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00:00¡Gracias por ver!
00:30He just electrifies the crowd, and they love him.
00:33What? Billy Jack did what?
00:35I could have believed it, but I didn't. I didn't want to believe it.
00:38Billy Jack Haynes.
00:40Years before this shocking crime, Billy Jack Haynes had lived the dream,
00:45rising from Oregon's regional circuit to stardom in wrestling's golden age of the 1980s.
00:50Portland, Oregon, Billy Jack Haynes.
00:54Billy Jack had everything, all the tools to be a top professional wrestler.
00:59Oh, look at the press slam! Billy Jack is strong.
01:03His career was in reverse. He started as a star, and he finished as a nobody.
01:09But Billy Jack's dealings outside the ring hinted at a mysterious life,
01:13one almost too extraordinary to believe.
01:17Billy said he had been involved in the drug business as a collector and enforcer.
01:21When I was in Portland, I was about a kilo a day cocaine dealer.
01:25Billy has made many, many claims.
01:27I was contracted to go down there to kill two Arkansas State police officers.
01:31You don't know fact from fiction with Billy Jack Haynes.
01:34And I kept that secret from everybody.
01:38Now, as the former star faces murder charges,
01:41those who knew Billy Jack Haynes look back on the road that led him here.
01:45So, Billy Jack was his own worst enemy. He didn't even know it.
01:48He was a loaded gun, brother. You never know what he's thinking.
01:52You know, a lot of guys fall hard in wrestling, but he fell harder than most, without a doubt.
02:08In the wrestling industry, I guess a lot of people may have forgotten about him.
02:13I've got Oregon blood flowing through these veins!
02:16Even the most die-hard WWF fan today would say,
02:21well, yeah, Billy Jack, he was there.
02:23Billy Jack reaching down that intestinal fortitude!
02:27What did he do?
02:28People now in the present day are trying to go back
02:32because of what's happened with Billy and trying to figure out where did this start?
02:36We knew one day Billy Jack would do something crazy,
02:40but we never thought it would be that crazy.
02:43It shot me, and then again it didn't.
02:47And I don't know if you can understand that.
02:49That's one thing where when Billy messed up, he messed up.
02:54Final mess up.
02:56I guess if you took everything and laid it on the table, you could see it coming up.
03:02Before his recent murder charge, Billy Jack's past reveals other crimes,
03:08including two assault charges before he's 30.
03:11But the same mean streak that gets him into trouble
03:14also creates new opportunities in the wrestling business.
03:18Billy Jack Haynes was a thug.
03:20He was a street fighter.
03:22He was a boxer, a wrestler, tough guy, don't get me wrong.
03:26My dad found him as a gym rat, and he's below that now.
03:32All his bios say he was trained by Stu Hart.
03:37Stu Hart threw him out of Canada because he was too rough and beat all his boys up.
03:43So he was back being a gym rat in Portland, Oregon,
03:46when my dad and the assassin Dave Sierra found him.
03:49Well, he came to the Portland Sports Arena looking for work,
03:53and we got him hooked up.
03:56He looked unreal.
03:57He was, like, you know, jacked to the max.
04:00Look at Billy Jack! Look out!
04:02Me and Rip the Crippler, Oliver,
04:04talked a promoter, Don Owens, into using him.
04:08We knew with that size body and his home being the Pacific Northwest
04:12that we can draw money with him.
04:14Billy Jack Haynes.
04:16I mean, he just, he fit the part, and everybody was giving him a chance.
04:20In 1982, Billy rockets to the top with a persona tailor-made for fans in the Pacific Northwest.
04:28Billy Jack's gimmick and look came from the movie Billy Jack, starring Tom Laughlin,
04:34about the ex-serviceman who was a karate expert and a loner.
04:38He was a dangerous man, but soft-spoken, but don't cross him.
04:43Billy Jack, whose look, physique, the aura, and the presence he had,
04:48the fans went crazy for him, like he was their very own hometown movie star.
04:53The Portland, Oregon boy is coming out victorious!
04:57So Billy Jack was a very effective babyface promo guy for Portland, Oregon.
05:01Thank you, everybody in Portland, for supporting me. I love you. Thank you.
05:05Nice guy, loved his father, loved Oregon, loved Portland.
05:10You know what I mean? And he was Billy Jack from the movie,
05:13trying to get revenge on these different heels.
