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00:00the standoff took place this morning in front of this house after police say they responded to
00:10reports of 85 year old jeanette de kraft was killed yesterday morning you want to say that
00:16nothing in wrestling surprises you a former professional wrestler is now accused of shooting
00:22and killing his wife that's surprising and then all of a sudden the news broke it's billy jack
00:30he just electrifies the crowd and they love him what billy jack did what i could have believed it
00:36but i didn't i didn't want to believe it billy jack haynes years before this shocking crime
00:42billy jack haynes had lived the dream rising from oregon's regional circuit to stardom and
00:48wrestling's golden age of the 1980s billy jack had everything all the tools to be a top professional
00:58wrestling his career was in reverse he started as a star and he finished as a nobody but billy jack's
01:09dealings outside the ring hinted at a mysterious life one almost too extraordinary to believe
01:16billy said he had been involved in the drug business as a collector and enforcer when i was in portland
01:23i was about a kilo a day cocaine dealer billy has made many many claims i was contracted to go
01:29down there to kill two arkansas state police officers you don't know fact from fiction with
01:33billy jack haynes i kept that secret from everybody now as the former star faces murder charges
01:41those who knew billy jack haynes look back on the road that led him here so billy jack was his own
01:46worst enemy i didn't even know it he was a loaded gun brother you never know what he's thinking
01:52you know a lot of guys fall hard in wrestling but he fell harder than most without a doubt
01:58in the wrestling industry i guess a lot of people may have forgotten about him
02:12even the most diehard wwf fan today would say well yeah billy jack he was there
02:23what did he do people now in the present day are trying to go back because of what's happened
02:33with billy and trying to figure out where did this start we knew one day billy jack would do something
02:39crazy but we never thought it would be that crazy it shot me and then again it didn't and i don't know
02:47if you can understand that that's one thing where when billy messed up he messed up final mess up
02:55i guess if you took everything and laid it on the table you could see it coming up
03:01before his recent murder charge billy jack's past reveals other crimes including two assault charges
03:09before he's 30. but the same mean streak that gets him into trouble also creates new opportunities
03:16in the wrestling business billy jack hans was a thug he was a street fighter he was boxer a wrestler
03:24tough guy don't get me wrong um my dad found him as a gym rat and he's below that now
03:32all his bios say he was trained by stew hart stew hart threw him out of canada because he was too rough
03:40and beat all his boys up so he was back being a gym rat in portland oregon when my dad and the
03:47assassin dave sierra found him well he came to the portland sports arena looking for work and we got
03:54him hooked up he looked unreal he was like you know jacked to the max me and rip the crippler oliver
04:04talked to promoter don owens into using him we knew with that size body and his home being the
04:11pacific northwest that we can draw money with him billy jack haynes i mean he just he fit the part
04:18and everybody was giving him a chance in 1982 billy rockets to the top with a persona tailor-made for
04:26fans in the pacific northwest billy jack's gimmick and look came from the movie billy jack starring tom
04:34laughlin about the ex-serviceman who was a karate expert and a loner he was a dangerous man but
04:41soft-spoken but don't cross him billy jack whose look physique the aura and the presence he had the
04:49fans went crazy for him like he was their very own hometown movie star
04:53so billy jack was a very effective babyface promo guy for portland oregon thank you everybody in
05:03portland for supporting me i love you thank you nice guy loved his father loved oregon loved portland
05:10you know what i mean and he was billy jack from the movie trying to get revenge on on these different
05:15heels make a little bit more noise and i'll get it for you let's go everyone knew he was a rising star
05:21you know the 80s was all about the look he had the look and i'm sure all the fans here are gonna
05:26like this man billy jack haynes what a fantastic build on this young man johnny they loved him you
05:33know every time billy jack was on the card sold out from the time he first stepped foot in the ring he
05:38was featured he was pushed by the promoters small territory pushed him went to a bigger territory pushed
05:44him i know billy jack haynes from the territory days when he came to florida temperature wrestling
05:50he was pretty laid back kind of a low-key guy and a loner
05:55my name's bill fonzi alfonso and i've been in the wrestling business for 45 years
06:03i don't want to use the word oddball but he was kind of different from all the wrestlers
06:09we'd go out to the after party have cocktails and drink and smoke a joint and so on billy jack
