Dark Side of The Ring S6 E07 - 7th May 2025 Full Show HD | WWE Dark Side of The Ring Season 6 Episode 7th 2025
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00:00Police say they responded to reports that 85-year-old Jeanette B. Kraft was killed yesterday morning.
00:06You want to say that nothing in wrestling surprises you?
00:09A former professional wrestler is now accused of shooting and killing his wife.
00:14That's surprising.
00:16And then all of a sudden the news broke.
00:19It's Billy Jack.
00:21He just electrified the crowd and they love him.
00:24What?
00:24Billy Jack did what?
00:26I could have believed it, but I didn't.
00:28I didn't want to believe it.
00:29Billy Jack Haynes.
00:31Years before this shocking crime, Billy Jack Haynes had lived the dream,
00:36rising from Oregon's regional circuit to stardom in wrestling's golden age of the 1980s.
00:41Portland, Oregon.
00:43Billy Jack Haynes.
00:45Billy Jack had everything, all the tools to be a top professional wrestler.
00:50Look at the press line.
00:52Billy Jack is strong.
00:54His career was in reverse.
00:55He started as a star and he finished as a nobody.
00:59But Billy Jack's dealings outside the ring hinted at a mysterious life, one almost too extraordinary to believe.
01:08Billy said he had been involved in the drug business as a collector and enforcer.
01:12When I was in Portland, I was about a kilo a day of cocaine dealer.
01:17Billy has made many, many claims.
01:19I was contracted to go down there to kill two Arkansas State police officers.
01:23You don't know fact from fiction with Billy Jack Haynes.
01:26I kept that secret from everybody.
01:27Now, as the former star faces murder charges, those who knew Billy Jack Haynes look back on the road that led him here.
01:36So Billy Jack was his own worst enemy.
01:39He didn't even know it.
01:40He was a loaded gun, brother.
01:42You never know what he's thinking.
01:44You know, a lot of guys fall hard in wrestling, but he fell harder than most, without a doubt.
01:49You never know what he's thinking.
02:19People now, in the present day, are trying to go back because of what's happened with Billy and trying to figure out, where did this start?
02:28We knew one day Billy Jack would do something crazy, but we never thought it would be that crazy.
02:35It shot me, and then again it didn't.
02:38I don't know if you can understand that.
02:41That's one thing for when Billy messed up, he messed up.
02:45Final mess up.
02:46I guess if you took everything and laid it on the table, you could see it coming up.
02:54Before his recent murder charge, Billy Jack's past reveals other crimes, including two assault charges before he's 30.
03:02But the same mean streak that gets him into trouble also creates new opportunities in the wrestling business.
03:08Billy Jack Haynes was a thug.
03:11He was a street fighter.
03:13He was a boxer, a wrestler.
03:16Tough guy, don't get me wrong.
03:17My dad found him as a gym rat, and he's below that now.
03:23All his bios say he was trained by Stu Hart.
03:28Stu Hart threw him out of Canada because he was too rough and beat all his boys up.
03:33So he was back being a gym rat in Portland, Oregon, when my dad and the assassin Dave Sierra found him.
03:40Well, he came to the Portland Sports Arena looking for work, and we got him hooked up.
03:47He looked unreal.
03:48He was like, you know, jacked to the max.
03:51Look at Billy Jack.
03:51Look at him.
03:52Me and Rip the Crippler, Oliver, talked to promoter Don Owens into using him.
03:59We knew with that size body and his home being the Pacific Northwest that we can draw money with him.
04:06Billy Jack Haynes, I mean, he just, he fit the part, and everybody was giving him a chance.
04:13In 1982, Billy rockets to the top with a persona tailor-made for fans in the Pacific Northwest.
04:19Billy Jack's gimmick and look came from the movie, Billy Jack, starring Tom Laughlin,
04:26about the ex-serviceman who was a karate expert and a loner.
04:31He was a dangerous man, but soft-spoken, but don't cross him.
04:35Billy Jack, whose look, physique, the aura, and the presence he had, the fans went crazy for him,
04:42like he was their very own hometown movie star.
04:45The Portland, Oregon boy is coming out victorious!
04:48So Billy Jack was a very effective babyface promo guy for Portland, Oregon.
04:53Thank you, everybody in Portland, for supporting me. I love you. Thank you.
04:57Nice guy, loved his father, loved Oregon, loved Portland, you know what I mean?
05:02And he was Billy Jack from the movie, trying to get revenge on these different heels.
05:07Make a little bit more noise and I'll get it for you. Let's go!
05:10Everyone knew he was a rising star. You know, the 80s was all about the look.
05:15He had the look.
05:16And I'm sure all the fans here are going to like this man, Billy Jack Haynes.
05:20What a fantastic build on this young man, Johnny.
05:23They loved him, you know. Every time Billy Jack was on the card, sold out.
05:27From the time he first stepped foot in the ring, he was featured. He was pushed by the promoters.
05:32Small territory? Pushed him. Went to a bigger territory? Pushed him.
05:36I know Billy Jack Haynes from the territory days.
05:40When he came to Florida Temperature Wrestling, he was pretty laid back, kind of a low-key guy and a loner.
05:46My name's Bill Fonzie Alfonso, and I've been in the wrestling business for 45 years.
05:56I don't want to use the word oddball, but he was kind of different from all the wrestlers.
06:03We'd go out to the after party, have cocktails and drink and smoke a joint and so on.
06:07Billy Jack would go with the fans and their kids to pizza and have pizza with them.
06:13The fans loved him. He loved the fans. He was committed.
