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November 16, 2023 / 01:10:32

This episode of True Crime Garage covers the mysterious deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry in 1987, the involvement of local law enforcement, and the subsequent cover-ups. Key discussions include the role of medical examiner F.Y. Malik, the political connections to then-Governor Bill Clinton, and the series of suspicious deaths linked to the case.

The episode begins with the timeline of events surrounding the deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry, who were found dead on railroad tracks in Bryant, Arkansas. The initial ruling of accidental death by F.Y. Malik is challenged by the families, who suspect foul play. The hosts discuss the evidence suggesting the boys were murdered before being placed on the tracks.

Nick and Captain examine the involvement of local attorney Dan Harmon, who initially offered to help the families but may have had ulterior motives. They also highlight the testimonies of witnesses who reported seeing police officers at the scene, raising questions about corruption within local law enforcement.

The episode details the subsequent deaths of several key witnesses and individuals connected to the case, including Gregory Collins and Keith McCal, both of whom were believed to have information about the murders. The hosts discuss the implications of these deaths and the apparent cover-up by authorities.

Throughout the episode, the hosts emphasize the broader context of drug trafficking in Arkansas during the late 1980s and the potential involvement of powerful political figures in the cover-up of these crimes.

TLDR

The episode investigates the 1987 murders of two boys in Arkansas and the ensuing cover-up involving law enforcement and political figures.

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high level positions to ensure the continued success of the drug smuggling money laundering operations all was
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going well until a fateful night in the fall of 1987 on August 22nd 1987 Kevin had spent
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the night with his friend Don Henry they left uh Don's home around 12:30 or quar
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till 1 uh on the 23rd of August in early morning hours and uh the next thing we knew they had been
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run over by a train there seems to be a small air strip in the area there have been sightings and uh reports of small
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airplanes flying very low with lights off in the area I believe they saw something they shouldn't have seen 3
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weeks later their deaths were ruled accidental by the state medical examiner fam Malik and um we disagree with that
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ruling uh because we thought the evidence pointed to homicide uh at that point we had a lot
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of questions and no answers uh and the facts didn't add up to what he was telling us so we decided
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to get a second opinion and uh met with resistance from all fronts both with our local law
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enforcement with State Crime Lab uh with everybody that we turned to um we obtained quar
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orders uh we requesting samples of everything that the crime lab had for a second opinion and uh fam
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Malik um resisted court orders uh he refused to obey them ultimately was proven that
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Don Henry had been stabbed in the back and Kevin I's skull had been crushed prior to the placement of their bodies
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on the railroad tracks however Malik stood by his ruling that the boys had simply fallen asleep on the tracks mik
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had been kept in office at the insistence of Governor Clinton for a number of years despite vigorous public
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outcry to have him removed as long as Malik's rulings pleased the governor's office or State
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Police they were left to stand no matter how implausible Malik's obvious lack of
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medical knowledge reached a pinnacle when he ruled that James milm who had been decapitated had died of natural
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causes yet Clinton who had the power to remove Malik from Office insisted he day there were allegations of tampering
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with evidence in murder cases uh there were allegations of perjury in different cases it didn't
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seem to matter what malet did Clinton uh protected him he made excuses such as he's
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overworked uh he's just stressed out he's underpaid uh they gave him a $144,000 raise which was an insult uh to my
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family as well as a lot of others in the state who um to this day are struggling
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with asinine rulings and the deaths of children and other loved ones I was outraged that protecting a political
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crony of Clinton's was more important than the fact that two young boys had been murdered Dan Harmon was just a
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local attorney in in the town of Benton Arkansas and uh after Don Henry and Kevin IES were killed and their bodies
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placed on the tracks and run over by a train he approached Linda IES and the Henry
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family about trying to help him he's a manipulator gives a great closing argument in court he's been trained for
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years to play the game he knows how to do it he's very good at it Mr Harmon can win your confidence
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make you think he's the greatest guy down the world he did that to Linda IES he helped lead them down a
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path that absolutely led to Nowhere on this case I got involved in the case and immediately harm and
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uh tried to discredit me without even knowing me couldn't figure it out I run across a
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young lady named Charlene Wilson who told a horror story that I didn't really believe at the
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time so I started searching for evidence to substantiate just part of what she had said Herman went
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bistic called he threatened me threatened Sheriff Pon threatened Captain Jean Donham the chief
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Deputy all because I talked to this one woman the people at the track that night to my knowledge were Dan Harmon
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Keith mccal Larry relle on Sunday August 23rd 1987 two teenage boys were run over by a train
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traveling through Bryant Arkansas What followed was an investigation by local law enforcement this is the s County
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Sheriff's Office who refused to investigate this as a possible homicide they saw no evidence of Foul Play but
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they weren't really looking for any uh publicly the Sheriff's Office spoke of the incident as though it were an
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accident and to the families of the two teenagers 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old Don Henry they talked as if
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this were a likely suicide the medical examiner this is the captain's friend FY Malik ruled the deaths in accident due
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to marijuana intoxication well he ruled these deaths at accident due to his stupidity months after the deaths two
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men present themselves to the families of the boys this is Richard Garrett and he brings in Dan Harmon who is appointed
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as a special prosecutor in this matter working with the grand jury trying to piece together a double murder case and
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Garrett and Harmon will help out in this case they do get it overturned from an accidental death to a possible murder
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yeah yes and then they start investigating looking for the killer or killers of these two boys last week we
