skywalker in 2019. and hundres more flights were canceled sunday as they cited staffing shortages due to the omicron variant. at least 50 flights are canceled for monday. now back to dateline. sometimes the best detective is named luck. a dropped welding glove leads to a tattooed presumed hit man timothy suckow whose phone provides a direct connection to the man who may have ordered the murder of doug carlile. james henrikson in north dakota. investigators were able to rule out all of doug s business partners in washington state. by this point, did you feel you had the outlines of what the conspiracy was? i felt we had a pretty good idea of what was going on, but it turned out to be a lot more. a sentiment, which, as the investigation turned rapidly
might say something about polygraphs. now deleo admitted he recruited suckow and transmitted henrikson s orders and the money. so how did tim get paid for kc s murder? t. was cash. so, in 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 his best to see that the trial would never happen. he tried to hire people to
landscape, land called the south hill. here is spokane, washington s elite. quiet, rectitude, and certainly not the kind of story we re about to tell. the kind of story with ambitious men, dark plots. i asked him. am i just the dumb blond who missed it or did everyone miss it? the one so many people missed, before that dreadful event here in the wooded enclave of life s winners. he thought that god was blessing hem and my mom. we thought we were walking on water. here they were, empty nesters, all alone in their grand house in the south hill, convinced that their successes, their six grown kids, their good life were products of an unflinching trust in god. you know, we finally got out of the desert. and he was going to get into the promised land. yes, the promised land.
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