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00:00KONIEC
00:30...electrified the crowd and they love him.
00:32What?
00:32Billy J. did what?
00:34I could have believed it, but I didn't. I didn't want to believe it.
00:37Billy Jack Haynes!
00:39Years before this shocking crime, Billy Jack Haynes had lived the dream,
00:44rising from Oregon's regional circuit to stardom in wrestling's golden age of the 1980s.
00:50Portland, Oregon, Billy Jack Haynes!
00:53Billy Jack had everything, all the tools to be a top professional wrestler.
00:58O, look at that!
01:00Billy Jack is strong!
01:02His career was in reverse.
01:04He started as a star, and he finished as a nobody.
01:08But Billy Jack's dealings outside the ring hinted at a mysterious life,
01:13one almost too extraordinary to believe.
01:16Billy said he had been involved in the drug business as a collector and enforcer.
01:21When I was in Portland, I was about a kilo a day cocaine dealer.
01:25Billy has made many, many claims.
01:26I was contracted to go down there to kill two Arkansas State police officers.
01:31You don't know fact from fiction with Billy Jack Haynes.
01:34I kept that secret from everybody.
01:37Now, as the former star faces murder charges,
01:41those who knew Billy Jack Haynes look back on the road that led him here.
01:45So Billy Jack was his own worst enemy.
01:47He didn't even know it.
01:48He was a loaded gun, brother.
01:50You never know what he's thinking.
01:52You know, a lot of guys fall hard in wrestling, but he fell harder than most.
01:56Without a doubt.
02:08In the wrestling industry, I guess a lot of people may have forgotten about him.
02:11Even the most diehard WWF fan today would say,
02:20well, yeah, Billy Jack, he was there.
02:23Billy Jack reaching down that intestinal fortitude.
02:26What did he do?
02:28People now in the present day are trying to go back because of what's happened with Billy
02:33and trying to figure out where did this start?
02:36We knew one day Billy Jack would do something crazy,
02:40but we never thought it would be that crazy.
02:44It shot me, and then again it didn't.
02:46I don't know if you can understand that.
02:48That's one thing where when Billy messed up, he messed up.
02:54Final mess up.
02:56I guess if you took everything and laid it on the table,
02:59you could see it coming up.
03:01Before his recent murder charge, Billy Jack's past reveals other crimes,
03:07including two assault charges before he's 30.
03:10But the same mean streak that gets him into trouble
03:13also creates new opportunities in the wrestling business.
03:17Billy Jack Haynes was a thug.
03:20He was a street fighter.
03:21He was an boxer, a wrestler.
03:24Tough guy, don't get me wrong.
03:27My dad found him as a gym rat, and he's below that now.
03:33All his bios say he was trained by Stu Hart.
03:36Stu Hart threw him out of Canada because he was too rough
03:39and beat all his boys up.
03:42So he was back being a gym rat in Portland, Oregon,
03:45when my dad and the assassin Dave Sierra found him.
03:49Well, he came to the Portland Sports Arena looking for work,
03:52and we got him hooked up.
03:55He looked unreal.
03:56He was like, you know, jacked to the max.
03:59Look at Billy Jack.
04:00Look at him.
04:01Me and Rip the Crippler, Oliver,
04:04talked the promoter Don Owens into using him.
04:07We knew with that size body and his home being the Pacific Northwest
04:11that we can draw money with him.
04:13Billy Jack Haynes.
04:16I mean, he just, he fit the part,
04:18and everybody was giving him a chance.
04:21In 1982, Billy rockets to the top
04:24with a persona tailor-made for fans in the Pacific Northwest.
04:28Billy Jack's gimmick and look came from the movie Billy Jack,
04:33starring Tom Laughlin,
04:34about the ex-serviceman who was a karate expert and a loner.
04:38He was a dangerous man, but soft-spoken, but don't cross him.
04:44Billy Jack, whose look, physique, the aura, and the presence he had,
04:48the fans went crazy for him,
04:50like he was their very own hometown movie star.
04:52Now, Portland, Oregon, boy!
04:55It's coming out to Victoria!
04:57So, Billy Jack was a very effective babyface promo guy for Portland, Oregon.
05:01Thank you, everybody in Portland, for supporting me.
05:03I love you. Thank you.
05:06Nice guy, loved his father, loved Oregon, loved Portland.
05:10You know what I mean?
05:11And he was Billy Jack from the movie,
05:13trying to get revenge on these different heels.
05:15Make a little bit more noise, and I'll get it for you.
05:18Let's go!
05:19Everyone knew he was a rising star.
05:21You know, the 80s was all about the look.
05:23He had the look.
05:24And I'm sure all the fans here are going to like this man,
05:27Billy Jack Haynes.
05:28What a fantastic build on this young man, Johnny.
05:31They loved him, you know.
05:32Every time Billy Jack was on the card, sold out.
05:35From the time he first stepped foot in the ring, he was featured.
05:38He was pushed by the promoters.
05:40Small territory? Pushed him.
05:42Went to a bigger territory? Pushed him.
05:45I know Billy Jack Haynes from the territory days.
05:48When he came to Florida, the temperature of wrestling,
05:50he was pretty laid back, kind of a low-key guy, and a loner.
05:55My name's Bill Fonze Alfonso,
05:59and I've been in the wrestling business for 45 years.
06:04I don't want to use the word oddball,
06:07but he was kind of different from all the wrestlers.
06:11We'd go out to the after party,
06:13have cocktails and drink and smoke a joint and so on.
06:16Billy Jack would go with the fans and their kids to pizza
06:20and have pizza with them.
06:21The fans loved him.
06:24He loved the fans.
06:25He was committed.
06:28After just four years of working in smaller promotions,
06:31Billy Jack Haynes gets the call in 1986
06:34from Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.
06:39If you wanted to go deep into Vince McMahon's mind
06:44and create a professional wrestler
06:46based on what he thought they should look like,
06:49Billy Jack was the guy.
06:50Now I'm here in the WWF.
06:53It's a World Wrestling Federation.
06:54And believe me, I know full well
06:56this is where the stiffest and the toughest competition is.
06:59He wrestled in that Detroit WrestleMania.
07:02They had over 100,000 people show up.
07:05Billy Jack Haynes!
07:07For a wrestler, that's the top of the mountain.
