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00:30He just electrifies the crowd, and they love him.
00:33What? Billy Jack did what?
00:35I could have believed it, but I didn't. I didn't want to believe it.
00:38Billy Jack Haynes.
00:40Years before this shocking crime, Billy Jack Haynes had lived the dream,
00:45rising from Oregon's regional circuit to stardom in wrestling's golden age of the 1980s.
00:50Portland, Oregon, Billy Jack Haynes.
00:54Billy Jack had everything, all the tools to be a top professional wrestler.
00:59Oh, look at the press slam. Billy Jack is strong.
01:03His career was in reverse. He started as a star, and he finished as a nobody.
01:09But Billy Jack's dealings outside the ring hinted at a mysterious life,
01:13one almost too extraordinary to believe.
01:17Billy said he had been involved in the drug business as a collector and enforcer.
01:21When I was in Portland, I was about a kilo a day of cocaine dealer.
01:25Billy has made many, many claims.
01:28I was contracted to go down there to kill two Arkansas State police officers.
01:32You don't know fact from fiction with Billy Jack Haynes.
01:34I kept that secret from everybody.
01:36Now, as the former star faces murder charges,
01:41those who knew Billy Jack Haynes look back on the road that led him here.
01:45So Billy Jack was his own worst enemy.
01:48He didn't even know it.
01:49He was a loaded gun, brother.
01:51You never know what he's thinking.
01:53You know, a lot of guys fall hard in wrestling,
01:54but he fell harder than most, without a doubt.
02:08In the wrestling industry, I guess a lot of people may have forgotten about him.
02:13I've got Oregon blood flowed through these veins!
02:16Even the most diehard WWF fan today would say,
02:21well, yeah, Billy Jack, he was there.
02:23Billy Jack reaching down, that intestinal fortitude.
02:27What did he do?
02:29People now in the present day are trying to go back
02:32because of what's happened with Billy and trying to figure out,
02:35where did this start?
02:37We knew one day Billy Jack would do something crazy,
02:40but we never thought it would be that crazy.
02:44It shocked me, and then again, it didn't.
02:47I don't know if you can understand that.
02:48But that's one thing where when Billy messed up, he messed up.
02:54Final mess up.
02:56I guess if you took everything and laid it on the table,
03:00you could see it coming up.
03:03Before his recent murder charge,
03:05Billy Jack's past reveals other crimes,
03:08including two assault charges before he's 30.
03:10But the same mean streak that gets him into trouble
03:14also creates new opportunities in the wrestling business.
03:18Billy Jack Haynes was a thug.
03:20He was a street fighter.
03:22He was a boxer, a wrestler.
03:25Tough guy, don't get me wrong.
03:27My dad found him as a gym rat,
03:30and he's below that now.
03:33All his bios say he was trained by Stu Hart.
03:37Stu Hart threw him out of Canada
03:38because he was too rough and beat all his boys up.
03:43So he was back being a gym rat in Portland, Oregon,
03:46when my dad and the assassin Dave Sierra found him.
03:49Well, he came to the Portland Sports Arena looking for work,
03:53and we got him hooked up.
03:55He looked unreal.
03:57He was, like, you know, jacked to the max.
03:59Look at Billy Jack. Look out!
04:02Me and Rip the Crippler, Oliver,
04:04talked a promoter, Don Owens, into using him.
04:08We knew with that size body
04:10and his home being the Pacific Northwest
04:12that we can draw money with him.
04:15Billy Jack Haynes.
04:16I mean, he just, he fit the part,
04:18and everybody was giving him a chance.
04:21In 1982, Billy rockets to the top
04:24with a persona tailor-made for fans in the Pacific Northwest.
04:29Billy Jack's gimmick and look came from the movie,
04:32Billy 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,
04:48the fans went crazy for him,
04:50like he was their very own hometown movie star.
04:53The Portland, Oregon boy is coming out victorious!
04:57So Billy Jack was a very effective babyface promo guy for Portland, Oregon.
05:01Thank you, everybody in Portland, for supporting me.
05:04I love you. Thank you.
05:06Nice guy, loved his father, loved Oregon, loved Portland.
05:11You know what I mean?
05:11And he was Billy Jack from the movie,
05:13trying to get revenge on these different heels.
