Interestingly, Campbell and Lane were involved in investigating Harmon. He was certain that the tarp was there. They searched the area, but were unable to find the man. My question is, who are the individuals you feel are the most responsible for the murder and cover up of the boys?\"Linda - \"Number one on the list as far as killers would be special prosecutor Dan Harmon who orchestrated the murders and cover up. Five months after the deaths, Kevin and Dons parents held a press conference. All public officials who had indictments against them were cleared of all wrongdoings. However, I came to find them helpful in feeling Linda's utter frustration with trying to crack the veneer of corruption of the good ol' boys network in Arkansas. Kevin Ives and Don Henry. By the time Allen got up from his seat, the man was gone. The boys bodies were found in a drop location for drugs that were being flown out of Mena known to the pilots as A1. Item may be missing bundled media unless noted. Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. He does not believe that anyone could sleep through that kind of noise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow0yPO8g9YA. June 13, 2020 - Latest Upload: Murder On The Tracks The Billy Jack Haynes Storyhttps://youtu.be/utCKt6GYmBkDec 20 2019 Upload: American Re-Made - The Real Story of Barry Sealhttps://youtu.be/TFzPAbDp1lMAmerican Re-Made is technically a Prequel to the Murder On The Tracks series.Murder on the Tracks Part 2 - The Story of Kevin Ives and Don Henry Continueshttps://youtu.be/L4E3fjzHoM0Murder on the Tracks UPDATE 2018 - The Story of Kevin Ives and Don Henry Continueshttps://youtu.be/UR_QZ694R18Murder on the Tracks Part 3 - The Sheriffshttps://youtu.be/8UobdAwGYrsMurder On The Tracks: Shorts - Hillary Clinton On Redacted Documentshttps://youtu.be/7xDI4FcLWWgMurder On The Tracks: Shorts - Triangle Of Deathhttps://youtu.be/rflUqTAOB1gMurder On The Tracks - Billy-Jack Haynes Vs. Sharline Wilsonhttps://youtu.be/CpWUifYQv5QClinton Cache - Decades Of Documenteeringhttps://youtu.be/7djSXV1BTUoOn August 23, 1987 teenagers Kevin Ives and Don Henry were brutally murdered and their bodies placed on railroad tracks in an effort to conceal their murders.This is the story of what happened that night, the immediate cover-up which reached the highest levels of government, and the admirable, and still on-going, crusade waged by Kevin's mother, Linda Ives, to get Justice for the murders of Kevin and Don.Part 1 of the \"All For Justice And Justice For All\" series.As Linda is now retired, it is difficult and costly to keep up her fight. Train Deaths Are Officially Homicides. Arkansas Gazette, March 6, 1988, p. 3B. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Almost immediately, however, Duffeys undercover officers discovered that there were a number of public officials involved in drug trafficking. Links: Unsolved Mysteries Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Leveritts prose is less than taut, and she too often indulges in repetitive emotional rhetoric regarding the Iveses loss. However, her intimation, in the epilog, of an ongoing, large-scale conspiracy is open to question. Several of these theories date to Clinton's tenure as the governor of Arkansas. It is also known as the "Boys on the Tracks" case. He placed the train into an emergency stop position and laid down on the horn. Bill Duncan, a former IRS agent who investigated the Mena accusations regretted appearing on the film, stating, "I would not have willingly been a part of it had I known where that footage would end up". In March 1990, Saline County deputy prosecutor, Jean Duffey, was assigned to lead a drug task force to investigate drug smuggling in Saline County. About 4:00 a.m. on August 23, 1987, the crew on board a 75-car, 6,000-ton Union Pacific freight train, more than a mile long and traveling at a rate more than 50 miles per hour, en route to Little Rock, Arkansas, spotted two boys lying motionless across the tracks, about 300 feet ahead. Seal purchased his own plane, and as a part of the deal with the DEA, he rigged it with a hidden camera. Curtis had the trains sound checked and found that it was ninety-eight decibels, which is equivalent to the sound of a jackhammer or an air compressor running. It is not only extremely well written, it points out how our law enforcement - from the local police on up - fail to take an investigation seriously !. August 23, 1987 - 17-yr-old Kevin Ives and 16-yr-old Don Henry were murdered, and their bodies placed on train tracks to be mutilated by a passing train - cover-up begins immediately with authorities (Saline County Sheriff's Department) treating the scene as an "accident".. Aug-Sept, 1987 - State Medical Examiner, Fahmy Malak, does autopsy first leans towards . Ask yourself, how much do you actually know about Iran/Contra and if you really dont know much about it why is that? On one of his trips, he was able to capture a photograph of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord and drug trafficker, helping Nicaraguan soldiers load cocaine for shipment to the U.S. at the Managua airport. Fraud: Dennis Walker: October 12, 1988 () 22.7 : 10: 3: The . To add the following enhancements to your purchase, choose a different seller. However, this never happened, and the federal investigation regarding corruption in Saline County was unexpectedly terminated. Special prosecutor Ken Starr was assigned to investigate a number of incidents mentioned in the film. In January 2018, former wrestler Billy Jack Haynes came forward, claiming that he had witnessed Kevin and Don's murders and knew who was responsible. The plane was ultimately sold to a company after Seal died that had connections to the CIA and was shot down soon afterwards. The cause of death was changed to "definite homicide" after a second autopsy. Spotlighting was a fairly widespread activity among the local boys. The story expanded to encompass the lies of the US Government concerning the Iran-Contra Affair. If this Arkansas murder tale weren't a true-crime thriller by an established investigative journalist, it would be too crazy, complicated and bizarre to believe. --. https://www.hellofresh.com/pages/podcast?c=killer80&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=3020101010&utm_term=killer80Ano. , of being corrupt and involved in drugs. It also looked into an alleged drug ring in Saline County which ran out of Mena Airport and was covered up by police. Enhancements you chose aren't available for this seller. Curtis was not worried about them going into the woods because he did not think they would get in trouble. On October 23, 2018, Garrett passed away at the age of seventy-two. The philandering and sexual harassment claims in the film have since been reported, and in some cases confirmed, by mainstream media. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); DONNA Ginter | Jan 7, 2023 at 9:14 am. It is a tale of multiple murders and of justice repeatedly denied. Seal used the Mena airport along with double agents, who were attempting to tie Bill Clinton to drug smuggling conspiracies, especially during his first four years as President. However, it was never found. It seemed especially unlikely that it would happen to two people at the same time. The deaths were initially ruled an accident as a result of the boys sleeping on the tracks due to marijuana intoxication. Anonymous tips to the telecenter suggested that Kevin and Don were murdered by drug traffickers, and that they may have stumbled into the middle of a "drug drop." However, I came to find them helpful in feeling Linda's utter frustration with trying to crack the veneer of corruption of the good ol' boys network in Arkansas. Ships directly from Amazon! is the story of a parent's worst nightmare, a quiet woman's confrontation with a world of murder, drugs, and corruption, where legitimate authority is mocked and the public trust is trampled. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the bodies. Kevin and Don were typical young men who enjoyed working on their cars (a Firebird and a Camaro . She weaves profiles and events into a smooth and chilling whole, one that leads the readers to confront, along with Linda Ives, the events' profoundly disturbing implications. Our nation needs to know about this corruption and we need to clean it up. Keith McKaskle, who was allegedly at the tracks by Sharlene Wilson on Aug. 23, 1987, turned in information he had to Deputy prosecutor Richard Garrett, who was Dan Harmons partner. They have spent many hours at the spot where they were killed, wondering how it could have happened. They talked for about fifteen minutes before he left. [1] It was partially funded by Larry Nichols, a long-time Clinton opponent, and distributed with help from the Rev. Wilson was known as the Lady with the Snow in Little Rock. Man Claims to Have Seen "Boys on the Tracks" Murders", "Unsolved Mysteries - Episode #2 - TheTVDB.com", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_Don_Henry_and_Kevin_Ives&oldid=1151905070, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2023, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 April 2023, at 23:59. If you want a window into the corruption of our government at the state and federal levels, read this book. However, he repeatedly received resistance from authorities, who seemed unwilling to cooperate or change their opinions about the case. There are many conspiracy theories about this case that say many differnet people are involved or responsible for their deaths. While the film was directed by Patrick Matrisciana, who has a production company called Jeremiah Films, the production was credited to Citizens for Honest Government, a project of a Westminster, California organization named Creative Ministries Inc. that has connections to Matrisciana. On the night Kevin and Don died, witnesses again reported seeing a man in military fatigues. I believe he was at the wrong place at the wrong time just like these boys. Eugene Hasenfus, who flew for the CIA, was the sole survivor of the crash, out of four men. His shirt was found in Bryant, but his body was never discovered. The expert pathologist, Joe Burton, found an apparent stab wound in Don's back and a wound to Kevin's cheek. [2] Members of the locomotive crew also stated that the bodies were partly covered by a green tarpaulin,[3] though police disputed the existence of any such tarp and none was ever recovered from the scene. He believes the assailant(s) incapacitated one of them, and then, felt like they had to do something to the other one. Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2016. On most weekends, the two double dated. This time, he was leaving town, heading down a road less than 200 yards from the spot where the bodies were run over. Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 01:31, Bank of Credit and Commerce International, "Clinton Accuser to Drop Lawsuit: Politics: Larry Nichols says case alleging infidelity by presidential candidate has 'gone way too far.' [1], The movie helped perpetuate the Clinton body count conspiracy theory about a list of associates Clinton was purported to have had killed. They honked their horn and tried to stop the train, but they were unsuccessful. This book kept me up at night until I had read the whole thing! Everything that WAS brought out to the public centered on the West Coast aspect of the Cocaine-flow into the US Freeway Ricky Ross, Danilo Blandon, Norwin Meneses and so on What the CIA had set up in Mena Arkansas with Barry Seal etc, has never been officially explained not even as shoddily as the West Coast operation was explained away. In 1994 the University of Arkansas named her Arkansas Journalist of the Year. Unfortunately no justice was done for the boys as there was corruption in high places. Within about three seconds, he hit the boys. Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (November 1, 1999). [8] The theory is that the boys came upon a drug drop from an airplane similar to Barry Seal's operations near Mena and were murdered. My nephew is Boonie Bearden. Years after the film was released, Clinton paid an out-of-court settlement to resolve the accusations made by Paula Jones in the movie. At first, I was turned off by the omniscient musings of Linda Ives in a non-fiction book. The authorities arrived soon after, and some claim this is when they began a massive cover-up. However, many do not consider him to be a credible source. is the new crime journalism at its best-understated though bizarre, carefully documented, full of twists and surprises, and devoid of the flights of fancy that mar so much 'true crime.' Suddenly, while going through the town of Alexander, he saw something in his path; he could not tell what it was. She has won several awards, including the White Award for Investigative Reporting. Man Claims to Have Seen "Boys on the Tracks" Murders", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Clinton_Chronicles&oldid=1140842400, Having affairs with or harassing numerous women, Murdering witnesses to the Mena drug smuggling operation. One week before Kevin and Don were killed, a man wearing military fatigues had been spotted in the vicinity. As a result, the families were not able to move forward with their investigation. However, he was never charged in the case or officially labeled a suspect. I hope and pray all the families who have been affected by these crimes and cover-ups will get justice someday. I remember when this happened and it was on the newsthen faded. Location: Alexander, Arkansas Hope Harkins | Jun 7, 2019 at 4:15 pm, Clark Kent | May 27, 2017 at 4:09 pm. Clinton Bush and CIA Conspiracies: From The Boys on the Tracks to Jeffrey Epstein (War on Drugs), Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood, The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice, Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, Dark Spell: Surviving the Sentence (Justice Knot Trilogy), The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice, Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, This book is serious and shocking. He advocated for the case to be re-opened; however, the case remains unsolved.[9]. Dan Harmon, a prosecutor of the case, who was later arrested for dealing drugs,[9] is one person implicated in the murder. I wish I'd written this fine book. , Jack Olsen, author of Hastened to the Grave, has worked for twenty years as an Arkansas journalist. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Matrisciana created the Obstruction of Justice documentary to show the connection between the cover-up of Kevin Ives and Don Henrys murder, Mena drug trafficking and Bill Clinton. My home town, Bryant, has secrets of its own. The man is a sleazy pol and perv but I'd want to see solid evidence of his being brought into the fold of something like Black Eagle or related CIA Reagan-era malevolence. Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019. By all accounts, the engineer did a masterful job of bringing his train to a stop. to Mena. What is believed and what and where the case is. Their parents would not accept Dr. Malaks conclusion. True Crime. Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2021. In April, 1989 his body was found in the Little Rock city dump after he had been shot in the head twice and set on fire. The pivotal event that began to unravel the mystery of Mena was the death of Don Henry age 16, and Kevin Ives age 17. He also called the dispatcher. Maybe one of those with first hand knowledge will come forward to do the right thing and reveal who did what to whom in this whole ugly mess which was played out in Alexander but went from Mena to Little Rock, maybe even to Washington. Impressed by the details as well, I ran across similar information tying conspiracies with the Clintons and drug trafficking in South America. All evidence gathered from The Obstruction of Justice video documentary. Visiting the murder location of Don Henry and Kevin Ives.More videos on My Second Channel - https://www.youtube.com/mobileinstinct2My T-Shirts & Sweatshirts . However, on the night of Saturday, August 22, 1987, Kevin and Don met a group of friends on the outskirts of Little Rock at a favorite gathering place for the local teenagers. At the heart of the case are events surrounding the deaths of two young menbest friends Larry . On August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were laying on the tracks. As years passed, and more unsolved killings occurred, Ives assembled evidence that the boys had stumbled upon a diffuse conspiracy involving CIA-backed air suppliers to the Contras, who ran an enormous cocaine-trafficking operation from a remote airport. Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2021. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges. Exposing a web of silence and complicity in which drugs, politics, and murder converge, The Boys on the Tracks is a horrifying story from first page to last, and its most frightening aspect is that all of the story is true. It was alleged that they were the officers seen beating the two boys in a store parking lot. June 13, 2020 - Latest Upload: Murder On The Tracks - The Billy Jack Haynes Storyhttps://youtu.be/utCKt6GYmBkDec 20 2019 Upload: American Re-Made - The Real . Friends who were with them that night confirmed this amount. The two boys were identified as sixteen-year-old Don Henry and seventeen-year-old Kevin Ives. Burton concluded that Kevins skull had been crushed and Don had been stabbed in the back hours before they were run over by the train. The death of a child is bad enough. The Boys On The Tracks. #Unsolvable #Mysteries #TheBoysOnTheTracks #DonHenry #KevinIvesIn this week's episode we will be discussing the twist of fate that led to the death two frien. Sheltering me from what the truth might be, my mother never told me about the conspiracy behind the deaths. Former Saline County prosecuting attorney Dan Harmon investigated the case and presented evidence to the grand jury. As his train drew closer, he made the horrifying discovery that two boys were lying motionless across the railroad tracks. Local law enforcement attributed the deaths to a massive overdose of marijuana and dismissed the crews tale as optical illusion, in the first of many suspicious official fumbles. Stephen noted that although three seconds does not seem like a long amount of time, it felt like an eternity for him. Suspects: The man wearing military fatigues witnessed by police and others remains a possible suspect, but police have never been able to locate or positively identify him. After facing all of these drug charges, it may not be so far-fetched that he was at the tracks when Ives and Henry were murdered. Ill bet anything that there will be way more actual truth OMMITTED then they will actually allow into the movie It will likely be a propaganda piece much like Zero Dark Thirty was. In March 1990, Kevin and Don's manner of death were officially changed from "accidental" to "homicide." The death of a child is bad enough. So many times I would drive up to see him out there almost stroking it for lack of a better word:)) I also loved to see him put the tops back on after arriving home and he would lean over and look into the side mirror and comb his hair which had been blown from the T tops being down.\"Link to the full Q and A - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6fx50w/murder_on_the_tracks_kevin_ives_don_henry_linda/?sort=new***UPDATE/CORRECTION*** on the information in the movie, about Linda Ives not knowing about the existence of Sharline Wilson's confession letter until 2015. Please feel free to make a contribution towards helping bring this treacherous case to a close, with some Justice finally being served!THE KEVIN IVES/DON HENRY GoFundMe PAGEhttps://www.gofundme.com/KevinIves-DonHenryMurdersLinda Ives appeared on a Reddit AMA on Wed June 7, 2017. The police discounted the statement and blamed the tarp on an optical illusion. One of the railroad employees stated as he pointed toward the tracks, I know it was some kind of tarp, and to my recollection they set it right over there.. At first, police believed that the boys had died after smoking . Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Official investigations have focused on drug smuggling activities in Saline County, Arkansas. Hasenfus was captured by the Sandinistas and confessed to them that the CIA was providing the Contras with weapons to fight the Sandinistas. make the documentary, The Obstruction of Justice.. They went to high school and did everything together. So much of the nonsense I see in the media everyday is meaningless. Circuit Judge John Cole appointed Dan Harmon special prosecutor of the Kevin Ives and Don Henry case in 1988, which gave him direct access to and control of information as the case developed. The Clinton Chronicles: An Investigation into the Alleged Criminal Activities of Bill Clinton is a 1994 documentary that accused Bill Clinton of a range of crimes. These relationships began to tie the murders to something larger than just a homicide. I have known about this case since the late 80s. We never made a move without him knowing, and he never made a move without us knowing, or so we thought. All four of the people on the train who were able to observe the scene prior to the accident stated that the bodies were partially covered by the green tarp. Other medical experts and researchers stated that it was highly unlikely, if not impossible, for a person to pass out from smoking marijuana. Reprinted by permission. They were lying exactly across the tracks; their legs were across the rails, their torsos were between the tracks, and their arms were straight down by their sides. What had caused Kevin and Don to lie side-by-side on the railroad tracks? Kevin Ives and Don Henry allegedly witnessed a drug drop from Mena before they were murdered. Its a small town, and there isnt much to see besides trees and hiking trails. Day, Chris. Ives believes Kevin and Don came upon the scene and were grabbed and interrogated for information they didn't have and ended up being beaten and put on the railroad tracks." At the end of the documentary the narrator says, "Eyewitnesses have implicated several people in the murders and subsequent cover-up including, Dan Harmon, Richard Garrett . The apparent murder in Saline County in 1987 of seventeen-year-old Kevin Ives and sixteen-year-old Don Henry has spurred ongoing controversy, including conspiracy theories tying their deaths to a drug-smuggling scandal. I lived in Arkansas from 1988 to 2005 and I remember this being local news during those early years. In a video posted on January 23, Billy Jack Haynes, a well-known wrestler in the 1980s, said he witnessed the murders of Ives and Henry on August 23, 1987 in Alexander. The boys' bodies were terribly mangled. I told myself that nobody would befriend parents of a murder victim and then screw them over, but I was wrong, Ives said. In the early hours of August 23 rd, 1987, they also died together. The story of betrayal begins locally but quickly expands. He ruled their deaths an accident. To learn that the child was murdered is worse. The two victims were identified as 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives, best friends and popular seniors at Bryant High School. What a sad tragic story and shame on the US Government (especially the Clintons!). Leveritt does an excellent job in capturing Mara Leveritt tells an awesome tale about the two young boys murdered in Arkansas after they stumbled onto the airfield where cocaine drops from Central America were flown in and arms to Central America were flown out. Three hours later, Stephen Shroyers locomotive came speeding down Bryant Hill. Garrett also believes that the tarp existed. Here some of the Q and A with herQ - \"Thanks for doing the AMA! The state medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, said they had been under the influence of marijuana and ruled the deaths accidental. Mara Leveritt has covered this story since it first broke back in 1987. Leveritt brings up every wild conspiracy theory in Arkansas and ties each to the boys' death; some of the theories are wacky right-wing fantasies, others are simply small-town oddities. Details: In the pre-dawn hours of August 23, 1987, a seventy-five car, 6,000 ton Union Pacific cargo train made its regular night run to the UP freight yard in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Don Henry and Kevin Ives. Several people were implicated in this conspiracy, which involved numerous investigations and two grand juries. His murder remains unsolved. The new movie about Barry Seal will most likely be Hollywood nonsense. It is not known if the boys were Kevin and Don. His documentary accused many men holding high rank, such as Dan Harmon, of being corrupt and involved in drugs.
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