07:10Look at the builds on these two guys.
07:12Billy needed a tag team partner to elevate his persona.
07:25So it worked out good.
07:27It worked out real good.
07:29This is Ken Patera coming straight at you.
07:31And I used to wrestle with Billy Jack Haynes.
07:35His appearance was, don't f**k with me.
07:40How's that?
07:42Well, we weren't told anything about the gimmick.
07:47Pat Patterson came in the locker room and said,
07:51well, we got chainsaws.
07:53And you guys are the Oregon Lumberjacks now.
07:56And they wanted us to crank those chainsaws up
08:02so they were actually running.
08:04I said, are you f**king nuts?
08:07I'm not going to turn this chainsaw on,
08:10you know, so somebody could get an arm cut off.
08:13Just do this.
08:16Oh, there it is!
08:18Billy had a super nice personality and everything.
08:21Soft-spoken and whatnot.
08:24The nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.
08:26To Haynes and Ken Patera!
08:30But the gloss wears off after a while.
08:35All respects, Billy Jack had a fantastic body,
08:38stayed in shape.
08:39But upstairs, brother, that's a different story.
08:41Everyone knows me in pro wrestling as a grappler.
08:44I wrestled Billy Jack Haynes many times.
08:48He's one of those guys you never know what he's going to try.
08:51I never could trust him.
08:53He's always decided, you know, he's mad about something
08:55and all of a sudden knocked the hell out of you.
08:59He was an off-the-hinge type character.
09:07His finishing maneuver would be the full Nelson,
09:10and once he locked that full Nelson in you,
09:12you felt like he was going to break your neck.
09:14And once you gave up, he would just sling you,
09:22I mean, like a piece of trash to the side.
09:28In the locker room, he had a reputation for boom!
09:31I could see in his eyes, he was like a Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde.
09:35I've seen him snap several times.
09:38One night, we're in Florida.
09:40The match is over, and Percy Pringle was Rude's manager.
09:44And Billy Jack came in, and he didn't like the way the finish went.
09:47He walks in and slaps the piss out of Percy Pringle.
09:50He goes, this guy screwed up the finish, you idiot!
09:53That was his mentality.
09:54That's the way he handled things.
09:55We did a show, and Smirnoff pulled a fire alarm, got us in trouble.
10:02Next thing I know, Billy done face-locked Smirnoff.
10:05Smirnoff went to the bathroom himself.
10:08It was so bad.
10:10In Tampa, some smart-ass guy was checking Billy Jack out.
10:14He said, oh, that fake bullshit, I could kick ass.
10:18I remember him snatching him into the headlock
10:20and punching him in the face about 20 times really quick.
10:24Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
10:27He'd beat the hell out of the person
10:28and then kick right out of it like nothing happened.
10:31He did it because he could.
10:33I mean, right there, I've noticed this guy's a bully.
10:35He takes on who he knows he can handle.
10:38You know, so I didn't respect that.
10:40He went to jail on two or three occasions, I believe,
10:45for beating people up.
10:47But he always said, they deserved it.
10:51Oregon men don't back down to nobody.
10:54You know, he's got a heart.
10:56But then he's got the other side.
10:58You know, when you screw him over,
11:00he'll come in your house, pull you out, beat you to death.
11:03I would never think that the Billy Jack that I knew in the 80s
11:10would have ended up doing what he did.
11:15Police have now confirmed a woman was found dead
11:18and a man was taken into custody
11:20after an hours-long police standoff.
11:23There's a whole lot that people don't know about me.
11:44and the law isn't always right.
11:48The law isn't always wrong.
11:52Believe half of what you hear
11:54and nothing of what you see.
11:55I'm Billy Jack Haynes
12:03from the World Wrestling Federation
12:05and a 14-year pro.
12:07Good to talk to you.
12:08Right now, I'm in the Noma County Justice Center Jail.
12:16I've been incarcerated six months.
12:18What I'm talking to you guys today about
12:20is one small percentage of my life.
12:22And there's a whole big part of my life
12:23I'm leaving out here.
12:25The position I'm in right now,
12:26it's hard for me to bring up anything
12:27and talk about it.
12:29And I have my attorney out there.
12:30I'm glad that he's here today.
12:32and it's a second-degree murder.
12:36And it's just way overcharged.
12:39That didn't happen.
12:43There's only really two human beings I really love.
12:46That was my father, who was blind and in a wheelchair.
12:49And then the other was my wife,
12:51who allegedly I murdered,
12:54which you're going to find I didn't.
12:56And I loved her more than life.
12:58Weighing 247 pounds.
13:03Cold wrestling is a work.
13:04We all know that.
13:06But we took it real serious back when we were at it.
13:09Oh, look at the blood just spewing out of the forehead.
13:13I don't want to be negative towards anybody in this industry.
13:16You know, I don't.
13:17I respect the wrestlers so much.
13:19But, you know, they don't know me.
13:22Throughout his wrestling career,
13:23Billy Jack Haynes remains distant,
13:26private to the point of secrecy.
13:28He was not the life of the party,
13:31the life of the locker room.
13:32He wasn't making friends hand over fist.
13:35He was just that big guy over there.
13:36It's like something's going on.
13:39Billy Jack was a true loner.
13:42Then I realized he was very manipulative.
13:45He always had an agenda.
13:48And you never knew what he was up to.
13:50Well, we'd go check in at the hotel there.
13:55Five minutes later, Billy would be gone.
13:58And he did that every f***ing night.
14:00I didn't know what he was doing.
14:01At that time, I was really heavy into the narcotics,
14:09into the painkillers.
14:11Uppers, lowers, I mean, you name it,
14:13you couldn't survive without it.
14:15I was five days a week in and out of airports.
14:19Different cities.
14:20Billy Jack, goal to work now.
14:22340 nights a year.
14:23Heavyweight champion, Billy!
14:26I took 20, sometimes 25 pills a day.
14:29Vicodin, Percocet,
14:31he got in the way of wrestling and my life.
14:33All you beautiful children,
14:35drugs are negative.
14:36You are a positive influence for the world.
14:38I love you very much.
14:39Say no to drugs.
14:41Drugs are no good, you know.
14:42It's not good.
14:44Well, we're at the Oakland Coliseum
14:48in a tag team.
14:50It's time for the match.
