[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.
HAZRA: He's a danger.
This man has killed, supposedly, two wives.
‐ It looks like a freak accident.
‐ He learned that the death of his wife equals money,
at the end of the day.
He hasn't had a job since 1992.
♪♪
‐ I could have been the third victim.
HAROLD: You never call your old brother‐in‐law.
‐ Oh, my gosh.
How have I not seen through this guy?
‐ The last thing I wanted him was him going home to his child.
♪♪
We felt like we were dealing with a ticking time bomb.
♪♪
‐ Within days of Toni dying, the park received a letter
about his first wife, Lynn Henthorn.
And it was an anonymous letter, but it said his first wife
passed away in suspicious circumstances.
BURR: I thought, "Oh, my gosh.
This is two wives for Harold that have died now."
SHOTT: A man having one wife die is tragic.
A man having two wives die is suspicious.
And I said, "I think we've got a case."
♪♪
Pretty early on in the investigation,
Harold very quickly got an attorney.
And we knew we were never gonna get
another interview with him again.
We needed to build a case on purely circumstantial evidence,
which is really problematic.
You know, of course, you want a direct witness.
But the only witness was Harold himself,
who was not talking to us.
We may know in our hearts that Harold had killed her,
but we had to start at the very beginning
and slowly build our case.
And then, also building as much as we could
the history of Harold, Harold's comings and goings.
So, we started questioning, "Did he have a mistress?
Did he have another family somewhere?"
TALLEY: All these trips out of town, supposedly.
I seriously thought that there may be
somebody else involved in this.
SHOTT: At that point, I had gotten cell records.
And one of the individuals that kept popping up
in his cell record was Grace Rishell.
So, Grace Rishell was Harold's former sister‐in‐law.
Lynn Rishell, his first wife's brother's ex‐wife.
♪♪
Now, Harold and Grace are not related in any way,
but Harold and Grace texted and called each other
all the time.
HANNAN: Harold's relationship
with Grace Rishell and her four daughters
starts off as totally understandable,
with Harold being a more doting uncle and brother‐in‐law
than just about anybody you'd ever meet.
SHOTT: We had to ask the question,
"Was Grace Harold's lover?
Is this why he killed Toni?"
♪♪
GRACE: They were very suspicious of me.
They were like, "We're checking you out
to see if you have had
a romantic relationship with Harold."
[knock on door]
♪♪
And I'm like, "I am an open book.
And I will tell you everything I know."
I was not romantically involved with Harold. Um...
In December of 2007,
my husband, Kevin, and I separated for the first time.
So, that was hard.
That was ‐‐ That was difficult.
We went through bankruptcy, foreclosure.
We lost our home right before Christmas.
I was devastated.
I did not want my marriage to end.
I'd lost everything. I mean, we had ‐‐
I had no savings, no nothing, at that point.
And I thought of my girls.
KEVIN: When I was going through my divorce with Grace,
Harold was involved
in trying to separate
my children's allegiance from me
and put it on himself.
‐ Harold saw, I believe, an exact way to fit in,
and bond with four girls,
which was the fun, goofy uncle.
GRACE: Harold really began to step it up.
He told me he helped single women get on their feet.
Toni was a part of it, and Lynn was before that.
That's what they did.
SHOTT: Grace sat with us for five hours and talked with us.
We pretty quickly determined
that she was not Harold's paramour.
Grace was concerned about her children's financial future.
She had just gotten divorced.
And Harold said, "I tell you what ‐‐
why don't you get an insurance policy?
And we'll make the girls the beneficiary."
GRACE: At first, the insurance policy seemed like
a gracious gift that I could accept
because it was for my girls.
HAROLD: Okay. Okay, girls, you're being recorded.
I want to try a still shot.
‐ Yeah. GRACE: There's that one.
And we thought it was fun at the time.
WOMAN: Yeah.
GRACE: This is one of the things he would do as, like,
you know, the fun uncle ‐‐ the challenges.
WOMAN: We talked about that earlier, that he, like...
‐ There was an odd sense of, um, like we were the family
that maybe Harold always wanted.
WOMAN: There's another Christmas one
where he just looks like...
WOMAN #2: He always looks like our dad.
People would say...
‐ It was like he was trying to insert himself.
GRACE: He was so present in our family.
LAURA: He was on the phone. I remember calling ‐‐
all the time, he'd call my mother.
HAROLD: Um...
♪♪
GRACE: So, in about March of 2010,
the divorce was final, and I'm gonna move to Texas.