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took you through the night the two boys were run over the medical examiner's findings and even though the Sheriff's
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Office and the medical examiner both decided this was an accident we showed you a second autopsy which showed
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significant evidence that both boys were dead before they were placed on the tracks and that both boys were murdered
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and placed there so that their bodies and all other evidence would be destroyed and we can clearly see that
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Don was stabbed in the back and we also can see that Kevin was he had a skull fracture so somebody and we have
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eyewitnesses that saw uh possibly a police officer hitting him with a object in the face mhm probably the very rifle
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that the two boys were carrying that night very possible fluids in the body pointed toward a slower death for both
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and not a sudden death like that of a being run over by a train and I witness statements regarding the lack of blood
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and the color of the blood proving that the blood itself was not fresh we also talked about witness statements many of
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these given to the Arkansas State Police two witnesses placed Dan Harmon at the tracks the night that the boys died this
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is why the case is so odd is because you have this guy this prosecutor that comes
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forward and says hey you know this lawyer that says hey I can help this family I can bring some justice oh it
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was an accidental death it was a and we're going to find this person but then the more you dig you realize this person
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that's claiming they're going to help you they're they're the ones that people are saying it possibly is uh responsible
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for these murders yes exactly now we do have to introduce a man by the name of Barry seal Barry seal was a Gunrunner
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and a drug runner in the 80s uh Barry would arrange for privately owned planes to fly guns to Colombia and on return
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flights he was bringing drugs back into the United States at least one pilot has
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come forward who claimed to have many times flown a drug drop at the place where the boys had died some of the
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local law enforcement was in charge of securing these drops and just prior to Kevin and Don's deaths a drop at that
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location had gone missing so those local law enforcements that that were involved
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in this operation well they were on high alert they were waiting for somebody to
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try to steal that next drop and then that night Kevin Ives and Don Henry happened by let's get to each one of the
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eyewitnesses and what happened with them after they came forward with information
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well we should start off with the big one and this is Charlene Wilson she had the statement saying that the people at
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the tracks that night were Dan Harmon Keith mccal and Larry Rochelle she also said that she believed that the boys
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were watching the drop site and that they got curious about what was being dropped there well we know that Charlene
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Wilson she ends up in prison yeah and who puts her in prison uh our good friend Dan Harman right right well we
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got to put her in prison so she stops running her mouth right and the thing is the the thing that's crazy about her
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confession is that this was a confession that was she gave this confession written confession in her in her own in
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our own writing mhm and this is witnessed by three officials three law law enforcement officials and we know
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that because their signatures are on her confession well when I normally confess
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to something I do it in somebody else's handwriting well she confesses in front of these three people in
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1993 and then this confession goes nowhere none of these law enforcement officials do anything with this
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confession it's buried in the crime file right and in the case File and it's not
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discovered again until 2015 right does it play a little devil's advocate here though is it a coincidence though that
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she is put in jail by Dan Harmon you know put away to keep her quiet or is she coming out later saying oh he was
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involved in these murders which maybe he was maybe he wasn't we also had several
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witnesses who placed two palaski County officers this is Kirk Lane and Jay Campbell as not only being in the area
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where the boys were killed but as having been seen and I'll quote one of the witness's statements as beating the [ __ ]
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out of the two boys near the grocery store down by the tracks the first man was who we simply just know as Jerry who
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was described as a Mexican looking man in a dark blue Camaro right Jerry after telling Mike crook that he had witnessed
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the two boys being beat up and thrown into the back of an unmarked police car he went and told this story to sheriff
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Jim Ste now pay attention cuz that's a name that's going to come up several times Jim Ste was the Boss Hog at say
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County he was the sheriff he was running the Sheriff's Office Jim Ste threw Jerry
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into jail and locked him up for 90 days for unpaid child support the day that Jerry gets out of jail he tells Jim
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crook that he was told to leave town or else and that he was moving to California Jerry did leave town we don't
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know exactly where he went uh but he's not been seen again and Jim Crook's story was presented to the Arkansas
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State Police least several months after the fact and they made what I would argue to be no effort to identify this
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man that we only know as Jerry well first of all like I said sketchy Jerry you got to pay for your kids you know if
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you have child support pay for your damn kids right mhm that's one uh two who knows where he went off to uh it's it's
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a little weird it's definitely weird but uh it's weird too that obviously viously
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they had reason to lock him up mhm for the child support so they know his name MH and why they're you know maybe
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they're just not releasing into the public for his protection or maybe something Foul Play happened and they
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don't want that to be brought to life MH or does Jim Steed have a bigger role in
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this whole thing mhm the other witness was Ronnie Godwin who stated that he had observed two police officers beat up two
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boys at the grocery store the night Kevin and Don were killed Ronnie it was like a convenience store Ronnie Godwin
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gave his statement to the police and we should be very clear about this he gave this statement to police during the time
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of the investigation now Linda IES she's the mother of Kevin IES and Jean Duffy who is a former Saline County prosecutor
