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I thought, this is great for her. this gets her out of her shell and it gives her somebody to do some really fun things with. reporter: harold was a widower, and told the bertolets he had waited a long time for another chance at love his first wife died in a car accident my heart went out to him. i was like, wow, he deserves his happiness, you know. and if it s with toni, then that s awesome you know, he said he had been lonely reporter: harold s friend, kim laferriere, had been best friends with harold s first wife, lynn what did harold tell you about this new woman in his life, toni he didn t tell me a lot but he did tell me that he really liked her reporter: after lynn died, kim and harold remained close. now he wanted kim to meet the new woman in his life. i felt like i couldn t talk about lynn anymore which i understood that. but i was happy that he moved on and i felt like it was time and that he was starting a new life. ....
I asked him if he could bring a couple of blankets to cover her. and he grabbed some blankets and he followed me back up the mountain reporter: when the 911 call finally went out, accident on route 67, roxanne burns was one of the emts sent out to help when we got on scene, there were two emts working lynn they were doing cpr on her i asked them what they wanted me to do, if there was anything i could help them with they said, no. we want you to go talk to the husband. reporter: she asked harold how it happened. he said he wasn t entirely sure. he did tell me that some lug nuts had fallen underneath the car and she must have gone underneath the car to get those lug nuts and somehow jarred the car. reporter: or, harold thought, he might have jarred the car himself when he tossed the bad tire into the trunk. roxanne tried to reassure him that they could still save lynn. was she hanging by a thread? do you think she had already died and they were trying to revive her ....
No physical evidence, no fingerprints or dna. and no witnesses who saw harold push toni off the cliff. juror john johnson was skeptical. right at the start because i didn t know anything about it, i was thinking, okay, this is going to be hard to prove. no witnesses, no evidence at that point so what do you have? reporter: but there was all that life insurance. there were the cell phone pings that seemed to show harold scouting out toni s last hike. the prosecution even showed the jury a map found in harold s car with an x marking the spot where toni fell. and there were all those versions of what harold said happened on that mountain. this was a case in which the evidence was not so much the physical evidence. the evidence were the lies and it was lie after lie after lie after lie. reporter: the defense said none of the so-called evidence added up to murder ....
Could drive up to rocky mountain national park to pick him up he called back dispatch. you guys have an eta on the rangers? there s actually a ranger in the area if you could start using your whistle. he s trying to find you. okay, okay. great. thanks a lot reporter: he texted barry again cpr help 10 minutes out. finally, 8:09 pm more than two hours after harold called 911 the ranger arrived prepared for a rescue, but there was no rescue to be made coming up i just said is she okay and i fell to my knees. exactly what had happened up there on the mountain? the latest innovation from xfinity ....
This videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police lynn got a job as a social worker kim was happy for lynn, of course, but she also felt like her friend was slipping away maybe it was the distance, maybe it was her commitment to her marriage, but just like it would be with toni years later, kim could never seem to get lynn on the phone without harold listening in many times i didn t know he was on the phone, but i would sense that he was on the phone and i would say, before i said something personal, lynn, is harold on the phone? and he would always say, hey, kimmy. reporter: kim couldn t even get alone time with lynn when she went to visit her in colorado he was always with us and he was always involved in every conversation 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 ....