I was getting ready to take on a new job.
And Harold and I got into, basically, a big fight about it.
He didn't want me to take this job.
And Harold was trying to get us to come to Colorado.
He gets really mad at me.
He's like, "You won't return my phone calls."
I'm like, "Because you want to talk for hours.
Harold, I don't have time."
HAROLD: Hey, Grace. It's Harold calling.
Yeah, let's...
It's Harold and Haley calling you for...
Gracie‐girl, it's Harold,
calling you about 3:00 my time...
About 7:45 right now...
8:15 my time.
‐ I'm a mom. I'm trying to work all these jobs,
start this new job.
HAROLD: You never call your old brother‐in‐law
when you're dating.
‐ And he came back at me with,
"After all I've spent investing in you,
pouring all of our knowledge, all of our information.
And you're not grateful."
♪♪
I saw him as being very controlling
at a whole new level.
So, I called his broker, and I said,
"I am not going through with this policy.
No way. I'm done."
SHOTT: And then, we dropped the bomb on her
that Harold never canceled this policy.
The policy had Harold Henthorn as the primary beneficiary.
Her daughters weren't mentioned at all.
And the policy was $400,000.
GRACE: They tell me, "There is an active policy on you."
I said, "That can't be possible.
Yeah, there was one, but we got in a fight.
I told him to cancel it. That was done.
What are you telling me?"
She said, "There's one for $400,000,
and it's paid through till August of this year."
I was just shocked.
I definitely felt that I could have been the third victim.
I'm like, "Oh, my gosh.
You're gonna take me away from my girls?
These girls that you love,
that you've held since they were babies?
What have I done?
How have I not seen through this guy?"
‐ She was a means to an end, another paycheck.
SHOTT: This policy was created just prior to Toni's death,
so this is not just after Toni died,
but before Toni died.
LAURA: My mom was grieving the loss of her marriage
and her family falling apart.
And I think Harold was witnessing that,
and he was already planning to get my mother close,
so that he could do the same thing he's done
to Toni and Lynn.
GRACE: I was thinking how he tried to get me to Colorado,
how he tried to get me to move there.
SHOTT: When you first start investigating someone,
you don't know anything about them.
And then, you start deep diving into them.
My vision of who he is definitely changed
from sort of this sort of blank‐faced unknown to,
"I definitely think that he is an evil person."
I think he's truly evil.
Early on in the investigation,
Yvonne Bertolet ‐‐ she relayed to me a story
that had happened pretty much a year before Toni was killed.
She said that this wasn't the first time
something bad happened to Toni.
Looking at the timing of that, we believe that was
his first attempt to try to kill Toni.
[siren wailing]
♪♪
SHOTT: One of the very large pieces of this case
was insurance.
We had found out that Harold had
a $400,000 insurance policy on Grace Rishell.
And what we uncovered was that there actually was
a considerable amount of life insurance
on Lynn Henthorn, also ‐‐
more than the family
actually was led to believe by Harold.
Several months before Lynn died,
he and Lynn got insurance on each other,
a $300,000 policy.
But she already had an insurance policy on her.
So, why this extra insurance at that time?
♪♪
He received over $600,000 from her death.
And then, we see, from the very beginning,
Harold gets insurance on Toni.
Harold had told Ranger Faherty in his interview
that Toni had one insurance policy on her
for a million dollars.
Well, any investigator knows, don't believe the husband
when they say there's only one policy.
So, I submitted a request to this sort of clearinghouse
for insurance policies.
And I said, "Does anybody have
any insurance policies for Toni Henthorn?"
JENSEN: I'm Steve Jensen.
And I'm an insurance fraud investigator.
I was assigned by the insurance carrier.
When I initially received the assignment,
I realized that there was
a tremendous amount of red flags in this case.
I'm sure that there were at least four insurance carriers
who had issued policies.
HANNAN: He's doing this slowly and over time.
There's $1.5 million in 2001,
a year after they get married.
There's another $1.5 million in 2005,
after Haley is born.
There's another $1.5 million in 2008.
SHOTT: And so, that door led to another door,
which led to another door,
which eventually led to $4.7 million worth of insurance.
‐ He's going to make a small fortune if Toni's dead.
SHOTT: So, all of these insurance policies
led up to, at the end of the day,
Harold getting a lot of money if these women around him died.
TALLEY: With Toni, looking back, that's the thing that is
the most upsetting about this entire story,
is we know now that he probably didn't love her.
