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A to-do kill list in his car. you cant make this stuff up. >> suckow also had a storage unit. where? a surveillance camera picked up a white van pulling up soon after the murder. suckow had to be their shooter. question was, who put him up to it? and why? suckow wouldnt tell them. refused to say a word. so then they got a search warrant for his phone. >> his contact list said james in nd. >> jackpot. >> jackpot. that is what the first time we had ever connected him with henrikson. >> james and s...

Around the oil patch. coming up. for this investigator, a tantalizing tip at his finger tips. >> i clicked on it and a flyer came up that basically said beware of these two people. >> and then a potential suspect gives cops the crush off. >> he leaned over and slapped me on the shoulder and shut the door. >> when "dateline" continues. ♪ -morning. -morning. -what do we got? -keep an eye on that branch. might get windy. have a good shift. fire pit. last use -- 0600. id stay close. morning. ♪ g...

Doug interested in the oil play in the first place. the man with his wife sarah were known as the barbie and ken of the oil patch. this guy worked for them. his name is rick airy. >> they stuck out like a couple of turds in a punch bowl. >> she was a barista. >> what was he like? >> he was calm, cool, collected, older man, good-looking. he was fun. wed always go out. we would go out. it was easy. i never thought id marry him or go to business with him. >> but thats what she did. they moved to th...

Suckow is bipolar. >> he was laying down on the floor of the prison cell in a fetal position. so this is two days before our star witness is going to testify. and hes basically sucking his thumb on the floor of a jail cell. were there at 10:00 at night, trying to make sure this guy gets his medication so he can effectively testify before a jury. >> would james henrikson, the desperado of the oil patch go free? coming up, the entire courtroom stunned. >> i had decided long before then james henri...

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. >> didnt 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 >> wed...

And i clicked on it and a flyer came up that said beware of these people. >> what do you know, the ken and barbie of the oil field. >> it said theyre known frauds. theyre running fraud scams in north dakota. dont do any business. >> grievances were rife around that oil project in which doug and james and others were involved. the ripoff report was put out as a flyer in stores and businesses all around the oil patch. it was pay back, apparently. by one particularly disgruntled former partner. but...

Convictions and character and integrity. when you were around him, you wanted to emulate those things. look at that incredible life that he had and jim baker put his finger on a big part of it. the fearlessness of a kid that grows up in privilege in the east and his fathers a big wig in a wall street firm, he says like so many americans,ism going to strike out for the west. im going to learn the oil business from the bottom up. im going to strike a new life. if you go to midland texas, see the m...

Convictions and character and integrity. when you were around him, you wanted to emulate those things. look at that incredible life that he had and jim baker put his finger on a big part of it. the fearlessness of a kid that grows up in privilege in the east and his fathers a big wig in a wall street firm, he says like so many americans,ism going to strike out for the west. im going to learn the oil business from the bottom up. im going to strike a new life. if you go to midland texas, see the m...

Convictions and character and integrity. when you were around him, you wanted to emulate those things. look at that incredible life that he had and jim baker put his finger on a big part of it. the fearlessness of a kid that grows up in privilege in the east and his fathers a big wig in a wall street firm, he says like so many americans,ism going to strike out for the west. im going to learn the oil business from the bottom up. im going to strike a new life. if you go to midland texas, see the m...

Prestigious financial firm, instead, he struck out for the oil flats, living first in bakersfield, california, and then odessa, and then midland, texas, learning the oil business from the ground up, selling tools, you know, learning the oil patch from the bottom up because he wanted to start his own enterprise. he started an oil company, independent oil company, named after a character he saw in a movie. he named it and made it, you think about that he left the comfort of the east in order to st...