[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.
‐ And he believes he's not going to be arrested.
[police radio chatter]
SPENCER: If she started moving the money
he was living on, the gig was up.
‐ Everybody's gonna find out that he's a fraud.
‐ I was in a state of shock that somebody could be so evil.
GRACE: And the last thing that Toni
ever had going through her mind
was him pushing her off.
‐ This is a murder motivated by money and malice.
‐ Can you prove the difference between a push and a fall?
♪♪
SHOTT: A woman was killed.
And it took a toll on me.
Just the stress level was really high.
And I did bring it home.
My husband got tired of hearing about it.
And I would wake up in the middle of the night
obsessing about it.
"What do I need to do next? What's the next thing?"
Since 1992, Harold has not been employed.
He has not had an income.
We were still trying to build a snapshot
of Harold's lack of income for 18 years
leading up to Toni Henthorn's death
and $4.7 million.
He had insurance.
GRUSING: But to prove it in court's gonna be difficult.
‐ That's a lot of reasons to kill someone.
All through this is, in the back of my mind,
that I don't want to lose this case
because of something that I missed.
That's always there. That's always hanging.
That's why it took us a long time
to actually arrest him.
♪♪
‐ To build a solid case, it's like making a solid table.
You can't build a table with one leg or two legs.
You have to have four legs.
This one, he calls the Stanley on his way up.
So, there's a lot of witnesses that need reinterviewed.
There's more data that comes in,
that we want to make sure we're filling up all the holes
in our case.
HAZRA: I think it's relevant
because he's not telling the truth. Right?
It's back to that same thing of ‐‐
we're not trying to prove he didn't have a job.
‐ And at the same time,
we were very concerned about Haley's safety.
BURR: Our daughters went to school together
since they were about 2 years old.
I remember going to their house for Haley's birthday.
Scripted, it seemed.
It just seemed a little exaggerated.
‐ He had control over everything that Haley ate or drank.
Haley even still had a baby monitor in her room.
He wanted total control.
And there's no one you can control more than your child.
♪♪
FOX: In my opinion, the reason that he wanted to form
the bonds that he had with Haley
was for her to be raised in his exact likeness.
‐ Can you wave?
See you. WOMAN: See you later, alligator.
‐ See you later, alligator.
‐ We knew that, if we didn't support Harold
while this investigation's going on,
then we would be cut off from Haley.
SHOTT: The Bertolets, they would go on vacation with Harold,
or go visit Harold.
And then, they would call me.
And they were providing our investigation
with as much information as they could.
TODD: This is my brother, the spouses, my parents,
very, very close friends ‐‐
we're all playing this game.
SHOTT: I mean, to be honest,
I don't know how they lasted as long as they did.
♪♪
‐ Everybody involved is, in their own ways,
hopeful on one day and despondent on the next,
because it's taking a lot of time.
And in that time, Harold's attitude changes
really dramatically.
TALLEY: We started noticing a change in Harold.
He started calling, overconfident, cocky ‐‐
"They can't do anything to me."
Just really bizarre kind of talk.
HANNAN: Harold is back to his old, ultra‐confident self again.
He believes he's back in control.
He's not going to be arrested.
♪♪
‐ Who's this guy here?
[laughter]
TODD: It was very difficult on my parents,
knowing that this man has killed their daughter.
We had run the course of our value
to the investigation.
And after a visit to Denver, it became very clear
that Harold was using our family as a tool to say,
"Hey, look, they are supporting me, therefore, I'm innocent."
And we said, you know, "Enough."
So, with that, it's time to finally go out in public.
‐ We did not want Toni cremated,
and Harold insisted.
We wanted to
bring her home and bury her.
‐ I think he was trying to hide evidence.
‐ I think that Harold Henthorn
pushed my sister off the mountain.
♪♪
‐ Harold Henthorn immediately cut off all communication
and all contact with Haley.
If we sent gifts out to Haley
for her birthday or anything, she never received them.
He wanted Haley to believe that we didn't care about her.
SHOTT: I can only imagine what the Bertolets
were going through.
It was a long time coming, but there was a point
where we said, "We have enough
to get an arrest warrant, finally, in hand for Harold."