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and I I want to put quotation marks up here she's one of the good ones um Jean Duffy interviewed Godwin 11 years after
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the murders and Godwin's statements were identical to the statements that he had
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given to the police at the time of the investigation also included in the state police report were
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these interviews with Godwin's mother sister and girlfriend in which they all reported to have said that when Ronnie
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drinks he tells lies but we need to keep in mind that when Godwin was interviewed
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by the state police in 1988 he had get he had been in jail for a couple weeks before giving the statement so he was he
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would have been sober at this time now Linda and Jean also contacted Ronnie's mother to discuss her statements to the
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state police about Ronnie she told them that she had never been interviewed by the state police she also was certain
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that neither Godwin's sister or girlfriend had been interviewed by the state police either so if this is true
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then the state police had manufactured interviews of witnesses to discredit Ronnie Godwin well yeah I think it was
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this I think it was this simple uh we don't get we don't have to kill this guy cuz he he's a drunk yeah he's got a bad
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reputation we can smear his reputation Prett he's drunk he's a liar this this is not going to go anywhere so we don't
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have to we don't have to knock this guy off but the thing we do have to remember
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Captain is that Ronnie told almost the same story as Jerry did this lining up with Jerry's story corroborating both
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stories Godwin VI right but but but Jerry is one he's Shady he's a dirt bag doesn't pay for his kids and he left
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town so now he's already smeared now we got this guy with a drinking problem just because you have a drinking problem
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doesn't mean you're a liar MH now Godwin stated that he did not tell anyone what
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he had witnessed that night until he reported it to police mhm um he also believes that the two officers that
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killed the boys that night that they saw him as he passed by the store and probably recognized his car another
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state police interview States Richard Garrett remember this is Dan Harmon's sidekick rushed over to interview Godwin
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a second time right it would seem that officials were taking Godwin's statement seriously uh as it turns out they were
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only serious about discrediting Godwin right following the interviews with Godwin there was no attempt to identify
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the cops that Godwin had saw no photos of local officers or unmarked cars were shown to him no check of officers in the
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area that night who would fit the description there was no check for traces of blood or other evidence in the
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back of any of the unmarked cars nothing just discrediting Godwin statements by fabricating interviews with his mother
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sister and girlfriend stating that when Ronnie drinks Ronnie lies mhm the only true effort to identify Jerry was the
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state police St stating that Jerry and Ronnie Godwin were one and the same right so was shady Jerry actually Godwin
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well Godwin was shown the state police interview with Mike Crook and he simply states that he and crook knew each other
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crook at the time was married to Godwin's cousin and so Godwin presented his story to police so there's no reason
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for crook to call Godwin Jerry uh when he knew him furthermore Godwin has never been jailed for back child support in
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fact Godwin has always had custody of his only child mhm crook also confirmed that Jerry and Ronnie Godwin were not
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the same person they don't come out and say who Shady Jerry is they just said oh
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well he was in jail and then he disappeared and we don't know what happened to him and now we got this
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other guy Godwin and Godwin is just a drunk right so that takes care of two ey Witnesses mhm but see here's where
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things start to get a little scary here Captain both Jerry and Godwin they describe three boys driving up to the
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grocery store on a motorcycle M Don Henry two yes Kevin Ives and who's the third one well we have we have they
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State the two boys get off of the motorcycle and around that same time officers Campbell and Lane arrive the
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boy on the motorcycle takes off now this has to be Keith Cony m a young man who told his mother he knew some stuff about
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the night the boys were murdered right a young man who told his father he had seen Kevin and Dawn the night that they
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were killed and he believed the two were killed by two police officers all three
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of these stories align with one another three people that do not know each other
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and the same story is told independently of each other now Keith also had said that he was afraid for his life because
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he knew too much about Kevin's and Don's murders now Cony was killed in 19 1988 in a motorcycle crash this was 9 months
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after Kevin and Don were murdered the official report was that con had run his motorcycle into the back of a semi-truck
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traveling at a high rate of speed now Keith Cony was one of the last people to be seen with Kevin and da alive Keith
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had been called to testify he was subpoenaed by Dan Harmon to testify in front of the grand jury now there are
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many people that say that his death had not been a highway accident that these Witnesses had said that Keith was
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attempting to escape an attack that he had jumped on his bike and tried to flee at a high rate of speed and he was
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actually being chased by a vehicle when he swerved into the back of the truck Witnesses saw Keith's body they reported
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that his throat had been slashed and he had several wounds that the witnesses did not believe would have been caused
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by a vehicle accident right so another case where we have and who was the medical examiner on that uh FY Malik
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right so fi again is going ah well look this is just suggest death by motorcycle
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well I I don't even know how fi talks he he sounds stupid anyways he probably said look this is just a simple death
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it's a motorcycle accident and that's all that happens it's not a motorcycle accident if your throat is slashed mhm
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yeah if you're escaping an attack you're being chased buy a vehicle at a high rate of speed right that's called Murder
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mhm there was also reason to believe that Keith was selling drugs and was involved with some of the local dealers
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um so he might have known some of these people at play here right but I think this is part of the story that I don't
