Hi there, 2020 podcast listeners. This is Deborah Roberts, co-anchor of 2020. We're dropping a new True Crime series from ABC Studios into your feed that we think you're going to want to hear. It's a series that grew out of our work here at 2020 called Wild Crime.

It's about the elite investigative teams that solve dangerous crimes in our national parks.

Here's episode one, murder in the Rocky Mountains. Wild places, wilder crimes. These are the stories of the elite team that solves them in the most dangerous crime scenes in the world, our National Parks. My wife has fallen for a loss.

He was frantic saying, My wife just fell from a cliff. She's unconscious. I need help. She's a bad girl, 34 years deep. Why were you there? Why is the X on this map? The only reason to be where you are is to commit murder. Oh my gosh, this is two lives for Harold that have died now.

There's no way that that was an accident. That's it. That's it.

Every year on their anniversary, Harold would plan a trip with Tony. Typically, a phone would Hey, Lee, this is Harold. Tony and I are going to go on this little honeymoon trip. Could you take care of Haley for the weekend? Sure.

They were about to have their 12th anniversary. He was going to surprise her. She was just going to be overwhelmed. She was going to love it.

Harold projected a successful businessman who was very well off and had wooed this beautiful young lady from Mississippi.

Tony Burley from Mississippi. She was an eye doctor, ophthalmologist, and very successful, and a great mom.

Harold called me and said, Hey, I'm taking my bride, and we're going to Rock and Mountain National Park. I went, Great. Have a great time.

Harold had asked if I could clear Tony's schedule, and he said, I really want to surprise her with a trip.

And so I said, Sure, I'll take care of that for you. I ended up texting Dr. Hentorn. Just to say, Congratulations. Have a great weekend. Be safe. Have a great time.

See you Monday.

And I never heard back from her. Hi, my mom. What's your address? The emergency.

Hello.

My name is Harold Hentorn. I'm in the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Okay.

My wife had fallen her off on the north side summit of Deer Mountain when she was in really critical condition. My name is Mark Farrity. I was a Park ranger in Rocky Mountain National Park. She got that fall 34 years old. My job was to be the first to locate the patient. I was told to go to Deer Ridge Trailhead. I need an outline, an outline rescue team immediately. I already have rangers getting ready to come up there.

My name is Mark Pita.

When that call came in, I took the role of incident commander.

Trying to get a ranger gears can take you at least an hour.

Is there any way that you could bring a helicopter in?

It was steep wooded terrain. There's no place in that immediate vicinity to land a helicopter, and it was already getting dark. We're going to have to go in by ground and make an assessment.

I got to the trailhead about 6:15. My primary concern was finding where the patient was quickly.

It wasn't an easy place to get to.

You'll see two large outcomes, about 90 hectares. We were between the two, about 200 feet off the Crescent Hill. I'd never been in that area. I couldn't see because it was dark. I'd only been hiking 30 minutes when I heard radio traffic. May I tell me you need some assistance? Some CPR. What have you been doing so far?

It's a compression.Hentorn.

Was performing CPR.It's a compression. It made me realize that this was probably not going to have a good ending. I was very thankful when the moon came out, silhouetted the ridge, so I was able to vector in on their location. As I got closer, I started blowing my whistle, and Hentorn also had a whistle, and he responded. As I approached him, Henthorn went over and started performing CPR on Tony. She was laying on her back, and her head was wrapped. It was obvious she had a head wound. Her eyes were partially open, and I evaluated her for a pulse and respirations. I told Harold, I'm sorry, but she's gone. And Harold had said, I think so, too. And he seemed emotional to me. I told him that he would hike down with me, and a couple of people would spend the night with Tony's body, and he agreed. I thought at that time, it was just what 99% of them are, is just a tragic accident.

Park rangers recovering the body of a woman who fell to her death while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. Authorities say that victim was from Littleton. She was in her 50s.

She'd been hiking in the area with a family member.

Now we have a fatality investigation we have to conduct. And the first thing we want to do is document the scene.