‐ I've known Harold for a short period of time, but he's...
warmed my heart.
He does and says all the right things
that a father‐in‐law looks for.
[laughter]
MAN: He's a great salesman.
[laughter]
‐ If we could have known then what we know now,
we could have changed things.
SHOTT: After Toni moved to Colorado,
Harold started controlling her communication with the family.
You would call her cellphone, and it would go to Harold's.
[cellphone rings]
So, Harold would pick up.
‐ I could hear her in the background,
but I couldn't talk to her like I used to do.
MAN: Yvonne. [man laughs]
HANNAN: Yvonne Bertolet goes a whole decade
without talking in private with her daughter,
because Harold was so oppressively there.
SHOTT: He had to control almost every situation he was in.
And if he couldn't control the situation, he would get angry,
or he would get freaked out, or he would cut that person off.
TALLEY: Everything about Harold was controlling ‐‐
I mean, every little detail.
After Toni and Harold got married,
we saw them less and less.
She dropped out of her choir that she loved.
She quit teaching Sunday school.
And he's the one that called us and told us that.
He had asked her to give that up
because it was taking away from their marriage.
That was one of the first glimpses into his personality.
So, we started seeing things being taken from her
one painful step at a time.
Looking back, we should have dug into that more.
It was not normal.
MAN: Yeah.
‐ Okay.
SHOTT: Looking at the two wives of Harold Henthorn,
both women were described as extremely loving,
Christian women.
Successful, strong women, but at the same time,
very manipulated by Harold, very controlled by Harold,
that Harold controlled the relationship.
HANNAN: One of the things that Toni's personal experience
with Christianity taught her was that women
are to look to their husbands as the authority in a marriage.
That control is exactly what Harold was after
in almost every relationship in his life,
but most especially with his wives.
♪♪
TODD: I think he took her confidence away from her.
I think he took her self‐being away from her.
I later found out from the neighbors,
they said, you know, her face was empty.
She didn't smile.
It was kind of like a blank stare.
She definitely was not the person that she was
when she left Mississippi to go to Colorado.
SHOTT: Early on, in one of the interviews with Yvonne Bertolet,
she said, "I have to tell you something Toni told me."
The Henthorns had a cabin up at Grand Lake.
They had been up at the cabin,
and it was late at night, and something happened.
♪♪
This cabin, remote area,
one night in May 2011,
it's him, Toni, and Haley.
HANNAN: And nobody else is around.
Haley's already asleep.
And Harold, for whatever reason,
wants to clean up outside almost in the middle of the night.
SHOTT: It's a small, one‐story cabin
with a fairly sizable deck
that goes to a sloping area.
There's a broken light.
Harold was outside on the deck,
and he called Toni to come help him.
‐ And she was bending over to pick it up.
‐ And what happens next?
Nobody really knows for sure.
‐ Something hits her in the back of the neck.
♪♪
‐ They called 911. This is 10:00 at night.
And in May, at Grand Lake.
It's pitch black out.
[siren wailing]
Her story to the medic is that there was a broken light,
and she was picking up the broken light bulb,
when her husband threw a piece of wood over the deck.
‐ And it looks like a freak accident.
TODD: Harold was going around telling people,
"No big deal," whatever else.
But, you know, we found out later that,
you know, Toni's actually crying in the ambulance
on the way over.
And she said, "What really happened to me?"
♪♪
SHOTT: Toni ended up getting transferred to Denver.
And the final outcome
was that she suffered damage to her cervical spine.
HANNAN: She has a fractured vertebrae.
She has lingering numbness in her left hand.
That's a big deal for a surgeon,
and that's a bad outcome for an accident.
SHOTT: So, you've got to ask yourself a couple questions.
Why was she down there picking up a piece of glass
at 10:00 at night?
And why did he throw a piece of wood over the railing
while she's down there picking up glass?
HANNAN: There's no police report, right?
There's no crime.
‐ Just too eerie to ignore.
Again, we have Harold's wife in a remote location.
He's the only witness.
Late at night.
And then, varying stories from him
surrounding the situation, to different people.
HANNAN: At one point, he says it's a 2x4.
At one point, he says it's a 2x6.
At one point, he tells the paramedic it's 20 feet long.
We don't know, but it's big enough to do a lot of damage.
And he's throwing it at her from a height.
‐ And she said, "If I had not reached to get
whatever it was on the floor,
I think that it would have killed me on the spot."