05:15Make a little bit more noise and I'll get it for you. Let's go! Come on!
05:20Everyone knew he was a rising star. You know, the 80s was all about the look. He had the look.
05:25And I'm sure all the fans here are going to like this man, Billy Jack Haynes.
05:29What a fantastic build on this young man, Johnny.
05:32They loved him, you know. Every time Billy Jack was on the card, sold out.
05:36From the time he first stepped foot in the ring, he was featured. He was pushed by the promoters.
05:41Small territory? Pushed him. Went to a bigger territory? Pushed him.
05:45I know Billy Jack Haynes from the territory days. When he came to Florida Temperature Wrestling,
05:51he was pretty laid back, kind of a low-key guy and a loner.
05:55My name's Bill Fonte Alfonso and I've been in the wrestling business for 45 years.
06:05I don't want to use the word oddball, but he was kind of different from all the wrestlers.
06:11We'd go out to the after party, have cocktails and drink and smoke a joint and so on.
06:16Billy Jack would go with the fans and their kids to pizza and have pizza with them.
06:22The fans loved him. He loved the fans. He was committed.
06:27After just four years of working in smaller promotions,
06:31Billy Jack Haynes gets the call in 1986 from Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.
06:38From Portland, Oregon.
06:40If you wanted to go deep into Vince McMahon's mind and create a professional wrestler based on what he thought they should look like,
06:49Billy Jack was the guy.
06:51Now I'm here in the WWF. It's a World Wrestling Federation.
06:55And believe me, I know full well this is where the stiffest and the toughest competition is.
06:59He wrestled in that Detroit WrestleMania. They had over 100,000 people shows up.
07:05Billy Jack Haynes.
07:07For a wrestler, that's the top of the mountain.
07:10Look at the builds on these two guys.
07:12Patera and his tag team partner.
07:19Billy needed a tag team partner to elevate his persona, so it worked out good. It worked out real good.
07:28This is Ken Patera, coming straight at you.
07:32And I used to wrestle with Billy Jack Haynes.
07:37His appearance was, don't with me. How's that?
07:44Well, we weren't told anything about the gimmick.
07:48Pat Patterson came in the locker room and said, well, we got chainsaws and you guys are the Oregon Lumberjacks now.
07:56And they wanted us to crank those chainsaws up so they were actually running.
08:04I said, are you nuts? I'm not going to turn this chainsaw on, you know, so somebody could get an arm cut off.
08:13Just do it.
08:16Billy had a super nice personality and everything. Soft-spoken and whatnot.
08:22The nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.
08:26Billy Jack Haynes and Ken Patera!
08:29But the gloss wears off after a while.
08:33All respects, Billy Jack had a fantastic body, state and shape.
08:38But upstairs, brother, that's a different story.
08:40Everyone knows me in pro wrestling as a grappler.
08:43I wrestled Billy Jack Haynes many times.
08:46He's one of those guys you never know what he's going to try.
08:51I never could trust him.
08:53He's a lot of excited, you know, he's mad about something and all of a sudden knocked the hell out of you.
08:57He was an off-the-hinge type character.
09:02His finishing maneuver would be the full Nelson, and once he locked that full Nelson in you,
09:12you felt like he was going to break your neck.
09:14Nobody has ever gotten out of the full Nelson.
09:16Once Billy Jack Haynes has got it locked in, and he had it locked in.
09:19Once you gave up, he would just sling you, I mean, like a piece of trash to the side.
09:24In the locker room, he had a reputation for BOOM!
09:31I could see in his eyes, he was like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
09:35I've seen him snap several times.
09:37One night, we're in Florida.
09:39The match is over, and Percy Pringle was Rude's manager.
09:43And Billy Jack came in, and he didn't like the way the finish went.
09:46He walks in and slaps the piss out of Percy Pringle.
09:49He goes, this guy screwed up the finish, you idiot.
09:52That was his mentality, that's the way he handled things.
09:55We did a show, and Smirnoff pulled a fire alarm, got us in trouble.
10:01Next thing I know, Billy done face-locked Smirnoff.
10:05Smirnoff went to the bathroom himself.
10:07It was so bad.
10:09In Tampa, some smart-ass guy was checking Billy Jack out.
10:14He said, oh, that fake bullshit, I could kick ass.
10:18I remember him snatching him into the headlock and punching him in the face about 20 times really quick.
