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November 16, 2023 / 01:07:02

This episode covers the case of Kevin Ives and Don Henry, two teenage boys found dead on train tracks in Arkansas in 1987. The discussion includes the investigation's initial classification as an accident or suicide, the train crew's observations, and the autopsy findings that raised questions about foul play.

The train incident occurred on August 23, 1987, when the boys were reportedly out spotlighting for animals. Train engineer Steven Shyer and conductor Jerry Tomlin noticed the boys lying on the tracks and attempted to stop the train, but it was too late. The crew described the scene as shocking, noting the presence of a gun and a tarp covering the boys.

Initial investigations by the Saline County Sheriff's Office suggested an accident or suicide, despite the train crew's insistence that the boys did not move as the train approached. The boys' families were dissatisfied with the investigation, particularly the autopsy results by Dr. FY Malik, which ruled the deaths as accidental due to drug use.

As the case gained media attention, a second pathologist confirmed the high levels of THC in Kevin's system but did not test Don's blood. A grand jury later reclassified the deaths as potential homicides, leading to further autopsies that revealed inconsistencies with the initial findings.

The episode highlights the mishandling of evidence, the lack of thorough investigation, and the ongoing quest for justice by the families of the boys.

TLDR

The case of Kevin Ives and Don Henry raises questions about foul play in their deaths on train tracks in Arkansas.

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[Music] tracks [Music] [Music] [Music] by all accounts the engineer did a masterful job of bringing his train to a
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stop it had taken a screaming screeching half mile by the time the engine had shuttered to a standstill conductor
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Jerry Tomlin was on the radio notifying an approaching train on a parallel track
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to stop because some boys had been run over he had also called the dispatcher have you got injuries the
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dispatcher asked no Tomlin said we've got death I'm sure we've got death they passed under us it has to be
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death it has to has to be death it has it has to be [Music] de 400 a.m. August 23rd
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1987 this is a Sunday in Arkansas there's a train traveling north from Tex Arana this train is about a mile long
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pulling mostly Freight but some empty cars as well the Train's headlight is set to the bright position the crew
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would later say that it was particularly dark that night the Train's engineer this is Steven Shyer and the conductor
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Jerry Tomlin notice a dark spot on the tracks now any debris on the tracks of course is a big concern they can see a
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flash of light from this dark spot the Train's headlights beam it must have hit something metal or something that
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reflected the light back to them when the train was approximately 100 ft away from the dark spot engineer Shyer yelled
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out oh my God and he hit the whistle in the emergency break at the same time this is because they could tell that
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there were two young men laying on the tracks between the rails they could also tell that there was a gun lying next to
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them they could tell that there was something covering the boys from their waist to their knees both boys were
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between the rails with their heads up against the West Rail and their feet over the East rail both were right
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beside each other and their arms and hands were at their sides their heads facing straight up and they didn't move
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at all the train was traveling approximately 55 M an hour this would only give the crew just seconds to
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respond before running over the boys as we had said they hit the e mergency break but with the weight and the speed
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of the train this is going to take some time to bring this metal monster to a stop mhm as they are breaking the steel
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wheels are they're screaming on the steel tracks the train cars vibrate the tracks begin to vibrate as well the
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whistle is blowing and still the boys do not jerk they do not flinch they do not
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move a muscle now Shyer couldn't tell what the object was that was covering the boys but the other two men on the
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train Tomlin and this other guy his last name is Delamar both said that this item
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that was covering the boys from waist to knee was a tarp a a pale green tarp I believe one of the men actually said
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that it looked like a boat cover um and they stated that the gun was clearly a rifle the barrel was near one of the
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boys's head and the stock was mostly underneath the tarp the men watched as the bodies disappeared under the Train
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the men heard the train hit the boys one one of the men explained that what he was used to on occasion the train would
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hit a dog and he said that you would hear like a thud and then you would hear rocks flying because if it was something
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that was under the train then the train was scooting the object along with the boys and with the gun the men felt the
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impact and they said it was very one two three you could you could feel the hit of the first boy second boy and then the
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gun it's hard to imagine what's going through these guys' heads as their hitting the bodies yeah it's I mean it's
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complete nightmare when the train hits an object uh one of two things usually happen so there is a scoop on the front
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of this train that the men called a cow catcher I believe this is a commonly used term so either the cow catcher will
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hit the item and toss the object violently aside or it gets sucked up under the train right and this is what
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happened here and the two boys' legs were laying on the track so what happened was the feet were actually
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severed by the train yes severed from the legs and the heads and the torsos were between the tracks so the train
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would have cleared the bodies and then rolled them under the train uh this is what the three men on board had heard so
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armed with flashlights the men get off of the train and they went looking for what they had hit about 35 cars back
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they located the first of many pieces that they would find right train cars yeah they they spotted some dismembered
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toes the biggest body part that they found was the chest and head of the second boy the first boy was he was much
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more chopped up the police had started to arrive on the scene um and they basically found parts of the gun and the
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bodies scattered along a quarter mile of the tracks mhm one thing the crew members noticed very quickly was that
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there was a lot less blood than than any of them had expected to see and the blood that they did see and find it was
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dark it wasn't it wasn't red it was a purplish color and like you said they have experience with you know hitting
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the Train the train hitting a dog or a cow or a deer or something of that nature yeah and and in this area of the
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country too these are guys that were familiar with hunting um so they they knew kind of what to expect
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unfortunately in this situation that's why they were so freaked out was they knew what they were expecting to see and
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they were terrified going back there looking for that well yeah cuz it's on a whole different level I mean it's one
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thing to hit a deer but to hit two teenage boys mhm the police were there at 4:40 a.m. this is just about 13
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minutes after the crew had reported the incident mhm this fell to the jurisdiction of the Saline County