GRUSING: We had our surveillance team
watching him for a couple days,
because we did not want to arrest Harold
with his young daughter there
and create some sort of hostage situation.
[police radio chatter]
SHOTT: A lot's going on, a lot of moving parts,
all merging towards this moment
where we're gonna, hopefully, arrest Harold Henthorn.
♪♪
[siren wailing]
[police radio chatter]
SHOTT: So, Harold knew that we were investigating him,
and he had told people that he had a bag packed
for when he got arrested.
TODD: We knew that arrest was coming.
We just didn't know when.
But it occurred on my parents' wedding anniversary.
And so they got a nice little wedding anniversary,
having Harold Henthorn arrested.
SHOTT: We transported him to the United States Marshals.
‐ He's in the backseat of my car with another FBI agent.
Beth's in the passenger seat.
And you have to fill out a questionnaire
as you're going to the U. S. Marshals Office.
"What's your name? What's your date of birth?
What's your occupation?"
So, when it came to "What's your occupation?" Harold paused.
Harold knew that we knew he didn't have a job.
And I said, "Mr. Henthorn, you don't have to answer."
And he said, "Okay. I choose not to answer that question."
We get there to the Marshals Office,
and an attractive young female marshal is booking him in.
And she goes through the exact same questions ‐‐
name, date of birth, occupation.
And for occupation, he goes,
"I'm a fundraiser for hospitals and churches."
♪♪
He just told her the whole story
right in front of us.
SHOTT: Even under arrest, with handcuffs on,
he can't help but lie about who he is.
‐ It was surreal for Beth and I to watch that happen.
FOX: Even when things didn't go his way,
he would create a reality to support what he wanted
and would relentlessly just ensure that
that was the reality portrayed to people.
‐ A fear of ours was that Harold Henthorn
would flee the country
and nobody would have access to Haley.
‐ We thought, really, he's a danger.
This man has killed, supposedly, two wives,
and the last thing we wanted him
was him going home to his child.
SPENCER: We needed to indict him pretty quickly.
HAZRA: We charged him with first‐degree murder.
SPENCER: We did ask for no bail.
Our forensic accountant, who was fabulous,
was able to determine that Harold
was starting to move money ‐‐
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So, that elevated our concern.
REPORTER: He's a flight risk and poses a risk to the community.
Those are the reasons a federal judge has given
for denying bond to Harold Henthorn.
‐ He had to spend all his time in jail prior to his trial.
♪♪
SHOTT: Harold had a couple friends that,
if anything happened to him or Toni,
were legal guardians to Haley.
‐ HETTICK: I think she was with us for about 14 months.
We certainly felt that Haley more rightfully deserved
to be with the Bertolets
and back with her natural family,
rather than with us.
It was obvious that, with all the control that Harold had,
she hadn't had the ability to mature like kids her age had.
She had it tough.
SHOTT: We saw a lot of similarities
between Lynn Henthorn's death and Toni's murder.
HANNAN: After Harold's arrest, the Rishells and Bertolets
began to share information.
TODD: We started talking with the Rishells,
and we started comparing notes.
Both his wives die directly in front of him,
yet he doesn't see anything.
It occurred around anniversaries.
Both of them were supposed to be going to dinner reservations.
You could just go on down the line,
and they were exactly the same.
KEVIN: One of the good things that came out of this
was that I started communicating with Grace again
and supporting her as she develops this list
between what happened with Lynn
and what happened with Toni, that we gave to the detectives.
♪♪
GRUSING: Once Harold gets arrested,
the clock starts ticking on trial.
‐ We have a certain amount of time
in which to bring him to trial.
‐ We need to prove that he was very key to Lynn's death.
So, we had to strategize on what circumstantial evidence
would be key to our investigation.
HANNAN: Circumstantial evidence is not what we think it is.
It doesn't mean evidence that should be discounted by a jury.
It just means evidence that doesn't point directly
to someone's involvement in a crime.
SPENCER: You go to bed at night,
and there's no snow on the ground.
And you wake up the next morning,
there's snow on the ground.
You have not seen it, so there's no direct evidence.
It is circumstantial.
