Dark Side of the Ring S6 Episode 7
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00:00The standoff took place this morning in front of this house after police say they responded
00:10to reports. 85-year-old Jeanette B. 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 in
00:48wrestling's golden age of the 1980s. Portland, Oregon, Billy Jack Haynes. Billy Jack had everything,
00:56all the tools to be a top professional wrestler. His career was in reverse. He started as a star
01:06and he finished as a nobody. But Billy Jack's dealings outside the ring hinted at a mysterious
01:12life, one almost too extraordinary to believe. Billy said he had been involved in the drug
01:19business as a collector and enforcer. When I was in Portland, I was about a kilo a day cocaine dealer.
01:25Billy has made many, many claims. I was contracted to go down there to kill two Arkansas State police
01:31officers. You don't know fact from fiction with Billy Jack Haynes. I kept that secret from everybody.
01:38Now, as the former star faces murder charges, those who knew Billy Jack Haynes look back on the road
01:44that led him here. So Billy Jack was his own worst enemy. I didn't even know it. He was a loaded gun,
01:50brother. You never know what he's thinking. You know, a lot of guys fall hard in wrestling, but
01:55he fell harder than most, without a doubt.
01:58In the wrestling industry, I guess a lot of people may have forgotten about him.
02:13I've got organ blood flowing through these days.
02:16Even 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
02:39something crazy, but we never thought it would be that crazy. It shocked me. And then again,
02:46it didn't. I don't know if you can understand that. That's one thing where when Billy messed up,
02:52he messed up. Final mess up. I guess if you took everything and laid it on the table,
03:00you could see it coming up.
03:03Before his recent murder charge, Billy Jack's past reveals other crimes,
03:08including two assault charges before he's 30. But the same mean streak that gets him into trouble
03:14also creates new opportunities in the wrestling business.
03:17Billy Jack Haynes was a thug. He was a street fighter. He was a boxer, a wrestler, tough guy. Don't get me wrong.
03:26My dad found him as a gym rat, and he's below that now. All his bios say he was trained by Stu Hart.
03:37Stu Hart threw him out of Canada because he was too rough and beat all his boys up.
03:43So he was back being a gym rat in Portland, Oregon, when my dad and the assassin Dave Sierra found him.
03:49Well, he came to the Portland Sports Arena looking for work, and we got him hooked up.
03:56He looked unreal. He was like, you know, jacked to the max.
03:59Look at Billy Jack. Look at him.
04:02Me and Rip the Crippler, Oliver, talked to promoter Don Owens into using him.
04:08We knew with that size body and his home being the Pacific Northwest that we can draw money with him.
04:14Billy Jack Haynes. I mean, he just, he fit the part, and everybody was giving him a chance.
04:21In 1982, Billy rockets to the top with a persona tailor-made for fans in the Pacific Northwest.
04:29Billy Jack's gimmick and look came from the movie Billy Jack, starring Tom Laughlin,
04:35about the ex-serviceman who was a karate expert and a loner.
04:39He 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, the fans went crazy for him,
04:50like he was their very own hometown movie star.
04:53The Portland, Oregon boy is 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. I love you. Thank you.
05:05Nice guy, loved his father, loved Oregon, loved Portland, you know what I mean?
05:11And he was Billy Jack from the movie, trying to get revenge on these different heels.
05:16Make a little bit more noise and I'll get it for you. Let's go!
05:19Everyone knew he was a rising star. You know, the 80s was all about the look. He had the look.
05:24And I'm sure all the fans here are going to like this man, Billy Jack Haynes.
05:29What a fantastic build on this young man, Johnny.
05:32They loved him, you know. Every time Billy Jack was on the card, sold out.
05:36From the time he first stepped foot in the ring, he was featured. He was pushed by the promoters.
05:41Small territory? Pushed him. Went to a bigger territory? Pushed him.
05:45I know Billy Jack Haynes from the territory days.
05:48When he came to the Florida Temperature Wrestling, he was pretty laid back, kind of a low-key guy and a loner.
05:57My name's Bill Fonze Alfonso and I've been in the wrestling business for 45 years.
06:05I 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.
06:16Billy Jack would go with the fans and their kids to pizza and have pizza with them.
06:23The fans loved him. He loved the fans. He was committed.
06:28After just four years of working in smaller promotions,
06:32Billy Jack Haynes gets the call in 1986 from Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.
06:37If you wanted to go deep into Vince McMahon's mind and create a professional wrestler
06:47based on what he thought they should look like, Billy Jack was the guy.
06:51Now I'm here in the WWF. It's a World Wrestling Federation.
06:55And believe me, I know full well this is where the stiffest and the toughest competition is.
06:59He wrestled in that Detroit WrestleMania. They had over 100,000 people showed up.
07:05Billy Jack Haynes!
07:08For a wrestler, that's the top of the mountain.
07:11Look at the builds on these two guys.
07:15Patara and his tag team partner.
07:20Billy needed a tag team partner to elevate his persona.
07:25So it worked out good. It worked out real good.
07:28This is Ken Patara, coming straight at you.
07:32And I used to wrestle with Billy Jack Haynes.
07:37His appearance was, don't f**k with me.
07:40How's that?
07:44Well, we weren't told anything about the gimmick.
07:48Pat Patterson came in the locker room and said,
07:51well, we got chainsaws and you guys are the Oregon Lumberjacks now.
07:58And they wanted us to crank those chainsaws up so they were actually running.