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Sheriff's Office on the scene we have Deputy Chuck talent and Lieutenant Ray Richmond who was the head of the
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Department's criminal investigation division after checking out the scene the officers decided that they were
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investigating either an accident or a suicide M the crew working the train immediately disagreed with the officers
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they knew that of course accidents certainly do happen around trains and suicides do as well but the troubling
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thing here is that the men saw neither boy move at all right if if it were a suicide they said they might be able to
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be talked into agreeing that one person could Brave through the terrifying situation of the train approaching them
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but none of the men would agree that two people could lay there and not flinch or
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not move a muscle as the train got closer and closer right which I I think I agree with them on uh I just think
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that's a really hard thing to even speculate mhm also at the scene was State Trooper Wayne lanhardt of the
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Arkansas State Police MH now lanhart was concerned by what he saw at the scene but let's keep in mind he this is not
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his jurisdiction right uh this is the jurisdiction of the sheriff's office so he is at their mercy so I'm assuming
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that it was a the call was made and he was just in close proximity so he then showed up to see if they need any
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assistance yeah everybody was responding to this call so this is not his case he
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is pretty much just a spectator at this point but the thing that bothered him the most was the sheriff depuy's
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disinterest in the possibility of a murder according to layard's training any unnatural death should be
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investigated first as a possible homicide so evidence can be preserved and the most serious possibilities
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eliminated before less serious ones are considered laner after having talked with the crew members told the deputies
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that he doubted the deaths were an act accident right another cause for concern was the observations made by the
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emergency medical technicians arriving on the scene right the EMTs yeah they both said that the bodies looked more
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like mannequins because there was so little blood and at the impact site the blood that they found was really dark in
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color more a purple than a red mhm they didn't see any bright blood and this led
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them to believe that the blood that they were seeing was not fresh who were the two boys on the tracks that night and
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why were they there MH the boys were 17-year-old Kevin IES and 16-year-old Don Henry and I know it's
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1987 and there wasn't a lot of law enforcement didn't crack down on curfew as often but what is a 16 and
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17-year-old boy doing out by these train tracks I mean it's Saturday they they're
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hanging out Saturday and then this this happens at 4 a.m. on Sunday yeah so it was the weekend y well this is a rural
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area um so uh you don't see curfews really enforced a whole lot out in these parts um but basically the boys were
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staying the night at Don Henry's home uh and they they got there around 12:15 a.m. uh don lives with his parents
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Curtis and his stepmother Marvel Henry now the two were supposed to be staying the night at Don's house they had known
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each other about 6 months uh they had become quick friends hanging out together very often uh this was the
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summertime nearing the start of another school year so they were you know the two of them were trying to make the most
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of their summer what what they had left right uh Kevin had stayed at Dawn's Place once or twice before but Kevin's
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mother Linda was not real excited about Kevin staying there that night uh in fact she had originally said no to the
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request because because last time he had stayed there she didn't approve of what
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went down on that occasion Don's father had called Linda the morning after and asked if the boys were at her house
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right and she says she says no you know they they were supposed to be at at your
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place I don't I don't know what happened here right so they did a switch a rule well what what it turns out that what
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happened was that uh at some point Don had gotten an argument with his father Curtis mhm uh and then then after the
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argument the two boys went and decided to stay at another friend's house that night um so Curtis maybe thought that
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they went back to Kevin's and it turns out that that was not not the case well it's very embarrassing when you have a
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friend over and you get an argument with your parents MH that's always like you're like oh I'm I'm really sorry that
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my mom's being a big old bee right now well I'm sure Kevin's parents would have wished that they would have returned to
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to their place rather than just going to this yeah this unscripted place that they ended up um so of course Linda was
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reluctant to let Kevin go over there on this occasion but you know how it goes teenagers talk their parents into things
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uh so on that night the two had been hanging out with some friends uh they were told to be home by midnight or
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12:30 at the latest so once they were back at Don's place they had asked Don's father Curtis if they could go out
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hunting uh this is spotlighting which is an illegal form of hunting plus I wouldn't think that anything would be in
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season at that time of year now Don was an avid Hunter so he was you know this activity sounds a bit strange to me uh
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but I get the impression that this could have been a common thing here for him uh
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plus it doesn't sound to me as if Don's parents or at least Don's father Curtis was the strictest of parents right well
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and some people remember what their childhood was like when when it's summertime and they think you know some
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parent parents get a little more loose in in the summertime and I I think that's okay well I used to be a you know
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have to be in by a certain time but in the summertime a lot of times my parents would let me pitch a tent in the
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backyard you know and have somebody stay over so really I wasn't totally under their watchful eye um but spotlighting
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is where you go out with flashlights and a gun and when you come across some unfortunate animal and I don't know what
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they were hunting for uh or maybe if they were just looking for any type of creature out there um but basically you
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you shine your flashlight on the animal and the light beam will pretty much lock
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up the animal like the old saying freeze up like a deer in the headlights well this makes the animal a very easy
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target so they ask Curtis if they can go out spotlighting and he says yes and that is the last time that the boys are
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known to be seen alive yeah last time that they're known to be seen Alive by any parents or close family members this
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story which has not been covered often has so many twists and turns and I dare say maybe one of the most interesting
