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henrikson. describe him. he comes across as just you re at a loss for words. he comes across as a used car salesman, but that s not fair to used car sales men. the guy is just, he s a scumbag. he had been on james trail for more than a year, looking for possible illegal drug imports and the mysterious disappearance of casey clark. it began to look like henrikson was behaving like some latter day wild west outlaw. he s a sociopath and a coward. and he didn t get his hands dirty in any of it. ik truedell already suspected then doug carlile was murdered in washington and he began working with burbridge. if suckow killed carlile, could he have killed casey clark as well?
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 attack the marshal man that was transporting him between our jail and the u.s. courtroom. shoot the driver, set fire to the van and break him out the back while the van s on fire. good, lord. he was still letting on that he had a lot of money. and in jail obviously, it doesn t take too long to find people that will bite on that. unfortunately he found one that also needed help with his current charges, so he turned him in pretty quickly. thus the plan was foiled. yes. but henrikson wasn t done. he was in another cell with a person suspected of murder. there are windows in each of the cells. they knocked out that window, dropped some tied-together bed sheets down to the ground nine stories. oh, my lord. some people showing up for
some truly awful things. if they didn t tell the story and make the jury believe it, henrikson would get away with murder. but if they did tell it? what sort of credibility would a person like that have? my concerns our most important witness is going to admit that he killed two people, literally beat casey clark s 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 many twisted and homicidal plots set in motion by james henrikson. so, two nights before the trial was to begin, attorneys jones
work saw it hanging out the window. can you squeeze someone out the window? they re purposely designed so an adult human head can t get out the window. they could have charged him for escape attempts. they didn t. the prosecutor had bigger things to do. and finally, january 2016 james henrikson encountered them. i was so mad i couldn t see straight. the still-grieving family. i had to close my eyes several times and say a prayer for god to calm me down. i wanted to put my hands on him for sure. then you d be in trouble. it d be worth it. they were however, not exactly confident about their case. proving casey clark s murder was the toughest part that i was thinking of. we didn t have a body. we had no forensic evidence. so, to get a conviction, they d need these two sketchy characters, who allegedly on orders from henrikson had done