08:04I said, are you f**king nuts?
08:07I'm not going to turn this chainsaw on, you know, so somebody could get an arm cut off.
08:13Billy Jack had a super nice personality and everything.
08:22Soft-spoken and whatnot.
08:24The nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.
08:30But the gloss wears off after a while.
08:35All respects, Billy Jack had a fantastic body, stayed 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 not going to decide, you know, he's mad about something and all of a sudden knocked the hell out of you.
08:59He was an off-the-hinge type character.
09:02His finishing maneuver would be the full Nelson.
09:10And once he locked that full Nelson in you, you felt like he was going to break your neck.
09:15Nobody has ever gotten out of the full Nelson.
09:17Once Billy Jack Haynes has got it locked in.
09:20Once you gave up, he would just sling you.
09:22I mean, like a piece of trash to the side.
09:25In the locker room, he had a reputation for boom.
09:32I 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.
09:42And 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.
09:56We did a show and Smirnoff pulled a fire alarm.
10:00Got 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.
10:15He said, oh, that fake bullshit.
10:17I 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, bam.
10:27You'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.
10:36He 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.
10:46But he always said, they deserved it.
10:52Oregon men don't back down to nobody.
10:55You know, he's got a heart, but then he's got the other side.
10:58You know, where you screw him over,
11:00he'll come in your house, pull you out,
11:02and beat you to death.
11:03I would never think that the Billy Jack
11:08that I knew in the 80s
11:10would have ended up doing what he did.
11:16Police have now confirmed a woman was found dead
11:18and a man was taken into custody
11:20after an hours-long police stand-off.
11:23There's a whole lot that people don't know about me,
11:45and the law isn't always right.
11:48The law isn't always wrong.
11:53Believe half of what you hear
11:54and nothing of what you see.
11:57Billy Jack Haynes!
12:01I'm Billy Jack Haynes
12:03from the World Wrestling Federation
12:05and a 14-year pro.
12:07Pretty tough to hear him.
12:16Right now, I'm in Noma County Justice Center jail.
12:20I've been incarcerated six months.
12:22What I'm talking to you guys today about
12:24is one small percentage of my life,
12:26and there's a whole big part of my life
12:28I'm leaving out here.
12:28The position I'm in right now,
12:30it's hard for me to bring up anything
12:31and talk about it.
12:33I have my attorney out there,
12:34so I'm glad that he's here today.
12:37It's a second-degree murder.
12:40And it's just way overcharged.
12:43That didn't happen.
12:47There's only really two human beings
12:49that I really love.
12:50That was my father,
12:51who was blind and in a wheelchair.
12:53And then the other was my wife,
12:55who allegedly I murdered,
12:58which you're going to find I didn't.
13:00And I loved her more than life.
13:05Weighing 247 pounds.
13:07Cold wrestling is a work.
13:08We all know that.
13:10But we took it real serious
13:11back when we were in it.
13:13Oh, look at the blood
13:15just spewing out of the forehead.
13:17I don't want to be negative
13:18towards anybody in this industry,
13:20you know, I don't.
13:21I respect the wrestlers so much.
13:23But, you know,
13:23they don't know me.
13:25Throughout his wrestling career,
13:28Billy Jack Haynes remains distant,
13:30private to the point of secrecy.
13:33He was not the life of the party,
13:35the life of the locker room.
13:36He wasn't making friends hand over fist.
13:38He was just that big guy over there.
13:40It's like something's going on.
13:43Billy Jack was a true loner.
13:46Then I realized he was very manipulative.
13:49He always had an agenda.
13:52And you never knew what he was up to.
13:56We'd go check in at the hotel there.
13:59Five minutes later,
14:00Billy'd be gone.
14:02And he did that every f***ing night.
14:04I didn't know what he was doing.
14:08At that time,
14:10I was really heavy into the narcotics,
14:13into the painkillers.
14:15Uppers, lowers,
14:16I mean, you name it,
14:17you couldn't survive without it.
14:19I was five days a week
14:20in and out of airports.
14:21It's all over!
14:23Different cities.
14:24Billy Jack,
14:25go to work now!
14:26340 nights a year.
14:27Heavyweight champion,
14:29Billy!
14:30I took 20,
14:30sometimes 25 pills a day.
14:33Vicodin,
14:34Percocet,
14:35it got in the way
14:35of wrestling and my life.
14:37All you beautiful children,
14:39drugs are negative.
14:40You are a positive influence
14:42for the world.
14:42I love you very much.
14:43Say no to drugs.
14:44Drugs are no good,
14:46you know.
14:46It's not good.
14:49Well,
14:50we're at the Oakland Coliseum
14:51in a tag team.
14:54It's time for the match.
14:56Billy's nowhere to be found.
14:58About an hour later,
14:59all the matches were over,
15:02and here comes Billy.
15:04Oh, he looked like hell.
15:06I said,
15:06Billy, you missed the match.
15:08Ah,
15:09completely out of it.
15:10McMahon said that
15:14he was going to give us
15:14a big push,
15:16and I think
15:17we can throw that
15:18out the window.
15:22How did it come to an end
15:23at WWF in your run?
15:25Oh, yeah.
15:26Yeah,
15:26I probably...
15:29What do you think about that?
15:31On the plane?
15:34You guys should talk about that?
15:36Well,
15:37it happens.
15:41Now,
15:42what I heard
15:42is that he overdosed
15:44on some codeine,
15:46I think.
15:46He was falling out the mouth.
