Things I Want To Know
Things I Want To Know
Paul G Newton
Boys On The Tracks: Mena Arkansas 1987
1 hour 6 minutes Posted Mar 8, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
Setting The Case On The Table
Public Image, Policing, And The Eighties
The Night On The Tracks
Autopsy One: “Accident” Declared
Families Push Back And Reversal
Grand Jury And A Rare Reopening
Enter Dan Harmon And Corruption
Drug Routes, Mena, And Cartel Theories
Alternate Explanations And Dead Ends
Lawsuits, Defamation, And Media Myths
Profiling The Offender Logic
Cade Mercer’s Hypotheses
Why The Truth Stays Buried
Sources, Contradictions, And Blue Tarp Claims
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Send us Fan Mail On August 23, 1987, two Arkansas teenagers were found dead on a railroad track outside Bryant. Authorities quickly ruled it an accident. The official story claimed Kevin Ives and Don Henry had smoked marijuana, laid down on the tracks, and fallen asleep before a freight train came through. Case closed. But when a second autopsy was performed, investigators discovered one of the boys had a crushed skull before the train ever reached him. Suddenly the accident story didn’t hold...