,080 said, "Hello, I'm Detective Dave Weaver, 474 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,042 Douglas County Sheriff's Office." 475 00:23:22,042 --> 00:23:23,884 And I said, "Can you think of any reason 476 00:23:23,884 --> 00:23:25,205 why a detective from Douglas County 477 00:23:25,205 --> 00:23:27,127 would want to call you and talk to you?" 478 00:23:27,127 --> 00:23:29,530 And her response to me was, 479 00:23:29,530 --> 00:23:32,533 "That lady from on the mountain. 480 00:23:32,533 --> 00:23:35,816 I still have nightmares about that." 481 00:23:35,816 --> 00:23:38,138 ♪♪ 482 00:23:38,138 --> 00:23:40,220 MONTOYA: It was on a Saturday night. 483 00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:42,462 We went around a curve, and there's a man 484 00:23:42,462 --> 00:23:47,267 standing in the middle of the road with a flasher. 485 00:23:47,267 --> 00:23:51,592 We pulled over, and he told us that there was an accident, 486 00:23:51,592 --> 00:23:53,273 that they had a flat, 487 00:23:53,273 --> 00:23:57,117 and his wife got stuck under the car. 488 00:23:57,117 --> 00:24:01,001 We looked at each other, and we could see, you know, 489 00:24:01,001 --> 00:24:05,445 some legs coming out from the bottom of the car. 490 00:24:05,445 --> 00:24:07,207 We all got out of the truck, 491 00:24:07,207 --> 00:24:11,972 and we got her out of the car ‐‐ from underneath the car. 492 00:24:11,972 --> 00:24:13,854 And we were gently turning her over 493 00:24:13,854 --> 00:24:16,136 because she was on her stomach. 494 00:24:16,136 --> 00:24:19,299 We're doing the CPR, and her husband came over, 495 00:24:19,299 --> 00:24:21,221 and he started screaming at us. 496 00:24:21,221 --> 00:24:24,224 "Don't touch her. Leave her alone. 497 00:24:24,224 --> 00:24:29,469 What the 'F' are you doing? Get the 'F' away from her." 498 00:24:29,469 --> 00:24:32,112 At that point, she's turning blue. 499 00:24:32,112 --> 00:24:34,394 Her husband, he had a nice coat on, 500 00:24:34,394 --> 00:24:40,400 and he didn't take his coat off to cover her like we did. 501 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,123 We could hear the sirens coming, 502 00:24:43,123 --> 00:24:45,646 and that's when the guys start asking him, 503 00:24:45,646 --> 00:24:48,208 "Well, how did she get underneath that car?" 504 00:24:48,208 --> 00:24:50,170 And he replied, "Well, 505 00:24:50,170 --> 00:24:53,253 there's a lug nut that rolled under there. 506 00:24:53,253 --> 00:24:55,976 She must have been going to get it." 507 00:24:55,976 --> 00:24:58,018 What kind of dumbass would let his wife 508 00:24:58,018 --> 00:24:59,900 go underneath that car for a lug nut? 509 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:02,422 You don't need one lug nut. 510 00:25:02,422 --> 00:25:05,586 And when he heard the sirens coming, 511 00:25:05,586 --> 00:25:09,670 the look on his face was, like, in a panic, more of a panic, 512 00:25:09,670 --> 00:25:13,033 instead of gladness that, 513 00:25:13,033 --> 00:25:15,756 "There's help coming for my wife." 514 00:25:15,756 --> 00:25:19,119 It was creepier than ever. 515 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,121 There's no way that that was an accident. 516 00:25:21,121 --> 00:25:23,644 [ sirens wailing ] 517 00:25:25,926 --> 00:25:28,969 DAVE: As I was doing the case investigation, 518 00:25:28,969 --> 00:25:33,373 three things kind of struck me as, "Is this possible?" 