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cases Most Fascinating cases with as many twist that you will ever hear in a case yeah it it it's crazy it starts off
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as a small town case and it could be I mean it could be huge well it starts out as a as a small town case that people
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think it's an accident or suicide mhm the next morning Curtis the father he gets up around 5:00 a.m. and he wakes up
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his wife Marvel saying that that Dawn should have been home by now but wasn't and he tells her that he really thinks
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that something is wrong here Curtis goes out looking for the boys he knew where the boys were going to go hunt uh so he
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headed to the woods near the train tracks he's out driving around looking for Don and Kevin and while he's out
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there he passes a uh deputy mhm and he slows down and he stops and he asked the deputy if they had seen two teenagers
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out there running around the deputy asked who the man was looking for and Curtis knowing that the boys were out
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hunting illegally he decided that he didn't want to name any names right you know um so Curtis is going to continue
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on looking for the boys the officer also didn't say that they had found two boys
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on the train tracks when when Curtis had stopped to talk to him right after driving around for a few hours Curtis
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went home and he called Linda and he asked her if the boys were at her place and of course now she's thinking oh no
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not again this happened last time and why the hell can't this other parent keep the kids at his house right uh she
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asked if there was an argument uh he says no there was nothing like that that the boys had simply went out hunting and
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they must have stayed out all night uh he told Lindon not to worry because Dawn had hunted often uh he was very
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responsible with a firearm and he knew the woods better than anyone mhm Linda was beginning to get quite worried about
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Kevin though well and like we said we're 16 and 17y old and you have your little
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stomping grounds so it seems like Don one of Don's stomping grounds was these woods and you know and and back when I
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was uh probably you know elementary school and middle school there was Woods by my house and if you took a you know
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if a parent came back looking for a kid they couldn't find their way around right but but the kids knew how to get
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through every inch of that woods around noon the phone rang again and it was Curtis uh Linda could tell by his voice
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that this call was much different than the last call he says get over here quick they've been shot and tied to the
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railroad tracks and they've been run over by the train now this might sound a little weird here but Linda of course
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she she's in shock by what she has just heard yeah obviously but she she says that she was actually somewhat relieved
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once she had a chance to kind of process what Curtis had said uh Linda was worried that the boys could have been in
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a car wreck you know they they were both young drivers at this time they both owned fast cars Don had a firebird and
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Kevin had a Camaro right uh 1987 but yeah but she said what Curtis had told her sounded so absurd that it couldn't
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have possibly happened that it couldn't be the truth right right so Linda drives
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over to Curtis Curtis Henry's home when she pulled up to the place she sees Kevin's car at the end of the driveway
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and this makes her feel very good uh she's immediately thinking that Kevin had returned to the Henry's and nobody
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was in a car wreck and you know all is good again right maybe maybe something happened and maybe they were on these
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tracks but they're okay now mhm well that feeling quickly left her as she's getting out of the car a deputy this is
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Deputy Talent came out from the house and he asked her to come inside so we go here from from a lot of relief to very
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worried Curtis right in front of the officer tells Linda that a neighbor had told him that the boys had been shot
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they had been tied to the tracks and they've been run over by the train now the police officer he states that the
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boys yes there there had been two boys that had been run over by a train now these boys had not been positively
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identified yet and they were going to be checking dental records at the crime lab
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to figure out who these boys were right but you have no whereabouts of your two of these two teenage boys mhm that you
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know that they went out at night you know what area they went at yeah you know they went in the woods down by the
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train tracks right and you now and they didn't come home and their vehicles are at your house mhm so this is this is
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very Troublesome well Deputy Talent he asked Linda for a description of what Kevin was wearing the last time that she
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had seen him um she describes this and he does say that that fit with the items that they had found at the
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tracks um what led the officers to Curtis Henry's door they had found a camouflage baseball cap with the with a
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Little Rock electric logo on it this is the electric company in the area right now Curtis was a superintendent with
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that company and Don had had one of those hats right Don wanted to become an electrician uh just like his father
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after graduating from high school and that summer he had actually kind of Taken Don under his wing a little bit
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and would bring him into work with him and you know kind of show him the ropes a little bit to see if this was was
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something he actually wanted to do after graduating high school so unfortunately
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this is a this is a hat that he knew that Dawn would have been wearing that night right so the writing is pretty
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much on the wall yeah and unfortunately the boys would soon later be positively identified as the two boys who had been
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run over by the train that night right that being Don Henry and Kevin Ives now there are still plenty of more weird
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things about that night that we haven't even got to yet mhm uh the first strange thing here is
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remember that at the beginning of the show we had said that the Train's conductor had called another train that
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was passing on a parallel track and he called them telling them to stop because they had just run over some boys uh well
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once the officers had arrived and they began scoping out the scene the sheriff's told the other train that it
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could then continue on well this is before collecting some of the remains or or looking for potential evidence of a
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crime here right you know nothing stirs up a crime scene area like a giant train
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passing through right next the crew had said that they and this is all three of the crew members they all got the same
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feeling that the Sheriff's Office the the officers that were on the scene they said that they didn't even believe that
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any of them were looking for any clues as to what had happened first off they were obviously looking at this thing
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like it was an accident or a double suicide and not only that but the officers were overheard being told hey
