01x02 - The First Wife

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A man having
one wife die is tragic.

A man having two wives die
is suspicious.

He could see that
the vehicle had dropped

and was laying on his wife.

‐ We all had that kind of
sick feeling that,

not only did he k*ll Toni,

but that would mean
that he k*lled Lynn, too.

‐ There's no way
that that was an accident.

Hey, Gracie girl,
it's Harold calling.

‐ Was she his lover?

‐ Oh, my gosh!

How have I
not seen through this guy?

‐ Come on.

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.

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.

When you
get to the scene,

you realize the only reason
to be where you are

is to commit m*rder.

It's a moment where
you're absolutely sure

that this person
k*lled 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.

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."

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.

My parents
are buying the house.

They're buying the car.
They're paying for the tuition.

That doesn't make sense.

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.

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.

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.

But I thought,
"Oh, my gosh, you know,

this is two wives for Harold
that have died now."

In the aftermath
of Toni's death,

anonymous letters
and phone calls

and warnings start going out
to a number of people.

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


‐ 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 k*lled.

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."

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.

We needed to build
a history of Harold,

so our strategy was
to start looking

at Lynn Henthorn's death.

So we're in where
Harold and Lynn Henthorn lived

in the early '90s,

in Centennial, Colorado.

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.

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."

What are your memories
from that day? Was she happy?

‐ She was - Oh, yeah.
She was beaming.

Yeah,
I seem to remember that.

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.

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?

- No. No.
- Not really well.

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.

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.
- 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?"

So Lynn and Harold
got married,

but then, almost immediately,

Harold was saying,
"We need to move to Colorado."

So he takes her away.

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.

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."

- Hmm.
- Wow.

‐ And I remember thinking
again, "That's so weird.

That's so controlling."
Mm‐hmm.

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.

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.

Harold was early on
complaining about back issues,

and Lynn was always having to

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.

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...

"I'll pray for you.

I'm so sorry
you're going through that."

‐ I think when Toni died,
we all had that feeling that...

- ‐ Sort of sick feeling.
- ...the kind of

sick feeling that he did it.
‐ Oh, my gosh.

‐ And not only did he k*ll Toni,
but that would mean...

‐ That means he k*lled Lynn.
‐ ...that he k*lled 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.

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.

My name is Lora Thomas.

I was coroner in
Douglas County, Colorado.

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.

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.

‐ 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.

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.

There are multiple eyewitnesses

to the aftermath of the accident
that k*lled Lynn.

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."

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.

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,


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."

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.

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.

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.

Nothing.
‐ You can't replicate it

the way he says it happened.

Oh!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Especially with
her having arthritis.

‐ Right.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Nothing.

‐ Your difficulty in getting
the vehicle to fall down

may have resulted in Harold
lowering the bottle jack.

‐ Right.

- ‐ She was unconscious.
- Yeah.

And it just knocked it over.

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.

So she would have
had to have been

- in that position, regardless.
- Correct.

And for some period of time.

‐ Right.

Let's try this now.

Lowering
the bottle jack...

Oh!

That's it.
‐ That's it.

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 k*lled Lynn,

but we wanted to introduce
Lynn Henthorn's death

into our case if Lynn is
a precursor to k*lling Toni.

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.

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.

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.

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 k*ll me."

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.

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.

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 k*ll you

and leave you here.

No one would find you
'till springtime.'"

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.

He's banging on the doors
and everything.

‐ 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.

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.

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."

Toni and Harold meet
for the first time

in person on New Year's.

By that weekend,
they decided to get engaged.

Within nine months,
they're married.

‐ And I felt like
my relationship

with Harold got closer.

After Lynn's death,
Harold was actually closer

with the Rishells
than he had been before,

and particularly
with one person.

He stayed very close
with Grace Rishell.

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 k*ll 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.

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 k*lled Toni?