14:52Billy's nowhere to be found.
14:54About an hour later,
14:56all the matches were over,
14:58and here comes Billy.
15:00Oh, he looked like hell.
15:02I said, Billy, you missed the match.
15:04Ah, completely out of it.
15:09McMahon said that he was going to give us a big push,
15:11and I think we're going to throw that out the window.
15:18How did it come to an end at WWF in your run?
15:21Oh, yeah, yeah.
15:23Now, I probably...
15:25What do you think about that?
15:27On the plane?
15:30You guys should talk about that?
15:32Well, it happened.
15:37Now, what I heard
15:39is that he overdosed on some codeine, I think.
15:42He was falling at the mouth.
15:44He was jerking.
15:45We had that murky landing.
15:47They thought he was dying.
15:49I was this close away from death,
15:51and they had to jumpstart me twice.
15:54I'd be gone.
15:56You know, and with WWF, I mean, it's like,
15:57they don't want that bad,
15:59but who's he getting out?
15:59You know what I mean?
16:00And that was the final straw.
16:02He was never in the top spot in WrestleMania.
16:04He was never a major singles champion.
16:09And after about a year and a half,
16:10he was fired by the WWF.
16:14Returning to Portland,
16:16Billy Jack shocks his former colleagues
16:18by turning on the promoter who made him.
16:21But everybody knows
16:22that the state of Oregon
16:23has the number one wrestling fan in the world.
16:26The Oregon Wrestling Federation
16:29was what Billy Jack wanted to open
16:31so he could be Vince McMahon
16:33of the Pacific Northwest.
16:35That was his words.
16:37OWF was going to be his baby.
16:40We said, Billy, Don Owens made you,
16:42and now you're opening a company against him?
16:46And I couldn't believe it.
16:48You've got to have money to back that.
16:50Sponsors and all that.
16:51You know, somebody's got some deep pockets
16:53if you want to try to do that.
16:55Was there two weeks,
16:57and the shows that were running
16:58weren't drawing anything.
17:00There was a couple hundred people in the audience,
17:02so it kind of fizzed out pretty quick.
17:04And I got a check on Friday,
17:06and he said,
17:07Fonzie, can you please not cash it until Monday?
17:10So I knew I was in trouble.
17:12And I went right to the bank and cashed it,
17:14and I left.
17:15Finally, one day, we come in.
17:17He said, I'm closing, guys.
17:19And that was it.
17:21The collapse of the Oregon Wrestling Federation
17:22was pretty spectacular.
17:24Billy Jack Haynes really left a lot of guys hanging,
17:27and there was a lot of bad blood.
17:29It hurt Billy's reputation with a lot of people.
17:33That was my bad due to the fact
17:35that my head wasn't screwed on right,
17:38and probably a little bit to do with the pills, too.
17:42Struggling with addiction and running out of allies,
17:46in 1996, Haynes' once promising career
17:49crashes to a halt.
17:52Just a shame and a pity,
17:55because he had the world by the string.
17:57He never became the star
17:59to the magnitude of what people had predicted.
18:02By the time his wrestling career was over,
18:05nobody trusted him,
18:06and all that potential just dribbled away with it.
18:09Though his wrestling days may be over,
18:13it doesn't take long for Billy Jack
18:15to find his way back into the spotlight.
18:18He was a little strange,
18:20a little standoffish,
18:21sometimes a little off-putting, whatever.
18:24He was kind of weird.
18:25And suddenly, you saw him a few years later,
18:28and there started to be this change.
18:30In retirement,
18:33Billy Jack hits the interview circuit,
18:35revealing a shocking detail.
18:37While in wrestling,
18:38he'd been living a secret double life of crime.
18:43Starting way back in the 70s,
18:45I was about a kilo a day cocaine dealer,
18:47and I kept that secret from everybody.
18:49I just wanted to go in
18:51and actually do something in the pro wrestling industry
18:53instead of a drug runner,
18:55leg breaker,
18:57and worse.
18:58I mean,
18:58making 30 grand a week,
19:00I lit a lot of guys up,
19:02and a lot of guys got addicted
19:03to the cocaine that I sold them.
19:05You know,
19:05very nefarious things
19:07that went on back in the 80s.
19:09In 2017,
19:11Billy Jack makes an even more shocking claim,
19:14linking himself to a famous unsolved murder.
19:17It's been over 30 years
19:19since two teenage boys
19:20were found dead
19:21on these tracks in Saline County.
19:23The tracks are still here,
19:24and so is the mystery
19:25regarding what happened.
19:26What's new
19:27is the witnesses come forward.
19:29I helped put the kids on the tracks.
19:31They were already dead.
19:32They've been murdered.
19:35Surfshark.
19:36Well,
19:37over 30 years ago,
19:38a Union Pacific train
19:39ran over two Saline County teenagers.
19:41The deaths of Kevin Ives
19:42and Don Henry
19:43have become one of Arkansas's
19:44most notorious mystery.
19:46There was a famous murder case
19:48in Arkansas
19:49back in the 80s
19:51where these two teenage boys
19:54were run over by a train
19:56is what they thought
19:57originally happened.
19:59In the pre-dawn hours
20:00of August 23rd, 1987,
20:03a 75-car cargo train
20:04made its regular night run
20:06to Little Rock, Arkansas.
20:08With engineer Stephen Shorty
20:09grew closer,
20:10he made the horrifying discovery
20:12that two boys
20:13were lying motionless
20:14across the railroad tracks.
20:16Well, then,
20:17somebody else investigated
20:19and found out
20:19they had been beaten.
20:20They had injuries.
20:22They weren't just
20:22run over by a train.
20:24Then Billy Jack
20:25started claiming
20:26that he was there
20:28and saw the murder
20:30because these two teenagers
20:32wandered into a drug deal.
20:34His story,
20:39the drug people,
20:40wanted him to supervise
20:42the drug drop
20:43and pay off
20:43to make sure
20:44that everything goes okay
20:45and he was going to
20:47videotape it also
20:48and he said,
20:50I wore a wrestling mask.
20:53I'd been around
20:53the dope game
20:54for a long time.
20:55I went down there
20:56by myself
20:57after I wrestled
20:58King Kong Bundy.
20:59and we went
20:59to the tracks.
21:00The drop was made.
