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 DENVER -- A Highlands Ranch man was convicted Monday by a federal jury of killing his wife by pushing her off a cliff in Rocky Mountain National Park. 
 
 Harold Henthorn was found guilty of first-degree murder, three days after receiving the case. Henthorn will be sentenced Dec. 8. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. 
 
 “This was a guilty verdict that meant more to us than just getting justice for Toni,” said Barry Bertolet, the brother of Toni Henthorn who was killed in 2012. 
 
 Bertolet said his family wants Henthorn to receive life in prison without parole. They feel if Henthorn had a shot at freedom, he would harm others. 
 
 “I feel sorry for him in a way,” Bertolet said. “I think he believes his own stories." 
 
 After the verdict, a juror approached Toni’s mother Yvonne and hugged her. 
 
 “She just said as one mom to another, I feel your pain,” Yvonne Bertolet said. 
 
 Initially, no foul play was suspected in the September 2012 death of Toni Henthorn, with Harold telling investigators his wife had slipped and fell 140 feet to her death as they were hiking on Deer Mountain Trail in the park to celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary. 
 
 Three years later, prosecutors spent two weeks arguing what Toni's family had long suspected: Harold had purposefully pushed Toni, with his motive being to get his hands on his wife's insurance money. A career eye doctor, Toni Henthorn had insurance policies totaling about $4.7 million. 
 
 Defense attorneys argued Toni had slipped while trying to take a photo. Harold never took the stand in his own defense. 
 
 Prosecutors painted Harold Henthorn's version of events as unreliable, saying it often changed. 
 
 "(Harold) told several conflicting stories about how Toni died," prosecutors wrote in court documents. "He told law enforcement and family members that he did not see her fall, but rather witnessed a blur while he was reading text messages. He told another witness both he and Toni were checking text messages and Toni had wandered too close to the edge. He told other witnesses that Toni was trying to take pictures and slipped." 
 
 Investigators also found a map in Harold Henthorn's car that was marked with a pink X in the area where Toni fell. 

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 DENVER (CBS4) – A federal jury convicted Harold Henthorn, 59, of first-degree murder Monday afternoon following about 10 1/2 hours of deliberation. 
 
 “I think he’s a pathological liar,” said juror Christine Vogel following the verdict. “Not a good person.” 
 
 Vogel said all the evidence in the trial “points to one thing. It all added up. No way she could have just slipped off.” 
 
 The jury chose to believe prosecutors, who said in September 2012 Harold Henthorn took his wife to Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park and shoved her off a cliff where she fell 130 feet to her death. Henthorn repeatedly claimed it was an accident, that his wife had slipped while he was examining his cellphone. 
 
 “The evidence was so clear,” said Dawn Roberts, a preschool director who sat on the jury. She said Henthorn’s relentless lies about a career he never had were damning. “That told me he’s a liar.” Roberts said some of the evidence presented in court suggested to her and other jurors that Harold Henthorn had also lied to his lawyer. Roberts said by the second day of the trial she was convinced of Henthorn’s guilt. 
 
 Toni Henthorn’s family had long believed Harold Henthorn was a calculated killer, determined to kill his ophthalmologist wife so he could pocket $4.7 million in life insurance. 
 
 Barry Bertolet, Toni Henthorn’s brother, said after the verdict that his family was “ecstatic. With this a life has been saved by this verdict.” He was referring to Toni and Harold Henthorn’s 10-year-old daughter, Haley. Barry Bertolet said he and his wife would now push forward with efforts to adopt the young girl. 
 
 “I think we have saved the life of Haley. I think Haley would have been in jeopardy in the future. I think the way he viewed women is that they were property. I don’t think he viewed them as people. When he got what he needed out of them they were discarded.” 
 
 Bertolet was referring to Harold Henthorn’s first wife, Lynn, who was killed in 1995 in a bizarre alleged accident on a rural highway in Douglas County. The couple’s Jeep fell on Lynn Henthorn during a tire change and she died the next day. Harold Henthorn claimed it was an accident and the Douglas County coroner and sheriff’s investigators agreed, closing the case as accidental within a week. Harold Henthorn received more than $600,000 in life insurance proceeds from his first wife’s death. But Douglas County investigators have now reopened that 20-year-old investigation and say they hope to present a compelling case to the district attorney. 
 
 Lynn Henthorn’s older sister, Lisanne Bales, said, “We do rejoice this man is never going to murder anyone else or father another child to live in his shadow. We think a perfect place is prison where he can hang out with murderers, thieves and liars.” 
 
