Clinton Body Count Epstein Suicided Mena Iran Contra Barry Seal Medellin PART 1 - Railroad Murders

It was a strange place for two teenagers to be lying on the train tracks in the middle of the woods near Bryan Arkansas when the three men and the lead engine of the northbound Union Pacific saw to the children that it was too late and they were in danger of being killed. derail. The driver put the mile-long train in emergency mode and lay down on the horn despite the vibration of the tracks, the screeching of metal against metal, and the deafening sound of the horn. The boys did not move. The trains were powerful. headlights allowed the engineer driver and The brakeman saw that the children were lying side by side on the tracks and in identical positions, their bodies

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ially covered with photographs.

Moments later, the train reached the motionless children. The victims were 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin I, both from Saline County, Arkansas. They began their senior year at Bryan High School the next day. Kevin had spent the night at Don's house and the two ventured outside a little after midnight never to return. No one knew at the time that these two friends had unknowingly stumbled upon a drug underworld. smuggling and government corruption was about to begin a cover-up of incredible proportions. I think Kevin and John were near the tracks that night and saw money or drugs thrown from a plane.

I think law enforcement killed them and the cover-up. began immediately expanded to medical examiner Fahmy Malak at the time the Malik family The Arkansas state medical examiner was responsible for ruling on the cause of death. His plan was to rule that the child's death was a double suicide; However, after consulting with Jim Steed, the Saline County Sheriff decided that no one would accept such a ruling and would change the cause of death to accidental. We were absolutely baffled and outraged by the ruling of accidental as a manner of death. We did not think the facts They supported that ruling and what we started doing was Just to get a second opinion, we en

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ered resistance on all fronts from the crime lab authorities.

We hired a lawyer and a private investigator and obtained court orders to obtain verifiable samples of everything they had so we could get a second opinion and Femi Malek. she refused to obey court orders without any evidence to support it. Malek ruled that the children had each smoked more than 20 marijuana cigarettes and in a psychedelic stupor had fallen asleep on the tracks. It was later learned that the state crime lab did not even test for marijuana concentration and had in fact used a test on the child's blood that was designed to be used in Europe, outside experts were shocked by the absurd ruin.

The family's nightmare battle against the state medical examiner was made more difficult by Governor Clinton's public support for Malek; However, after 13 long months, the parents were finally able to prove what they had always believed: that the children had been murdered. Kevin Ives, 17, and Don Henry, 16, were hit by a train near Alexander, the medical examiner said. that the children were asleep and high on marijuana, the parents however disputed that claim and persuaded authorities to reopen the case due to their persistence. Kevin and Don's bodies were exhumed, new autopsies were performed, and a grand jury was convened. Joseph Burton, a nationally recognized forensic pathologist from out of state, performed the new autopsies.

His findings revealed that Don Henry had been stabbed in the back and Kevin Ives' face had been shattered by a rifle blow, but before his bodies were placed on the train tracks. Burton's autopsies also revealed that Malik had mutilated Kevin's skull by cutting it in so many different directions that it was impossible to tell where the original skull fractures were. Malik had also completely dismantled Kevin's jaw bones. Burton claimed that he had performed thousands of autopsies and that he had never seen anything like Malik trying to hide something. A former crime lab employee said he discovered what appeared to be evidence of a stab wound during the original autopsy, but was told not to worry about it.

Malik declined any comment other than Burton, two other forensic pathologists and seven forensic investigators with more than 100 years of cumulative experience investigating homicides reviewed the case and it was their collective opinion that the ruling be changed to murder amidst all of the the turmoil in trying to change the ruling in our

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ry. case it became very evident that this was not an isolated case of an error in the judgment regarding the manner of death; There were many other cases throughout the state that we learned about in 1992, the Los Angeles Times counted more than 20 additional cases or Dr.

Malak had falsified evidence and incorrectly ruled one case involved the murder of Raymond Albright who had been shot five times in the chest with a rack 45 incredibly Malek had ruled suicide another involved James Dewey Milam whose

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was found headless in this case Malek ruled the Cause of death was an ulcer, although my lamb's head had clearly been severed with a knife. Malik claimed that the family dog ​​had bitten his head, ate it all, and then regurgitated it. Malik says he analyzed the dog's vomit and found traces of the brain from my limbs. and skull unfortunately for dr.

Malik, my lamb's head was found later. It turns out that Malik had made up the whole story. Media coverage of Malik's dishonest rulings resulted in a massive public outcry calling for his removal from office. The Mantle Examiner appears and has an invention to use. He has created his own evidence of this magnitude could create a national scandal and if necessary lie about his autopsy cases in court and he is not an honest person he should push anything however both Governor Clinton and the president of the Arkansas State Coroner's Commission, Jocelyn, elders who had the power. To remove Malek from office he not only insisted that he stay, but they gave him a raise based on the facts he had.

I really feel like I can see that he owes dr. Malak a big debt and a real apology today the governor was asked if malloc should resign. I don't think it's a decision I should make based on what I now know, it didn't matter what Malik did, if he was perjured in court. fabricate evidence and murder trials call forensic killers Clinton defended him by excusing him for being stressed from overwork and underpaid his testimony compromised evidence in many felony cases in Arkansas and it was very transparent that the Malik family had some kind of control on Bill Clinton the The end result was that he was given a raise of $14,000.