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really like and we can get into this later when we talk about our own theories M but this whole thing about
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you know Don Henry and and Kevin eyes they were they're going out there and they're going to steal these drugs right
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from some drug lords right and that oh by the way the the the guy that ended up dead on the motorcycle oh he sold drugs
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too I think it's an easy way to tarnish you know and not saying that these kids maybe didn't smoke pot maybe drank a
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little bit um maybe even sold it from time to time MH but I don't think there were known drug dealers and I'm not
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trying to tarnish Keith's name or Kevin or Dawn's names either better um I with with Keith I just simply bring it up
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because because he may have known some of the stuff that was going on if if in fact he was uh selling drugs for
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somebody he may have known these people that were out that night it it wouldn't just be that oh it was two police
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officers oh it was uh this group of guys and I don't know who they are uh I'm just bringing up that he may have had
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some connection with these people well no and then the other thing about it is after Cony leaves on his motorcycle he
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actually went to uh the Wagon Wheel yes which was the bar and he told and that's
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when he told Keith mcal yeah old mcal so you know there is some validity CU you know there is those rumors that mcll was
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selling drugs or part of the drug running so then why would Keith go talk to him right if he didn't know know him
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if he did know him he'd probably know him through but this is also a weird time because this is 1987 right okay and
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and when I graduated High School 99 and you remember this cuz and our band would play yes I was alive and
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around in '99 well we had the you know the metal band that we played in and would' play gigs and we'd have parties
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and stuff to kind of like promote the shows and stuff like that just kind of typical things but we'd normally have
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mostly high school kids but there would always be like a group of college age kids yeah or even late 20 some yeah and
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nowadays like you could not pay me to go hang out with high school kids yeah I I wonder I
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always I didn't Wonder back then but once I got to be 28 29 I wondered what those 28 29 year olds were even doing
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hanging out I think you got to be a pretty big loser is what I think is going on that you got to hang out with
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these young people which makes it a little more odd that con would go talk to mcal so hold on to your seats cuz
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cheers mates we have to introduce a man by the name of Gregory Collins now it is
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believed that Collins had information on the the Kevin Ives and Don Henry deaths
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in January of 1989 Gregory Collins died from three shotgun blasts fired at a close range
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now one shot hit Collins in the face his body was discovered in a Pine Forest in
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a County south of saline Collins had been called to testify to the grand jury but he had never appeared now newspaper
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reports that Garrett and Harmon questioned him privately about the train death case right question him or
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threaten him I guess depends on how you look at it the strange thing here though
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Captain is you know little is known about what he may have known about this case he he may have known something
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because apparently he was interviewed or like you said possibly threatened by Garrett and Harmon in private um but he
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he is shot three times with a shotgun now we have a little more FY Malik Shenanigans going on here because this
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is one that FY Malik would rule a suicide so if you believe the medical examiner Mr Mal okay just say it slowly
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for me say say this stupidity slowly for me okay so if you are to believe the medical examiner F FY Malik MH then you
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would have to believe that Gregory Collins drove out to a remote place went into the forest with a shotgun
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and managed to shoot himself three times and one of those shots being to the face
00:31:34
where presumably that's the shot that killed him um it's not impossible that somebody could shoot themselves three
00:31:41
times uh but I find it highly unlikely with a shotgun with a shotgun it would be very it would be extremely hard to do
00:31:50
to shoot oneself three times with the shotgun you know that's just FY being FY you know that's just FY being FY yeah
00:31:57
that's just fi doing whatever the hell he wants uh yeah or what he's paid to do by others you're exactly right but
00:32:04
that's the other thing too is like I'm not saying that he's a dumbass he might not actually be a dumbass but when you
00:32:10
have higher ups that are right one right in your check and you got people you got
00:32:15
eyewitnesses dying around you what what the hell are you going to do here's the other thing though Captain too we talked
00:32:22
about remember FY Malik got a nice he got a handsome uh promote well not a promotion but he got a raise well yeah
00:32:29
and I said I think 43% but it a 41% raise which was announced to be what like $114,000 was the actual the the money
00:32:38
amount there was 14,000 so if that's a 40 let's just say it's a$ 40% raise so that means he's making and I'm going to
00:32:46
show my dumb math here but that would mean he's making in the ballpark of what 4 to $45,000 a year before that raise
00:32:53
give or take yeah so now he's making under 60 mhm uh I would think that people that are
00:33:00
importing pounds of cocaine and moving them would have the means of buying Mr Malik off pretty cheap probably if the
00:33:09
guy's only making 60 Grand a year it probably doesn't take a whole boatload of money to get him to say you know what
00:33:17
not only do we need you to say that this was either an accident or a suicide but
00:33:22
you're the medical examiner nobody else is going to follow up on this whatever you rule this is probably what it's
00:33:28
going to sit as forever right right but they but they did follow up on many cases if you know you know I mean like
00:33:36
people eventually started going hey there's something wrong and that's what frustrates me about this whole case yeah
00:33:43
is not only did uh you know families came forward and said hey something's not right and then the powers that be
00:33:50
going all the way up to Bill Clinton which was this Governor at the time he wasn't president at the time but goes
00:33:57
all the way up to that jack wagon right and he comes back and says Hey look it's
00:34:02
none of my business I think he's doing pretty good job yeah he's doing a great job [ __ ] you
00:34:09
Bill okay all right calm down there Captain well this is just you know it's ridiculous I mean three shot you know
00:34:17
three shotgun shots to the face well one to the face right two to the chest right
00:34:22
but you're going to shoot yourself twice in the chest and then one in the face well let's keep in mind shotgun is a
00:34:27
pretty powerful shot too that'd be really hard to do anyways yes I mean The Recoil alone would probably mess up your
00:34:35
hand on some level or I would argue that nobody would that very few people would
00:34:41
even have the strength remaining after one shot to fire an additional two shots I mean this this is just asinine really
00:34:49
next we have Daniel Bearden uh who went by the name of boony um boony was from Alexander Arkansas mhm uh about 6 weeks
00:34:58
after they discovered Gregory Collins body in the forest uh police began searching a another remote area for the
00:35:07