06:19After just four years of working in smaller promotions,
06:23Billy Jack Haynes gets the call in 1986 from Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.
06:31If you wanted to go deep into Vince McMahon's mind and create a professional wrestler
06:38based on what he thought they should look like, Billy Jack was the guy.
06:42Now I'm here in the WWF. It's a World Wrestling Federation.
06:46And believe me, I know full well this is where the stiffest and the toughest competition is.
06:51He wrestled in that Detroit WrestleMania.
06:54They had over 100,000 people shows up.
06:57Billy Jack Haynes!
06:59For a wrestler, that's the top of the mountain.
07:02Look at the builds on these two guys.
07:04Billy Jack Haynes!
07:06And his tag team partner!
07:11Billy needed a tag team partner to elevate his persona.
07:16So it worked out good. It worked out real good.
07:20This is Ken Patera coming straight at you.
07:23And I used to wrestle with Billy Jack Haynes.
07:27His appearance was, don't f**k with me.
07:32How's that?
07:35Well, we weren't told anything about the gimmick.
07:39Pat Patterson came in the locker room and said,
07:42well, we got chainsaws and you guys are the Oregon Lumberjacks now.
07:48And they wanted us to crank those chainsaws up so they were actually running.
07:56I said, are you f**king nuts?
07:59I'm not going to turn this chainsaw on, you know, so somebody could get an arm cut off.
08:05Just do it.
08:09Billy had a super nice personality and everything.
08:13Soft-spoken and whatnot.
08:16The nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.
08:18Billy Jack Haynes and Ken Patera!
08:21But the gloss wears off after a while.
08:26All respects, Billy Jack had a fantastic body, stayed in shape.
08:30But upstairs, brother, that's a different story.
08:33Everyone knows me in pro wrestling as a grappler.
08:36I wrestled Billy Jack Haynes many times.
08:39He's one of those guys you never know what he's going to try.
08:43I never could trust him.
08:45He's always decided, you know, he's mad about something
08:47and all of a sudden knocked the hell out of you.
08:48He was an off-the-hinge type character.
08:59His finishing maneuver would be the full Nelson,
09:02and once he locked that full Nelson in you,
09:04you felt like he was going to break your neck.
09:06Once you gave up, he would just sling you, I mean, like a piece of trash to the side.
09:16In the locker room, he had a reputation for boom.
09:24I could see in his eyes, he was like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
09:27I've seen him snap several times.
09:30One night, we're in Florida.
09:31The match is over, and Percy Pringle was Rude's manager.
09:35And Billy Jack came in, and he didn't like the way the finish went.
09:39He walks in and slaps the piss out of Percy Pringle.
09:41He goes, this guy screwed up the finish, you idiot.
09:44That was his mentality.
09:46That's the way he handled things.
09:47We did a show, and Smirnoff pulled a fire alarm, got us in trouble.
09:53Next thing I know, Billy done face-locked.
09:56Smirnoff, Smirnoff went to the bathroom himself.
10:00It was so bad.
10:02In Tampa, some smart-ass guy was checking Billy Jack out.
10:06He said, oh, all that fake bullshit, I could kick ass.
10:10I remember him snatching him into the headlock and punching him in the face about 20 times
10:15really quick.
10:16Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
10:18He'd beat the hell out of the person and then kick right out of it like nothing happened.
10:23He did it because he could.
10:25I mean, right there, I've noticed this guy's a bully.
10:27He takes on who he knows he can handle.
10:30You know, so I didn't respect that.
10:31He went to jail on two or three occasions, I believe, for beating people up.
10:39But he always said, they deserved it.
10:43Oregon men don't back down to nobody.
10:46You know, he's got a heart, but then he's got the other side.
10:50You know, when you screw him over, he'll come in your house, pull you out, beat you to death.
10:55I would never think that the Billy Jack that I knew in the 80s would have ended up doing what he did.
11:07Police have now confirmed a woman was found dead and a man was taken into custody
11:12after an hours-long police standoff.
11:14There's a whole lot that people don't know about me.
11:37And the law is noise, right?
11:40The law is noise, wrong.
11:44I believe half of what you hear and nothing of what you see.
11:49Billy Jack Haynes!
11:53I'm Billy Jack Haynes from the World Wrestling Federation and a 14-year pro.
11:59Good to talk to you.
12:04Right now, I'm in Noma County Justice Center jail.
12:08I've been incarcerated six months.
12:09What I'm talking to you guys today about is one small percentage of my life.
12:14And there's a whole big part of my life I'm leaving out here.
12:16The position I'm in right now, it's hard for me to bring up anything and talk about it.
12:20And I have my attorney out there.
12:22I'm glad that he's here today.
12:23And it's a second-degree murder.
12:28And it's just way overcharged.
12:31It didn't happen.
12:34There's only really two human beings I really love.
12:37That was my father, who was blind and in a wheelchair.
12:40And then the other was my wife, who allegedly I murdered, which you're going to find I didn't.
12:48And I loved her more than life.
12:52Weighing 247 pounds.
12:55The whole wrestling is a work.
12:56We all know that.
12:58But we took it real serious back when we were in it.
13:00I don't want to be negative towards anybody in this industry.
13:08You know, I don't.
13:09I respect the wrestlers so much.
13:11But, you know, they don't know me.
13:14Throughout his wrestling career, Billy Jack Haynes remains distant, private to the point of secrecy.
13:21He was not the life of the party, the life of the locker room.
13:24He wasn't making friends hand over fist.
13:26He was just that big guy over there.
13:28It's like something's going on.
13:30Billy Jack was a true loner.
13:34Then I realized he was very manipulative.