15:47He was jerking.
15:49We had that
15:49murky landing.
15:50They thought he was dying.
15:52I was this close
15:53away from death,
15:55and they had to
15:56jumpstart me twice.
15:58I'd be gone.
16:00You know,
16:00and with WWF,
16:01I mean,
16:01it's like,
16:01they don't want that bad,
16:02but let's see getting out.
16:03You know what I mean?
16:04And that was the final straw.
16:06He was never
16:07in the top spot
16:08in WrestleMania.
16:09He was never
16:10a major
16:10singles champion.
16:12And after about
16:13a year and a half,
16:14he was fired
16:15by the WWF.
16:18Returning to Portland,
16:19Billy Jack shocks
16:20his former colleagues
16:21by turning on
16:22the promoter
16:23who made him.
16:24But everybody knows
16:26that the state of Oregon
16:27has the number one
16:28wrestling fan
16:29in the world.
16:30The Oregon Wrestling
16:32Federation
16:33was what Billy Jack
16:34wanted to open
16:35so he could be
16:36Vince McMahon
16:37of the Pacific Northwest.
16:39That was his words.
16:41OWF was going
16:42to be his baby.
16:43We said,
16:44Billy,
16:44Don Owens made you,
16:46and now you're
16:46opening a company
16:47against him?
16:49And I couldn't
16:51believe it.
16:52You've got to have
16:52money to back that.
16:54Sponsors and all that.
16:55You know,
16:56somebody's got
16:56some deep pockets
16:57if you want to try
16:58to do that.
16:59I was there
17:00two weeks,
17:00and the shows
17:01that were running
17:02weren't drawing anything.
17:04There was a couple
17:04hundred people
17:05in the audience,
17:05so it kind of
17:06fizzed out pretty quick.
17:07And I got a check
17:09on Friday,
17:10and he said,
17:11Ponzi,
17:11can you please
17:12not cash it
17:13until Monday?
17:14So I knew
17:15I was in trouble.
17:16And I went right
17:17to the bank
17:17and cashed it,
17:18and I left.
17:19Finally,
17:20one day we come in,
17:21he said,
17:21I'm closing, guys.
17:23And that was it.
17:24The collapse
17:25of the Oregon Wrestling
17:25Federation
17:26was pretty spectacular.
17:28Billy Jack Haynes
17:29really left
17:29a lot of guys hanging,
17:31and there was
17:31a lot of bad blood.
17:33It hurt Billy's reputation
17:35with a lot of people.
17:37That was my bad
17:38due to the fact
17:39that my head
17:40wasn't screwed on right,
17:41and probably a little bit
17:44to do with the pills, too.
17:46Struggling with addiction
17:47and running out of allies,
17:49in 1996,
17:51Haynes' once promising career
17:53crashes to a halt.
17:54It was just a shame
17:57and a pity
17:58because he had
17:59the world by the string.
18:01He never became
18:02the star
18:02to the magnitude
18:03of what people
18:04had predicted.
18:06By the time
18:06his wrestling career
18:07was over,
18:09nobody trusted him,
18:10and all that potential
18:11just dribbled away with it.
18:14Though his wrestling days
18:15may be over,
18:17it doesn't take long
18:18for Billy Jack
18:18to find his way back
18:20into the spotlight.
18:21He was a little strange,
18:23a little standoffish,
18:25sometimes a little
18:25off-putting, whatever.
18:27He was kind of weird,
18:29and suddenly,
18:30you saw him
18:30a few years later,
18:32and there started
18:33to be this change.
18:35In retirement,
18:36Billy Jack hits
18:37the interview circuit
18:38revealing a shocking detail.
18:40While in wrestling,
18:42he'd been living
18:42a secret double life
18:44of crime.
18:46Starting way back
18:47in the 70s,
18:48I was about a kilo a day
18:49cocaine dealer,
18:50and I kept that secret
18:51from everybody.
18:53I just wanted to go in
18:54and actually do something
18:55in the pro wrestling industry
18:57instead of a drug runner,
18:59leg breaker,
19:00and worse.
19:01I mean,
19:02making 30 grand a week,
19:03I lit a lot of guys up,
19:05and a lot of guys
19:06got addicted
19:06to the cocaine
19:07that I sold them.
19:08You know,
19:09very nefarious things
19:10went on back in the 80s.
19:13In 2017,
19:15Billy Jack makes
19:16an even more shocking claim,
19:18linking himself
19:19to a famous
19:20unsolved murder.
19:22It's been over 30 years
19:23since two teenage boys
19:24were found dead
19:25on these tracks
19:26in Saline County.
19:27The tracks are still here,
19:28and so is the mystery
19:29regarding what happened.
19:30What's new
19:31is a witness has come forward.
19:32I helped put the kids
19:33on the tracks.
19:34They were already dead.
19:36They've been murdered.
19:42Well,
19:43over 30 years ago,
19:44a Union Pacific train
19:45ran over
19:46two Saline County teenagers.
19:47The deaths of Kevin Ives
19:49and Don Henry
19:49have become one
19:50of Arkansas's
19:50most notorious mystery.
19:52There was a famous
19:54murder case
19:54in Arkansas
19:55back in the 80s
19:57where these two
19:59teenage boys
20:00were run over
20:02by a train
20:02is what they thought
20:03originally happened.
20:05In the pre-dawn hours
20:06of August 23rd, 1987,
20:09a 75-car cargo train
20:11made its regular night run
20:12to Little Rock, Arkansas.
