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Mena
Murders in Arkansas.
July 29, 1998
Gary Lane, reporter
In the late 1980s, two boys died on lonely train
tracks in Arkansas. The case could be destined
to be another one of Arkansas' unsolved murders.
Or is the truth really known, but being
concealed by powerful people in high places?
Here's part one of senior reporter Gary Lane's
special investigation.
It's late August 1987, in Arkansas' Saline
County ... a time when simmering summer nights
slowly surrender to the approach of autumn. A
freight train passing through the tiny town of
Alexander makes an emergency stop just beyond
the bodies of two teenage boys found lying
across the tracks.
Arkansas medical examiner Dr. Fahmy Malak
concludes that Don Henry and Kevin Ives had
smoked twenty marijuana cigarettes and then
passed out on the tracks. "Their bodies had been
lying in identical positions according to the
train crew, and my thought was, 'If they were so
stoned, why weren't they sprawled out all over
the place? Why were they lying in identical
positions?' So, immediately, we had a lot of
questions that they had no answers for," says
Linda Ives, the mother of one of the murder
victims.
The Ives family wasn't satisfied with Dr.
Malak's conclusions. In April 1988, Kevin's body
was exhumed, and another autopsy was performed,
this one by Atlanta medical examiner Dr. Joseph
Burton.
"Out of that investigation, Dr. Burton found
that Don had been stabbed, and Kevin had
received a crushing blow to the face and
actually had a pattern injury which fit the
plate of a gun butt that Don had been carrying,"
says Ives. Dr. Burton's autopsy confirmed what
Linda and her husband had suspected all along:
someone had murdered their son Kevin and his
friend Don Henry.
But what caused Dr. Malak to arrive at such an
outrageous determination of death? Then-Governor
Bill Clinton said his state medical examiner was
overworked and "stressed out." Former Clinton
employee and well-known Clinton critic Larry
Nichols says Mr. Clinton was an accomplice in
concealing the truth. "You've got a case there
that they don't want solved, and I'm talking
about the officials at every level want that
case to stay unsolved," says Nichols. "At some
point, Bill Clinton has got to be held
responsible for not helping to get the truth
out, instead of using his guy to help cover it
up."
But why would Mr. Clinton defend Malak, although
his rulings had been questioned in more than 20
cases? Dateline NBC and The Los Angeles Times
have suggested a motive. They've documented
Fahmy Malak's role in clearing Bill Clinton's
mother, the late Virginia Kelly, of wrongdoing
in the negligent death of a teenage girl at
Ouachita Memorial Hospital in 1981. The Los
Angeles Times reported that Dr. Malak's ruling
helped Clinton's mother avoid scrutiny in the
death of patient Susie Deer. The Times quoted
the Polaski County coroner as saying there was a
lot of speculation that "Malak's ruling in favor
of Clinton's mother was a factor" in the
governor's decision to retain him as state
medical examiner.
Then-Governor Clinton said he resented any
implications of a connection, and the governor's
office proceeded to shut down further
investigation of the train deaths. Dr. Malak was
eventually removed as state medical examiner,
but was given a job as a $70,000 per year
consultant to the Arkansas Department of Health.
Regardless, a grand jury determined that Kevin
Ives and Don Henry had been murdered. But why?
Who would want to kill two teens that were just
out "deer spotting" on that fateful August
night? "Kevin and Don were simply in the wrong
place at the wrong time," says Linda Ives. "I
think that they stumbled upon a drop site. I
believe it was a regular drop site for drugs and
cash and was linked to a very large
drug-smuggling operation based in Mena."
In 1994, CBN News was among the first to
nationally broadcast details of the Mena drug
operation. The rural west Arkansas town was used
as a service and drop point for a drug-smuggling
ring involving the Dixie Mafia. Some of the Mena
drug operatives were connected to the Arkansas
and U.S. governments. Jean Duffey headed up
Arkansas' 7th District drug task force in 1990.
She was never allowed to conduct a thorough
investigation of drug running in Mena or any
possible connection to the train deaths. Her
task force and a federal grand jury were shut
down after they started examining corruption
involving public officials.
