That night, they chose their usual hunting ground, along the railroad tracks that ran behind Dons house. It has to be death.". In the documentary, two veteran sheriff's deputies, Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane, were alleged to be the killers. Item may be missing bundled media unless noted. In 1996, Linda and film producer Patrick Matrisciana released the documentary, Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection, which detailed the botched investigation into the murders. The state medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, ruled the deaths an accident as a result of marijuana intoxication, saying the boys had smoked the equivalent of 20 marijuana cigarettes and fell asleep on the tracks. Kevins father, Larry, could not believe that his son was knocked out on marijuana or into any kind of heavy drugs. I must go visit El Avion one day and have a beer(or10) in Barry Seals plane!!! Not even once? The Los Angeles Times reported that Larry Nichols, who appears throughout the film and is the primary source for a number of the murder and mysterious death claims, was fired from his Arkansas state government job and once admitted to an Associated Press reporter to being motivated by spite. The case to this very day is still unsolved and no arrest. 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. His autopsy also showed that Malak had mutilated Ivess skull by sawing it in many different directions, which made it virtually impossible to determine where the initial skull fractures were. Mother of boy found dead on tracks in 1987 suing United States of America, Judge to look at files in 1987 deaths of 2 boys found on central Arkansas railroad tracks, Former wrestler claims he witnessed murders of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, Mom of cold case victim dies; Linda Ives sought answers in the deaths of 2 teens for decades, Linda Ives, mother who sought answers in 'Boys on the Tracks' case, dies at 71, SitcomsOnline Discussion of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, This case originally aired on the October 12, 1988 episode of. However, he was never charged in the case or officially labeled a suspect. 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. "[7] Don Henry's father also noted that he did not believe his son would have risked his gun getting scratched by laying it on gravel. 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 deaths of Henry and Ives are part of the Clinton body count conspiracy theory.[1]. Real Names:Larry Kevin Ives and Donald George Henry On October 23, 2018, Garrett passed away at the age of seventy-two. American Made, the new title for the film, is about a pilot who lands work for the CIA as a drug runner. Asa Hutchinson. While the Starr Report accused Clinton of obstruction of justice in covering up an affair, and other players in the Whitewater controversy were charged and sentenced, Starr declined to recommend charges for Clinton over Whitewater and cleared Clinton of involvement with Vince Foster's death. Six weeks after the investigation was reopened, Garrett came up with a strangely similar case. 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 !. 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. 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. 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. The deaths were ruled accidental. 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 !. , of being corrupt and involved in drugs. Clinton also denied ever speaking with Black when confronted about it. Now, Asa Hutchinson is the governor of Arkansas??? These relationships began to tie the murders to something larger than just a homicide. All public officials who had indictments against them were cleared of all wrongdoings. As Dan Harmons investigation pushed forward, many potential witnesses started to turn up dead. It is likely that this is a direct result of Barry Seal running drugs out of Mena in the early eighties. In the months that followed, Ives's world darkened even more as she gradually came to understand that the very officials she turned to for help could not, or would not, solve the murders. However, Linda and her attorney did not find anything in the documents related to the murders. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges. COLD CASE: MURDER IN SALINE COUNTY [Ives/Henry murder - Boys on the Tracks] 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. In 1987, Linda Ives suffered a parental worst-nightmare when her son and a friend were run over by a train, whose crew observed them supine and covered with a tarp before impact. In October 1997, prosecutors brought more drug charges against Harmon, and he was sentenced to three years in prison, for a total of more than 11 years. Teenagers Don Henry, 16, and Kevin Ives, 17, popular students who were gearing up for their senior year at Bryant High School, had decided to hang out with a group of friends at a local commuter parking lot, a popular gathering place for teens. Boys on the Tracks, The - Encyclopedia of Arkansas Neither Kevin nor Don owned such a tarp. The book's subject is one of the state's most famous unsolved cases. Mara Leveritt's 1999 book Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice is one of the most important examples of investigative journalism in modern Arkansas history. By Linda Ives. [5] The parents did not accept this finding and conducted their own investigation. She has confessed to selling cocaine to both Bill and Roger Clinton. One week before Kevin and Don were killed, a man wearing military fatigues had been spotted in the vicinity. What an amazing author Mara is - her investigative efforts are absolutely astounding. They were lying motionless on the tracks, in a position nearly identical to Kevin and Dons. . document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); DONNA Ginter | Jan 7, 2023 at 9:14 am. Am so glad that the author took the time to research and write this bookeven though we know there was a reason why the incident disappeared, it still makes the pointdont give up!! Garrett also believes that the tarp existed. He later served time in prison on federal drug and racketeering charges. Even though by the mid-to-late 1970s the FBI, DEA etc already had massive files on Seal and knew he was a big time drug smuggler, Hutchinson couldnt find ANYTHING on Seal to charge him with??? PRIME Shipping eligible. It is an intensely personal story and a story of national importance. 