21:02Apparently,
21:03these kids
21:04wandered up on it
21:04and as a result,
21:06the drug people
21:07killed them
21:07and put them
21:08on the railroad tracks.
21:10They were just
21:11in the wrong place
21:11at the wrong time.
21:13I helped put the kids
21:14on the tracks.
21:15No, I was there.
21:16I helped.
21:18They'd been murdered.
21:19They were already dead.
21:20The judge is going
21:22to come out
21:22so this woman
21:23lit her eyes
21:23can have a light.
21:26Billy Jack's claims
21:27about the unsolved murders
21:28are taken seriously
21:30by the mother
21:30of one of the victims
21:31as well as by
21:33the family's
21:33private investigator.
21:36I mean,
21:36there is no good reason
21:37to insert yourself
21:38into a murder case.
21:40He has nothing to gain
21:41and everything to lose.
21:42He's put himself
21:43in jeopardy
21:44not only as freedom
21:45but also his life.
21:47They're hopeful
21:48that law enforcement
21:49will now take a look.
21:50As Billy Jack
22:03continues sharing
22:04his story,
22:05other details
22:06sound increasingly
22:07unbelievable.
22:09There was drops
22:10that were being stolen,
22:11cocaine drops.
22:12I was sent down there
22:13to take care
22:15of two state police
22:16officers from Arkansas
22:17but it was an inside job
22:20and he told me
22:21that he was running
22:22with one of the biggest
22:24drug dealers
22:24in the country.
22:26I've dealt drugs
22:27at the highest level
22:28you can.
22:28That's uncut coke.
22:31Well, in the beginning
22:31when I first started
22:32hearing the stories
22:33I thought,
22:33come on, Billy, really?
22:35But when it gets
22:36right down to it,
22:37he can prove it.
22:38He brought it all out
22:39in an interview
22:40on several occasions
22:41as a matter of fact.
22:42The things that he said
22:44about it
22:44and all this stuff
22:45is all verifiable
22:46but that's about
22:47all I can say about it.
22:49I can't talk about it.
22:52I'd love to,
22:53but I can't.
22:54But haven't you told
22:55that story so many times?
22:56I wish I could talk
22:57to you guys.
22:58I can't.
23:00What can you tell me
23:01without getting
23:01into details?
23:02Is it true?
23:03Did you hear that?
23:09That is probably
23:10a subject
23:11you should move on.
23:13Leave it alone.
23:25As Billy Jack's
23:26interview appearances
23:27become more frequent,
23:29his claims extend
23:30far beyond drug dealing
23:31and the boys on the tracks.
23:33and many begin
23:34to wonder
23:34what's behind it.
23:37From show tonight,
23:38Nancy Grace would say,
23:40everything you're going
23:41to hear is true.
23:42He looked completely
23:43ridiculous
23:44and then he had
23:46this white hair
23:47but it was like
23:48a mop top cut
23:49like he was
23:50Pete Best,
23:50the fifth Beatle.
23:52My mother
23:53and my uncle
23:54when I was 15
23:55were both murdered.
23:56There was two politicians
23:57that were involved.
24:00And he started
24:01concocting these stories
24:02where he was
24:04in the middle
24:04of a variety
24:06of newsworthy events.
24:08Andy Gibb
24:09had a gig
24:10in San Francisco
24:11and one of my
24:12first big deliveries
24:13was there
24:15to the concert.
24:16I delivered
24:16one kilo to him
24:18July 31st, 1978.
24:21and some say,
24:22well,
24:23he knows stuff
24:23that nobody else knows.
24:25Well,
24:25the dude studies shit,
24:26I can tell you that.
24:27And that's how nutty he was.
24:29He don't have
24:29nothing better to do
24:30but to try to find
24:31his way to make himself
24:32back in the scene.
24:34I had cocaines
24:35from the median cartel
24:36in Columbia.
24:38So I started
24:38making more money.
24:39The Clintons
24:40are involved too.
24:43Well,
24:43now,
24:43was he a drug enforcer
24:44for the Clintons?
24:45Why the
24:46would Bill Clinton
24:48call
24:49Billy Jack Haines?
24:51Yeah,
24:51that's stupid.
24:52I took it
24:53for a grain of salt.
24:56He had to be
24:56on some good drugs
24:57to think that.
24:59But then
25:00the question becomes,
25:02where was the bizarre
25:03behavior originating?
25:05Conspiracy theories
25:06and being
25:07the Forrest Gump
25:08of crime,
25:09it not only
25:09sounds so preposterous,
25:11but there was
25:11no upside to him.
25:12It was just interviews
25:13being done
25:14with this kooky
25:15old man
25:16that people would
25:17put up on the internet.
25:19I wanted to know
25:20who my real dad is
25:21for a long time,
25:22whether it's
25:22Lenny Montana,
25:24whether it's
25:24Vince McMahon Sr.,
25:26which it could have been,
25:27because he supposedly
25:28had sex with my mother.
25:29Vince Sr. could be
25:30my father.
25:31There's a long history
25:32to that.
25:32I don't know
25:32if we can get into
25:33today or not.
25:34Claiming to be
25:34the son of
25:35Vince McMahon Sr.
25:36aside from being
25:37ridiculous,
25:38that's unbelievable
25:40that somebody
25:40even tried
25:41to pass that off.
25:43When I heard
25:44stuff like that,
25:45I would say,
25:45man,
25:46Billy's really
25:46losing it.
25:47What's causing
25:48Billy Jack
25:49to make up stuff
25:51that's obviously
25:52not true?
25:549-11 was an
25:54inside job,
25:55no question about it.
25:57All you have to do
25:58in this world
25:58is follow the money.
26:00So this isn't
26:01going to make
26:02the Bush family
26:02too happy,
26:03but they're involved
26:04too.
26:04He did look
26:06like someone
26:07that would say
26:08anything just
26:09to be on a podcast
26:10and get more
26:12money out of that
26:13podcast.
26:15I'm not afraid
26:16to come in front
26:16of this camera
26:17and tell you the truth
26:18and either you're
26:19going to believe it
26:20or you're not
26:21going to believe it.
26:21The idea was
26:23if you tell
26:24crazy stories
26:25there will be
26:26an appetite
26:26for more
26:27even though
26:28it's all bullshit.
