by John Zenoni
A horrific real-life crime takes place in the Hulu series, ‘Wild Crime: Murder in the Rocky Mountains.’ While I've seen many real-life crime dramas, for some reason, this one really hit home.
The story is about Harold Henthorn, a non-profit fundraiser, whose second wife mysteriously falls from a cliff while on a hike with him in the Rocky Mountains. Henthorn had planned the trip as a surprise for his wife, Toni, a successful, professional eye doctor. After she falls, he goes down to where she's located and makes phone calls to emergency services and reports the accident. It seems that, initially, he's concerned but then when a forest ranger arrives and checks on Toni, only to find she has already died, and he begins to question Henthorn, does he begin to realize that certain things don't add up. The forest ranger has to consider the area closed for an investigation and he calls in National Park Service Special Agent Beth Shott, who investigates Harold Henthorn.
After investigating Henthorn further, they learn that his first wife died under mysterious circumstances as well. All of the details, clues, and things that Henthorn says and does, leading up to Toni’s fall, make you realize that there is no way that this man is innocent. The sad thing is that they have a young child involved, who's lost her mother, and grandparents and family members who initially are allowed to see her but then eventually lose touch when Henthorn pulls her away, as he suspects that the family thinks he's guilty (which he is!). My heart just broke watching Toni’s family go through all they did and what obstacles they had to overcome to get their daughter’s child away from a monster.
While similar stories have been told, this one was well done and gripped you up to the end to see if justice was served.
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