519 00:25:33,373 --> 00:25:35,896 Why would Lynn be in that position to begin with? 520 00:25:35,896 --> 00:25:37,658 That was number one. 521 00:25:37,658 --> 00:25:41,542 Number two is, could I get the Jeep to fall off the jacks 522 00:25:41,542 --> 00:25:46,146 the way they had to have fallen off the way Harold described it? 523 00:25:46,146 --> 00:25:50,751 And the third thing is lug nuts aren't round. 524 00:25:50,751 --> 00:25:52,993 They don't roll. 525 00:25:52,993 --> 00:25:55,155 BETH: Did it happen the way Harold said it happened? 526 00:25:55,155 --> 00:25:58,038 'Cause it's a very bizarre sequence of events, 527 00:25:58,038 --> 00:26:00,841 especially for a man who's so obsessed with safety, 528 00:26:00,841 --> 00:26:02,282 as allegedly Harold was, 529 00:26:02,282 --> 00:26:05,365 to jack this car up using an unsafe jack 530 00:26:05,365 --> 00:26:07,848 and then try to change a tire. 531 00:26:07,848 --> 00:26:10,210 ♪♪ 532 00:26:10,210 --> 00:26:13,453 Douglas County recreated the events as described by Harold 533 00:26:13,453 --> 00:26:15,215 for the investigation. 534 00:26:15,215 --> 00:26:16,697 Let's try this now. 535 00:26:20,220 --> 00:26:21,902 Okay. 536 00:26:21,902 --> 00:26:23,343 Nothing. 537 00:26:23,343 --> 00:26:25,906 So, let me put a little pressure this way. 538 00:26:25,906 --> 00:26:27,147 [ car squeaks ] 539 00:26:28,188 --> 00:26:29,710 [ car squeaks ] 540 00:26:29,710 --> 00:26:31,712 ♪♪ 541 00:26:31,712 --> 00:26:33,594 Nothing. ‐ You can't replicate it 542 00:26:33,594 --> 00:26:35,035 the way he says it happened. 543 00:26:35,035 --> 00:26:36,717 ♪♪ 544 00:26:36,717 --> 00:26:37,958 BETH: Oh! 545 00:26:45,445 --> 00:26:47,688 BETH: We were trying to pull in elements of Lynn's death 546 00:26:47,688 --> 00:26:50,651 into our case. 547 00:26:50,651 --> 00:26:53,614 When Dave Weaver was assigned to the case, 548 00:26:53,614 --> 00:26:56,096 he opened it up as a possible homicide, 549 00:26:56,096 --> 00:27:00,060 and he was looking at it as, is that even physically possible 550 00:27:00,060 --> 00:27:04,224 for someone to crawl under a car to get lug nuts 551 00:27:04,224 --> 00:27:08,188 and then have this jack collapse? 552 00:27:08,188 --> 00:27:11,872 ♪♪ 553 00:27:11,872 --> 00:27:14,074 CALEB: Lora Thomas is the coroner in Douglas County, 554 00:27:14,074 --> 00:27:16,116 and she has a lot of questions about Lynn's death. 555 00:27:16,116 --> 00:27:18,919 So much so that she hired someone 556 00:27:18,919 --> 00:27:21,962 to reconstruct the accident that took Lynn. 557 00:27:21,962 --> 00:27:24,685 LORA: After I went through this whole case, 558 00:27:24,685 --> 00:27:29,129 I called Arnie Wheat, and he came to Douglas County 559 00:27:29,129 --> 00:27:32,132 and drove around and looked at the scene 560 00:27:32,132 --> 00:27:34,775 to get a better feel for what had happened. 561 00:27:34,775 --> 00:27:40,140 ♪♪ 562 00:27:40,140 --> 00:27:42,142 ARNOLD: My name is Arnold Wheat. 563 00:27:42,142 --> 00:27:45,986 Lora asked us to look at this particular death investigation 564 00:27:45,986 --> 00:27:47,307 from the perspective of 565 00:27:47,307 --> 00:27:49,590 a traffic accident reconstructionist. 566 00:27:49,590 --> 00:27:51,071 ♪♪ 567 00:27:51,071 --> 00:27:52,753 Accident reconstruction is sort of like 568 00:27:52,753 --> 00:27:54,314 putting a jigsaw puzzle together ‐‐ 569 00:27:54,314 --> 00:27:56,997 you take the pieces of information 570 00:27:56,997 --> 00:27:58,559 and factual information, 571 00:27:58,559 --> 00:28:02,402 and try to put them together to see if they fit 572 00:28:02,402 --> 00:28:06,607 to form a more complete picture of what happened. 