thrivinglm practice, first in jackson, mississippi, and later in denver, colorado. a devout christian who sang in her church choir. a mother to a little girl named haley, a g wife to a man named harold, and the older sister to anna kate s dad, todd bertolli . this is about toni and what happened to her one sunny day high up in the mountains. 911, what s your emergency? i need a rescue team immediately. it s also about how secrets long buried sometimes don t stay that way. where did toni fit into your family? she was f the middle between two brothers. sometimes she thought that was an advantage, and sometimes she thought that was a disadvantage. being an only girl with two brothers. obviously we re not going to sit down and play barbies with her. you know, we needed the extra
wide receiver during the backyard football game, and she had to oblige us. did it turn her into a little bit ofer a tom boy? i wouldn t say she was a tom boy, but she was a great athlete. she could do anything she put her mind to. toni grew up with her brothers around natches, mississippi, the epitome of the south. did toni embrace the hair, the makeup, things you would think of as a southern bell? we went to ole miss. it s coat and die sunday dresses for footballe games. no sweatpants? no. not to go out. she wouldn t go out in public, never. toni did have one flaw when it came toha being a bell. when i first got to college, she felt like, you know, i was a little bit too skinny and needed to bulk up a little bit. she said she s going to come over and cook some fried
reporter: perhaps most suspicious of all, a clue from harold s cell phone records that he may have been on that mountain before. in the weeks just prior to toni s death, pings from harold s phone show him traveling north toward rocky mountain national park many times, something he never told investigators. harold said that he and toni came to this really hard-to-get-to spot for the views and they are remarkable. but they re not that much better than the views where they ate lunch, just up the hill from here. after the fbi found out that harold henthorn had to come to rocky mountain national park at least nine times alone before that trip. they started to believe he was on a scouting mission for the perfect lonely location. lured toni to this dangerous ledge, then a deadly push. if that sounded chilling, there was something else to consider. after toni died, within literally hours law enforcement got tips saying, you have to
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
i m dara brown with the hours top stories. a powerful holiday storm is leaving travelers scrambling to get heme. freezing rain and snow causing problems for drivers and hundreds of flight cancellations nationwide. and the white house is declining an invitation by house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler to participate in their first impeachment hearing on wednesday. instead continue to assail what they argue is an unfair process. now back to dateline. two dead wives. two lonely places. lynn and toni never knew each other, but they shared so much. in life they both married harold henthorn, and in death harold had them both cremated against the wishes of their families. we didn t find out my