06:17would go with the fans and their kids to pizza and have pizza with them the fans loved him he loved
06:24the fans he was committed after just four years of working in smaller promotions billy jack haynes
06:33gets the call in 1986 from vince mcmahon's world wrestling federation
06:38if you wanted to go deep into vince mcmahon's mind and create a professional wrestler based on what
06:47he thought they should look like billy jack was the guy now i'm here in the wwf it's a world wrestling
06:54federation and believe me i know full well this is where the stiffest and the toughest competition is
06:59he wrestled at detroit wrestlemania they had over a hundred thousand people shows
07:05billy jack haynes for a wrestler that's the top of the mountain
07:11look at the builds on these two guys
07:13mozzarella and his tag team partner
07:19billy needed a tag team partner to elevate his persona so it worked out good it worked out real good
07:28this is ken patera coming straight at you and i used to wrestle with billy jack haynes
07:37his appearance was don't with me how's that
07:44well we weren't told anything about the gimmick pat patterson came in the locker room and said well
07:51we got chainsaws and you guys are the oregon lumberjacks now and they wanted us to crank those chainsaws up so
08:02they were actually running i said are you nuts i'm not gonna turn this chainsaw on you know so somebody
08:11could get an arm cut off billy had a super nice personality and everything soft-spoken and whatnot
08:24the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet
08:30but the gloss wears off after a while
08:33all respects billy jack had a fantastic body stayed in shape but upstairs brother that's a different
08:41story everyone knows me in pro wrestling as the grappler i wrestled billy jack haynes many times
08:48he's one of those guys you never know what he's gonna try
08:51i never could trust him he's not excited you know he's mad about something all of a sudden knocked the
08:56hell out of you he was uh off the hinge type character
09:08his finishing maneuver would be the full nelson and once he locked that full nelson in you you
09:12felt like he was gonna break your neck
09:20once you gave up he would just sling you i mean like a piece of trash to the side
09:26in the locker room he had a reputation for boom i could see in his eyes he was like a dr jekyll
09:34mr hyde i've seen him snap several times one night we're in florida the match is over
09:41and percy pringle was rude's manager and uh billy jack came in and he didn't like the way the finish
09:46went he walks in and slaps the piss out of percy pringle he goes this guy screwed up the finish you
09:52idiot that was his mentality that's the way he handled things we did a show and uh smirnoff pulled
09:59a fire alarm got us in trouble next thing i know billy done face like smirnoff smirnoff went to the
10:06bathroom himself it was so bad in tampa some smart ass guy was checking billy jack out said all that fake
10:16bullshit i could kick ass i remember him snatch him into the headlock and punching him in the face
10:22about 20 times really quick bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam you'd beat the hell out of the
10:28person and then kick right out of it like nothing happening he did it because he could i mean right
10:34there i've noticed this guy's a bully he takes on who he knows he can handle you know so i didn't respect
10:39that he went to jail on two or three occasions i believe for beating people up but he always said
10:49they deserved it oregon men don't back down to nobody you know he's got a heart but then he's got the
10:57other side you know where you screw him over he'll come in your house pull you out and beat you to death
11:03i would never think that the billy jack that i knew in the 80s would have ended up doing what he did
11:16police have now confirmed a woman was found dead and a man was taken into custody
11:21after an hours-long police standoff
11:33there's a whole lot that people don't know about me and the law isn't always right
11:47the law isn't always wrong
11:53believe half what you hear or nothing what you see
12:01i'm billy jack haynes from the world wrestling federation and a 14-year pro
12:06please talk to you
12:16right now i'm in normal county justice center jail i've been incarcerated six months
12:22what i'm talking to you guys today about is one small percentage of my life and there's a whole big
12:27part of my life i'm leaving out here the position i'm in right now it's hard for me to bring up anything
12:31and talk about it and i have my attorney out there i'm glad that he's here today uh it's a second degree
12:38murder
12:41and um it's just way overcharged and that's not didn't happen
12:47there's only really two human beings i really love that was my father who was blind and in a
12:52wheelchair and then the other was my wife who uh allegedly i murdered which you're gonna find i didn't
12:59and uh i loved her more than life
13:04weighing 247 pounds cold wrestling is a work we all know that but we took it real serious back when
