[Music] killing her husband looking her Square in the eye but leaving her alive so Burbridge wondered did she hire him in my world wives kill husbands so the relationship is is a probability but then up at the house they heard a curious story from a neighbor that very evening for a couple of hours before the shooting a mysterious white van was parked just across the street from the Carl's house 911 what are you reporting hi um I just ICL time Che CU there was a suspicious vehicle in front of my
house like 30 minutes ago and now they just came back and they're just sitting there and really freaked out of course in many if not most neighborhoods in America a parked white van might not attract a bit of attention maybe I'm just being paranoid but it's really bizarre that a family that would be in this neighborhood but this is the South Hill after all nondescript white fans don't just show up and hang around here so the neighbor noticed and then Doug carile winds up murdered we didn't know
if it was related or not but it it was obviously something that we considered immediately and again this being the South Hill another neighbor had to wherewithal to provide a special kind of help homeowner in the neighborhood had a video camera that covered his driveway and we picked up what we thought was the van about 2 hours before the murder here it is that video and sure enough a white van coming and going going on the streets of South Hill that night but did it have anything to do with the
murder and what about that man in Black Alberta said she saw if he actually existed hired killer or whatever he must have waited somewhere around the house for the cares to get back from church he could have killed Doug carile then possibly escaped in that white van no one saw anyone going out the front door but what about back here behind the house they called in a tracking dog stood back and watched basically the track went through some Arbor over a little fence through the neighbor's backyar
d and in the very back corner of their yard is a gate that was left open and just before the gate there was a puddle of water and there was a good footprint in that puddle of water and it was apparent that it was fairly recent could be your guy could be our guy just beyond that just outside the gate there was a what appeared to be a welding glove lying in the leaves welding glove a welding glove so right away we thought is this something that may have been dropped but it was odd enough and in a
place that we knew the suspect had run after the incident that we ended up collecting it as evidence not really knowing whether that had anything to do with your murder correct we didn't know we uh you know in something like this where it's a complete who done it you know you take everything and hope something ends up helping your case they kept looking so did the dog just beyond where the welding glow was found was a small wooded area and across the street an elementary school which meant maybe
the school security system could get them a picture of the guy another detective was able to get that video almost immediately and sure enough when they looked at the video there he was we actually saw that suspect and saw the path that he ran could you tell who it was or very much about it it was very grainy video all you could really see is that it was a subject appeared to be muscular build wearing all black all black it was hard to make out but there he was in the video The elusive Man in B
lack running toward a main road when detective bdge arrived and got to look at this I've done a lot of homicides and and at that point I I thought that this was a professional uh Hitman probably unrelated to our victim at all or the person involved in this and I I went and found my lieutenant I knew that this was going to be a very complicated investigation and need we need did a lot more manpower to get very fast on the case further down the road and so in a matter of hours detectives were call
ed in from all over the department time off was cancelled so many questions to answer what else did the Neighbors see what did that welding glove have to do with anything and who was the man in Black and a more basic question was Alberta carile involved in a plot to kill her husband coming up the closer I got to the lord it's like the further we got apart even Alberta admits their marriage had seen its share of trouble I did something drastic I left him without his knowledge take the kids with y
ou of course when jve line [Music] continues as police calmed to South Hill looking for evidence of suspects in the murder of Doug Carlile his wife Alberta had no idea that her behavior had raised alarms who cares about stupid evidence but police 101 the victim's nearest and dearest often becomes Prime Suspect number one and Alberta with her wild story was certainly no exception and then detective BB was able to get a close look at the early evidence and especially that video of The Running Man
in Black and immediately it became apparent to me that whoever did this had recog oered the scene and spent time planning this because of the very elaborate Escape Route made me concerned that uh Alberta was probably telling the truth about who was involved in what happened when BBD saw all that planning along with the videotape showing a man in Black he thought it far less likely Alberta carile was anything but a victim but in her brain while the detectives kept going on about this question of
that two thoughts blocked out all else her desire to see her husband and an old overwhelming need to tell her children what happened I went to call them and I couldn't even see the numbers I couldn't I was just frantic and I said to the police help me and then I thought wait you can't help me you don't even know who I'm looking for but finally an hour away in the town of Moses Lake the phone rang at the home of Shane Carlile I received a call from my mother we were hanging ornaments on the Chris
