reporter: kim and her husband were told not to mention toni and to drill down on what really happened when lynn died. this wasn t about saying did you do 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 t
all instantly suspected something was wrong. my husband said, we can t let this go. so he called the park rangers and basically just said, we re close with toni. we have suspicions please investigate this, please. he begged them i felt immediately upon hearing the news that we had to find out exactly what was what happened, and that we had to be her voice because the only story we were going to get was going to be his story. reporter: but they all soon discovered even getting harold s story wasn t easy. did you ask harold, tell me what happened several times i said, what happened, harold? and he blew me off reporter: when harold came to mississippi for toni s memorial service her family thought he was more interested in watching a football game than talking about toni s last day on earth he announced to us that day that he wanted to sit down with us and talk.
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
a good day in amongst all the bad? yeah. this won t have a happy ending because we won t be able to bring my sister back. but from here on out there will be good moments for us and that was a good moment and it just so happened to be on my parents 55th wedding anniversary. reporter: but there was still a trial to come and another battle with even more at stake coming up harold henthorn heads into court. i m thinking, okay, this is going to be hard to prove. no witnesses, no evidence. what do you have would a jury buy the case would a jury buy the case against him?
the scene of lynn henthorn s bizarre death, when the phone rang, a sheriff s detective on the line 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