05:15Make a little bit more noise and I'll get it for you. Let's go!
05:19Everyone knew he was a rising star.
05:21You know, the 80s was all about the look.
05:23He had the look.
05:25And 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.
05:33Every time Billy Jack was on the card, sold out.
05:36From the time he first stepped foot in the ring, he was featured.
05:39He was pushed by the promoters.
05:41Small territory? Pushed him.
05:43Went to a bigger territory? Pushed him.
05:45I know Billy Jack Haynes from the territory days.
05:48When he came to Florida Temperature Wrestling,
05:51he was pretty laid back, kind of a low-key guy and a loner.
05:57My name's Bill Fonte Alfonso,
05:59and I've been in the wrestling business for 45 years.
06:05I don't want to use the word oddball,
06:07but he was kind of different from all the wrestlers.
06:12We'd go out to the after party, have cocktails and drink
06:14and smoke a joint and so on.
06:16Billy Jack would go with the fans and their kids to pizza
06:21and have pizza with them.
06:23The fans loved him.
06:24He loved the fans.
06:25He was committed.
06:28After just four years of working in smaller promotions,
06:32Billy Jack Haynes gets the call in 1986
06:34from Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.
06:38From Portland, Oregon.
06:40If you wanted to go deep into Vince McMahon's mind
06:44and create a professional wrestler
06:47based on what he thought they should look like,
06:50Billy Jack was the guy.
06:51Now I'm here in the WWF.
06:53It's a World Wrestling Federation.
06:54And believe me, I know full well
06:56this is where the stiffest and the toughest competition is.
07:00He wrestled at Detroit.
07:02WrestleMania they had over 100,000 people shows 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.
07:13Billy needed a tag team partner to elevate his persona.
07:25So it worked out good.
07:27It worked out real good.
07:29This is Ken Patera coming straight at you.
07:32And I used to wrestle with Billy Jack Haynes.
07:37His appearance was, don't with me.
07:40How's that?
07:41Well, we weren't told anything about the gimmick.
07:48Pat Patterson came in the locker room and said,
07:51well, we got chainsaws.
07:53And you guys are the Oregon Lumberjacks now.
07:58And they wanted us to crank those chainsaws up
08:02so they were actually running.
08:04I said, are you nuts?
08:07I'm not going to turn this chainsaw on.
08:10You know, so somebody could get an arm cut off.
08:14Just do it.
08:18Billy had a super nice personality and everything.
08:22Soft-spoken and whatnot.
08:24The nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.
08:26Billy Jack Haynes and Ken Patera.
08:29But 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 the 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.
08:50I never could trust him.
08:53He's not going to decide, you know, he's mad about something
08:56and all of a sudden knocked the hell out of you.
08:59He was an off-the-hinge type character.
09:08His finishing maneuver would be the full Nelson.
09:10And once he locked that full Nelson in you,
09:12you felt like he was going to break your neck.
09:14Once you gave up, he would just sling you.
09:22I mean, like a piece of trash to the side.
09:28In the locker room, he had a reputation for boom.
09:32I 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.
09:43And Billy Jack came in
09:45and 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
10:00and got us in trouble.
10:02Next thing I know, Billy done face-like Smirnoff.
10:05Smirnoff went to the bathroom himself.
10:08It was so bad.
10:10In Tampa, some smart-ass guy
10:12was checking Billy Jack out.
10:15He said, oh, all 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.
10:27He'd beat the hell out of the person
10:28and then kick right out of it like nothing happened.
10:31He did it because he could.
10:33I mean, right there, I've noticed this guy's a bully.
10:35He takes on who he knows he can handle.
10:38You know, so I didn't respect that.
10:40He went to jail on two or three occasions,
10:44I believe, for beating people up.
10:47But he always said, they deserved it.
10:52Oregon men don't back down to nobody.
10:55You know, he's got a heart.
10:57But 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,
11:02beat you to death.
11:06I 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 standoff.
11:23There's a whole lot that people don't know about me
11:45and we'll always know he's right.
11:48We'll always know he's wrong.
11:50I believe 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.
12:08Plead to talk to you.
12:08Right now, I'm in the 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.
12:29The position I'm in right now
12:30is hard for me to bring up anything
12:31and talk about it.
