roxanne burns felt a great sense of relief. finally sort of a chance to to make it right. to make it right, yep. reporter: she hadn t forgotten that night back in 1995. it wasn t just the horrible way lynn died, her own jeep crushing her, it was the husband, harold. roxanne remembered he just wasn t acting right. you ve seen a lot of these? oh, yeah. oh, yeah. and he was just so calm about the whole thing and didn t ask any questions about how she was or anything like that. he wasn t screaming at me, grabbing at me, saying, you have to do something. you know reporter: desperate. desperate. yeah. reporter: instead, as roxanne remembers it, harold seemed to be avoiding her. he kept walking around the car. he kept, you know, making me follow him. so i would ask him a question, and he would walk away from me. reporter: patricia montoya,
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
the good samaritan, also remembers thinking that harold was acting strangely that night. for one thing, even though harold flagged down her family s car, patricia says he didn t seem to want their help. we started to get her out from underneath the car, and that s when he started telling us, you know, get away from her. don t touch her. reporter: she also noticed that although the night was chilly lynn was wearing just jeans and a t-shirt. harold, on the other hand, had a nice, warm coat. he didn t even attempt to take his coat off and cover his wife with it. so we all covered her with our coats. reporter: then when the emts got lynn s heart started, roxanne said harold said something she never forget. when we put her in the ambulance and she did have a heartbeat, he said, really? she has a heartbeat? he was more surprised than thankful. reporter: now that harold had lost his second wife toni in a second strange incident, the douglas county coroners office which had origina
and died from asphyxiation. the only marks on her body, imprints from the brake rotor. the local douglas county sheriff s department opened an investigation, but a few days later the coroner ruled lynn s death an accident. the case was closed. did you have any reason to believe this wasn t an accident? no. we all believed him and took him at his word. any thoughts that i might have had i just dismissed. reporter: harold had his wife cremated, spread her ashes on a mountain he said she loved, and then went on with his life. he even kept driving the same jeep for a while. eventually he married toni, and lynn s death became a distant memory. for some people, anyway, but not all. nearly 18 years later after toni fell off that cliff, the sheriff s office called patricia montoya. i don t understand why it took so long.
reporter: may 6th, 1995. it was a cool spring evening in the colorado countryside. a little after 9:00 p.m., patricia montoya was with her family on highway 67 about an hour and half south of denver. basically in the middle of nowhere. came around a bend. and there was a flare in the street and a man trying to flag cars down. reporter: the man was harold henthorn, and he was in a panic. harold was at the driver window asking us for help because the car was here and it had fallen on top of his wife. and looking over to the area, you could see her legs coming from underneath. reporter: lynn, his wife of 12 years, was under the jeep. it was a horrible scene. we asked him what happened, and he said that they had stopped to fix a flat and his wife somehow went under the car possibly to get a lug nut and the jack fell from underneath the car and she got pinned. reporter: lynn was face down with the brake rotor resting on her back. the montoyas carefully lifted the jeep. all f