Pro wrestler admits to role in 1987 unsolved train track murder of two boys and claims it was linked to a cocaine smuggling ring as he implicates ‘criminal Arkansas politician’ in far-reaching cover-up
Former WWE star Billy Jack Haynes, 62, has made bombshell claim in cold case
Kevin Ives, 17, and Don Henry, 16, were found dead on August 23, 1987
The Arkansas teens were hit by a train after they went hunting at night
Initially ruled an accident, grand jury found they were murdered before train hit
Now Haynes says he was working a cocaine drop when boys stumbled across it
Implicates local law enforcement and officials in the brutal double murder
By KEITH GRIFFITH
DAILYMAIL.COM
19 February 2018
A former professional wrestler has come forward to say he witnessed the unsolved 1987 murder of two teens, implicating local law enforcement and high elected officials in the crime.
Billy Jack Haynes, 62, made his bombshell claims in video statements and interviews released this week, speaking out about the murder of 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old Don Henry.
‘Now August 23, 1987, thirty years ago, I was on the railroad tracks in Alexander, Arkansas, and witnessed everything that happened to two young boys on the tracks,’ Haynes said in a video he recorded in early December, KATV reported.
The death of the two boys was quickly called a suicide by the state medical examiner, who then revised his ruling and said they had accidentally passed out on the train tracks after smoking marijuana and were struck by a Union Pacific train around 4.30am near the Crooked Creek trestle.
At the insistence of the dead boys’ families, a grand jury was impaneled and ruled the deaths a probable homicide, finding that they had been murdered and then placed on the tracks to hide evidence of the killings.
Now, Haynes alleges the murders were connected to a cocaine smuggling ring and far-reaching cover-up orchestrated by a ‘criminal politician’.
In 1987, Haynes was a successful professional wrestler. He claims that he was also involved in the seedy underworld of cocaine trafficking.
‘I transported and trafficked large quantities of cocaine throughout the United States of America,’ he said in a second video, which was made public as part of an appeal to raise funds for the investigation.
Haynes said he bought his supply from Barry Seal, a Louisiana smuggler for the Medellin Cartel who later operated out of an airport in Mena, Arkansas.
‘Barry Seal later introduced me to a politician drug dealer from Arkansas,’ Haynes said. Seal was assassinated in 1986 after turning DEA informant.
‘In August of 1987, I was contacted by the Arkansas criminal politician and was asked if I would provide muscle for an Arkansas drug drop,’ Haynes said.
Haynes said he left Detroit, where he had been wrestling King Kong Bundy, and headed south.
Haynes says the politician wanted to make sure nothing was stolen from the drug drop by the state and local law enforcement officials he says were involved.
Meanwhile, on the night of August 22, Kevin and Don were last seen heading into the woods with a flashlight and a .22 rifle to ‘spotlight’ deer.
Haynes claims the boys stumbled across the smuggling operation as a plane dropped duffel bags of drugs near the train tracks, about 15 miles southwest of the state capital, Little Rock.
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