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treat this as a traffic accident yeah and and I'm guessing that this might have been the extent of their expertise
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you know they were probably all familiar with traffic fatalities but not very familiar with you know potential double
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double murder scene and probably not a scene as complicated as this one uh this next next bit is is extremely strange in
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my mind regarding the sheriff's that night uh it's like they were trying to pull the old Jedi mind trick on the
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train crew after listening to each of the crew members statements the deputy and the lieutenant told the crew members
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that they had all been mistaken that there was no tarp covering the boys do or do not there is no trash yeah they
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they they simply told the guys that they were confused by how dark it had been that night and there was simply no tarp
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um the next thing that the sheriffs did was confusing too as well because they also seemed to doubt the men's
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statements that there was a gun present with the boys right and we know from Curtis from Don's father that they were
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out there to hunt so makes a lot of sense that there would be a gun beside the boys right right and we and we know
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that but but the officers at the scene they don't know any of that information yet but it's very strange here Captain
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why would they when you take the the train crew statements mhm uh and then you're going to go out and look at the
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scene and and unfortunately have this terrible job of collecting things there why would you have any reason to doubt
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them without walking the scene yet why why would you even say that there was no tarp why would you say that there's no
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gun um I don't even know why you would even question that wouldn't you just take their statements and not even make
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any observations of your own until you've walked the scene well and as you're walking the scene Maybe they're
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just having a hard time finding these items so therefore well I can't find it so maybe you are mistaken I mean I I
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don't think all that stuff is NE you know nefarious I think some of it is just simply well maybe you know it was
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super dark you have this bright light coming from your train M and maybe you didn't see exactly what you think you
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saw I I can agree with that I can agree with that the train is traveling very fast it's very dark out that night these
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men are trained though to spot things on the tracks um that is one thing that they do you know right but what what a
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law enforcement should do is just take the statement and if the statement is a little off that's okay that is the
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statement from that individual not a statement that you guys made in a joint effort right right and and don't react
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to those statements until you have an opportunity to check out the scene and collect evidence to you know cuz they're
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probably walking in there thinking this was an accident or this was a suicide it's the only things that seem to make
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sense here um but it's it's weird that they have this kind of preconceived notion before even really collecting
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evidence yeah but we see this time and time again with law enforcement it's you create a narrative and then you make
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that evidence fit your narrative instead of collecting the evidence and collecting the statements and letting
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that create your narrative yeah and while they're walking the scene with the crew members uh they
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even State several times you know where so where is this alleged gun where where
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is this so-called gun that you guys saw we have law enforcement creating a narrative mhm now we need to do autopsy
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on these bodies to actually figure out you know that's going to point us in a direction too and this is where the
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first twist in this story takes place we'll get to that right after this quick beer
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all right we're back cheers mates yeah we have two boys that are found dead on the train tracks and we do have
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autopsies that we need to get to but I real quickly I want to go through a couple more things about that night
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before we get to those autopsies mhm uh we had talked about the gun you know that the the officers refused to believe
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the crew statement that there was a gun president present that they had seen one
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right and like we said before Curtis uh Henry Don Henry's father said they went out hunting mhm and while they're
00:32:14
searching the crime scene they start referring to this gun as the alleged gun or the so-called gun it was not until
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the Sheriff's Office had actually recovered pieces of a shattered 22 rifle with that they would believe that there
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was even a gun present right so they did recover shattered pieces of a 22 rifle uh there were no bullets in it at the
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time there was no tarp found um I could see a tarp just getting ripped to shreds
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uh you know if it's covering the boys well possibly but you also have the other train mhm that just they let go
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mhm and I could totally see a a tarp being trapped into a a train somehow yeah gets pulled along you're exactly
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right and and not only that they're not even looking for a tarp they're refusing
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to believe that it it exists right right but so as they're collecting evidence they they they weren't looking for these
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things and these things were scattered for about a quarter mile of track and there was also other items that were
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found left at the track as well mhm so the boys were the train incident took place on a Sunday well Monday morning
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comes and the deaths are reported in the news and in the papers M so people start
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going down to the tracks to check out the scene uh one group that went down there they found a I like to call those
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people Whiskers Whiskers cuz they're curious like a cat well these people uh be careful what you wish for they went
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down to the track this one group and they found a severed foot in the gravel uh that was missed by the sheriff's
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department right so you don't believe that there is a gun you don't believe that there is a tarp you find evidence
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of the gun gun mhm and then you leave a foot behind yeah right I mean and like we said some of the police officers that
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were at the scene at the time said look you have to assume that this is a homicide scene and you need to do your
00:34:10
due diligence so therefore we can get some answers and this is direct evidence to point that they said well this is a
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suicide or accident case shut mhm well in fact it became it became well-known knowledge that the sheriff's inv
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investigators never even roped off the scene um and some other people recovered parts of the gun from that scene that
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the Sheriff's Office had missed well congratulations when they returned Dawn's clothing to the Henry's um his
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stepmother found a small bag of pot in his pocket uh so the officers had missed this entirely and two days after the
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boys's death the sheriffs they they offer a statement saying hey we haven't ruled out anything except for Foul Play
00:34:57