It was an absolute insult to my family. They are my lips. I was outraged that protecting a Clinton political crony was more important. In fact, two young boys have been murdered despite the policy of investigating anything. suspicious death as a homicide until proven otherwise, the Saline County deputy who took control of the scene where Kevin and Don were murdered immediately ordered it to be run as an accident procedures were never taken to secure the scene and properly collect evidence of that we were going to work like an accident you know, or they investigated for telemarketing action and there was not enough time and

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icipation right there at the scene against all standard police procedures.

The back of the train was used as a reference point to record the location of the children's bodies and possessions once. the train left the waypoint was lost forever and the information gathered became totally useless our local investigation was led by our Sheriff Jim Steed, he later appeared on television bragging about the thorough investigation he had carried out and that he was very sorry for us as parents. but that he had full confidence in the ruling of the Malik family. His investigation was so thorough that they left my son's foot there for two days in plain sight.

A series of evidence collected at the scene eventually turned up missing. The police refused to acknowledge the existence of this weapon even though its collection by the police was captured on video, likewise, the three members of the train crew observed a tarp covering the children's bodies. on the tracks before the impact, the driver even showed investigators where the tarp had landed after the impact, however, the police denied the existence of the tarps. The paramedics picked up a tarp from the boy's

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bags and picked it up. You know, but separate from the body bag was a tarp, right?

Remember what color it was, you know, I didn't really pay much for that, that, that thing. tension I know it was kind of a moment, you know, it wasn't a bat taking the bag off your head, you know, kind of hold it and close it. I can remember when we started hearing rumors about a tarp covering Kevin and below. The clues that we questioned Saline County authorities about it Rick Elmendorf and Chuck Talent I put here in my living room and they told us that they were absolutely sure that this was an optical illusion that the launch team had seen and that had performed tests on their clothing that would have revealed fibers from a tarp impacted on the clothing or on the bodies themselves, we found out much later that that was a lie, they had never performed tests on their clothing and my interpretation of that is that they had some reason to lie, maybe even got involved and in what would turn out to be the most ironic twist in this case, Deputy District Attorney Richard Garrett and his defense attorney friend Dan Harmon approached Linda Ives and convinced her that they would do everything in their power. reach to catch those responsible for the murder of his Subsequently, his son Harmon was appointed special prosecutor to head the grand jury investigation;

However, as their investigation progressed, dead potential witnesses began to appear in May 1988. Keith Coney, who was believed to be with Kevin and Dawn that night, told friends and family that law enforcement officers law were responsible. Because of the

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, two days later, he died when his motorcycle crashed while they were chasing him. According to some officers, he had previously had his throat slit and was apparently fleeing from his attackers when he lost control. However, this crucial information was not included in the final report. There was no autopsy or investigation and I don't think there was an accident because I feared for his life, you know, a couple of months before he said a couple of times that he knew people, that they were watching him and he was afraid, ma'am. .

Alexander says her son knew the two teenagers hit by the train and she says he told her he had been there when the children died, but he saw two attackers, but he knew there were two there, how do you try to get him to tell him? ? I who and he he was either fighting or he didn't know November 1988 Keith McCaskill, who was supposedly on the tracks that night, gave the information he had about the children's

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to Richard Garrett, believing he had talked to the wrong people. that McCaskill had made his own. the funeral preparations said goodbye to family and friends and a few days later he was murdered he himself was stabbed 113 times his murder remains unsolved on election night 1988 he took two cents out of his pocket and threw it on the bar next to the wheel of the cart and said if Jim State loses this election my life is not worth two cents and he was murdered that night Harmon Garrett and the members of the Arkansas police suddenly found themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to try to convince the public that the deaths of these key witnesses occurred at a crucial point in the investigations were simply a coincidence thanks to mr.

McCaskill was probably suffering from a lot of paranoia and at this point everything indicates that no one else was involved. There has been a known reason for his paranoia. I'm sure there is a reason for his paranoia because you talked to the police or the prosecutor. I don't know if that would be the reason. What about the murder? Is it related to the grand jury investigation at all? We do not know if McCaskill was a witness in the investigation of the Bryant train deaths, although police have not determined a motive for the murder. They say there is no connection linking this investigation to the desk of Don Henry or Kevin Ives and I do not foresee anything over the course of the rest of this investigation that would thank those who believe in a massive cover-up by police and elected officials. , which included the possible murder of witnesses, watched in horror as the death toll continued to rise.

January 1989 Greg Collins, who failed to appear after being subpoenaed to testify before Kevin and Don's grand jury, was killed with a shotgun blast to the face. unsolved March 1989 booney Bearden a friend of Coney and Collins disappearedfound an article of Bearden's clothing nearby where an anonymous caller claimed his murder had occurred his body was never recovered April 1989 Jeff Rhoads was murdered after telling his family he knew too much about the murders of Kevin Don and McCaskill Rhodes was shot in the head and left burning in a dumpster July 1989 Richard Winners another grand jury witness was shot to death during a robbery that was apparently staged to cover up his murder his case remains unsolved June 1990 Jordan Kettle s'en, who was believed to be connected to the McCaskill murder, was killed by a shotgun blast to the head.

There was no police investigation and his body was cremated before an autopsy could be performed. June 1995. Mike samples another grand jury witness. was shot to death sources claimed he had been involved in recovering drugs dropped from airplanes authorities have denied any connection between these cases and the murders of Kevin and Don people whose testimony might have seen this case years ago have been systematically eliminated Apparently there was a great fear that these people could implicate very powerful players. The eight-month grand jury investigation into the murder of Kevin and Dawn came to an abrupt end on December 31, 1988.