body of this Boon guy um and he had he was another person that was asked to testify to the grand jury it's probably
00:35:15
suicide well he he was actually missing for about eight months at the time that they started searching for him so they
00:35:22
were in no hurry to go looking for him right um police they went out there because they received information that
00:35:29
he was buried near the Arkansas River they went out there and they searched and they found nothing um so this guy is
00:35:37
is unaccounted for suspected to have been killed and buried somewhere um now a person by the name of woodro May
00:35:45
testified that he woodro was the middleman in a local drug trade uh but he also stated that three other people
00:35:54
had similar arrangements with the guy that he was getting his drugs from and in this statement he also says that two
00:36:01
of these people Harmon knew personally and may have had some kind of arrangement with them the reason why I
00:36:07
bring up woodro is because in that same statement woodro stated that boony was one of his
00:36:13
distributors so again we're seeing the drug trade the drug trafficking going on wrapped around this whole case right and
00:36:20
this also brings us to eyewitness James Millum yeah we talked about Millum a little bit earlier but didn't identify
00:36:27
him by name um he had information regarding the IES and Henry deaths as well he was scheduled he was you know
00:36:35
they had a long list of people that they were going to talk to with the grand jury he was on that list uh he didn't
00:36:41
get the opportunity to do so though remember he was the guy that was found decapitated but FY Malik had ruled that
00:36:48
it was a um it was natural causes that he had died from an from an ulcer yeah yeah yeah which apparently that that you
00:36:56
have an alcer your head pops off that's that's according to FY mik that's what happened and um and we here's the crazy
00:37:04
thing he's decapitated and FY Malik claims that the dog ate the head right ate the head of the of of his owner now
00:37:17
the thing here is his whole story got all screwed up when do we know what kind of of dog that is um I'm not was
00:37:25
probably a very small one I'm I'm in the market to buy a dog and I'm not buying that kind of dog okay so that's what FY
00:37:31
Malik says cuz when I die from a ulcer in your head pops off I do not want my dog eating my head okay but listen to
00:37:39
this Captain Malik says that the dog ate the head right mhm okay then there's a big problem with his finding because the
00:37:48
police shortly after Mal gives this ruling they find the head right they find the head and then Malik's like well
00:37:56
that's because the dog regurgitated it that he threw up he ate the head and then he puked it puked it up right the
00:38:02
more and more we cover this story the more I just think that he has paid or knows that if you don't
00:38:11
cooperate you're going to die of a ulcer and your head's going to pop off as well
00:38:16
I I look I don't think it's stupidity I don't think I don't think any doctor is that dumb I think I really the more we
00:38:24
talk about it the more I think that his hands were tied and he knew if he didn't
00:38:30
follow you know the powers that be that he's going to end up worm food I think you might be on to something there you
00:38:38
he he could have been afraid he could have been being paid under the table by some of these people or could have been
00:38:43
a combination of both which is probably what is most likely um the thing here is
00:38:48
though you know while we're on FY Malik story here that he started off as an assistant to the medical examiner and
00:38:55
very quickly the medical examiner retired and he basically assumed the role of medical examiner well and I
00:39:02
wonder how long that guy worked for and and was he was he supposed to retire or was he just somebody that was not going
00:39:11
to work within their system he was made to retire you see what I'm saying that's
00:39:16
a good question we we don't know that but what we do know is that what was discovered after FY Malik had been the
00:39:22
medical examiner for like seven it was either Seven to n years somewhere in that ballpark MH they realized because
00:39:30
of some of these cases that Malik actually did not have the qualifications to be a medical examiner he only had the
00:39:37
qualifications to be an assistant so they realized this he wasn't even qualified for that probably right and
00:39:43
they realized this after he's been running the show for almost 10 years yeah but it's not you know Bill Clinton
00:39:49
can't do nothing about it well listen to this whole story they they the governor's office the there here's their
00:39:56
statement they say that it's not their problem because there's supposed to be a medical
00:40:00
examiner commission this is a group of people that review and decide who is qualified for this position and who is
00:40:06
not so when famy Malik took over the position they should have reviewed his qualifications reev reviewed him as a
00:40:13
candidate and either accepted him or turned him down for the role the problem is when people started going back in in
00:40:20
interviewing this medical examiner commission that supposedly existed well the people that were
00:40:27
supposed to be on the commission said yeah I was on that commission at one point but we haven't met for like 10 or
00:40:32
12 years we've not met about anything for 10 or 12 years I didn't know I was supposed to still be on that commission
00:40:38
well then the governor's office then says well because this commission didn't do their job there's nothing that we can
00:40:45
do about it we cannot remove we we can't remove we can't remove him now and at some point after it was discovered he
00:40:51
wasn't qualified he did seek out whatever training or knowledge he needed or you know to to become qualified for
00:40:58
the position eventually right well because he just got one a a 41% raise and then he's getting probably Kickbacks
00:41:05
MH and look again there's the fear element when your Governor is helping other people run
00:41:15
drugs then and and and some boys stumble upon that 16 and 17y old boy stumbles upon that and they are murdered and they
00:41:26
put their bodies on tracks to be ran over by trains you might fall in line too you know what I mean you might do
00:41:34
what they tell you to do well when the officials of Arkansas were asked why would you give famy Malik a a pay raise
00:41:44
a when we have people in the community wait hold on because we're selling drugs people that's what they should have said
00:41:50
Bill Clinton should have said hey we're selling drugs and we need somebody to cover our ass and and that's why we gave
00:41:57
him a pay raise but the thing here is we they had people they had families they had people in the community basically
00:42:04
picking and calling for FY Malik's Job saying fire this dude we don't trust this guy we can't feel safe living here
00:42:11
if this is what's going to be happening and basically the officials said that you know because they were asked why the
00:42:18
hell would you give this guy a pay raise when all these people were calling for his job right and and they they stated
00:42:23
go ahead well and it's not just the family and the IES family that aren't getting answers it's all these victims
00:42:31
and it's then multiply it by all their family and friends and those are the people paying your salary but at the end
00:42:37
of the day you think Bill Clinton gives a [ __ ] do you think anybody in power that's
00:42:44
getting paid a bunch of money actually gives a [ __ ] you know if they're running
00:42:48
drugs if they're willing to kill a 16 and 17year old person do you think they actually give a [ __ ] and for all the
00:42:54
people right now that are listening going well this is just a conspiracy this ain't conspiracy this is a fact
00:43:00
we're stating facts mhm this is not conspiracy but but the funny thing is here these these officials talk out of
00:43:08
both sides of their mouths because what happens here is when when he's first awarded the pay raise they they stay
00:43:15
they say that you know what FY Malik is a victim in this whole circumstance and that he deserves to be you know treated
00:43:23
with respect and and to show him such we gave him a pay raise well then when they
00:43:28
come back and they ask them later there's all these people in the community saying he should be fired how
00:43:33
can you give him a pay raise then they State well he's due to retire soon so we applied that pay raise to him not for
00:43:42
him personally but as a position we were upgrading the pay to that position so that when he does retire we could
00:43:48
recruit a more you know suitable candidate for this position well you know how they always have answers don't
00:43:54
they well right because when you're high on cocaine you come up with a million answers all at once well let's keep
00:44:02
going with this list here Captain because it just keeps growing and growing next on the list is Richard
00:44:08
Winters uh who was actually at one point he was he was considered to be a possible suspect in the deaths of Kevin
00:44:15
