[ bear roars ]
NARRATOR: Wild places.
Wilder crimes.
These are the stories of the elite team that solves them
in the most dangerous crime scenes in the world ‐‐
our national parks.
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BETH: A man having one wife die is tragic.
A man having two wives die is suspicious.
LORA: He could see that the vehicle had dropped
and was laying on his wife.
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‐ We all had that kind of sick feeling that,
not only did he kill Toni,
but that would mean that he killed Lynn, too.
‐ There's no way that that was an accident.
HAROLD: Hey, Gracie girl, it's Harold calling.
‐ Was she his lover?
‐ Oh, my gosh!
[ voice breaking ] How have I not seen through this guy?
[ animal howls ]
‐ Come on. [ laughs ]
BETH: Harold's story was that
they were coming up on their 12th‐year anniversary,
and he was planning
a surprise for Toni,
and they decided to hike Deer Mountain.
TODD: It's not something that you would want to do
on, supposedly, your anniversary ‐‐
go on this extreme hike.
That didn't make sense to us.
BETH: When you get to the scene,
you realize the only reason to be where you are
is to commit murder.
It's a moment where you're absolutely sure
that this person killed this woman.
Pretty quickly after Ranger Faherty's
first and only interview with Harold, we found out
that Harold had retained a criminal attorney,
which basically precluded us interviewing Harold again.
And so to get information about Harold,
we started doing interviews with everybody.
I talked to the Bertolets several times.
While they believe that Harold
might be responsible for the death of Toni,
they maintain contact with Harold
to keep an eye on Haley.
They wanted to make sure Haley was okay.
But they also were giving me updates on Harold,
and they felt that that was a way
that they could help in the investigation.
We talked to the nannies,
and they were able to tell us some things about the house.
One of the nannies told us
that Harold and Toni didn't sleep together,
that they had separate areas where they slept.
He had an office in his basement,
but occasionally, he would also go on business trips.
And he would go on these trips, but he wouldn't have luggage,
and then he would just kind of show up the next day.
And the nanny was wondering if Harold was having an affair.
He seemed to have a secret life,
so, alright, let's find out what we can about his business.
CALEB: Now, the address for the business was in his basement,
but if you talked to him, he would say,
"I've got 10 to 12 managers reporting to me daily.
I've got 90 employees working all over the country."
RHONDA: We thought there was plenty of money ‐‐
he always portrayed himself as a wealthy person,
and we were getting word
that they were needing money.
I do remember that Mr. and Mrs. Bertolet
were confused why the money seemed to be missing.
TODD: My parents are buying the house.
They're buying the car. They're paying for the tuition.
That doesn't make sense.
BETH: We couldn't find any concrete evidence of his work.
There was no online presence, and almost everybody
has an online presence of some sort if they have a business,
especially if you're a fundraiser.
All businesses need to be registered
with the Secretary of State,
so I was able to determine
that Resource Development Services
was not registered in Colorado.
Also, on his business cards,
Harold had CFR, Certified Fundraiser,
and there is actually an agency that issues that certification.
So I contacted that agency, and they indicated,
"No, we have no idea who he is,
and no, he's not a certified fundraiser."
Oh, my gosh. He doesn't even have a business.
And then we received a letter
about his first wife.
Her name was Lynn Henthorn.
‐ Most people didn't know that Harold was married before
and that his first wife had died.
BETH: Harold's first wife, Lynn Henthorn ‐‐
described as a very beautiful, loving Christian woman,
but tragically died in an accident ‐‐
deemed an accident at that time, in 1995.
CALEB: What Harold tells most people
is Lynn died in a car accident,
and most people aren't going to press.
But I think what Harold says about how she died
was completely dependent on
what he thought he could get away with.
Harold said that his first wife died in a car accident,
and he doesn't say much more than that.
‐ We didn't get much information out of how Lynn died.
You know, he was very, very short on a lot of details.
‐ We got told that she had cancer,
then we got told it was a car accident.
So you got told different stories, so we didn't know.
