01x04 - Justice for Haley

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He's a danger.

This man has k*lled,
supposedly, two wives.

‐ And he believes he's not
going to be arrested.

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.

And the last thing that Toni

ever had going through her mind

was him pushing her off.

‐ This is a m*rder motivated
by money and malice.

‐ Can you prove the difference
between a push and a fall?

A woman was k*lled.

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.

But to prove it
in court's gonna be difficult.

‐ That's a lot of reasons
to k*ll 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.

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.

Our daughters
went to school together

since they were about


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.

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.
- 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.

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.

This is my brother,
the spouses, my parents,

very, very close friends -

we're all playing this game.

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.

We started noticing
a change in Harold.

He started calling,
overconfident, c*ck -

"They can't do
anything to me."

Just really bizarre
kind of talk.

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?

It was very difficult
on my parents,

knowing that this man
has k*lled 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.

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."

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.

A lot's going on,
a lot of moving parts,

all merging
towards this moment

where we're gonna, hopefully,
arrest Harold Henthorn.

So, Harold knew that
we were investigating him,

and he had told people
that he had a bag packed

for when he got arrested.

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.

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.

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.

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 k*lled,
supposedly, two wives,

and the last thing
we wanted him

was him going home
to his child.

We needed to indict him
pretty quickly.

We charged him
with first‐degree m*rder.

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.

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.

Harold had
a couple friends that,

if anything happened to him
or Toni,

were legal guardians
to Haley.

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.

We saw a lot of similarities

between Lynn Henthorn's death
and Toni's m*rder.

After Harold's arrest,
the Rishells and Bertolets

began to share information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I think
Harold's lawyer's strategy

is to figure out
what our case is

and where
he can poke holes in it.

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.

Always
in the back of our mind was,

how were we gonna do this?

There are
a lot of variables,

so this is gonna be
very critical.

So,
as we do the investigation,

Harold turns out to be
a not very nice person.

But that doesn't make you
a k*ller.

You know,
you could be a jerk,

but that doesn't mean
you m*rder*d your wife.

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.

Money didn't impress Toni.

It wasn't important
to her.

She let him take care
of everything.

Toni Henthorn got regular
royalty checks from her family

'cause they're
in the oil industry.

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."

If Toni keeps going
on the trajectory

that she's going on,

there's probably
gonna be a divorce.

And I don't think that Harold

would have allowed that
to happen.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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


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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

We went to the pre‐trial

very concerned that the evidence
was not going to be allowed in.

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 m*rder*d.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

And it really was
an incredible feeling of relief,

as well as knowing what
our marching orders were.

This morning, the trial begins

for a Highlands Ranch man
accused of k*lling 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...
- Happening today.

Disturbing new details.

New information in the...

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.

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 m*rder

motivated by money and malice.

‐ You know, this is it.

There's no go‐backs.

‐ 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.

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.

We knew we needed
to start strong.

He intended to k*ll her.

The fall broke her neck.

We started emotionally.

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 m*rder*r,"

and to really, you know,
challenge us,

because it was
a circumstantial case.

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?

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.

That was very hard.

It was very hard
on Mrs. Bertolet.

It broke my heart to see her.

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.

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.

We presented
so much of who Lynn was

and what happened to her

that she almost had
her day in court.

So, we put on pictures
taken at the original scene,

of the jack
and the changing of the tire.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because we couldn't
bring the jury to the scene,

we instead brought
the scene to them.

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.

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.

Craig Truman didn't
bring in any witnesses.

He just cross‐examined.

The prosecution
gets two closes.

I did the first close,
and Valeria did

what's called
the "rebuttal."

The defense spent
a lot of time

on pushing back on Lynn's case.

This case has
been investigated,

and it has been determined

that this death
was an accident.

No criminal charges.

Then, he kept saying,

"No need to look at this again.
It was an accident.

Well, let's look at
the evidence.

This poor man
has lost two wives.

How heartbreaking
could that be?"

Truman really hammered home

that you can't tell
the difference

between a fall
from a push.

...out of evidence.

What has been proven?

There's no way
on God's Earth

to tell whether someone
was pushed or has fallen.

He did a good job.

He also has
a different job, right?

We have to convince


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.

...down on the 7th floor today,

was I was trying to imagine
how Toni walked over...

...last human touch
Toni Henthorn ever felt...

The defendant tells nonsense.

There's no way to tell
a push from a fall.

...was not a loving
caress from her husband,

but a push - a push that
deprived Haley of her mother...

It was a lie
the whole way through.

‐ Valeria,
she brought you almost

to the -
to the top of that cliff.

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."

So, after closing arguments,

the case goes to the jury.

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.

I felt like we made the case,

but there's still a lot
of anticipation, a lot of...

"Oh, my gosh.
I don't know."

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."

There was, like,
audible whoops of joy

that came out of
the courtroom.

‐ I was just so, so happy.

‐ We were all very thankful,
very relieved.

Just elation.

I don't think anybody
understands how nervous you are

and how stressful it is,
going through that trial.

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.

When they did convict him,

I was able to say,
"Goodbye, Harold,"

as they were walking him out.

‐ The sentence
was life in prison

without the possibility
of parole.

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.

‐ 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!

If it had not been
for Lynn's case,

he very well
would have walked.

There wouldn't have been enough,
even the circumstantial.

Lynn was a lover.
My sister was a giver.

And he took advantage
of that.

The world lost a lover.

We need
more of that in this world.

‐ Here's to celebrating life,
since we all have it.

‐ Family.
‐ Whoo!

We're healing.
And this was part of it.

If Toni was here,

I would tell her
how much I loved her

and how much I missed her.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's an honor
to the federal land.

Thinking you can get by
because it's so remote?

Think again.

Think again.