My name is Paul Larson. I was the lead field investigator for that penthorn fatality, which means I document the scene, take a lot of pictures, maybe take some measurements. There's a tree that on one side, the branches had been knocked off or broken off. I called the impact tree. You could see that was in a place where I imagine Tony probably impacted as she fell to the ground. There were small things that didn't totally add up. It was an obscure area, not a place where I would expect your average hiker to just happen across because it was just so steep. I noticed there was a shoe that was there, an untied boot. Usually in the course of a fall, shoes tend not to untie themselves. Her backpack was very close to her body and also her camera. I would think that it would be up at the impact area or off somewhere else after falling down a cliff, just not necessarily right where she was. So I knew that the camera was important and it was something that I decided to take to pass off to Rancher Ferdie. That day, I tied in with a ranger who was inventorying Harold Hentorn's vehicle, and she found a map in the vehicle.

Thought the map was strange. It was a park map, and it had curious drawings on it. Deer Ridge Trail was highlighted. Below Deer Ridge Trail was written the word hike with an X circled, and then above the Deer Ridge Highlighted Trail was a Highlighted X. And that was really curious because it was right about the location where Tony had died, so I seized it as evidence. This is pretty obvious. Something that's going to require this much investigation is probably going to go over to ISB. The investigate The Services Branch, known as ISB, investigates complicated felony crimes. If it happens in a National Park, we can investigate it. The National Park Service has over 400 units across the country, and by and large, they are incredibly safe places. But when you have millions and millions of visitors coming through every year, crime will happen. And in National Parks, there are certain crimes that, if they're committed, become some federal offenses no matter what. And these agents need to be able to do it all. Wildlife crime, crimes against people. It's just amazing where we can wind up and what we can wind up doing. So you truly never know.

Then a lot of times we are physically scrambling over rocks and climbing to get to certain areas. I don't think everybody else in the special agent world is doing that.

We have huge areas to cover, and there's only about 34 agents. My name is Beth Schott. I'm a special agent with the Investigative Services Branch. We're the detectives of the National Park Service. Because ISB agents are so far and few between, I was an office of one agent. So ranger Faraday called me when he had some suspicion about Tony's death. He presented his information that he had, and I said, I think we've got a case. The ranger Faraday made arrangements to go to Harold Hentorn's house and interview him because there's still a lot of questions we need to ask.

When I got there, he introduced me to his daughter, Haley, and then he took me into the basement and sat me down at what I guess was his office. One of the things I had brought with me was a memory card from Tony's camera, and I showed him some of the pictures off the camera, and he acted upset. He said, That's my wife, Mark. That's my wife, as he looked at pictures of Tony. Harold told me that when the fall happened, she was walking rapidly toward the edge of the cliff. He said he didn't witness it. He was was preoccupied with his phone and receiving a text. It said Haley had won a soccer game. When I asked to see the text, he showed me and it said that the text had been received at 5:54.

He noted the time. He said, Oh, it's 5:54. We realized that the text message came in at the same time that he called 911.

He told Mark it took him about 45 minutes to get down to the bottom of the cliff.

We're where Tony's body was, and then he called 911. We know when he called 911 and when that text message came in, and those don't match up to his story.

And then I got the map that a ranger had found in his vehicle and said, Well, what about this? And that was the first time in the interview, Hentorn didn't seem to have any words.

This is a copy of the map found in the car. That's the X, and it's It's eerily near where Tony's body was discovered. Why were you there? Why is the X on this map? And he didn't have an answer for it. He seemed taken aback.

I think at that point, he pretty much just wanted me gone. He never returned any of my calls after that.

So all of those things, which we call the spidey sense, so to speak, all these red flags are what triggered Mark to believe that there was something more to the story. We didn't really know what we We had, we just knew that everything didn't sound right. And there was a really key piece of evidence. Tony's camera was destroyed, but the SD card was still intact. We were able to look at the photos, and these pictures are very important to us because these are the last moments of Tony Hentorn's life.

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Within days of getting involved in this case, I talked to Tony's family, the Bertholais, and they gave me insight into Tony. We discussed how they learned about Tony's death and what they heard that night.