573 00:28:06,607 --> 00:28:08,569 Where was the vehicle positioned? 574 00:28:08,569 --> 00:28:10,611 What's the terrain look like? 575 00:28:10,611 --> 00:28:12,773 You look at the gravel surface 576 00:28:12,773 --> 00:28:15,536 that this Jeep was parked on. 577 00:28:15,536 --> 00:28:19,299 There was a grade going uphill from the rear 578 00:28:19,299 --> 00:28:22,142 towards the front of the vehicle. 579 00:28:22,142 --> 00:28:25,265 Why would lug nuts roll uphill 580 00:28:25,265 --> 00:28:27,548 on a gravel surface? 581 00:28:29,309 --> 00:28:31,592 So, let's go ahead and take that tire off. 582 00:28:31,592 --> 00:28:35,475 ♪♪ 583 00:28:35,475 --> 00:28:39,399 ♪♪ 584 00:28:39,399 --> 00:28:41,962 So, based on the crime scene investigation, 585 00:28:41,962 --> 00:28:45,365 we're going to replicate with this exemplar vehicle 586 00:28:45,365 --> 00:28:47,207 the layout of all the physical evidence ‐‐ 587 00:28:47,207 --> 00:28:48,889 that includes the lug nuts, 588 00:28:48,889 --> 00:28:52,412 the positioning of the bottle jacks, 589 00:28:52,412 --> 00:28:54,454 and then hopefully also replicate 590 00:28:54,454 --> 00:28:58,418 the vehicle's movement off of the bottle jacks. 591 00:28:58,418 --> 00:29:00,260 It'd be ‐‐ Yeah, there you go. 592 00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:02,142 BETH: Is that about right? ‐ Yeah. 593 00:29:02,142 --> 00:29:08,148 ♪♪ 594 00:29:08,148 --> 00:29:12,593 So, one of the versions that Harold gave ‐‐ 595 00:29:12,593 --> 00:29:17,117 Lynn's here, six feet away from the Jeep. 596 00:29:17,117 --> 00:29:20,681 He takes the tire. He walks to the back. 597 00:29:20,681 --> 00:29:22,563 Puts the tire in the back. 598 00:29:22,563 --> 00:29:25,566 Whatever he did caused the Jeep to fall off the jack. 599 00:29:25,566 --> 00:29:29,209 ‐ But look at the time interval. 600 00:29:29,209 --> 00:29:33,413 From the time he picks up the flat tire, 601 00:29:33,413 --> 00:29:35,536 goes roughly 12 feet to the back corner... 602 00:29:35,536 --> 00:29:38,979 ‐ Yes. ‐ ...to put the tire in, 603 00:29:38,979 --> 00:29:41,421 she moves closer to the vehicle, 604 00:29:41,421 --> 00:29:46,066 then drops the lug nuts, allegedly, 605 00:29:46,066 --> 00:29:49,389 and then gets down on her stomach 606 00:29:49,389 --> 00:29:52,232 and crawls up underneath. 607 00:29:52,232 --> 00:29:54,995 So, I mean, that timing just doesn't make sense, 608 00:29:54,995 --> 00:29:58,158 because it would take more time, I believe, 609 00:29:58,158 --> 00:30:01,361 for her to do all of those activities 610 00:30:01,361 --> 00:30:04,284 than it would for him to come around 611 00:30:04,284 --> 00:30:07,568 and put the tire in the back of the Jeep. 612 00:30:07,568 --> 00:30:11,532 ‐ No logical person would crawl under a rotor that's jacked up. 613 00:30:11,532 --> 00:30:13,814 DAVE: Especially with her having arthritis. 614 00:30:13,814 --> 00:30:15,576 ‐ Right. 615 00:30:15,576 --> 00:30:19,299 ARNOLD: The other inconsistency is both the medical people 616 00:30:19,299 --> 00:30:22,302 as well as the coroner's office, when they did the autopsy, 617 00:30:22,302 --> 00:30:23,864 there was nothing in her fingernails. 618 00:30:23,864 --> 00:30:25,305 There was nothing on her hands 619 00:30:25,305 --> 00:30:28,709 indicating that she was struggling. 