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 and said hey, what do you think about this? what did you think about that? it was the first time weed every heard of that name. so who was casey clark? he was funny, well-mannered. didn t take long to find out. casey was an old friend of james henrikson. he moved to the oil patch specifically to work for henrikson at blackstone, james trucking company. rick airy knew him well. what did you do?
the two of you. we d 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 the time. time off was rare. and eventually, rick airy and casey made secret plans to work for a rival trucking company. he was extremely worried about james finding out about their whole transition. on february 22nd, 2012, casey dropped briefly into blackstone s headquarters and then was gone. so, did he leave in a huff? or was it something else? because nobody ever saw him
automobile james bought for sarah, then left in the garage with flattened tires. you can t make it up. it s weird. it s 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 sarah s wayward husband. out on the north dakota prairie, another lawman had been poking around for more than a year. homeland security agent derrick truedell had heard from a colleague about the missing casey clark and the ripoff report and other possible crimes. he told me the story, and it sounded unbelievable is what it did. eric truedell was hooked. so by the time burbridge started showing up, he could tell them a thing or two about james henrikson.
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 they needed. timothy suckow, remember him? admitted he killed both victims on orders from james henrikson, and the middleman caved, too. robert delao. the man who came snooping around the investigation a couple of days after the carlile murder and passed a polygraph, which
might say something about polygraphs. now deleo admitted he recruited suckow and transmitted henrikson s orders and the money. so how did tim get paid for kc s 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 business partners. he was not charged, however, with trying to kill his wife sarah, because, said the prosecutors, they went with the charges that were easiest to prove. so henrikson was toast, unless? as he sat in the spokane jail awaiting trial, henrikson did his best to see that the trial would never happen. he tried to hire people to