murder and we arrest what we think is the shooter and he has a to-do kill list in his car. you can t make this stuff up. suckow also had a storage unit. where? a surveillance camera picked up a white van pulling up soon after the murder. suckow had to be their shooter. question was, who put him up to it? 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. 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.
they put out a hit on another business partner, but the hit man ran off with the money. he said it was the easiest $10,000 he ever made. gradually, agent truedell and 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
we re on the move. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we re good. we re good. terminix. defenders of home. james henrikson was one of the stranger perks homeland security agent truedell had ever encountered. henrikson was also an inept criminal, rarely seeming to get his schemes to work. it s almost like a tragic comedy.
he had been on james trail for more than a year, looking for possible illegal drug imports and the mysterious disappearance of casey clark. it began to look like henrikson was behaving like some latter day wild west outlaw. he s a sociopath and a coward. and he didn t get his hands dirty in any of it. truedell already suspected henrikson may have ordered someone to kill casey clark. then doug carlile was murdered in washington and he began working with burbridge. if suckow killed carlile, could he have killed casey clark as well? they checked mr. suckow s number at the time against the phone records they acquired back when mr. clark disappeared and
a couple days after the carlile murder and passed a polygraph. now deleo admitted he recruited suckow and transmitted henrikson s orders and the money. so september 2014, nine months after his arrest on weapons charges, james henrikson was flown from north dakota to spokane, washington and charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, solicitation and murder for hire in the deaths of casey clark and doug carlile, and attempts on the lives of three more business partners. he was not charged, however, with trying to kill his wife sarah, because, said the prosecutors, they went with the charges that were easiest to prove. so henrikson was toast, unless? as he sat in the spokane jail awaiting trial, henrikson did