620 00:30:28,709 --> 00:30:31,632 ARNOLD: You would think, if she was laying on her stomach 621 00:30:31,632 --> 00:30:35,355 and had an axle drop on her back, 622 00:30:35,355 --> 00:30:39,760 that she may have clawed her way or tried to move. 623 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,122 BETH: Even if you know nothing about cars and changing tires, 624 00:30:42,122 --> 00:30:45,045 I don't know anybody who would put, basically, a weapon 625 00:30:45,045 --> 00:30:46,527 right above their back. 626 00:30:48,729 --> 00:30:51,892 And I've changed many a tire, 627 00:30:51,892 --> 00:30:54,535 and I've had many a bad back, 628 00:30:54,535 --> 00:30:59,139 so if I was Harold, who allegedly had a bad back, 629 00:30:59,139 --> 00:31:01,461 you wouldn't just pick the tire up and throw it in. 630 00:31:01,461 --> 00:31:03,664 But that's what he said he did, right? 631 00:31:03,664 --> 00:31:05,345 ♪♪ 632 00:31:05,345 --> 00:31:06,747 DAVE: That's my understanding, yes. 633 00:31:06,747 --> 00:31:10,070 Okay, so I'm going to pick the tire up... 634 00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:13,153 which is pretty heavy, and I'm going to throw it in. 635 00:31:16,196 --> 00:31:18,158 Okay. 636 00:31:18,158 --> 00:31:20,160 Didn't do anything, didn't knock it off. 637 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,962 Realistically, if you were going to put a tire 638 00:31:21,962 --> 00:31:26,006 in a jacked‐up car, you probably wouldn't throw it in. 639 00:31:26,006 --> 00:31:28,288 You'd probably place it in. 640 00:31:30,971 --> 00:31:32,412 Nothing. 641 00:31:32,412 --> 00:31:34,815 So let me put a little pressure this way. 642 00:31:34,815 --> 00:31:38,458 [ car squeaks ] 643 00:31:40,541 --> 00:31:41,782 Nothing. 644 00:31:44,264 --> 00:31:48,108 ‐ Your difficulty in getting the vehicle to fall down 645 00:31:48,108 --> 00:31:51,632 may have resulted in Harold lowering the bottle jack. 646 00:31:51,632 --> 00:31:53,714 ‐ Right. 647 00:31:53,714 --> 00:31:56,236 ‐ She was unconscious. ARNOLD: Yeah. 648 00:31:56,236 --> 00:31:58,238 And it just knocked it over. 649 00:31:58,238 --> 00:32:00,120 ♪♪ 650 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,844 DAVE: Maybe she was given some kind of narcotic or sedative 651 00:32:03,844 --> 00:32:06,687 that made her more malleable in his hands 652 00:32:06,687 --> 00:32:10,490 that he would have been able to physically place her there. 653 00:32:10,490 --> 00:32:12,012 BETH: So she would have had to have been 654 00:32:12,012 --> 00:32:13,493 in that position, regardless. DAVE: Correct. 655 00:32:13,493 --> 00:32:16,376 And for some period of time. 656 00:32:16,376 --> 00:32:18,619 ‐ Right. 657 00:32:18,619 --> 00:32:20,460 Let's try this now. 658 00:32:20,460 --> 00:32:22,863 DAVE: Lowering the bottle jack... 659 00:32:22,863 --> 00:32:26,627 ♪♪ 660 00:32:26,627 --> 00:32:28,228 BETH: Oh! 661 00:32:28,228 --> 00:32:30,951 ♪♪ 662 00:32:30,951 --> 00:32:32,513 ARNOLD: That's it. ‐ That's it. 663 00:32:32,513 --> 00:32:34,074 BETH: That makes a lot more sense. 664 00:32:34,074 --> 00:32:36,436 That's something Harold could control. 665 00:32:36,436 --> 00:32:39,279 ‐ You can't replicate it the way he says it happened. 666 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:42,082 ‐ Our conclusion is Harold could have actually released 667 00:32:42,082 --> 00:32:45,005 that bottle jack, and it could have lowered 668 00:32:45,005 --> 00:32:49,049 directly onto her very rapidly. 669 00:32:49,049 --> 00:32:51,211 Releasing it down is the most controlled. 670 00:32:51,211 --> 00:32:54,334 ♪♪ 671 00:32:54,334 --> 00:32:57,457 ♪♪ 672 00:32:57,457 --> 00:33:00,100 We needed to build a history of Harold. 