13:37He always had an agenda.
13:40And you never knew what he was up to.
13:44We'd go check in at the hotel there.
13:47Five minutes later, Billy would be gone.
13:50And he did that every f***ing night.
13:52I didn't know what he was doing.
13:53At that time, I was really heavy into the narcotics, into the painkillers.
14:03Uppers, lowers, I mean, you name it, you couldn't survive without it.
14:06I was five days a week in and out of airports.
14:09It's all over!
14:11Different cities.
14:12Billy Jack going to work now!
14:14340 nights a year.
14:15Heavyweight champion, Billy!
14:17I took 20, sometimes 25 pills a day.
14:21Vicodin, Percocet.
14:23He got in the way of wrestling and my life.
14:24All you beautiful children, drugs are negative.
14:28You are a positive influence for the world.
14:30I love you very much.
14:31Say no to drugs.
14:33Drugs are no good, you know.
14:34They're not good.
14:36Well, we're at the Oakland Coliseum in a tag team.
14:42It's time for the match.
14:44Billy's nowhere to be found.
14:46About an hour later, all the matches were over.
14:49And here comes Billy.
14:52Oh, he looked like hell.
14:53I said, Billy, you missed the match.
14:56Ah, completely out of it.
15:00McMahon said that he was going to give us a big push.
15:03And I think we're going to throw that out the window.
15:10How did it come to an end at WWF in your run?
15:13Oh, yeah, yeah.
15:14I probably...
15:17What do you think about that?
15:19On the plane?
15:22You guys should talk about that?
15:24Well, it happened.
15:29Now, what I heard
15:30is that he overdosed on some codeine, I think.
15:34He was falling out of the mouth.
15:35He was jerking.
15:37We had that murky landing.
15:38They thought he was dying.
15:40I was this close away from death.
15:43And they had to jumpstart me twice.
15:46And I'd be gone.
15:47You know, and with WWF, I mean, it's like,
15:49they don't want that bad publicity getting out.
15:51You know what I mean?
15:52And that was the final straw.
15:53He was never in the top spot in WrestleMania.
15:57He was never a major singles champion.
16:00And after about a year and a half,
16:02he was fired by the WWF.
16:06Returning to Portland,
16:07Billy Jack shocks his former colleagues
16:09by turning on the promoter who made him.
16:12But everybody knows
16:14that the state of Oregon
16:15has the number one wrestling fan in the world.
16:18The Oregon Wrestling Federation
16:21is what Billy Jack wanted to open
16:23so he could be Vince McMahon
16:25of the Pacific Northwest.
16:27That was his words.
16:29OWF was going to be his baby.
16:31We said, Billy, Don Owens made you
16:34and now you're opening a company against him?
16:37And I couldn't believe it.
16:40You've got to have money to back that.
16:42Sponsors and all that.
16:43You know, somebody's got some deep pockets
16:45if you want to try to do that.
16:46I was there two weeks
16:48and the shows that were running
16:50weren't drawing anything.
16:52There was a couple hundred people in the audience
16:53so it kind of fizzed out pretty quick.
16:55And I got a check on Friday
16:58and he said,
16:59Fonzie, can you please not cash it until Monday?
17:02So I knew I was in trouble.
17:04And I went right to the bank and cashed it
17:06and I left.
17:07Finally, one day we come in
17:09and he said, I'm closing, guys.
17:11And that was it.
17:12The collapse of the Oregon Wrestling Federation
17:14was pretty spectacular.
17:16Billy Jack Haynes really left a lot of guys hanging
17:18and there was a lot of bad blood.
17:21It hurt Billy's reputation with a lot of people.
17:25And that was my bad due to the fact
17:27that my head wasn't screwed on right
17:29and probably a little bit to do with the pills too.
17:34Struggling with addiction
17:35and running out of allies,
17:37in 1996, Haynes' once promising career
17:41crashes to a halt.
17:44Just a shame and a pity
17:46because he had the world by the strain.
17:49He never became the star
17:50to the magnitude of what people had predicted.
17:54By the time his wrestling career was over,
17:57nobody trusted him
17:58and all that potential
17:59just dribbled away with it.
18:01Though his wrestling days may be over,
18:04it doesn't take long for Billy Jack
18:07to find his way back into the spotlight.
18:10He was a little strange,
18:11a little standoffish,
18:13sometimes a little off-putting, whatever.
18:15He was kind of weird.
18:17And suddenly, you saw him a few years later
18:20and there started to be this change.
18:23In retirement,
18:25Billy Jack hits the interview circuit
18:26revealing a shocking detail.
18:29While in wrestling,
18:30he'd been living a secret double life of crime.
18:35Starting way back in the 70s,
18:36I was about a kilo a day cocaine dealer
18:38and I kept that secret from everybody.
18:41I just wanted to go in
18:42and actually do something
18:44in the pro wrestling industry
18:45instead of a drug runner,
18:47leg breaker,
18:48and worse.
18:49I mean, making 30 grand a week,
18:52I lit a lot of guys up
18:53and a lot of guys got addicted
18:55to the cocaine that I sold him.
18:57You know,
18:57very nefarious things
18:58that went on back in the 80s.
19:01In 2017,
19:03Billy Jack makes
19:04an even more shocking claim,
19:06linking himself
19:07to a famous unsolved murder.
19:10It's been over 30 years
19:11since two teenage boys
19:12were found dead
19:13on these tracks in Saline County.
19:15The tracks are still here
19:16and so is the mystery
19:17regarding what happened.
19:18What's new
19:19is the witnesses come forward.
19:20I helped put the kids on the tracks.