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. Kevin and Dons families hired a private investigator to try and figure out what happened to them. Official investigations have focused on drug smuggling activities in Saline County, Arkansas. It is not known if the boys were Kevin and Don. Several people were implicated in this conspiracy, which involved numerous investigations and two grand juries. They were best friends and popular seniors at Bryant High School. Garrett then focused on the green tarp. The documentary drew a line in the sand between Ives and Harmon. The Train Deaths: Don Henry and Kevin Ives Don Henry and Kevin Ives. He also called the dispatcher. 10 various investigations into drugs, money laundering and so forth, in and around Arkansas, from the 1980s and 1990s, were all shut down with no results made public. The train then went over them. As a result, the families were not able to move forward with their investigation. The Deaths . 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. This page is not available in other languages. To learn that the child was murdered is worse. Reprinted by permission. Please use a different way to share. The state medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, said they had been under the influence of marijuana and ruled the deaths accidental. Seal purchased his own plane, and as a part of the deal with the DEA, he rigged it with a hidden camera. On August 23, 1987, in Bryant, Ark., three train conductors noticed two bodies lying across the tracks with a tarp covering them. I mean WOW!, what qualifications! The biggest cocaine smuggler in the history of the U.S., operating right in your own backyard, and you dont even know it, so then you get picked to be the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency??? Known as the Fat Man, Seal was said to be smuggling about 1000 pounds of cocaine out of Mena at the height of his career, as reported by the Louisiana Voice. http://costaverde.com/elavion/, Keep researching You will be very surprised by what you discover. Nicknames: Kevin (Larry); Don (Donald) https://prospectiveonline.com/12135/feature/the-murder-of-kevin-ives-and-don-henry/#comment-5199, https://prospectiveonline.com/12135/feature/the-murder-of-kevin-ives-and-don-henry/#comment-5161, https://prospectiveonline.com/12135/feature/the-murder-of-kevin-ives-and-don-henry/#comment-5135, https://prospectiveonline.com/12135/feature/the-murder-of-kevin-ives-and-don-henry/#comment-5132, https://prospectiveonline.com/12135/feature/the-murder-of-kevin-ives-and-don-henry/#comment-5109. The action grips readers from the beginning, with the death of two teenagers, Don Henry and Kevin Ives, told from the perspective of the train engineers who accidentally ran over the boys' bodies. Larry Ives - IMDb Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. Kevin and Don set off to go spotlighting, a form of night hunting which is illegal in Arkansas. This is a topic everyone in Arkansas should be informed on. "Have you got injuries?" 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. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges. While we found no evidence that any CIA employee involved in the Contra program had participated in drug-related activities or had conspired with other in such activities, we found that the Agency did not deal with Contra-related drug trafficking allegations and information in a consistent, reasoned or justifiable manner. Extra Notes: Results: Unresolved. I lived in Little Rock when the events described in Mara Leveritt's "The Boys on the Track" were unfolding. They passed under us. Kevin Ives and Don Henry on Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Friends, Train Crew Subpoenaed In Investigation Of Deaths Of Teens, Malak Ruling In Train Deaths Of Teens Challenged By Pathologist, Jury asks FBI to probe train deaths in Newton County, Jury 'not completely pleased' with progress in investigation of two Bryant teens' deaths, Drugs cause of deaths? Spotlighting was a fairly widespread activity among the local boys. She hoped to force eight federal agencies and three Arkansas-based law enforcement agencies to produce any documents they had about the case. 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. 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. Special Bulletin: Lost: Raymond Routte. 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. 