like the time they put out a hit on another business partner but the hit man ran off with the money. the guy rips them off for $10,000. and as he said, it was the easiest $10,000 he ever made. gradually, agent truedell and detectives 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, and the middleman caved, too. robert delao. the man who came snooping around the investigation a couple of days after the carlile murder and passed a polygraph, which
i received a call from my mother. we were hanging ornaments on a christmas tree. she said in just kind of a screaming panic, shane, your dad, your dad, he was shot six times. you called everybody? yeah. the thought hadn t even sunk in yet we just started contacting everybody and i would have to listen to everybody s cries and screams over the phone. carlile s eldest was at her own ballet at aye cross the state. he goes dad s been shot. and i said what do you mean dad s been shot? dad has been killed. they broke into their house. he has been murdered. and it s like even though it s been enough time, i ll never forget it. and i remember where s mom, you
i had to do it with the cartel and the ma. that s it. you know what that is? mexican mafia and drug cartel. he gave us a story. he talked about the cartels, the triad, all these organized crime groups that he implied having connections to. they said if i go through with it, i m not worried about it. put all the charges that you want on me. like, you know, if i don t say anything, i don t say anything, you know? whatever, they ll kill me in prison. did he think you were buying it? oh, i think in his mind he thought we were buying it. but it was so outlandish, nobody s going to believe that. i ha to handcuff you. trouble was, investigators in north dakota and spokane still didn t have enough solid evidence to tie james henrikson to the murders of carlile and clark.