26:29You're probably
26:29going to be
26:30looking at a dead man.
26:31Maybe by the time
26:32this video gets out
26:33everything I've said
26:34could get me killed.
26:36Everything I've said
26:36with Vince
26:37can get me killed.
26:39One preposterous thing
26:41in wrestling
26:41can be true.
26:42With some people
26:43a couple of preposterous
26:44things can be true.
26:45But when you're
26:47just pulling shit
26:48out of your ass
26:49over and over
26:50then even if
26:51one or two
26:52of those things
26:52is true
26:53nobody's going
26:53to believe them.
26:56Amid all
26:57of the astonishing
26:58claims Billy Jack
26:59makes
26:59at least one
27:00truth stands out.
27:03January 10th
27:042006
27:05there was
27:06attempted murder
27:07on me.
27:12Once again
27:12I'm speaking
27:13for the people
27:14onto the ground
27:15right now
27:15they can't speak
27:16for themselves
27:16so let me do it
27:17please.
27:18From 2006
27:19to 2023
27:21Billy Jack Haynes
27:22makes a series
27:23of shocking
27:24statements
27:25and explosive
27:26accusations.
27:27Vincent Cain
27:28McMahon
27:29I call it
27:30Vincent
27:30Killer
27:31McMahon
27:32and yeah
27:32that's right
27:33you're a killer.
27:35Though many
27:35of Billy Jack's
27:36stories are dismissed
27:37as conspiracy theories
27:38a violent incident
27:40in 2006
27:41suggests that
27:42Billy Jack's
27:42ties to
27:43organized crime
27:44may be legitimate.
27:47This is the file
27:48from the work
27:49I did 16 years ago.
27:51Police reports
27:52letters from
27:53Billy Jack
27:54and a couple
27:55photos
27:56of Billy
27:56in the hospital.
27:57At the time
28:00I was writing
28:01a column
28:01for the
28:02Portland Tribune
28:02and so
28:03next thing
28:03I knew
28:04Billy Jack
28:05is knocking
28:06on my door.
28:07He looked like
28:08Frankenstein's monster.
28:09He'd just gotten
28:09out of the hospital.
28:11He'd had several
28:12bones in his face
28:13broken
28:13and he had
28:13stitches
28:14as I recall.
28:15We sat down
28:16and he started
28:17telling me
28:17his story.
28:19Basically
28:20that he'd
28:20been called
28:21over to
28:22Jimmy Longoria's
28:24car lot.
28:24The Longoria family
28:26was certainly
28:27one of the more
28:28prominent
28:29Portland crime
28:30families.
28:31Billy had been
28:31a bill collector
28:33and he said
28:34he delivered
28:35drugs for
28:36the Longorias.
28:37What have you
28:38got?
28:38What is all
28:38this stuff?
28:39These are
28:40letters from
28:41Billy Jack
28:41from months
28:42after it came
28:43to my place.
28:45On January
28:4610th, 2006
28:47I was set up
28:49for a hit
28:49or to be killed
28:51by two hitmen
28:52hired by
28:53Jimmy Longoria.
28:54I drove
28:55through the
28:55open gate
28:56at the time
28:56scheduled 9am
28:57and I parked
28:58about 30 feet
28:59inside the lot
29:00where I met
29:00a man and
29:01asked where I
29:02could find
29:02Jimmy Longoria.
29:03The man motioned
29:04over his left
29:05and Jimmy Longoria
29:06was sitting at
29:07the desk
29:07with his hands
29:08behind his head
29:09with a very
29:09cocky look
29:10on his face.
29:11I said
29:12you're going
29:12to kill me
29:13aren't you?
29:15It was then
29:16I believe
29:16that Jimmy
29:16told me
29:17that paybacks
29:18are a bitch
29:19Billy Jack.
29:19I remember
29:21looking at
29:22the office
29:22windows
29:23and seeing
29:23four men
29:24and I thought
29:25I was a dead
29:25man.
29:26It was very
29:27clear that
29:27two guys
29:28attacked him.
29:30They beat
29:30him so badly
29:31that he had
29:31to play dead.
29:34He knew
29:34they wanted
29:35to kill him.
29:36They said
29:37I would have
29:37been dead
29:38because
29:38instinct reaction
29:39saved me
29:40probably
29:40one of the
29:40little instincts
29:41I have
29:41left to save
29:42me.
29:45Jimmy Longoria
29:46had a
29:47pretty airtight
29:48alibi.
29:49He said
29:50two tweakers
29:51came onto
29:53his lot
29:54and provoked
29:55Billy into
29:56a fight.
29:57He said
29:57he'd never
29:57seen him
29:58before
29:58and couldn't
29:58identify him.
30:00I think
30:00they probably
30:01worked for
30:01Longoria.
30:02The surveillance
30:03cameras somehow
30:04had not been
30:05working
30:06which was
30:07of course
30:07very suspicious.
30:10I cannot
30:10see out of
30:11my right eye.
30:13You can focus
30:14in here
30:15in my eye.
30:16Billy said
30:17it was
30:17retribution
30:19for 15
30:20or 16
30:20years before
30:21when he
30:22had ripped
30:22off $200,000.
30:24He'd been
30:25a courier
30:26back and
30:26forth from
30:27Portland to
30:27Los Angeles
30:28taking coke
30:29one way
30:29and money
30:30the other.
30:31Let's just say
30:31in the 80s
30:32I transported
30:33drugs.
30:34I had a
30:351986 Toyota
30:364x4.
30:37They put
30:37the built-in
30:38cabinet
30:39or toolbox.
30:40On the way
30:41back he
30:42broke into
30:42the toolbox
30:43saw $1,200,000
30:45figured that
30:46$200,000
30:47should belong
30:48to him.
30:49I gave
30:50the million
30:50bucks
30:50I took
30:51my $200,000.
30:53Billy said
30:53this beating
30:54was retribution
30:55for that.
30:58I think
30:59he ripped
31:00off the
31:00Longorias.
31:01I think
31:01that much
31:01is true.
31:03But the
31:04idea that
31:04they would
31:05have waited
31:0516 years
31:06didn't make
31:07any sense
31:07to me at
31:07all.
31:10There are
31:15also rumors
31:16that Billy
31:17Jack's
31:17organized
31:18crime
31:18connections
31:19might have
31:19been involved
31:20in his
31:20short-lived
31:21promotion
31:21in the
31:22late
31:221980s.