10:24Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
10:27He'd beat the hell out of the person, and then kick right out of it like nothing happened.
10:31He did it because he could.
10:33I mean, right there, I've noticed this guy's a bully.
10:36He takes on who he knows he can handle.
10:38You know, so I didn't respect that.
10:40He went to jail on two or three occasions, I believe, for beating people up.
10:47But he always said, they deserved it.
10:51Oregon men don't back down to nobody.
10:54You know, he's got a heart, but then he's got the other side.
10:58You know, where you screw him over, he'll come in your house, pull you out, and beat you to death.
11:03I would never think that the Billy Jack that I knew in the 80s would have ended up doing what he did.
11:15Police have now confirmed a woman was found dead, and a man was taken into custody after an hours-long police standoff.
11:24There's a whole lot that people don't know about me, and the lawyers know he's right, the lawyers know he's wrong.
11:51I believe half of what you hear and nothing of what you see.
11:56Billy Jack Haynes!
12:01I'm Billy Jack Haynes, from the World Wrestling Federation, and a 14-year pro.
12:06Good to talk to you.
12:16Right now, I'm in the Noma County Justice Center jail.
12:19I've been incarcerated six months.
12:22What I'm talking to you guys today about is one small percentage of my life, and there's a whole big part of my life I'm leaving out here.
12:28The position I'm in right now, it's hard for me to bring up anything and talk about it.
12:32And I have my attorney out there, so I'm glad that he's here today.
12:35It's a second-degree murder.
12:38And it's just way overcharged, and that didn't happen.
12:45There's only really two human beings I really loved.
12:49That was my father, who was blind and in a wheelchair.
12:52And then the other was my wife, who allegedly I murdered, which you're going to find I didn't.
12:59And I loved her more than life.
13:03Weighing 247 pounds.
13:07Cold wrestling is a work. We all know that.
13:10But we took it real serious back when we were in it.
13:13Oh, look at the blood just spewing out of the forehead.
13:16I don't want to be negative towards anybody in this industry, you know? I don't.
13:20I respect the wrestlers so much. But, you know, they don't know me.
13:25Throughout his wrestling career, Billy Jack Haynes remains distant, private to the point of secrecy.
13:33He was not the life of the party, the life of the locker room.
13:35He wasn't making friends hand over fist.
13:38He was just that big guy over there. It's like something's going on.
13:42Billy Jack was a true loner. Then I realized he was very manipulative.
13:48He always had an agenda. And you never knew what he was up to.
13:56Ah, we'd go check in at the hotel there.
13:59Five minutes later, Billy would be gone.
14:02And he did that every f***ing night. I didn't know what he was doing.
14:08At that time, I was really heavy into the narcotics, into the painkillers.
14:14Uppers, lowers, I mean, you name it, you couldn't survive without it.
14:18I was five days a week in and out of airports.
14:21It's all over!
14:22Different cities.
14:23Billy Jack, door to work now!
14:25349th a year.
14:27Heavyweight champion, Billy!
14:29I took 20, sometimes 25 pills a day. Vicodin, Percocet. It got in the way of wrestling and my life.
14:37All you beautiful children, drugs are negative. You are a positive influence for the world. I love you very much. Say no to drugs.
14:44Drugs are no good, you know. They're not good.
14:49Well, we're at the Oakland Coliseum, in a tag team.
14:54It's time for the match. Billy's nowhere to be found.
14:58About an hour later, all the matches were over, and here comes Billy.
15:04Oh, he looked like hell.
15:05I said, Billy, you missed the match.
15:07Oh, completely out of it.
15:12McMahon said that he was going to give us a big push, and I think we can throw that out the window.
15:22How did it come to an end at WWF in your run?
15:24Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now, I probably...
15:29What do you think about that? On the plane?
15:34You guys should talk about that?
15:36Well, it happens.
15:41Now, what I heard is that he overdosed on some codeine, I think.
15:46He was falling out of the mouth. He was jerking.
15:49We had that murky landing.
15:50They thought he was dying.
15:52I was this close away from death.
15:55And they had to jumpstart me twice.
15:58And I'd be gone.
15:59You know, and with WWF, I mean, it's like, they don't want that bad publicity getting out.
16:03You know what I mean? And that was the final straw.
16:06He was never in the top spot in WrestleMania.
16:09He was never a major singles champion.
16:13And after about a year and a half, he was fired by the WWF.
