she s smiling, relaxed. it doesn t look like she had any inkling that anything bad was to come. harold told the ranger the ridge where they had lunch wasn t private enough. so they climbed down these loose rocks looking for another spot. at this point they were several hours into their hike with not much daylight left and not much time to keep a 7:00 p.m. dinner reservation. they ended up on a small, flat area with not a lot of wiggle room and steep drops all around. it s where this pictures was taken at 5:00 p.m. it s one of the last pictures on toni s camera. rangers believe toni fell from right here, 128 feet down. this is a spot that most people would be too nervous to approach without the proper safety gear, but harold said toni was trying to capture the perfect picture of some wild turkeys and apparently just got too close to the edge. harold said by the time he scrambled down the mountain and found his wife, toni wasn t talking.
and we were never allowed to be alone even if we were together. and he would even make comments when we would go to the bathroom, you know, you girls hurry up in there. you know. he would always make those, you know, like joking comments. 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 husban
inkling that anything bad was to come. harold told the ranger the ridge where they had lunch wasn t private enough. so they climbed down these loose rocks looking for another spot. at this point they were several hours into their hike with not much daylight left and not much time to keep a 7:00 p.m. dinner reservation. they ended up on a small, flat area with not a lot of wiggle room and steep drops all around. it s where this pictures was taken at 5:00 p.m. it s one of the last pictures on toni s camera. rangers believe toni fell from right here, 128 feet down. this is a spot that most people would be too nervous to approach without the proper safety gear, but harold said toni was trying to capture the perfect picture of some wild turkeys and apparently just got too close to the edge. harold said by the time he scrambled down the mountain and found his wife, toni wasn t talking. she was barely breathing, and
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
hiking guide who often works in rocky mountain national park is this path a path well-traveled? do a lot of people come down here it seems tricky. no. this path is way out of the way for any recreational hiker to be scouting about and having fun in the mountains. reporter: would you recommend somebody who is not an expert hiker or rock climber come down here definitely not. this is a place that s very loose, high classification of how we rate the terrain. this takes a lot of technical ability and sure footing this is definitely out of the way. reporter: what about a woman in her 50s with bad knees? absolutely not. reporter: investigators also looked closely at harold s story of what happened after toni fell remember, he said it took a long time to pick his way down the mountain to his bleeding wife s side and sure enough, nearly an hour elapsed between the last photos on toni s camera and harold s call to 911. 911, what s the address of the emergency?