We ruled that out mhm yeah in review of the investigation it was learned that the Sheriff's Office spent about a week
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on the investigation this mostly consisted of interviews with friends and classmates of the two boys uh most of
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these interviews contained the same two questions well heck most of these interviews only consisted of two
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questions one how much drugs did the boys use and two were they suicidal right and this is what makes me go
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Bonkers man yeah it's it's again like we said they are they have a theory and then they're trying to create the
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narrative and we see this time and time again it's it's just it's utter Malarkey
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yeah and usually even in an accidental death when they are invest when they're investigating it they will typically ask
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friends and relatives well do you know anybody that would have wanted to hurt this person right or why and you know
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and this is not even a question that is posed to most of these people right but you're asking people the same question
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are they suicidal how much drugs did they use and then it creates the story amongst the people that well that's must
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be what happened here right and then and then obviously think about the family why would you why would you tell your
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parents why one why would you spend the night with anybody and then why would you decide to oh well let's just go
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hunting and uh let's now let's just lay down on the tracks and again like you said you'd have to have I mean you have
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to have the balls nerves of Steel Man to lay there on that track MH and let that
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happen yeah well this story obviously very quickly became big-time news all across the state of Arkansas Not only
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was the story A parents worst nightmare but it was a strange and horrible story all at the same time of course the rumor
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mill ran wild and there were a lot of theories regarding the deaths being traded around dinner tables dinners at
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local bars and you know all over the state of Arkansas one of the things that I find a little creepy about this and uh
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our longtime listeners would know we we covered the Phantom killer also known as
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the Tex Arcana murders MH and and having the train come from Tex Arcana adds a little bit to the creep factor for me
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the Sheriff's Office officially seem to be describing the deaths as an apparent accident but would not give it that
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official title yet stating that the official cause of death would have to come from the State medical examiner's
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office unfortunately when the deputies were speaking with the families they suggested that suicide was a more likely
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explanation right again coming up with your own narrative well and both sets of parents disagreed with this thought uh
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from the beginning uh that you know there was no evidence that the boys were suicidal there was some evidence that
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the boys had been used using drugs uh one 1.9 G of marijuana was found in the pocket of Kevin's jeans right and not
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always is there are signs of somebody struggling with you know Suicidal Thoughts here's another strange thing to
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the story though Captain uh that is often not reported Kevin's father Larry IES he was an engineer for the railroad
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uh the route that the train was on that passed over the boys that route just months before it was his route
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um and it was just pure coincidence that that route was no longer Larry's or he would have been driving the train that
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night right so he would have he would have been engineering the train that basically you know uh ran over his own
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son mhm the parents obviously were devastated by the tragedy but they were also disappointed in the Sheriff's
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Office and how they handled this incident they were anxiously awaiting the medical examiner's ruling on the
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cause of deaths uh and they wanted answers obviously a week after the funerals the medical examiner had
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finished his report and a meeting with the parents was scheduled when the parents arrived they were first met in
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the parking lot by officers from the Sheriff's office there was also an officer from the Arkansas State Police
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there as well this was really good news to the parents as they had been requesting multiple times in this short
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time period that the case be transferred to the state police um but that had not
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been done uh ke Kevin's parents brought a potential useful item with them Larry and some of his friends went to the site
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where the boys had died when when they were there they found a large piece of cardboard the piece was large enough
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that it could have been used to drag two bodies on it there was also a stain on it and that stain could have been blood
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right Larry knew that the Sheriff's Office didn't have have the technology or the capability to properly analyze it
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so he wanted to bring it directly to the medical examiner's office in the parking
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lot he showed the piece of cardboard to the state police officer and he turns it
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over to him there we have a 16 and 17-year-old and obviously they're just teenagers but they're becoming young men
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and you know you have a lot of growth spurts at those times so we're talking about two big individuals mhm that you
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know now it's very possible if there was Foul Play that they were they were attacked on the train tracks cuz we know
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that's where they're at but if they were attacked somewhere else and they use this piece of cardboard anybody that
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knows it's like a sled push or something like and weightlifting yeah you can put
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on a ton of weight but because it's on on a different surface you can drag that surface you know I mean most people
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can't pick up a couch but people can push it around their living room mhm yeah and unfortunately this
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possible piece of evidence um it's not seen again after this situation he the father gives it to the state officer and
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he's told that it's going to get where it needs to go to be examined and that just simply doesn't happen right and
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again the the my issue is you'd have to test this to one find out if it was blood if there was blood then we can
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assume that this was used to maybe transport the bodies but here's the other thing about it this is the thing
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that frustrates me is whoever used if that was used to transport the bodies then there's a good likelihood that
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there was fingerprints on there right right and and and that's what frustrates me when the parents went inside to meet
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the medical examiner uh this is FY Malik is his name uh they were yeah and his face looks exactly like the way his name
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sounds okay uh but FY well the his face is very FY when the parents first met Malik they found him to be weird uh when
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they first arrived Malik took polaroid pictures of each parent and had asked each of them to sign forms so it was
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official as to who was in attendance at this meeting Oh I thought you were going
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to say then he took pictures he took polaroid pictures of him then he asked him to shake it like a Polaroid picture