16:17Returning to Portland, Billy Jack shocks his former colleagues by turning on the promoter who made him.
16:24But everybody knows that the state of Oregon has the number one wrestling fan in the world.
16:29The Oregon Wrestling Federation is what Billy Jack wanted to open so he could be Vince McMahon of the Pacific Northwest.
16:39That was his words.
16:41OWF was going to be his baby.
16:43We said, Billy, Don Owens made you and now you're opening a company against him.
16:49And I couldn't believe it.
16:52You got to have money to back that.
16:54Sponsors and all that.
16:55You know, somebody's got some deep pockets if you want to try to do that.
16:58I was there two weeks, and the shows that were running weren't drawing anything.
17:03There was a couple hundred people in the audience, so it kind of fizzed out pretty quick.
17:07And I got a check on Friday, and he said, Fonzie, can you please not cash it until Monday?
17:14So I knew I was in trouble.
17:16And I went right to the bank and cashed it, and I left.
17:19Finally, one day we come in, he said, I'm closing, guys.
17:23And that was it.
17:24The collapse of the Oregon Wrestling Federation was pretty spectacular.
17:28Billy Jack Haynes really left a lot of guys hanging, and there was a lot of bad blood.
17:33It hurt Billy's reputation with a lot of people.
17:37That was my bad due to the fact that my head wasn't screwed on right.
17:42And probably a little bit to do with the pills, too.
17:46Struggling with addiction and running out of allies, in 1996, Haynes' once promising career crashes to a halt.
17:55Just a shame and a pity, because he had the world by the string.
18:01He never became the star to the magnitude of what people had predicted.
18:05By the time his wrestling career was over, nobody trusted him, and all that potential just dribbled away with it.
18:12Though his wrestling days may be over, it doesn't take long for Billy Jack to find his way back into the spotlight.
18:21He was a little strange, a little standoffish, sometimes a little off-putting, whatever.
18:26He was kind of weird. And suddenly, you saw him a few years later, and there started to be this change.
18:34In retirement, Billy Jack hits the interview circuit revealing a shocking detail.
18:40While in wrestling, he'd been living a secret double life of crime.
18:44Starting way back in the 70s, I was about a kilo a day cocaine dealer, and I kept that secret from everybody.
18:53I just wanted to go in and actually do something in the pro wrestling industry, instead of a drug runner.
18:58A leg breaker, and worse. I mean, making 30 grand a week.
19:03I lit a lot of guys up, and a lot of guys got addicted to the cocaine that I sold in.
19:08You know, very nefarious things went on back in the 80s.
19:13In 2017, Billy Jack makes an even more shocking claim, linking himself to a famous unsolved murder.
19:22It's been over 30 years since two teenage boys were found dead on these tracks in Saline County.
19:26The tracks are still here, and so is the mystery regarding what happened.
19:29What's new is a witness has come forward.
19:32I helped put the kids on the tracks. They were already dead. They've been murdered.
19:41Well, over 30 years ago, a Union Pacific train ran over two Saline County teenagers.
19:47The deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry have become one of Arkansas's most notorious mystery.
19:51There was a famous murder case in Arkansas, back in the 80s, where these two teenage boys were run over by a train, is what they thought originally happened.
20:04In the pre-dawn hours of August 23, 1987, a 75-car cargo train made its regular night run to Little Rock, Arkansas.
20:14With engineer Steven Schroeder grew closer, he made the horrifying discovery that two boys were lying motionless across the railroad tracks.
20:21Well, then somebody else investigated, found out they had been beaten, they had injuries.
20:28They weren't just run over by a train.
20:30Then Billy Jack started claiming that he was there and saw the murder because these two teenagers wandered into a drug deal.
20:39His story, the drug people, wanted him to supervise the drug drop and payoff to make sure that everything goes okay.
20:52And he was going to videotape it also.
20:55And he said, I wore a wrestling mask.
20:59I'd been around the dope game for a long time.
21:02I went down there by myself after I wrestled King Kong Bundy.
21:05We went to the tracks, the drop was made.
21:08Apparently, these kids wandered up on it and as a result, the drug people killed them and put them on the railroad tracks.
21:16They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
21:19I helped put the kids on the tracks.
21:21No, I was there. I helped.
21:24They'd been murdered. They were already dead.
21:27The judge is going to come out so this woman, Linda Ayers, can have a life.