tmas tree and she said that just in a kind of a screaming panic she name you're dead you're dead he was shot six times you called everybody yeah yeah yeah the thought hadn't even sank in yet it was just a straight up okay let's get to work let's figure out what we have to do I started contacting everybody and you know to have to listen to everybody's cries and screams over the phone Carl's Elders Mandy was at her own daughter's ballet recital across the state near Seattle he goes dad's been sh a
nd um and I said I what do you mean dad's been shot um Dad has been killed and so melany greeted her daughters after the recital with the news about Grandpa oh they love their grandpa he was the greatest to them to all three of them they had really good relationships with him it was a relationship that almost wasn't for any of them Doug and birtie as he liked to call her were tday sweethearts married young and as often happens even as their family grew their marriage shriveled what happened life
happens birdie found God Doug did not the closer I got to the lord it's like the further we got apart until it became clear to birdie she won't go into detail that she and Doug were doomed unless I did something drastic I left him without his knowledge take the kids with you oh of course so you went off on your own with four kids mhm no job no nothing yeah to a city I didn't know to Seattle 350 mi from the little town in Oregon where they lived back then her church kept her going well Doug well
here's the story according to birdie he kept guns said birdie lots of them and lost it alone he decided that he used one on himself as he crawled toward it toward those guns he said that he heard this horrid voice that said he's mine and then he heard another voice that said no he's not he belongs to me and he said it was a thunderous authorative shook the whole room voice and the next thing he knew he felt arms picking him up and putting him on the bed he told you this yes he told me this mont
hs later quite a story The One That Got Doug saved and back with his family after that he started an excavation business and as his kids grew up six of them many followed him it became the family business he's a Salesman you know he can he can talk you into something a charmer yeah totally total charmer what was his his business philosophy I mean was he a numbers crunching guy or was he a handshake guy what what was sort of he was a handshake guy he expected his word and a handshake was good and
he knew it was he expected that of others and that isn't always true and there were setbacks two bankruptcies trouble with the IRS a string of failed businesses and fallings out with business partners who accused Doug of being less than honest and of not paying his bills how would Doug react to those he never gave up and we always took care of what we owed and we would move forward and as he entered midlife Doug Carlile seemed content doing deals while his son Shane and Seth ran the business yo
u give the shirt off his back to anybody he just had a huge heart he had enough room in it for everybody huge heart and taught you what you know absolutely every aspect of business every aspect of life when the kids were grown Doug had birdie ended up in Spokan to be near their favorite Church whose pastor preached the Prosperity Gospel that is the idea that God rewards true belief of financial success and they certainly looked successful when they bought that sprawling house on the South Hill t
hey wanted to get in an older house like that this something they love but they also always wanted all the family to come for all the holidays and SP it with them so there's a bedroom for everybody we all had our own room it worked out Prett good did it look to you as if your dad and your mom were finally at the place where they were on the top of the hill they were doing the best I ever saw him do they were happy they they had got it they had figured it out but now Doug Carlile was dead and det
ectives tallied up the signs of his Earthly wealth still parked in the drive Alberta's new Mercedes Doug's new pickup and inside in Doug's office documents detailing the family Fortune there was a lot of financial paperwork and the ones that struck me immediately was there was loan paperwork that it uh appeared Mr Carlile had filled out uh for different businesses and they had his net value at between six and 12 million depending on which piece of paper you looked at and then there were the docu
ments the detectives couldn't read that is the ones written in Arabic who was Doug carile successful God-fearing businessman what coming up I remember him telling us you know I'm going to make millions of dollars and this is going to be it and this is going to be for our family and um you know we're all going to be rich investigators take a hard look at Doug's business practices had he made for a piece of the wealth dangled so enticingly by North Dakota's oil fracking boom thus were Prairie town
s on Sudden ster oids and man camps bursting with pet up testosterone by the time Doug met his awful fate in December 2013 the Wild Black Gold Rush around the bakan oil fields and Peak but investors looking for a big payday wouldn't have known that yet and with great wads of eager cash they chased a stake in what they hoped might be billions still in the ground apparently Doug carile was one of them going to his family he got turned on to oil by a friend who knew a guy he told us about North Dak
ota hey it's booming there you should go check things out and see what's happening first I partnered in a trucking company that served North Dakota's many oil rigs an outfit called Blackstone started by the guy his friend introduced him to and then opportunity knocked one of those opportunities of a lifetime ordained from above according to Doug the whole thing kind of fell into his lap and I think he thought that that was his calling from God is to move forward in that lease an oil lease that i