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Malik then passed out copies of His official ruling the statement read something like this at 4:25 a.m. August
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23rd 1987 Kevin Ives 17 and Don Henry 16 were unconscious in a deep sleep on the
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railroad tracks under the Psychedelic influence of THC marijuana right when a train passed
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over them causing their accidental deaths the parents began questioning Dr Malik not really his ruling but they
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wanted more information because none of them had ever heard of people passing out from THC right according to the
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parents Malik seemed very irritated at the additional questions I think that he thought that they would simply hear his
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final ruling accept it and then leave this is very surprising to me that he would not have expected questions or
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that he would have seemed irritated at the additional questions given his amount of experience in these matters
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you know no one handles a sudden death well and loved ones are always left with a lot of questions when someone suddenly
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dies especially if it's your kids and especially if the circumstances surrounding those deaths are normal this
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guy has the bedside manner of a wolverine he basically states that marijuana levels in the boys were
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extremely High drawing a line on a chalkboard he writes a large Five Below the line and a 100 above it pointing to
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the 100 he says this is how stoned they were well you know old Captain FY over here I think part of his annoyance is
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that you know he's an expert in his mind and here's my findings and kind of how dare you question me yeah well of course
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the parents are still confused as the doctor has not clearly explained this very well right uh when they ask him
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what kind of measurement is that Malik snaps back and says it's units the parents wanted this explained to them in
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an easier terms because marijuana was not something they were familiar with they didn't know if passing out was
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possible or likely or or really what they wanted to know how much pot the kids would have had to have smoked to
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achieve these high levels of THC Malik never really answers that particular question right the more the parents
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question him or push him for reasonable answers the more the doctor gets upset with them and at some point he holds up
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a large envelope stating that inside are the autopsy photos and in these photos is the proof that you are looking for
00:44:53
well the parents of course they they don't want want to see these photos at all right and they told him that they
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didn't want to see these photos yeah I don't know what parent would want to see that yeah they wanted toxicology results
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and Malik insisted that they see the photos as crazy as this whole story sounds I believe this is true because
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remember the officers are there with the parents at this time and at this meeting
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yeah and we already know that they are not all on the same page but one of the officers yeah just meaning that some of
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the officers thing from the get-go this should be this should have been looked at as a
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homicide and then some of the other ones just going this is probably accidental or possibly suicide well and the
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officers know that the parents are dissatisfied with with the off officer's investigation of this incident yeah and
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I think the officer Hearts would have to go out to those parents and this is why
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the statement has to be true because one of the officers then stands up at the table and this is an increasingly heated
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debate but he said is pointing to the photos pointing to the envelope he says they don't want to see those right uh
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that same officer as he begins to take his seat again he tells the parents that Malik had told them that 20 joints is
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what the boys would have had to have smoked to to have that high level of THC that you know I am not a you know pot
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smoker myself but I would just assume that 20 joints is a is a lot of joints yes 20 joints would be considerable
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amount of I mean even if you just put it in like terms of like cigarettes like a
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normal cigarette package has 20 cigarettes in it mhm so they would have had to smoke 20 cigarettes within
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hours I don't know but it sounds that way because he's pointing to the 100 Mark and saying this is how Stone these
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guys were um it it seems like a yeah but I would have walked up to that board and
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pointed to that 100 and said Mr FY this is how much of a [ __ ] you are that's what that's what that 100 means well
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Malik he denies that he had ever told the officer such a statement he says I never told the officers that it would
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have taken 20 joints um and the officers they had reason to believe that the boys
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purchased a $10 bag of marijuana on one of their stops that night um the the police right it's man if you can get 20
00:47:21
joints out of $10 of marijuana yeah it'd be a bad business to be in because you could you you could spend $10 and be
00:47:28
good for quite some time right uh the medical examiner's findings not only seemed questionable to the parents but
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most of the citizens of Arkansas were pretty stunned by the ruling uh this is according to the newspapers the parents
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decided to seek a second opinion they hired a second pathologist to review the deaths now this was a pathologist that
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came recommended to them uh from other physicians in the area this is is Dr JT Francisco he's located in Memphis
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Tennessee he was charging the parents $200 an hour uh and he explained to them that he would preserve and test the
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blood of both boys and the urine of Kevin they would be unable to test Dawn's urine because his bladder had
00:48:15
been completely destroyed right and then also the this is the first time the parents are aware that that his urine
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hasn't been tested yeah so we're seeing some progress here for the parents uh they received the results from Dr
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Francisco uh and he actually confirms Dr Malik's ruling uh he quoted the same levels of THC that Malik had reported
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100 97 micrograms per Mill for Kevin and 122 for Dawn okay upon further review of
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the material sent to the parents from Dr Francisco's office they were able to determine that the results were from a
00:48:55
test of Kevin's urine only no blood from either boy or no urine from dawn were tested all right so he's agreeing with
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you know Mr FY yeah so they get Dr Francisco on the phone and after some debate on how he could have confirmed
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Malik's findings with only having tested the urine of one boy uh the doctor then
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admitted that they had arrived at the conclusion by inference uh because his lab and the Arkansas lab followed
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standard procedures the confirmation of one test gave weight of confidence that the other findings were going to be true
00:49:35
as well right but couldn't they just test both of their bloods but they didn't that's the whole thing they were
00:49:40
led to believe that that both sets of blood would be tested they didn't test any of that but they but they claimed
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that they can back up Malik's findings right so we have the Ives family and the Henry family kind of getting [ __ ]