"The corruption is on a lot of different
levels," says Duffey. "And it's extensive. It's
from local all the way up to federal. When my
task force officers were linking public
officials to drug trafficking, Dan Harmon was a
name that came up consistently. No matter who
else or what direction we went, Dan Harmon
always seemed to be in the middle of it." Dan
Harmon was a local government official, the
prosecuting attorney for Saline, Grant, and Hot
Springs counties in 1979 and 1980 and then again
from 1991 through 1996. He was convicted in June
of 1997 on drug, racketeering, and extortion
charges and has started serving eight years in
prison.
In January 1991, long before his drug offenses
became public knowledge, Harmon convinced a
judge to subpoena evidence obtained by Jean
Duffey's task force -- evidence gathered against
him and other public officials. Ms. Duffey
refused to honor the subpoena flee the sate when
a warrant was issued for her arrest. "I had
developed the trust of many informants, and I
was not about to give their names up to someone
who I thought would put their lives in
jeopardy," says Duffey. "Witnesses tend to turn
up dead. Many witnesses have turned up dead in
the case primarily talking about the murders of
Kevin and Don."
Among them:
Jeff Rhodes - His body was found in a trash dump
in April 1989.
Keith McKaskel - The former bar bouncer was
found stabbed to death in November 1988. He had
warned his friends that he would be killed for
what he knew.
Keith Koney - He died in a motorcycle accident
after an unconfirmed high-speed chase.
Gregory Collins - He was shot in the face in
January 1989.
Jordan Kettleson - He may have had information
on the Ives and Henry deaths. Kettleson was shot
dead in the front seat of his pickup truck.
James Milam - A possible source of more
information, his body was found decapitated and
ruled died of natural causes by Dr. Fahmy Malak
Ranking right up there with the outrageous way
that the government handled the Randy Weaver
family and Barry Seal is another murder mystery.
This one took place in 1987. Two
seventeen-year-old boys were out hunting close
to their home near Alexander, Arkansas. They
never returned home alive.
A lot has been written about the two boys, Don
Henry and Kevin Ives. The deaths were big news
in Arkansas and still are the subject of an
ongoing FBI investigation after all these years.
A northbound train was blazing along through the
night full bore when the engineer spotted the
bodies of two boys laying across the tracks. The
train was not able to stop. The two deaths were
reported as a double suicide even though the
boys were happy, healthy and had never mentioned
suicide before to anyone who knew them. Suicide
was changed to accidental death by infamous
Arkansas State Medical Examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak.
One of the boys' mothers, Linda Ives, has
dedicated her life to finding out what really
happened to her son, Kevin, ever since that hot
August night in 1987. Mrs. Ives was able to get
a grand jury to look at the case. They had the
bodies exhumed and reviewed by Dr. Joseph
Burton, chief medical examiner for Atlanta, Ga.
The second autopsy showed that Kevin's skull had
been crushed and that his friend Don had been
stabbed in the back hours before the train ran
over their bodies. A second grand jury concluded
that both boys were obviously murdered and that
their deaths were tied to the drug traffic in
Saline County, Arkansas.
Days after the area had supposedly been scoured
for evidence relatives found one of the boys'
feet and some gold chains that the police didn't
find. Dr. Malak's autopsy report didn't even
mention that one of the boys had a foot missing.
Much of the evidence surrounding the case wound
up missing also, including crime scene photos.
Dr. Malak's rulings on mysterious deaths in
Arkansas have come under close scrutiny many
times. In May of 1992 the LA Times did a cover
story on him and his incompetence as a medical
examiner. The Times cited over 20 other cases
that were grossly bungled. A 20/20 television
special also covered the story.
Some of Malak's well known rulings are: The 1985
murder of Raymond Albright who was shot 5 times
with a Colt .45 which Malak ruled a suicide. The
case of James Milam who was decapitated. Malak
had ruled that Milam died of natural causes!
