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Clinton had integrated a number of corrupt cops, judges, and politicians into highlevel positions to ensure the
continued success of the drug smuggling moneyaundering operations. All was going
well until a fateful night in the fall of 1987. On August 22nd, 1987, Kevin had spent
the night with his friend Don Henry. They left uh Don's home around 12:30 or4 to 1 uh on the 23rd of August in early
morning hours and uh the next thing we knew they had been run over by a train. There seems to be a small air strip in
the area. There have been sightings and uh reports of small airplanes flying very low with lights off in the
area. I believe they saw something they shouldn't have seen. Three weeks later, their deaths were ruled accidental by
the state medical examiner Fammy Malik. And [music] um we disagreed with that ruling uh
because we thought the evidence pointed to homicide. Uh at that point, we had a lot of questions and no answers. uh and
the facts didn't add up to what he was telling us. So we decided to get a second opinion
and uh met with resistance from all fronts both with our local law enforcement with state crime lab uh with
everybody that we turned to. Um, we obtained court orders, uh, we requesting samples of everything that the crime lab
had for a second opinion and, uh, Fammy Malik um, uh, resisted court orders. Uh, he
refused to obey them. >> Ultimately, it was proven that Don Henry had been stabbed in the back and Kevin
IV's skull had been crushed prior to the placement of their bodies on the railroad tracks. However, Malik stood by
his ruling that the boys had simply fallen asleep on the tracks. Malik had been kept in office at the insistence of
Governor Clinton for a number of years, despite vigorous public outcry to have him removed. As long as Malik's rulings
pleased the governor's office or state police, [music] they were left to stand, no matter how implausible.
Malik's obvious lack of medical knowledge reached a pinnacle when he ruled that James Milm, who had been
decapitated, had died of natural causes. Yet Clinton, who had the power to remove
Malik from office, insisted he stay. >> There were allegations of tampering with
evidence and murder cases. Uh there were allegations of perjury in different cases. It didn't seem to
matter what Malik did. Clinton uh protected him. He made excuses such as he's overworked. Uh he's just stressed
out, he's underpaid. Uh they gave him a $14,000 raise, which was an insult uh to
my family as well as a lot of others in the state who um to this day are struggling with asinine rulings in the
deaths of children and other loved ones. I was outraged that protecting a political crony
of Clintons was more important than the fact that two young boys had been murdered.
>> Dan Harmon was just a local attorney in in the town of Benton, Arkansas. And uh
after Don Henry and Kevin Ives were killed and their bodies placed on the tracks and run over by a train,
he approached Linda Ives and the Henry family about trying to help him. He's a manipulator.
Gives a great closing argument in court. He's been trained [music] for years to play the game. He knows how to do it.
>> He's very good at it. Mr. Harmon can win your confidence, make you think he's the greatest guy in the
world. >> He did that to Linda Ives. He helped lead him down a path that absolutely led to nowhere [music]
on this case. I got involved in the case and immediately Harmon uh tried to discredit me without even
knowing me. um couldn't figure it out. I run across a young lady named Charlene Wilson
who told a horror story that I didn't really believe at the time. So I started searching for evidence to
substantiate just [music] part of what she had said. Herman went ballistic. Called, he threatened me, threatened
Sheriff Bridgen, threatened Captain Jean Don, the chief deputy. All because I talked to this one woman.
>> The people at the track that night to my knowledge were Dan Harmon, Keith McCascal, Larry Rochelle.
On Sunday, August 23rd, 1987, two teenage boys were run over by a train traveling through Bryant, Arkansas. What
followed was an investigation by local law enforcement. This is the Saline County Sheriff's Office, who refused to
investigate this as a possible homicide. They saw no evidence of foul play, but they weren't really looking for any. Uh
publicly, the sheriff's office spoke of the incident as though it were an accident. And to the families of the two
teenagers, 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old Don Henry, they talked as if this were a likely suicide. The medical
examiner, this is the captain's friend, Fami Malik, >> ruled the deaths an accident due to
marijuana intoxication. >> Well, he ruled these deaths an accident due to his stupidity.
>> Months after the deaths, two men present themselves to the families of the boys.
This is Richard Garrett and he brings in Dan Harmon who is appointed as a special
prosecutor in this matter working with the grand jury trying to piece together a double murder case. And Garrett and
Harmon will help out in this case. They do get it overturned from accidental death to a possible murder.
>> Yes. And then they start investigating looking for the killer or killers of these two boys. Last week, we took you
through the night the two boys were run over, the medical examiner's findings, and even though the sheriff's office and
the medical examiner both decided this was an accident, we showed you a second autopsy which showed significant
evidence that both boys were dead before they were placed on the tracks and that
both boys were murdered and placed there so that their bodies and all other evidence would be destroyed. And we can
clearly see that Don was stabbed in the back. And we also can see that Kevin was
he had a skull fracture. Somebody and we have eyewitnesses that saw uh possibly a
police officer hitting him with a object in the face. >> Mhm. Probably the very rifle that the
two boys were carrying that night. >> Very possible. >> Fluids in the body pointed toward a
slower death for both and not a sudden death like that of a being run over by a train. and eyewitness statements
regarding the lack of blood and the color of the blood, proving that the blood itself was not fresh. We also
talked about witness statements, many of these given to the Arkansas State Police. Two witnesses placed Dan Harmon
at the tracks the night that the boys died. This is why the case is so odd is because you have this guy, this
prosecutor that comes forward and says, "Hey, you know, this lawyer that says, "Hey, I can help this family. I can
bring some justice. Oh, it it was an accidental death. It was a murder and we're going to find this person. But
then the more you dig, you realize this person that's claiming they're going to help you, they're they're the ones that
people are saying it possibly is uh responsible for these murders. >> Yes. Exactly. Now, we do have to
introduce a man by the name of Barry Seal. Barry Seal was a gun runner and a drug runner in the 80s. Uh Barry would
arrange for privatelyowned planes to fly guns to Colombia. And on return flights,
he was bringing drugs back into the United States. At least one pilot has come forward who claimed to have many
times flown a drug drop at the place where the boys had died. >> Some of the local law enforcement was in
charge of securing these drops. And just prior to Kevin and Don's deaths, a drop
at that location had gone missing. So those local law enforcements that that were involved in this operation, well,
they were on high alert. They were waiting for somebody to try to steal that next drop.