31:27I've
31:27heard rumors
31:28I don't know
31:28something about
31:28the mafia
31:29but I don't
31:29know anything
31:30about that.
31:31What I
31:32understood
31:32he had
31:33crooked
31:34sponsors
31:34and they
31:36seen a
31:37bunch of
31:37money
31:37getting lost
31:38fast
31:39and they
31:39just all
31:40one by
31:41one pulled
31:41out and
31:42that's
31:42why I
31:42think
31:42his
31:43promotion
31:43folded
31:44even
31:44faster.
31:46A lot
31:46of people
31:47that open
31:47wrestling
31:48promotions
31:48get into
31:49that because
31:50it's the
31:51easiest way
31:51to clean
31:51money.
31:52As far as
31:53the money
31:53coming from
31:54nefarious
31:54characters
31:55it's very
31:56possible.
31:57He had a
31:58very dark
31:58life and he
31:59probably had
31:59some very
31:59dark
32:00friends.
32:00I'm
32:05generally
32:05sympathetic
32:05to oddball
32:06characters
32:07like
32:08Billy Jack
32:09but he
32:10was a
32:11puzzling
32:11character.
32:12When we
32:12were having
32:13lunch one
32:13day I
32:14mentioned
32:14the 30
32:15year old
32:16murder of
32:16corrections
32:17official
32:18Michael
32:18Franke.
32:20I
32:20explained
32:21the case
32:21to him
32:22we went
32:23on to
32:23something
32:23else and
32:24about two
32:24months
32:25later
32:25Billy Jack
32:26sends me
32:27something
32:28all of a
32:28sudden
32:29claiming to
32:30have been
32:30involved and
32:31a witness to
32:32the Michael
32:32Franke kill.
32:34He didn't know
32:35anything about
32:35Michael Franke
32:36before I
32:37told him.
32:381991
32:38in May 1st
32:40on my dad's
32:41birthday of the
32:41murder of
32:42Michael Franke
32:42I was forced
32:43out of Oregon
32:44before my dad
32:45would be killed
32:46I was told.
32:47I think maybe
32:48he convinced
32:49himself that
32:50he was involved
32:51that he had
32:52actually seen
32:53the assassination.
32:54He was
32:55collecting
32:55newspaper articles
32:57police reports
32:59and marking
33:00them up
33:00the whole
33:01page would
33:02be colored.
33:03He always
33:03had his
33:04binders
33:04and his
33:05shit.
33:05I don't
33:05know what
33:06was in it
33:06but he
33:07had them.
33:08He always
33:08had them.
33:09It's just
33:09documentation
33:10that's all
33:10I can say.
33:12It's not my
33:12place to go
33:13into those
33:13kinds of
33:14things.
33:15Right now
33:15as we speak
33:16I'm writing
33:17an autobiography
33:17with one of
33:18the best
33:19writers in
33:20the world.
33:21It's something
33:21in there
33:22when people
33:22read you'll
33:23see it's
33:23documented
33:24and it
33:26may or may
33:26not get
33:27me killed
33:27I don't
33:27know.
33:28He had
33:29quite a bit
33:29of stuff
33:29in there
33:30yeah.
33:31At that
33:31point it
33:31was sort
33:32of hands
33:32off for
33:33me and I
33:33just sort
33:33of back
33:34away from
33:34the case
33:35and say
33:35I don't
33:36know what
33:37parts of
33:37this are
33:37true and
33:38what parts
33:39aren't.
33:40The beating
33:40was certainly
33:41for real
33:42the involvement
33:43in the coke
33:44business was
33:45almost certainly
33:46quite real
33:47the rest
33:48I don't
33:50know.
33:51He talked
33:51like he
33:52believed it
33:52even as
33:53nutty as
33:54Billy Jack
33:55Haynes was
33:55did I
33:56think that
33:56you know
33:57he would
33:57be 70
33:58years old
33:58and the
33:58SWAT team
33:59would be
33:59outside of
34:00Billy Jack
34:00Haynes'
34:00house.
34:02There's a
34:02reason you're
34:02in trouble
34:03a lot
34:03because you
34:03just gravitate
34:04to a
34:05trouble.
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34:07line 3
34:07by 2019
34:15Billy Jack
34:16Haynes is
34:16living a
34:17nomadic
34:17lifestyle
34:18making rare
34:19interview
34:19appearances.
34:21I wear
34:22Oregon here
34:22there
34:24take that
34:25Oregon
34:26stick it
34:26up your
34:27ass.
34:27He'd been
34:28a non-entity
34:29in the
34:29wrestling
34:29world for
34:3025 years
34:32by the
34:34time he
34:35started
34:35and just
34:36being the
34:37weird person
34:38that we've
34:39seen in
34:39modern times
34:40I think
34:40you'd almost
34:41have to say
34:42he was on
34:42some kind
34:43of substance.
34:45I heard
34:45that he was
34:46having financial
34:47difficulties.
34:48You think
34:48you're on top
34:49of the world
34:49and the next
34:50day you turn
34:50around and
34:50you've got
34:51two nickels
34:51to rub
34:52together.
34:53He was
34:54homeless
34:54yeah.
34:55Homeless?
34:57Yeah that's
34:57right.
34:57My band's
34:58sleeping.
35:00Rip Oliver
35:00opened his
35:01house for
35:02Billy Jack
35:03to live
35:03there.
35:03So Rip
35:05I found
35:06out that
35:07he was
35:07dying
35:072019
35:09in December
35:09so I
35:10left
35:11Portland
35:11and flew
35:12down to
35:13Florida
35:13and spent
35:13the last
35:14three months
35:14with him.
35:15I'm not
35:15looking for
35:16no pat
35:16on the
35:16back
35:16he was
35:18a great
35:18guy.
35:19He never
35:19came here
35:20for my
35:20dad.
35:20He came
35:21here to have
35:21a free
35:22place to
35:22live and
35:22if he was
35:23on pills
35:24before he
35:24got there
35:25he damn
35:25sure was
35:25before he
35:26left.
35:27You said
35:27he stole
35:27your dad's
35:28pills?
35:29Yeah.
35:30My dad
35:30was months
35:31away from
35:32dying.