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". But few tragedies compare with the story of Linda Ives, whose teenage son and his friend were found mysteriously run over by a train. All information was gathered from The Obstruction of Justice documentary. He hasnt been found. I cant believe how much evidence & eyewitnesses there are to this case, yet it gets blocked every time there was any positive movement. Yet the further away from the murder she gets, the less compelling her story becomes. In October 1997, prosecutors brought more drug charges against Harmon, and he was sentenced to three years in prison, for a total of more than 11 years. Police who searched the scene later denied that Stephen had told them about the tarp. It looks like WhatsApp is not installed on your phone. [4] The fact checking site TruthOrFiction.com states that "There is no credible evidence that any of the deaths is related or can be attributed to Bill Clinton". Malak, in fact, had direct ties to Jocelyn Elders, who was the head of the state health department, and Bill Clinton, who was governor at the time. Their parents could not accept that ruling. Sheltering me from what the truth might be, my mother never told me about the conspiracy behind the deaths. When police officer Danny Allen stopped to question him, the man opened fire. Question: Now that the criminal complicity of these presidents has been exposed and is not disputable, what is the justification for continuing to protect the killers? [{"displayPrice":"$49.99","priceAmount":49.99,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"49","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"99","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"w3E7e2s62kzqS2WP1ccU8wj3YjT3CD4VlwP1lgknh0J7%2BPgOTuIYE1mKohQHwqUIBBJWwiCUz0Nv7ZW%2B6yhvpEtJHQUfz6UaG5M9D9kmbOeFKdhfE%2Fy8FsXTGU4VHSNrQ%2FM%2FwjE8N0urABBffRNFw58FaNy8J%2FmEjXWFR81o%2BeGUtzctB5s3xg%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED"}]. As his train drew closer, he made the horrifying discovery that two boys were lying motionless across the railroad tracks. The train was over a mile long and was traveling at a speed of fifty-two miles per hour. The secrets revolve around the murder of two Bryant seniors, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, and drug smuggling in the eighties. Murder on the Tracks - The Massive Cover-up of Kevin Ives and Don Henry However, he was unable to stop it in time. By the time the engine shuddered to a standstill, Conductor Jerry Tomlin was on the radio notifying an approaching train on a parallel track to stop because some boys had been run over. They then went to Casady, who referred them to Wright, and so on. Don was a natural comedian and Kevin was his best audience. People warned of us Harmon, she said. Officially ruled an accidental death on the train tracks, but . Train Deaths Are Officially Homicides. Arkansas Gazette, March 6, 1988, p. 3B. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. By the time Allen got up from his seat, the man was gone. 16-year-old Don Henry and a year older Kevin Ives were best mates. make the documentary, The Obstruction of Justice.. I'm sure we've got death. According to the documentary The Mena Connection, Clinton was approached by prosecutor Charles Black, who wanted to fund an investigation about the Mena criminal activity. The driver of a 6000-ton cargo train noticed two bodies lying side by side, in straight lines, on the tracks. Kevin and Don had avoided being caught. On the same night the boys died, a similar-looking man dressed in military fatigues was spotted nearby. It is also known as the "Boys on the Tracks" case. 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. More than 1,000 feet of the decelerating train crossed the point where the bodies lay before it came to a stop. 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. As a result, the grand jury changed its ruling from "probable homicide" to "definite homicide." Interestingly, Campbell and Lane were involved in investigating Harmon. He was released in 2006 after helping prosecutors in a murder conspiracy case. I realize now why everyone needs to know what happened to them. It is a tale of multiple murders and of justice repeatedly denied. He also suspects that there was some sort of police cover-up involved in the case; however, he was not sure if it was inadvertent or deliberate. It is likely that this is a direct result of Barry Seal running drugs . I'm curious what the connection to Clinton is. Don Henry and Kevin Ives: The Boys on the Tracks | Bizarrepedia In March 1990, Kevin and Don's manner of death were officially changed from "accidental" to "homicide." 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. A portrait emerges of state governance as a deeply corrupted good-ol'-boy network, funded by drug money and protected by blackmail and violence. The investigation was rushed, and the infamous state medical examiner at the time, Fahmy Malak, was quick to rule the deaths as accidental due to a marijuana-induced coma. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. On August 23, 1987, sixteen-year-old Don Henry and seventeen-year-old Kevin Ives were brutally murdered in Saline County Arkansas. Harmon approached the Ives family with his friend deputy prosecutor Richard Garrett and convinced them that he and Garrett would stop at nothing to find those responsible for her sons murder. Special prosecutor Ken Starr was assigned to investigate a number of incidents mentioned in the film. In June 1988, a local man came forward, claiming that on the night of the murder, he saw two police officers beating two boys senseless in a store parking lot before tossing them into a police car and driving away. Boonie Bearden, who was friends with Collins and Coney, went missing in 1989. ID Files - The train deaths Kevin and Dons parents are determined to continue working on and investigating the case until it is solved. [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. He was sentenced to 30 years in a Nicaraguan prison, but was replaced by a spy after serving only a few months. Garrett had another autopsy conducted on Kevin and Don. The claims in the video are controversial; some have been discredited, while others continue to be debated. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Self (segment "Unexplained Death: Don Henry and Kevin Ives) Getting Started | Contributor Zone . After the film aired, she had her son's body exhumed and a second autopsy performed. The general public remained ignorant of many of the facts until long after the fact when the record was researched by people such as Leveritt. 