and i ran upstairs. my husband was asleep. and i said, toni s gone. reporter: kim found the tragedy almost unimaginable. remember, she d known harold for decades and had been best friends with his first wife lynn who died 17 years earlier. i just felt so sad. i felt like i could not believe that toni was gone. it just felt like i wish i could have changed it. i wish i could have brought her back. reporter: but soon for some people sorrow would be coupled with another feeling suspicion. coming up my husband said, we can t let this go. please investigate this.
did you cause your death? it was more about catching him in lies and inconsistencies? right, right. reporter: then harold said something which didn t make sense to kim, that he d put his career on hold when haley was born and he and toni decided to keep that a secret. he told us the reason he didn t work and didn t tell us is that toni had asked him not to. he couldn t tell us because he was afraid that if we ever met up with the bertolets, that we d tell him that he s a stay at home dad. i m like, we would never see them. and he goes, well, i couldn t take that chance. reporter: then there was a technical glitch. at one point my wire wasn t working. reporter: how did you know it wasn t working? they called me on the phone and reporter: so you were taking a call in front of harold from the police? and they told me to get in the bathroom and they would fix it. reporter: wire fixed, kim went back to the table. harold, who was never shy about anything, launched into
less frequently. but then in the fall of 1994 there was a reunion of sorts when the henthorns went back to the east coast for a visit. lynn and harold got to meet kim s children. and as true friends do, the two women picked up right where they left off. we talked and we laughed. and it was a good time. but we were always all together. i mean, even when it was time to go to bed, harold didn t go to bed until lynn was in bed. reporter: in other words, harold hadn t changed. but kim thought lynn seemed happy. did you think harold was good for her? i did, yes. reporter: what kim didn t know, it was the last time she would ever see lynn alive.
he couldn t get it to work. and he even said that he sprayed some oil or solvent on it to try to get it to work, and it didn t, wouldn t work. reporter: but no oil or solvent was ever found to corroborate his story. then there was the biggest question of all how do you get under a car and have a car fall on you? it just didn t make sense to me. it never has. reporter: once again, harold seemed to tell multiple stories. patricia montoya remembers him saying lynn went under the jeep to retrieve a lug nut. lynn s old friend kim laferriere says harold told her lynn was going after a flashlight, not a lug nut. and roxanne burns remembered harold saying something else entirely. he said, she was changing the tire, which made the hair on my neck stand up straight because that i was like, women don t usually change tires when a man is around. reporter: investigator charlie mccormick couldn t see any good reason for lynn to get
reporter: that s got to start to get on your nerves? at times it did. but he always dismissed it as, i want to get to know you. lynn loves you. i want to love you like lynn does. i want to know who this, you know, crazy woman that she loves. reporter: but when harold wouldn t let lynn go to kim s wedding, even after kim offered to help pay for the trip, kim felt like she d really lost her best friend. she called me and said, i can t come. and i said why? can you tell me why. and she said, i need to honor my husband. and that s all she would say. reporter: kim thought lynn was okay doing what harold said, because she believed that was her role as the perfect christian wife. there was some awe to the fact that she really did honor her husband. she would never speak negative about him. so i always looked at her and thought, man, maybe she s the better woman. reporter: as the years went on, lynn and kim spoke less and