Didn't Malak answer to anybody? Yes. His boss
was the head of the State Medical Commission,
Dr. Joycelyn Elders. Dr. Elders answered
directly to then Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
How could Bill Clinton have allowed such a
bungler to continue in his position when there
was a public outcry for his ouster? Good
question. Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia
Kelley, while working as a nurse
anesthesiologist at a hospital in Hot Springs,
made a mistake which resulted in a young woman's
death. She had been undergoing minor surgery to
repair an injury she sustained when a young man
threw a rock at her.
Dr. Malak ignored the fact that it wasn't the
rock, which killed her, but the bungled
anesthesia and arrested the man who threw the
rock! He actually did 2 1/2 months in prison
before it was straightened out. At the time of
that young woman's death Mrs. Kelley was already
being sued for the death of another young woman
who died because of her botched anesthesia.
In Arkansas when Bill Clinton was Governor it
was a good ole boys' network such as we have
been fortunate not to see anything quite like
here. Fahmy Malak and Dr. Jocelyn Elders kept
Gov. Clinton's mom out of trouble and he took
good care of them as long as he could in return.
So why were the two 17 year old boys killed?
Good question. There was an airstrip used by
drug smugglers flying in from South America en
route to Mena, Arkansas (Remember Barry Seal?)
to drop cocaine near where the boys were killed.
Saline County, Arkansas Police Detective John
Brown was in charge of the official
investigation for two years. Brown believes that
the boys were at the wrong place at the wrong
time and saw one of the drops.
There was one witness to the murders, a Sharlene
Wilson who had been an informant for the DEA.
She had been a witness for the Saline County
Drug Task Force, which was mysteriously shut
down when it got a little too close to the
truth. Much like Barry Seal, Sharlene Wilson was
sold out and sent to prison and lives in fear
for her life for what she knows about the
Arkansas drug traffic.
State Police Investigator, Russell Welch from
Mena, Arkansas also verifies that the deaths of
Don Henry and Kevin Ives were linked to the Mena
drug traffic. One of his informants in prison
had come forward with such information.
An 18-year-old also came forward in late 1993
claiming that he had also been in the woods and
witnessed the murders when he was 12. Sharlene
Wilson verified that other kids were in the
woods the night of the murders, but that they
got away. This got the FBI office in Little Rock
interested in the case and they are currently
still investigating it.
Detective John Brown has met with a pilot who
used to make drops at the site where the boys
were killed. It was known as "A-12" to the
smugglers.
As his investigation got him closer to the
truth, Detective Brown turned in his badge on
August 16, 1994 out of fear. Brown claims that
Saline County Sheriff, Judy Pridgen, was also
scared to death by what he had uncovered and
told him so. At their last meeting on August
15th, 1994, Sheriff Pridgen said, "We both know
where this leads. Do you really want to take
down the President of the United States?
John Brown's life has been threatened and his
home ransacked and burglarized three times since
his resignation, but his files were all handed
over to the FBI before he resigned. Maybe this
tragedy will end better than those of Barry Seal
and Randy Weaver. We can always hope.
Topic: Clinton Scandals
Mysterious Mena: CIA Discloses, Leach Disposes
The Wall Street Journal
01/29/97 By MICAH MORRISON
The word on Capitol Hill is that Rep. Jim Leach
will soon wrap up his inquiry into the spooky
goings-on at remote Mena in western Arkansas.
For more than a decade, state and federal probes
of supposedly government-related drug smuggling,
gun running and money laundering at Mena
Intermountain Regional Airport have hit a stone
wall. But Mr. Leach already can claim some
success: He kept the pressure on the Central
Intelligence Agency until it completed a
still-classified internal probe of the
allegations; in a declassified summary released
in November, the CIA for the first time admitted
that it had a presence in Arkansas.
The agency was not "associated with money
laundering, narcotics trafficking, arms
smuggling, or other illegal activities" at Mena,
the report concludes. But the CIA did engage in
"authorized and lawful activities" at the
airfield: a classified "joint-training operation
with another federal agency" and contracting for
"routine aviation-related services."