Ives and Don Henry um he had he had he had offered to cooperate with the grand jury and with Garrett and Harmon at some
00:44:25
point um but again before he could do so okay he ends up being killed by a shotgun
00:44:32
blast to the face um but this was during a robbery in July of 1989 now it's it's not been proven um
00:44:42
but but it's it's widely believed that the robbery was was not so much a robbery that it was more of a setup
00:44:50
right we're stage robbery we're gonna have this robbery situation and one guy's going to end up dead and it and
00:44:56
conveniently it's somebody that's offering to cooperate with the grand jury and and maybe divulge what he may
00:45:03
know about the deaths of these two teenagers mhm I think it's pretty obvious by now that everybody that we
00:45:09
bring up on this list is going to end up dead at some point I told you this episode should be called Murder yeah
00:45:16
well the thing here is one of the one of the stranger ones to me is Keith mcal yeah now shortly before Keith M mcal was
00:45:25
murdered I have nightmares about this yeah he he told people that he believed he was going to be murdered he he was
00:45:32
telling his family members goodbye he was making funeral arrangements he was telling his friends goodbye um he was
00:45:40
also telling his friends and family that like he was being followed yeah uh by by
00:45:45
the two police officers that we had mentioned earlier that were Lane and Campbell that were supposed to be
00:45:51
involved in the deaths of the two teenagers he was also pointing out vehicles to friends and stating you know
00:45:57
what I know that car has been following me for quite some time um the thing here
00:46:02
is that the a big problem with this story is remember we talked about Sheriff Jim Steed well there was an
00:46:11
election coming up in 1988 and it was for the the office of of sheriff now the thing is here that
00:46:19
mcal on the night of the sheriff's election in 1988 he was out with a bunch of people and he made a big announcement
00:46:26
at this bar and he held up two pennies he pulled two pennies out of his pocket threw them at the bar yeah and he stated
00:46:34
he said if Jim Ste loses this election my life isn't worth two cents and believe it or not shortly after that he
00:46:42
was killed okay so did he lose the election yeah Jim Ste lost the election that night and within 48 Hours uh Keith mcal
00:46:52
was murdered but how he was murdered is what creeps me out mhm yeah so a quick description here which I think is very
00:47:00
fitting for Keith mccal which is necessary I mean uh he managed a place called The we The Wagon Wheel Lounge uh
00:47:08
and he was considered to be a big dude he was 6'2 uh he weighed about uh 200 lb or so
00:47:15
um he was a bit of a legend for breaking up barroom fights several people told stories of him breaking up fights that
00:47:21
involved weapons sometimes even knives and he would without a weapon go into this fight and break it up cuz he was a
00:47:28
bad ombre yeah and but but Masco might have been a bit of a weird dude though because he was he was a known drug user
00:47:35
he was suspected of selling drugs he had a lot of friends in low places but he had a lot of police friends as well this
00:47:43
guy is just all sorts of bad country songs he works at the Wagon Wheel he has Friends in Low Places yeah and but but
00:47:51
the the funny thing here though to me Captain is we talk about all these misdoings by these
00:47:56
public officials and by uh police officers and Sheriff's you know deputies and things like that right and you know
00:48:03
to call somebody a weird dude saying that he's got a lot of friends that are in low places but he also has a lot of
00:48:09
friends that are police as well I don't think it's that weird in this situation because it seems to me like some of the
00:48:14
police were in Pretty Low Places themselves right right that's exactly right now Dan Harmon told Linda IES and
00:48:22
others that mcal was acting as an formant in the murder case agreeing to pass along any information that he had
00:48:30
heard in the nightclub but more importantly you know according to Charlene Wilson statement mcal was at
00:48:36
the tracks the night that the boys were killed right and it is also believed that Keith Cooney went on to to find
00:48:43
mascal and tell him what he had saw at the tracks or what he had saw near the grocery store that night with the police
00:48:49
officers beating up his friends so on November 10th 1988 this like we said this is just 2 days after the sheriff's
00:48:56
election this takes place around 1:30 a.m. a neighbor of Keith mcals said that he had heard some loud groaning noises
00:49:05
coming from Mas casal's home uh this woke him up in the middle of the night he go he goes to the window and he's
00:49:11
looking around and he sees nothing but what he says is that it sounded as if someone had drank way too much and was
00:49:18
vomiting right uh the following morning a lady friend of mcal came to his home and discovered his body so what happened
00:49:26
how did he die well Mas casal's body was wrapped in a flower patterned shower curtain and he was lying in the carport
00:49:34
area of his home this is near a door that was going to his kitchen he's covered in blood uh his house inside the
00:49:42
home completely covered in blood as well um there had been an obvious fight that
00:49:47
lasted probably quite some time that had left blood everywhere mascal had been stabbed over a 100 times Jesus um the
00:49:55
stab that most likely killed him was there was one to the heart uh all of the stab wounds were above the waist showing
00:50:02
that masle had defended himself and probably doing it quite well uh making the fight last a lot longer than maybe
00:50:10
his attackers would have thought it would have uh a lot of the slashes and stabs were to the arms and the hands
00:50:17
showing that Not only was he defending himself but he was going after the knife that was stabbing him well it sounds
00:50:23
like he had an ulcer yeah this is this is probably natural causes or at the very least an accidental death right
00:50:30
according to FY mik no of course it was ruled a murder um but but here's where it gets weird well actually not of
00:50:37
course in this case that's true it's like not of course yeah you're right you you have to be like ex you know happy
00:50:44
yeah you're like oh finally um well now we we should talk about Ronald Shane Smith Ronald Shane Smith was a neighbor
00:50:53
of mcals right now what had happened was when the police after after the the friend the female friend found M casal's
00:51:01
body she calls it in the police are there investigating whatever's going on and Ronald's father goes across the
00:51:09
street and he says you know what I think you should talk to my son because I think he knows something about what has
00:51:15
happened here right so they talk to the son uh now now Ronald Shane Smith is 19 years old at the time and he's
00:51:25
he's considered slow at school he's mentally handicap not my words these are other people's words um the thing here
00:51:33
is he tells them that he was over at Mas casal's place and that he he had gone there to purchase I believe he purchased
00:51:42
a silver tray and some pornographic uh videotapes from mcal the tray was going to be a gift for his mother the tapes
00:51:50
were something for himself right and uh he had owed masal money so he went over there to pay him some of the money that
00:51:57
he owed him and while they were there he said that Masco was acting strange he was looking out the window stating that
00:52:04
people were following him and he's been calling this for weeks yeah and he says then at some point three men they they
00:52:13
pull up in a vehicle they bust through the door yeah but what were these guys wearing they were there were three men
00:52:19
wearing clown mask F no no so that's what that's what they were wearing but could you
00:52:28
imagine well we do have Stephen King's It coming out very soon yes but what I'm saying is if three dudes in clown Mass
00:52:36
showed up to my house oh that' be yeah you're hoping that it's one of your friends are acting nuts I mean I'd be
00:52:42
scared but at the same time I'd be thinking I'm going to kick one of these dudes in the dick well uh according to
00:52:48
Ronald Shane Smith two of the guys had knives and one of them had a gun and the the guy guy with the gun the clown with
00:52:56
the gun comes up to Ronald and he forces him into a chair holding him at gunpoint
00:53:02
mhm a fight breaks out between mcal and the other two guys that are holding knives at some point during the fight
00:53:10
the the gunman takes Ronald outside and he says that during this time he could hear mcal in the home
00:53:18
being killed uh you would think they would just shoot him and then would you know
00:53:24
with the when the struggle happened you'd think that the guy with the gun would have just shot him and just took
00:53:29
off yeah well here's the thing here's what really that was my whole thing I was like why the hell wouldn't they just
00:53:37
shoot this witness right MH but then I also got to thinking about well if mcal was killed but in a a situation where it
00:53:46