12:32I have my attorney out there
12:34so I'm glad that he's here today.
12:37It's a second-degree murder.
12:41It's just way overcharged.
12:43That didn't happen.
12:47There's only really two human beings I really loved.
12:50That was my father who was blind
12:51and in a wheelchair
12:52and then the other was my wife
12:55who allegedly I murdered
12:58which you're going to find I didn't
12:59and I loved her more than life.
13:04Weighing 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 just spewing
13:16out 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.
13:26Throughout 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
13:51and you never knew what he was up to.
13:56We'd go check in at the hotel there.
13:59Five minutes later,
14:00Billy would be gone.
14:02And he did that every f***ing night.
14:04I didn't know what he was doing.
14:05At that time,
14:09I 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.
14:23Different cities.
14:24Billy Jack,
14:25goal to work now.
14:26Three hundred and forty 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.
14:45Drugs 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,
15:01and 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.
15:13McMahon 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, yeah.
15:26Now,
15:27I probably,
15:29what do you think about that?
15:31On the plane?
15:34You guys should talk about that?
15:36Well, it happened.
15:41Now, what I heard
15:42was that he overdosed
15:44on some codeine,
15:45I think.
15:46He was falling out of the mouth,
15:47he was jerking.
15:49We had that murky landing.
15:50They thought he was dying.
15:52I was this close
15:53away from death,
15:55and they had to jumpstart me
15:56twice,
15:58and I'd be gone.
15:59You know,
16:00and with WWF,
16:01I mean,
16:01it's like,
16:01they don't want that bad,
16:02but we'll see you getting out,
16:03you know what I mean?
16:04And that was the final straw.
16:06He was never in the top spot
16:08in WrestleMania.
16:09He was never a major
16:10singles champion,
16:12and after about a year and a half,
16:14he was fired by the WWF.
16:16Returning 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 Federation
16:33is 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.
16:41WWF
16:41was going to be
16:42his 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 believe it.
16:52You've got to have money
16:52to back that.
16:54Sponsors and all that.
16:55You know,
16:56somebody's got some
16:56deep pockets
16:57if you want to try
16:58to do that.
16:59Was there two weeks,
17:01and the shows
17:01that were running
17:02weren't drawing anything.
17:04There was a couple hundred
17:04people in 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,
17:11Fonzie,
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 cast 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
17:25Wrestling Federation
17:26was pretty spectacular.
17:28Billy Jack Haynes
17:29really left a lot
17:30of guys hanging,
17:31and there was
17:31a lot of bad blood.
17:33It hurt Billy's reputation
17:35with a lot of people.
17:37And that 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.
17:55Just 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.
18:05By 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.
18:22He 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
18:37hits the 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 him.
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.
19:21It'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, over 30 years ago,
19:44a Union Pacific train
19:45ran over two
19:46Saline County teenagers.
19:47The deaths of Kevin Ives
19:49and Don Henry
19:49have become one of
19:50Arkansas's most notorious mystery.
19:52There was a famous murder case
19:55in Arkansas
19:55back in the 80s
19:57where these two teenage boys
20:00were run over by 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 Stephen Schroeder
20:15grew closer,
20:16he made the horrifying discovery
20:18that two boys
20:19were lying motionless
20:20across the railroad tracks.
20:22Well, then somebody else
20:24investigated,
20:25found out they had been beaten.
20:26They had injuries.
20:28They weren't just run over
20:29by 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.
20:40His 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 goes okay
20:51and he was going to
20:53videotape it also
20:54and he said,
20:56I wore a wrestling mask.
20:59I'd been around the dope game
21:00for a long time.
21:02I went down there by myself
21:03after I wrestled King Kong Bundy.
21:05We went to the tracks.
21:06The drop was made.
21:08Apparently,
21:09these kids wandered up on it
21:11and as a result,
21:12the drug people killed them
21:13and put them on the railroad tracks.
21:15They were just in the wrong place
21:18at the wrong time.
21:19I helped put the kids
21:20on the tracks.
21:21No, I was there.
21:22I helped.
21:24They'd been murdered.
21:25They were already dead.
21:27The church is going to come out
21:28so this woman
21:29lit the eyes
21:30to 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 the family's
21:40private investigator.
21:42I 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.