‐ I really believe that was his first attempt at murder.
SHOTT: And so, as an investigator,
you're looking at this.
You're like, "What else is he capable of?"
And that's what we really needed to dive into.
After we sat with Grace Rishell,
we pretty much ruled out the fact
that she was part of Harold killing Toni.
But we still didn't know
exactly what he was doing on these business trips.
Routinely, he would travel on Thursdays, you know,
a couple times a month, according to the nannies
and the witnesses who we interviewed.
So, we started questioning,
what was he doing when he was traveling?
Was it really for work?
Was this reason to leave on these, quote/unquote,
"business trips" a contribution to Toni's death?
♪♪
[birds chirping]
SHOTT: The incident with the beam at the cabin
is in perfect alignment with the other two incidents ‐‐
the one with Lynn Henthorn,
and then when Toni Henthorn did die.
Late at night, remote location,
a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow
which involved the death of his wife.
GRACE: It's a deeper level of just...evil.
And I just thought, "This is what he does.
He's got ‐‐ This is his ‐‐ This is how he makes a living.
This is his craft."
♪♪
SHOTT: Early on, we were working
with an Assistant United States Attorney,
but he ended up leaving and taking another job.
So, we needed to do a presentation
to the United States Attorney's Office
to see who we could get assigned to the case.
We thought it might be a tough sell.
And it was at that time that we got assigned
Suneeta and Valeria.
SPENCER: My name is Valeria Spencer,
and I'm an Assistant United States Attorney,
which means I'm a federal prosecutor.
HAZRA: My name is Suneeta Hazra.
I was the lead prosecutor
for the prosecution of Harold Henthorn.
SPENCER: Because Rocky Mountain National Park
is a national park,
it is federal land.
‐ Which means that the federal government
prosecutes them, not the state.
SHOTT: And I said, "Look, you guys need to come up
to Rocky Mountain National Park, and see the scene.
You have to see the scene."
♪♪
So, we hiked up Deer Mountain.
And then, we start going off trail.
And they're like, "Wait a minute,
Well, this doesn't make sense."
I was like...
"See?"
[chuckles]
SPENCER: We just turned off at nowhere.
There was no indication that there was a spot
to turn off.
SHOTT: His story that he told the rangers
is they went off to have some romantic time.
HAZRA: There's just no way.
We knew Toni Henthorn had bad knees.
We knew they were in their mid‐50s.
You know, it just didn't make sense.
SHOTT: And then, we wander through the woods,
and then, we get to the lunch spot.
And they have the "aha" moment.
They look down that rocky slope,
and they said, "There's no reason
for Harold and Toni to be here."
SPENCER: And as soon as Suneeta and I saw the site,
we were totally on board with them,
and said, "Okay. We're in 100%.
What are we going to do to prove this case, now?"
[police radio chatter]
SHOTT: We started tracking Harold's movements
and tailing him to see where he would go.
♪♪
But he stayed local.
He never left the area.
So, the question was, what was he doing with his time
now that he had killed Toni?
Is he a flight risk?
What is he doing? Who is he meeting with?
HANNAN: The investigators didn't have a smoking gun,
but there's all sorts of places where evidence might be lurking.
SHOTT: Are there bank accounts we don't know about?
Then, there's also a question of,
were there other women that he may have victimized?
So, we needed to seize his cellphone.
We wanted to seize his computer.
We wanted to know what files and documents he had.
And so, we realized we were gonna have to do
a search warrant for his house.
SPENCER: So, sometimes, we take those things,
like the computers.
You don't know what you're gonna find on them.
And then, other times, you find things
that you didn't think of.
‐ And then, they find it.
And what they find is evidence of the lie ‐‐
the biggest lie.
♪♪
SHOTT: Every time you do a search warrant,
you know it's gonna be a long day.
[doorbell rings]
We ring the doorbell.
We can't see into the house.
There's no movement.
As we're sitting there, the garage door opens.
And so, we go up to the car and tell Mr. Henthorn,
"We have a search warrant for your house.
Please step out of the car."
♪♪
It's a very nice house.
Not a lot of Toni presence there.
When you enter his office, he controls it.
It's his sanctum.
And it was full of stuff.
‐ What Harold was, was a pack rat.
And so, every single piece of paper
from the last 20 years was in there.
SHOTT: There was file cabinets full of thousands of files ‐‐
the boat, the cabin,
how much is in this account, that account.
SPENCER: There were a lot of nuggets there that Harold
didn't really count on, or, you know, figure out
that we would be able to find in that house.