13:11we were in it look at the blood just spewing out of the forehead i don't want to be negative towards
13:18anybody in this industry you know i don't i respect the wrestlers so much but you know they don't know me
13:25throughout his wrestling career billy jack haynes remains distant private to the point of secrecy
13:33he was not the life of the party the life of the locker room he wasn't making friends hand over
13:38fist he was just that big guy over there it's like something's going on billy jack was a
13:44a true loner then i realized he was very manipulative he always had an agenda and you never knew what he was up to
13:56now we go check in at the hotel there five minutes later billy be gone
14:02and he did that every night i didn't know what he was doing
14:05at that time i was uh really heavy into the uh into the narcotics into the painkillers uppers
14:15lowers i mean you name it you couldn't survive without it i was five days a week in and out of
14:21airports different cities
14:23three hundred forty nights a year heavyweight champion billy i took 20 sometimes 25 pills a day
14:33vicodin percocet you got in the way of wrestling and my life all you beautiful children drugs are
14:39negative you are a positive influence for the world i love you very much say no to drugs drugs are no good
14:45you know it's just not good they're not good well we're at the oakland coliseum uh in a tag team it's
14:54time for the match billy's nowhere to be found about an hour later all the matches were over and here
15:02comes billy oh he looked like hell i said billy you missed the match ah completely out of it
15:10uh mcmahon said that he was going to give us a big push and i think uh we can throw that out the window
15:22well how did it come to an end at wwf in your run oh yeah yeah no i i probably what do you think
15:29about that on the plane you guys should talk about that well it happens
15:41now what i heard is that he was overdosed on some codeine i think he was falling out the mouth he was
15:48jerking we had that murky landing they thought he was dying i was this close away from death
15:55and they had to jump start me twice and i'd be gone you know and and with wwf i mean it's like
16:01they don't want that bad publicity getting out you know what i mean and that was the final straw
16:05he was never in the top spot in wrestlemania he was never a major singles champion and after about
16:13a year and a half he was fired by the wwf
16:18returning to portland billy jack shocks his former colleagues by turning on the promoter who made him
16:23but everybody knows that the state of oregon has the number one wrestling fan in the world the
16:30oregon wrestling federation was what billy jack wanted to open so he could be vince mcmahon of the
16:37pacific northwest that was his words owf was going to be his baby we said billy don owens made you and
16:46now you're opening a company against him and i couldn't believe it you got to have money to back
16:53that uh sponsors and all that you know somebody's got some deep pockets if you want to try to do that
16:59uh was there two weeks and the shows that were running weren't drawing anything there was a couple
17:04hundred people in the audience so it kind of fizzed out pretty quick and i i got a check on friday and he
17:10said fonzie can you please not cash it till monday so i knew i was in trouble and i went right to the
17:17bank and cashed it and i left finally one day we come in he said i'm closing guys and that was it
17:24the collapse of the oregon wrestling federation was pretty spectacular billy jack haynes really left a
17:29lot of guys hanging and there was a lot of bad blood it hurt billy's reputation with a lot of people
17:36that was my bad due to the fact that my head wasn't screwed on right and uh probably a little
17:43bit to do with the the pills too struggling with addiction and running out of allies in 1996 haynes
17:51once promising career crashes to a halt just a shame and a pity because he had the world by the stream
18:01he never became the star to the magnitude of what people had predicted
18:06by the time his wrestling career was over nobody trusted him and all that potential just dribbled
18:12away with it though his wrestling days may be over it doesn't take long for billy jack to find his way
18:19back into the spotlight he's a little strange a little standoffish sometimes a little off-putting
18:26whatever he was kind of weird and suddenly you saw him a few years later and there started to be this
18:33change in retirement billy jack hits the interview circuit revealing a shocking detail while in
18:41wrestling he'd been living a secret double life of crime starting way back in the 70s i was about a
18:49kilo a day cocaine dealer and i kept that secret from everybody i just wanted to go in and actually do
18:55something in the pro wrestling industry instead of a drug runner leg breaker and worse i mean making
19:0230 grand a week i lit a lot of guys up and a lot of guys got addicted to the cocaine that i sold him
19:08you know very nefarious things went on back in the 80s in 2017 billy jack makes an even more shocking
19:17claim linking himself to a famous unsolved murder it's been over 30 years since two teenage boys were found