s a lease that would give Doug and any partners he could bring in the exclusive right to drill for oil on 640 acres of land on the mha Indian Reservation the catch was that sort of opportunity doesn't come cheap so you had to raise some money oh yeah the lease was almost $2 million and to raise that Doug Carlile tapped his friends around Washington State his business partners even his kids I put $100,000 into it and it wasn't for a return on it or anything else to help him with his dream to to f
ulfill that but the next step to fulfilling Doug's dream was even more daunting finding investors to pay for drilling as many as eight Welles on the property and that price was much steeper more than $100 million but the potential payoff was immense and Doug firmly believed God's will a reward for his faith we thought we were walking on water you know with a whole deal we thought this is a miracle I remember him telling us you know I'm going to make millions of dollars and this is going to be it
and this is going to be for our family and um you know we're all going to be rich we sat on the couch one day and he said what would you do if you had all the money you could ever want is it so if we had this money then we would use it to serve the Lord to serve Ministries to serve people our family but now all those good intentions all those dreams were gone now detectives slogged through the paperwork on Doug carlile's desk those documents in Arabic turned out to be a scam a con man was tryin
g to run on Doug but Doug they could see had been making promises too to investors promises he couldn't keep and he must have known it 100% return practically overnight impossible meaning these were Partners who had come in and now he may have owe them a tremendous amount of money cked they may have a reason to be pretty mad at him and our suspect list kept growing how many partners did that guy have anyway about 10 that we could find or maybe more detective Burbridge began calling Doug's partne
rs and discovered the 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 Spokan the night Doug was murdered it concerned me greatly I just don't believe in coincidences like that well it's a coincidence that they just happened to be not there correct in other words they may have planned not to be there when something was going to happen yes sir where do you go I mean do you know which one to Target
or what I was running this investigation eventually in about eight directions trying to eliminate a lot of business partners uh seeing if Mr Carlile had a secret life did he owe somebody else some money because he had a lot of failed business dealings in his other businesses and so I I had a lot of concerns angry ex business partners angry current business partners what if anything did she have to do with it yeah I mean obviously I didn't know at the time what he was doing coming up detectives l
earn about a charismatic couple kneed deep in Doug's oil Venture they look like can and Barbie their perfectly white teeth and their Tans did they know anything about the murder and then finally investigators have someone to question I researched his criminal history and knew that he had a very significant criminal history so I was concerned that was he my Hitman we're going to start talking about some things honestly here people tell me you're the shoot when dat line [Music] continues Alberta C
arlile was inconsolable instantly that night that night I lost everything Alberta's eldest daughter melany left her own family for a while to stay with her mom try to keep her sane she would wake up screaming every single night and there was nothing I could do besides just hold her it was horrible the very thing that carle's hope would create wealth security happiness and brought instead nothing but grief but remember this the evidence suggested was a hit job somebody must have ordered Doug's ex
ecution so now the detectives tried to figure out who you guys have any disputes with anybody yes inevitable probably when high stakes investors go after a prize of an oil lease and Doug had been promising potential investors returns that so far just hadn't materialized any number of Partners might have felt they' been taken for a ride but who Alberta who is no longer a suspect offered a possibility who do you have a dispute with his name is James Hendrickson James Henrickson he was the man who'
gotten Doug interested in the oil play in the first place the man who with his wife Sarah were known as the barbant Ken of the oil patch this guy worked for them his name is Rick Ary for lack of a better term they they stuck out like a couple of turds in a punch bow well one way to put it James met at a drive-thru coffee stand she was a barista what was he like uh he was very um cool calm collected you know older man good-looking he was fun fun and we'd always go out he was nice it was easy you
know I never thought I'd ever 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 Min not North Dakota and by 2013 he was the charismatic face of a major Trucking operation called Blackstone and she was the blonde on his arm and a senior company official Sarah signed the checks Blackstone was the business Doug first invested in before he got interested in the oil lease it was a big operation a 100 trucks hauling water to and from oil f
racking sites very profitable James let it be known that he was backed by a billion dooll trust fund you know I was like this guy's a winner a lot of money around they were doing well was the company making money seemed yes it sure seemed like it man James was tough buff an old man it'd be 20° outside and he'd be wearing a t-shirt everyone else has got a little shiver he's like standing there shivering but he's you know he's making sure his arms are pumped up buff guy yeah he wants you to see hi
s guns he's showing them off and then they're you know they're perfectly white teeth and they're Tans and they look like Ken and Barbie they didn't fit in at all not a nickname Sarah took to mind you no I feel like I have somewhat of a brain I don't want to just be called a Barbie well you're living in a town of men um2 to jacked up on testosterone oh yeah I mean it was rough I hated it it was miserable every day was a plan on how to get out but with him presumably yeah I mean we wanted to leave