21:30Billy Jack's claims about the unsolved murders are taken seriously by the mother of one of the victims, as well as by the family's private investigator.
21:42I mean, there is no good reason to insert yourself into a murder case.
21:46He has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
21:48He's put himself in jeopardy, not only as freedom, but also his life.
21:53They're hopeful that law enforcement will now take a look.
21:55As Billy Jack continues sharing his story, other details sound increasingly unbelievable.
22:13There was drops that were being stolen, cocaine drops. I was sent down there to take care of two state police officers from Arkansas, but it was an inside job.
22:26He told me that he was running with one of the biggest drug dealers in the country.
22:31I've dealt drugs to the highest level you can. That's uncut coke.
22:36Well, in the beginning, when I first started hearing the stories, I thought, come on, Billy, really?
22:41But when it gets right down to it, he can prove it.
22:44He brought it all out in an interview on several occasions, as a matter of fact.
22:49The things that he said about it and all this stuff is all verifiable, but that's about all I can say about it.
22:55I can't talk about it.
22:57I'd love to, but I can't.
23:00But haven't you told that story so many times?
23:02I wish I could talk to you guys, I can't.
23:05What can you tell me without getting into details? Is it true?
23:13Did you hear that?
23:15That is probably a subject you should ignore.
23:19Leave it alone.
23:26As Billy Jack's interview appearances become more frequent, his claims extend far beyond drug dealing and the boys on the tracks.
23:39And many begin to wonder what's behind it.
23:42From show tonight, Angie Grace would say.
23:46Everything you're going to hear is true.
23:48He looked completely ridiculous.
23:51And then he had this white hair, but it was like a mop top cut, like he was Pete Best, the fifth Beatle.
23:58My mother and my uncle, when I was 15, were both murdered.
24:02There was two politicians that were involved.
24:06And he started concocting these stories where he was in the middle of a variety of newsworthy events.
24:13Andy Gibb had a gig in San Francisco, and one of my first big deliveries was there to the concert.
24:22I delivered one kilo to him, July 31st, 1978.
24:28Some say, well, he knows stuff that nobody else knows.
24:31Well, this dude studies shit, I can tell you that.
24:34And that's how nutty he was.
24:36He don't have nothing better to do but to try to find his way to make himself back in the scene.
24:39I had cocaine from the median cartel in Columbia.
24:44So I started making more money.
24:46The Clintons are involved too.
24:49Well, now, was he a drug enforcer for the Clintons?
24:52Why the would Bill Clinton call Billy Jack Haines?
24:57Yeah, that's stupid.
24:59I took it for a grain of salt.
25:02He had to be on some good drugs to think that.
25:05But then the question becomes, where was the bizarre behavior originating?
25:11Conspiracy theories and being the Forrest Gump of crime.
25:15It not only sounds so preposterous, but there was no upside to him.
25:19It was just interviews being done with this kooky old man that people would put up on the internet.
25:24I wanted to know who my real dad is for a long time, whether it's Lenny Montana, whether it's Vince McMahon Sr., which it could have been.
25:33Because he supposedly had sex with my mother.
25:36This Sr. could be my father. There's a long history to that. I don't know if we can get into it today or not.
25:39Claiming to be the son of Vince McMahon Sr., you know, aside from being ridiculous, that's unbelievable that someone even tried to pass that off.
25:49When I heard stuff like that, I would say, man, Billy's really loosening. What's causing Billy Jack to make up stuff that's obviously not true?
25:599-11 was an inside job and no question about it. All you have to do in this world is follow the money.
26:07So this isn't going to make the Bush family too happy, but they're involved too.
26:11He did look like someone that would say anything just to be on a podcast, get more money out of that podcast.
26:21I'm not afraid to come in front of this camera and tell you the truth. And either you're going to believe it or you're not going to believe it.
26:27The idea was, if you tell crazy stories, there will be an appetite for more, even though it's all bullshit.
26:35You're probably going to be looking at a dead man. Maybe by the time this video gets out.
26:40Everything I've said could get me killed. Everything I've said with Vince can get me killed.
26:45One preposterous thing in wrestling can be true. With some people, a couple of preposterous things can be true.
26:51But when you're just pulling shit out of your ass over and over, then even if one or two of those things is true, nobody's going to believe them.
27:00Amid all of the astonishing claims Billy Jack makes, at least one truth stands out.