I had just I sat down, it was around seven o'clock, and I look over, the phone's ringing, and it's my brother. My brother said, Tony's been in an accident. There's an ongoing rescue, but from what I'm hearing, he said, I don't think she's going to make it. My wife, Rhonda, heard me talking, and she knew it was serious. What's going on? What's going on? I told her, I said, Well, Barry wants us to go down and prepare Mama and Daddy.

The first call we got from Barry, he said that Tony had an accident, and she was in serious condition, and it didn't look good.

Of course, we prayed that God would intervene and save Tony. And then he called back and said that she was gone. Three horrible words. We're on my childhood street in Fidaia, Louisiana. This is the old homestead. My mom and dad, and Tony, and my brother Barry, we moved here in 1965. My dad was a geologist in the oil business and had several discoveries. We got to the point where we were a whole lot better off towards the end than at the beginning.

My name is Caleb Hannon. I'm an investigator reporter in Denver, Colorado. Tony and Thorne came from a lot of money. Her family's done very well in the oil and gas business. Her family wasn't old money, but they very quickly became part of the money crowd, but to their credit, never lost the work ethic and the ability to see the other side.

Tony can make the most of just about anything. If she wanted to be a great musician, she could be a great musician. If she wanted to be a great student, she could be a great student. If she wanted to be a good athlete, she could be a great athlete. Tony always wanted to be a medical doctor. She felt like ophthalmology would basically allow her to do what she loved and give her some downtime and some family time.

She was married pretty young. Someone she'd met in medical school, he was a dentist.

But ultimately, it ended up in a divorce. To have a failed marriage and have that disappointment, I don't think she ever really accepted that.

She clearly viewed giving up on the marriage as something shameful. So I think after Tony's divorce, she kept herself extremely busy. She was always working.

She had a practice in Jackson and one in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She had built that practice up to a point that it was finally had turned the corner and it was profitable.

Tony was driven, smart, compassionate. She threw herself into her church, First where she sang Soprano in the choir, but also where she counseled young professionals in a Sunday school for adults.

My name is Allison Talley, and Tony Bertholay was one of my very closest friends. Although Tony never outright told everybody, I want to get married, I want to get married as soon as possible, we all knew that she wanted to.

The clock, unfortunately, was ticking for her. The divorce had set her back, and she wasn't meeting the people she apparently wanted to meet in Mississippi.

I was pretty shocked one day when Tony and I were having a conversation, and she just outright said, I met a guy online, this guy named Harold. When he was wooing her online, some of the things that they talked about was that they both wanted children. It's a Christian dating site, so they were both Christian. He said all the right things to her, I believe.

I think he knew he was in for an interview with us, so he made the most of that. First impressions are his thing, and he makes good first impressions.

Harold presents himself at this point in his life as an independent fundraiser for nonprofits, specifically churches and hospitals which have a religious bearing. And if you've just met him, you already know that he has made himself a fortune doing this.

I'm Rhonda Bertholay, and I'm married to Todd Bertollet, and Tony is my sister-in-law.

My first impression of Harold was he seemed very excited and always very exuberant in his mannerisms.

Talk very loud, talk very fast. I always felt like he was trying to impress me.

He's almost like a used car sells, but Harold is great because Harold's told us how great he is. But you go along with it because you want something good to happen to your sister.

Shortly after that, they told us they were engaged, and we couldn't have been happier for her for finding someone, even though it was Harold, and he was different. What was concerning is how quickly everything progressed. They got engaged in February, got married in September. They didn't see each other but six or seven times during that whole period.

There we go.

There's the girl. Here we go. One, two, right here. Bingo. All right. All right, Cathy. The wedding day for Tony and Harold was just beautiful. Tony was just stunning.

Yeah, it was a very happy event.

A huge church wedding. Beautiful decor, the flowers, the the dresses. It was a class act.

Mr. And Mrs.

Harrell came for.

At that point, there's a little comfort sitting in with myself and Rhonda that maybe this is the right thing to happen.