19:23They were already dead.
19:24They've been murdered.
19:27Surfshark.
19:28Well, over 30 years ago,
19:29a Union Pacific train
19:31ran over two Saline County teenagers.
19:33The deaths of Kevin Ives
19:34and Don Henry
19:35have become one of Arkansas's
19:36most notorious mystery.
19:37There was a famous murder case
19:40in Arkansas back in the 80s
19:43where these two teenage boys
19:46were run over by a train
19:48is what they thought
19:49originally happened.
19:50In the pre-dawn hours
19:52of August 23rd, 1987,
19:54a 75-car cargo train
19:56made its regular night run
19:57to Little Rock, Arkansas.
19:59With engineer Stephen Shorty
20:01grew closer,
20:02he made the horrifying discovery
20:03that two boys
20:04were lying motionless
20:06across the railroad tracks.
20:07Well, then somebody else
20:10investigated,
20:11found out they had been beaten.
20:12They had injuries.
20:13They weren't just run over
20:14by a train.
20:16Then Billy Jack
20:17started claiming
20:18that he was there
20:20and saw the murder
20:22because these two teenagers
20:24wandered into a drug deal.
20:26His story,
20:31the drug people
20:31wanted him to supervise
20:33the drug drop and payoff
20:35to make sure
20:36that everything goes okay
20:37and he was going to
20:39videotape it also
20:40and he said,
20:42I wore a wrestling mask.
20:45I'd been around
20:45the dope game
20:46for a long time.
20:47I went down there
20:48by myself
20:49after I wrestled
20:49King Kong Bundy.
20:51We went to the tracks.
20:52The drop was made.
20:54Apparently,
20:55these kids wandered up on it
20:56and as a result,
20:58the drug people
20:58killed them
20:59and put them
21:00on the railroad tracks.
21:02They were just
21:02in the wrong place
21:03at the wrong time.
21:05I helped put the kids
21:05on the tracks.
21:06No, I was there.
21:08I helped.
21:10They'd been murdered.
21:11They were already dead.
21:13The judge is going to come out
21:14so this woman
21:14lives her eyes
21:15can have a life.
21:17Billy Jack's claims
21:19about the unsolved murders
21:20are taken seriously
21:21by the mother
21:22of one of the victims
21:23as well as
21:24by the family's
21:25private investigator.
21:27I mean,
21:28there was no good reason
21:29to insert yourself
21:30into a murder case.
21:31He has nothing to gain
21:33and everything to lose.
21:34He's put himself
21:35in jeopardy
21:36not only as freedom
21:37but also his life.
21:39They're hopeful
21:39that law enforcement
21:40will now take a look.
21:41as Billy Jack continues
21:55sharing his story
21:56other details
21:58sound increasingly
21:59unbelievable.
22:01There was drops
22:02that were being stolen
22:02cocaine drops
22:03I was sent down there
22:05to take care of two state
22:07police officers
22:08from Arkansas
22:09but it was an inside job.
22:12He told me
22:13that he was running
22:14with one of the biggest
22:15drug dealers
22:16in the country.
22:18I've dealt drugs
22:19at the highest level
22:19you can
22:20that's uncut coke.
22:22Well,
22:23in the beginning
22:23when I first started
22:24hearing the stories
22:24I thought,
22:25come on,
22:25Billy,
22:25really?
22:26But when it gets
22:27right down to it
22:28he can prove it.
22:30He brought it all out
22:31in an interview
22:31on several occasions
22:33as a matter of fact.
22:34The things that he said
22:36about it
22:36and all this stuff
22:37is all verifiable
22:38but that's about
22:39all I can say about it.
22:41I can't talk about it.
22:44I'd love to do
22:45but I can't.
22:46But haven't you told
22:46that story so many times?
22:48I wish I could talk
22:49to you guys
22:50or can't.
22:52What can you tell me
22:52without getting into details?
22:54Is it true?
22:59Did you hear that?
23:01That is probably
23:02the subject
23:02you should move over.
23:05Leave it alone.
23:16As Billy Jack's
23:18interview appearances
23:19become more frequent
23:20his claims extend
23:21far beyond
23:22drug dealing
23:23and the boys
23:23on the tracks
23:24and many begin
23:25to wonder
23:26what's behind it.
23:28From show tonight
23:30Angie Grace would say
23:31everything you're
23:32going to hear
23:33is true.
23:34He looked
23:34completely ridiculous
23:36and then he had
23:38this white hair
23:39but it was like
23:39a mop top cut
23:41like he was
23:41Pete Best
23:42the fifth Beatle.
23:44My mother
23:45and my uncle
23:46when I was 15
23:47were both murdered.
23:48There was two politicians
23:49that were involved.
23:50and he started
23:52concocting
23:53these stories
23:54where he was
23:56in the middle
23:56of a variety
23:57of newsworthy events.
24:00Andy Gibb
24:01had a gig
24:02in San Francisco
24:03and one of my
24:04first big deliveries
24:05was there
24:06to the concert.
24:08I delivered
24:08one kilo
24:09to him
24:10July 31st
24:111978.
24:13Some say
24:14well he knows
24:15stuff that nobody
24:16else knows.
24:17Well the dude
24:17studies shit
24:18I can tell you that
24:19and that's how nutty he was.
24:21He don't have
24:21nothing better to do
24:22but to try to find
24:23his way to make
24:24himself back
24:25in the scene.
24:26I had cocaines
24:27from the median
24:27cartel in Columbia
24:29so I started
24:30making more money.
24:32The Clintons
24:32are involved too.
24:34Well now
24:35was he a drug
24:35enforcer for the Clintons?