20:14With engineer
20:14Stephen Schroeder
20:15grew closer,
20:16he made the horrifying
20:17discovery that
20:18two boys
20:19were lying motionless
20:20across the railroad tracks.
20:23Well,
20:23then somebody else
20:24investigated,
20:25found out
20:25they had been beaten.
20:26They had injuries.
20:28They weren't just
20:28run over by a train.
20:30Then Billy Jack
20:31started claiming
20:32that he was there
20:34and saw the murder
20:36because these two teenagers
20:38wandered into a drug deal.
20:43His story,
20:45the drug people,
20:46wanted him to supervise
20:48the drug drop
20:49and pay off
20:50to make sure
20:50that everything
20:51goes okay
20:51and he was going
20:53to videotape it also
20:54and he said,
20:57I wore a wrestling mask.
20:59I've been around
21:00the dope game
21:00for a long time.
21:02I went down there
21:02by myself
21:03after I wrestled
21:04King Kong Bundy.
21:05We went to the tracks.
21:06The drop was made.
21:09Apparently,
21:09these kids wandered up
21:10on it
21:11and as a result,
21:12the drug people
21:13killed them
21:13and put them
21:14on the railroad tracks.
21:16They were just
21:17in the wrong place
21:18at the wrong time.
21:18I helped
21:19put the kids
21:20on the tracks.
21:21I was there.
21:22I helped.
21:24They'd been murdered.
21:25They were already dead.
21:27The church
21:27is going to come out
21:28so this woman
21:29Linda Iyess
21:30can have a life.
21:32Billy Jack's claims
21:33about the unsolved murders
21:35are taken seriously
21:36by the mother
21:37of one of the victims
21:38as well as by
21:39the family's
21:40private investigator.
21:41I mean,
21:42there was no good reason
21:43to insert yourself
21:44into a murder case.
21:46He has nothing to gain
21:47and everything to lose.
21:49He's put himself
21:49in jeopardy
21:50not only as freedom
21:52but also his life.
21:53They're hopeful
21:54that law enforcement
21:55will now take a look.
21:56As Billy Jack
22:09continues sharing
22:10his story,
22:11other details
22:12sound increasingly
22:13unbelievable.
22:15There was drops
22:16that were being stolen,
22:17cocaine drops.
22:18I was sent down there
22:19to take care of
22:21two state police officers
22:23from Arkansas
22:23but it was an inside job.
22:26He told me
22:27that he was running
22:28with one of the biggest
22:30drug dealers
22:31in the country.
22:32I've dealt drugs
22:33at the highest level
22:34you can.
22:34That's uncut coke.
22:37Well, in the beginning
22:38when I first started
22:38hearing the stories
22:39I thought,
22:39come on, Billy, really?
22:41But when it gets
22:42right down to it,
22:43he can prove it.
22:44He brought it all out
22:45in an interview
22:46on several occasions
22:48as a matter of fact.
22:49The things that he said
22:50about it
22:51and all this stuff
22:51is all verifiable.
22:53But that's about
22:54all I can say about it.
22:56I can't talk about it.
22:59I'd love to,
23:00but I can't.
23:00But haven't you told
23:01that story so many times?
23:03I wish I could talk
23:04to you guys.
23:04I can't.
23:06What can you tell me
23:07without getting into details?
23:08Is it true?
23:13Did you hear that?
23:15That is probably
23:16a subject you should ignore.
23:19Leave it alone.
23:23As Billy Jack's interview
23:33appearances become
23:33more frequent,
23:35his claims extend
23:36far beyond drug dealing
23:37and the boys on the tracks.
23:39And many begin to wonder
23:40what's behind it.
23:42He looked completely ridiculous
23:51and then he had
23:52this white hair
23:53but it was like
23:54a mop top cut
23:56like he was Pete Best,
23:57the fifth Beatle.
23:58my mother and my uncle
24:00when I was 15
24:01were both murdered.
24:02There was two politicians
24:04that were involved.
24:06And he started
24:07concocting these stories
24:09where he was in the middle
24:11of a variety
24:12of newsworthy events.
24:14Andy Gibb had a gig
24:16in San Francisco
24:18and one of my first
24:19big deliveries
24:20was there to the concert.
24:22I delivered
24:23one kilo to him
24:24July 31st, 1978.
24:28Some say,
24:29well, he knows stuff
24:30that nobody else knows.
24:31Well, this dude
24:31studies shit,
24:32I can tell you that.
24:34And that's how nutty he was.
24:35He don't have nothing
24:36better to do
24:36but to try to find
24:38his way to make himself
24:39back in the scene.
24:40I had cocaines
24:41from the median cartel
24:43in Columbia.
24:44So I started
24:45making more money.
24:46The Clintons
24:47are involved too.
24:49Well, now,
24:49was he a drug enforcer
24:50for the Clintons?
24:52Why the f***
24:53would Bill Clinton
24:54call Billy Jack Haynes?
24:57Yeah, that's stupid.
24:59I took it
25:00for a grain of salt.
25:02He had to be
25:03on some good drugs
25:04to think that.
25:06But then the question
25:07becomes,
25:08where was the
25:09bizarre behavior
25:10originating?
25:11Conspiracy theories
25:12and being the
25:13Forrest Gump of crime,
25:15it not only
25:16sounds so preposterous,
25:17but there was
25:17no upside to him.
