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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Why the government might have wanted to cover this up.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Why officials all the way up to maybe the governor.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
were all involved in some sort of way that was very frustrating.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
In 1985, let me take you back a few years prior, two years before the death of Henry and Ives.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
You have 21-year-old Billy Hainline and 25-year-old Dennis Decker.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
They were found in a very similar manner.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
The pair was unmoving, lying on a railroad 20 miles south of a place in Oklahoma called Poto, but it also might be Po-O.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
For our resident Oklahoma residents, please let me know.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Po'o is approximately 125 miles west northwest of Alexander, so it's not super far away, but it's not immediately close.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Just like Ives and Henry, Heinlein and Decker were both run over by a train.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
The coroner in Leflore County, Oklahoma ruled their deaths as accidental, citing that they were drunk and had passed out on the railroad.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner confirmed that their blood alcohol content was near the legal limit.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
The examiner ruled that the cause of death was unknown.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
A month after this incident, a methamphetamine lab was discovered 1.5 miles north of where these men were found, leading some to suspect that their deaths were drug-related.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Ultimately, no one was ever charged in the deaths of Heinlein and Decker.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
And although there is no direct connection to the case at hand here, a lot of people are noticing the similarities.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Death by being run over by a train, unmoving, laying on the tracks, some sort of substance between alcohol and THC in the body to kind of explain why they are there.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
And this led many to suspect that their deaths were drug related
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
Well, you know, if you get away with it once, maybe you just get away with it again.
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Boys on the Tracks | Untangling the Massive Conspiracy Behind the Deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry
I see where you're heading.