24:37Why the
24:38would Bill Clinton
24:40call
24:41Billy Jack Haynes?
24:42Yeah that's stupid.
24:44I took him
24:45for a grain of salt.
24:47He had to be
24:48on some good drugs
24:49to think that.
24:51But then the question
24:52becomes
24:53where was the
24:54bizarre behavior
24:55originating?
24:57Conspiracy theories
24:58and being the
24:59Forrest Gump
24:59of crime
25:00it not only
25:01sounds so preposterous
25:02but there was
25:03no upside to him.
25:04It was just
25:05interviews
25:05being done
25:06with this
25:06kooky old man
25:08that people
25:09would put up
25:09on the internet.
25:11I wanted to know
25:12who my real dad
25:12is for a long time
25:13whether it's
25:14Lenny Montana
25:15whether it's
25:16Vince McMahon
25:17Senior
25:17which it could have
25:18been
25:18because he supposedly
25:19had sex with my mother.
25:21Vince Senior
25:21could be my father
25:22there's a long history
25:23to that
25:24I don't know
25:24if we can get into
25:25today or not.
25:26Claiming to be
25:26the son of Vince
25:27McMahon Senior
25:27you know
25:28aside from being
25:28ridiculous
25:29that's
25:30that's unbelievable
25:31that somebody
25:32even tried
25:33to pass that off.
25:35When I heard
25:36stuff like that
25:36I would say
25:37man Billy's
25:38really loosening
25:39what's causing
25:40Billy Jack
25:41to make up stuff
25:42that's obviously
25:44not true.
25:459-11 was an inside job
25:47no question about it.
25:49All you have to do
25:49in this world
25:50is follow the money
25:51so this isn't going
25:53to make the Bush family
25:54too happy
25:55but they're involved too.
25:57He did look like
25:58someone
25:59that would say
26:00anything
26:00just to be on a podcast
26:02get more money
26:05out of that podcast.
26:07I'm not afraid
26:08to come in front
26:08of this camera
26:09and tell you the truth
26:10and either you're
26:11going to believe it
26:12or you're not
26:12going to believe it.
26:13The idea was
26:15if you tell
26:16crazy stories
26:17there will be
26:18an appetite for more
26:19even though it's
26:19all bullshit.
26:20You're probably
26:21going to be looking
26:22at a dead man
26:22maybe by the time
26:24this video gets out
26:25everything I've said
26:26could get me killed
26:27everything I've said
26:28with Vince
26:29can get me killed.
26:31One preposterous
26:32thing in wrestling
26:33can be true
26:34with some people
26:35a couple of
26:35preposterous things
26:36can be true
26:37but when you're
26:38just pulling shit
26:39out of your ass
26:40over and over
26:42then even if
26:43one or two
26:44of those things
26:44is true
26:44nobody's going
26:45to believe them.
26:48Amid all
26:49of the astonishing
26:49claims Billy Jack
26:51makes
26:51at least one
26:52truth stands out.
26:54January 10th
26:562006
26:57there was
26:58attempted murder
26:58on me.
27:03Once again
27:04I'm speaking
27:05for the people
27:05under the ground
27:07right now
27:07they can't speak
27:08for themselves
27:08so let me do it
27:09please.
27:10From 2006
27:11to 2023
27:12Billy Jack
27:14Haynes makes
27:14a series of
27:15shocking statements
27:16and explosive
27:17accusations.
27:19Vincent Cain
27:20McMahon
27:20I call it
27:21Vincent Killer
27:23McMahon
27:23and yeah
27:24that's right
27:25you're a killer.
27:26Though many
27:27of Billy Jack's
27:28stories are dismissed
27:29as conspiracy theories
27:30a violent incident
27:32in 2006
27:33suggests that
27:34Billy Jack's ties
27:35to organize crime
27:36may be legitimate.
27:39This is the file
27:40from the work
27:40I did 16 years ago.
27:43Police reports
27:44letters from
27:45Billy Jack
27:45and a couple
27:47photos of Billy
27:48in the hospital.
27:51At the time
27:52I was writing
27:53a column
27:53for the Portland
27:54Tribune
27:54and so next
27:55thing I knew
27:56Billy Jack
27:57is knocking
27:58on my door.
27:59He looked like
27:59Frankenstein's monster.
28:01He'd just gotten
28:01out of the hospital.
28:02He'd had several
28:03bones in his face
28:04broken
28:05and he had stitches
28:06as I recall.
28:07We sat down
28:07and he started
28:09telling me his story.
28:11Basically that
28:12he'd been called
28:13over to
28:14Jimmy Longoria's
28:15car lot.
28:17Longoria family
28:17was certainly
28:18one of the
28:20more prominent
28:20Portland crime families.
28:22Billy had been
28:23a bill collector
28:25and he said
28:26he delivered drugs
28:27for the Longorias.
28:29What have you got?
28:30What is all this stuff?
28:31Yeah, these are
28:31letters,
28:32from Billy Jack
28:33from the months
28:34after he came
28:35to my place.
28:37On January 10th,
28:392006,
28:40I was set up
28:40for a hit
28:41or to be killed
28:43by two hitmen
28:44hired by
28:45Jimmy Longoria.
28:46I drove through
28:47the open gate
28:48at the time
28:48scheduled 9 a.m.
28:49and I parked
28:50about 30 feet
28:51inside the lot
28:52where I met a man
28:53and asked
28:53where I could find
28:54Jimmy Longoria.
28:55The man motioned
28:56over his left
28:57and Jimmy Longoria
28:58was sitting at a desk
28:59with his hands
29:00behind his head
29:01with a very cocky
29:02look on his face.