You see footprints in the snow.
How do you know that somebody walked across that snow?
You don't have the direct evidence
that somebody walked across your yard,
but you have circumstantial evidence
because the footprints are left behind.
So, our job is to find the footprints
that are left behind, and who put them there.
HAZRA: Building the case against Harold was a monumental effort.
We didn't always agree on that.
Like, we would fight, as a team, about,
"No, we've got to do this," or "How do we do that?"
How do you take, like, just tons of evidence
and distill it down to what matters?
GRUSING: A lot was up in the air.
My superiors were wondering if we should strike
some sort of deal with Harold ahead of time,
just because everybody's primary concern was Haley.
‐ Harold hires an attorney named Craig Truman.
‐ He's a very well‐respected criminal defense attorney
in town, who has decades of experience.
HAZRA: I think Harold's lawyer's strategy
is to figure out what our case is
and where he can poke holes in it.
SHOTT: Potentially, two women died because of this man.
We are the voice of Toni when it comes to the trial.
We have to tell her story, her side of it.
SPENCER: Always in the back of our mind was,
how were we gonna do this?
GRUSING: There are a lot of variables,
so this is gonna be very critical.
♪♪
SPENCER: So, as we do the investigation,
Harold turns out to be a not very nice person.
But that doesn't make you a killer.
You know, you could be a jerk,
but that doesn't mean you murdered your wife.
HANNAN: Toni was set to inherit a lot of money.
She was set for life.
She knew it, they knew it,
and certainly, Harold knew it.
If Harold and Toni had had a great marriage,
then, Toni is worth far more alive
than she ever would be dead.
‐ In December of 2011,
we made our last trip to Colorado, to see the Henthorns.
So, Toni, she looked exhausted ‐‐
more than just exhausted ‐‐ she looked worn out.
And she looked like she was ready to come home.
I just saw something in her eyes that,
"This is not what I signed up for."
I know for sure that finances drove Harold's decision‐making.
He was obsessed with finances.
There was rarely a conversation
when the subject of money didn't come up.
‐ So I asked Dana Chamberlin,
who was a financial analyst in my office,
if she would start digging into the financial records,
which meant getting bank records.
She went through and demonstrated that
all the income that came in was Toni's,
but that Henthorn controlled every account ‐‐
the signatory on the bank accounts
and where all the mail went ‐‐ it all went to him,
so that, even though Toni made the money,
she had no idea what was happening with it.
TALLEY: Money didn't impress Toni.
It wasn't important to her.
She let him take care of everything.
HAZRA: Toni Henthorn got regular royalty checks from her family
'cause they're in the oil industry.
SHOTT: These checks that Toni would get for oil and gas,
Harold would deposit them.
And at one point, Toni's father found out
that all of the oil and gas checks
went into Harold's account, and he confronted Toni with it.
He's like, "Why don't you have your own account?
Why don't you separate your finances from Harold?"
And that spurred Toni to open up her own bank account.
And she actually took the next checks, and she deposited them.
Harold was not on that account.
‐ She got another phone.
And so, she gave another one of my friends
a different number,
because I think Harold controlled her phone.
‐ I thought to myself, "She's about to leave him."
HANNAN: If Toni keeps going on the trajectory
that she's going on,
there's probably gonna be a divorce.
SHOTT: And I don't think that Harold
would have allowed that to happen.
TODD: Divorce really wasn't an option for Harold Henthorn.
Everybody's gonna find out that he has no career,
that he has no income, that he's a fraud.
SPENCER: Harold took care of the money down to the penny,
so the loss of an oil and gas royalty check
was significant enough that he realized
this is gonna be a problem.
Toni was taking steps to be independent.
If she started moving the money he was living on,
the gig was up.
‐ Motive started solidifying pretty quickly.
SPENCER: Beth Shott and Jonny Grusing
were insistent, then,
on finding out where Harold was traveling to.
'Cause they hired a nanny so that he could travel
every Thursday and Friday.
We know he's not flying out of state.
We can't find any hotels.
There weren't any cash withdrawals coming out.
So, we couldn't figure out what he was doing.
‐ So, Jonny, what do you know about Harold's movements?