19:24dead on these tracks in saline county the tracks are still here and so is the mystery regarding
19:29what happened what's new is the witnesses come forward i helped put the kids on the tracks they
19:34were already dead they've been murdered well over 30 years ago a union pacific train ran over two saline
19:46county teenagers the deaths of kevin ives and don henry have become one of arkansas's most notorious
19:51mystery there was a famous murder case in arkansas back in the 80s where these two teenage boys were
20:01run over by a train is what they thought originally happened in the pre-dawn hours of august 23rd 1987
20:08a 75-car cargo train made his regular night run to little rock arkansas engineer stephen schroy drew closer
20:16he made the horrifying discovery that two boys were lying motionless across the railroad tracks
20:23well then somebody else investigated found out they had been beaten they had injuries they weren't
20:28just run over by a train then billy jack started claiming that he was there and saw the murder because
20:37these two teenagers wandered into a drug deal
20:44his story the drug people wanted him to supervise the drug drop and payoff to make sure that everything
20:51goes okay and he was going to videotape it also and he said i wore a wrestling mask i'd been around the
21:00dope game for a long time i went down there by myself after i wrestled king kong bundy we went to the
21:06tracks the drop was made apparently these kids wandered up on it and as a result the drug people killed
21:13them and put them on the railroad tracks they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time
21:19i helped put the kids on the tracks no i was there okay i helped they've been murdered they were already
21:26dead the church is going to come out so this woman let the eyes can have a life billy jack's claims about
21:33the unsolved murders are taken seriously by the mother of one of the victims as well as by the family's
21:40private investigator i mean there is no good reason to insert yourself into a murder case
21:46he has nothing to gain and everything to lose he's put himself in jeopardy not only his freedom but
21:52also his life they're hopeful that law enforcement will now take a look
22:08as billy jack continues sharing his story other details sound increasingly unbelievable
22:15there was drops that were being stolen cocaine drops i was sent down there to uh
22:21take care of two state police officers from arkansas but it was an inside job he told me that he was
22:28running with one of the biggest drug dealers in the country i've dealt drugs the highest level you can
22:34that's uncut coke well in the beginning when i first started hearing the stories i thought come on billy really
22:41but when it gets right down to it he can prove it he brought it all out in an interview
22:46uh on several occasions as a matter of fact the things that he said about it and all this stuff
22:51is all verifiable um but that's about all i can say about it i can't talk about it
22:56i'd love to but i can't but haven't you told that story so many times i wish i could talk to you guys
23:04i can't what can you tell me without getting into details is it true
23:09did you hear that that is probably a subject you should move on
23:19leave it alone
23:21as billy jack's interview appearances become more frequent his claims extend far beyond drug
23:37dealing and the boys on the tracks and many begin to wonder what's behind it
23:41he looked completely ridiculous and then he had this white hair but it was like a
23:54mop top cut like he was pete best the fifth beetle my my mother and my uncle when i was 15 were both
24:01murdered there was two politicians that were involved and he started concocting these stories
24:09where he was in the middle of a variety of newsworthy events andy gibb uh had a gig in in san francisco
24:18and one of my first big deliveries was was was there to the concert i delivered uh one kilo to him
24:24july 31st 1978. some say well he knows stuff that nobody else knows well this dude studies
24:32shit i can tell you that and that's how nutty he was he don't have nothing better to do but to try
24:37to find his way to make himself back in the scene i had cocaine from the median cartel in columbia
24:44so i started making more money the clintons are involved too well now was he a drug enforcer for
24:51the clintons why the would bill clinton call billy jack haines yeah that's stupid i took it for uh a grain
25:01of salt he had to be on some good drugs to think that but then the question becomes where was the
25:08bizarre behavior originating conspiracy theories and being the forest gump of crime it not only sounds so
25:16preposterous but there was no upside to him it was just interviews and being done with this kooky
25:21old man that people would put up on the internet i've wanted to know who my real dad is for a long
25:28time whether it's lenny montana whether it's vince mcmahon senior which it could have been because he
25:34supposedly had sex with my mother this senior could be my father there's a long history to that i don't