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around again in February of 1988 the parents contacted members of the media to arrange for a press conference this
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is a brilliant idea and they arrived at this plan because the longer this thing went on they were beginning to realize
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that the only group interested in this case was the media no other group wanted to spend any time on this thing the day
00:50:15
after the press conference the families were contacted by Richard Garrett who is
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the district Deputy prosecuting attorney Garrett wanted to help he told Linda that until he saw the press conference
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he had no idea that the parents of The Dead Boys had been dissatisfied with the sheriff's department M he was going to
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hold a prosecutor's hearing well what's that exactly well he he's hoping that they will reexamine the case but a a
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prosecutor's hearing is not just unusual they are highly unusual these are intended for only special inquiries uh
00:50:49
particularly when the cause of death is in dispute well here the the cause of death is definitely in dispute mhm I
00:50:56
mean we have two coordinat saying well they they got super stoned and then they laid down on the tracks and they got ran
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over by a train M and then the parents are going well that just doesn't add up doesn't make a lot of sense to us well
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the uh Deputy prosecuting attorney Garrett he would introduce the families to a man by the name of Dan Harmon now
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Dan Harmon is actually a guy that is off in a private practice he's not a prosecutor um but he's going to be
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brought in as a quote unquote special prosecutor in this situation and he is going to make arrangements because he
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wants to get a grand jurry organized so that this case can be looked at by some fresh eyes and decide if the an
00:51:39
investigation should shift gears or if that there's a chance of a trial taking place here right right so basically this
00:51:46
grand jury is going to be set up they're going to look at the evidence and they're going to decide do we need to
00:51:52
reinvestigate this case or is it shut you know open and shut case where these guys smoked some pot and then they had
00:52:01
an accident where the train ran over them MH and more importantly if if the the cause of death is what's in question
00:52:08
what the big dispute is then can we get you know another autopsy can we get other autopsies performed on these two
00:52:16
bodies right and after a couple more autopsies are performed and I think part of it too is like you don't want the
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families uh of these you know victims they're VI VI of at least at this point a tragic accident you don't want them to
00:52:30
be dissatisfied with uh law enforcement and the way uh the coroner or anybody else handled their loved ones case mhm
00:52:40
so upon further review the grand jury the first thing that they're going to do is determine if this cause of death is
00:52:47
correct and their findings they're not agreeing with what Dr Malik had stated and they basically overturn the cause of
00:52:55
death death as a possible accident as a likely accident to a possible homicide well once that takes place they're going
00:53:04
to need to bring in somebody to conduct a further investigation into this autopsy and take a look at this thing
00:53:11
and see if their findings are correct right so we already have two autopsies done so this is technically going going
00:53:18
to be the third autopsy done yes so this they will bring in a man by the name of
00:53:24
Dr Burton and they actually bring him in from Atlanta uh they wanted to bring in
00:53:28
somebody that had more experience and somebody with outside eyes that wasn't so privy to what was going on in the
00:53:35
area they bring in Dr Burton and what are his findings well to begin with one of the things that he found most
00:53:41
disconcerning or most important to this case is the shirt that was worn by Don Henry or allegedly worn by Don Henry
00:53:49
this is the shirt that was not on the boy's body when he was found this was found some distance away from the track
00:53:56
where the Torso and the body of Don Henry were discovered all right so don didn't have a shirt on but this shirt
00:54:03
was possibly ran over by the train yes yes this shirt as we know has a lot of tears and defects in it a question that
00:54:10
was raised as to whether these tears or defects were made by the body being pulled down the track by the motion of
00:54:18
the train over the body of the victim what Burton did was he had took the shirt to a private Laboratory that he
00:54:25
had worked in in Atlanta and they took one of these tears this was a tear from the lower back area of the shirt that
00:54:32
was kind of in the area of of an injury that they had found on the back of Don Henry and they took a scalpel and they
00:54:39
cut this defect out which measured a little bit over an inch in length they then took this defect and they analyzed
00:54:47
it under a scanning electron microscope which is a very powerful microscope and with this microscope they could tell
00:54:54
whether the fabric had been torn or cut with something like scissors or a knife right so what he's saying is this cut on
00:55:01
the shirt and the body was either made by scissors or a knife yeah well basically basically what he can say is
00:55:09
that the cut on the shirt it exhibited all the characteristics of something that was cut with a very sharp blade um
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so there's there's no question as far as this being a tear or anything like that
00:55:21
as far as Dr Burton is concerned also around the cut in the shirt they found evidence of blood which means which
00:55:31
means that the the boy had probably bled through some kind of injury before the shirt was removed from his body right so
00:55:38
we're starting to assume that this uh injury was um premortem yes yes and and here's the to kind of lay it out very
00:55:48
quickly here of Burton's concerns right first of all we have the the knife he believes a knife made this cut in the
00:55:54
shirt second of all it's majorly concerning to him that this cut matches up with a with
00:56:00
an injury to the boy's back and that more importantly that the shirt was not found on the boy's body meaning that if
00:56:08
this was an injury that was sustained by the train itself that you would expect to see you expect to see the the shirt
00:56:15
still on the boy matching up with the injury another thing that concerned Burton was an injury found to the left
00:56:22
cheek of Kevin IES uh this was an injury that he did not find consistent with any
00:56:27
pattern that might have been made from being struck by the cow catcher in front of the engine M uh he explained that he
00:56:33
sent photographs of the boy's injuries to a computer enhancement specialist and he was awaiting those results so we have
00:56:41
two things that he finds pretty odd MH yeah these are injuries that would not be consistent with with the train now
00:56:48
the thing is once they get those results back Captain he finds as well as the the
00:56:54
Specialists that he sent them to they find that that injury to Kevin's cheek is consistent with that of being struck
00:57:01
in the face with like the butt of a gun and more specifically uh They said that the gun
00:57:08
that was found with the boys could have very likely made that injury or caused that injury it would have been a similar
00:57:15
type gun or that gun the other thing that's interesting here Captain is that he would find something in both of the
00:57:23
boys that would give him cause of concern uh this is the amount of congestion and fluid in the lungs of
00:57:30
both of the boys he felt that this was in consistent with the type of injuries that one might expect from someone being
00:57:36
run over by a train when you have a sudden death occurring he feels that it's very likely uh that the possibility
00:57:44
exists that because there's this congestion and fluid in the lungs that both boys were either unconscious or
00:57:52
already dead when they were placed on those tracks they're either dead or they're knocked
00:57:58
unconscious and that's why they didn't move at all MH and so that the train possibly did cause their death but who
00:58:06
put them there mhm who made them unconscious another thing that he included in the autopsies as well and
00:58:13
this is more opinion than it is fact um but he had agreed with the train crew members stating that he he didn't see
00:58:22
how anyone whether they be passed out out from drug use or be sleeping on the tracks how they would not have you know
00:58:31
woke up as the train was getting closer and closer these these rails they vibrate the the train was Extremely Loud
00:58:37
anybody that even has ever stood next to a train just on the ground you can feel
00:58:42
the ground moving below your feet uh there was also a state trooper that was involved with the uh grand jury who had
00:58:51
gone down to the train tracks with with some other people people witnessing him and he timed this so that he would be
00:58:58
arriving and he could he could do this little experiment as a train was coming he laid down exactly how the boys were
00:59:05
laying on the tracks MH and he jumped up from the from the rails pretty quickly but he said that you know when this