>> And then that night, Kevin Ives and Don Henry happened by. >> Let's get to each one of the
eyewitnesses and what happened with them after they came forward with information.
>> Well, we should start off with the big one, and this is Charlene Wilson. She had the statement saying that the people
at the tracks that night were Dan Harmon, Keith McKascal, and Larry Rochelle. She also said that she
believed that the boys were watching the drop site and that they got curious about what was being dropped there.
Well, we know that Charlene Wilson, she ends up in prison. >> Yeah. >> And who puts her in prison? Uh, our good
friend Dan Harmon. >> Right. Right. Well, we got to put her in prison so she stops running her mouth.
>> Right. And the thing is that the thing that's crazy about her confession >> is that this was a confession that was
she gave this confession written confession in her in her own in her own writing.
>> Mhm. >> And this is witnessed by three officials, three law law enforcement officials. And we know that because
their signatures are on her confession. >> Well, when I normally confess to something, I do it in somebody else's
handwriting. Well, she confesses in front of these three people in 1993 and then this confession goes nowhere.
None of these law enforcement officials do anything with this confession. It's buried in the crime file,
>> right? >> And in the case file, and it's not discovered again until 2015, >> right? Just to play a little devil's
advocate here, though. Is it a coincidence though that she is put in jail by Dan Harmon, you know, put away
to keep her quiet or is she coming out later saying, "Oh, he was involved in these murders," which maybe he was,
maybe he wasn't. We also had several witnesses who placed two Palaski County officers, this is Kirk Lane and Jay
Campbell, as not only being in the area where the boys were killed, but as having been seen, and I'll quote one of
the witnesses statements, as beating the [ __ ] out of the two boys near the grocery store down by the tracks. The
first man was who we simply just know as Jerry, who was described as a Mexican looking man in a dark blue Camaro.
>> Right. Jerry, after telling Mike Crook that he had witnessed the two boys being
beat up and thrown into the back of an unmarked police car, he went and told this story to Sheriff Jim Steed. Now,
pay attention cuz that's a name that's going to come up several times. Jim Steed was the boss hog at Saline County.
He was the sheriff. He was running the sheriff's office. Jim Steed threw Jerry into jail and locked him up for 90 days
for unpaid child support. The day that Jerry gets out of jail, he tells Jim Crook that he was told to leave town or
else and that he [clears throat] was moving to California. Jerry did leave town. We don't know exactly where he
went, uh, but he's not been seen again. And Jim Crook's story was presented to the Arkansas State Police several months
after the fact, and they made what I would argue to be no effort to identify this man that we only know as Jerry.
Well, first of all, like I said, sketchy Jerry, you got to pay for your kids. You
know, if you have child support, pay for your damn kids, right? >> Mhm. >> That's one. Uh, two, who knows where he
went off to. Uh, it's it's a little weird. >> It's definitely weird. >> But, uh, it's weird, too, that obviously
they had reason to lock him up. >> Mhm. >> For the child support, so they know his
name. >> Mhm. and why they're, you know, maybe they're just not releasing to the public
for his protection or maybe something foul play happened and they don't want that to be brought to life.
>> Or does Jim Steed have a bigger role in this whole thing? >> Mhm. >> The other witness was Ronnie Godwin who
stated that he had observed two police officers beat up two boys at the grocery store the night Kevin and Don were
killed. >> Ronnie, >> well, it was more like a convenience store. Mhm. Ronnie Godwin gave his
statement to the police and we should be very clear about this. He gave this statement to police during the time of
the investigation. Now, Linda Ives, she's the mother of Kevin Ives and Gan Duffy, who is a former Saline County
prosecutor, and I I [clears throat] want to put quotation marks up here. She's one of the good ones. Um, Gene Duffy
interviewed Godwin 11 years after the murders and Godwin's statements were identical to the statements that he had
given to the police at the time of the investigation. Also included in the state police report were these
interviews with Godwin's mother, sister, and girlfriend in which they all reported to have said that when Ronnie
drinks, he tells lies. But we need to keep in mind that when Godwin was interviewed by the state police in 1988,
he had g he had been in jail for a couple weeks before giving the statement. So he was he would have been
sober at this time. >> Now, Linda and Jean also contacted Ronnie's mother to discuss her
statements to the state police about Ronnie. She told them that she had never been interviewed by the state police.
She also was certain that neither Godwin's sister or girlfriend had been interviewed by the state police either.
So if this is true, then the state police had manufactured interviews of witnesses to discredit Ronnie Godwin.
>> Well, yeah, I think it was this I think it was this simple. Uh we don't get we
don't have to kill this guy cuz he he's a drunk. >> Yeah, he's got a bad reputation. We can
smear his reputation pretty. >> He's a drunk. He's a liar. This is this is not going to go anywhere. So we don't
have to we don't have to knock this guy off. >> But the thing we do have to remember,
Captain, is that Ronnie told almost the same story as Jerry did. This lining up with Jerry's story corroborating both
stories. Godwin via Right. But but but Jerry is one, he's shady. He's a dirt bag, doesn't pay for his kids, and he
left town. >> So now he's already smeared. Now we got this guy with a drinking problem. Just
because you have a drinking problem doesn't mean you're a liar. Mhm. [snorts] Now, Godwin stated that he did
not tell anyone what he had witnessed that night until he reported it to police.
>> Um, he also believes that the two officers that killed the boys that night that they saw him as he passed by the
store and probably recognized his car. Another state police interview states Richard Garrett, remember this is Dan
Harmon's sidekick, rushed over to interview Godwin a second time. >> Right. It would seem that officials were
taking Godwin's statement seriously. Uh, as it turns out, they were only serious
about discrediting Godwin, >> right? >> Following the interviews with Godwin, there was no attempt to identify the
cops that Godwin had saw. No photos of local officers or unmarked cars were shown to him. No check of officers in
the area that night who would fit the description. There was no check for traces of blood or other evidence in the
back of any of the unmarked cars. Nothing. Just discrediting Godwin's statements by fabricating interviews
with his mother, sister, and girlfriend, stating that when Ronnie drinks, Ronnie
lies. >> Mhm. >> The only true effort to identify Jerry was the state police stating that Jerry
and Ronnie Godwin were one and the same. >> Right. So, was Shady Jerry actually Godwin? Well, Godwin was shown the state
police interview with Mike Crook, and he simply states that he and Crook knew each other. Crook at the time was
married to Godwin's cousin, and so Godwin presented his story to police. So, there's no reason for Crook to call
Godwin Jerry uh when he knew him. Furthermore, Godwin has never been jailed for back child support. In fact,
Godwin has always had custody of his only child. >> Mhm. >> Crook also confirmed that Jerry and
Ronnie Godwin were not the same person. >> They don't come out and say who Shady
Jerry is. They just said, "Oh, well, he was in jail and then he disappeared and we don't know what happened to him and
now we got this other guy, Godwin." And Godwin is just a drunk. >> Right. >> So, that takes care of two eyewitnesses.