35:33My dad
35:33was on
35:33the
35:34real
35:34shit
35:34the
35:34heist
35:35they go
35:35the stuff
35:36put people
35:37in comas.
35:38He started
35:39taking Rip's
35:41Percocets or
35:42Vicodin which Rip
35:43really needed
35:44because he was
35:44very sick.
35:45I think he was
35:46more taking
35:47advantage of
35:47Rip and Rip
35:48was playing
35:50for everything.
35:52Billy got
35:53in a scheme
35:54and called
35:55Brian Blair up.
35:56Brian Blair
35:57ran the
35:57Cauliflower
35:58Alley.
35:59You know
35:59they help
35:59wrestlers with
36:00problems.
36:01I don't
36:01know what
36:02happened
36:02but Billy
36:03called
36:03Brian.
36:04Rip's
36:05dying.
36:05He needs
36:06help.
36:06He's
36:06going to
36:07lose his
36:07property.
36:08This is
36:09what my dad
36:09told me.
36:10Cauliflower
36:10Alley
36:11couldn't
36:11pay for
36:11his back
36:12taxes on
36:12his house.
36:13They paid
36:14for his
36:14rent.
36:14They paid
36:14everything
36:15for him.
36:17Well my
36:17dad didn't
36:18owe taxes.
36:19When he
36:19died he
36:20didn't owe
36:20taxes.
36:22And my
36:22dad told
36:22me that
36:23Billy took
36:24half and
36:24he gave
36:24him half.
36:25My dad
36:27was a
36:27junkie.
36:28I don't
36:28mean to
36:29say that
36:29bad but
36:30he was
36:30hooked.
36:31He was
36:32done.
36:34He wanted
36:34me to be
36:35there and
36:35I was
36:35there always
36:36to hospice
36:36until he
36:37finally died.
36:38I didn't
36:38want him
36:38to be
36:39alone.
36:40I know
36:40he stole
36:40all my
36:41dad's
36:41shit before
36:42he died.
36:43Everybody's
36:43got stories
36:44that I've
36:45seen it.
36:46It finally
36:46came out
36:47after 30
36:49something years.
36:50He took
36:50advantage of
36:51everybody.
36:55Back in
37:05Portland
37:05Billy Jack
37:06begins a
37:07relationship
37:07with Jan
37:08Becraft
37:08the mother
37:09of his
37:10friend Todd.
37:11The
37:12Becraft
37:12family
37:13disapproves
37:13of the
37:14relationship
37:14but when
37:15Todd
37:15unexpectedly
37:16dies in
37:172021
37:18Billy Jack
37:19and Jan
37:19get married.
37:21She was
37:21like 85
37:22and he's
37:22like 70
37:23and so
37:24when I
37:24saw the
37:24age of
37:25the woman
37:25you know
37:26you hear
37:26stuff from
37:27people
37:27was he
37:28like using
37:28her for
37:29money or
37:29a place
37:30to live
37:30or whatever.
37:34Come here.
37:35This is
37:36actually the
37:36main house.
37:38This is the
37:39main bedroom
37:40on this
37:40side and
37:41then the
37:41living room
37:42you can
37:42see through
37:43the kitchen.
37:44My name
37:44is Tom
37:44Matthew.
37:45I was
37:46actually living
37:46here before
37:47Billy Jack
37:48moved in.
37:49You talk to
37:50anybody in
37:50the neighborhood
37:50they all
37:51loved him.
37:51He would
37:52walk around
37:52talk to
37:53everybody.
37:53He really
37:55loved Jan
37:55a lot
37:55and he
37:56was quite
37:56devoted to
37:57her.
37:57She was
37:57sick.
37:58She was
37:59ill with
37:59dementia.
38:02Some days
38:02she'd have
38:02good days
38:03and some
38:03days most
38:04of the
38:04days were
38:04bad.
38:05And that
38:06wore on
38:06Billy pretty
38:07hard.
38:09She had
38:09some good
38:10days but
38:10they were
38:10getting worse
38:11and her
38:11family definitely
38:12did not like
38:13them being
38:13together.
38:14And I don't
38:15think they
38:15were going
38:16to separate.
38:16in my
38:17opinion he
38:19took very
38:19good care
38:20of her
38:20and wanted
38:21to protect
38:21her and
38:22keep her
38:22from any
38:23kind of
38:23harm.
38:24The last
38:25time I
38:25spoke to
38:25him was
38:26two days
38:27before the
38:28incident.
38:29And I
38:30told Billy
38:31I said
38:31Billy you
38:31look terrible.
38:32He hadn't
38:33slept.
38:33He hadn't
38:33hardly eaten
38:34anything.
38:35People with
38:35dementia they
38:37become combative.
38:38It's tough
38:39to watch a
38:40loved one
38:40go through
38:41that kind
38:42of mental
38:42decline.
38:43I seen
38:45the cop
38:46cars and
38:46stuff on
38:47my security
38:48camera.
38:48So I
38:49went outside
38:49to see what
38:50was going
38:50on and I
38:50looked down
38:51the street
38:51and I
38:51saw them
38:52all down
38:52in front
38:52of Billy's
38:52place and
38:53I thought
38:53oh shit.
38:54Detectives
38:54have been
38:55at the
38:55scene all
38:56day and
38:56police say
38:56the
38:57investigation
38:57is just
38:58getting
38:58started.
38:59I hear
39:00a banging
39:00on the
39:01window
39:01out the
39:02back window
39:03like and
39:03I looked
39:03out and
39:03it was
39:04swat.
39:04It was
39:05freaking
39:05overkill.
39:06I mean
39:06they had
39:07this place
39:07locked down.
39:08Tactical
39:08teams including
39:09the special
39:10emergency
39:10reaction team
39:13were called
39:14to the
39:14scene.
39:15Around
39:15two hours
39:16later a
39:16man was
39:17detained.
39:18So what
39:19happened?
39:20Well I
39:20mean he
39:21took her
39:22life.
39:22I mean
39:22it took
39:24them like
39:24maybe an
39:25hour to
39:26be in
39:26and out
39:26when they
39:26actually
39:27took her
39:27body out.
39:29When
39:30Billy was
39:30arrested the
39:31whole neighborhood
39:32basically was
39:33in shock.
