101: MYSTERY | Train Track Boys

Avery After Dark

Avery Ross

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.8 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On August 23, 1987, Arkansas teenagers Kevin Ives & Don Henry set out for a hunting trip around midnight. The events of that night in the woods remain shrouded in mystery

What is certain is that around 4 a.m., during a routine journey to Little Rock, a cargo train engineer looked ahead on the tracks in horror. He saw the 2 teens lying side by side on the tracks, partly covered by a green tarp. They were motionless, not even flinching as the locomotive grew closer

Despite the engineer's efforts, the train was unable to halt in time, running over the boys. Tragically, Kevin and Don died. Initially the medical examiner ruled their deaths as accidental. But the boys parents looked deeper into their sons deaths, they found a tangled web of corruption & deceit

Don & Kevin were murdered that night. But by who?

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0:00.0	In 1987, a Union Pacific train ran over the bodies of two Arkansas teenagers.
0:22.6	The deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry shocked the community.
0:26.6	What were they doing on the train tracks?
0:28.6	Were they dead before the train hit them? And if so, who killed them?
0:33.6	Initially ruled as accidental deaths by the authorities,
0:36.6	suspicious circumstances surrounding the case led to speculation of foul play.
0:41.9	Theories of homicide and a massive cover-up, they were dubbed the train track boys.
0:47.8	And despite extensive investigations, the truth behind what happened to them remains elusive,
0:55.8	making it one of the most haunting unsolved cases in Arkansas history. Brace yourself, because this is one of those cases where
1:00.7	the deeper we get, the more twisted it becomes. This is Avery After Dark, and I'm your host, Avery
1:07.4	Ross. Around 4 a.m. on August 23rd, 1987, a 75-car, 6,000-ton Union Pacific
1:16.7	cargo train was making its standard night run to the UP Freight Yard in North Little
1:22.1	Rock, Arkansas. The train was over a mile long, traveling at a speed of 52 miles per hour.
1:28.4	According to train engineer Stephen Schroier, the ride had been smooth as they approached the
1:33.7	quiet small town of Bryant, Arkansas.
1:36.6	Traveling at this hour was usually serene, with the rhythmic clack of the tracks against
1:41.7	the wheels.
1:42.9	The train cut through sleepy towns and sprawling
1:45.8	fields. When suddenly, Stephen looked and saw something ahead on the tracks. At first, he couldn't
1:51.7	tell what it was. But as the train got closer, he became frantic. Stephen saw two teenage boys
1:58.5	were lying motionless across the railroad tracks, side by side,
2:03.0	partially covered by what looked like a green tarp. Horrified, Stephen quickly placed the train
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