>> Mhm. But [snorts] see, here's where things start to get a little scary here, Captain. Both Jerry and Godwin, they
describe three boys driving up to the grocery store on a motorcycle. >> Don Henry,
>> two Yes. >> Kevin Ives and who's the third one? >> Well, we have we have they state the two
boys get off of the motorcycle and around that same time, officers Campbell and Lane arrive. The boy on the
motorcycle takes off. Now, this has to be Keith Coney, >> a young man who told his mother he knew
some stuff about the night the boys were murdered, >> right? >> A young man who told his father he had
seen Kevin and Don the night that they were killed and he believed the two were killed by two police officers.
>> All three of these stories align with one another. Three people that do not know each other and the same story is
told independently of each other. Now, Keith also had said that he was afraid for his life because he knew too much
about Kevin's and Dawn's murders. Now, Coney was killed in 1988 in a motorcycle crash. This was 9 months after Kevin and
Don were murdered. The official report was that Coney had run his motorcycle into the back of a semitr traveling at a
high rate of speed. Now, Keith Coney was one of the last people to be seen with Kevin and Don alive. Keith had been
called to testify. He was subpoenaed by Dan Harmon to testify in front of the grand jury.
>> Now, there are many people that say that his death had not been a highway accident. that these witnesses had said
that Keith was attempting to escape an attack, that he had jumped on his bike and tried to flee at a high rate of
speed, and he was actually being chased by a vehicle when he swerved into the back of the truck. Witnesses saw Keith's
body. They reported that his throat had been slashed and he had several wounds that the witnesses did not believe would
have been caused by a vehicle accident. >> Right. So another case where we have and
who was the medical examiner on that >> uh Fami Malik >> right so Fami again is going well look
this is just suggest death by motorcycle well I I don't even know how Fami talks
he he sounds stupid anyways he probably said look this is just a simple death it's a motorcycle accident that's all
that happens it's not a motorcycle accident if your throat is slashed >> Mhm. Yeah, if you're escaping an attack,
you're being chased by a vehicle at a high rate of speed, >> right? That's called murder.
>> There was also reason to believe that Keith was selling drugs and was involved
with some of the local dealers. Um, so he might have known some of these people at play here,
>> right? But I think this is part of the story that I don't really like and we can get into this later when we talk
about our own theories. >> Mhm. >> But this whole thing about, you know, Don Henry and and Kevin Eyes, they were
they're going out there and they're going to steal these drugs, >> right, >> from some drug lords, right? And that,
oh, by the way, there the the guy that ended up dead on the motorcycle. Oh, he sold drugs, too. Mhm.
>> I think it's an easy way to tarnish, you know, and not saying that these kids
maybe didn't smoke pot, maybe drank a little bit, um maybe even sold it from time to time,
>> but I don't think they were known drug dealers. >> And I'm not trying to tarnish Keith's
name or Kevin or Dawn's names either. Fair enough. >> Um I with with Keith, I just simply
bring it up because because he may have known some of the stuff that was going on if if in fact he was uh selling drugs
for somebody. He may have known these people that were out that night. It it wouldn't just be that oh it it was two
police officers. Oh, it was uh this group of guys and I don't know who they are. Uh I'm just bringing up that he may
have had some connection with these people. >> Well, no. And then the other thing about
it is after Coney leaves on his motorcycle, he actually went >> to uh the wagon wheel. Yes.
>> Which was the bar. And he told >> And that's when he told Keith McKascal. >> Yeah. Old Macascal. So you know there is
some validity cuz you know there is there's rumors that Macascal was selling drugs or part of the drug running. So
then why would Keith go talk to him, >> right? if he didn't know know him because if he did know him he'd probably
know him through >> but this is also a weird time because this is 1987 right okay
>> and and when I graduated high school 999 and you remember this cuz in our band
would play >> Yes I was alive and around in 99 >> well we had you know the metal band that
we played in and we'd play gigs and we'd have parties and stuff to kind of like promote the shows and stuff like that
just kind of typical things but we'd normally have mostly high school kids, but there would always be like a group
of >> college age kids. >> Yeah. Or even late 20somes. >> Yeah. >> And now of days like you could not pay
me to go hang out with high school kids. >> Yeah. I I wonder I always I didn't wonder back then, but once I got to be
28, 29, I wondered what those 28 29 year olds were even doing hanging out. I think you got to be a pretty big loser
is what I think [laughter] is going on that you got to hang out with these young people.
>> Which makes it a little more odd that Con would go talk to Macascal. So, hold
on to your seats cuz we're going to get into some super creepy stories right after this quick beer break.
>> [music] >> Welcome back to True Crime Gay. >> All right, Captain. We have to [laughter]
>> Cheers, mates. >> Cheers, mates. We have to introduce a man by the name of Gregory Collins.
>> Now, it is believed that Collins had information on the Kevin Ives and Don Henry deaths. In January of 1989,
>> Gregory Collins died from three shotgun blasts fired at a close range. Now, one
shot hit Collins in the face. His body was discovered in a pine forest in a county south of Saline. Collins had been
called to testify to the grand jury, but he had never appeared. Now, newspaper reports that Garrett and Harmon
questioned him privately about the train death case. >> Right. question him or threaten him. I
guess depends on how you look at it. >> The strange thing here though, Captain, is, you know, little is known about what
he may have known about this case. He he may have known something because apparently he was interviewed or like
you said, possibly threatened by Garrett and Harmon in private. >> Um, but he he is shot three times with a
shotgun. Now, we have a little more Fami Malik shenanigans going on here because
this is one that Fami Malik would rule a suicide. So, if you believe the medical
examiner, Mr. Malik, >> okay, just say it slowly for me. Say say this stupidity slowly for me.