KATHY: But I thought, "Oh, my gosh, you know,
this is two wives for Harold that have died now."
CALEB: In the aftermath of Toni's death,
anonymous letters and phone calls
and warnings start going out to a number of people.
KATHY: Because we had some suspicions
that Toni's death was not as Harold was making it sound,
I made the phone call to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
I did do it anonymously,
and other people had done the same thing.
‐ The coroner in charge of Toni's autopsy,
an investigative reporter at a TV station in Denver,
the FBI, National Park Service were on the receiving end
of what ended up being 17 anonymous letters.
‐ The consistent theme was, "Harold's first wife died
in similar, unusual circumstances.
You got to look into it."
Remote locations, odd places ‐‐
why were they there in the first place?
Harold was not injured in any way
in either of these incidents,
but his spouse was killed.
JAMES: Getting these types of anonymous calls
and anonymous letters is unusual.
That hasn't happened to me before.
I've done about 8,000 cases now.
"To whom it may concern,
Mr. Henthorn lost his first wife about 17 years ago
after a suspicious accident in a remote location.
Sadly, there are many similarities
in these two cases."
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It took me three months to get
enough of the investigative details together
that I felt comfortable filing the death certificate,
and I filed it as "Undetermined."
Homicide cannot be entirely excluded.
I've never written that kind of a comment before.
BETH: We needed to build a history of Harold,
so our strategy was to start looking
at Lynn Henthorn's death.
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BETH: So we're in where Harold and Lynn Henthorn lived
in the early '90s,
in Centennial, Colorado.
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Harold lived here up until he actually married Toni.
Hearing that Harold Henthorn had a first wife, Lynn,
that died in suspicious circumstances ‐‐
we wanted to get as much information
as we could about that.
Harold and Lynn got married in 1984.
‐ Hi, Grace! Hi, Eric!
‐ And then she passed away in 1995.
And what people told us about their marriage
is Lynn's a very sweet, loving woman, very religious,
and nothing really hugely negative about Harold
except for it did come out that he was controlling of her.
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KIM: My name is Kim Laferrier.
Lynn was my best friend.
And I would definitely say
that I was her best friend.
Lynn told me that she had met
somebody very special at a wedding
and that she was very, very interested in him,
and she told me, "His name is Harold."
And she said, "I think you're really going to like him.
He's a great guy, and he really seems to care about me."
[ crickets chirping ]
KEVIN: What are your memories from that day? Was she happy?
‐ She was ‐‐ Oh, yeah. She was beaming.
KEVIN: Yeah, I seem to remember that.
ERIC: Lynn was ‐‐ She was truly a gem.
She was definitely the most sensitive and loving sister,
and she was also very timid
in some regards and skittish.
My gosh, there's just so many ways to try and describe her.
I feel like she was a Christian.
I feel like the light of God shined through her.
As a child, she was sugar and spice and a little fireball
at the same time.
She was an organizer,
and she was very competitive in sports.
She played field hockey. She was a cheerleader.
She wore her emotions on her sleeve.
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LISANNE: Actually, leading up to the rehearsal dinner,
I did not know Harold very well.
‐ Did you? Did any of us feel like we knew him?
ERIC: No. No. LISANNE: Not really well.
KEVIN: My first impressions of Harold
was he was an outgoing, gregarious salesman type.
And I, being a salesman myself at that time,
I was fine with that energy.
KIM: Harold is bigger than life.
He smiles all the time. He laughs all the time.
So when I first met him, I thought,
"Gosh, this is a great guy. This guy seems wonderful."
He was hugging Lynn all the time
and very touchy with her
and smiling and just made you feel warm.
When we were moving quickly
towards Lynn's and Harold's wedding,
it was clear that Harold
was in charge.
I found it strange that Harold
had binders and binders ‐‐
one binder devoted to finding a photographer,
one binder devoted to the reception,
one binder to the outfits they were going to wear.
‐ The flowers. LISANNE: The flowers.
And he had Lynn doing research on all of these areas
and filling in the binders with information
so they could make the best choice.
I remember just thinking, "Oh, my gosh, why?"