At the center of the web of speculation spun
around Mena are a few undisputed facts: One of
the most successful drug informants in U.S.
history, smuggler Barry Seal, based his air
operation at Mena. At the height of his career
he was importing as much as 1,000 pounds of
cocaine per month, and had a personal fortune
estimated at more than $50 million. After
becoming an informant for the Drug Enforcement
Administration, he worked at least once with the
CIA, in a Sandinista drug sting. He was gunned
down by Colombian hit men in Baton Rogue, La.,
in 1986; eight months later, one of his
planes--with an Arkansas pilot at the wheel and
Eugene Hasenfus in the cargo bay--was shot down
over Nicaragua with a load of Contra supplies.
What had then-Gov. Bill Clinton known about CIA
activities at Mena? Asked at an October 1994
press conference, President Clinton said, "They
didn't tell me anything about it." Events at
Mena, Mr. Clinton continued, "were primarily a
matter for federal jurisdiction. The state
really had next to nothing to do with it. The
local prosecutor did conduct an investigation
based on what was in the jurisdiction of state
law. The rest of it was under the jurisdiction
of the United States Attorneys who were
appointed successively by previous
administrations. We had nothing--zero--to do
with it."
Mr. Clinton was right about federal
jurisdiction, but wrong about Arkansas
involvement. As reported on this page, local
attempts to investigate Mena were tanked twice
by the Mr. Clinton's administration in Little
Rock, which refused to allocate funds. And in
July 1995, a former member of Gov. Clinton's
security staff, Arkansas State Trooper L.D.
Brown, suddenly stepped forward claiming he had
worked with the CIA and Seal running guns to the
Contras--and cocaine back to the U.S. Mr. Brown
says that when he informed the governor about
the drug flights, Mr. Clinton replied, "that's
Lasater's deal"--a reference to Little Rock bond
daddy Dan Lasater, a Clinton crony later
convicted on an apparently unrelated cocaine
distribution charge.
The CIA report does not directly address the
Lasater allegation. It says trooper Brown
applied to the agency but was not offered
employment and was not "otherwise associated
with CIA." Barry Seal was associated with CIA,
but only for "a two-day period" while his plane
was being outfitted for the DEA's Sandinista
sting. The CIA also says it found no evidence of
tampering in earlier money-laundering
prosecutions, as several Arkansas investigators
have charged.
And what does the CIA say about Mr. Clinton's
knowledge of CIA activities at Mena? It gives
its boss wiggle room that parses nicely with his
statement that "they didn't tell me anything."
In response to Mr. Leach's question about
whether information was conveyed to Arkansas
officials in the 1980s, the report states that
"interface with local officials was handled by
the other federal agency" involved in the joint
Mena exercise, side-stepping the issue of what
Mr. Clinton knew.
The Clinton White House has gone to great
lengths to discredit the Mena story. It figures
in the notorious White House conspiracy report
and was denounced by former Whitewater
damage-control counsel Mark Fabiani as "the
darkest backwater of right-wing conspiracy
theories." Beltway pundits tend to dismiss Mena
as an excess of the Clinton critics. But in
Arkansas the campaign is more vicious. With a
passive press having long ago abandoned the
field, Mena investigators such as former
Arkansas State Police investigator Russell Welch
and former IRS agent Bill Duncan were stripped
of their careers after refusing to back away
from the case. Mr. Leach's CIA report provides
some vindication for the two Arkansans.
Mr. Leach's full report is not likely to resolve
all the questions surrounding Mena, but it might
provide important details about that "other
agency" and related mysteries. In Arkansas,
meanwhile, the Little Rock FBI office is
following leads in a sensitive drug-corruption
probe involving the Linda Ives "train deaths"
case and allegations of Mena-related drug drops.
The big drug-corruption question is what network
encompassed the Barry Seal operation. The answer
could come by following the money on some of the
smaller questions, such as whether those CIA
contracts for "aviation-related services" went
to one of Seal's front companies at Mena. But in
forcing an admission from the U.S. intelligence
community, Mr. Leach already has performed an
important service: He's demolished the notion
that nothing happened at Mena.