29:03I said,
29:04you're going to kill me,
29:05aren't you?
29:07It was then,
29:07I believe,
29:08that Jimmy told me
29:09that paybacks
29:10are a bitch,
29:11Billy Jack.
29:12I remember looking
29:13at the office windows
29:14and seeing four men
29:16and I thought
29:16I was a dead man.
29:17It was very clear
29:19that two guys
29:20attacked him.
29:21They beat him
29:22so badly
29:23that he had
29:23to play dead.
29:26He knew
29:26they wanted
29:27to kill him.
29:28They said,
29:29I would have been dead.
29:30The instinct reaction
29:31saved me.
29:32Probably one of the
29:32little instincts
29:33I have left
29:33to save me.
29:37Jimmy Longoria
29:38had a pretty
29:39airtight alibi.
29:40He said,
29:42two tweakers
29:43came onto his lot
29:45and provoked
29:47Billy into a fight.
29:48He said he'd never
29:49seen him before
29:50and couldn't identify him.
29:51I think they probably
29:52worked for Longoria.
29:54The surveillance cameras
29:56somehow had not
29:57been working,
29:58which was,
29:59of course,
29:59very suspicious.
30:00I cannot see
30:02out of my right eye.
30:04You want to look
30:05if you can focus
30:06in here in my eye?
30:08Billy said
30:09it was retribution
30:10for 15 or 16 years
30:12before when he had
30:14ripped off $200,000.
30:16He'd been a courier
30:17back and forth
30:18from Portland
30:19to Los Angeles,
30:20taking coke one way
30:21and money the other.
30:22Let's just say
30:23in the 80s,
30:24I transported drugs.
30:26I had a 1986
30:27Toyota 4x4.
30:29They put the built-in
30:30cabinet or toolbox.
30:32On the way back,
30:33he broke into
30:34the toolbox,
30:35saw $1,200,000,
30:37figured that $200,000
30:38should belong to him.
30:41I gave the million bucks.
30:42I took my $200,000.
30:44Billy said
30:45this beating
30:46was retribution for that.
30:50I think he ripped
30:51off the Longoria.
30:52I think that much is true.
30:55But the idea
30:56that they would have
30:56waited 16 years
30:58didn't make any sense
30:59to me at all.
31:00There are also rumors
31:08that Billy Jack's
31:09organized crime connections
31:11might have been involved
31:12in his short-lived promotion
31:13in the late 1980s.
31:15Oh, it's off.
31:17It is off.
31:18I've heard rumors.
31:19I don't know something
31:20about the mafia,
31:21but I don't know anything
31:21about that.
31:23What I understood,
31:24he had crooked sponsors,
31:26and they've seen
31:28a bunch of money
31:29getting lost fast
31:30and they just all
31:32one by one pulled out
31:33and that's why I think
31:34his promotion
31:35folded even faster.
31:36A lot of people
31:38that open wrestling promotions
31:40get into that
31:41because that's the easiest
31:43way to clean money.
31:44As far as the money
31:45coming from nefarious characters,
31:46it's very possible.
31:49He had a very dark life
31:50and he probably had
31:51some very dark friends.
31:52I'm generally sympathetic
31:57to oddball characters
31:59like Billy Jack,
32:01but he was a puzzling character.
32:04When we were having lunch one day,
32:05I mentioned the 30-year-old
32:07murder of a corrections official,
32:10Michael Franke.
32:11I explained the case to him.
32:14We went on to something else
32:15and about two months later,
32:17Billy Jack sends me something
32:19all of a sudden claiming
32:21to have been involved
32:23and a witness
32:23to the Michael Franke killer.
32:26He didn't know anything
32:27about Michael Franke
32:28before I told him.
32:29In 1991,
32:31in May 1st,
32:32on my dad's birthday,
32:33of the murder of Michael Franke,
32:34I was forced out of Oregon
32:36before my dad would be killed,
32:38I was told.
32:39I think maybe he convinced himself
32:41that he was involved,
32:43that he had actually seen
32:45the assassination.
32:46He was collecting
32:47newspaper articles,
32:49police reports,
32:51and marking them up,
32:52the whole page
32:53would be colored.
32:55He always had his binders
32:56and his shit.
32:57I don't know what was in it,
32:58but he had them.
32:59He always had them.
33:01It's just documentation,
33:02that's all I can say.
33:03It's not my place
33:04to go into those
33:05kinds of things,
33:06you know.
33:07Right now,
33:07as we speak,
33:08I'm writing an autobiography
33:09with one of the best
33:10writers in the world.
33:12It's something in there
33:13when people read,
33:14you'll see it.
33:15It's documented,
33:16and it may or may not
33:18get me killed,
33:19I don't know.
33:20He had quite a bit
33:21of stuff in there,
33:21yeah.
33:22At that point,
33:23it was sort of hands-off
33:24for me,
33:25and I just sort of
33:25back away from the case
33:26and say,
33:27I don't know what parts
33:29of this are true
33:29and what parts aren't.
33:31The beating was certainly
33:33for real,
33:34the involvement
33:35in the coke business
33:36was almost certainly
33:37quite real.
33:39The rest,
33:40I don't know.
33:43He talked like
33:43he believed it.
33:45Even as nutty
33:46as Billy Jack Haines was,
33:47did I think that,
33:48you know,
33:49he would be 70 years old
33:50and SWAT team would be
33:51outside of Billy Jack Haines'
33:52house.
33:53There's a reason
33:54you're in trouble a lot
33:55because you just
33:55gravitate to trouble.