♪♪
ERIC: So Lynn and Harold got married,
but then, almost immediately,
Harold was saying, "We need to move to Colorado."
So he takes her away.
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GRACE: We did visit the Inglewood home,
and I didn't notice anything
about their relationship at that time.
We had a blast.
I mean, we ‐‐ we had so much fun
going up into the Rocky Mountains,
and I thought everything was ‐‐ was great.
‐ But then, over time,
it seemed like she became quieter
and Harold became louder.
We began to see more of this controlling behavior.
LISANNE: I remember I called Lynn one day,
and I said, "Can we talk?"
You know, "This is a good time for me."
And she said, "No, no, no. Can ‐‐
Can you call back later when Harold's here?"
And I said, "Well, you know, can't we just talk?"
And she said, "As a couple,
we've decided that whenever we talk to family,
we want to both be on the phone at the same time."
KEVIN: Hmm. ERIC: Wow.
‐ And I remember thinking again, "That's so weird.
That's so controlling." ERIC: Mm‐hmm.
KIM: Lynn always felt like she had to honor Harold.
It was back in the time where a lot of Christian women
were taught that the husband was the head of the house
and that anything they said, they had the final word there.
And so she didn't ever buck him.
She didn't ever question what he was saying.
NANCY: Harold came to work many times.
The first I met him, he came in to work.
My first impression of Harold
was almost immediately to want to take a step back.
I felt him to be overbearing.
As Lynn talked about her relationship
with her husband and some of her personal life,
it didn't always gel with the same Lynn we saw.
Lynn was not a pushover.
GRACE: Harold was early on complaining about back issues,
and Lynn was always having to
[ laughing ] serve him in some way.
It always seemed like
he was flat on his back for two weeks,
and she was trying to work and take care of him.
NANCY: Lynn was diagnosed ‐‐
I believe it's rheumatoid arthritis,
and she was in quite a lot of pain.
And she took medication,
and the medication became a concern.
She wanted to make certain that it wasn't doing anything
to interfere with her ability to get pregnant
or to have a child.
There was pressure from Harold.
She spoke often about how much Harold
wanted her to have a child.
I felt that that was the first time I got some indication
that she was not comfortable with Harold right then.
‐ She confided in me, and she said,
"Grace, I don't ‐‐ I don't know what to do.
Like, we're having some marital issues,
but he doesn't want me to talk to anyone.
He would consider that disloyal."
And she didn't know where to go,
like, what to do.
She wanted that to be a private thing,
for me not to say anything to Harold, so I just said,
which I feel so awful for now,
you know, "I'll pray ‐‐"
Um...
[ sighs ]
[ voice breaking ] "I'll pray for you.
I'm so sorry you're going through that."
[ sighs ]
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‐ I think when Toni died, we all had that feeling that...
‐ Sort of sick feeling. KEVIN: ...the kind of
sick feeling that he did it. ‐ Oh, my gosh.
‐ And not only did he kill Toni, but that would mean...
‐ That means he killed Lynn. ‐ ...that he killed Lynn, too.
‐ Someone driving past on this dark, deserted road
sees Harold and Lynn's Jeep,
and they do see Lynn, and she does look scared.
‐ I remember sitting up in bed thinking,
"No one changes a tire like that."
Nobody changes a tire the way he said he changed the tire.
♪♪
Huh.
That's ‐‐ That's not right.
CALEB: It's hard to know when an investigation picks up speed,
but in the case of Toni and Lynn's deaths,
there's an overwhelming number of people
voicing their suspicions as loudly as they can
to anybody who will listen.
It was a tidal wave of people who had been involved
in Harold or Toni or Lynn or all three of their lives
who finally sort of snapped.
More than a dozen said, "Something isn't right,"
and not only said it, but went so far
as to take specific action to make sure it was investigated.
♪♪
LORA: My name is Lora Thomas.
I was coroner in Douglas County, Colorado.
[ knock on door ]
In 2012, I was here at my house on a Sunday afternoon
when someone was banging on my front door.