I had a big pile of cell tower information,
as well as call information.
And I gave that pile to Jonny.
I said, "Try to figure out
where Harold was going on these business trips."
SPENCER: So, when you're using your cellphone,
it is pinging off a local tower.
So, we can find where your phone has been
on given dates and times.
GRUSING: It probably took me a week or two
to plot all his goings.
And I see this as a pattern,
through the first couple of Thursdays,
that he's over in Southwest Littleton,
which is about 10 miles from his house.
And I'm wondering, "What's he doing over there?
And why was he having to hire a babysitter to get there?"
He's going through a lot of effort
to go to Southwest Littleton.
The two cell towers kind of look like little pies.
And they ‐‐ they intersected at this mall
we call "Aspen Grove Mall."
And there's probably 30 stores there.
♪♪
I call Beth and say, "Can you meet me down here
at Southwest Plaza?"
She's there probably within half an hour.
So, we hit up the Panera.
And I had a picture of Harold to show to the manager.
And she said, "Oh, yeah. I know him.
He was in all the time."
And he would spend probably three,
sometimes four hours back there,
either on his cellphone or on a computer,
just surfing the Internet.
Both Beth and I were thrilled.
And for me, it also validated the cellphone technology,
in that I'm looking at these two towers.
I know he's somewhere in the middle.
And boom, he's right there.
SHOTT: Along with the Panera hits on the cell tower,
Jonny also started seeing a pattern of movement
up to Estes Park.
‐ So, I first saw on August 16th ‐‐
I saw him hit an Estes Park Tower.
It's the first time that I could see him
hit the tower in Estes Park,
where he was actually reaching out to 911,
saying, "My wife, my bride is gone,"
all that sort of stuff.
And then, I saw gaps in communication.
And Harold was always on his cellphone,
and so, to see a gap of eight hours,
I'm like, "What's he doing?"
And so, I started looking more, then, for gaps,
instead of who he's calling of,
when is he not calling or texting?
And I found six of those gaps.
And each of those, it's almost like breadcrumbs,
where you could see him go from his house up north of town.
Then, his cellphone goes off.
[engine starts]
♪♪
And then, you wait about six or eight hours,
and then, you can see the breadcrumbs
coming back down to his house.
Each time, it points towards Estes Park.
On August 16th and August 24th, he does the same thing.
So, he keeps on doing this.
I think his most significant trip was on September 9th.
And he goes up north.
You know, the cellphone's off.
He comes back down.
But it's the next morning,
when he calls Cherry Creek Eye Surgeons,
and says, "Hey, I need you to block off September 28th.
I'm gonna take her for this hike
up in Estes Park."
So, I believe, on September 9th, he finds a spot.
SHOTT: And what Jonny figured out
is Harold leaving his home in Highlands Ranch,
and driving up into Rocky Mountain National Park,
eight or nine times every weekend
leading up to Toni's death.
And it started once Harold figured out
Toni had opened up her own bank account.
‐ 11 days after her death, he drives up to a FirstBank
with an obviously forged signature of Toni
for the exact amount that cleaned out
that account she opened on her own.
SPENCER: We felt that we had enough to present as evidence.
We all said, "Are we ready?"
Did we have enough to prove it to the jury?
♪♪
SPENCER: We knew we had one last major hurdle.
One of the things that we did, legally, was to make a decision
that we were going to try and use the 1995 death
of Lynn Henthorn in the case.
And in our case, it was to show that this was not an accident...
...and to show the intent and planning that Harold had.
‐ Harold's the only witness. Harold's not injured in any way.
GRUSING: So, to tie Lynn's death to Toni's death,
we needed to show that they were similar in a variety of ways.
Harold had a lot to gain, financially,
because of the insurance money.
One is under a car in the middle of the night.
Toni was under a deck in the middle of the night
when the beam fell on her head.
Then, Toni was on the edge of a dangerous cliff.
♪♪
The more similarities we can show a judge,
the better chance that Valeria and Suneeta
could bring these into the courtroom.
SPENCER: This was everything.
There was nothing more important than this.
‐ Judge Jackson asked both sides to brief it,
which means submit legal pleadings
that lay out why it should be admissible.