Last-minute legal maneuvers by Harmon Garrett and Chief Judge John Cole prevented jurors from revealing their findings in the final report. The men and women of the grand jury were sent home. Frustrated because they had not been allowed to do their job, a special grand jury was dissolved three hours ago. delivered its final report on the deaths of two teenagers, but the grand jury was not allowed to do what it wanted. I know this because you I couldn't repeat and in the report much of the testimony that you heard is evidence that you received and that you are somewhat frustrated by it and that is understandable in the final analysis.

I know the grand jury was hating at this point to give it up because I think the public needs to know about the severity of the drug problem here in Saline County and perhaps other surrounding counties. Two and a half years had already passed since the incident with the boys on the tracks. Saline County Deputy Prosecutor Jean Duffey was asked to head the newly created drug task force, the job would require her to investigate drug trafficking in a three-county area of ​​Arkansas, including Saline County However, the day she was appointed her boss, prosecutor Gary Parliament gave her a peculiar order.

Gary Arnold walked into my office and stood in front of my desk looked me right in the face and said, "gene, you should not use the drug task force to investigate any public official," he turned on his heel and left now, As surprising as that statement may sound, I really didn't think it was like that. was going to raise some kind of problem because at that time I had no indication that there were any public officials in our judicial district who were involved in drugs, almost immediately Gene's undercover team discovered that several public officials in his district were in fact involved in drug trafficking Gary Arnold's directive had now become a dilemma.

Gene couldn't include the information in her reports because Arnold would know she was disobeying orders too in case Arnold himself was involved in the corruption she didn't want him to have access to. With this information, however, there was a solution. I knew at the time that a federal investigation had been underway for approximately nine months into corruption of public officials in Saline County, which was headed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Garvin, so Garaad seemed to be the most I was likely to take this information, which I did and he was grateful because it supported the information he had already been collecting, as well as adding new information to expand his research.

Bob Guevara had been assigned by US Attorney Chuck Bank to head the investigation. The federal Bovar Drug and Organized Crime Task Force had already developed substantial information linking public officials to drug activities when Gene Duffy's task force was operational in July 1991. Gene Duffy's Undercover Officers They developed evidence linking the train deaths to public officials and drugs. It had been years since the kids were killed and Gene had no way of knowing that his Drug Task Force was about to be shut down for almost solving Kevin and Don's murders, it didn't occur to me that it was appropriate for our Task Force. of Labor Against Drugs. reopen the case of the boys on the track until one of my undercover officers came to me and told me that not only was the case related to drugs but that it also had a solution, he asked my permission to investigate and I agreed and told him that then we would take our information to Bob Guevara, ironically Dan Harmon and Richard Garrett, the same men who had conducted the grand jury investigation into the murders of Kevin and Don, were two of the main targets of the drug and corruption investigation of the VAR.

Linda Ives, who for years had believed that Harmon and Garrett were sincerely trying to solve her son's murder. Now I realized that they were the ones orchestrating the cover-up. We certainly don't have any suspects at this time. It's been quite a while and I didn't really anticipate it would happen. It would take so long when we started. I'm frustrated by the amount of time and it took her to be frustrated that we weren't able to accomplish some things that we probably should have been able to do, whatever it turns out to be, whether someone is charged or not. accused, the grand jury has done a tremendous job, yet we leave open the question of whether the children were murdered, who did it right until it is correct, to make matters worse.

Harmon suddenly became the elected prosecutor for a three-county district that included Saline County. That he had friends in the Arkansas press he wasted no time in launching a massive media campaign against Jean Duffey. He immediately began a media crusade against me, first using the Benton Courier and Linda Hollenbeck as reporters and also using the Arkansas Democrat and Doug Thompson. as a reporter and for some reason these two people wrote down whatever he told them, they didn't care at all about substantiating anything he said, they just reported it in the next five months there were over 200 newspaper articles that crucified my reputation, not a single thing . what they alleged was true they made me steal federal funds they made me make illegal arrests every accusation was made that could destroy my credibility I could have played the same game Harmon was straightforward and reported to the media the information he had on him and the truth would have been on my side but this would have jeopardized the federal investigation and I was not that worried about public opinion of me because I felt that in the end the whole truth was going to come out because at that time I still had faith.

In the court system, Harmon was attacking Gene from all angles. He was influential in filing a $1.2 million lawsuit against Gene. He facilitated the sabotage of task force records through a tax official who reported to Harmon and threatened task force informants whose names had not been identified. had been given to him by a task force agent Gene had fired in September 1990. Harmon's smear campaign had reached a critical point, and Gene knew that unless Harmon was indicted, his days as head of the task force work were numbered. Gove is repeatedly assured Gene that the allegations against him. Harmon and others were imminent but did not arrive in time to save Gene's job according to Gove they are his boss US Attorney Chuck Banks was the holdup members of my board of directors had warned me for several weeks that they would not be able to continue supporting me against all the bad publicity and in fact when they finally fired me in November it was not because of anything I had done wrong but because, in their opinion, I had become ineffective because of all the bad publicity. press I had 7 undercover officers working for me, there were family men who needed work, five of them resigned in protest of my dismissal, although I was no longer the head of the task force, Jean, and the task force officer who had been investigating the train deaths continued to meet.