SHOTT: There were tax returns,
which were very interesting to us
because pretty early into the investigation,
I became suspicious about Harold and his job.
‐ We didn't think he was totally unemployed,
but we thought he was inflating what he earned.
HANNAN: I mean, Harold's employment history
is really hard to figure out, right,
because after college,
after graduate school at University of Kentucky,
he does get a real job at Chevron in Denver.
‐ For some reason, Harold couldn't get a project done.
His response would be excuse after excuse.
His supervisor eventually ran out of patience.
HANNAN: And he was gonna get fired, but ended up quitting.
At some point, he's selling diamonds,
though, how successfully, no one is really sure.
And then, in the early '90s,
he went to Colorado Christian University,
where he did some fundraising work.
SHOTT: And because he wasn't very good at it,
the supervisor said, "We're gonna have to let you go."
And he came back the next day, and said, "Oh, I'm resigning
because I'm gonna start my own business."
That was the last known position.
♪♪
HANNAN: Over the course of 20 years,
not only has he not set the world on fire,
not only has he not closed all these deals
he's talked about every year in Christmas letters...
...but Harold made almost nothing for two decades,
almost zero dollars.
SPENCER: The tax returns show
Harold was making absolutely nothing
and pretending that he actually had some income.
SHOTT: He's not a businessman.
He hasn't had a job since 1992.
♪♪
He had posed, for almost 20 years,
as somebody he's not, and worked really hard at it,
going on trips and hiring a nanny for his daughter
and creating business cards and having notepads
with development services on the notepads.
‐ It was as big a lie as you can tell
about who you were, professionally.
And he'd been living that for a long, long time
and somehow had gotten away with it.
SPENCER: It was clear that this case
was becoming more and more complex.
And the FBI agent who was working with Beth Shott
was moved to another assignment.
And so, Beth's one woman up at the park handling everything.
She was stretched pretty thin, and we knew that
we were going to need help
with furthering this investigation down the road.
HAZRA: I reached out
to Special Agent Jonny Grusing of the FBI
and asked him if he would jump in
and assist and work with Beth.
And I picked Jonny because he has
a lot of experience doing serial killer cases for the FBI.
Really a methodical, good investigator.
GRUSING: My name is Jonathan Grusing.
I go by "Jonny."
I had not worked with the Park Service before,
and I did not know they had investigative agents.
I just thought these were the very kind, happy guys
that pointed you to don't litter
and, you know, "protect your forest land" sort of thing.
SHOTT: He later told me that he kind of felt
a little sorry for me that, here I was,
sort of spinning my wheels on this case.
GRUSING: So, I asked a couple questions.
Did Harold have any prior arrest history, criminal history? "No."
Can you prove the difference between a push and a fall?
And they said, "No. You can't."
I said, "Well, you know, I'm happy to look into it.
But just because he's a liar, as you guys know,
the jury doesn't have to find him to be a murderer."
SPENCER: And so, we hiked up. We did all of our work.
We showed him all the areas. He looked at everything.
And he didn't say anything.
And so, then, Suneeta and I were like, "Oh, no.
You know, here's a new person, to see it with fresh eyes,
and he's not seeing it the way we do."
Jonny, being who he is, a very quiet man, doesn't say anything.
I can't remember exactly when it was.
It might have been in the car on the way back.
He was like, "That man killed his wife.
He shoved her off that cliff."
And we were like, "Yes!" [laughs]
GRUSING: So, Beth had done a tremendous amount of work
getting all the search warrants and returns from Harold's phone,
from his computer, the house.
They could prove that Harold was lying.
They could prove that he had an insurable interest to kill Toni.
But you couldn't prove that he killed Toni.
Knowing that time is of the essence,
if Harold truly killed not only Toni,
but his first wife, Lynn,
and we had him still running around in society,
we needed to act quickly.
♪♪
‐ Yes.
SHOTT: Friends and family told us that,
once Toni had Haley,
it was almost like Toni was a third wheel in that family.
SPENCER: It was our theory that
he wanted a child very desperately.
And once he got that child, he didn't need Toni anymore.
He had the person that he could control 1,000%
above any wife, or anyone else in his life.
And that was his daughter.
♪♪
HAZRA: So, you wanted to build the case,
but you also knew someone who we believed
had murdered two different people
and was living with a young child,
was out there.
So, we all felt like
we were dealing with a ticking time bomb.
♪♪
GRUSING: Toni was right under here.