♪♪
SPENCER: We had a several‐day hearing on it.
We knew it was absolutely key and important.
So did the defense, and so did the judge.
So, we really hammered it.
KEVIN: We went to the pre‐trial
very concerned that the evidence was not going to be allowed in.
GRACE: This was gonna be a very difficult case to prove,
so this was crucial,
to see what we could get in there ahead of time,
so that we could have a much better chance
when the trial came in September.
♪♪
‐ Valeria and I put on the various witnesses
during the evidentiary hearing.
‐ It's difficult to take on a cold case
because so many years have gone by.
But people who witness a traumatic event
really do retain very clear
"take them back to the moment" kind of memories.
They turn out to be almost a mini‐trial within the trial.
We were not proving that Lynn was murdered.
They could only use it for the limited purpose
to show that it was not likely
that Toni's death was an accident,
based on the similarities of Lynn's death.
HAZRA: Harold's lawyer's strategy was
to keep Lynn Henthorn's death out of evidence.
You know, he definitely was pushing hard
and arguing hard that that shouldn't come in.
SPENCER: The judge called us to the bench and said,
"Are you sure that you want to get into this?
Do you really want to use this?
Because if you're gambling now ‐‐
and you are ‐‐ and you're wrong,
you retry this case."
♪♪
Everyone knew how important it was.
Suneeta and I looked at each other
and said, "Yes.
We're gonna use all the cards on the table.
We're not gonna leave anything."
GRUSING: We did not want to lose this trial.
When you're playing with, you know, a young girl's life,
I'd rather be safe than sorry.
♪♪
REPORTER: New information today about what will be allowed
in court during the Harold Henthorn trial.
Well, the judge ruling today that jurors will be allowed
to learn that his first wife
also died under mysterious circumstances.
‐ The judge agreed that, yes,
Lynn's death and the beam incident,
the similarities are too ‐‐ too strong to be ignored.
‐ The judge has said, "Yes.
We are gonna allow that into the trial."
So, I was elated ‐‐ very, very grateful.
SPENCER: And it really was an incredible feeling of relief,
as well as knowing what our marching orders were.
♪♪
REPORTER: This morning, the trial begins
for a Highlands Ranch man accused of killing his wife.
The federal judge in the case told prospective jurors
this trial, quote, "will be a doozy."
‐ And we are tracking breaking news just in to our newsroom.
‐ Harold Henthorn... WOMAN: Happening today.
WOMAN #2: Disturbing new details.
MAN: New information in the...
SHOTT: It's very rare that we do a case
that has such strong media attention.
There were cameras outside the courthouse every day.
‐ You just don't get a case like this but once in a lifetime.
HAZRA: There was a cover story in People magazine,
and I'm actually mentioned in the story.
So, I've never had a case like this.
‐ Prosecutors feel this is a murder
motivated by money and malice.
‐ You know, this is it.
There's no go‐backs. [chuckles]
‐ A sinister plot by a husband determined to control his wife
and her fortune.
‐ It's a lot tougher than you think
to get a jury to agree.
I don't know how 12 people agree on a pizza topping,
let alone on the guilt or innocence of somebody.
♪♪
‐ Expect opening statements today
in the trial against a Highlands Ranch man
accused of pushing his wife off of a cliff
in Rocky Mountain National Park.
TODD: When they brought Harold Henthorn in,
he was in shackles,
and he looked like he had aged quite a bit.
♪♪
‐ This is opening day of the trial.
It's laying out the foundation of the case,
but also giving that first impression.
SPENCER: We knew we needed to start strong.
HAZRA: He intended to kill her.
The fall broke her neck.
HAZRA: We started emotionally.
HAZRA: Bled out so much...
It scalped her.
$4.5 million...
So, you're trying to build the story
of what happened that night,
but you also want to start introducing evidence.
So, Harold's lawyer, he recognized that
you couldn't explain away all of Henthorn's quirks.
He sort of embraced them and said,
"Sure, he might be quirky,
but that doesn't make him a murderer,"
and to really, you know, challenge us,
because it was a circumstantial case.
