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A Brief Summary Of The Boys On The Track

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The story of “The Boys on The Track” is a tragic tale of two teenage boys, 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old Don Henry, who start in Alexander, Arkansas, in August 1987, near a set of train tracks. The two boys were found still on the tracks, and the train conductor could not stop when he noticed the two and hit them. However, it was soon discovered that the boys were already incapacitated and had moved to the tracks beforehand. The case was originally ruled a double suicide by the state medical examiner, Fahmy Malik. It was later found out that one of the boys was stabbed in the back and the other knocked out by a rifle butt before being moved onto the tracks and covered with a tarp, and anyone who had come forward with information was …show more content…

Despite the efforts to suppress the flow of information on the case, the truth did slowly grow through. The incident was in fact linked to a drug trafficking ring based in Mena, Arkansas, in which the two boys stumbled upon a shipment of drugs dropped onto the tracks by an airplane, where they were spotted by the people sent to retrieve it and killed for witnessing the event. By the time the event had finally been made public, the following arrests had been made: Prosecutor Dan Harmon, who was identified as one of the leaders in the operation, Richard Garret, deputy prosecutor Sheriff Jim Seed for silencing the media and deterring, and officers Jay Campbell Kirk Lane and Danny Allen for assisting Sheriff Jim Seed in his efforts to silence as well as tampering with evidence as well as preventing autopsies from occurring on the victims of the events as well as those who were silenced for coming out with information. It was later revealed that one of the most influential figures in drug trafficking was former US President Bill Clinton, who was responsible for covering up and keeping the suspects in positions of power, such as Dan

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