673 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:01,902 We're not proving that Harold killed Lynn, 674 00:33:01,902 --> 00:33:04,384 but we wanted to introduce Lynn Henthorn's death 675 00:33:04,384 --> 00:33:08,789 into our case if Lynn is a precursor to killing Toni. 676 00:33:08,789 --> 00:33:12,993 ♪♪ 677 00:33:12,993 --> 00:33:17,157 ♪♪ 678 00:33:17,157 --> 00:33:18,719 DAVE: This wasn't found out until y'all started 679 00:33:18,719 --> 00:33:21,121 your investigation of Toni's death 680 00:33:21,121 --> 00:33:25,205 that his insurance double paid because it was an accident. 681 00:33:25,205 --> 00:33:26,446 BETH: Right. 682 00:33:27,447 --> 00:33:29,690 Harold Henthorn had purchased life insurance 683 00:33:29,690 --> 00:33:32,573 several months prior to Lynn's death. 684 00:33:32,573 --> 00:33:37,417 This policy for $150,000 with a rider on it 685 00:33:37,417 --> 00:33:40,661 that if she died in a "car accident," 686 00:33:40,661 --> 00:33:44,344 it doubled the insurance to $300,000. 687 00:33:44,344 --> 00:33:46,787 ARNOLD: When Lora Thomas got our report 688 00:33:46,787 --> 00:33:48,709 and finished her investigation, 689 00:33:48,709 --> 00:33:51,712 she changed the official cause of death 690 00:33:51,712 --> 00:33:54,715 from accidental to indeterminate 691 00:33:54,715 --> 00:33:56,196 on the death certificate 692 00:33:56,196 --> 00:33:59,159 and reissued it. 693 00:33:59,159 --> 00:34:04,324 ‐ What was really important to me was for Lynn's family 694 00:34:04,324 --> 00:34:08,609 to know that the death certificate had been changed 695 00:34:08,609 --> 00:34:12,813 so they would know that Lynn was still remembered 696 00:34:12,813 --> 00:34:15,616 and that she wasn't forgotten. 697 00:34:22,462 --> 00:34:23,664 I interviewed several women that Harold dated. 698 00:34:23,664 --> 00:34:25,265 CALEB: Some of these women 699 00:34:25,265 --> 00:34:26,747 described the dates they'd been on with Harold, 700 00:34:26,747 --> 00:34:29,830 and they range from minorly uncomfortable 701 00:34:29,830 --> 00:34:31,512 to, "I thought he was going to drive me off the road 702 00:34:31,512 --> 00:34:33,233 and kill me." 703 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,962 CALEB: After Lynn's death, Harold wants to marry again, 704 00:34:41,962 --> 00:34:46,767 so he does create a profile on ChristianMatchmakers.com. 705 00:34:46,767 --> 00:34:48,088 He's saying he wants romance. 706 00:34:48,088 --> 00:34:50,170 He's saying he wants eternal love. 707 00:34:50,170 --> 00:34:52,452 He's saying he wants a Christian spouse 708 00:34:52,452 --> 00:34:53,814 to share his life with. 709 00:34:53,814 --> 00:34:55,656 [ mouse clicks ] 710 00:34:55,656 --> 00:34:58,859 BETH: He's presenting himself as this successful businessman 711 00:34:58,859 --> 00:35:01,702 with his own business, Resource Development Services. 712 00:35:01,702 --> 00:35:03,303 He's got a business card. 713 00:35:03,303 --> 00:35:05,986 He's got notepads with that on it. 714 00:35:05,986 --> 00:35:09,550 This persona is far from the truth. 715 00:35:09,550 --> 00:35:11,832 ‐ I interviewed several women that Harold dated 716 00:35:11,832 --> 00:35:15,195 between Lynn's death and marriage to Toni, 717 00:35:15,195 --> 00:35:20,040 and every one of them said he was super, super controlling. 718 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,604 ‐ One of Harold's ex‐girlfriends came forward pretty quickly 719 00:35:23,604 --> 00:35:26,927 after Toni died, saying, "This is suspicious." 720 00:35:26,927 --> 00:35:30,050 She told us that she knew Harold and Lynn Henthorn 721 00:35:30,050 --> 00:35:32,452 and was friends with them, and that when Lynn died, 722 00:35:32,452 --> 00:35:34,414 she and Harold actually started dating 723 00:35:34,414 --> 00:35:37,497 pretty quickly after ‐‐ within months of Lynn's death. 