TODD: We're hearing things that we didn't know,
such as, you know, how in the world
did Harold Henthorn get $4.5 million
of life insurance policies on my sister?
SHOTT: We showed the autopsy photos of Toni
because he never mentions that she's got a massive head wound
and that she's bleeding out profusely.
And so, we wanted to ensure that the jury understood
that there's no way he could mistake the injuries.
‐ We were staying in a hotel, and we were on the 15th floor.
And I looked down. I was like, "Wow.
That's the amount of distance my sister fell."
What a terrible way to die.
RHONDA: That was very hard.
It was very hard on Mrs. Bertolet.
It broke my heart to see her.
♪♪
SPENCER: Because Lynn's death had never been litigated,
there had never been any justice for the family,
it was really important to them
to see somebody doing something about it.
HAZRA: Truman's strategy in general
was to try to make Lynn's death seem very innocent.
Law enforcement closed the case within a week,
so this is a big nothing.
SPENCER: We presented so much of who Lynn was
and what happened to her
that she almost had her day in court.
HAZRA: So, we put on pictures taken at the original scene,
of the jack and the changing of the tire.
KEVIN: We didn't know that other people had stopped by
and pulled her out,
that he was very agitated at the accident scene with people,
that he didn't want them to touch her.
‐ I was angry, but I was more almost
in a state of shock and disbelief
that somebody could be so evil, and have penetrated our family.
♪♪
ERIC: God bless Barry Bertolet.
I remember talking with him once
and just saying how sorry I was.
And he very graciously just said,
"Eric, Harold fooled us all."
♪♪
‐ Harold, he's smiling at his friends,
and he ‐‐ enough of a narcissist
that it's all about him.
Beth was our case agent, and so,
we were going to be putting her on the stand.
She was a key witness.
SHOTT: I was very nervous.
It's incredibly nerve‐racking to testify,
especially in a homicide.
One of the challenges of doing a case like this is,
did I miss something ‐‐
something that will cause the jury to say "not guilty"?
‐ Beth was outstanding.
Like a race of a marathon,
this was finally her finish line.
SHOTT: I talked about the forensic stuff ‐‐
the time stamp on the camera, it helped build our timeline ‐‐
and then, also, the scene,
because I had been there several times.
‐ Beth being able to guide us up and down there multiple times
was fascinating to the jury.
SPENCER: Because we couldn't bring the jury to the scene,
we instead brought the scene to them.
GRUSING: What I think had a big impact on the jurors
was having about two or three rangers ‐‐ park rangers ‐‐
talk them through how difficult it was
to get up there,
and then, how dangerous it was to be there.
And their testimony was able to almost take the jurors
up there to that site.
SHOTT: We would play the exhibit of that scene.
We're looking at the jurors' faces,
and they have the "aha" moment.
♪♪
‐ Harold did not get up and speak at all in the trial.
♪♪
SHOTT: Craig Truman didn't bring in any witnesses.
He just cross‐examined.
HAZRA: The prosecution gets two closes.
I did the first close, and Valeria did
what's called the "rebuttal."
SPENCER: The defense spent a lot of time
on pushing back on Lynn's case.
MAN: This case has been investigated,
and it has been determined
that this death was an accident.
No criminal charges.
SPENCER: Then, he kept saying,
"No need to look at this again. It was an accident.
MAN: Well, let's look at the evidence.
SPENCER: This poor man has lost two wives.
How heartbreaking could that be?"
HAZRA: Truman really hammered home
that you can't tell the difference
between a fall from a push.
MAN: ...out of evidence.
What has been proven?
There's no way on God's Earth
to tell whether someone was pushed or has fallen.
♪♪
HAZRA: He did a good job.
He also has a different job, right?
We have to convince 12 people,
and he just has to have one get some doubt.
‐ I remember sitting there thinking,
"I'm so proud of the prosecution."
These women took control.
SPENCER: ...down on the 7th floor today,
was I was trying to imagine how Toni walked over...
HAZRA: ...last human touch Toni Henthorn ever felt...
The defendant tells nonsense.
SPENCER: There's no way to tell a push from a fall.