>> Okay, so if you are to believe the medical examiner Fami Malik, >> Mhm. Then you would have to believe that
Gregory Collins drove out to a remote place, went into the forest with a shotgun, and managed to shoot himself
three times and one of those shots being to the face where presumably that's the
shot that killed him. Um, it's not impossible that somebody could shoot themselves three times. Uh, but I find
it highly unlikely >> with a shotgun. with a shotgun. It would be very It would be extremely hard to do
to shoot oneself three times with a shotgun, >> you know. That's just Fami being Fami,
you know. That's just Fami being Fami. >> Yeah. That's just Fami doing whatever the hell he wants uh at
>> Yeah. or what he's paid to do by others. >> You're exactly right. >> That's the other thing, too. It's like
I'm not saying that he's a dumbass. He might not actually be a dumbass, but when you have higher ups that are right,
one writing your check and you got people, you got eyewitnesses dying around you, what what the hell are you
going to do? >> Here's the other thing though, Captain, too. We talked about, remember Malik got
a nice, he got a handsome uh promotion. Well, not a promotion, but he got a raise.
>> Well, yeah, and I said I think 43%, but it was a 41% raise, >> which was announced to be what, like
$14,000. Mhm. >> was the actual the money amount there was 14,000. So if that's a 40 let's just
say it's a 40% raise. >> So that means he's making and I'm going to show my dumb math here, but that
would mean he's making in the ballpark of what 40 to $45,000 a year before that raise,
>> give or take. Yeah. >> So now he's making under 60. >> Mhm. Uh, I would think that people that
are importing pounds of cocaine and moving them would have the means of buying Mr. Malik off pretty cheap.
Probably if the guy's only making 60 grand a year, it probably doesn't take a whole boatload of money to get him to
say, "You know what? Not only do we need you to say that this was either an accident or suicide, but you're the
medical examiner. Nobody else is going to follow up on this. whatever you rule this is probably what it's going to sit
as forever. >> Right. But they but they did follow up on many cases if you know you know what
I mean like people eventually started going hey there's something wrong and that's what frustrates me about this
whole case. >> Yeah. >> Is not only did you know families came forward and said hey something's not
right and then the powers that be going all the way up to Bill Clinton which was
this governor at the time. He wasn't president at the time, but goes all the way up to that jack wagon,
>> right? And he comes back and says, "Hey, look, it's none of my business. I think
he's doing a pretty good job." >> Mhm. Yeah, he's doing a great job. >> Yeah. [ __ ] you, Bill.
>> Okay. All right. Calm down there, Captain. >> Well, this is just, you know, it's
ridiculous. I mean, three shot, you know, three shotgun shots to the face. >> Well, one to the face,
>> right? >> Two to the chest, >> right? But you're going to shoot yourself twice in the chest and then one
in the face. >> Well, let's keep in mind a shotgun's a pretty powerful shot, too.
>> That'd be really hard to do anyways. >> Yes. >> I mean, the recoil alone would probably
mess up your hand on some level. Or >> I would argue that nobody would that very few people would even have the
strength remaining after one shot to fire an additional two shots. >> I mean, this this is just asinine
really. Next we have Daniel Bearden, uh who went by the name of Boon. Um Boon was from Alexander, Arkansas.
>> Uh about 6 weeks after they discover Gregory Collins body in the forest, uh police began searching a another remote
area for the body of this boon guy. Um and he had he was another person that was asked to testify to the grand jury.
>> It's probably suicide. Well, he he was actually missing for about eight months
at the time that they started searching for him. So, they were in no hurry to go
looking for him, right? >> Um police, they only went out there because they received information that
he was buried near the Arkansas River. >> They went out there and they searched and they found nothing. Um so, this guy
is is unaccounted for, suspected to have been killed and buried somewhere. Um, now a person by the name of Woodro May
testified that he Woodrow was the middleman in a local drug trade. Uh, but he also stated that three other people
had similar arrangements with the guy that he was getting his drugs from. >> And in this statement, he also says that
two of these people Harmon knew personally and may have had some kind of arrangement with them. The reason why I
bring up Woodro is because in that same statement, Woodro stated that Boon was one of his distributors.
So again, we're seeing the drug trade, the drug trafficking going on wrapped around this whole case,
>> right? And this also brings us to eyewitness James Milum. >> Yeah, we talked about Milum a little bit
earlier, but we didn't identify him by name. Um, he had information regarding the Ives and Henry deaths as well. He
was scheduled. He was, you know, they had a long list of people that they were going to talk to with the grand jury. He
was on that list. Uh he didn't get the opportunity to do so, though. Remember, he was the guy that was found
decapitated, but Fami Malik had ruled that it was a um it was natural causes that he had died from an from an ulcer.
Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Which apparently that that you have an ulcer, your head pops off. That's that's
according to Fami Malik, that's what happened. And um and we here's the crazy thing. He's decapitated and Fami Malik
claims that the dog ate the head, right? Ate the head of the of of his owner. >> Now, the thing here is his whole story
got all screwed up when >> Do we know what kind of dog that is? >> Um >> cuz I'm not
>> It's probably a very small one. No, >> I'm in I'm in the market to buy a dog and I'm not buying that kind of dog.
Okay, so that's what Fomie Malik says >> because when I die from a ulcer >> and your head pops off,
>> I do not want my dog eating my head. >> Okay, but listen to this. Captain Malik
says that the dog ate the head, right? >> Mhm. >> Okay, then there's a big problem with
his finding because the police shortly after Malik gives this ruling, they find the head, right? They find the head and
then Malik's like, "Well, that's because the dog regurgitated it that he threw up. He ate the head and then he puked
it. Puked it up. >> Right. The more and more we cover this story, the more I just think that he is
paid or knows that if you don't cooperate, you're going to die of an ulcer and your
head's going to pop off as well. >> I I look, I don't think it's stupidity. I don't think I don't think any doctor
is that dumb. I think I really the more we talk about it, the more I think that his hands were tied and he knew if he
didn't follow, you know, the powers that be that he's going to end up worm food.
I think you might be on to something there. You he could have been afraid. He could have been being paid under the
table by some of these people or it could have been a combination of both, which is probably what is most likely.
Um the thing here is though, you know, while we're on Fami Malik story here that he started off as an assistant to
the medical examiner and very quickly the medical examiner retired and he basically assumed the role of medical
examiner. >> Well, and I wonder how long that guy worked for and and was he was he
supposed to retire or was he just somebody that was not going to work within their system and
>> he was made to retire? You see what I'm That's a good question. We we don't know
that. But what we do know is that what was discovered after Fami Malik had been the medical examiner for like seven, it
was either 7 to nine years, somewhere in that ballpark. >> They realized because of some of these
cases that Malik actually did not have the qualifications to be a medical examiner. He only had the qualifications
to be an assistant. So they realized this. >> He wasn't even qualified for that probably,
>> right? And they realized this after he's been running the show for almost 10 years.