1987 Mena, Arkansas Deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives; CIA-Linked Drug We were able to locate a pilot, who was interviewed by Jean Duffey (a former deputy prosecutor and drug task force director). To add the following enhancements to your purchase, choose a different seller. 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 . 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.' They were partially covered by a light green tarp. According to IMDB, Cruise plays Barry Seal, a notorious drug runner of the eighties. Clinton Body Bags | Snopes.com "[6] When it was found that Don Henry's shirt contained evidence of a stab wound to the back, and Kevin Ives' skull may have been crushed by his own rifle, the ruling was changed to "definite homicide. 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. [1] It was partially funded by Larry Nichols, a long-time Clinton opponent, and distributed with help from the Rev. Just a few months later, on August 24, Kevin's sister, Alicia, passed away at the age of fifty-three. 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. By all accounts, Kevin and Don were typical teenage boys who both loved to work on their cars and hunt. This is when witnesses began turning up dead, but no one connected that to Harmon at the time. Hide Archive footage (1 credit) 1988 Unsolved Mysteries (TV Series documentary) Self (segment "Unexplained Death: Don Henry and Kevin Ives) - Episode #1.2 (1988) . The train's crew reported the incident to railroad and law enforcement authorities. From Congress Report of the Central Intelligence Agencys Alleged Involvement in the Crack Cocaine Trafficking in the Los Angeles Area, issued in February 2000 The film alleged that Kevin and Don were killed after they accidentally witnessed a clandestine drug deal that involved top state officials. He said that he and Kevin were going to go out hunting. That said, her investigatory efforts seem impeccable; little within this page-turner reads as implausible conspiracy theory. I lived in Little Rock when the events described in Mara Leveritt's "The Boys on the Track" were unfolding. It also helps the reader to understand where Bubba fine tuned his murderous, corrupt, grafting, lying network to take the national stage (and the White House) in 1992. The film was produced shortly after Clinton's election to the presidency and provides background on a number of conspiracy theories associated with now former president Bill Clinton. A powerful story reminiscent of, Not Without My Daughter, The Boys on the Tracks. However, no suspects were identified. Kevin Ives and Don Henry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow0yPO8g9YA. Unsolved: The Mysterious Deaths Of Don Henry & Kevin Ives Visiting the murder location of Don Henry and Kevin Ives.More videos on My Second Channel - https://www.youtube.com/mobileinstinct2My T-Shirts \u0026 Sweatshirts available here - https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mobileinstinct/ More videos and extra footage on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/mobileinstinctPaypal - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/mobileinstinctAll of my videos are organized by state on my website https://www.TheMobileInstinct.com INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/mobileinstinct FACEBOOK page - https://www.facebook.com/mobileinstinct*CHECK OUT these videos! The pivotal event that began to unravel the mystery of Mena was the death of Don Henry age 16, and Kevin Ives age 17. It is a tale of multiple murders and of justice repeatedly denied. The parents of the boys insisted on a second autopsy, and after exhumation it was ruled that homicide was likely. But their bodies were suspiciously neatly arranged on the train tracks. For those not familiar with the background, the story begins on August 22 when teen-agers Kevin Ives and Don Henry went out to a secluded area of Saline County, Arkansas, for a night of deer hunting. According to ID Files, Harmon was convicted in July 1997 of racketeering, extortion and drug conspiracy, and sentenced to eight years in prison. The usual theory given about the boys' deaths, believed by Linda Ives, involves drug trafficking. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. to Mena. I can not say enough good words about this book !! Police speculated that Kevin and Don's murder may have been related to drug trafficking. Five minutes later, Celine County officers showed up. Why aren't they talking about this? The case of the boys on the tracks Heres a documentary that is LOADED with footage, documents, info etc, about what happened to Kevin Ives and Don Henry, and the following cover-up of their murders, right up to the latest news about their story in August 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow0yPO8g9YA. I learned of this book while listening to a true crime podcast and was fascinated by the story. Friends who were with them that night confirmed this amount. It was alleged that they were the officers seen beating the two boys in a store parking lot. "Vigils held at Capitol, courthouse 25 years after Ives, Henry deaths - The Saline Courier", "Arkansas mom's motion in bid to unseal files says DEA hiding crimes", "Judge orders agencies to review more information in 'Boys on the Tracks' FOIA lawsuit", "The Mysterious Deaths of Don Henry & Kevin Ives", "New Witness? They believe that he found out about their investigation and named them as suspects in order to taint their credibility and hinder their investigation into him. Jerry Falwell, who also appears in the film. The cartel gave a cut of their drug profits to the Sandinistas, members of the socialist Nicaraguan political organization and militarily opposed by the US, so they could access a Managuan airstrip to run drugs.
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