So I went to the front door, and I saw a gentleman
who I knew from the neighborhood from seeing him walk around,
and he says to me, "Hey, aren't you the coroner?"
And I said, "Yes, I am the coroner."
He told me that he belonged to Cherry Hills Community Church
and that Toni Henthorn, who belonged to that church,
had died in a strange fall in Rocky Mountain National Park.
And I told him, "Well, Rocky Mountain National Park
isn't in Douglas County."
But he said, "This guy's first wife
died in Douglas County
many years ago."
And he proceeded to tell me the story about Harold Henthorn
and that people at the church had always thought
that Harold was a little strange.
And there were a lot of stories going around the church
about Harold's first wife,
who had died in some kind of a car accident.
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The next morning, I went to the Sheriff's office
and asked if I could get the case for this death,
and they looked it up and they said,
"Oh, that's a closed case. We'll print it for you."
So I came home that night.
I settled here in my office with my highlighters,
and I started reading this case
and highlighting all the things in it
that were interesting of some way to me.
♪♪
And by the time I was done reading that case file,
I thought, "I agree with my neighbor.
Something here isn't right."
♪♪
Harold claims that he was driving the road,
and the right front tire seemed spongy,
so he pulled over on this dirt side of the road,
and he decided to change the tire.
And he said he got the Jeep jack out
and went to put it under the right front wheel well
and realized the jack didn't work.
So he put that jack back,
but he happened to have two boat jacks
in the back of the Jeep,
and he used the boat jacks to jack up the vehicle.
‐ There's two types of jacks involved in this, um, incident.
One is a regular car jack.
The other jack was a boat jack,
which is basically a tube with another telescoping tube
that comes out of it ‐‐
not safe for a car.
His story is that this car jack,
this more stable one, didn't work,
so he used a boat jack to jack up the car.
‐ So then he said he had taken the lug nuts off of the wheel,
and he said that Lynn had a cloth in her hand,
and he handed her the lug nuts.
He pulled the tire off,
and then he said he went to the back of the Jeep,
and he tossed the tire into the back of the Jeep,
and that when he did that, it dislodged the Jeep.
And he heard a scream,
and he said he ran to the front of the vehicle
and he could see that the vehicle had dropped
and was laying on his wife.
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‐ There's Lynn, trapped under the rotor, the brake rotor,
'cause he hadn't put the other tire back on yet.
His version was that Lynn must have dropped the lug nuts
and gone to crawl under the car to get the lug nuts,
because there were lug nuts in the photos of the scene.
There were lug nuts under the car.
♪♪
BETH: One of the questions we had
is actually, how did Lynn get under that rotor?
'Cause when you jack up a car, you do it only to the degree
that you're able to pull the tire off
to replace the tire,
and that space is not that great.
And, again, to get under a rotor
and to eventually get crushed by it
is very unusual.
CALEB: There are multiple eyewitnesses
to the aftermath of the accident that killed Lynn.
MONTOYA: We could see, you know, some legs
coming out from the bottom of the car,
and her husband came over, and he started screaming at us,
"Don't touch her. Leave her alone."
BETH: We felt that our investigation
wasn't into the homicide of Lynn Henthorn.
Our investigation was into the death of Lynn Henthorn.
Douglas County's investigation
was into the homicide of Lynn Henthorn.
At the end of the day, we couldn't prosecute that case,
but we wanted to learn as much as we could.
♪♪
DAVE: I'm Dave Weaver. Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
I got a call from Beth Shott, asking us to look into
the death of Lynn Henthorn.
This coincided with the death of Toni Henthorn,
who was Harold Henthorn's second wife.
There were some suspicions that both wives had died
in an isolated location under questionable circumstances.
I was given the Lynn Henthorn case to reinvestigate
in January of 2013.
♪♪
Getting a case that old, 18 years old,
I had to sit down and analyze what was available to me.
Who are the witnesses I should talk to?
Are they available? How can I find them?
And then, would they have information
that had not been previously known?
♪♪
Well, Dwight DeVries, when I interviewed him,
stopped to offer assistance.
