The Trail Went Cold - Episode 214 - The Boys On The Track (Part 2)

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

August 23, 1987. Saline County Arkansas. 16-year old Don Henry and 17-year old Kevin Ives head into the woods to do some late-night hunting, but never return. Hours later, the two boys are seen lying on some railroad tracks before they are run over by a cargo train and the medical examiner concludes they had fallen asleep after smoking marijuana and their deaths were accidental. However, Don and Kevin’s families push for a new investigation, which uncovers evidence that they were violently attacked before their bodies were placed on the tracks. Throughout the years, a number of conspiracy theories would emerge to suggest the boys were murdered as part of a cover-up involving drug trafficking and that members of law enforcement were involved. In Part 1 of our special five-year anniversary episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explored the basic facts of this story. This week, in Part 2, we take a deeper look into the convoluted saga known as the “Boys on the Track” case. Additional Reading: “The Boys on the Tracks” by Mara Leveritt https://idfiles.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Don_Henry_and_Kevin_Ives https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/the-boys-on-the-tracks-book-12011/ https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/former-wrestler-claims-he-witnessed-murders-of-don-henry-and-kevin-ives/91-518352443 https://unsolved.com/gallery/don-henry-kevin-ives/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Henry_and_Kevin_Ives https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/sep/20/suit-over-records-in-87-deaths-dismisse-1/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon 2021: Austin” at the Fairmont Hotel in Austin, Texas on June 2-4, 2021, as well as “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 12-13, 2021. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD21”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com/CC21 or https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
0:38.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be presenting the second of our two-part episode
0:44.1	about the 1987 deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives,
0:48.0	aka the Boys on the Track case.
0:51.0	As you probably know, the trail Went Cold has finally reached a very special milestone and is celebrating its five-year anniversary as a podcast.
0:59.0	So to commemorate the occasion, we decided to cover one of our most highly requested cases ever. the
1:05.0	time time we decided to cover one of our most highly requested cases ever. But the story is so convoluted that for only the second time in our podcast history,
1:10.0	we decided to make it a two-parter.
1:13.6	We released Part 1 last week, which outlined the most important facts of the case, and if you
1:18.5	haven't heard it yet, I suggest you go back and listen to our first episode because otherwise you'll be completely lost when you listen to this one.
1:27.0	Today, I'm going to be fleshing out and going into more detail about most of the information I presented last week, as well as provide my own theories
1:35.2	and analysis. As a brief recap, the two victims in this story were 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives, who were both seen lying in the middle of some railroad tracks in
1:46.6	Saline County, Arkansas, before they were run over by a cargo train during the early morning
1:51.7	hours of August the 23rd, 1987.
1:55.0	While their deaths were initially ruled to be accidental,
1:58.0	there was a lot of new evidence which clearly showed that both boys were the victims of foul play, the case would balloon into a massive story with a number of conspiracy theories and allegations that Kevin and Dawn were murdered as part of a massive cover-up from people who were involved in drug trafficking.
2:15.8	It's an awful lot to take in, so we're going to try and make some sense of this entire thing
2:20.1	on today's episode.
2:22.2	So let's get right down to it. Without any further ado, I now present
2:26.2	part two of the convoluted saga known as the Boys on the track. So if last week's episode was your introduction to the Boys on the Tracks case and you felt like your brain was on the verge of exploding, I can assure you it wasn't always this way.
3:01.0	When I sat down to start summarizing this story, I really had no idea where to begin, but I guess
3:06.7	the best course of action would be to discuss the original Unsaw Mystery segment.
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