reporter: patricia montoya, 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
by 2015, the bertolets had been waiting for justice for three years. they missed toni but felt an incredible connection to her through haley. do you see your sister in haley? oh, i mean, tremendously smart girl they are just alike. i think she d grow up to be just like her mother. reporter: but when the bertolets went to the media with their suspicions about harold soon after toni s death, he cut off their contact with haley completely it was agony for toni s family then immediately after his arrest, a lawyer assigned to represent haley s interests in court made sure she got to see the bertolets. it had been a year since they had even been allowed to talk to her. she finally got to be a little 9-year-old girl, and she just needs to be able to grow up
found his wife, toni wasn t talking. she was barely breathing, and she was lying in an awkward position so he told the ranger, he pulled her to a flatter area. then he made that first call to 911. 911, what s the address of the emergency? i need an alpine mountain rescue team immediately. reporter: but there never was a rescue toni died too soon her friend allison talley says in the days after toni died, everyone s focus was dealing with their grief while trying to help haley and harold. he s the grieving widower with the young daughter. right there was no shortage of people over there trying to help and be in the home. we talked to him several times and every conversation had that element in it of how wonderful all his friends and his church family were being to him. reporter: within a day of toni s death, harold reached out to someone who had always been there for him, kim laferriere. i got a text at 10:30 on sunday night
died in a way that was not quick and certainly was painful. the autopsy concluded after the 3,000-pound suv fell on her, lynn hemorrhaged into her lungs 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
reporter: so now harold, the planner, as he d said in his dating profile, was ready. on valentine s day 2000, he set out to orchestrate the perfect proposal harold really studied the jackson area to find out the perfect place to propose and he found this beautiful place in jackson that we all love reporter: and how excited was she to tell you her news very. she was excited. and she had a beautiful ring it was a nice ring and just she was very happy very happy that it seemed like it was all coming together and she was going to be very happy reporter: on september 30th, 2000, less than a year after they had met in person, toni bertolet married harold henthorn in a big church wedding in jackson. she looked fantastic, happy, glowing. it was a lovely day it was beautiful it looked like the first day of the rest of her life. it really did. reporter: the future was bright toni s career had been her focus for so long. harold promised something different.