22:08As Billy Jack continues
22:10sharing his story,
22:11other details
22:12sound increasingly unbelievable.
22:15There was drops
22:16that were being stolen,
22:17cocaine drops.
22:18I was sent down there
22:19to take care of two state
22:22police 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.
22:35That's uncut coke.
22:36Well,
22:37in the beginning
22:38when I first started
22:38hearing the stories
22:39I thought,
22:39come on,
22:40Billy,
22:40really?
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.
22:48The things that he said
22:50about it
22:51and all this stuff
22:51is all verifiable
22:52but 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
23:01told that story
23:01so many times?
23:03I wish I could talk
23:04to you guys
23:04or can't.
23:06What can you tell me
23:07without getting
23:07into details?
23:08Is it true?
23:09Did you hear that?
23:15That is probably
23:16a subject
23:17you should ignore.
23:20Leave it alone.
23:31As Billy Jack's
23:32interview appearances
23:33become more frequent,
23:35his claims extend
23:36far beyond
23:37drug dealing
23:37and the boys
23:38on the tracks.
23:39And many begin
23:40to wonder
23:40what's behind it.
23:43From show tonight,
23:45Angie Grace would say,
23:46everything you're
23:47going to hear
23:47is true.
23:48He looked
23:49completely ridiculous
23:51and then he had
23:52this white hair
23:53but it was like
23:54a mop top cut
23:56like he was
23:56Pete Best,
23:57the fifth Beatle.
23:58My mother
23:59and my uncle
24:00when I was 15
24:01were both murdered.
24:02There was two
24:03politicians
24:04that were involved.
24:06And he started
24:07concocting
24:08these stories
24:09where he was
24:10in the middle
24:11of a variety
24:12of newsworthy events.
24:14Andy Gibb
24:15had a gig
24:16in San Francisco
24:18and one of my
24:19first big deliveries
24:20was there
24:21to the concert.
24:22I delivered
24:23one kilo to him
24:24July 31st, 1978.
24:27Some 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
24:34nut he was.
24:35He don't have
24:36nothing better to do
24:36but to try to find
24:38his way to make
24:38himself back 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
24:52would Bill Clinton
24:54call
24:55Billy Jack Haines?
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 bizarre
25:09behavior originating?
25:11Conspiracy theories
25:12and being
25:13the Forrest Gump
25:14of crime,
25:15it not only
25:16sounds so preposterous,
25:17but there was
25:17no upside to him.
25:19It was just
25:19interviews being done
25:20with this kooky
25:22old man that people
25:23would put up
25:24on 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
25:39into it today 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 even
25:47tried to pass that off.
25:49When I heard
25:50stuff like that,
25:51I would say,
25:52man,
25:52Billy's really
25:53loosing 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,
26:02and no question
26:02about it.
26:03All you have to do
26:04in this world
26:05is follow the money.
26:07So this isn't
26:08going to make
26:08the Bush family
26:09too happy,
26:09but they're involved
26:10too.
26:11He did look
26:12like someone
26:13that would say
26:14anything just
26:16to be on a podcast
26:17and get more
26:19money out of that
26:20podcast.
26:22I'm not afraid
26:22to come in front
26:23of this camera
26:24and tell you
26:24the 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
26:36looking at
26:36a dead man.
26:38Maybe by the
26:38time this video
26:39gets out.
26:40Everything I've
26:40said could get
26:41me killed.
26:42Everything I've
26:43said with 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
26:50preposterous things
26:51can 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
26:58those things is true,
26:59nobody's going to
27:00believe them.
27:00Amid all of
27:03the astonishing
27:04claims Billy Jack
27:05makes, at least
27:06one truth stands
27:08out.
27:09January 10th, 2006,
27:12there was attempted
27:13murder on me.
27:20Once again, I'm
27:21speaking for the
27:22people.
27:23Under the ground
27:23right now, they
27:24can't speak for
27:25themselves, so let
27:25me do it, please.
27:27From 2006 to
27:282023, Billy
27:30Jack Haynes makes
27:31a series of
27:32shocking statements
27:33and explosive
27:34accusations.
27:36Vincent Cain
27:37McMahon, I call
27:38it Vincent
27:39Killer McMahon.
27:41Yeah, that's
27:41right, you're a
27:42killer.