HAZRA: ...was not a loving caress from her husband,
but a push ‐‐ a push that deprived Haley of her mother...
SPENCER: It was a lie the whole way through.
‐ Valeria, she brought you almost
to the ‐‐ to the top of that cliff.
SPENCER: Toni fell over 128 feet to her death.
‐ I will never forget Suneeta saying,
"This is the man that is supposed to
guard and protect his wife,
and the last thing that Toni ever had going through her mind
was him pushing her off."
HAZRA: So, after closing arguments,
the case goes to the jury.
SPENCER: You sit down, and you think, "I hope we did it."
It's a lot tougher than you think to get a jury to agree.
KEVIN: I felt like we made the case,
but there's still a lot of anticipation, a lot of...
[breathes sharply]
"Oh, my gosh. I don't know."
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SPENCER: You're always nervous
about what 12 people are thinking.
And they have to unanimously decide
that we have met our burden.
I remember Suneeta and I looking at other, going,
"It's got to be guilty, right? It's gonna be guilty?"
And I was just like, "I don't know. I don't know."
You just don't know.
‐ The judge reads the verdict.
"In the matter of the United States
versus Harold Henthorn...
we, the jury, find the defendant...
guilty."
[cheers and applause]
There was, like, audible whoops of joy
that came out of the courtroom.
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‐ I was just so, so happy.
‐ We were all very thankful, very relieved.
TODD: Just elation.
I don't think anybody understands how nervous you are
and how stressful it is, going through that trial.
SHOTT: We all look at each other,
and it's an overwhelming emotion that hits you.
And you look back at the Bertolets.
And they're crying.
And all of this is to get justice for Toni,
justice for Haley, justice for the Bertolets.
And we did it.
It's a really, really satisfying moment.
ERIC: When they did convict him,
I was able to say, "Goodbye, Harold,"
[chuckling] as they were walking him out.
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‐ The sentence was life in prison
without the possibility of parole.
SPENCER: Harold appealed to the 10th Circuit,
specifically the Lynn Henthorn piece,
and he lost.
He appealed that to the United States Supreme Court,
and they denied it.
And so, his appeal on the trial is over.
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‐ There was a time when I wanted to get out
more information on Lynn,
but at the end of the day, Lynn received justice.
‐ Hi, Grace! Hi! Hi, Eric!
ERIC: If it had not been for Lynn's case,
he very well would have walked.
There wouldn't have been enough, even the circumstantial.
KEVIN: Lynn was a lover. My sister was a giver.
And he took advantage of that.
The world lost a lover.
[voice breaking] We need more of that in this world.
‐ Here's to celebrating life, since we all have it.
‐ Family. ‐ Whoo!
GRACE: We're healing. And this was part of it.
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BOB: If Toni was here,
I would tell her how much I loved her
and how much I missed her.
TONI: Okay, Daddy, being the elder statesman of the group,
do you want to say some closing words?
‐ I wish everybody had a life as nice as mine has been,
and that's enough.
TODD: These type of interviews are therapeutic for us,
and it's good for other people
to know the experiences that we had,
to recognize those red flags that we saw,
but we didn't act on.
SHOTT: I believe that putting Harold in a position
where he cannot control anything
is great punishment for Harold.
I do think the punishment fits the crime.
He robbed Haley of a mother.
‐ And, remember, the "C" is cold.
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TODD: Through everything that we've gone through,
that's one of the biggest rewards that ‐‐
that we have received.
My brother and sister‐in‐law adopted Haley.
She is just a thriving, dynamic young lady now ‐‐
brilliant and allowed to do all the things
that she wasn't allowed to do early on in her life.
♪♪
[bird calling]
SPENCER: This crime happened on National Park land,
and that's sort of sacred to citizens of this country.
It's where we get to go and see nature unspoiled,
to see the wildlife.
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Rocky Mountain National Park is one
of the most visited national parks in the country.
And I know that the park rangers
who work there are really proud of that.
SHOTT: Working for the National Park Service,
you get paid in sunrises and sunsets and awesome beauty.
We care about all the resources,
but the utmost we care about is human life.
GRACE: There's an honor to the federal land.
Thinking you can get by because it's so remote?
Think again.
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