25:39know if we get into today or not claiming to be the son of vince mcmahon senior you know aside from being
25:43ridiculous that's that's unbelievable that someone even tried to pass that off
25:49when i heard stuff like that i would say man billy's really loosening what's causing billy jack
25:56to make up stuff that's obviously not true 9-11 was an inside job and no question about it
26:03all you have to do in this world is follow the money so this isn't going to make the bush family
26:09too happy but they're involved too he did look like someone that would say anything just to be on
26:16a podcast get more money out of that podcast i'm not afraid to come in front of this camera and tell
26:24you the truth and either you're going to believe it or you're not going to believe it the idea was
26:30if you tell crazy stories and there will be an appetite for more even though it's all
26:34bullshit you're probably going to be looking at a dead man maybe by the time this video gets out
26:40everything i've said could get me killed everything i said with vince can get me killed
26:46one preposterous thing in wrestling can be true with some people a couple of preposterous things can
26:51be true but when you're just pulling out of your ass over and over then even if one
26:58or two of those things is true nobody's going to believe them amid all the astonishing claims billy
27:05jack makes at least one truth stands out january 10 2006 there was attempted murder on me
27:20once again i'm speaking for the people under the ground right now they can't speak for themselves so
27:25let me do it please from 2006 to 2023 billy jack haynes makes a series of shocking statements
27:33and explosive accusations vincent kane mcmahon i call it vincent killer mcmahon yeah that's right
27:41you're a killer though many of billy jack's stories are dismissed as conspiracy theories a violent incident
27:48in 2006 suggests that billy jack's ties to organized crime may be legitimate this is the file from the
27:57work i i did 16 years ago um police reports letters from billy jack and a couple photos of billy in the
28:05hospital at the time i was writing a column for the portland tribune and so next thing i knew billy jack
28:14is knocking on my door he looked like frankenstein's monster he'd just gotten out of the hospital
28:19he'd had several bones in his face broken and he had stitches as i recall we sat down and he started
28:25telling me his story basically that he'd been called over to jimmy longoria's car lot longoria family
28:34was certainly one of the more prominent uh portland crime families billy had been a bill collector and then
28:42he said he said he delivered drugs for for the longorias what have you got what is all this stuff
28:47yeah these are letters from billy jack from months after it came to my place on january 10 2006
28:56i was set up for a hit or to be killed by two hit men hired by jimmy longoria i drove through the
29:04open gate at the time scheduled 9 a.m and i parked about 30 feet inside the lot where i met a man and
29:10asked where i could find jimmy longoria the man motioned over his left and jimmy longoria was
29:15sitting at the desk with his hands behind his head with a very cocky look on his face i said you're
29:21going to kill me aren't you it was then i believe that jimmy told me that paybacks are a billy jack
29:29i remember looking at the office windows and seeing four men and i thought i was a dead man it was very
29:35clear that two guys attacked him they beat him so badly that he had to play dead he knew they wanted
29:44to kill him they said i would have been dead the instinct reaction saved me probably one of the
29:49little instincts i have left to save me jimmy longoria had a pretty airtight alibi he said two tweakers
30:00came onto his lot and provoked billy into a fight he said he'd never seen him before and couldn't
30:07identify him i think they probably worked for longoria the surveillance cameras somehow had not
30:14been working which was of course very suspicious i cannot see out of my right eye uh you want to look
30:22to you can focus in here my eye billy said it was retribution for 15 or 16 years before
30:30when he had ripped off two hundred thousand dollars he'd been a courier back and forth from portland to
30:36los angeles taking coke one way and money the other let's just say in the 80s i transported drugs
30:43i had a 1986 toyota 4x4 they put the built-in cabinet or toolbox on the way back he broke into the
30:51toolbox saw a million two hundred thousand dollars figured that two hundred thousand dollars it should
30:56belong to him i gave the million bucks i took my 200 000 billy said this beating was retribution for
31:04that i think he ripped off the longoria i think that much is true but the idea that they would have
31:13waited 16 years didn't make any sense to me at all
31:16there are also rumors that billy jack's organized crime connections might have been involved in his
31:29short-lived promotion in the late 1980s i've heard rumors i don't know something about the mafia but i
31:38don't know anything about that what i understood he had crooked sponsors and they seen a bunch of