27:43Though many of
27:44Billy Jack's
27:45stories are
27:45dismissed as
27:46conspiracy theories,
27:47a violent
27:48incident in 2006
27:50suggests that
27:50Billy Jack's
27:51ties to
27:52organized crime
27:53may be
27:54legitimate.
27:56This is the
27:56file from the
27:57work I did
27:5816 years ago.
27:59Police reports,
28:01letters from
28:02Billy Jack, and
28:03a couple photos
28:04of Billy in the
28:05hospital.
28:08At the time, I
28:09was writing a
28:10column for the
28:10Portland Tribune,
28:11and so next thing I
28:12knew, Billy Jack
28:14is knocking on
28:15my door.
28:16He looked like
28:16Frankenstein's
28:17monster.
28:18He'd just gotten
28:18out of the
28:18hospital.
28:19He'd had several
28:20bones in his face
28:21broken, and he had
28:22stitches, as I
28:23recall.
28:23We sat down, and
28:25started telling me
28:26his story, basically
28:29that he'd been
28:30called over to
28:31Jimmy Longoria's
28:32car lot.
28:34Longoria family was
28:35certainly one of the
28:37more prominent
28:37Portland crime
28:38families.
28:39Billy had been a
28:40bill collector, and
28:42then he said he
28:43delivered drugs for
28:44the Longorias.
28:46What have you got?
28:47What is all this
28:47stuff?
28:47Yeah, these are
28:48letters from
28:49Billy Jack from
28:50months after it came
28:52to my place.
28:54On January 10, 2006,
28:57I was set up for a
28:58hit, or to be killed
29:00by two hitmen hired
29:01by Jimmy Longoria.
29:03I drove through the
29:04open gate at the
29:05time scheduled, 9 a.m.,
29:06and I parked about
29:0730 feet inside the
29:08lot, where I met a
29:09man and asked where
29:10I could find Jimmy
29:11Longoria.
29:12The man motioned
29:13over his left, and
29:14Jimmy Longoria was
29:15sitting at a desk with
29:16his hands behind his
29:17head with a very
29:18cocky look on his
29:19face.
29:20I said, you're going
29:21to kill me, aren't
29:22you?
29:24It was then, I
29:24believe, that Jimmy
29:25told me that paybacks
29:27are a bitch, Billy
29:28Jack.
29:29I remember looking at
29:30the office windows and
29:32seeing four men, and
29:33I thought I was a
29:34dead man.
29:34It was very clear
29:36that two guys
29:37attacked him.
29:38They beat him so
29:39badly that he had to
29:40play dead.
29:43He knew they wanted
29:44to kill him.
29:45They said, I
29:46would have been
29:46dead.
29:47The instinct
29:48reaction saved me,
29:48probably one of the
29:49little instincts I
29:50have left to save
29:51me.
29:51Jimmy Longoria had
29:55a pretty airtight
29:57alibi.
29:58He said two
29:59tweakers came onto
30:01his lot and provoked
30:04Billy into a fight.
30:05He said he'd never seen
30:06him before and couldn't
30:07identify him.
30:09I think they probably
30:09worked for Longoria.
30:11The surveillance cameras
30:13somehow had not been
30:14working, which was, of
30:16course, very suspicious.
30:17Billy said it was retribution
30:27for 15 or 16 years
30:29before, when he had
30:31ripped off $200,000.
30:33He'd been a courier back
30:35and forth from Portland to
30:36Los Angeles, taking coke one
30:38way and money the other.
30:39Let's just say, in the 80s,
30:41I transported drugs.
30:43I had a 1986 Toyota 4x4.
30:46They put the built-in
30:47cabinet, a toolbox.
30:49On the way back, he broke
30:50into the toolbox, saw a
30:52million, $200,000, figured
30:54that $200,000 should belong
30:57to him.
30:58I gave the million bucks.
30:59I took my $200,000.
31:01Billy said this beating was
31:03retribution for them.
31:07I think he ripped off the
31:09Longoria's.
31:09I think that much is true.
31:12But the idea that they would
31:13have waited 16 years didn't
31:15make any sense to me at all.
31:16There are also rumors that
31:25Billy Jack's organized crime
31:27connections might have been
31:28involved in his short-lived
31:29promotion in the late 1980s.