Harold was standing outside the car.
Lynn was still in the car.
Dwight described to me
that Lynn had a frightened look on her face.
He also said that Harold just wanted him out of there.
So Dwight said, "Well, if you don't want me
to help you change the tire, you want me to park here
so I can illuminate the area for you?"
Harold was insistent, "I don't need your help."
Essentially, "Get out of here."
You know, "Just leave me alone."
♪♪
Then I discovered in the documentation
one of the first witnesses on scene.
When I called her up, just out of the blue,
said, "Hello, I'm Detective Dave Weaver,
Douglas County Sheriff's Office."
And I said, "Can you think of any reason
why a detective from Douglas County
would want to call you and talk to you?"
And her response to me was,
"That lady from on the mountain.
I still have nightmares about that."
♪♪
MONTOYA: It was on a Saturday night.
We went around a curve, and there's a man
standing in the middle of the road with a flasher.
We pulled over, and he told us that there was an accident,
that they had a flat,
and his wife got stuck under the car.
We looked at each other, and we could see, you know,
some legs coming out from the bottom of the car.
We all got out of the truck,
and we got her out of the car ‐‐ from underneath the car.
And we were gently turning her over
because she was on her stomach.
We're doing the CPR, and her husband came over,
and he started screaming at us.
"Don't touch her. Leave her alone.
What the 'F' are you doing? Get the 'F' away from her."
At that point, she's turning blue.
Her husband, he had a nice coat on,
and he didn't take his coat off to cover her like we did.
We could hear the sirens coming,
and that's when the guys start asking him,
"Well, how did she get underneath that car?"
And he replied, "Well,
there's a lug nut that rolled under there.
She must have been going to get it."
What kind of dumbass would let his wife
go underneath that car for a lug nut?
You don't need one lug nut.
And when he heard the sirens coming,
the look on his face was, like, in a panic, more of a panic,
instead of gladness that,
"There's help coming for my wife."
It was creepier than ever.
There's no way that that was an accident.
[ sirens wailing ]
DAVE: As I was doing the case investigation,
three things kind of struck me as, "Is this possible?"
Why would Lynn be in that position to begin with?
That was number one.
Number two is, could I get the Jeep to fall off the jacks
the way they had to have fallen off the way Harold described it?
And the third thing is lug nuts aren't round.
They don't roll.
BETH: Did it happen the way Harold said it happened?
'Cause it's a very bizarre sequence of events,
especially for a man who's so obsessed with safety,
as allegedly Harold was,
to jack this car up using an unsafe jack
and then try to change a tire.
♪♪
Douglas County recreated the events as described by Harold
for the investigation.
Let's try this now.
Okay.
Nothing.
So, let me put a little pressure this way.
[ car squeaks ]
♪♪
Nothing. ‐ You can't replicate it
the way he says it happened.
♪♪
BETH: Oh!
BETH: We were trying to pull in elements of Lynn's death
into our case.
When Dave Weaver was assigned to the case,
he opened it up as a possible homicide,
and he was looking at it as, is that even physically possible
for someone to crawl under a car to get lug nuts
and then have this jack collapse?
♪♪
CALEB: Lora Thomas is the coroner in Douglas County,
and she has a lot of questions about Lynn's death.
So much so that she hired someone
to reconstruct the accident that took Lynn.
LORA: After I went through this whole case,
I called Arnie Wheat, and he came to Douglas County
and drove around and looked at the scene
to get a better feel for what had happened.
♪♪
ARNOLD: My name is Arnold Wheat.
Lora asked us to look at this particular death investigation
from the perspective of
a traffic accident reconstructionist.
♪♪
Accident reconstruction is sort of like
putting a jigsaw puzzle together ‐‐
you take the pieces of information
and factual information,
and try to put them together to see if they fit
to form a more complete picture of what happened.
Where was the vehicle positioned?
What's the terrain look like?
You look at the gravel surface
that this Jeep was parked on.
There was a grade going uphill from the rear
towards the front of the vehicle.
Why would lug nuts roll uphill
on a gravel surface?
