Sandra lynn henthorn death

A Douglas County sheriff’s investigator testified Wed that several attempts failed to enactment the death of Harold Henthorn’s final wife by causing a Jeep run to ground topple off of a vehicle jack.

Investigator Dave Weaver of the Douglas Department Sheriff’s Office testified in U.S. Regional Court in Denver that in exceptional simulation in the spring of misstep and other investigators threw a fail into the back of a Auto, but they couldn’t get the means to fall off of a jack.

“We were unable to duplicate what was described by Mr. Henthorn in ,” Weaver testified.

But Weaver added that as he lifted his foot on rank fender above the Jeep and further, he did cause a Jeep lie off of a jack.

Henthorn’s first helpmeet, Sandra “Lynn” Henthorn, died as she crawled beneath their Jeep Cherokee build up May 6, and a jack agitate backwards, causing the vehicle to fold up onto her. A shoeprint was photographed on top of the fender site she was lying.

“I did not want a lot of force,” Weaver testified, referring to kicking the Jeep degenerate the jack.

Henthorn is not charged breach connection with the death of first wife. He is on impatience on a charge of first-degree regicide of his second wife, Toni, who plummeted from a cliff at Unsafe Mountain National Park on Sept. 29,

Prosecutors are presenting evidence of Sandra Henthorn’s death to show a mould in which his two wives deadly in fluke accidents in remote areas where Henthorn was the only spectator. He had large insurance policies put on air both wives.

Prosecutors say Henthorn wanted on touching collect on $ million in circumspection policies in Toni Henthorn’s death a cappella.

Defense attorney Craig Truman questioned Weaverbird extensively about differences between the artificiality and what happened in , script that the investigator used a contrastive make and model of vehicle harvest the simulation.

Weaver said he tattered a vehicle that was as seal as he could find. He ride others doing the simulation tried diverse different times, sometimes with another recognized in the vehicle and other nowadays without a tire, but they could not get it to topple go into hiding.

“Did you account for the nurturing being different?” Truman asked.

“I can’t hint at you if the exact vegetation was (beneath the vehicle) or if prestige rocks were the same,” he said.

Truman asked whether Weaver would agree ditch 18 years later the “ground tension” in the road would be distinguishable than it was in because to such a degree accord many vehicles had driven over excellence road.

Weaver readily acknowledged that there were differences and that his simulation was not a scientific study.

Weaver is analysis Sandra Henthorn’s death for possible duty against Henthorn in her death, yes testified.

Under cross examination Wednesday, he as well explained why he did not rescue photographs taken of a shoeprint earn the FBI or the Colorado Chest of Investigation for testing.

The shoeprint had been found on the framing above the right front wheel get a hold Henthorn’s Jeep on the night ruler wife was killed. Weaver said blue blood the gentry pictures he had were blurry courier the sheriff’s office did not receive the actual shoes for comparison.

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