31:35I've heard rumors.
31:36I don't know something about
31:37the mafia, but I don't know
31:38anything about that.
31:40What I understood, he had
31:42cricket sponsors.
31:44And they seen a bunch of
31:46money getting lost fast, and
31:48they just all, one by one,
31:50pulled out, and that's why I
31:51think his promotion folded
31:52even faster.
31:54A lot of people that open
31:56wrestling promotions get into
31:58that because that's the
31:59easiest way to clean money.
32:01As far as the money coming
32:02from nefarious characters,
32:04it's very possible.
32:06He had a very dark life, and
32:07he probably had some very
32:08dark friends.
32:13I'm generally sympathetic to
32:15oddball characters.
32:16like Billy Jack, but he was a
32:19puzzling character.
32:21When we were having lunch one
32:22day, I mentioned the 30-year-old
32:24murder of a corrections
32:26official, Michael Franke.
32:28I explained the case to him.
32:31We went on to something else,
32:32and about two months later,
32:34Billy Jack sends me something,
32:37all of a sudden claiming to
32:38have been involved and a witness
32:40to the Michael Franke killer.
32:43He didn't know anything about
32:44Michael Franke before I told him.
32:461991, in May 1st, on my dad's
32:49birthday of the murder of Michael
32:51Franke, I was forced out of Oregon
32:53before my dad would be killed, I was told.
32:55I think maybe he convinced himself that he was
32:59involved, that he had actually seen the
33:02assassination.
33:03He was collecting newspaper articles,
33:06police reports, and marking them up.
33:09The whole page would be colored.
33:12He always had his binders in his shit.
33:14I don't know what was in it, but he had
33:16them.
33:16He always had them.
33:18It's just documentation, that's all I can say.
33:20It's not my place to go into
33:22those kinds of things, you know.
33:24Right now, as we speak, I'm writing
33:25an autobiography with one of the best
33:27writers in the world.
33:29It's something in there when people read,
33:31you'll see it's documented,
33:34and it may or may not get me killed.
33:36I don't know.
33:37He had quite a bit of stuff in there, yeah.
33:39At that point, it was sort of hands-off
33:41for me, and I just sort of back away
33:43from the case and say,
33:44I don't know what parts of this are true
33:46and what parts aren't.
33:48The beating was certainly for real.
33:51The involvement in the coke business
33:53was almost certainly quite real.
33:56The rest, I don't know.
34:00He talked like he believed it.
34:01Even as nutty as Billy Jack Keane's was,
34:04did I think that, you know,
34:06he would be 70 years old and the SWAT team
34:08would be outside of Billy Jack Keane's house.
34:10There's a reason you're in trouble a lot,
34:12because you just gravitate towards trouble.
34:13This matter is going to be page 22,
34:15line three, Mr. Haynes.
34:22By 2019, Billy Jack Keane's is living
34:25a nomadic lifestyle,
34:27making rare interview appearances.
34:29I wore Oregon here.
34:32There.
34:33Take that.
34:34Oregon's sticking up your ass.
34:36He'd been a non-entity in the wrestling world
34:38for 25 years.
34:42By the time he started
34:44just being the weird person
34:47that we've seen in modern times,
34:49I think you'd almost have to say
34:50he was on some kind of substance.
34:53I heard that he was having
34:54financial difficulties.
34:57You think you're on top of the world,
34:58and the next day you turn around
34:59and you ain't got two nickels to rub your head?
35:02He was homeless, yeah.
35:04Homeless.
35:05Yeah, that's right.
35:06My van's sleeping.
35:08Rip Oliver opened his house
35:10for Billy Jack to live there.
35:13So Rip,
35:14I found out that he was dying
35:16in 2019 of December,
35:18so I left Portland
35:20and flew down to Florida
35:21and spent the last three months with him.
35:24I'm not looking for no pat on the back,
35:25nothing like that.
35:26He was a great guy.
35:27He never came here for my dad.
35:29He came here to have a free place to live,
35:31and if he was on pills before he got there,
35:33he damn sure was before he left.
35:35You said he stole your dad's pills?
35:37Yeah.
35:38My dad was, I don't know,
35:40months away from dying.