 Lynn Henthorn’s brother, Kevin Rishell, said to him it was “very important” that Henthorn eventually face charges for Lynn Henthorn’s death. 
 
 Grace Rishell, Henthorn’s sister-in-law, told reporters, ”Harold’s love was lethal. If you got married to him you would probably be the next one.” 
 
 VIDEO: Watch the CBS4 special “Inside The Investigation: Harold Henthorn 
 
 Four jurors told CBS4 that 11 of the 12 jurors likely would have voted for a guilty verdict immediately after the trial ended last Friday. But one female juror wanted to dissect the evidence at greater length. She “just needed clarification,” said juror Jerry Taboada. 
 
 Another juror who asked his name not be used told CBS4 he felt there was a “consistent pattern” to Henthorn’s lies. He said Henthorn’s tales about what happened “just didn’t make any common sense.” 
 
 Several jurors said they emerged from the trial convinced that Toni Henthorn’s wedding ring was a crucial piece of evidence. After the deadly fall, the diamond, valued at about $30,000, was missing from the ring. Despite investigators scouring the spot where Toni Henthorn died, the jewel was not immediately found. But eight months later, a National Park Service investigator returned to the spot and found the diamond sitting atop the dirt, right where Toni Henthorn had died. 
 
 Prosecutors suggested that Harold Henthorn — under pressure from investigators to explain what happened to the diamond — had taken the diamond and returned it to Rocky Mountain National Park to alleviate the pressure from investigators. 
 
 “He brought it back up there,” concluded juror Christine Vogel. She said there was “no way” the diamond simply reappeared. 
 
 Juror Taboada said Harold Henthorn “had to have” taken the diamond and then later returned it to the rugged spot where his wife died. 
 
 Vogel said she and other jurors were convinced that Harold Henthorn also killed his first wife. 
 
 “It was not an accident. It was planned,” said Vogel. The two cases were “so similar,” she said. 
 
 Henthorn will return to court Dec. 8 for sentencing. Henthorn’s brother, Rob, released a statement to CBS4 through an attorney saying, ”While only Harold and Toni will ever really know exactly what happened on Deer Mountain, we respect the process that has considered enormous evidence and the verdict the jury has reached.” 
 
 Henthorn’s attorney, Craig Truman, said he would not discuss the case outside of court, however he told reporters the case was not over yet suggesting a possible appeal. 
 
 As the guilty verdict was read, Harold Henthorn gently shook his head back and forth. As he was handcuffed and led from court, Eric Rishell, Lynn Henthorn’s brother, shouted “Goodbye Harold.” 
 
 Juror Dawn Roberts immediately crossed the courtroom and hugged Toni Henthorn’s mother after the jury delivered its guilty verdict. 
 
 “From a mom to a mom, I wanted to give her a hug. I felt so sorry for the family and she was a wonderful woman who didn’t deserve to have her life end so horribly.” 
 
 CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass has been with the station more than 30 years uncovering waste, fraud and corruption. Follow him on Twitter @Briancbs4.
– A man accused of pushing his wife off a cliff may spend the rest of his life in prison. Today a Denver jury found Harold Henthorn, 59, guilty of premeditated murder in the death of wife Toni Henthorn, who took a 140-foot fall at Rocky Mountain National Park three years ago, KDVR reports. "My heart is still pounding," Toni's brother, Barry Bertolet, tells the Denver Post. "I'm very excited by the verdict." In the emotional aftermath of the decision, the victim's family sobbed, a juror came out and hugged Toni's mother, and family and friends shouted "Bye, Harold" as the convicted killer was taken away. But Harold's attorney, Craig Truman, argued in the trial that no evidence of murder was ever presented. What was presented: Harold's inability to "tell the same story twice," Truman admitted. Prosecutors wrote in court documents that Harold told several versions of his wife's death—like being too busy texting to really see her fall, checking texts with her when she slipped, and her falling while taking photos. Prosecutors also said he had visited the park nine times before Toni's death, CBS Denver reports, and had a map in his car marked "X" in pink where Toni died. Worse, his first wife died in a gruesome accident in 1995, and he collected big life insurance payments in both cases. Harold wasn't charged in the death of first wife Sandra Lynn Henthorn, but that case is now re-opened. Harold will be sentenced for Toni's death on Dec. 8. (He was also accused of stealing her $30,000 wedding ring.)