So Harold and Tony, two years after they get married, are leaving Mississippi. It's so pretty, isn't it? Apparently, he always wanted to go to Colorado. He always wanted to bring Tony there and away from her family and her friends and her practice and her church. So she sold her practice in Mississippi, and they both relocate to Colorado and an upscale neighborhood called Highland Ranch.

They wanted children right away. Both of them did. She was in her mid-fourties when she got pregnant with Haley. So she got her ring. Give me shots. That's right. We will. We promise.

From the outside, looking in, Tony and Harold's marriage looked ideal. It certainly looks like the perfect life.

We love you.

We love you.

We love you.

We love you.

We're at where Tony worked. She was a partner in this business. Ranger Mark Faraday and I made an arrangement to come down and interview the staff. What Harold had told Mark Faraday was that it was their 12th wedding anniversary, and he had planned the surprise trip for Tony with her coworkers. Then we made a dummy schedule for the afternoon. We thought, Oh, what a nice guy to do this for her. She deserves it. And so he showed up at the office, and so then we made him look like a patient and put him in one of the rooms. Then we took my phone to videotape it because we thought this was going to be a neat thing. She went into the room and was shocked. Like, What are you doing here? When I saw the video, Tony just looked more bewildered than happy and ecstatic. I think she was probably like, I don't want it that surprise. When you see the video today, you don't see that happy person that's excited to go. Tony, of course, was surprised. She was taken aback, and Harold had a little go bag for her, and he said, Come on.

He had said, Nanny, come take care of Haley. And they left from here up to this park. We have some photos from his cell phone and her camera that recreates their trip up there. And photographs that we recovered showed us exactly where they were. And this photo is one of the last photos that we have prior to Tony's death. You can see that Harold's standing right on a ledge here, and his hand is gripped tightly to this tree. We have another photo from her camera about 15 minutes later. It's this exact same photo, but he's wearing a blue denim shirt. And then there were two deleted photos that we were able to recover that were pictures of him standing up there while Why are there so many of them? And why are they 15 minutes apart? Harold's story to Mark was that They were coming up on their 12th year anniversary, and it was going to be a romantic weekend. They went to Estes Park, stayed at the Stanley, which is a beautiful old hotel. So we had pictures from the night before. And then the next day, they have breakfast, they pick up a couple of sandwiches, and then they go on the hike.

This is where Harold and Tony went on September 29th. We're at Rocky Mountain National Park in the hike called Deer Mountain. Deer Mountain goes from about 8,700 feet to up around 10,000 feet. It's about three miles up to the peak. Most of the Rocky Mountain National Park is wilderness. And so these remote locations can be incredibly difficult to get to. You have to have a certain level of fitness. My background is not in law enforcement. I grew up on the East Coast wanting to be an artist. My dad had taken us hiking and camping when we were younger. I used to go rock climbing with my I remember distinctly having a conversation with someone at one point. I'd just love to get a job where I work outside. So I started applying for jobs with the National Park Service. And my first job was working on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. And 27 years later, I'm still working for the National Park Service. When Mark Farady interviewed Harold Henthorn, Harold told him that they got a late start that day. They probably started their hike sometime after two o'clock. It's not a super long hike, but that's a little bit late to be starting a hike when sunset's around 6:00.

They took pictures, and we were able to look at the photos and recreate from that photo exactly where they were. This spot is where we actually have a photo of Tony. She's standing in this Aspen Grove. She's very pretty. She's wearing makeup and looking quite happy. What Harold had told Mark was they hiked up till the trail plateaued. They wanted to get off the trail for some privacy. If you look around you, you can walk 100 yards off the trail and nobody would know you were there. They wouldn't have had to have gone very far. When we recreated their steps, there's no trail where Tony and Harold had lunch. It's not cleared in any way. It's pretty difficult hiking. There's absolutely no reason that you would think there's a scenic view just a quarter mile off the trail unless you had scouted it before. We were actually able to determine that this is indeed where they did have lunch. It was a very distinct rock feature with a very distinct dead tree in the photos. And there's a photo of Tony and Harold sitting right where I'm standing. So we were able to actually put them in this place.