39:34Just like
39:34me I
39:35didn't believe
39:36it either
39:36at first.
39:37He's just
39:37a big
39:37gentle giant
39:38you know
39:39and when
39:39you see
39:40it
39:40first hand
39:41it's
39:43you know
39:43it turns
39:43you are
39:44out.
39:45Billy Jack
39:45was kind
39:46of a
39:46nut.
39:48You know
39:48and people
39:49thought at
39:49this point
39:50he's that
39:50old he's
39:51a harmless
39:51nut.
39:52Nobody
39:52thought he
39:52was going
39:53to go
39:53off and
39:53murder
39:55anybody.
39:56But then
39:56the question
39:57becomes
39:58why in
39:59the world
40:00would you
40:01ever do
40:01something
40:02like that?
40:04The
40:05sheep
40:05was ultra
40:06violent
40:07at a time
40:07when pro
40:08wrestling was
40:08still presented
40:09as a sport.
40:10First one
40:11to use a
40:12fireball
40:12the first
40:13one to
40:13bring a
40:13snake
40:13into the
40:14ring.
40:15Even though
40:15people thought
40:16they knew
40:16wrestling was
40:16bull****
40:17they knew
40:17he wasn't.
40:18He became
40:19a character
40:19and he
40:20milked it
40:20for all
40:21it was
40:21worth.
40:22Unfortunately
40:23all the
40:24money,
40:24glory and
40:25fame
40:26he couldn't
40:27keep it
40:27up and
40:28it almost
40:29cost him
40:29his life.
40:30Dark Side
40:31of the Ring
40:31new episode
40:32next Tuesday
40:33at 10
40:33on Vice.
40:35Billy Jack
40:36Haynes is
40:37facing unlawful
40:38use of a
40:38weapon and
40:39murder charges
40:40today after
40:40the alleged
40:41shooting earlier
40:42this month.
40:43Although
40:44questions linger
40:45around Billy Jack's
40:46numerous claims
40:47and criminal
40:47activity, one
40:49fact remains
40:50undeniable.
40:51On February
40:528th, 2024,
40:54Billy Jack Haynes
40:56took the life
40:56of Jeanette
40:57Bacraft.
40:59Now as he
41:01faces trial for
41:02second degree
41:02murder, Billy
41:03Jack has a new
41:04story to tell.
41:06Billy claims that
41:07she had dementia
41:08so bad that
41:10it was unbearable.
41:12He couldn't live
41:13with it anymore.
41:14He called it a
41:15mercy killing
41:16because she didn't
41:17know who she was
41:18anymore.
41:19He supposedly
41:20shot his wife
41:22in the head
41:22and that's a
41:23mercy killing?
41:25I don't know,
41:26brother.
41:27Maybe he thought
41:28that was justifiable
41:29to do that.
41:30It's a very sad
41:31situation and
41:33and I don't
41:34know what
41:34they're going
41:34to do justice
41:35wise, but
41:37that's up to
41:38I guess the
41:39court to decide.
41:40I don't care
41:41for him.
41:42It ain't because
41:43he killed his
41:43wife.
41:45I'll let that
41:46play out in
41:47court.
41:48If I were his
41:48lawyer, I'd
41:49certainly make a
41:50diminished capacity
41:51case for him.
41:53He'd obviously
41:54been taking
41:55beatings throughout
41:56his career and
41:58if nothing else,
42:00dating from the
42:02beating he got
42:03at the Longoria's
42:04car line.
42:05You ask anybody
42:06and they'll tell
42:07you.
42:08He loved Jan
42:09unconditionally.
42:11She was his
42:12world.
42:13Whatever happened,
42:14as unfortunate as
42:15it is, I think
42:16was a big mistake.
42:17That's what makes
42:18it all that much
42:18more difficult to
42:20deal with.
42:23Damn it, God
42:24bless her.
42:25It hurts my
42:26heart.
42:28Mercy killing
42:29is the phrase
42:30that they used.
42:31who's ever going
42:32to know the
42:33only person
42:34that's alive
42:34that was in the
42:35room with him
42:35is Billy Jack
42:36and you can't
42:37believe a thing
42:38he says.
42:39If I come
42:39across crazy,
42:40I must be the
42:41smartest, craziest
42:42guy there ever
42:42is.
42:44I'll never, ever
42:45forget the state
42:46of Oregon and
42:46the beautiful fans
42:47that supported me
42:48through pro wrestling.
42:49Fans in Oregon,
42:50old enough to
42:51remember, probably
42:52still have a fond
42:53spot for him.
42:53But now, more
42:54people in and out
42:56of wrestling are
42:57going to remember
42:57the crazy stories
42:59he told and
43:00the things that
43:00he invented
43:01that he was
43:02involved in
43:02and finally
43:03the murder
43:04of his wife,
43:05they're going
43:05to remember
43:06that more than
43:06anything he did
43:07in wrestling.
43:08Let me have
43:09your attention.
43:10I don't want
43:11any fan to
43:12ever come up
43:13to me and
43:14ask for an
43:14autograph again.
43:17He was the guy
43:17who had a couple
43:18good years at a
43:19time when wrestling
43:19was pretty big,
43:20made something
43:20of a name and
43:21had a very,
43:22very troubled
43:23existence after
43:24that fame ended.
43:26It's not a happy
43:26ending.
43:27There's no silver
43:27lining in this
43:28story, unfortunately.
43:30So how do you
43:31think Billy Jack's
43:31story's going to
43:32end?
43:33Boy, that's a
43:34million-dollar
43:35question.
43:48That door shut
43:49gets to reality
43:50real quick,
43:51that there's no
43:52getting out of
43:52here.
43:55Until 12.
43:58Do you feel
44:08good about
44:08your chances?
44:09I do.
44:10Do you feel
44:10good about your
44:12chances?
44:13I do.
44:14HELLO HE'S
44:27GOOD ABOUT
44:28HIM BEHIND
44:28HE'S
44:29DO!
44:30HE'S
44:31TARGET
44:32ELECTION join
44:32THE
44:33HE'S
44:33HELLO HE'S
44:33HELLO HE'S
44:34HE'S
44:35HE'S
44:36HE'S
44:36HE'S
44:38HE'S
44:39HE'S
44:40HE'S
44:41HE'S
44:42HE'S
44:42HE'S