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Chapter 1: What happened to Tony Henthorne on the hiking trip?
Her eyes were partially open and I evaluated her for a pulse and respirations. I told Harold, I'm sorry, but she's gone.
How did you find out something happened? to your sister.
There was a series of text messages saying Tony had been involved in an accident and then things were critical.
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 Toni. And then he called back and said that she was gone. Three horrible words.
What was Toni like growing up?
She was very athletic and she really excelled and she was very, very smart at the top of her class.
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, and to have a failed marriage and have that disappointment, I don't think she ever really accepted that.
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Chapter 2: Why are investigators skeptical about the accident?
They wanted children right away. Both of them did. She was in her mid-40s when she got pregnant with Haley. So she got her dream.
That's right. We will. We promise. We will.
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.
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.
There's a tree that on one side, the branches had been kind of knocked off or broken off. I called the impact tree. You can see that was in a place where I imagine Toni probably impacted as she fell to the ground. There were small things that didn't totally add up. There's 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.
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 Henthorne's life.
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Chapter 3: What evidence was found on the camera and in Harold's possession?
When you saw the autopsy report, what did you think?
I was taken aback by the size of her head wound. She probably would have bled out very quickly. Never once did Harold mention in any of the 911 calls that she was bleeding.
And a curious discovery. As rangers go through Harold Henthorne's vehicle, they find a map with markings on it.
What's interesting on this map is there's an X and it says hike.
Yeah, you can see it.
It's in the gray right there. That's almost exactly where her body was found, where that X was. There's a lot of things here that don't add up.
When you look at these pictures, particularly because they're 15 minutes apart, what stands out to you about that?
Our theory was that he was trying to lure her to stand where he is, that he's saying, look, honey, this is safe. You can stand here.
One of the things that was very suspicious 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 we realized that, well, that text message came in at the same time that he called 911.
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