>> Yeah, but it's not, you know, Bill Clinton can't do nothing about it. >> Well, listen to this whole story. They
they the governor's office. Here's their statement. They say that it's not their problem because they're
supposed to be a medical examiner's commission. This is a group of people that review and decide who is qualified
for this position and who is not. So when Fami Malik took over the position, they should have reviewed his
qualifications, re reviewed him as a candidate and either accepted him or turned him down for the role. The
problem is when people started going back and and interviewing this medical examiner's commission that supposedly
existed, well, the people that were supposed to be on the commission said, "Yeah, I was
on that commission at one point, but we haven't met for like 10 or 12 years. We've not met about anything for 10 or
12 years. I didn't know I was supposed to still be on that commission. Well, then the governor's office then says,
"Well, because this commission didn't do their job, there's nothing that we can do about it. We cannot remove we
>> we can't remove >> we can't remove him now." And at some point after it was discovered he wasn't
qualified. He did seek out whatever training or knowledge he needed or, you know, to to become qualified for the
position eventually. >> Right. Well, because he just got won a a 41% raise and then he's getting probably
kickbacks. >> Mhm. >> And look again, there's the fear element when your governor is helping other
people run drugs then and and and some boys stumble upon that. 16 and 17 year old boy stumbles
upon that and they are murdered and they put their bodies on tracks to be ran over by trains, you might fall in line,
too. You know what I mean? You might do what they tell you to do. >> Well, when the officials of Arkansas
were asked, "Why would you give Fami Malik a a pay raise after when we have people in the community?"
>> Wait, hold on. Because we're selling drugs, people. That's what they should have said. Bill Clinton should have
said, "Hey, we're selling drugs and we need somebody to cover our ass and that's why we gave him a pay raise." The
thing here is we they had people they had families. They had people in the community basically picketing and
calling for Fami Malik's job, saying, "Fire this dude. We don't trust this guy. We can't feel safe living here if
this is what's going to be happening." And basically the officials said that, you know, because they were asked, why
the hell would you give this guy a pay raise when all these people are calling for his job,
>> right? And and they they stated, "Go ahead." >> Well, and it's not just the Henry family
and the Ives family that aren't getting answers. It's all these victims and it's
then multiply it by all their family and friends and those are the people paying
your salary. But at the end of the day, >> you think Bill Clinton gives a [ __ ] Do
you think anybody in power that's getting paid a bunch of money actually gives a [ __ ] You know, if they're
running drugs, if they're willing to kill a 16 and 17year-old person, do you think they actually give a [ __ ] And for
all the people right now that are listening going, "Well, this is just a conspiracy." This ain't conspiracy. This
is a fact. We're stating facts. >> This is not conspiracy. But but the funny thing is here these these
officials talk out of both sides of their mouths because what happens here is when when he's first awarded the pay
raise they they stay they say that you know what Malik is a victim in this whole circumstance and that he deserves
to be you know treated with respect and and to show him such we gave him a pay raise. Well then when they come back and
they ask them later there's all these people in the community saying he should be fired. how can you give him a pay
raise? Then they state, well, he's due to retire soon. So, we applied that pay raise to him, not for him personally,
but as a position. We were upgrading the pay to that position so that when he does retire, we could recruit a more,
you know, suitable candidate for this position. >> Well, you know, how >> they always have answers, don't they?
>> Well, right. Because when you're high on cocaine, you come up with a million answers all at once. Well, let's keep
going with this list here, Captain, because it just keeps growing and growing. Next on the list is Richard
Winters, >> uh, who was actually at one point he was he was considered to be a possible
suspect in the deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry. >> Um, he had he had he had offered to
cooperate with the grand jury and with Garrett and Harmon at some point. Um, but again, before he could do so,
>> okay, >> he ends up being killed by a shotgun blast to the face. >> Um, but this was during a robbery in
July of 1989. Now, it's it's not been proven. Um, but but it's it's widely believed that the
robbery was was not so much a robbery that it was more of a setup, right? Okay. That we're
>> staged robbery. we're going to have this robbery situation and one guy's going to
end up dead and it and conveniently it's somebody that's offering to cooperate with the grand jury and and maybe
divulge what he may know about the deaths of these two teenagers. >> Mhm. >> I think it's pretty obvious by now that
everybody that we bring up on this list is going to end up dead at some point. >> I told you this episode should be called
murder. >> Yeah. Well, the thing here is one of the one of the stranger ones to me is Keith
McKascal. >> Yeah. >> Now, shortly before Keith McKascal was murdered. >> I have nightmares about this.
>> Yeah. He he told people that he believed he was going to be murdered. >> He he was telling his family members
goodbye. He was making funeral arrangements. He was telling his friends goodbye. Um, he was also telling his
friends and family that like he was being followed uh by by the two police officers that we had mentioned earlier
that were Lane and Campbell that were supposed to be involved in the deaths of the two teenagers. He was also pointing
out vehicles to his friends and family stating, "You know what? I know that car has been following me for quite some
time." Um the thing here is the the a big problem with this story is remember we talked about Sheriff Jim Steed. Well
there was an election coming up in 1988 and it was for the the office of of sheriff. Now the thing is here that
Macascal on the night of the sheriff's election in 1988 he was out with a bunch of
people and he made a big announcement at this bar and he held up two pennies. He
pulled two pennies out of his pocket, threw them at the bar. >> Yeah. >> And he stated, he said, "If Jim Steed
loses this election, my life isn't worth two cents." And believe it or not, shortly after that, he was killed.
>> Okay. So, did he lose the election? >> Yeah. Jim Steed lost the election that
night and within 48 hours, uh, Keith McKascal was murdered. >> But how he was murdered is what creeps
me out. >> Mhm. Yeah. So, a quick description here, which I think is very fitting for Keith
McKascal, uh, which is necessary. I mean, uh, he managed a place called the we the Wagon Wheel Lounge.