was a hit where it was a planned murder mhm well why would why would you bother fighting with mascal anyway because if
00:53:53
you just you I wouldn't want to fight with mascal it sounds like he could handle himself and and many others at
00:53:59
the same time right he was a ballroom brawler man and the thing is they obviously wanted to keep this quiet you
00:54:06
can't just show up you can't just show up to someone's home in a neighborhood and guns blasting everywhere and go
00:54:12
unnoticed silence sir the the thing here is you know so what they did according to Ronald Smith is that they gave him
00:54:22
the knife and they told him that if he didn't stab uh mascal they were going to shoot him and so he stabs
00:54:31
mcal and they take a picture a Polaroid picture of him at that time and they tell him that they're going to keep this
00:54:38
for evidence if you ever come after us if if we if you tell on us mhm we're going to frame you for this murder and
00:54:46
again his IQ was something around 80 so this is a lot of stuff and a lot of details to come up with out of nowhere
00:54:53
it it is uh the story doesn't end there uh we'll get it back to that but the I didn't really want to I didn't really
00:55:01
want to report on what his supposed IQ was because I've seen some varying you know we we noticed this with West
00:55:08
Memphis 3 and several other cases that we've covered that the IQ seems to be something that people argue you know
00:55:14
people that would be for some kind of conspiracy they're going to lower his IQ when they tell the story and people that
00:55:21
think that Ronald Smith is guilty they're going to raise that IQ the other thing that's been in question I've seen
00:55:28
different reports of how of the size of this 19-year-old boy because there's been a lot of people that said well you
00:55:35
know he was only 58 148 pounds there's no way that he could have taken down Keith mccal who
00:55:42
was 6'2 over 200 lb barroom brawler MH uh but you don't bring a fist to a knife fight but I've also seen reports that
00:55:51
have uh Ronald Smith being as tall as 5'1 and 180b which is not a big discrepancy between the two men exactly
00:56:01
exactly but his story does change uh uh upon further questioning um the story changes to that it was not three men in
00:56:10
clown mask it was five men that were dressed head to toe in Black uh that they came in but but there's a lot of
00:56:18
similarities they came in they busted through the door they took over the situation they controlled Ronald Smith
00:56:25
and and they attacked Keith mcal um they did find they they found blood everywhere in that home this fight
00:56:33
lasted for quite some time and he believed Ronald Smith reported that he believed that the men that the attack
00:56:40
took somewhere between 30 and 40 minutes to take place the strange thing here though too is Jim Ste you remember the
00:56:46
uh the the outgoing Sheriff who lost the election well he had hired mcal to take
00:56:53
aerial photos of the of the tracks of of the area where the boys were were killed
00:57:00
um we don't know I don't know if he ever successfully carried out those photographs now he did have a briefcase
00:57:07
in his home that had blood all over it and it was opened and and it wasn't full you know it wasn't stuffed to the brim
00:57:16
with with with items so some people would believe that something was stolen from that briefcase um it could have
00:57:24
been aial photos it could have been it could have been drugs there was also rumors that mcal was making audio tapes
00:57:32
of what he knew about the murders and what he and who he knew was involved that way if something did happen to him
00:57:39
that maybe police or maybe one of the actual good guys would find one of these cassette tapes yeah if there was a good
00:57:45
guy left yeah it's it's getting hard to find any good people left now the police
00:57:51
they did go and they found some of these some items in Ron Smith's possession um
00:57:58
out behind his home they had found the silver tray that he had talked about purchasing some videotapes and they
00:58:06
found some bloody clothes now in Ron Smith's story though he says remember he says that he was told to to stab uh
00:58:15
mascal as mcll was already dead uh but he was also he also said that he had fallen on the body at some point and got
00:58:25
blood all over himself right um it's difficult here Captain because you could make a strong argument either way in
00:58:33
this case to me but when I keep seeing name after name of people that are being called to the grand jury and they keep
00:58:40
dying um it it seems to me like M casal's murder is probably not a one-off committed by this Ron Smith it's
00:58:48
probably connected to this whole boys on the track situation um now Ron Ronald Smith ends up being convicted of the
00:58:56
murder of Keith mcal which mik G feeling says that is another tragic point of the
00:59:02
story MH yeah and next we have Jeff rhods now Jeff rhods was the young man from Benton Arkansas who was he ended up
00:59:11
being murdered in 1989 but shortly before his death he made a phone call to his father in Texas stating that he
00:59:19
needed to get out of Arkansas and that he felt that he knew way too much about the boys on the railroad tracks and the
00:59:26
death of Keith mcal uh a couple weeks after this phone call that's when Jeff is found dead uh
00:59:33
he had been shot in the head and he was they had attempted whoever killed him attempted to cut off his head and hands
00:59:40
and feet um they were unsuccessful with the hands and feet uh and they had also set him on fire now they found his body
00:59:50
in a landfill these are just Savage people yeah the thing is though we have Jeff
00:59:57
rhods he's he's missing for just a week right but but shortly after he's reported missing his father reaches out
01:00:04
to the Sheriff's investigators and states that you know he called me a week ago asking if I could find him a job
01:00:11
here in Texas because he needed to leave Arkansas and this is why he needed to leave Arkansas and he said there was
01:00:17
never any followup even after they had found his body they didn't reach back out to him to further inquire what Jeff
01:00:25
rhods could have been talking about and somehow they link the death of Jeff rhs to this guy named Frank peler uh he's
01:00:34
ultimately arrested and charged with murder he's convicted and sentenced to life now we we got to keep in mind here
01:00:42
because of what took place in 1987 Dan Harmon he's he's a quote unquote special prosecutor he's assigned
01:00:50
this role he's well he's certainly special right but he's not technically he's not an elected prosecutor uh he's
01:00:56
assigned this role in the in the the specific case of Don Henry and Kevin Ives Now by
01:01:04
1990 he is the elected prosecutor and so now he has all this additional power so
01:01:10
some of these cases that we're seeing coming about where the murder would take place in in
01:01:16
1989 some of these people were probably convicted and and prosecuted by Dan Harmon well he had a lot of cover up to
01:01:25
do and that leads us to Jordan ketts now Jordan ketton he was believed to have had information regarding Kevin Ives and
01:01:34
Don Henry's deaths um he was also believed that he might have been a part of mol's murder now he was found shot to
01:01:43
death in his front in the front seat of his pickup truck in June of 1990 now there was no police
01:01:51
investigation regarding his H homicide his body was cremated before an autopsy could be performed why I have no clue
01:01:59
well because the autopsies were so bad anyways so you know hey let's just not even get old FY
01:02:06
involved is probably an ulcer anyways and and I don't have definitive information about this but it could be a
01:02:13
situation where the police ruled it a suicide you know he's found shot in in his vehicle right um but again we've
01:02:22
talked about this time and time again anytime you have a death that is as a result of unnatural causes you know an
01:02:28
autopsy is supposed to be performed in this situation and and it wasn't the body was cremated before it could be
01:02:35
performed well right not if you're trying to cover up and cover your ass you know we don't need autopsies so
01:02:42
obviously this is so obvious right here Captain we we have obvious we have all these Witnesses we have all these people
01:02:49
that are supposed to be called to the grand jury people that have been reported to have had private meetings
01:02:55
private questioning situations with Richard Garrett and Dan Harmon and we see person after person you know getting
01:03:03
killed people person after person dying in these mysterious deaths somewhere we have people getting convicted somewhere
01:03:11
we have no explanation why they died at all I mean we had we had Jerry who we don't know who he is he and if we
01:03:18
believe that story he moved out of the area because he was told to get the hell out of Dodge right or he was killed and
01:03:23
never found and and one they refused to identify him you had stated earlier and you're exactly right it would have been
01:03:30
so easy for Sheriff Jim Ste to come forward and say well this is who Jerry was I know who he is because we locked