35:41My dad was on the real shit,
35:43the heist that go,
35:45the stuff to put people in comas.
35:46He started taking Rip's Percocets
35:50or Vicodin,
35:51which Rip really needed
35:52because he was very sick.
35:54I think he was more
35:55taking advantage of Rip,
35:56and Rip was paying for everything.
36:01Billy got in this scheme
36:02and called Brian Blair up.
36:04Brian Blair ran Cauliflower Alley.
36:07You know, they help wrestlers with problems.
36:09I don't know what happened,
36:11but Billy called Brian.
36:13Rip's dying.
36:14He needs help.
36:15He's going to lose his property.
36:17This is what my dad told me.
36:18Cauliflower Alley Club
36:19paid for his back taxes on his house.
36:22They paid for his rent.
36:23They paid everything for him.
36:25Well, my dad didn't owe taxes.
36:27When he died,
36:28he didn't owe taxes.
36:30And my dad told me
36:31that Billy took half
36:32and he gave him half.
36:35My dad was a junkie.
36:37I don't mean to say that bad,
36:38but he was hooked.
36:40He was done, you know.
36:42He wanted me to be there,
36:43and I was there all the way to a hospice
36:45until he finally died.
36:46I didn't want him to be alone.
36:48I know he stole all my dad's shit
36:50before he died.
36:51Everybody's got stories.
36:53Yeah, I've seen it.
36:54It finally came out
36:55after, you know,
36:5730-something years.
36:58He took advantage of everybody.
37:00Back in Portland,
37:14Billy Jack begins a relationship
37:16with Jan Bacraft,
37:17the mother of his friend Todd.
37:20The Bacraft family
37:21disapproves of the relationship,
37:23but when Todd unexpectedly dies in 2021,
37:27Billy Jack and Jan get married.
37:30She was like 85,
37:31and he's like 70.
37:32And so when I saw the age of the woman,
37:34you know, you hear stuff from people.
37:36Was he like using her for money
37:38or a place to live or whatever?
37:42Come here.
37:43This party,
37:44this is actually the main house.
37:47This is the main bedroom on this side,
37:49and then the living room
37:50because you can't see through the kitchen.
37:52My name is Tom Matthew.
37:54I was actually living here
37:55before Billy Jack moved in.
37:58You talk to anybody in the neighborhood,
37:59they all loved him, man.
38:00He just would walk around,
38:01talk to everybody, and...
38:03He really loved Jan a lot,
38:04and he was quite devoted to her.
38:06She was sick.
38:07You know, she was ill with dementia.
38:10Some days she'd have good days,
38:11and some days,
38:12most of the days were bad.
38:14And that wore on Billy pretty hard.
38:17She had some good days,
38:18but they were getting worse,
38:19and her family definitely
38:20did not like them being together.
38:23And I don't think
38:24they were going to separate.
38:25In my opinion,
38:26and he took very good care of her
38:28and wanted to protect her
38:30and keep her from any kind of harm.
38:32The last time I spoke to him
38:34was two days before the incident.
38:37And I told Billy,
38:39I said,
38:39Billy, you look terrible.
38:41He hadn't slept.
38:41He hadn't hardly eaten anything.
38:43People with dementia,
38:45they become combative.
38:46It's tough to watch a loved one,
38:49you know,
38:49go through that kind of mental decline.
38:53I seen the cop cars and stuff
38:55on my security camera.
38:57So I went outside
38:58to see what was going on,
38:59and I looked down the street,
39:00and I saw them all down
39:00in front of Billy's place,
39:01and I thought,
39:01oh, shit.
39:02Detectives have been
39:03at the scene all day,
39:04and police say the investigation
39:05is just getting started.
39:08I hear a banging on the window,
39:10out the back window,
39:11like, you know,
39:11looked out,
39:12and it was quiet,
39:13and it was freaking overkill.
39:14I mean,
39:15they had this place locked down.
39:16Tactical teams,
39:17including the special
39:18emergency reaction team
39:19and the crisis negotiation team,
39:21were called to the scene.
39:23Around two hours later,
39:24a man was detained.
39:26So what happened?
39:28Well, I mean,
39:29he took her life,
39:30and I mean,
39:31it took them,
39:33like, maybe an hour
39:33to be in and out
39:35when they actually
39:35took her body out.