31:46money getting lost fast and they just all one by one pulled out and that's why i think his promotion
31:52folded even faster a lot of people that open wrestling promotions get into that because that's the easiest
31:59way to clean money as far as like the money coming from nefarious characters it's very possible he had a
32:06very dark life and he probably had some very dark friends i'm generally sympathetic to oddball characters
32:16like billy jack but he was a puzzling character when we were having lunch one day i mentioned the 30 year
32:24old murder of a corrections official michael frankie i explained the the case to him we went on to
32:31something else and about two months later billy jack sends me something all of a sudden claiming to
32:38have been involved and a witness to the michael frankie killer he didn't know anything about michael
32:44frankie before i told him 1991 in may 1st of my dad's birthday of the murder of michael frankie i was forced
32:52out of oregon or my dad would be killed i was told i think maybe he convinced himself that he was involved
33:00that he had actually seen the assassination he was collecting newspaper articles police reports and
33:08marking them up the whole whole page would be colored he always had his binders in his
33:13shit i don't know what was in it but he had them he always had them it's just documentation that's all
33:19i can say it's it's not my place to go into those kinds of things you know right now as we speak i'm
33:25writing an autobiography with one of the best writers in the world it's something in there when
33:30people read you'll see it's it's a documented and uh it may or may not get me killed i don't know
33:37he had quite a bit of stuff in there yeah at that point it was sort of hands-off for me and i just
33:42sort of back away from the case and say i don't know what parts of this are true and and what parts
33:47aren't the beating was certainly for real the involvement in the coke business was almost
33:54certainly quite real the rest i i i don't know he talked like he believed it even as nutty as billy
34:03jack heinz was did i think that you know he would be 70 years old and swat team would be outside of
34:08billy jack heinz's house there's a reason you're in trouble a lot because you just gravitate towards
34:13trump by 2019 billy jack heinz is living a nomadic lifestyle making rare interview appearances
34:30i wore oregon here there take that the oregon stick it up your ass he'd been a non-entity in the
34:37wrestling world for 25 years by the time he started just being the weird person that we've
34:47seen in modern times i think you'd almost have to say he was on some kind of substance i heard that
34:54he was having financial difficulties you think you're on top of the world next day you turn around
34:59you got two nickels for up yet he was homeless yeah homeless yeah that's right in my van sleeping
35:08rip oliver opened his house for billy jack to live there so rip um i found out that he was dying
35:162019 in december so i left portland and flew down to florida and spent the last three months with him
35:23i'm not looking for no pat on the back nothing like that oh he was a great guy he never came here for
35:28my dad he came here to have a free place to live and uh if he was on pills before he got there he damn
35:33sure was before he left you said he stole your dad's pills yeah my dad was i don't know months
35:40away from dying my dad was on the real shit the heist they go the stuff to put people in comas
35:47he started taking rips percocets or vicodin which rip really needed because he was very sick
35:54i think he was more taking advantage of rip and rip was playing for everything
36:01billy got this scheme and called brian blair up brian blair ran cauliflower alley you know they
36:07help wrestlers with problems i don't know what happened but billy called brian
36:13rips dying he needs help he's gonna lose his property this is what my dad told me
36:18cauliflower alley club paid for his back taxes on his house they paid for his rent they paid
36:23everything for him well my dad didn't know taxes when he died he didn't know taxes and my dad told me
36:31that billy took half and he gave him half my dad was a junkie i don't mean to say that bad but he was
36:39hooked he was done you know he wanted me to be there and i was there all the way to hospice until
36:45he finally died i didn't want him to be alone i know he stole all my dad's shit when before he died
36:51everybody's got stories that yeah i seen it it finally came out after you know 30 something years
36:58he took advantage of everybody
37:00back in portland billy jack begins a relationship with jan becraft the mother of his friend todd
37:20the becraft family disapproves of the relationship but when todd unexpectedly dies in 2021 billy jack and
37:27jan get married she was like 85 and he's like 70. and so when i saw the age of the woman you know you
37:34hear stuff from people was he like using her for money or a place to live or whatever
37:42look man this party this is actually the main house uh this is the main bedroom on this side