We've got this guy, and we think he killed both his wives.
And he most likely had an inner circle of people
that weren't willing to talk yet,
people that I knew had critical pieces to tell us,
that may even link Lynn's death and Toni's death.
‐ And the opportunity is gonna be these remote locations
that he brings these women to. GRUSING: Yeah.
SHOTT: We did try to interview his family,
and they refused an interview with us.
That has some really eerie similarities.
The information that we did piece together
from his childhood was little bits and pieces
from friends that did speak with us.
♪♪
WHITENER: My name is Myra Whitener,
and I went to junior high school, high school with Harold.
We remained friends throughout our whole lives.
For all of us, honestly, he was obnoxious,
but you just kind of overlook that
because he was so charming, too.
Harold didn't want to go home a lot.
I think that's probably why he hung out at our house.
‐ Casting around for ideas of why Harold is who he is,
you can be way too simplistic,
but, also, you can probably be right at the same time.
And I think it all comes down to his dad.
SHOTT: Our understanding was that his father
was abusive to him as a child.
And we don't know exactly to what extent.
HANNAN: He was an alcoholic.
He was violent.
It was bad.
WHITENER: That's one thing Harold always said ‐‐
"I will never drink, and I will never hit a woman," he said,
which is why it's shocking.
♪♪
Oh, geez.
♪♪
FOX: I'm sure that there were some early warning signs,
maybe even going back to childhood.
I'm Bryanna Fox.
I study the criminal behavior
and basically why people commit crimes in specific ways.
I think there's a few different reasons
why he was so drawn to women
that were, you know, loving, caring,
from these wonderful families.
HANNAN: If you're from that kind of house,
you don't have an example of how to build a good life.
You're reaching and grabbing for everything you can.
WHITENER: Harold always wanted to have a family.
He wanted to be a "family man."
GRUSING: If you're going to be a good predator,
if you're gonna be a good wolf in sheep's clothing,
you have to look like a sheep.
Harold had to condition himself to show emotion.
SHOTT: Lynn and Toni were loving, Christian women,
and I think Harold used that.
I think, for him, they were props in his facade.
HANNAN: And he's all about presentation.
He needed everybody to know how smart
and how powerful and how rich he was.
GRACE: Everything he's told me about his jobs ‐‐
And who knows about his education?
Who knows if anything he's ever said is true?
He has lied to me about ‐‐
about everything.
He lied so much that he forgot who he lied to.
GRUSING: People like Harold, they're compulsive liars.
So, they will tell you story one,
and if you raise your eyebrows,
or if you blink too long, then, they'll go to story two.
They could care less what anybody else believes,
as long as you tell them you believe the story.
SHOTT: He would tell different versions
of the story about Lynn's death.
And then, he would tell different versions of the story
about Toni's death.
GRUSING: A narcissist has no empathy for people around him,
and every even little statement has to go towards
a building up of the perception or image of that person.
FOX: Having never met him,
it's difficult to, with full certainty,
say exactly what he may qualify as.
But cunning and manipulation of others,
narcissism and grandiosity,
pathological lying, very low empathy,
not taking responsibility for actions,
constantly blaming others.
These are things that, throughout this case,
we just see not one time, but consistently appearing,
over and over and over again.
The pattern is very strong and consistent
that he shows many traits and features
consistent with psychopathy, of being a psychopath.
GRUSING: I think Harold is different than most psychopaths
because he's not someone who's going to hurt a stranger.
He's fine to strangers.
But I believe that, the closer you are to Harold,
the more likelihood that he's going to harm or kill you.
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‐ There was concern, after Toni died,
that Harold's attention to Haley was almost too much ‐‐
that it was obsessive.
And some friends and family voiced concern
that they were worried for Haley's welfare.
HANNAN: The Bertolets, their main concern is Haley.
At one point, the Bertolets have this plan.
TODD: We were pretending that we were supporting Harold.
But on the other hand, we were an inside source for information
for Beth Shott and the FBI.
We're all playing this game.
And the whole time, you're thinking,
"This man murdered my sister."
SHOTT: And Haley was gonna be alone with Harold,
without their influence, if they confronted him.
So, that scared them, I think.
FOX: It seems very likely,
based upon the pattern of behaviors
that Harold was exhibiting over all of these years,
Haley, she could have easily been at risk.
Or, if she was saying,
"No. I don't want to live this way anymore,"
that could have ended with her, you know,
potentially ending up just like her mother.
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