39:38When Billy was arrested,
39:39the whole neighborhood
39:40basically was in shock.
39:42You know,
39:42just like me,
39:43I didn't believe it either
39:45at first.
39:45He's just a big general giant,
39:47you know,
39:47and when you see it
39:48firsthand,
39:50it's, you know,
39:52it tears your heart out.
39:53Billy Jack was kind of a nut,
39:56you know,
39:57and people thought,
39:58at this point,
39:58he's that old,
39:59he's a harmless nut.
40:00Nobody thought he was
40:01going to go off
40:02and murder anybody.
40:04But then the question becomes,
40:07why in the world
40:08would you ever do
40:10something like that?
40:16Billy Jack Haynes
40:17is facing unlawful use
40:19of a weapon
40:19and murder charges today
40:21after the alleged shooting
40:22earlier this month.
40:23Although questions linger
40:25around Billy Jack's
40:27numerous claims
40:28and criminal activity,
40:29one fact remains undeniable.
40:32On February 8th, 2024,
40:35Billy Jack Haynes
40:36took the life
40:37of Jeanette Bacraft.
40:40Now,
40:41as he faces trial
40:42for second-degree murder,
40:44Billy Jack has
40:45a new story to tell.
40:46Billy claims
40:48that she had dementia
40:49so bad
40:50that it was unbearable.
40:53He couldn't live
40:53with it anymore.
40:55He called it
40:55a mercy killing
40:56because she didn't know
40:58who she was anymore.
41:00He supposedly
41:01shot his wife
41:02in the head
41:03and that's a mercy killing?
41:06I don't know, brother.
41:08Maybe he thought
41:09that was justifiable
41:10to do that.
41:11It's a very sad situation
41:13and I don't know
41:15what they're going
41:15to do justice-wise,
41:17but that's up to,
41:19I guess,
41:20as a court to decide.
41:21I don't care for him.
41:23It ain't because
41:24he killed his wife.
41:26I'll let that play out
41:27in court.
41:28If I were his lawyer,
41:29I'd certainly make
41:31a diminished capacity
41:32case for him.
41:34He'd obviously
41:35been taking beatings
41:36throughout his career
41:38and, if nothing else,
41:41dating from
41:42the beating he got
41:43at the Longoria's car line.
41:46You ask anybody
41:47and they'll tell you
41:48he loved Jan
41:50unconditionally.
41:52She was his world.
41:53Whatever happened,
41:55as unfortunate as it is,
41:56I think was a big mistake.
41:58That's what makes it
41:59all that much more
42:00difficult to deal with.
42:02mercy-killing is the phrase
42:11that they used.
42:13Who's ever going to know
42:14the only person
42:14that's alive
42:15that was in the room
42:16with him is Billy Jack,
42:17and you can't believe
42:18a thing he says.
42:20If I come across crazy,
42:21I must be the smartest,
42:22craziest guy there ever is.
42:24I'll never, ever forget
42:26the state of Oregon
42:27and the beautiful fans
42:28that supported me
42:29to pro wrestling.
42:30Fans in Oregon,
42:31old enough to remember,
42:32probably still have
42:33a fond spot for him,
42:34but now more people
42:36in and out of wrestling
42:37are going to remember
42:38the crazy stories he told
42:40and the things
42:41that he invented
42:42that he was involved in
42:43and finally the murder
42:45of his wife.
42:46They're going to remember
42:47that more than anything
42:48he did in wrestling.
42:49Let me have your attention.
42:51I don't want any fan
42:53to ever come up to me
42:54and ask for an autograph again.
42:58He was the guy
42:58who had a couple good years
42:59at a time when wrestling
43:00was pretty big,
43:01made something of a name,
43:02and had a very,
43:03very troubled existence
43:04after that fame ended.
43:06It's not a happy ending.
43:08There's no silver lining
43:09in this story, unfortunately.
43:11So how do you think
43:12Billy Jack's story
43:13is going to end?
43:14Boy, that's a
43:15million-dollar question.
43:21When that door shuts,
43:30it gets to reality real quick
43:32that there's no getting
43:33out of here.
43:36Not till 12.
43:48Do you feel good
43:49about your chances?
43:50I do.
43:52I do.