Evidence In December 1990, Jean and his officer went to U.S. Attorney Chuck Banks with his case. This marked the beginning of the end of the federal investigation, although the banks promised Jean and his officer that they would be able to testify before the grand jury, that never happened, however, several witnesses came forward. by the gene task force and testified that one of them was Charlene Wilson, an ex-girlfriend of Dan Harmon and convicted drug trafficker Roger Clinton. Governor Clinton's brother, Charlene, was recommended to our task force as an informant to the DEA who had used her as an informant and also to at least two other law enforcement agencies who had used her as an informant and said she was trustworthy.

I used Charlene and she proved to be very, very reliable; There wasn't a shred of information she gave me that didn't work. Dan always had cocaine on him, always Robert Gobar and Chuck Banks were the US Attorneys for the District of Arkansas at the time. I was subpoenaed to testify on behalf of drug trafficking and the cartel, more or less what I had to do with Dan. Harmon I was asked in depth about the drug dealing that occurred with Mr. Dan Harmon. Clinton Roger Clinton On the same afternoon that Charlene testified before the federal grand jury that the entire investigation was beginning to fall apart, she had brought in four informants to be interviewed and testify before the federal grand jury about the Saline County affairs.

They were never actually interviewed and in fact, they harassed me, harassed me and told me to leave. I got a phone call and they told me I had made a very big mistake and the United States Attorney's Office assured me that my name, my testimony, my statements, the people who were on that witness list would never be revealed, well , haha, you know that someone in the United States Attorney's Office had given mr. Harmon a list of actual witnesses you know don't give you a very good feeling. I'm afraid of these people. I'm very scared at home even with his job and reputation gone.

Jean knew too much and she was still a threat to Dan. One of his first acts after taking over as Harmon's district attorney was to convene a grand jury to investigate Jean (the jurors, however, quickly realized that Harmon's accusations were false and refused. to accuse Harmon). The next step was to subpoena Gene and force her to hand over her information. she had discovered about him and other corrupt Arkansas officials. I refused to respond to the subpoena because, first of all, it was absurd that Dan Harmon was conducting a grand jury investigation against himself, but if I had come forward with any information about him, that would have put the very lives of the informants at risk. testimony is in danger and he was not willing to do it.

If he had come in and refused to give them any information, I would have been jailed in Hotspring County and my mother would have gotten a call. from a dispatcher in Hotspring County who said he overheard a conversation between officers there that if they arrested me they would kill me at the Hotspring County Jail, so I refused to respond and when Judge Cole issued an arrest warrant for felony for failing to comply with So I left the jurisdiction even though Judge Cole had issued an illegal order, there was no one in authority in Arkansas willing to defend Gene while she was in hiding and away from her family, Gene was waiting a long time for the charges federal court fiancees.

The jury knew that once charges were filed against Dan Harmon and other officials he could return home and clear her name. This was an especially difficult time for her family because her children were being followed in her home. She was under surveillance. Weeks turned to months later, without warning, U.S. Attorney Chuck Banks announced that no indictments would be issued in the federal grand jury investigation into Saline County corruption would be closed. all public officials under investigation, including Dan Harmon, were cleared of all crimes. Jeanne was stunned. Three members of the grand jury contacted me. two of them indirectly and one of them directly to inform me that they were ready to file indictments, but Chuck Banks informed them that the grand jury was being dismissed and that no indictments would be sought.

They were not told they had the authority. In my opinion, Chuck Banks should have been charged with obstructing justice when Chuck Banks closed the federal investigation. We were stunned, we couldn't understand what made the murderof Kevin and Dawn was so important and who had the power to shut it down. Bob Guevara signed off with his top federal task force attorney and was later demoted by his boss, Chuck Banks. Jean Duffey and his family were forced to leave the state. It had been five and a half years since Kevin and Don's murders. Detective John Brown, a 16-year law enforcement veteran, had moved with his family to the Saline County area, the Ives family had asked the new sheriff to reopen the case and John was assigned the task;

However, like Jean Duffey's first day on the job, John included a peculiar request from his boss, my immediate supervisor, who was a lieutenant in the Saline County Criminal Investigation Division, took me for a walk that lasted about an hour into this trip, literally nowhere, it seemed like the entire purpose was to tell me to leave the case alone, he said things. like there was nothing to this, this could have been an accident, it will bring you a lot of pain if you go ahead and do this and in the end he finally said you know John, you really need to leave this alone.

John was disturbed by his superiors' attitude and concern increased once he began examining Ives Henry's case file, it became obvious that once I began reviewing the case file from which most of it had been stolen of the relevant evidence, there were no photographs of the crime scene, there was no list of evidence, the things that you would expect to find despite the discouragement of his own Department, John pressed forward with the investigation starting from the beginning, he began to trace missing evidence. He contacted several witnesses, including Sharlene Wilson, who at the time was being held in a jail in a neighboring county that he ran.

Through a young woman named Charlene Wilson we were told a horror story that I didn't really believe at the time, so I began looking for evidence to substantiate just part of what she had said. Hartmann got furious, he threatened me, he threatened Sheriff Bridgett. Captain Gene Donnell, the depth chief, all because I spoke to this woman. Charlene believes Dan Harmon had set her up in retaliation for her testimony against him. Prosecutor Harmon and Judge Cole's team managed to convict her and sentence her to an incredible 30 years. at the Arkansas Department of Corrections, guess who arrested her, Dan Harmon, the same guy who she says got her into drugs, now arrested Dan Harmon, walked up to me, handed me what was supposed to be a warrant record and said, excuse me for saying that.

