Colorado man charged with second wife’s murder held without bond as judge calls her 2012 fatal fall ‘glaringly’ similar to freak death of his first wife

via Remembered.com Prosecutors claim Harold Henthorn killed his second wife, Toni, in 2012. He was denied bond Wednesday after prosecutors agreed he could flee with life insurance payouts.

The deaths of a Colorado man’s two wives ― freak incidents separated by 17 years ― are “glaringly” similar, a judge said Wednesday.

Fearing Harold Henthorn would flee with his wife’s assets, U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya ordered the 58-year-old to remain jailed without bond over the 2012 death of his second wife. He was indicted on first-degree murder last week for allegedly pushing her during a hike through Rocky Mountain National Park.

"We don't believe it was his first murder," Assistant U.S. Attorney Suneeta Hazra told the judge Wednesday. The accusation prompted investigators to probe his first wife’s mysterious 1995 car mishap death.

Henthorn has an otherwise clean criminal record: It is only slightly soiled by a bizarre 1994 underwear stealing spree.

That March, Henthorn swiped $47.49 worth of “miscellaneous men’s underwear” from a Colorado JC Penny, CBS Denver reported.

Tafoya noted Henthorn’s lack of a criminal past Wednesday, but ultimately decided to deny him bond because of the "rather glaring similarities between the loss of his first wife and the loss of his second."

Henthorn is only charged in the death of his second wife, 50-year-old ophthalmologist Toni Henthorn.

KCNC Prosecutors claim Henthorn pushed his second wife from a cliff on Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Prosecutors said he plotted to push her more than 140 feet off a cliff in a remote area far from the trail the couple had been hiking on Sept. 29, 2012. Henthrown maintained she accidentally fell while taking a photograph.

Toni Henthorn was covered by three life insurance policies totaling $4.5 million. He collected the first days after she died, prosecutors said.

Two years later, he still has access to $1.5 million in cash ― most of it from his late wife. Prosecutors argued Wednesday that money made him a dangerous flight risk. The judge agreed and denied him bond.

Rob Henthorn/via Remembered.com A judge said Toni’s 2012 death is ‘glaringly’ similar to his first wife’s freak 1995 death.

The 2012 payments are not the first life insurance policies he’s claimed: In 1995, he received $500,000 when his first wife, Sandra Lynn Henthorn, died. The 37-year-old was crushed to death when a car slipped off a jack while she and her husband were changing a flat tire.

Henthorn’s 9-year-old daughter ― whom he had with his second wife ― is living with her godparents.

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