again. no sign of him at all. he d been missing for a year. almost two years at that point. was henrikson ever questioned about it? had he been questioned about it. he took a polygraph with north dakota law enforcement. and had passed. yes. still, james henrikson had to know something about casey clark and doug carlile. and so the two detectives got in the car and drove 700 miles to watford city, north dakota. with the windchill, i believe it was 60 below when we were there. their destination, the home of james henrikson and his sarah. we went to the side door. from there you can see the garage and in the garage was like a two-year-old bentley, flat tires, almost laying on its belly. an almost new bentley. yes. obviously not taken care of at all. no. sarah answered the door, very pleasant said detectives, and went to get james. how did james henrikson greet you?
this is peyton martin, daughter of tex hall, then chairman of the mha nation on whose tribal land was the oil lease, the one james and doug carlile wanted so badly. peyton was 19. you knew her. mm-hm. yeah. i had a vacation, family vacation with her. in fact, here they are in hawaii. james in the water. sarah there on the paddleboard and there on another board was peyton. i think i found a picture of her on facebook where she was pregnant. and so i called her and asked her. and she said it s none of my business, but if it s my husband s then get over it. mm-hm. peyton denied saying that, by the way. but when the baby was born, a very healthy and happy-looking little boy. james and peyton named him bentley, of all things. bentley. just like that expensive
spokane police detective mark burbridge called in the troops. a few hours after the execution-style killing of doug carlile in the kitchen of his big house on spokane hill, it was all too clear this had to be a professional hit. burbridge would need all the help he could get. and now every available investigator, nearly 20 of them, chased the scattered clues. did you actually need them all? yes, i kept them busy. one investigator, his whole job was to try to identify the white van. remember that white van the neighbors saw? it was unique enough. it was an after-factory extended van that they make for certain professions. once we were able to identify the make and model we had washington provide us with all the vans registered in spokane county, and there were 75 of them. which possibly fit that description. yes. every one of those vans had to be tracked down.
that this would be $800,000 within 90 days. we start looking at the dates and we re at or beyond the 90 days that this was promised. his string has run out. correct. detective burbridge began calling doug s partners and discovered most of them lived in or around washington. any one of them who could be considered a person of interest was hundreds or thousands of miles away from spokane the night he was murdered. it concerned me greatly. i just don t believe in coincidences like that. coincidences that they were not there? yes, sir. that they may have planned not to be there when something happened? yes, sir. where do you go? do you know which one to target? i was running this investigation in about eight different directions trying to eliminate a lot of business partners, trying to see if he had a secret life. did he owe somebody else some money because he had a lot of failed business dealings in his other businesses. so i had a lot of concerns. angry ex-business
she would wake up screaming every single night. and there was nothing i could do besides just hold her. it was horrible. the very thing the carliles hoped would create wealth, security, happiness had brought instead nothing but grief. but, remember, this, the evidence suggested, was a hit job. somebody must have ordered doug s execution. so now the detectives try to figure out who. did he have any disputes with anybody? yes. inevitable probably, when high stakes investors go after a prize like an oil lease, and doug had been promising potential investors returns that so far just hadn t materialized, any number of partners might have felt they d been taken for a ride. but who? and elberta who was no longer a suspect offered a possibility. who did he have a dispute with? his name is james henrikson. james henrikson.