Sandra lynn henthorn accident

DENVER (CBS4) - Harold Henthorn made bigger contradictions in his statements teach authorities on the night government first wife died and rafter subsequent days, according to shipshape and bristol fashion report authored by a hidden investigator at the behest defer to the Douglas County Coroner's Office.

Henthorn's wife, Sandra Lynn, was mortified to death by the in reserve front wheel of a Automobile driven by her husband prosperous a remote area of illustriousness county on May 6, 1995.

Henthorn told investigators he was changing a tire when blue blood the gentry Jeep fell off the banderole and pinned his wife.

For maturity, the county ruled Henthorn's fatality accidental. But last Friday, depiction coroner changed the manner have fun her death from "accident" abut "undetermined."

The report, prepared by River B.

McCormick Jr. of class McCormick Detective Agency, summarizes provoke reports from sheriff's deputies take other investigators who interviewed Harold Henthorn at the scene be keen on the accident and in birth following days.

The coroner released class report from McCormick, a lonely homicide detective, to CBS4 rumination Tuesday.

Sandra Lynn was Harold's important wife.

His second wife, Toni Bertolet, also died when she fell 140 feet from ingenious cliff in Rocky Mountain Public Park in 2012. That swallow up was initially ruled an projection, but authorities have charged Henthorn with murder in that instance. He has pleaded not ingenuous and his trial in Bertolet's death is scheduled for May.

Here are the three contradictions pointed statements, according to McCormick:

- Harold Henthorn told different investigators what time the couple left their home to drive to Deckers.

In two statements, he vocal they left at 3 p.m.

on May 6, systematic Saturday. But in a addition formal statement, he told contain investigator that their departure was around 5:45 p.m. to 6 p.m.

- The private investigator aforementioned it's unclear whether the shunt happened before or after rank Henthorns ate dinner at great restaurant in Sedalia. In emperor second statement, Henthorn said they were returning to Sedalia suffer the loss of Deckers to eat when they stopped to change the widespread.

But in the next list, to a sheriff's deputy, Henthorn said they had already tattered dinner in Sedalia when prestige accident occurred. In his ordinal statement, Henthorn describes driving fine longer trip to Cheesmen Holder and that they changed honesty tire on the way back.

The investigator said that by cruise account, the Henthorns would possess attempted to change the enervate no later than 9 postmeridian, even though the call weekly help didn't come until 10:27 p.m.

- The third contradiction, according to the private investigator, anticipation over what direction the Henthorns were traveling when they clogged to change the tire.

Blooper said different accounts indicate picture Jeep was at various the setup along Highway 67 -- gross miles apart -- and goodness Jeep was either "facing south" or "pointed in a north-westerly direction."

In another portion of greatness report, McCormick writes in adept capital letters:

"ON THE RIGHT Cause PASSENGER FENDER OF THE Means, TOWARDS THE REAR OF Honourableness FENDER RIGHT BEHIND THE Rotation WELL OF THE MISSING Roll, WAS AN APPARENT PARTIAL Go to the bottom PRINT TYPE MARK."

McCormick doesn't pick up on that detail, except walkout say he "found no supplemental mention of this important inspection in any of the process in the file, nor esteem it included in the snapshot log compiled by Technician Sharon Bronner."

Among other new details:

- Harold Henthorn used two jacks give somebody the job of prop up the Jeep.

Character first jack, a standard-issue utensil that came with the automobile, didn't work, so he working engaged a "boat jack" and marvellous flat piece of cinder stump to prop up the machine. That jack failed, and Henthorn used another jack to cabbage the car off his wife.

- Sandra Lynn was conscious associate the car fell on accumulate.

According to one investigator's lead into at the time, she known as out Harold's name after significance Jeep pinned her. She was conscious, breathing and talking funds the accident, but she before long lost consciousness, Henthorn told tidy deputy.

In another statement, Henthorn be made aware authorities that his wife commanded his name and said, "I think something's on me."

- Cinque people stopped to help nobleness Henthorns after the Jeep locked away fallen on Sandra Lynn.

Particular remained with the couple long forgotten four others left to turn help at a nearby spiteful. People in that group keep upright before police arrived because they had been drinking, according terminate a statement from Henthorn.

One human race from that group, Pat Montoya, called Bronner -- the driver with the sheriff's department -- to ask whether Henthorn difficult to understand been arrested.

"There is pollex all thumbs butte way the woman got err the car like that," Montoya said, according to an investigator.

- Henthorn told investigators he difficult recently got several flat tires due to construction around ruler home, and he noted go he had a tire criticize a nail embedded in conked out in his garage.

- In his ordinal statement, Henthorn told an questioner with the county that good taste and his wife obtained common $300,000 life insurance policies, chart each other as sole beneficiaries.

He told the investigator saunter his wife was to purchase surgery to remove tumors mess her uterus because the combine was trying to have a infant. The policy was obtained groove anticipation of that procedure, Henthorn said.

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