25:19It was just interviews
25:20being done with
25:21this kooky old man
25:22that people would
25:23put up on the internet.
25:25I've wanted to know
25:26who my real dad is
25:27for a long time,
25:28whether it's
25:28Lenny Montana,
25:30whether it's
25:31Vince McMahon Sr.,
25:32which it could have been,
25:34because he supposedly
25:34had sex with my mother.
25:36This senior could be
25:36my father.
25:37There's a long history
25:38to that.
25:38I don't know
25:39if we can get into
25:39today or not.
25:40Claiming to be
25:41the son of
25:41Vince McMahon Sr.,
25:42you know,
25:42aside from being
25:43ridiculous,
25:45that's unbelievable
25:46that someone
25:46even tried
25:47to pass that off.
25:49When I heard
25:50stuff like that,
25:51I would say,
25:52man,
25:52Billy's really
25:53losing it.
25:53What's causing
25:55Billy Jack
25:55to make up stuff
25:57that's obviously
25:58not true?
26:009-11 was an
26:01inside job,
26:02no question about it.
26:03All you have to do
26:04in this world
26:05is follow the money.
26:06so this isn't
26:08going to make
26:08the Bush family
26:09too happy,
26:09but they're
26:10involved too.
26:12He did look like
26:13someone that would
26:14say anything
26:15just to be on
26:16a podcast,
26:17get more money
26:19out of that podcast.
26:21I'm not afraid
26:22to come in front
26:23of this camera
26:24and tell you the truth,
26:25and either you're
26:26going to believe it
26:26or you're not
26:27going to believe it.
26:28The idea was
26:29if you tell
26:30crazy stories,
26:32there will be
26:32an appetite for more,
26:34even though it's
26:34all bullshit.
26:35You're probably
26:36going to be looking
26:36at a dead man.
26:38Maybe by the time
26:39this video gets out.
26:40Everything I've said
26:41can get me killed.
26:42Everything I've said
26:43with Vince
26:43can get me killed.
26:46One preposterous
26:47thing in wrestling
26:48can be true.
26:49With some people,
26:50a couple of preposterous
26:51things can be true.
26:52But when you're
26:53just pulling shit
26:54out of your ass
26:55over and over,
26:57then even if
26:58one or two of those
26:59things is true,
26:59nobody's going to
27:00believe them.
27:00Amid all of the
27:03astonishing claims
27:05Billy Jack makes,
27:06at least one truth
27:07stands out.
27:09January 10th, 2006,
27:12there was attempted
27:13murder on me.
27:20Once again,
27:21I'm speaking for
27:22the people.
27:23Under the ground
27:23right now,
27:24they can't speak
27:24for themselves.
27:25So let me do it,
27:26please.
27:26From 2006 to 2023,
27:30Billy Jack Haynes
27:31makes a series
27:32of shocking statements
27:33and explosive accusations.
27:36Vincent Haynes.
27:37McMahon.
27:38I call it
27:38Vincent Killer.
27:40McMahon.
27:41Yeah, that's right.
27:42You're a killer.
27:43Though many of
27:44Billy Jack's stories
27:45are dismissed
27:46as conspiracy theories,
27:47a violent incident
27:49in 2006
27:49suggests that
27:50Billy Jack's ties
27:51to organized crime
27:53may be legitimate.
27:54This is the file
27:57from the work
27:57I did 16 years ago.
28:00Police reports,
28:01letters from
28:02Billy Jack,
28:02and a couple photos
28:04of Billy in the hospital.
28:08At the time,
28:09I was writing a column
28:10for the Portland Tribune.
28:11And so next thing I knew,
28:13Billy Jack
28:14is knocking on my door.
28:16He looked like
28:16Frankenstein's monster.
28:18He'd just gotten
28:18out of the hospital.
28:19He'd had several bones
28:21in his face broken,
28:22and he had stitches,
28:23as I recall.
28:23We sat down,
28:25and he started
28:26telling me his story.
28:28Basically,
28:29that he'd been called
28:30over to
28:31Jimmy Longoria's
28:32car lot.
28:33Longoria family
28:34was certainly
28:35one of the more
28:37prominent
28:37Portland crime families.
28:39Billy had been
28:40a bill collector,
28:42and then he said
28:43he'd delivered drugs
28:44for the Longorias.
28:46What have you got?
28:47What is all this stuff?
28:47Yeah, these are
28:48letters from
28:49Billy Jack
28:50from months
28:51after it came
28:52to my place.
28:54On January 10, 2006,
28:57I was set up
28:57for a hit
28:58or to be killed
29:00by two hitmen
29:01hired by
29:01Jimmy Longoria.
29:03I drove through
29:04the open gate
29:05at the time scheduled
29:069 a.m.,
29:06and I parked
29:07about 30 feet
29:08inside the lot
29:08where I met a man
29:10and asked where
29:10I could find
29:11Jimmy Longoria.
29:12The man motioned
29:13over his left,
29:14and Jimmy Longoria
29:15was sitting at a desk
29:16with his hands
29:17behind his head
29:18with a very cocky
29:18look on his face.
29:20I said,
29:21you're going
29:21to kill me,
29:22aren't you?
29:24It was then,
29:24I believe,
29:25that Jimmy told me
29:26that paybacks
29:27are a bitch,
29:28Billy Jack.
29:29I remember
29:29looking at the
29:31office windows
29:31and seeing four men,
29:33and I thought
29:33I was a dead man.
29:34It was very clear
29:36that two guys
29:37attacked him.