Exactly. The lunch spot is a very beautiful spot, and there's really no reason to go any further. However, they go further. What's incongruent to us is why they ended up where Tony fell from.

I asked him, Well, why did you go down to that spot where Tony fell? And he said, Well, Tony had seen turkeys. He had gone down to investigate. I was like, Turkeys? Really? Wasn't even aware turkeys would be in that environment. When I questioned that, he said, Well, I don't know about turkeys, but definitely deer. And then it was, We went down there for a romantic time.

In order to get down to that cliff, you have to go down this boulder field. It's an incredibly hard to get to spot. You'd have to know this spot was here. It's a dangerous place to be, especially for somebody who is not a major hiker, who has knee issues. She was going to have to hike back up.

Tony had played sports in high school. She had two knee surgeries. And so it's not something that you would want to do on, supposedly, your anniversary, going this extreme hike to these very rocky, very steep areas. That didn't make sense to us.

There's no reason for anybody to go down there unless you want to push someone from a cliff. We know that this is the spot that they stopped because there are several photos of Harold Hentorn standing right on that ledge with this death grip on this tree because it's a sheer drop on the other side of him. Fifteen 15 minutes later, there's another picture of him, identical, but he's wearing a blue denim shirt. Why did they take the same photo 15 minutes apart? And why is he standing on this ledge when the view is identical if he wasn't standing on the ledge? One of our working theories was that he was trying to lure Tony up there. Look, it's safe. Come on, step up, and I'll take a picture of you up here. Right below this tree is where Tony's body was recovered. This is 160 feet. This is where Tony fell. So we're almost halfway down the cliff where Tony fell from. Right behind me is an outcrop on that cliff where one of Tony's boots was recovered. And then over there is the tree that she fell into. And we know that she fell into that tree because we were able to see a freshly broken branch, but also some evidence, some hair and some blood.

As you look up, you can see the tree that Harold was hanging onto in the photo. Her body was recovered almost directly below that. We know that Harold did drag her from this spot because there was a pool of blood about eight feet away in the dirt over there. And then over the rocks, there was a trail of blood leading down to where Tony was located. I talked to the coroner's investigator, so he provided me with the photos that he took from the scene, also from the autopsy.

This is the case file on Tony. It has the autopsy report in it, has my notes and drawings in it. She had what we call multiple blunt force injuries. She tumbled down the rock face. And you see injuries to the extremities and to the head because it's tumbling. She had a lesions of her forehead, and she had a large laceration or tearing injury to the top of her head to the scalp.

So it was almost a scalping-type injury on the top of her head.

My initial reaction when I saw the autopsy photos was how big her head wound was. I was shocked.

Hey, what's your main injury?

Good Yes, ma'am.

She would have bled a lot. And for Harold not to say she's bleeding profusely, there's something wrong with that. The other thing that struck me, though, is one of her impacts was enough that it actually crushed her ribs and crushed her lungs. It's a hard way to think of a loved one dying. My only hope was that she wasn't conscious very long. So Tony's body is lying here. Her head's here. Her feet are here. Over here, and you can almost see some remains of he built a fire. He said it was a signal fire, but that's not really going to signal to anybody. There's a lot of things here that don't add up.

He said he was doing CPR the whole time.

If he had been doing mouth to mouth, that lipstick would have been smeared more around her face.

And that was very suspicious. R Andrew Flaherty came down and met with me at my office, and our first step was to go over what he had and then start making a plan of what do we want. We want his cell phone records. One of the things that really triggered Mark was Harold's story that they stopped at this Cliff Ledge and that he received a text message from his nanny saying that his daughter had just won a soccer game and that out of the corner of his eye, he looked up and Tony was gone. Very specific moment in time. And Mark said, Can I see all of the text messages that you received that day? And Harold's like, No, I can't do that. Mark and I recognize we need that information. We need to know what was on his phone. We need to see those text messages, especially because he had gotten rid of that phone. He knew he was under suspicion and that there was an investigation against him.

Hi, my mom.

What's your address? The emergency.

Hello, my name is Harold Hintzorg.