I told you if you ever mentioned my name or mentioned anything about past dealings we had, I took you down, he said you're going to prison, I'll put you in prison, he did it, I'm here. I mean, I've seen people on second third offenses walk on probation on top of probation on top of probation, not this lady. The first time they arrested her for drugs, they claim they found them in her house, they give her 30 years. I'm sure everyone should be able to see this. You have to look at the judges. You have to look at the prosecutors.

Local attorneys and law enforcement officials. Now these. They are the people who enforce the drug laws to prosecute and prosecute them and yet they are involved in drug trafficking in the state of Arkansas. John quickly understood why Charlene had been jailed during her deposition. He dropped a bombshell. that would later be confirmed by other eyewitnesses, she was with Dan Harmon on the slopes the night Kevin and Don were murdered, the people on the slope that night, as far as I know, were Dan Harmon. I know the guys were watching the drop site, okay and I was curious to know what was being dropped there, based on reports from FBI DEA customs and Arkansas State Police.

In fact, money and drugs were being dropped from low-flying planes at night. These drops were part of a major drug smuggling operation based at the airport. In Mena, Arkansas, in 1982, cocaine trafficker Barry Seal had moved his multimillion-dollar cocaine smuggling operation from Louisiana to Arkansas and government officials allowed him to continue his activities without interference. Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welsh, IRS federal agent Bill Duncan amassed more than 20,000 pages of documents detailing Mena's drug trafficking and money laundering activities, then pilots the plane that Barry Seal had there at Rich Mountain Aviation where there was only one purpose for them, there's only one use for that type of aircraft and that was smuggling. cocaine, they had special cargo doors installed on the side without permission from the FAA so that these doors could be opened in flight, they would slide back and the cocaine could be dropped outside in flight.

Indictments were prepared against 29 people and presented to a federal authority. 1986 Grand Jury Barry Seal was scheduled to testify in Arkansas when he was suddenly shot and killed. Bill Duncan and I interviewed Barry Seal less than two months before he was killed and served with a subpoena. At that time he was under summons to come and see. Arkansas and testifying before the grand jury here when he was murdered. Another 20 witnesses were scheduled to testify, but only three were allowed to appear before the grand jury. Two of those witnesses were prohibited from presenting any evidence as expected. The grand jury was closed and no indictments were returned.

Drug smuggling activities continued after Seals' death. To date, a total of nine separate state and federal investigations into Mena have been closed. The first indication I had that Mena may have known about the deaths of these two children was through an audio tape provided. To me by Russell Welch, an Arkansas State Police investigator assigned to Mina, the tape was from a confidential informant inside the federal penitentiary. That tape would allege that Don Henry and Kevin Ives were murdered because of an Arkansas connection. An actual report was generated by Saline. county sheriff's office in 1987 and in 88 of people who complained that planes were flying over the tracks at approximately 100 feet above ground level with their lights off at night, one of the pilots who had been involved in Mena's drug smuggling operation when interviewed by John indicated the area where the children had been murdered was in fact a drop site, no one has a 12.

He described to me an aerial view of the footprints, if you were coming from the west, You were flying east, towards Little Rock. He described a mountain to the right and flying over a set of white

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tracks that run the trains. These lights extended along the tracks. The train went under it and then it said you could see a track, a small track on the left that looked like it was private and then a beacon on top of a building on the right and then you'll know to make the delivery. I interviewed five pilots, four of whom can verify that the location of A12 is the tracks just west of Little Rock, Arkansas, where the bodies of these two children were found.

Thanks for joining. Tonight on American Investigator, this is our final segment, so make your call briefly. Let's go back to the phones. Gerry in Huntington Arkansas. Come on, he's on the show. Is there any connection? Mr. Brown between this drug operation in Mena and the death of the two young men on the train tracks who were murdered and were declared accidental deaths. State Medical Examiner Fanny Malik there have been some accusations and she thinks what the person she calls they had run into is talking about. an aerial fall that was in transit from Nina to Laura well again you know without saying too much there is going to be some testimony from me about that and it is and it is very little but there is some connection only that I know of Now I was the first investigator assigned to that case of child deaths and they took me out of there so you can make your inference and go from there, but it is something that is going to resurface as a tragic event at this point, another eyewitness had emerged. that he had seen Harmon with Kevin and Don on the slopes the night of the murder after confirming the witness's veracity, the FBI offered to place the witness in protective custody and instructed John to hand over all his information to them promising to solve the case. .

Before the end of 1994, the FBI also stated that Chuck Banks would be charged with obstruction of justice, prompting Jean Duffey to come out of hiding in June 1994. Jean and John Brown first met during that meeting that she would share everything with me. from her files at that time I realized why I had not been allowed to see the 1990 federal grand jury investigation that took place during the period of time when she was still in Arkansas, that's when I realized Why she was actually run out of town was really shocking. to discover that what Jim Duffy found in 1990 was the same thing I found in 1994.