29:38They beat him
29:39so badly
29:40that he had
29:40to play dead.
29:43He knew
29:43they wanted
29:44to kill him.
29:44They said
29:45I would've been dead.
29:47The instinct
29:47reaction saved me.
29:48Probably what little
29:49instincts I have
29:50left to save me.
29:54Jimmy Longoria
29:55had a pretty
29:56airtight alibi.
29:58He said
29:59two tweakers
30:00came onto his lot
30:02and provoked
30:04Billy into a fight.
30:05He said
30:06he'd never seen him
30:06before and
30:07couldn't identify him.
30:09I think they probably
30:09worked for Longoria.
30:11The surveillance cameras
30:13somehow had not
30:14been working
30:15which was
30:16of course
30:16very suspicious.
30:18I cannot see
30:19out of my right eye.
30:21You can focus
30:23in here
30:23in my eye.
30:25Billy said
30:26it was
30:26retribution
30:27for 15 or 16
30:29years before
30:30when he had
30:31ripped off
30:31$200,000.
30:33He'd been
30:33a courier
30:34back and forth
30:35from Portland
30:36to Los Angeles
30:37taking coke
30:37one way
30:38and money the other.
30:39Let's just say
30:40in the 80s
30:41I transported drugs
30:43I had a 1986
30:44Toyota 4x4
30:45they put the
30:46built-in
30:47cabinet
30:48or toolbox.
30:49On the way back
30:50he broke into
30:51the toolbox
30:52saw $1,200,000
30:54figured that
30:55$200,000
30:55should belong to him.
30:58I gave the
30:58million bucks
30:59I took my
30:59$200,000.
31:01Billy said
31:02this beating
31:03was retribution
31:04for that.
31:07I think he
31:08ripped off
31:09the Longoria's.
31:09I think that
31:10much is true.
31:12But the idea
31:13that they would
31:13have waited
31:1416 years
31:15didn't make
31:15any sense
31:16to me at all.
31:23There are also
31:24rumors that
31:25Billy Jack's
31:26organized crime
31:27connections might
31:28have been involved
31:29in his short-lived
31:29promotion in the
31:30late 1980s.
31:35I've heard rumors
31:36I don't know
31:37something about
31:37the mafia
31:38but I don't know
31:38anything about that.
31:40What I understood
31:41he had crooked
31:42sponsors and
31:44they seen a bunch
31:46of money getting
31:46lost fast and
31:48they just all
31:49one by one
31:50pulled out and
31:50that's why I think
31:51his promotion
31:52folded even faster.
31:54A lot of people
31:55that open wrestling
31:56promotions get into
31:58that because
31:59it's the easiest
32:00way to clean money.
32:01As far as the
32:02money coming from
32:02nefarious characters
32:03it's very possible.
32:06He had a very
32:06dark life and he
32:07probably had some
32:08very dark friends
32:09I'm generally
32:14sympathetic to
32:15oddball characters
32:16like Billy Jack
32:18but he was a
32:19puzzling character
32:20when we were having
32:21lunch one day.
32:22I mentioned the
32:2330 year old
32:24murder of
32:25corrections official
32:26Michael Franke.
32:28I explained the
32:30case to him
32:31we went on to
32:32something else
32:32and about two
32:33months later
32:34Billy Jack sends
32:36me something
32:36all of a sudden
32:37claiming to have
32:38been involved
32:40and a witness
32:40to the Michael
32:41Franke killer.
32:42He didn't know
32:43anything about
32:44Michael Franke
32:45before I told him.
32:461991
32:47in May 1st
32:49on my dad's
32:49birthday
32:50of the murder
32:50of Michael
32:51Franke I was
32:51forced out of
32:52Oregon
32:53before my dad
32:54would be killed
32:55I was told.
32:56I think maybe he
32:57convinced himself
32:58that he was
32:59involved
33:00that he had
33:01actually seen the
33:02assassination.
33:03He was collecting
33:04newspaper articles
33:06police reports
33:07and marking them up
33:09the whole page
33:10would be colored.
33:12He always had his
33:13binders in his
33:14shit.
33:14I don't know what was
33:15in it but he had
33:16them.
33:16He always had them.
33:18It's just documentation
33:19that's all I can say.
33:20It's not my place to go
33:22into those kinds of
33:22things.
33:23Right now as we speak
33:25I'm writing an
33:25autobiography with one
33:27of the best writers
33:28in the world.
33:29It's something in there
33:30when people read
33:31you'll see it's
33:32documented and it
33:34may or may not get
33:35me killed.
33:36I don't know.
33:37He had quite a bit
33:38of stuff in there,
33:38yeah.
33:39At that point it was
33:40sort of hands off
33:41for me and I just
33:42sort of back away
33:43from the case and
33:44say I don't know
33:45what parts of this
33:46are true and what
33:47parts aren't.
33:48The beating was
33:49certainly for real.
33:51The involvement in the
33:52coke business was
33:53almost certainly
33:54quite real.
33:56The rest of it
33:57I don't know.
34:00He talked like he
34:00believed it.
34:01Even as nutty as
34:03Billy Jack Keane's
34:04was did I think
34:05that he would be
34:0670 years old and
34:07the SWAT team would
34:08be outside of
34:08Billy Jack Keane's
34:09house.
34:10There's a reason
34:11you're in trouble
34:11a lot because you
34:12just gravitate to
34:13trouble.
