he was the man who had gotten doug interested in the oil play in the first place. the man with his wife sarah were known as the barbie and ken of the oil patch. this guy worked for them. his name is rick airy. for lack of a better term, they stuck out like a couple of toureds in a punch bowl. well, one way to put it. james met sarah at a drive-through coffee stand. she was a barista. what was he like? he was calm, cool, collected, older man, good-looking. he was fun. fun. we d always go out. we would go out. it was easy. i never thought i d marry him or go do business with him. but that s what she did. they moved to the oil patch in 2011, got married in minot, north dakota, and by 2013, he was the charismatic face of a major trucking operation called blackstone, and she was the blond on his arm and the senior company official.
the two of you. we d go to the bar and chase the girls. you know, do the normal things guys do during the boom. rick and casey were field superintendents for the trucking company. which sarah was helping run. i worked with the accountant, to make sure think got signed off to make sure they got paid make sure payroll was turned in on time to the accountant. and i was sort of the middleman for the paperwork. were you a minor partner. it was the james show for sure. people saw me all the time. time off was rare. and eventually, rick airy and casey made secret plans to work for a rival trucking company. he was extremely worried about james finding out about their whole transition. on february 22nd, 2012, casey dropped briefly into blackstone s headquarters and then was gone. so, did he leave in a huff? or was it something else? because nobody ever saw him
automobile james bought for sarah, then left in the garage with flattened tires. you can t make it up. it s weird. it s so strange. bentley. yeah. as you can see, he was the one who wanted the car and the name and the show. tex hall, as you might imagine was not pleased about any of that. he banished james from the reservation. but there was something neither tex nor sarah knew just then. not just that the spokane cops were investigating sarah s wayward husband. out on the north dakota prairie, another lawman had been poking around for more than a year. homeland security agent derrick truedell had heard from a colleague about the missing casey clark and the ripoff report and other possible crimes. he told me the story, and it sounded unbelievable is what it did. eric truedell was hooked. so by the time burbridge started showing up, he could tell them a thing or two about james henrikson.
sarah signed the checks. blackstone was the business doug first invested in, before he got interested in the oil lease. how did this business get started? he bought a truck with someone, and literally took one truck up with one driver overnight and just started it and built it from there. and eventually got a whole bunch of trucks? yeah. how long did it take to develop that? it was fairly quick, maybe six months or so before he started adding them on consistently. reporter: it was a big operation. 100 trucks hauling water to and from oil fracking sites. very profitable. james let it be known that he was backed by a billion dollar trust fund. i was like, their guy s a winner. a lot of money around. they were doing well. absolutely. was the company making money? yes, it sure seemed like it. and james was tough and buff, all man. it s 20 degrees outside and
and why? suckow wouldn t tell them. refused to say a word. so then they got a search warrant for his phone. his contact list said james in nd. jackpot. jackpot. that is what the first time we had ever connected him with henrikson. yeah, that s a pretty clear connection. very clear. and the phone number in his phone was one we had confirmed was james henrikson s phone. james and sarah arrived to become the ken and barbie of the oil patch and before long one man is missing and another dead and the suspected hit man has james on speed dial. and as for sarah, there was a shock in store for her too. emotionally you have a lot to deal with. oh, absolutely. it s ruined my life. coming up. sarah becomes suspicious about her husband. did you think at the time, i wonder if james had something to