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The deaths were initially ruled an accident, the result of the boys in a deep sleep on the tracks while incapacitated due to high amounts of THC allegedly present in their blood. The parents of the boys insisted on a second autopsy, and after exhumation it was ruled that homicide was likely.
May 8, 2024 · The case was the subject of journalist Mara Leveritt’s award-winning book The Boys on the Tracks. On Sunday, August 23, 1987, at around 4:00 a.m., the bodies of the two boys were spotted by the crew of a Union Pacific locomotive near Crooked Creek trestle in Alexander (Pulaski and Saline counties).
May 9, 2024 · Lawyer Dan Harmon, who had represented Ives’s and Henry’s parents, was convicted of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, and drug possession with intent to distribute in 1997. Leveritt writes in her book that his conviction and the resulting eleven-year prison sentence handed down in 1998 proved, to the boys’ parents at least, that their ...
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Oct 2, 2014 · Two teenagers are murdered and their bodies placed on railroad tracks. Don Henry & Kevin Ives. They were lying side by side on the tracks. CASE DETAILS. In the pre-dawn hours of August 23, 1987, a 6000 ton cargo train made its regular night run to Little Rock, Arkansas.
Sep 23, 2023 · Mara Leveritt, in her 1999 book "Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother’s Crusade to Bring Her Son’s Killers to Justice," asserts that Harmon’s 1997 conviction convinced Linda...
Jan 4, 2017 · Circuit Judge John Cole appointed Dan Harmon special prosecutor of the Kevin Ives and Don Henry case in 1988, which gave him direct access to and control of information as the case developed. This is when witnesses began turning up dead, but no one connected that to Harmon at the time.
Feb 19, 2019 · January, 1994 – The FBI opened their own “train deaths” investigation after a witness went to Linda Ives claiming he saw Dan Harmon on the tracks with Kevin and Don the night they were murdered. The witness was put into protective custody, passed a polygraph test, and corroborated evidence the FBI told Linda they already had.
