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The ripoff report was put out as a flyer in stores and businesses all around the oil patch. it was payback, apparently. by one particularly disgruntled former partner. but then not everything was a -- not everybody was boy scouts. james for example had a criminal record going back to his teens. anyway, when detective sesnick read the flyer, his eye landed on a very curious detail. one of james employees, a man named casey clark had up and disappeared. >> i printed it off and handed it to mark an...

The two of you. >> wed go to the bar and chase the girls. you know, do the normal things guys do during the boom. >> rick and casey were field superintendents for the trucking company. which sarah was helping run. >> i worked with the accountant, to make sure think got signed off to make sure they got paid make sure payroll was turned in on time to the accountant. and i was sort of the middleman for the paperwork. >> were you a minor partner. >> it was the james show for sure. people saw me all ...

Automobile james bought for sarah, then left in the garage with flattened tires. >> you cant make it up. >> its weird. its so strange. >> bentley. >> yeah. as you can see, he was the one who wanted the car and the name and the show. >> tex hall, as you might imagine was not pleased about any of that. he banished james from the reservation. but there was something neither tex nor sarah knew just then. not just that the spokane cops were investigating sarahs wayward husband. out on the north dakot...

>> like the time they put out a hit on another business partner but the hit man ran off with the money. >> the guy rips them off for $10,000. and as he said, it was the easiest $10,000 he ever made. >> gradually, agent truedell and detectives burbridge and sesnick amassed circumstantial evidence to show henrikson for all his criminal fumbling did orchestrate two murders, casey clark and doug carlile. but it was not quite enough circumstantial evidence to take to trial. till, finally, the break t...

Might say something about polygraphs. now deleo admitted he recruited suckow and transmitted henriksons orders and the money. >> so how did tim get paid for kcs murder? t. was cash. >> so, in september 2014, nine months after his arrest on weapons charges, james henrikson was flown from north dakota to spokane, washington, and charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, solicitation and murder for hire in the deaths of casey clark and doug carlile, and attempts on the lives of three more busines...

Again. >> no sign of him at all. hed been missing for a year. almost two years at that point. >> was henrikson ever questioned about it? >> had he been questioned about it. >> he took a polygraph with north dakota law enforcement. >> and had passed. >> yes. >> still, james henrikson had to know something about casey clark and doug carlile. and so the two detectives got in the car and drove 700 miles to watford city, north dakota. >> with the windchill, i believe it was 60 below when we were ther...

How would you describe him? >> he comes across as just -- >> youre at a loss for words. >> he comes across as a used car salesman, but thats not fair to used car salesmen. the guy is just, hes a scumbag. >> by the time doug carlile was murdered, doug had been on james trail for more than a year looking into possible illegal drug imports and the mysterious disappearance of friend and employee casey clark. began to look like henrikson was behaving like some latter day wild west outlaw. >> hes a so...

>> theyre purposely designed so an adult human head cant get out the window. >> they could have charged him for escape attempts. they didnt. the prosecutor had bigger things to do. and finally, january 2016 james henrikson encountered them. >> i was so mad i couldnt see straight. doug carlile still grieving family. >> i had to close my eyes several times and say a prayer, god, calm me down. i wanted to put my hands on him for sure. >> and then youd be in trouble. >> it would be worth it. >> the ...

Person like that have? >> my concerns our most important witness is going to admit that he killed two people, literally beat casey clarks brains out. >> how do you handle that? >> you have to embrace it. our number two witness has a tattoo on his back of him urinating on the headstone of the last guy that he killed. these are our two star witnesses. >> still, tim suckow, the actual killer was by far the more important witness. after all, suckow could tell the jury chapter and verse about the man...

Door with a heavy truck jack. >> he stumbled and fell. he tried to get up. i hit him three or four more times and he stopped moving. >> they ditched caseys truck in a nearby town said suckow, and then they took caseys body to a lonely spot 20 miles out of town. he did the digging while henrikson stood nearby. >> and he was standing in the hole and he was saying something like how much is this going to cost me and i said $1,000. $1,000