>> Mhm. >> Uh, and he was considered to be a big dude. He was 6'2. Uh, he weighed about,
uh, 200 lb or so. Um, he was a bit of a legend for breaking up barroom fights. Several people told stories of him
breaking up fights that involved weapons, sometimes even knives. And he would without a weapon go into this
fight and break it up >> because he was a bad ombre. >> Yeah. And but but Macascal might have
been a bit of a weird dude though because he was he was a known drug user. >> He was suspected of selling drugs. He
had a lot of friends in low places, but he had a lot of police friends as well. >> This guy is just all sorts of bad
country songs. He works at the wagon wheel. He has friends in low places. >> Yeah. And but but the the funny thing
here though to me, Captain, is we talk about all these misdoings by these public officials and by uh police
officers and sheriff's, you know, deputies and things like that, right? >> And you know, to call somebody a weird
dude saying that he's got a lot of friends that are in low places, but he also has a lot of friends that are
police as well. >> I don't think it's that weird in this situation because it seems to me like
some of the police were in pretty low places themselves. >> Right. Right. That's exactly right. Now,
Dan Harmon told Linda Ives and others that McKascal was acting as an informant in the murder case,
>> agreeing to pass along any information that he had heard in the nightclub. But
more importantly, you know, according to Charlene Wilson's statement, Macascal was at the tracks the night the boys
were killed. >> Right. And it is also believed that Keith Cooney went on to to find Macascal
and tell him what he had saw at the tracks or what he had saw near the grocery store that night
>> with the police officers beating up his friends. >> So on November 10th, 1988, this like we
said, this is just 2 days after the sheriff's election. This takes place around 1:30 a.m. A neighbor of Keith
McKascals said that he had heard some loud groaning noises coming from Macascal's home. uh this woke him up in
the middle of the night. He go he goes to the window and he's looking around and he sees nothing. But what he says is
that it sounded as if someone had drank way too much and was vomiting, >> right?
>> Uh the following morning, a lady friend of Macascals came to his home and discovered his body.
>> So what happened? How did he die? >> Well, Macascal's body was wrapped in a flower patterned shower curtain and he
was laying in the carport area of his home. This is near a door that was going to his kitchen. He's covered in blood.
Uh his house >> inside the home completely covered in blood as well. Um there had been an
obvious fight and that lasted probably quite some time that had left blood everywhere. Macascal had been stabbed
over a hundred times. >> Jesus. >> Um the stab that most likely killed him was there was one to the heart. Uh all
of the stab wounds were above the waist, showing that McKascal had defended himself and probably doing it quite
well. Uh making the fight last a lot longer than maybe his attackers would have thought it would have. Uh a lot of
the slashes and stabs were to the arms and the hands, showing that not only was he defending himself, but he was going
after the knife that was stabbing him. >> Well, it sounds like he had an ulcer. Yeah, this is this is probably natural
causes or at the very least an accidental death, right? According to Fami Malik. No, of course it was ruled a
murder. Um but but here's where it gets weird. >> Well, actually not of course in this
case. >> It's like not of course. >> Yeah, you're right. You you have to be like ex you know happy. Yeah. You're
like, "Oh, finally." Um well, now we we should talk about Ronald Shane Smith. Ronald Shane Smith was a neighbor of
Macascals. Right >> now, what had happened was when the police after after the the friend, the
female friend found Macascal's body, she calls it in, the police are there investigating whatever's going on. And
Ronald's father goes across the street and he says, "You know what? I think you should talk to my son because I think he
knows something about what has happened here." >> Right? >> So, they talk to the son. Uh now now
Ronald Shane Smith is 19 years old at the time and he's he's considered slow at school.
>> He's mentally handicap. >> Not my words. These are other people's words. Um the thing here is he tells
them that he was over at Macascal's place and that he he had gone there to purchase
>> I believe he purchased a silver tray and some pornographic uh videotapes from
Macascal. the tray was going to be a gift for his mother. The tapes were something for himself, right? And uh he
had owed Macascal money, so he went over there to pay him some of the money that
he owed him. And while they were there, he said that Macascal was acting strange. He was looking out the window,
stating that people were following him. And >> he's been calling this for weeks.
>> Yeah. And he says then at some point three men they they pull up in a vehicle, they bust through the door.
>> Yeah. But what were these guys wearing? >> There were there were three men wearing
clown mask. >> [ __ ] No. >> Well, no. >> Well, that's what that's what they were
wearing. But could you imagine? >> Well, we do have Stephen King's It coming out very soon.
>> Yes. But what I'm saying is if three dudes in Clown Mask showed up to my house Oh, I'd be
>> Yeah. You're hoping that it's one of your friends are acting nuts. >> I mean, I'd be scared, but at the same
time, I'd be thinking I'm going to kick one of these dudes in the dick. Well, uh, according to Ronald Shane
Smith, two of the guys had knives and one of them had a gun. And the the guy with the gun, the clown with the gun,
comes up to Ronald and he forces him into a chair holding him at gunpoint. >> Mhm.
>> A fight breaks out between Macascal and the other two guys that are holding knives. At some point during the fight,
the the gunman takes Ronald outside and he says that during this time he could hear McCascal in the home being
killed. Uh >> you would think they would just shoot him and then would it, you know, with
the when the struggle happened, you'd think that the guy with the gun would have just shot him and just took off.
>> Yeah. Well, here's the thing. Here's what really that was my whole thing. I was like, why the hell wouldn't they
just shoot this witness, right? >> But then I also got to thinking about, well, if Macascal was killed in a a
situation where it was a hit, where it was a planned murder. >> Mhm. >> Well, why would why would you bother
fighting with Macascal anyway? Because if you just you I wouldn't want to fight with Macascal. It sounds like he could
handle himself and and many others at the same time, right? >> He was a ballroom brawler, man. Mhm.
>> And the thing is, they obviously wanted to keep this quiet. You can't just show
up. You can't just show up to someone's home in a neighborhood and guns blasting
everywhere and go unnoticed. >> Silence, sir. >> The the thing here is, you know, so what
they did, according to Ronald Smith, is that they gave him the knife and they told him that if he didn't stab uh
Macascal, they were going to shoot him. And so he stabs McKascal and they take a
picture, a Polaroid picture of him at that time and they tell him that they're going to keep this for evidence. If you
ever come after us, if if we if you tell on us >> Mhm. >> we're going to frame you for this
murder. >> And again, his IQ was something around 80. So this is a lot of stuff and a lot
of details to come up with out of nowhere. >> It it is uh the story doesn't end there.
