I mean, he wants to go to the top of the totem pole and put an extra notch in his belt. getting you is a feather in the cap? right. i m the only one they could come after because i sold a couple of horses to women. you are not saying you didn t swindle women. no. i swindled women, yes. the ladies were not buying horses. the ladies were buying richard. there are women who wanted his attention. they would buy whatever he was selling. it is not unusual. he s not a killer. he is a purveyor. did you get basically a life sentence for selling people bum horses? that s what it boils down to. yes. but you didn t kill anybody? definitely not. what about the candy lady? bailey says helen brach was more than just another easy mark.
we would put medicine in them and keep selling them. jayne learned a horse is worth more dead than alive. he made his money by burning barns down and collecting on the insurance, by killing horses and collecting on the insurance. it s horrifying. the horses are screaming and crying and stuff like that. it s held. you can smell the skin burning, hair burning. and by that time i started freaking out. i couldn t handle it. this is the dangerous world prosecutors richard bailey led helen brach into. they say bailey was in thick with the horse mafia. just how thick would turn out to be a critical question. the first time bailey came into the stables i ll never forget him. he wore those big jockers with the big balloons. he looked like a dork.
Demise. what made him attractive is he presented himself as being an old-fashioned nice guy. led them to believe he was a man they could trust. more than a suave gigolo, he was a calculating conman. his game was horses. so let me see if i got this right, there was a little bit of cheek to cheek dancing, a little bit of champagne and the new pigeon ends up at the stables. you got it. they are talking horses and he is selling them nags? yeah. all nags. what kind of money are we talking about? mostly between $50,000 and $200,000. for one horse? for one horse. and helen brach was only one of his victims. digging into bailey s records miller and his team discovered he made a successful 20-year career out of horse swindling. what we get at is flaws that
They became a mafia, killing each other and anyone who got in their way, including perhaps helen brach. cathy s legendary uncle silas was godfather. he was the smartest man i ever knew. he could talk anybody into buying any horse. he could do anything with horses and people. silas jayne was a great horseman. some say behind the smile was a ruthless thug. people were deathly afraid of him. the criminals flocked to him. why were so many people afraid of silas jayne? he was a cold blooded killer. if you crossed him or did something that might make that empire topple, you were going to have to pay the penalty. he shot and killed a man he thought was coming to kill him. he emptied three guns as the man crawled away.
Disappeared from a life of we ll and privilege without a trace. though her body has never been found, helen was officially declared dead in 1984. her former companion richard bailey is in prison for conspireing to kill her. the investigation into her death also uncovered a network of dangerous men linked to richard bailey. helen brach loved animals. though she left most of her money to help dogs, she also loved horses and according to the feds, horses were helen brach s downfall. when richard bailey sold helen brach some bum horses, he was also leading her into a very dangerous world. a world that lurked just below the surface of chicago s elite horse set. a world of sinister and violent men. men who had just as much reason as richard bailey to want helen brach dead. the horse mafia. what was going on in these