27:07January 10th, 2006, there was attempted murder on me.
27:20Once again, I'm speaking for the people.
27:22Under the ground right now, they can't speak for themselves. So let me do it, please.
27:26From 2006 to 2023, Billy Jack Haynes makes a series of shocking statements and explosive accusations.
27:35Vincent Cain McMahon, I call it Vincent Killer McMahon.
27:40Yeah, that's right. You're a killer.
27:43Though many of Billy Jack's stories are dismissed as conspiracy theories,
27:47a violent incident in 2006 suggests that Billy Jack's ties to organized crime may be legitimate.
27:55This is the file from the work I did 16 years ago.
28:00Police reports, letters from Billy Jack, and a couple photos of Billy in the hospital.
28:08At the time, I was writing a column for the Portland Tribune.
28:11And so next thing I knew, Billy Jack is knocking on my door.
28:16He looked like Frankenstein's monster. He'd just gotten out of the hospital.
28:20He'd had several bones in his face broken, and he had stitches, as I recall.
28:24We sat down, and he started telling me his story.
28:28Basically, that he'd been called over to Jimmy Longoria's car lot.
28:33Longoria family was certainly one of the more prominent Portland crime families.
28:38Billy had been a bill collector, and then he said he'd delivered drugs for the Longorias.
28:46What have you got? What is all this stuff?
28:47Yeah, these are letters from Billy Jack from months after it came to my place.
28:54On January 10, 2006, I was set up for a hit, or to be killed by two hitmen hired by Jimmy Longoria.
29:02I drove through the open gate at the time scheduled 9 a.m., and I parked about 30 feet inside the lot,
29:09where I met a man and asked where I could find Jimmy Longoria.
29:12The man motioned over his left, and Jimmy Longoria was sitting at the desk with his hands behind his head,
29:18with a very cocky look on his face.
29:20I said, you're going to kill me, aren't you?
29:22It was then, I believe, that Jimmy told me that paybacks are a bitch, Billy Jack.
29:29I remember looking at the office windows and seeing four men, and I thought I was a dead man.
29:35It was very clear that two guys attacked him.
29:38They beat him so badly that he had to play dead.
29:42He knew they wanted to kill him.
29:44They said I would have been dead. The instinct reaction saved me, probably one of the little instincts I have left to save me.
29:53Jimmy Longoria had a pretty airtight alibi.
29:58He said two tweakers came onto his lot and provoked Billy into a fight.
30:05He said he'd never seen him before and couldn't identify him.
30:08I think they probably worked for Longoria.
30:10The surveillance cameras somehow had not been working, which was, of course, very suspicious.
30:17I cannot see out of my right eye.
30:21You want to look, you can focus in here in my eye.
30:24Billy said it was retribution for 15 or 16 years before, when he had ripped off $200,000.
30:33He'd been a courier back and forth from Portland to Los Angeles, taking coke one way and money the other.
30:38Let's just say in the 80s, I transported drugs.
30:43I had a 1986 Toyota 4x4.
30:45They put the built-in cabinet in a toolbox.
30:49On the way back, he broke into the toolbox, saw $1,200,000, figured that $200,000 should belong to him.
30:57I gave the million bucks, I took my $200,000.
31:01Billy said this beating was retribution for that.
31:04I think he ripped off the Longorias. I think that much is true.
31:11But the idea that they would have waited 16 years didn't make any sense to me at all.
31:16There are also rumors that Billy Jack's organized crime connections might have been involved in his short-lived promotion in the late 1980s.
31:32Oh, it's off! It is off!
31:35I've heard rumors, I don't know something about the Mafia, but I don't know anything about that.
31:39What I understood, he had cricket sponsors.
31:43And they seen a bunch of money getting lost fast, and they just all one by one pulled out.
31:49And that's why I think his promotion folded even faster.
31:54A lot of people that open wrestling promotions get into that, because it's the easiest way to clean money.
32:01As far as the money coming from nefarious characters, it's very possible.
32:06He had a very dark life, and he probably had some very dark friends.
32:08I'm generally sympathetic to oddball characters, like Billy Jack, but he was a puzzling character.
32:21When we were having lunch one day, I mentioned the 30-year-old murder of a corrections official, Michael Franke.
32:27I explained the case to him. We went on to something else, and about two months later, Billy Jack sends me something, all of a sudden claiming to have been involved in a witness to the Michael Franke killing.