34:14This matter is
34:14going to be page
34:1522 line 3
34:16Mr. Hayes.
34:17By 2019
34:23Billy Jack Keane's
34:25is living a
34:25nomadic lifestyle
34:26making rare
34:27interview appearances.
34:29I wore Oregon
34:30here.
34:32There.
34:33Take that.
34:34Oregon's
34:35sticking up your
34:35ass.
34:36He'd been a
34:36non-entity in the
34:38wrestling world
34:38for 25 years.
34:40By the time he
34:43started just being
34:45the weird person
34:47that we've seen
34:48in modern times
34:49I think you'd
34:49almost have to say
34:50he was on some
34:51kind of substance.
34:53I heard that he
34:54was having financial
34:55difficulties.
34:57You think you're
34:57on top of the
34:58world and the next
34:58day you turn around
34:59and you ain't got
34:59two nickels to
35:00rub your head.
35:02He was homeless.
35:03Yeah.
35:04Homeless.
35:05Yeah that's right.
35:06In my van sleeping.
35:08Rep Oliver opened
35:09his house for
35:11Bailey Jack to
35:11live there.
35:13So Rip I found
35:15out that he was
35:16dying in 2019
35:17in December so I
35:19left Portland and
35:20flew down to
35:21Florida and spent
35:22the last three
35:23months with him.
35:24I'm not looking for
35:24no pat on the
35:25back.
35:25Nothing like
35:25that.
35:26He was a great
35:26guy.
35:27He never came
35:28here for my dad.
35:29He came here to
35:30have a free place
35:30to live and if he
35:32was on pills before
35:33he got there he
35:33damn sure was
35:34before he left.
35:35You said he stole
35:36your dad's pills?
35:37Yeah.
35:37My dad was
35:39I don't know
35:40months away from
35:40dying.
35:41My dad was on
35:42the real shit
35:43the heist they
35:43go.
35:45The stuff put
35:45people in comas.
35:47He started
35:48taking Rip's
35:49Percocets or
35:50Vicodin which Rip
35:51really needed
35:52because he was
35:52very sick.
35:54I think he was
35:54more taking
35:55advantage of Rip
35:56and Rip was
35:57paying for
35:58everything.
36:01Billy got in a
36:02scheme and
36:03called Brian
36:04Blair up.
36:05Brian Blair ran
36:06Cauliflower Alley.
36:07They helped
36:08wrestlers with
36:09problems.
36:09I don't know
36:10what happened
36:10but Billy
36:11called Brian.
36:13Rip's dying.
36:14He needs help.
36:15He's going to
36:15lose his property.
36:17This is what my
36:17dad told me.
36:18Cauliflower Alley
36:19Club paid for his
36:20back taxes on his
36:21house.
36:22They paid for his
36:22rent.
36:23They paid
36:23everything for him.
36:25Well my dad
36:26didn't owe taxes.
36:27When he died he
36:28didn't owe taxes.
36:30And my dad told me
36:31that Billy took
36:32half and he
36:33gave him half.
36:35My dad was a
36:36junkie.
36:37I don't mean to
36:37say that bad but
36:38he was hooked.
36:40He was done.
36:41You know.
36:42He wanted me to be
36:43there and I was
36:44there all the way
36:44to a hospice until
36:45he finally died.
36:46I didn't want him
36:47to be alone.
36:48I know he stole
36:49all my dad's shit
36:50before he died.
36:51Everybody's got
36:52stories that I've
36:53seen it.
36:54It finally came
36:55out after 30
36:57something years.
36:58He took advantage
36:59of everybody.
37:12Back in Portland
37:14Billy Jack begins
37:15a relationship with
37:16Jan Becraft the
37:17mother of his
37:18friend Todd.
37:20The Becraft family
37:21disapproves of the
37:22relationship but
37:23when Todd
37:24unexpectedly dies in
37:252021 Billy Jack
37:27and Jan get
37:28married.
37:29She was like 85
37:30and he's like 70
37:31and so when I saw
37:32the age of the
37:33woman you know
37:34you hear stuff
37:35from people.
37:36Was he like using
37:37her for money or
37:38a place to live
37:39or whatever?
37:42This is actually
37:45the main house.
37:47This is the main
37:48bedroom on this
37:48side and then
37:49the living room
37:50because you can't
37:51see through the
37:51kitchen.
37:52My name is Tom
37:53Matthew.
37:54I was actually
37:55living here before
37:55Billy Jack moved
37:57in.
37:57You talk to
37:58anybody in the
37:58neighborhood they
37:59all loved him.
38:00He would walk
38:01around talk to
38:01everybody.
38:02He really loved
38:03Jan a lot and he
38:04was quite devoted
38:05to her.
38:06She was sick.
38:07She was ill with
38:08dementia.
38:10Some days she'd
38:11have good days and
38:11some days most of
38:12the days were bad
38:13and that wore on
38:15Billy pretty hard.
38:17She had some good
38:18days but they were
38:19getting worse and
38:19her family definitely
38:20did not like them
38:21being together and I
38:23don't think they
38:24were going to
38:24separate.
38:25In my opinion he
38:27took very good care
38:28of her and wanted
38:29to protect her and
38:30keep her from any
38:31kind of harm.
38:33The last time I
38:33spoke to him it was
38:35two days before the
38:36incident and I told
38:39Billy I said Billy
38:39you look terrible.
38:41He hadn't slept.
38:42He hadn't hardly
38:42eaten anything.