Uh we we'll get it back to that. But the I didn't really want to I didn't really
want to report on what his supposed IQ was because I've seen some varying, you know, we we noticed this with West
Memphis 3 and several other cases that we've covered that the IQ seems to be something that people argue. You know,
people that would be for some kind of conspiracy, they're going to lower his IQ when they tell the story. and people
that think that Ronald Smith is guilty, they're going to raise that IQ, right? The other thing that's been in question,
I've seen different reports of h of the size of this 19-year-old boy. >> Because there's been a lot of people
that said, well, you know, he was only 58, 148 lb. There's no way that he could have taken down Keith McKascal, who was
6'2, over 200 lb, barroom brawler. >> Mhm. >> Uh but I >> You don't bring a fist to a knife fight.
But I've also seen reports that have uh Ronald Smith being as tall as 5'11 and 180 pounds, which is not a big
discrepancy between the two men. Yeah. >> Exactly. Exactly. But his story does change uh upon further questioning. Um
the story changes to that it was not three men in clown mask. It was five men that were dressed head to toe in black
>> uh that they came in. But but there's a lot of similarities. They came in, they
busted through the door, they took over the situation, they controlled Ronald Smith and and they attacked Keith
McKascal. Um they did find they they found blood everywhere in that home. This fight lasted for quite some time.
And he believed Ronald Smith reported that he believed that the men that the attack took somewhere between 30 and 40
minutes to take place. The strange thing here though too is Jim Steed, you remember the uh the the outgoing sheriff
who lost the election? Well, he had hired Macascal to take aerial photos of the of the tracks of of the area where
the boys were were killed. Um we don't know I don't know if he ever successfully carried out those
photographs. Now, he did have a briefcase in his home that had blood all over it and it was opened and and it
wasn't full, you know, that it wasn't stuffed to the brim with with with items. So, some people would believe
that something was stolen from that briefcase. Um, it could have been aerial photos. It could have been it could have
been drugs. There was also rumors that McKascal was making audio tapes of what he knew about the murders and what he
and who he knew was involved. That way if something did happen to him that maybe police or maybe one of the actual
good guys would find one of these cassette tapes. >> Yeah. If there was a good guy left.
>> Yeah. It's it's getting hard to find any good people left. Now, the police, they
did go and they found some of these some items in Ron Smith's possession. Um, out
behind his home, they had found the silver tray that he had talked about purchasing, some videotapes, and they
found some bloody clothes. Now, in Ron Smith's story though, he says, remember, he says that he was told to to stab uh
Macascal as McKascal was already dead. Uh but he was also he also said that he had fallen on the body at some point and
got blood all over himself. >> Right. >> Um it's difficult here, Captain, because
you could make a strong argument either way in this case to me, but when I keep seeing name after name of people that
are being called to the grand jury and they keep dying, um it it seems to me like McKascal's murder is probably not a
one-off committed by this Ron Smith. It's probably connected to this whole boys on the tracks situation. Um, now
Ron Ronald Smith ends up being convicted of the murder of Keith McKascal, >> which my gut feeling says that is
another tragic point of this story. >> Mhm. Yeah. And next we have Jeff Rhodess. Now Jeff Rhodess was the young
man from Benton, Arkansas who was he ended up being murdered in 1989. But shortly before his death, he made a
phone call to his father in Texas, stating that he needed to get out of Arkansas and that he felt that he knew
way too much about the boys on the railroad tracks and the death of Keith McKascal. Uh, a couple weeks after this
phone call, that's when Jeff is found dead. Uh, he had been shot in the head and he was they had attempted whoever
killed him attempted to cut off his head and hands and feet. Um they were unsuccessful with the hands and feet. Uh
and they had also set him on fire. Now they found his body in a uh landfill. >> These are just savage people.
>> Yeah. The thing is though, we have Jeff Rhodess. He's he's missing for just a
week, right? But but shortly after he's reported missing, his father reaches out
to the sheriff's investigators and states that, you know, he called me a week ago asking if I could find him a
job here in Texas because he needed to leave Arkansas and this is why he needed to leave Arkansas. And he said there was
never any follow-up. Even after they had found his body, they didn't reach back out to him to further inquire what Jeff
Rhodess could have been talking about. And somehow they link the death of Jeff Rhodess to this guy named Frank
Pelchure. Uh he's ultimately arrested and charged with murder. He's convicted and sentenced to life. Now we we got to
keep in mind here because of what took place in 1987. Dan Harmon, he's he's a quote unquote special prosecutor. He's
assigned this role. He's >> Well, he's certainly special, >> right? But he's not technically he's not
an elected prosecutor. uh he's assigned this role in the in the the specific case of Don Henry and Kevin Ives. Now by
1990 he is the elected prosecutor and so now he has all this additional power. So
some of these cases that we're seeing coming about where the murder would take place in in 1989,
some of these people were probably convicted and and prosecuted by Dan Harmon. >> Well, he had a lot of covering up to do.
And that leads us to Jordan Kettlesson. Now, Jordan Kettson, he was believed to have had information regarding Kevin
Ives and Don Henry's deaths. Um, he was also believed that he might have been a part of Macascal's murder. Now, he was
found shot to death in his front in the front seat of his pickup truck in June of 1990.
Now, there was no police investigation regarding his homicide. His body was cremated before an autopsy could be
performed. Why? I have no clue. >> Well, because the autopsies were so bad anyways. So, you know, hey, let's just
not even get old Fami involved. >> Is probably a ulcer anyways. >> And and I don't have definitive
information about this, but it could be a situation where the police ruled it a suicide. You know, he's found shot in in
his vehicle, right? >> Um but again, we've talked about this time and time again. Anytime you have a
death that is as a result of unnatural causes, you know, an autopsy is supposed to be performed in this situation and
and it wasn't. The body was cremated before it could be performed. >> Well, right. Not if you're trying to
cover up and cover your ass. You know, >> we don't need autopsies. >> So, obviously, this is so obvious right
here, Captain. We We have >> nothing obvious. >> We have all these witnesses. We have all
these people that are supposed to be called to the grand jury. People that have been reported to have had private
meetings, private questioning situations with Richard Garrett and Dan Harmon. And
we see person after person, >> you know, getting killed. People person after person dying in these mysterious
deaths. Somewhere we have people getting convicted. Somewhere we have no explanation why they died at all. I
mean, we had we had Jerry who we don't know who he is. He and if we believe that story, he moved out of the area
because he was told to get the hell out of Dodge, >> right? Or he was killed and never found.