32:42He didn't know anything about Michael Franke before I told him.
32:46In 1991, in May 1st, on my dad's birthday of the murder of Michael Franke, I was forced out of Oregon before my dad would be killed, I was told.
32:55I think maybe he convinced himself that he was involved, that he had actually seen the assassination.
33:03He was collecting newspaper articles, police reports, and marking them up. The whole page would be colored.
33:11He always had his binders and his shit. I don't know what was in it, but he had them. He always had them.
33:17It's just documentation, that's all I can say. It's not my place to go into those kinds of things, you know.
33:22Right now as we speak, I'm writing an autobiography with one of the best writers in the world.
33:29It's something in there when people read, you'll see it's documented, and it may or may not get me killed. I don't know.
33:37He had quite a bit of stuff in there, yeah.
33:38At that point, it was sort of hands-off for me. I just sort of back away from the case and say, I don't know what parts of this are true and what parts aren't.
33:47The beating was certainly for real. The involvement in the coke business was almost certainly quite real. The rest, I don't know.
33:58I don't know. He talked like he believed it. Even as nutty as Billy Jack Haynes was, did I think that, you know, he would be 70 years old and the SWAT team would be outside of Billy Jack Haynes' house.
34:10There's a reason you're in trouble a lot, because you just gravitate towards trouble.
34:13This matter is going to be page 22, line 3, Mr. Haynes.
34:22By 2019, Billy Jack Haynes is living a nomadic lifestyle, making rare interview appearances.
34:29I wore Oregon here. There, take that. Oregon's sticking up your ass.
34:36He'd been a non-entity in the wrestling world for 25 years.
34:40By the time he started just being the weird person that we've seen in modern times, I think you'd almost have to say he was on some kind of substance.
34:52I heard that he was having financial difficulties.
34:56You think you're on top of the world, the next day you turn around and you ain't got two nickels to rub together.
35:01He was homeless, yeah.
35:03Homeless. Yeah, that's right. My van's sleeping.
35:07Rip Oliver opened his house for Billy Jack to live there.
35:12So, Rip, I found out that he was dying in 2019 of December.
35:17So, I left Portland and flew down to Florida and spent the last three months with him.
35:23I'm not looking for no pat on the back, nothing like that though. He was a great guy.
35:27He never came here for my dad. He came here to have a free place to live and if he was on pills before he got there, he damn sure was before he left.
35:34You said he stole your dad's pills?
35:37Yeah. My dad was, I don't know, months away from dying.
35:41My dad was on the real shit, the highest they go. The stuff to put people in comas.
35:46He started taking Rip's Percocets or Vicodin, which Rip really needed because he was very sick.
35:53I think he was more taking advantage of Rip and Rip was paying for everything.
35:59Billy got in this scheme and called Brian Blair up. Brian Blair ran Cauliflower Alley.
36:07You know, they helped wrestlers with problems. I don't know what happened, but Billy called Brian.
36:12Rip's dying. He needs help. He's going to lose his property. This is what my dad told me.
36:18Cauliflower Alley Club paid for his back taxes on his house. They paid for his rent. They paid everything for him.
36:24Well, my dad didn't owe taxes. When he died, he didn't owe taxes. And my dad told me that Billy took half and he gave him half.
36:34My dad was a junkie. I don't mean to say that bad, but he was hooked. He was done, you know.
36:42He wanted me to be there and I was there all the way to hospice until he finally died. I didn't want him to be alone.
36:47I know he stole all my dad's shit before he died. Everybody's got stories. Yeah, I seen it. It finally came out. After, you know, 30 something years. He took advantage of everybody.
36:59Back in Portland, Billy Jack begins a relationship with Jan Becraft, the mother of his friend Todd.
37:18The Becraft family disapproves of the relationship. But when Todd unexpectedly dies in 2021, Billy Jack and Jan get married.
37:28She was like 85 and he's like 70. And so when I saw the age of the woman, you know, you hear stuff from people. Was he like using her for money or a place to live or whatever?
37:38This party, this is actually the main house. This is the main bedroom on this side and then the living room because you can't see through the kitchen.
37:48My name is Tom Matthew. I was actually living here before Billy, Billy Jack moved in. You talk to anybody in the neighborhood, they all loved him. He just would walk around, talk to everybody.