Drug trafficking involving political figures. Law enforcement officials involved in the cover-ups covered up some evidence for years later, separately and independently of anything she did. I traced almost the same thing she did directly to law enforcement personnel directly to the state capitol at the Arkansas State Capitol. Governor Clinton shared an adjacent position with the state's drug czar, Robert Shepherd. Shepherd, a former sheriff of Dan Harmon's district, was named. by Clinton to lead the so-called Arkansas drug war on at least three occasions Shepard attempted to suppress investigations into the murders of Kevin and Don in 1990 Shepard visited US Attorney Chuck Banks to persuade him that Jean Duffey should be ignored in 1993 Shepard He told John Brown that his career would be better off if he concentrated his efforts elsewhere, and in 1995 FBI agent Phyllis Cornyn reported that Shepard had attempted to interfere with the case.

The fact is, we know who killed these children. The problem now is how long will we Wait, how long will it be before we make the decision to charge the murderers? We are also going to charge the people who covered this up. Paula Casey, the United States District Attorney in Little Rock has said I'm not going to talk about plane drops why they were killed how long do they have to pass before justice prevails in Arkansas when the connection was made minha in my mind and looked back at everything that had happened? I knew it was the only thing that ever made sense to me and this information had been available for years but of course it had been suppressed.

Now I look back on this chain of events and realize that I was probably the one who caused my own investigation to close. It is clear to me that the turning point was When I gave Chuck Banks the information developed by my task force that the children were killed because they had stumbled upon a large shipment of drugs dropped from a plane in my heart, I feel that That was a red flag that made Chuck Banks close the investigation. Before Atlanta Mena the media initially did extensive coverage of Kevin and Dawn's death and helped us keep pressure on our public officials about this case, but when the political pressure of the Mena connection came, they dropped the ball. ball and perpetuated the cover-up.

There are some people in the media who know the whole story. I had a reporter call and met with him and it became obvious that he knew a lot more about Mena Arkansas Don in the drug operation in Arkansas, money laundering when this city was pheno

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l, he even had records. He had done his own research on it, he had been doing it for years, now he works for a major newspaper in Arkansas and I said, you have all this, I mean, you have the story, why don't you print it? and he said: do it. Do you really think they'd let me print this?

He said there is no way John and free speech are alive and well. Miss Ben tells me that she can't print the truth. It had been more than eight years since the incident in which the pieces of the puzzle had finally come together, eyewitnesses had implicated several people and the murders and subsequent cover-up, including prosecutor Dan Harmon, deputy prosecutor Richard Garrett. , Sheriff Jim Steed and officers Jay Campbell, Curt Lane and Danny Allen, throughout his career Dan Harmon has been protected by the powerful and corrupt in Arkansas in 1990, he was arrested for four misdemeanor counts of tax evasion.

At his arraignment, he was ordered to undergo a routine drug test that would have allowed him to be released. He refused and spent 18 days in jail. Harmon was later found guilty of one of the charges and sentenced by famed US District Judge Henry Woods to one year of probation. The absolute minimum allowed as a result of his conviction. Harmon's law license was suspended. The suspension, however, was rescinded after a longlist of senior officials. Top Arkansas officials, including Attorney General Winston Bryant, testified on Harmon's behalf for many years. Bryant had been involved in Mena's drug smuggling investigations.

More recently, at least 15 domestic violence complaints filed against Harmon by several of his ex-wives have come to light. that Harmon has admitted to ranging from pointing a gun at his wife's head to biting the thumb of one of his victims, the charges were never filed and the reports were hidden from the public by Harmon's friend, the police chief of Benton, Rick Elmendorf. Dan Harmon continues to receive extremely favorable treatment from the Arkansas press his continued re-election a Saline County prosecutor also gave him control over the drug task force gene Duffy's former job in November 1995 was found in possession of Harmons a package containing fake cocaine labeled as evidence belonging to Harmons wife Holly's drug task force, an investigation revealed that the package originally contained over one hundred thousand dollars worth of pure cocaine, which was now missing.

A combined FBI and DEA raid seized drugs in files from Harmon's home at the office. A racketeering case was reportedly being built against Harmon. However, after years of seeing similar investigations lead nowhere, a weary public remains understandably skeptical, finally on November 29, 1995 the FBI, referring to the murders of Kevin and Don, announced to Linda Ives that, In light of the fact that there is no evidence, it is time to consider the fact that a crime has not been committed. The obstruction of justice continues. There are no words in the English language that can describe how it makes you feel as a parent or as a citizen. of Arkansas to see what our officials are capable of doing, you know, I think We were kind of naive, ordinary people got up, went to work every day, came home, went to bed and assumed that all the Others were doing the same thing and trying to do the right thing and I think Kevin's death was the rudest awakening I have ever known.

We might have to look at what's really going on and see what's important to elected public officials. This is not a political issue for me. We were never a political family. Our lives revolved around the baseball field, going to the lake and all that stuff. What a family does until the Arkansas political machine came into our lives and destroyed the peace of mind that we had and I want the American people to know that we have to stand up to this type of corruption and that we have to hold our officials accountable and make them In my experience , work for us instead of against us.

I think what's happening here in Arkansas is just a small sample of what's happening nationally and I think all of America has to stand up and rescue the American justice system. Hello my Name. I'm Pat Mariano. I am the producer of the Obstruction of Justice video. When I first heard about Linda Ives' plight, I felt compelled to do everything I could to help the Eyes family get justice. Making this video is my way of helping. To achieve that goal since the initial release of the video in 1996, a number of significant events have occurred related to this case that could have a potentially devastating effect on this nation.