724 00:35:37,497 --> 00:35:41,982 And then Harold started controlling her. 725 00:35:41,982 --> 00:35:43,984 She also told us that they had an argument, 726 00:35:43,984 --> 00:35:47,868 and Harold actually pinned her down to a wall 727 00:35:47,868 --> 00:35:50,791 until she agreed that he was correct 728 00:35:50,791 --> 00:35:52,553 and she was wrong, 729 00:35:52,553 --> 00:35:54,635 and she said it scared her, 730 00:35:54,635 --> 00:35:57,678 and she decided she wanted to call it off. 731 00:35:59,359 --> 00:36:03,203 ‐ One woman he dated said that he left sunglasses somewhere ‐‐ 732 00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:06,286 he said, "You go get these sunglasses for me, 733 00:36:06,286 --> 00:36:08,248 and I'll come pick them up at 8:00." 734 00:36:08,248 --> 00:36:09,810 And she went to go get the sunglasses, 735 00:36:09,810 --> 00:36:11,051 but the place was closed. 736 00:36:11,051 --> 00:36:12,212 She goes to work. 737 00:36:12,212 --> 00:36:13,534 Harold calls her 738 00:36:13,534 --> 00:36:15,455 and starts yelling at her on the phone. 739 00:36:15,455 --> 00:36:17,778 Hangs up, and he shows up at her place of business 740 00:36:17,778 --> 00:36:19,419 and is badgering her. 741 00:36:19,419 --> 00:36:23,063 And, finally, her boss had to get Harold to leave. 742 00:36:23,063 --> 00:36:26,507 ♪♪ 743 00:36:26,507 --> 00:36:28,709 There's another woman he dated ‐‐ 744 00:36:28,709 --> 00:36:31,231 They go to Estes Park. 745 00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:32,673 She says, "We're sitting in the Jeep, 746 00:36:32,673 --> 00:36:34,354 and Harold says, 'You know, I could kill you 747 00:36:34,354 --> 00:36:35,796 and leave you here. 748 00:36:35,796 --> 00:36:38,278 No one would find you 'till springtime.'" 749 00:36:38,278 --> 00:36:41,882 ♪♪ 750 00:36:41,882 --> 00:36:43,804 He drove her home. 751 00:36:43,804 --> 00:36:45,285 She called him that night, 752 00:36:45,285 --> 00:36:47,768 said "I never want to see you ever again." 753 00:36:49,650 --> 00:36:51,652 He shows up at her apartment, 754 00:36:51,652 --> 00:36:53,133 like, at 3:00 in the morning or something. 755 00:36:53,133 --> 00:36:54,535 [ knocking on door ] 756 00:36:54,535 --> 00:36:56,777 He's banging on the doors and everything. 757 00:36:56,777 --> 00:37:01,662 ♪♪ 758 00:37:01,662 --> 00:37:04,865 ‐ And some of the women he dates find out pretty quickly 759 00:37:04,865 --> 00:37:09,429 that he is extraordinarily focused on their finances 760 00:37:09,429 --> 00:37:10,791 and what they make 761 00:37:10,791 --> 00:37:13,714 and what sort of families they come from. 762 00:37:13,714 --> 00:37:19,720 ‐ He was very interested in how I owned my home. 763 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:22,643 He wanted to know who paid for it, 764 00:37:22,643 --> 00:37:25,125 wanted to know if it was my house, 765 00:37:25,125 --> 00:37:30,010 and I said, "No, it belongs to me, 766 00:37:30,010 --> 00:37:32,933 but it also belongs to my mom and my sister." 767 00:37:32,933 --> 00:37:37,377 And he was disgruntled by that. 768 00:37:37,377 --> 00:37:40,500 He was interested in my job as an attorney, 769 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:43,183 and I don't think he came out and asked 770 00:37:43,183 --> 00:37:45,065 about how much money I make, 771 00:37:45,065 --> 00:37:48,388 but he was certainly interested in where I worked 772 00:37:48,388 --> 00:37:51,391 and how long I had been there. 