33:57This matter is going to be
33:58page 22,
33:59line 3,
33:59Mr. Haines.
34:02Now at
34:03smartasset.com.
34:05By 2019,
34:07Billy Jack Haines
34:08is living a nomadic
34:09lifestyle,
34:10making rare
34:11interview appearances.
34:13I wore Oregon here.
34:15There,
34:16take that.
34:17Oregon's sticking up
34:18your ass.
34:19He'd been a non-entity
34:20in the wrestling world
34:22for 25 years.
34:25By the time he started
34:27just being the weird
34:29person that we've seen
34:31in modern times,
34:32I think you'd almost
34:33have to say he was
34:34on some kind of
34:35substance.
34:36I heard that he was
34:37having financial
34:38difficulties.
34:40You think you're
34:40on top of the world
34:41and the next day
34:41you turn around
34:42and you ain't got
34:42two nickels
34:43to rub your ass.
34:45He was homeless,
34:46yeah.
34:47Homeless?
34:48Yeah, that's right.
34:49In my van,
34:50sleeping.
34:51Rip Oliver opened
34:52his house
34:53for Billy Jack
34:54to live there.
34:55I found out that he was
34:59dying in 2019 in December
35:01so I left Portland
35:03and flew down to Florida
35:05and spent the last
35:06three months with him.
35:07I'm not looking for no
35:08pat on the back,
35:08nothing like that.
35:09He was a great guy.
35:10He never came here for my dad.
35:12He came here to have a free
35:13place to live and if he was
35:15on pills before he got there,
35:17he damn sure was before he left.
35:18You said he stole
35:19your dad's pills?
35:20Yeah.
35:22My dad was, I don't know,
35:23months away from dying.
35:24My dad was on the real shit,
35:26the heist that go,
35:28the stuff that put people
35:28in comas.
35:30He started taking Rip's
35:32Percocets or Vicodin
35:34which Rip really needed
35:35because he was very sick.
35:37I think he was more
35:38taking advantage of Rip
35:39and Rip was paying
35:41for everything.
35:44Billy got in the scheme
35:45and called Brian Blair up.
35:48Brian Blair ran
35:49Cauliflower Alley.
35:50You know, they help
35:51wrestlers with problems.
35:53I don't know what happened
35:54but Billy called Brian.
35:56Rip's dying.
35:57He needs help.
35:58He's going to lose
35:59his property.
36:00This is what my dad
36:01told me.
36:02Cauliflower Alley Club
36:03paid for his back taxes
36:04on his house.
36:05They paid for his rent.
36:06They paid everything
36:07for him.
36:08Well, my dad didn't
36:09owe taxes.
36:10When he died,
36:11he didn't owe taxes.
36:13And my dad told me
36:14that Billy took half
36:16and he gave him half.
36:18My dad was a junkie.
36:20I don't mean to say
36:21that bad
36:21but he was hooked.
36:23He was done.
36:24You know?
36:25He wanted me to be there
36:27and I was there
36:27all the way to hospice
36:28until he finally died.
36:30I didn't want him
36:30to be alone.
36:32I know he stole
36:32all my dad's shit
36:33before he died.
36:34Everybody's got stories
36:35that I've seen it.
36:37It finally came out
36:38after, you know,
36:4030-something years.
36:42He took advantage
36:42of everybody.
36:43Back in Portland,
36:57Billy Jack begins
36:58a relationship
36:59with Jan Becraft,
37:00the mother
37:01of his friend Todd.
37:03The Becraft family
37:04disapproves
37:05of the relationship
37:06but when Todd
37:07unexpectedly dies
37:08in 2021,
37:10Billy Jack
37:11and Jan get married.
37:13She's like 85
37:14and he's like 70
37:15and so when I saw
37:16the age of the woman,
37:17you know,
37:17you hear stuff
37:18from people.
37:19Was he like using her
37:20for money
37:21or a place to live
37:22or whatever?
37:22come in.
37:27This is actually
37:28the main house.
37:30This is the main bedroom
37:31on this side
37:32and then the living room
37:33because you can't see
37:34through the kitchen.
37:35My name is Tom Matthew.
37:37I was actually living here
37:38before Billy Jack moved in.
37:41You talk to anybody
37:41in the neighborhood,
37:42they all loved him.
37:43He would walk around,
37:44talk to everybody.
37:45He really loved Jan a lot
37:47and he was quite devoted
37:48to her.
37:49She was sick.
37:50She was ill
37:51with dementia.
37:53Some days she'd have
37:54good days
37:55and some days,
37:55most of the days
37:56were bad
37:56and that wore
37:58on Billy pretty hard.
38:00She had some good days
38:01but they were getting worse
38:02and her family
38:03definitely did not like
38:04them being together
38:05and I don't think
38:07they were going to separate.
38:09In my opinion,
38:10he took very good care
38:11of her
38:12and wanted to protect her
38:13and keep her
38:14from any kind of harm.
38:16The last time I spoke to him
38:17it was two days
38:18before the incident
38:20and I told Billy,
38:22I said,
38:23Billy, you look terrible.
38:24He hadn't slept.
38:25He hadn't hardly eaten anything.
38:27People with dementia,
38:28they become combative.
38:30It's tough
38:30to watch a loved one
38:32go through that
38:33kind of mental decline.
38:37I seen the cop cars
38:38and stuff
38:38on my security camera
38:40so I went outside
38:41to see what was going on
38:42and I looked down the street
38:43and I saw him all down
38:44in front of Billy's place
38:44and I thought,
38:45oh shit.