I would like to take this opportunity to inform you after nearly a decade of character assassination by Dan Harmon and members of the Arkansas media Gene Duffy was finally more than a girl, it became obvious that she had been telling the truth all along when On May 13, 1997, Harmon was convicted in federal court on several charges, including drug racketeering. abuse of power and extortion the extortion charge was an indication that Harmon had been involved in organized crime is that he was operating the prosecutor's office and drug task force organization Harmon is currently serving time in federal prison his convictions have become an embarrassment to the Arkansas political elite who have vigorously defended him over the years, the walls of the corrupt Arkansas political machine and the corrupt media that protected it were finally beginning to crack in the charges against Harmon, However, the murder charge was inexplicable since, as a witness, he had stepped forward and was able to identify Dan Harmon as being on Kevin and Don's trail the night of their murders, this witness had previously passed an FBI polygraph. and had been taken into protective custody by the FBI, so could you say that you are 100% sure that you were 200% sure that it is Danny Harmon without any type of proof?

I doubt anything, I think if the murder charge had been included in the RICO count, it is very possible that there would have been a murder conviction today as well and I am very disappointed because I am angry that the government refused to include that in their RICO count. . I think the case deserves to be heard at least before a jury and I think the outcome could have been very similar today could have been a convicted murderer our search for justice suffered a tremendous blow when in 1997 I was sued for 16 million dollars. by two Arkansas police officers whose names were mentioned during a scene on the tape this was the scene in question eyewitnesses implicated several people and the murders and subsequent cover-up, including prosecutor Dan Harmon, deputy prosecutor Richard Garrett, the Sheriff Jim Steed and deputies Jay Campbell Curt.

Lane and Danny Allen, this is News 4 at 10:00, where the news comes first. Good evening everyone and thanks for watching. I'm Kent Bates. I'm Denise Whitaker. Our top story tonight takes us to federal court in a civil trial that is expected to conclude with a verdict today, instead it's a few days off for a federal jury to deliberate on a defamation lawsuit. The lawsuit claims Pulaski County deputies are wrongly connected to a double murder. Buck Lawson joins us from the News Center with more Bob ol Deniz, that's it. about a documentary describing the murder of Don Henry and Kevin.

I have said that they were initially killed by a train, but some investigators say that they were killed after witnessing a drug crash in 1987 during the last five days that the jury has witnessed. testimony defending and attacking the documentary in question tonight, did the producer of the documentary wrongly attribute Lt. Jay Campbell and Lt. Kirk Lane to the alleged crime and should they be compensated if we lose this lawsuit? This is not a blow just for us, we are little people. It is a blow to everyone in the media, every television station, every video producer, every filmmaker, will be held accountable in a way that is very dangerous, regardless of whether their lawyer says their reputation has been seriously damaged. damaged by the accusations, now some people are convinced.

The young men were murdered by law enforcement who immediately began a cover-up however that has never been proven and that is not the issue before the jury this is a civil trial both men have said that money is not the problem here they say I want to disconnect me from allegations that they played a role in the deaths of two young men Bob, thank you, Officers Jay Campbell and Kirkland filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against me and my company, the star witness on his side turned out to be none other than Detective John Brown, while under oath, John Brown committed perjury by stating that he had warned me not to use the names Campbell or Elaine in the video.

This was a lie. Brown never said that he did not use his names and, in fact, he had insisted to me and my staff that they were in fact the prime suspects in the Ives Henry murders. Both Linda Ives and Jean Duffey agreed with the conclusion and testified at trial that they believed Campbell and Lane were the practical killers and that the government was protecting them in this unused video. clip Brown once again repeats his belief that J Campbell and Kirk Lane are the main suspects in the Ives Henry murders that you mentioned J Campbell oh yeah, he called me about a month and a half ago and asked me if I had heard about the involvement by Laster. in anything else, I look at the second one because I'm originally from it and it came out eight years ago, who is it that J Campbell had the head of the county Narcotics Division first class II, you know, there's been river circulation in Pulaski County for several years about a bad day.

I have heard various reports and intelligence reports from Egan, he is involved in some things that he should not be involved in, well I will say intelligence of course, where J Campbell presented and then told Day Lesor when they were looking for more drugs, they wove the paperwork that we I have a list there where J Campbell had fun with Fayetteville with them. I was actually telling the landlord how they're investigating you. The problem I have with that. He had Kurt lying. Both his and hers are very early. John Brown's friend and an assistant on the case, Agent Herman Reeves, also confirmed what John Brown had always maintained was the truth about the case.

Donovan Kevin had been on the tracks and was approached by another group. of people who is Mr. Harmon and four other people ran away from them and ran away and then since the kids were there we tried to call for help or add a phone, that's when mr. Campbell Sr. Lane stopped and stopped him at that moment, Kirkland and J Campbell pulled up in a car and jumped out to grab the two boys in one after dawn, when they went after Kevin Kevin on the 22nd, he was leaning against one of the posts there and He reached out to grab the incoming 22 and when he did, each officer who was grabbing him took a 22 from him and turned and hit Kevin in the side of the head with a blow hard enough to knock him unconscious at that point, no.

It was until a Campbell and Lane filed a lawsuit against me in which John Brown decided to change his story before I knew I was being sued. Brown had met with Campbell and his attorney and had filed a false affidavit claiming that he had been edited out of context, but not a single example of Brown being edited out of context could be found; in fact, John Brown had previously given his approval on the content of the finished video. He engaged my staff several times for his work on the video, promoted the video and dozens of radio shows ordered more.