38:43People with dementia
38:45they become combative.
38:46It's tough to watch a
38:48loved one you know go
38:49through that kind of
38:50mental decline.
38:53I seen the cop cars
38:55and stuff on my
38:56security camera so I
38:57went outside to see
38:58what was going on and
38:59I looked down the
38:59street and I saw them
39:00all down in front of
39:01Billy's place and I
39:01thought oh shit.
39:02Detectives have been
39:03at the scene all day
39:04and police say the
39:05investigation is just
39:06getting started.
39:08I hear a banging on
39:09the window out the
39:10back window like you
39:11know I looked out and
39:12it was quiet.
39:13It was freaking
39:13overkill.
39:14I mean they had
39:15this place locked
39:16down.
39:16Tactical teams
39:17including the special
39:18emergency reaction team
39:19and the crisis
39:20negotiation team were
39:22called to the scene
39:23around two hours
39:24later a man was
39:25detained.
39:26So what happened?
39:28Well I mean he took
39:30her life and I mean
39:31it took them like
39:33maybe an hour to be
39:34in and out when they
39:35actually took her body
39:36out.
39:38When Billy was
39:39arrested the whole
39:40neighborhood basically
39:41was in shock.
39:42You know just like me
39:43I didn't believe it
39:44either at first.
39:45He's just a big
39:46gentle giant you
39:47know and when you
39:48see it first hand
39:50it's you know
39:51it turns your eye out.
39:53Billy Jack was kind
39:54of a nut you
39:56know and people
39:57thought at this
39:58point he's that
39:59old he's a harmless
39:59nut.
40:00Nobody thought he
40:01was going to go off
40:02and murder anybody
40:04but then the question
40:05becomes why in the
40:08world would you ever
40:09do something like
40:10billy Jack Haynes is
40:18facing unlawful use
40:19of a weapon and
40:20murder charges today
40:21after the alleged
40:21shooting earlier this
40:23month.
40:24Although questions
40:25linger around Billy
40:26Jack's numerous claims
40:28and criminal activity
40:29one fact remains
40:30undeniable.
40:32On February 8th
40:342024 Billy Jack
40:36Haynes took the life
40:37of Jeanette
40:38Bacraft.
40:40Now as he faces
40:42trial for second
40:43degree murder
40:43Billy Jack has a
40:45new story to tell.
40:46Billy claims that
40:48she had dementia
40:49so bad that it
40:52was unbearable.
40:53He couldn't live
40:53with it anymore.
40:55He called it a
40:55mercy killing because
40:57she didn't know who
40:58she was anymore.
41:00He supposedly shot
41:02his wife in the
41:03head and that's a
41:04mercy killing?
41:05I don't know
41:06brother.
41:08Maybe he thought
41:09that was justifiable
41:10to do that.
41:11It's a very sad
41:12situation and I
41:14don't know what
41:15they're going to do
41:15justice wise but
41:17that's up to I guess
41:20the court to decide.
41:21I don't care for him.
41:23It ain't because he
41:24killed his wife.
41:26They'll let that play
41:27out in court.
41:28If I were his lawyer
41:29I'd certainly make a
41:31diminished capacity
41:32case for him.
41:33He'd obviously been
41:35taking beatings
41:36throughout his career
41:38and if nothing else
41:40dating from the
41:42beating he got at
41:44the Longoria's car
41:45lot.
41:46You ask anybody
41:47and they'll tell you
41:48he loved Jan
41:50unconditionally.
41:52She was his world.
41:53Whatever happened
41:54as unfortunate as it
41:56is I think was a big
41:57mistake.
41:58That's what makes it
41:59all that much more
42:00difficult to deal with.
42:02Damn it I'm lesser
42:05and it hurts my heart.
42:09Mercy killing is
42:10the phrase that they
42:12used.
42:13Who's ever going to
42:13know the only person
42:14that's alive that was
42:16in the room with him
42:16is Billy Jack and
42:17you can't believe a
42:18thing he says.
42:20If I come across
42:21crazy I must be the
42:22smartest craziest guy
42:23there ever is.
42:25I'll never ever forget
42:26the state of Oregon
42:27and the beautiful fans
42:28that supported me
42:29through the pro
42:29wrestling.
42:30Fans in Oregon
42:31old enough to
42:32remember probably
42:33still have a fond
42:34spot for him but
42:34now more people in
42:36and out of wrestling
42:37are going to
42:38remember the crazy
42:39stories he told and
42:41the things that he
42:42invented that he was
42:43involved in and
42:44finally the murder of
42:46his wife.
42:46They're going to
42:46remember that more
42:47than anything he did
42:48in wrestling.
42:49Let me have your
42:50attention.
42:51I don't want any
42:52fan to ever come up
42:54to me and ask for
42:55an autograph again.
42:56He was a guy who
42:59had a couple good
42:59years at a time when
43:00wrestling was pretty
43:01big, made something of
43:02a name and had a
43:03very, very troubled
43:04existence after that
43:06fame ended.
43:06It's not a happy
43:07ending.
43:08There's no silver
43:08lining in this story
43:09unfortunately.
43:11So how do you think
43:12Billy Jack's story is
43:13going to end?
43:14Boy, that's a
43:15million dollar question.
43:17When that door
43:30shuts, it gets to
43:31reality real quick
43:32that there's no
43:33getting out of here.
43:36Not until 12.
43:47Do you feel good
43:49about your chances?
43:50I do.
43:52I do.