773 00:37:51,391 --> 00:37:54,074 So, finances were something 774 00:37:54,074 --> 00:37:56,877 that was important to him. 775 00:37:56,877 --> 00:37:59,079 BETH: He had these files of these conversations 776 00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:00,521 that he had with these women, 777 00:38:00,521 --> 00:38:01,922 and he would make notes about the women. 778 00:38:01,922 --> 00:38:04,645 And Toni was like, "doctor, Mississippi," 779 00:38:04,645 --> 00:38:07,928 you know, that kind of thing. 780 00:38:07,928 --> 00:38:10,971 GRACE: It was Christmas of 1999. 781 00:38:10,971 --> 00:38:13,894 And he's like, "I want to tell you about somebody. 782 00:38:13,894 --> 00:38:18,018 I think I kind of might have met somebody special enough 783 00:38:18,018 --> 00:38:21,942 that I'm considering going and meeting her for New Year's." 784 00:38:21,942 --> 00:38:24,184 CALEB: Toni and Harold meet for the first time 785 00:38:24,184 --> 00:38:25,826 in person on New Year's. 786 00:38:25,826 --> 00:38:27,828 By that weekend, they decided to get engaged. 787 00:38:27,828 --> 00:38:29,469 ♪♪ 788 00:38:29,469 --> 00:38:31,792 Within nine months, they're married. 789 00:38:31,792 --> 00:38:33,754 ‐ And I felt like my relationship 790 00:38:33,754 --> 00:38:35,475 with Harold got closer. 791 00:38:35,475 --> 00:38:37,718 CALEB: After Lynn's death, Harold was actually closer 792 00:38:37,718 --> 00:38:39,600 with the Rishells than he had been before, 793 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,042 and particularly with one person. 794 00:38:42,042 --> 00:38:45,085 BETH: He stayed very close with Grace Rishell. 795 00:38:45,085 --> 00:38:46,607 GRACE: Kevin and I, our marriage, 796 00:38:46,607 --> 00:38:49,610 by February 2009, it was done. 797 00:38:49,610 --> 00:38:52,092 Harold had a whole list of things he felt like 798 00:38:52,092 --> 00:38:55,656 Kevin had failed me emotionally, spiritually, physically ‐‐ 799 00:38:55,656 --> 00:38:58,458 in every way that a man could fail a woman. 800 00:38:58,458 --> 00:39:00,581 He was trying to open my eyes 801 00:39:00,581 --> 00:39:05,105 to what was really happening in the relationship. 802 00:39:05,105 --> 00:39:08,789 ‐ There's several reasons why somebody would kill someone ‐‐ 803 00:39:08,789 --> 00:39:10,991 another lover, money. 804 00:39:10,991 --> 00:39:12,993 Did he have a mistress? 805 00:39:12,993 --> 00:39:15,796 I had gotten cell records, 806 00:39:15,796 --> 00:39:18,478 and one of the individuals that kept popping up 807 00:39:18,478 --> 00:39:20,521 in his cell record was Grace Rishell. 808 00:39:20,521 --> 00:39:22,162 HAROLD: Gracie girl, it's Harold calling you 809 00:39:22,162 --> 00:39:23,604 about 3:00 my time... 810 00:39:23,604 --> 00:39:24,845 Hey, Grace. It's Harold calling. 811 00:39:24,845 --> 00:39:26,446 ...give me a call back... 812 00:39:26,446 --> 00:39:28,128 Gracie girl, it's Harold calling about... 813 00:39:28,128 --> 00:39:31,451 ‐ Harold and Grace texted and called each other 814 00:39:31,451 --> 00:39:34,014 all the time before Toni died. 815 00:39:34,014 --> 00:39:38,498 And we had to ask the question, was Grace his paramour? 816 00:39:38,498 --> 00:39:41,421 Is this why he killed Toni? 817 00:39:41,421 --> 00:39:44,705 ♪♪ 818 00:39:45,946 --> 00:39:51,592 ♪♪ 819 00:39:51,592 --> 00:39:57,197 ♪♪ 820 00:39:57,197 --> 00:40:02,843 ♪♪ 821 00:40:02,843 --> 00:40:08,488 ♪♪ 822 00:40:08,488 --> 00:40:14,094 ♪♪ 823 00:40:14,094 --> 00:40:19,740 ♪♪