>> And and and one, they refused to identify him. You had stated earlier, and you're exactly right. It would have
been so easy for Sheriff Jim Steve to come forward and say, "Well, this is who Jerry was. I know who he is because we
locked him up for 90 days." But nobody says that. And then we have Ronnie Goodwin. Now, Ronnie Godwin, I'm sorry,
he's one of the lucky ones. He's still alive today. But but police refuse to believe his story. More to the point
where they say that he is Jerry when they know damn well he's not Jerry, >> right? He's just a drunk. Can't believe
him. >> We have Keith Cooney who was probably, you know, witnessed too much stuff that
night. He probably gave Kevin and Don a ride on the back of his motorcycle. He may have seen something go down at the
tracks earlier. Yeah. And his death is ruled a motorcycle accident. We have Keith,
>> right? With a slit throat. >> Yeah. We have Keith McKascal who is murdered in his own home. He's stabbed
over 100 times. We have the strange stories with the clown mask and the men dressed from head to toe in black.
>> Right. >> And we we have who could be another innocent person who is convicted of his
murder. >> Right. >> We have Greg Collins shotgun blast to the face and it's ruled a suicide.
>> Yeah. >> Three shots with a shotgun. He killed himself. We have Jeff Rhodess shotgun
blast to the face. His body is burned. He's found in the landfill. And we have this Pelchure guy that is arrested and
convicted for his murder. And we we got Roads telling people that not only did he know about the boy's deaths in
advance before he's killed, he's telling them that he knows about Macascal's death as well.
>> Right. >> We have Richard Winters who who dies in the robbery. We have Jordan Kettlesen uh
shot to death in in the front seat of his pickup truck. And there's no explanation for how he died. We're not
given a ruling on how he died. No autopsy performed. We have James Milum who had an ulcer and his head popped
off. It, you know, that's just Fami Malik straight out creating something here. Just just making something up. We
have that Boon Bearden who vanished and we've never seen him. He's believed to be murdered. They've never located his
body. What did he know? >> Yeah. And if this isn't if this isn't enough evidence of a huge conspiracy to
cover up these boys' death, I I don't know what to tell you. >> Yeah, they're covering up the deaths of
these two boys and then they're killing more people to cover up the deaths that they have to commit to cover up the the
original two, >> right? And it all comes down to the fact that they have these drugs, they have to
keep running the drugs, they want to keep having the money from the drugs, and that they're they have higherups. I
think that are involved and this drug smuggling and this drug running and it's it's the crime of greed to you
[clears throat] know the murder for greed just makes absolutely no sense to me. >> Well, and I know we probably got some
loyal Garage Army people out there going this this is huge, Nick and Captain. Why
haven't we heard of this before? Well, contact somebody that lives in Arkansas because these people have been talking
about this case for 30 years, right? Uh, this is no secret to the people that live in Arkansas and live in this area.
And if alarm bells aren't going off in your head, ask yourself this, okay? We've we've mentioned over what, we've
mentioned 10 or a dozen murders here, right? >> And there's probably a few that we don't
know about because we're not in Arkansas, and it's hard to find information about people that died in
87, 88,89 from that time period. But ask yourself this, why do we have an an area, a remote area of a state where
only about 5,000 people were reported to have been living there in the late 80s and we got all of these mysterious
deaths going on in a short period of time. >> Mhm. >> It it there's something going on in
Arkansas. >> Well, and how many people are going to talk about this if you know clowns are
showing up to people's houses and stabbing them a hundred times. If a clown shows up to my house, one, I'm
kicking it in the I'm kicking in the goddamn dick. Okay, first of all, second of all, I hope that we put out a show
next week because if somebody finds me somewhere and my head popped off, it wasn't a goddamn ulcer.
>> Your stomach's fine. I I'm will vouch for you. Your your stomach is fine. You're solid
>> in that area. [laughter] We got we we have a lot to uh cover in the next case.
And I think I it's a shame that this case hasn't been talked about. And I see this all the time when when and the the
thing that drives me absolutely insane is the word conspiracy when there are truths there.
>> Mhm. And when they start talking about these child sex trafficking rings that
maybe some people in the government are involved in and there's some actually there's some validity to the story and
it just kind of goes nowhere. To me that is powerful people and rich people being
able to protect themselves in a way that the normal person or the normal citizen
of the United States of America cannot do. >> Yeah. And I think um how much was like
Bill Clinton involved in this? I don't know. But he knew certain things about it. And again, I don't want to become
political because I'm neither left or right. I'm normally always wrong. So, you're usually wrong. But well, my point
is is I I don't like rich pricks and I don't like rich pricks using people for, you know, gains. And I don't like I
don't like people of power getting away with horseshit. >> Well, we will try tomorrow to sum this
up, put a nice bow on it, and open your eyes to some other goings on uh that was
taking place in in Arkansas as well. >> All right, let's wrap this up because I got to do a couple sets down at the
wagon wheel. >> Yeah, we will see everybody back in the garage tomorrow. If you if you don't
hear from us tomorrow, notify the National Guard. All right, but until then, be good, be kind, and don't
litter. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

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By all accounts, the engineer did a masterful job of bringing his train to a stop. It had taken a screaming, screeching half mile. By the time the engine shuddered to a standstill, Conductor Jerry Tomlin was on the radio notifying an approaching train on a parallel track to stop because some boys had been run over. He also called the dispatcher. "Have you got injuries?" The dispatcher asked. "No," Tomlin said. "We've got death." -From "The Boys on the Tracks" by Mara LeverittTonight we discuss the case that many wanted to keep quiet. Two teenagers are run over by a train in the middle of the night. Was it an accident, a double suicide or a double murder? Join us in the garage for the tragic story of the boys on the tracks.

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The episode investigates the 1987 murders of two boys and the corrupt officials involved in the cover-up.

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Welcome to True Crime Garage. Hosts Nick and the captain introduce the show and their beer of the week.
Corruption in the Investigation. Local law enforcement ignored evidence of homicide, protecting political allies.
Eyewitness Accounts. Witnesses claim to have seen police officers involved in the boys' deaths.
Mysterious Deaths Linked to Drug Trade. Keith Coney's death raises questions about police involvement and drug trafficking.
Gregory Collins' Shocking Murder. Gregory Collins, who had information on the case, was found shot three times.
Fami Malik's Controversial Rulings. Medical examiner Fami Malik ruled suspicious deaths as accidents or suicides.

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