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Harold Henthorn, 58, was indicted this month for first-degree
murder in the slaying of his wife, Toni Henthorn, who plunged
120 feet (37 meters) to her death at Rocky Mountain National
Park in Sept. 2012. He pleaded not guilty last week.
The existence of the map was disclosed in an arrest warrant
affidavit unsealed on Wednesday, a copy of which was published
online by Denver TV station KCNC. Federal agents found the map
in the couple's vehicle, and when confronted, the husband was
"at a loss for words" to explain it, the affidavit said.
At a hearing last week at a federal court in Denver, when
Henthorn was denied bond, prosecutors disclosed he had taken out
three life insurance policies on his wife, worth a total of $4.5
million.
Court records unsealed on Wednesday said Toni Henthorn, a
Denver-area ophthalmologist, was the family breadwinner, and
that financial records showed her husband had no steady income.
Authorities have re-opened an investigation into the 1995 death
of Henthorn's first wife, Sandra Henthorn, who was killed while
changing a tire with her husband in a remote area about 40 miles
(64 km) southwest of Denver. She was underneath the car when it
slipped off its jack and crushed her.
The death was ruled an accident, and Henthorn collected a
$496,000 life insurance policy, federal prosecutors said. He is
set to go on trial in the federal murder case in May.
(Editing by Curtis Skinner and Mark Trevelyan)
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