01:03:36
him up for 90 days but nobody says that and then we have Ronnie Goodwin now Ronnie Godwin I'm sorry he's one of the
01:03:43
lucky ones he's still alive today but but police refuse to believe his story more to the point where they say that he
01:03:50
is Jerry when they know damn well he's not Jerry right he's just a drunk can't believe him we have Keith Cooney who was
01:03:57
probably you know witnessed too much stuff that night he probably gave Kevin and Don a ride on the back of his
01:04:04
motorcycle he may have seen something go down at the tracks earlier and his death
01:04:08
is ruled a motorcycle accident we have Keith right with a slit throat yeah we have Keith mccal who is murdered in his
01:04:16
own home he's stabbed over 100 times we have the strange stories with the clown mask and the men dressed from head to
01:04:22
toe in Black right and we we have who could be another innocent person who is convicted of his murder right we have
01:04:30
Greg Collins shotgun blast to the face and it's ruled a suicide yeah three shots with a shotgun he killed himself
01:04:39
we have Jeff rhs shotgun blast to the face his body is burned he's found in the landfill and we have this pelure guy
01:04:46
that is arrested and convicted for his murder and we we got rhs telling people that not only did he know about the
01:04:52
boy's deaths in advance before he killed he's telling them that he knows about M
01:04:56
casal's death as well right we have Richard Winters who who dies in the robbery we have Jordan ketton uh shot to
01:05:05
death in in the front seat of his pickup truck and there's no explanation for how
01:05:10
he died we're not given a ruling on how he died no autopsy performed we have James Millum who had an ulcer in his
01:05:18
head popped off it you know that's just FY Malik straight out creating something
01:05:25
here just just making something up we have that boony Bearden who vanished and we've never seen him he's believed to be
01:05:34
murdered they've never located his body what did he know yeah and if this isn't if this isn't enough evidence of a huge
01:05:42
conspiracy to cover up these boys's death uh I don't know what to tell you yeah they're covering
01:05:50
up the deaths of these two boys and then they're killing more people to cover up
01:05:55
the deaths that they have to commit to cover up the the original two right and it all comes down to the fact that they
01:06:00
have these drugs they have to keep running the drugs they want to keep having the money from the drugs and that
01:06:05
they're they have higher ups I think that are involved in this drug smuggling and this drug running and it's it's the
01:06:13
crime of greed you know the murder for greed just makes absolutely no sense to me well and I know we probably got some
01:06:20
loyal garage army people out there going this this this is huge Nick and Captain
01:06:25
why haven't we heard of this before well contact somebody that lives in Arkansas
01:06:30
because these people have been talking about this case for 30 years right uh this is no secret to the people that
01:06:36
live in Arkansas and live in this area and if alarm Bells aren't going off in your head ask yourself this okay we've
01:06:42
we've mentioned over what we've mentioned 10 or a dozen murders here right and there's probably a few that we
01:06:48
don't know about because we're not in Arkansas and it's hard to find information about people that died in 87
01:06:54
88 89 from that time period but ask yourself this why do we have an an area a remote area of a state where only
01:07:03
about 5,000 people are reported to have been living there in the late ' 80s and we got all of these mysterious deaths
01:07:10
going on in a short period of time M it it there's something going on in Arkansas well and how many people are
01:07:18
going to talk about this if you know clowns are showing up to people's houses and stabbing them a 100 times MH if
01:07:24
clown shows up to my house one I'm kicking it in the I'm kicking in the goddamn dick okay first of all second of
01:07:31
all I hope that we put out a show next week because if somebody finds me somewhere and my head popped off it
01:07:39
wasn't a godamn ulcer your stomach's fine I I'm I will vouch for you your your stomach is fine you're solid in
01:07:47
that area we got we we have a lot to uh cover in the next case and I think I it's a shame that this case hasn't
01:07:56
been talked about and I see this all the time when when and the the thing that drives me absolutely insane is the word
01:08:07
conspiracy when there are truths there MH and when they start talking about these child sex trafficking rings that
01:08:15
maybe some people in the government are involved in and there's some actually there's some validity to the story and
01:08:23
it just kind of goes nowhere to me that is powerful people and rich people being
01:08:29
able to protect themselves in a way that the normal person or the normal citizen
01:08:33
of the United States of America cannot do yeah and I think um how much was like Bill Clinton
01:08:40
involved in this I don't know but he knew certain things about it and again I don't want to become political because
01:08:49
I'm neither left or right I'm normally always wrong so you're usually wrong but well my point
01:08:57
is is I I don't like Rich Pricks and I don't like Rich Pricks using people for you know gains and I don't like I don't
01:09:06
like people of power getting away with horeshit well we will try tomorrow to sum this up put a nice bow on it and
01:09:13
open your eyes to some other going on uh that was taking place in in Arkansas as
01:09:18
well all right let's wrap this up because I got to do a couple sets down at the Wagon Wheel yeah we will see
01:09:23
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Episode Highlights

  • The Mystery of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
    Two teenage boys were found dead on train tracks, but evidence suggests foul play.
    “Their deaths were ruled accidental, but evidence points to homicide.”
    @ 05m 22s
    November 16, 2023
  • Political Corruption and Cover-Up
    Local officials allegedly protected a medical examiner's flawed ruling to shield political allies.
    “Protecting a political crony was more important than justice.”
    @ 07m 44s
    November 16, 2023
  • Eyewitness Accounts
    Multiple witnesses reported seeing police officers involved in the boys' deaths, but their testimonies were discredited.
    “Witness statements corroborate that the boys were beaten before their deaths.”
    @ 17m 21s
    November 16, 2023
  • The Mysterious Death of Keith Cony
    Keith Cony, a key witness, was found dead in a motorcycle crash, raising suspicions of foul play. "It's not a motorcycle accident if your throat is slashed."
    “It's not a motorcycle accident if your throat is slashed.”
    @ 24m 22s
    November 16, 2023
  • Gregory Collins' Fatal Encounter
    Gregory Collins, believed to have information on the Ives and Henry deaths, was shot three times before his body was found. "Three shotgun shots to the face? That's just asinine!"
    “Three shotgun shots to the face? That's just asinine!”
    @ 34m 17s
    November 16, 2023
  • Conspiracy or Fact?
    The discussion turns heated as the hosts assert that the events surrounding the deaths are factual, not conspiratorial. "This ain't conspiracy, this is a fact!"
    “This ain't conspiracy, this is a fact!”
    @ 43m 00s
    November 16, 2023
  • Keith McCal's Ominous Prediction
    Before his murder, Keith McCal declared his life wasn't worth two cents if Jim Ste lost the election.
    “If Jim Ste loses this election, my life isn't worth two cents.”
    @ 46m 34s
    November 16, 2023
  • Conspiracy in Arkansas
    A series of mysterious deaths in Arkansas raises questions about a possible cover-up.
    “If this isn't enough evidence of a huge conspiracy to cover up these boys' deaths, I don't know what to tell you.”
    @ 01h 05m 44s
    November 16, 2023
  • The Clown Incident
    Clowns reportedly showing up to people's houses adds to the eerie atmosphere of the case.
    “If a clown shows up to my house, I'm kicking it in the goddamn dick.”
    @ 01h 07m 24s
    November 16, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • I was outraged that protecting a political crony was more important than justice.
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 3
  • This is why the case is so odd.
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 3
  • Three shotgun shots to the face? That's just asinine!
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 3
  • This ain't conspiracy, this is a fact!
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 3
  • It seems to me like some of the police were in pretty low places themselves.
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 3
  • What did he know?
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 3

Key Moments

  • Eyewitness Testimonies17:21
  • Mysterious Deaths22:41
  • Drug Trade Connections36:15
  • Premonitions45:27
  • Election Threat46:34
  • Cover-Up1:05:50
  • Clown Sightings1:07:20
  • Wrap Up1:09:19

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