38:00He really loved Jan a lot. And he was quite devoted to her. She was sick. You know, she was, she was ill with dementia. Some days she'd have good days and some days, most of the days were bad.
38:14And that wore on Billy pretty hard. She had some good days, but they were getting worse. And her family definitely did not like them being together. And I don't think they were going to separate.
38:24In my opinion, he took very good care of her and wanted to protect her and keep her from any kind of harm. The last time I spoke to him, it was two days before the incident.
38:37And I told Billy, I said, Billy, you look terrible. He hadn't slept, hadn't hardly eaten anything. People with dementia, they become combative. It's tough to watch a loved one, you know, go through that kind of mental decline.
38:51I seen the cop cars and stuff on, on my security camera. So I, I went outside to see what was going on. I looked down the street and I saw them all down in front of Billy's place and I thought, oh shit.
39:02Detectives have been at the scene all day and police say the investigation is just getting started.
39:07I hear a banging on the window, you know, out the back window, like, you know, I looked at it and it was quiet. It was freaking overkill. I mean, they had this place locked down.
39:15Tactical teams, including the special emergency reaction team and the crisis negotiation team were called to the scene. Around two hours later, a man was detained.
39:25So what happened?
39:26Well, I mean, he took her life. I mean, it's, it's, and it took them like maybe an hour to be in and out when they actually took her body out.
39:36When Billy was arrested, the whole neighborhood basically was in shock. You know, just like me, I didn't, I didn't believe it either at first.
39:44He's just a big general giant, you know, and when you see it firsthand, it's, it's, it's, you know, it tears your heart out.
39:53Billy Jack was kind of a, a nut, you know, and people thought at this point, he's that old, he's a harmless nut.
40:00Nobody thought he was going to go off and murder anybody. But then the question becomes, why in the world would you ever do something like that?
40:14Billy Jack Haines is facing unlawful use of a weapon and murder charges today after the alleged shooting earlier this month.
40:24Although questions linger around Billy Jack's numerous claims and criminal activity, one fact remains undeniable.
40:32On February 8th, 2024, Billy Jack Haines took the life of Jeanette Bacraft.
40:38Now, as he faces trial for second degree murder, Billy Jack has a new story to tell.
40:46Billy claims that she had dementia so bad that it was unbearable. He couldn't live with it anymore.
40:55He called it a mercy killing because she didn't know who she was anymore.
41:00He supposedly shot his wife in the head and that's a mercy killing? I don't know, brother.
41:06Maybe he thought that was justifiable to do that. It's a very sad situation and I don't know what they're going to do justice wise, but that's up to, I guess, a court to decide.
41:21I don't care for him. It ain't because he killed his wife.
41:24I'll let that play out in court.
41:28If I were his lawyer, I'd certainly make a diminished capacity case for him.
41:34He's obviously been taking beatings throughout his career.
41:38And if nothing else, dating from the beating he got at the Longoria's car line.
41:45You ask anybody and they'll tell you. He loved Jan unconditionally. She was his world. Whatever happened, as unfortunate as it is, I think was a big mistake. That's what makes it all that much more difficult to deal with.
42:02Damn it. I'm lesser. It hurts my heart.
42:08Mercy killing is the phrase that they used.
42:13Who's ever going to know the only person that's alive that was in the room with him is Billy Jack and you can't believe a thing he says.
42:19If I come across crazy, I must be the smartest, craziest guy there ever is.
42:24I'll never, ever forget the state of Oregon and the beautiful fans that supported me through pro wrestling.
42:30Fans in Oregon, old enough to remember, probably still have a fond spot for him.
42:34But now more people in and out of wrestling are going to remember the crazy stories he told and the things that he invented that he was involved in.
42:43And finally the murder of his wife, they're going to remember that more than anything he did in wrestling.
42:48Let me have your attention. I don't want any fan to ever come up to me and ask for an autograph again.
42:57He was the guy who had a couple of good years at a time when wrestling was pretty big, made something of a name and had a very, very troubled existence after that fame ended.
43:06It's not a happy ending. There's no silver lining in this story, unfortunately.
43:09So how do you think Billy Jack's story is going to end?
43:13Boy, that's a million dollar question.
43:28When that door shuts, it gets to reality real quick.
43:31That there's no getting out of here.
43:33Until 12.
43:36Until 12.
43:48Do you feel good about your chances?
43:50I do.
43:51I do.
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