More than 300 copies of the video he sold for profit and used the video as part of a failed campaign to get Sheriff John Brown to do what Dan Harmon Chuck Banks and the FBI had done a decade earlier: gain his trust. cute. Ives took over the investigation and then systematically destroyed it. Much of the evidence supporting our case was excluded from the courtroom by the judge, including testimony about the disappearance of a witness who was able to identify Campbell and Lane as the killers. Plus, Bart was a state trooper. Reports describing intimidation and violence by Campbell and Lane against witnesses in other cases, several character witnesses testified on behalf of Campbell and Lane and detailed what big guys transported trusted people and officers who were, however, like Dan Harmon before them, these witnesses turned out to be bad after my trial Campbell was fired by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department for intimidating and blacklisting other deputies and for falsifying reports.

One of the characters who testified on Campbell's behalf before his FBI agent Mike Smith could not be charged or questioned. by our attorney regarding his bias, prejudice, and conflict of interest, ultimately the jury felt they had no choice but to rule in favor of the plaintiffs and against us. The judge cited John Brown's testimony as the key factor in upholding the jury's decision. Tonight there is a verdict in the federal civil defamation lawsuit brought by two sheriff's deputies against the makers of a documentary. A jury today found the filmmakers guilty of publishing a false and damaging statement about Pulaski County sheriff's deputies that Kim Miller has been covering. this trial last week she joins us now from NewsCenter Kim can the jury ordered the filmmaker to pay the lieutenant a total of just under six hundred thousand dollars the case began when Jeremiah Films produced a documentary about the murders of two children found in Saline County

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tracks in 1987 109 thousand seven hundred fifty dollars in compensatory damages and two hundred thousand in punitive damages for Lt.

Jay Campbell Lt. Kirk Lane was awarded eighty-nine thousand dollars in compensatory damages and two hundred thousand punitive damages for those involved in the making from the movie they say that the case is not at all means that we are going to defend a direct verdict and if we do not receive it we will appeal and I believe that justice will prevail in the end we are not going to give up, I do not think there is any doubt tonobody. Keep in mind what the facts were and that Linda and I are absolutely convinced that the plaintiffs were their own murderers.

I have been told by several insiders that I am receiving political payback as a result of my participation in a previous video called Clinton. Chronicles of whether that is the case or not, this type of legal harassment should not be allowed to continue if the ruling on this case is upheld, it will set one of the most dangerous precedents in the history of the United States, from now on freedom Expression will be severely limited for small businesses like Mine that wish to hold public officials accountable for their actions may very well be threatened with legal action and ending a business.

Individuals will be forced to reconsider before saying or posting anything negative about any public official. This case is now in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, regardless of the outcome, we will continue to fight on behalf of Linda Isles and do everything we can to see that justice prevails since the ruling against obstruction of justice producer Pat Matrisciana Jeremiah Films and Citizens for Honest Government found has now been overturned by the 8th District of the United States Court of Appeals by a unanimous vote of all judges dismissing all of Jay Campbell and Kirk Lane's claims and ruling in favor from the films of Pat Patricia Anna Jeremiah and Citizens for Honest Government, the First Amendment has been upheld.

I will tell you, Director Deutsch, as a former LAPD narcotics detective, the agency has been trafficking drugs throughout this country for a long time. Okay, okay, obviously that's an answer for many of you. Could you please? Please, I mean wait wait wait wait a minute wait a minute here wait a minute if you don't like what's going on here please leave now but please I'm not going to sleep now because there are others who do want to hear what is happening In this room, please take a seat. I will contact you as we drive back to France with the central section director.

Deutsch. I will refer you to three specific agency operations known as Amadeus Pegasus and Watchtower. I have observed our heavily redacted agency documents, been personally exposed to CIA operations and recruited by CIA personnel who attempted to recruit me in the late 1970s to become involved in protecting the agency's drug operations in this country. . I've been trying to bring this to light for 18 years and I have the evidence. My question to you is very specific, sir, if in the course of IGS investigations and Fred Hisses' work you come across evidence of serious criminal activity and it is well classified, will you use that classification to hide the criminal activity or will you tell the truth to the American people?

All right, you want to get the answer from Congressman Julian Dixon first and then from the director. Wait, wait a minute from Europe, from York. I'm sorry Mr. I will allow the director to speak first and then Congressman Julien Dixon, if he has information about illegal CIA activities. drug activity, you should take that information immediately wherever you want, but let me suggest three places: the Los Angeles Police Department, it's your choice, the Los Angeles Police Department, the inspector general or one of the people's office of Congress for this, you have Mike. They're just wait a minute, don't speak out of turn, let me say something else.

If this information turns out to be an irregularity, we will make people trust us and create an account. Okay, Congressman Dixon, thank you, thank you. wait a minute I thought you didn't want to be here but now that you are here please let us worry and listen thank you very much so I want to thank you for coming were you at the last meeting the staff probably had the spelling of their name wrong but we would like to talk to you and we've been searching for a couple of days and we want to make sure that you contact the committee because you obviously have valuable information if you want to give it to me. privately, if you want to give it to him at that age when I can contact you tonight, please do it, don't let us get away without getting a contact for you, thank you sir, do it now so everyone can see that I have it. well thank you sir for going on the record please keep the noise down so we can hear and we can get answers for the record my name is mike ruppert our senior ERT I came out with this information 18 years ago and I was shot and Forced out of the LAPD because I have a record for 18 years non-stop and I will be happy to give you, congressman, everything I have.