So, let's go ahead and take that tire off.
♪♪
So, based on the crime scene investigation,
we're going to replicate with this exemplar vehicle
the layout of all the physical evidence ‐‐
that includes the lug nuts,
the positioning of the bottle jacks,
and then hopefully also replicate
the vehicle's movement off of the bottle jacks.
It'd be ‐‐ Yeah, there you go.
BETH: Is that about right? ‐ Yeah.
♪♪
So, one of the versions that Harold gave ‐‐
Lynn's here, six feet away from the Jeep.
He takes the tire. He walks to the back.
Puts the tire in the back.
Whatever he did caused the Jeep to fall off the jack.
‐ But look at the time interval.
From the time he picks up the flat tire,
goes roughly 12 feet to the back corner...
‐ Yes. ‐ ...to put the tire in,
she moves closer to the vehicle,
then drops the lug nuts, allegedly,
and then gets down on her stomach
and crawls up underneath.
So, I mean, that timing just doesn't make sense,
because it would take more time, I believe,
for her to do all of those activities
than it would for him to come around
and put the tire in the back of the Jeep.
‐ No logical person would crawl under a rotor that's jacked up.
DAVE: Especially with her having arthritis.
‐ Right.
ARNOLD: The other inconsistency is both the medical people
as well as the coroner's office, when they did the autopsy,
there was nothing in her fingernails.
There was nothing on her hands
indicating that she was struggling.
ARNOLD: You would think, if she was laying on her stomach
and had an axle drop on her back,
that she may have clawed her way or tried to move.
BETH: Even if you know nothing about cars and changing tires,
I don't know anybody who would put, basically, a weapon
right above their back.
And I've changed many a tire,
and I've had many a bad back,
so if I was Harold, who allegedly had a bad back,
you wouldn't just pick the tire up and throw it in.
But that's what he said he did, right?
♪♪
DAVE: That's my understanding, yes.
Okay, so I'm going to pick the tire up...
which is pretty heavy, and I'm going to throw it in.
Okay.
Didn't do anything, didn't knock it off.
Realistically, if you were going to put a tire
in a jacked‐up car, you probably wouldn't throw it in.
You'd probably place it in.
Nothing.
So let me put a little pressure this way.
[ car squeaks ]
Nothing.
‐ Your difficulty in getting the vehicle to fall down
may have resulted in Harold lowering the bottle jack.
‐ Right.
‐ She was unconscious. ARNOLD: Yeah.
And it just knocked it over.
♪♪
DAVE: Maybe she was given some kind of narcotic or sedative
that made her more malleable in his hands
that he would have been able to physically place her there.
BETH: So she would have had to have been
in that position, regardless. DAVE: Correct.
And for some period of time.
‐ Right.
Let's try this now.
DAVE: Lowering the bottle jack...
♪♪
BETH: Oh!
♪♪
ARNOLD: That's it. ‐ That's it.
BETH: That makes a lot more sense.
That's something Harold could control.
‐ You can't replicate it the way he says it happened.
‐ Our conclusion is Harold could have actually released
that bottle jack, and it could have lowered
directly onto her very rapidly.
Releasing it down is the most controlled.
♪♪
We needed to build a history of Harold.
We're not proving that Harold killed Lynn,
but we wanted to introduce Lynn Henthorn's death
into our case if Lynn is a precursor to killing Toni.
♪♪
DAVE: This wasn't found out until y'all started
your investigation of Toni's death
that his insurance double paid because it was an accident.
BETH: Right.
Harold Henthorn had purchased life insurance
several months prior to Lynn's death.
This policy for $150,000 with a rider on it
that if she died in a "car accident,"
it doubled the insurance to $300,000.
ARNOLD: When Lora Thomas got our report
and finished her investigation,
she changed the official cause of death
from accidental to indeterminate
on the death certificate
and reissued it.
‐ What was really important to me was for Lynn's family
to know that the death certificate had been changed
so they would know that Lynn was still remembered
and that she wasn't forgotten.
I interviewed several women that Harold dated.