37:49and then the living room because you can see through the kitchen my name is tom matthew
37:53um i was actually living here before billy billy jack moved in you talk to anybody in the neighborhood
37:59they all loved you man he just would do you walk around talk to everybody and he really loved jan a
38:04lot and he was quite devoted to her she was sick you know she was she was ill with the um dementia
38:10some days she'd have good days and some days most of days were bad and that wore on billy pretty hard
38:17she had some good days but they were getting worse and her family definitely did not like them
38:21being together and i don't think they were going to separate in my opinion he took very good care of
38:28her and wanted to protect her and keep her from any kind of harm the last time i spoke to him it was two
38:35days before the incident and uh i told billy i said billy you look terrible he hadn't slept hadn't hardly
38:42eaten anything people with um dementia they become combative it's tough to watch a loved one you know go
38:49through that kind of mental decline i seen the cop cars and stuff on on my security camera so i i went
38:57outside to see what was going on i looked down the street and i saw them all down in front of billy's
39:01place and i thought oh detectives have been at the scene all day and police say the investigation is
39:06just getting started i hear a banging on the window you know out the back window like you
39:11know look down there was swat it was freaking overkill i mean they had this place locked down
39:16tactical teams including the special emergency reaction team and the crisis negotiation team
39:21were called to the scene around two hours later a man was detained so what happened
39:27well i mean he took her life and i mean it's just and it took them like maybe an hour to be in and
39:34out when they actually took her body out when billy was arrested the whole neighborhood basically
39:41was in shock you know just like me i i didn't i didn't believe it either at first he's just a big
39:46gentle giant you know and when you see it firsthand it's it's it's you know it turns your heart out
39:52billy jack was kind of a a nut you know and people thought at this point he's that old he's a
39:59harmless nut nobody thought he was going to go off and murder anybody but then the question becomes
40:07why in the world would you ever do something like that
40:16billy jack haynes is facing unlawful use of a weapon and murder charges today after the alleged
40:21shooting earlier this month although questions linger around billy jack's numerous claims and
40:28criminal activity one fact remains undeniable on february 8th 2024 billy jack haynes took the life of
40:37jeanette butcraft now as he faces trial for second degree murder billy jack has a new story to tell
40:46billy billy billy billy billy billy billy claims that she had dementia so bad that it was unbearable
40:53he couldn't live with it anymore he called it a mercy killing because she didn't know who she was
40:59anymore he supposedly shot his wife in the head and that's a mercy killing i don't know brother
41:08maybe he thought that was justifiable to do that it's a very sad situation and i don't know what
41:15they're going to do justice wise but that's up to i guess a court to decide i don't care for him
41:23it ain't because he killed his wife
41:26but let that play out in court if i were his lawyer i'd certainly make a diminished capacity
41:32case for him he'd obviously been taking beatings throughout his career and and if nothing else
41:40uh dating from the beating he got at the longoria's car lab you ask anybody and they'll tell you he
41:49loved jan unconditionally she was his world whatever happened as unfortunate as it is
41:56i think was a big mistake that's what makes it all that much more difficult to deal with
42:02damn it i'm lesser and it hurts my heart mercy killing is the phrase that they used who's ever
42:13going to know the only person that's alive that was in the room with him is billy jack and you can't
42:18believe a thing he says if i come across crazy i must be the smartest craziest guy there ever is
42:23i'll never ever forget the state of oregon and the beautiful fans that supported me to pro wrestling
42:30fans in oregon old enough to remember probably still have a fond spot for him but now more people
42:36in and out of wrestling are going to remember the crazy stories he told and the things that he invented
42:42that he was involved in and finally the the murder of his wife they're going to remember that more than
42:47anything he did in wrestling let me have your attention i don't want any fan to ever come up
42:54to me and ask for an autograph again he was a guy who had a couple good years at a time when wrestling
43:00was pretty big made something of a name and had a very very troubled existence after that fame ended
43:06it's not a happy ending there's no silver lining in this story unfortunately so how do you think billy
43:12jack's story's going to end boy that's a million dollar question when that door shuts gets to reality
43:31real quick that there's no getting out of here until 12.
43:42you feel good about your chances i do