38:46Detectives have been
38:46at the scene all day
38:48and police say
38:48the investigation
38:49is just getting started.
38:51I hear a banging
38:52on the window
38:53out the back window
38:54like,
38:55and I looked out
38:55and there was quiet.
38:56It was freaking overkill.
38:58I mean,
38:58they had this place locked down.
39:00Tactical teams
39:01including the special
39:01emergency reaction team
39:03and the crisis negotiation team
39:05were called to the scene.
39:06Around two hours later,
39:08a man was detained.
39:10So what happened?
39:11Well,
39:12he took her life
39:14and it took them
39:16like maybe an hour
39:17to be in and out
39:18when they actually
39:18took her body out.
39:21When Billy was arrested,
39:23the whole neighborhood
39:24basically was in shock.
39:26Just like me,
39:26I didn't believe it either
39:28at first.
39:29He's just a big general giant
39:30and when you see it
39:32firsthand,
39:34it turns your heart out.
39:36Billy Jack was kind of a nut.
39:39You know,
39:40and people thought
39:41at this point,
39:41he's that old,
39:42he's a harmless nut.
39:43Nobody thought
39:44he was going to go off
39:45and murder anybody.
39:48But then the question becomes,
39:50why in the world
39:52would you ever
39:53do something like that?
39:56The Sheik was ultra-violent
39:58at a time when pro wrestling
40:00was still presented
40:01as a sport.
40:02The first one
40:03to use a fireball,
40:04the first one
40:05to bring a snake
40:05into the ring.
40:07Even though people thought
40:07they knew wrestling was bullshit,
40:09they knew he wasn't.
40:10He became a character
40:11and he milked it
40:12for all it was worth.
40:14Unfortunately,
40:15all the money,
40:16glory,
40:17and fame,
40:18he couldn't keep it up
40:19and it almost cost him
40:21his life.
40:22Dark Side of the Ring,
40:23new episode next Tuesday
40:25at 10 on Vice.
40:27Billy Jack Ames
40:28is facing unlawful use
40:30of a weapon
40:31and murder charges today
40:32after the alleged shooting
40:33earlier this month.
40:34Although questions linger
40:36around Billy Jack's
40:38numerous claims
40:39and criminal activity,
40:40one fact remains undeniable.
40:43On February 8, 2024,
40:46Billy Jack Haynes
40:47took the life
40:48of Jeanette Bacraft.
40:51Now, as he faces trial
40:53for second-degree murder,
40:55Billy Jack has a new story
40:56to tell.
40:58Billy claims that she had
40:59dementia so bad
41:01that it was unbearable.
41:04He couldn't live
41:04with it anymore.
41:06He called it
41:06a mercy killing
41:07because she didn't know
41:09who she was anymore.
41:11He supposedly
41:12shot his wife
41:13in the head
41:14and that's a mercy killing?
41:17I don't know, brother.
41:19Maybe he thought
41:20that was justifiable
41:21to do that.
41:22It's a very sad situation
41:24and I don't know
41:26what they're going to do
41:26justice-wise,
41:27but that's up to,
41:30I guess,
41:31the court to decide.
41:32I don't care for him.
41:34It ain't because
41:34he killed his wife.
41:37I'll let that play out
41:38in court.
41:39If I were his lawyer,
41:41I'd certainly make
41:42a diminished capacity
41:43case for him.
41:45He'd obviously been
41:46taking beatings
41:47throughout his career
41:48and if nothing else,
41:52dating from the beating
41:54he got
41:54at the Longoria's car line.
41:56You ask anybody
41:58and they'll tell you.
42:00He loved Jan
42:01unconditionally.
42:03She was his world.
42:04Whatever happened,
42:06as unfortunate as it is,
42:07I think was a big mistake.
42:09That's what makes it
42:10all that much more
42:11difficult to deal with.
42:15Damn it,
42:16I'm lesser.
42:17It hurts my heart.
42:20Mercy killing
42:21is the phrase
42:22that they used.
42:24Who's ever going to know
42:25the only person
42:25that's alive
42:26that was in the room
42:27with him
42:27is Billy Jack
42:28and you can't believe
42:29a thing he says.
42:30If I come across crazy,
42:32I must be the smartest,
42:33craziest guy
42:34there ever is.
42:36I'll never, ever forget
42:37the state of Oregon
42:38and the beautiful fans
42:39that supported me
42:40through pro wrestling.
42:41Fans in Oregon,
42:42old enough to remember,
42:43probably still have
42:44a fond spot for him,
42:45but now,
42:46more people
42:47in and out of wrestling
42:48are going to remember
42:49the crazy stories
42:51he told
42:51and the things
42:52that he invented
42:53that he was involved in
42:54and finally
42:55the murder of his wife.
42:57They're going to remember
42:58that more than anything
42:59he did in wrestling.
43:00Let me have your attention.
43:02I don't want
43:03any fan
43:04to ever come up to me
43:05and ask for
43:06an autograph again.
43:09He was a guy
43:09who had a couple
43:10of good years
43:10at a time
43:11when wrestling
43:11was pretty big,
43:12made something of a name
43:13and had a very,
43:14very troubled existence
43:15after that fame ended.
43:17It's not a happy ending.
43:19There's no silver lining
43:19in the story,
43:20unfortunately.
43:22So how do you think
43:23Billy Jack's story
43:23is going to end?
43:24Boy,
43:25that's a million-dollar question.
43:40That door shut
43:41gets to reality real quick
43:42that there's no
43:43getting out of here.
43:47Until 12.
43:49Do you feel good
44:00about your chances?
44:01I do.
44:01I do.