So Around 5:55, Harold dials 911. The dispatchers start working with him to try to get him help, and he keeps hanging up on them. He says, My battery, my cell battery is low. I'm going to hang up on you.

I'm going to save the cell out of here.

Okay.

He then subsequently starts making more phone calls. He calls Barry Burley, Tony Henthorn's brother. He is a surgeon, So he texts back and forth with Harold during the whole incident. And his text is that Tony has fallen from a cliff. It's critical. Rangers are on their way. Here's her respirations, and here's her pulse. Harold never says she's got a massive head wound, never says that she's bleeding out. None of that. Just that she felt and is unconscious.

Do you know how to perform CPR? I do. Harold said he did CPR from the whole time that the 911 call came in to when the Park Service got there.

I personally have done CPR, and I know that it's a very messy process. When I saw the photos of Tony, her lipstick was very much intact and not smudged, and that was very suspicious.

In addition, while he was doing the CPR, he started a fire, not a big significant fire, but to start a fire takes a little bit of time.

You got to get out a little bit of firewood. You're not doing CPR while that's happening.

So Harold's texting with Barry while he's allegedly helping his wife, while he's building a fire, and telling people that Tony has fallen from a cliff. Harold told a lot of different stories, and it appeared that he lied a lot.

I guess it was about 10:00 at night. We got a text from Harold. Tony has been hurt. She's critical. Please pray. There was one more text that followed, and it said, My bride is gone. Just was inconceivable. We just couldn't believe it.

Harold took us down the long stairs to the basement and shut the door. So we were down in the basement, just the three of us alone. And I thought, wow, he just seemed together for having gone through what he went through. No tears, no sign that he had been crying, struggling with his voice to get the words out. This is not a normal, grieving husband. That's when I felt like something's not right here.

Harold called me and asked me to officiate the Memorial service for Tony, and I agreed to do that. He had this service entirely planned. He had already put together a video montage of Tony.

Somehow in the 36 hours since he was in this cold, dark place next to his dead wife, he's put this together.

It felt like to me that he had been planning this for a while.

In the hours and days after Tony's death, everyone's watching Harold. Everyone's trying to figure out how he's behaving. And he is, for the most part, showing no signs of what you would expect. How can you not put your antenna up?

We arrived in Denver, and the whole time, you never saw him cry. He never said, I loved your sister. Never heard any of that thing out of him the entire time that we were there.

I think of all the things that the Bertholais were shocked by when they came out to Colorado on a moment's notice. The first was that Harold was adamant that Tony wanted to be cremated.

That was the first time we had heard anything like that. He goes, Well, you know Tony wanted to be cremated. No, we didn't know that. It's the first time I've ever heard it.

Tony's funeral is the ultimate chance for Harold to control the narrative. And what Harold chooses to do with that moment is pretty telling. Everybody notices, the Bertholais especially, where everyone's sitting in the funeral. They're brought in, they're seated away from the rest of the family. Harold is one of the last people escorted in.

I'm all the way positioned at the back because everything was planned out just like Harold always does.

Everyone experiences some feeling of deep discomfort that this isn't right. And that extends to the slideshow, too, because one of the first people Harold contacted the day after Tony died is the photographer to create the slideshow for her funeral. And she's expecting some loose collection of photos over the years. And that's not what she gets. What she gets are 70 carefully selected did photos. Somehow in the 36 hours since he was in this cold, dark place next to his dead wife, he's put this together.

Harold had created a video story of her life and pictures, and he was in all of them.

It was like Tony's life started when she got married to Harold. And I thought, How insulting and hurtful to Tony's family. We talked to other people who were at the service, and other people remarked on how bizarre it was. Harold didn't appear really to cry or to be mourning, and he didn't say any nice things about Tony, that he was more angry that there was an investigation. In fact, at one point, he to somebody, Tony had to go and get herself killed on federal lands. And then the park received a letter about his first wife. Harold's first wife tragically died in an accident, deemed an accident at that time in 1995. There were so many similarities between the death of these two women. The similarities are too eerie to ignore. This is Deborah Roberts.

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