00:59:12
train was this train was still quite a ways away maybe a quarter of a mile he said he felt the thing when it was like
00:59:19
a mile and a half away from him he could feel it coming down the tracks and then
00:59:23
on top of that he said he he he got terrified and to the point where he says he still has a little bit of like PTSD
00:59:30
just from from that moment experiencing that little exper he was also conscious at the time correct all right so this
00:59:37
third autopsy it brings up some questions and and it seems like it's not that agreeable with the first two
00:59:44
autopsies MH which I think you know causes a lot of concern I think it also causes a lot of concern with the parents
00:59:52
well as far as that second test goes and let's let's called that a test rather than an autopsy because it was supposed
00:59:57
to be a testing of the boy's blood and the boy's urine um you're exactly correct thank you and and but we know
01:00:04
that that didn't take place um but not only does this point out here that the the autopsies were probably wrong but
01:00:14
now this really starts to make you question the medical examiner himself uh you know what what is he up to why how
01:00:22
would he have arrived at these concl clusions uh after performing an autops he had a significant amount of time to
01:00:29
perform these tests and he comes up with a completely different ruling than what
01:00:34
this this other guy comes up with from from Atlanta right and look then it becomes which doctor is correct well
01:00:43
because of this whole case we have a lot of interesting things come out about Malik and Malik has all these autopsies
01:00:49
that were ruled normally natural causes or accidental and because of this you know
01:00:57
because of the parents and I applaud the parents they start stiring the pot and then they start going back and looking
01:01:03
at some of his other autopsies right we have a scenario where he ruled a guy say
01:01:09
we're we're just going to tell you about some of the more Wild Ones let's call them wild and and we won't use any names
01:01:15
because these P these particular people are only involved in this case through Malik they have really no right you know
01:01:23
nothing to do with this but this gives you an idea of some of the shenanigans going on withy Malik right so oldi he
01:01:32
you know rules this guy dies of a ulcer and not a big deal right that's his ruling the guy died of an ulcer and
01:01:40
everybody actually agrees with him says Hey Malik did his job again but they had
01:01:48
people find this guy's head yeah so he was decapitated apparently that happens naturally when
01:01:55
you have an ulcer uh your head just pops off right um so once they found this severed head they realized this autopsy
01:02:05
was completely botched yeah do do you want to know how he defended himself on that particular case sure so um here's
01:02:14
what happened here they they found the the dog that lived with this guy uh he actually lay dead in his home for for
01:02:21
quite some time uh the dog that lived there they recovered some of the dogs vomit and in it they found what what fi
01:02:29
believed to be uh evidence of of human tissue of of skin um so what had happened was fi said that the guy had
01:02:38
died and he laid there for quite some time and at some point the dog uh chewed on the neck until the point of
01:02:46
decapitating uh his owner um but of course the thing here is it it was all the evidence points to a very clean cut
01:02:57
of somebody killing this guy and taking off his head not the gnawing of a dog uh
01:03:03
chewing chewing up this this guy's neck right and then there's this other case where the guy this guy was suicidal he
01:03:10
he he told his family about it yeah they they put him in in a place for treatment
01:03:17
he wanted help right he went to his family he said help me out and and go ahead right and it looks like he lost
01:03:23
his battle with you know suicidal thoughts and he hung himself right and in this case Malik
01:03:30
decides well it wasn't suicide it was actually an accidental death mhm and again it's just stuff like that where
01:03:38
it's like and this is just three examples of probably like doz maybe a dozen or 20 of them out there that that
01:03:45
are pretty well known right and so the governor at this time is Bill Clinton mhm and people are calling for this
01:03:53
guy's job saying saying look we got these two boys that now we believe there's good reason to believe that
01:03:59
there was some foul play and this guy is ruling this we dug up all this other stuff he's not doing his job and
01:04:06
taxpayers are paying for that they want him to C you know they want Bill Clinton
01:04:11
to ask for his resonation right B Bill Clinton says well I I'm not really in charge of doing that that's not really
01:04:19
my thing so what do they do do they fire him do they replace him no they give him
01:04:24
a 43% raise where this leaves us now is we now have to look at these two deaths as murders okay so we need to conduct a
01:04:33
proper murder investigation MH and why were these things covered up and why does it seem that government officials
01:04:42
and people at the medical examiner office and the sheriff's department they seem to not want to investigate this
01:04:48
thing properly right and at what lengths are they going to go to or what is anybody going to go to to possibly cover
01:04:55
up this murder there's so much more to get into and we're just on the first episode of this yeah because if the
01:05:02
cause of death can be overturned that brings up so many more questions okay first of all if these boys were murdered
01:05:09
why were they murdered what what happened during those four hours between the time they left DA's house and the
01:05:17
time that they're found on those tracks what occurred during those 4 hours did they see something that they shouldn't
01:05:22
have seen m they come across somebody that they they shouldn't have come across what happened to those boys in
01:05:28
that 4 hours well we have a really good idea what happened because we have a bunch of eyewitness accounts we're going
01:05:35
to have to get into that tomorrow yes and don't forget to check out all of our old episodes they're available in the
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got a text message a couple minutes ago saying hey I told somebody about your show uh they don't call it true crime
01:06:01
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Episode Highlights

  • A Warm Welcome
    Nick greets listeners with a friendly introduction, setting the tone for the show.
    “It's good to be seen and it's good to see you.”
    @ 01m 43s
    November 16, 2023
  • The Train Incident
    A train conductor realizes the horrifying truth after hitting two boys on the tracks.
    “It has to be death.”
    @ 04m 56s
    November 16, 2023
  • The Boys' Last Night
    Kevin and Don's fateful decision to go spotlighting leads to tragedy.
    “What were the boys doing out by these train tracks?”
    @ 13m 53s
    November 16, 2023
  • Tragic Discovery
    Two teenage boys are found dead on train tracks, raising questions about their deaths.
    “This is a hat that he knew that Dawn would have been wearing that night.”
    @ 24m 03s
    November 16, 2023
  • Mysterious Circumstances
    The investigation reveals strange behaviors from law enforcement at the scene.
    “Nothing stirs up a crime scene area like a giant train passing through.”
    @ 25m 02s
    November 16, 2023
  • Conflicting Narratives
    Parents challenge the sheriff's narrative of suicide, insisting on a deeper investigation.
    “The parents obviously were devastated by the tragedy but they were also disappointed.”
    @ 38m 46s
    November 16, 2023
  • Unexpected Evidence
    A piece of cardboard found at the scene raises questions about foul play.
    “If there was foul play, that they were attacked on the train tracks.”
    @ 40m 24s
    November 16, 2023
  • Controversial Autopsy Ruling
    The medical examiner's ruling sparks outrage among the boys' families.
    “None of them had ever heard of people passing out from THC.”
    @ 42m 48s
    November 16, 2023
  • Seeking Justice
    The families turn to the media for help after feeling ignored by authorities.
    “The longer this thing went on, the more they realized...”
    @ 50m 05s
    November 16, 2023
  • A Shift in Investigation
    A grand jury is set up to reexamine the case after doubts arise.
    “The cause of death is definitely in dispute.”
    @ 50m 51s
    November 16, 2023
  • New Autopsy Findings
    A third autopsy raises questions about the initial conclusions drawn by the medical examiner.
    “What is he up to?”
    @ 01h 00m 19s
    November 16, 2023
  • Murder Investigation
    We need to conduct a proper murder investigation into these two deaths.
    “We now have to look at these two deaths as murders.”
    @ 01h 04m 28s
    November 16, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • It has to be death.
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 1
  • This story has so many twists and turns.
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 1
  • What a law enforcement should do is just take the statement.
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 1
  • You have to have the balls, nerves of steel, man.
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 1
  • The longer this thing went on, the more they realized...
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 1
  • What is he up to?
    Garage Refill /// Boys on the Tracks /// Part 1

Key Moments

  • Warm Welcome01:43
  • Complete Nightmare08:31
  • Parents' Confusion44:01
  • Doctor's Dismissal44:06
  • Media Involvement50:01
  • Murder Investigation1:04:28
  • Eyewitness Accounts1:05:31
  • The Captain Show1:05:59

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