CALEB: Some of these women
described the dates they'd been on with Harold,
and they range from minorly uncomfortable
to, "I thought he was going to drive me off the road
and kill me."
CALEB: After Lynn's death, Harold wants to marry again,
so he does create a profile on ChristianMatchmakers.com.
He's saying he wants romance.
He's saying he wants eternal love.
He's saying he wants a Christian spouse
to share his life with.
[ mouse clicks ]
BETH: He's presenting himself as this successful businessman
with his own business, Resource Development Services.
He's got a business card.
He's got notepads with that on it.
This persona is far from the truth.
‐ I interviewed several women that Harold dated
between Lynn's death and marriage to Toni,
and every one of them said he was super, super controlling.
‐ One of Harold's ex‐girlfriends came forward pretty quickly
after Toni died, saying, "This is suspicious."
She told us that she knew Harold and Lynn Henthorn
and was friends with them, and that when Lynn died,
she and Harold actually started dating
pretty quickly after ‐‐ within months of Lynn's death.
And then Harold started controlling her.
She also told us that they had an argument,
and Harold actually pinned her down to a wall
until she agreed that he was correct
and she was wrong,
and she said it scared her,
and she decided she wanted to call it off.
‐ One woman he dated said that he left sunglasses somewhere ‐‐
he said, "You go get these sunglasses for me,
and I'll come pick them up at 8:00."
And she went to go get the sunglasses,
but the place was closed.
She goes to work.
Harold calls her
and starts yelling at her on the phone.
Hangs up, and he shows up at her place of business
and is badgering her.
And, finally, her boss had to get Harold to leave.
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There's another woman he dated ‐‐
They go to Estes Park.
She says, "We're sitting in the Jeep,
and Harold says, 'You know, I could kill you
and leave you here.
No one would find you 'till springtime.'"
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He drove her home.
She called him that night,
said "I never want to see you ever again."
He shows up at her apartment,
like, at 3:00 in the morning or something.
[ knocking on door ]
He's banging on the doors and everything.
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‐ And some of the women he dates find out pretty quickly
that he is extraordinarily focused on their finances
and what they make
and what sort of families they come from.
‐ He was very interested in how I owned my home.
He wanted to know who paid for it,
wanted to know if it was my house,
and I said, "No, it belongs to me,
but it also belongs to my mom and my sister."
And he was disgruntled by that.
He was interested in my job as an attorney,
and I don't think he came out and asked
about how much money I make,
but he was certainly interested in where I worked
and how long I had been there.
So, finances were something
that was important to him.
BETH: He had these files of these conversations
that he had with these women,
and he would make notes about the women.
And Toni was like, "doctor, Mississippi,"
you know, that kind of thing.
GRACE: It was Christmas of 1999.
And he's like, "I want to tell you about somebody.
I think I kind of might have met somebody special enough
that I'm considering going and meeting her for New Year's."
CALEB: Toni and Harold meet for the first time
in person on New Year's.
By that weekend, they decided to get engaged.
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Within nine months, they're married.
‐ And I felt like my relationship
with Harold got closer.
CALEB: After Lynn's death, Harold was actually closer
with the Rishells than he had been before,
and particularly with one person.
BETH: He stayed very close with Grace Rishell.
GRACE: Kevin and I, our marriage,
by February 2009, it was done.
Harold had a whole list of things he felt like
Kevin had failed me emotionally, spiritually, physically ‐‐
in every way that a man could fail a woman.
He was trying to open my eyes
to what was really happening in the relationship.
‐ There's several reasons why somebody would kill someone ‐‐
another lover, money.
Did he have a mistress?
I had gotten cell records,
and one of the individuals that kept popping up
in his cell record was Grace Rishell.
HAROLD: Gracie girl, it's Harold calling you
about 3:00 my time...
Hey, Grace. It's Harold calling.
...give me a call back...
Gracie girl, it's Harold calling about...
‐ Harold and Grace texted and called each other
all the time before Toni died.
And we had to ask the question, was Grace his paramour?
Is this why he killed Toni?
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