minor partner, if i could put it that way? 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 black stone s headquarters and then was gone. so, did he leave in a huff? or was it something else? because nobody ever saw him again. no sign of him at all. he d been missing for a year. 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 wolford city, north dakota. with the wind chill, i believe it was 60 below when we
anyway, he said he got the $20,000 and he burned the bloody clothes. investigators found buttons and other evidence of that burn pile. but though they took suckow to the prairie twice to look for the burial site, they never found casey clark s body. casey clark was simply killed for the reason that he just wanted to leave james henrikson s employment. he felt wrong. so he was going to kill him? it was like a jealousy, cheating spouse kind of thing. and why according to the prosecutors did james henrikson want doug carlile killed? he really felt that the oil deal they were involved with was worth tens of millions of dollars, and he thought that doug carlile was standing in the
criminal, rarely seeming to get his illegal schemes to work. it s almost like a tragic comedy when you see the group of people that were involved with this case. they put out a hit on another business partner, but the hit man ran off with the money. the guy rips him off of $10,000, and as he said that was the easiest $10,000 he ever made. gradually, agent truedell and 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,
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 we had ever 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. so what did you do, the two of you? we d go up to the bar and chase the girls. do the normal things guys do during the boom. rick and casey were field superintendents for the trucking company which sarah was helping to run. how were you involved with the business? i worked with the accountant, to make sure think got signed off to make sure they got paid and i was sort of the middleman for the paperwork. so you were really kind of a
and the middleman caved, too. robert delao. the man who came snooping around a couple days after the carlile murder and passed a polygraph. now deleo admitted he recruited suckow and transmitted henrikson s orders and the money. so 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?