the oil field but he just saw so much opportunity and money he's just it's like one day we'll get there douc carile liked James and Sarah's entrepreneurial style a lot so when the chance to buy an oil lease came up they went in on it together James kicked in $600,000 Doug only 40,000 they needed 2 million remember yet Doug was saying he'd be taking over there were disputes then over control and money and accusations flew the fact said Doug's son said he basically said I'm concerned with what Ja
mes is going to try to do that was serious and he said that you know if anything happens to me you know it's James Hendrickson but like the other partners James Hendrickson was far away when Doug was killed 700 miles away in Watford City North Dakota detectives pained his phone confirmed it and then something happened that seemed straight out of some Noir detective novel detective Burbridge put out a plea for information from anybody who had done business with Doug carile and what do you know in
walked a guy who could just as easily have been a murder suspect himself Robert thanks for coming down voluntarily today his name was Robert Deo career criminal gang member and sometimes a police informant he'd served time in prison on manslaughter drug weapons charges I had researched his criminal history and knew that he had a very significant criminal history so I was concerned that was he my Hitman or what was his involvement in this Delo knew Doug carile he also knew James Hendrickson why
was he here to tell the cops just in case they were wondering that he didn't have anything to do with the murder you did you drive somebody up there to shoot I had nothing to do with it nothing but Burbridge had seen a thing or two he pushed well we're going to start talking about some things honestly here I'm going to have a heart to heart with you okay that's fine that's fine people are telling me you're to Sho [Music] isah hell no you know what that night I was L for North Dakota you went aft
er him pretty hard right actually accused him of murder I did how did he respond to that he denied it and when and didn't even Flinch did you think he was your guy I did not think he was the guy so why'd you do that sometimes you do things try to pressure people or put them under pressure to see their reaction and he did not flinch dead hard to know so Burbridge and his team of investigators kept working other leaves and Christmas happened sort of it was really a rough Christmas I looked back on
pictures we had Smiles on our faces but there was you weren't really smiling and my mom it was so hard to watch her cuz she wanted to give the grandkids gifts but she was just like almost like a zombie you can't just not have Christmas you know but nobody felt like it but grief wasn't all the family was feeling a debilitating fear took hold too whoever killed their patriarch might not be done we armed ourselves I spent about $10,000 on a security camera system around the house went out and boug
ht a attack dog a German shepher meanwhile the detectives hit the road and that's when they discovered something truly shocking Doug Carlile wasn't the only victim of the weird goings on around the oil patch coming up for this investigator a tantalizing tip at his fingertips and I clicked on it and a flyer came up that basically said Beware of these two people and then a potential suspect gives cops the brush off he leaned out the door and slapped me on the shoulder and then he shut the door whe
n deadline [Music] continues [Music] Spokan police detective Mark Burbridge called in the troops a few hours after the execution style killing of Doug carile in the kitchen of his big house on Spokan South Hill it was all too clear this had to have been a professional hit Burbage 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 Detective his whole job was to try to identi
fy that white van remember the white van the neighbors saw the van was unique enough because it was after Factory extended van that they make for certain professions okay and eventually once we were able to identify the Mak and model we had a Washington do provide us with all the Vans registered in Spokane County and there were 75 of them which possibly fit that description yes sir of course every one of those vans had to be tracked down and that welding glove the one found outside a back gate m
aybe the killer dropped it as he escaped or maybe it just happened to be there they swapped it for DNA anyway they scoured social media the internet looking for connections looking for anything and then one night after Christmas couple of weeks after the murder I was at my desk and I got a hit on a what's called a ripoff report which I'd never heard of but I clicked on it and a flyer came up that basically said beware of these two people what do you know the kenet Barbie of North Dakota's oil pa
tch James Hendrickson and his wife Sarah King Doug's primary North Dakota Partners it said they're known frauds they're running uh fraud schemes in North Dakota don't do any business of course as the detectives have figured out by now rivalries disputes grievances were R around that oil lease project in which Doug and James and others were involved the rip off report was put out as a flyer in stores and businesses all around the oil patch it was payback apparently by one particularly disgruntled
former partner but then not everybody was a Boy Scout James for example had a criminal record going back to his teens anyway when detective cesnik read the flyer his eye landed on a very curious detail one of James's employees man named Casey Clark set up and disappeared I printed it off and handed it to Mark and said hey what do you think about this what did you think about that was the first time we'd ever heard of that name so who was Casey Clark he was funny well-mannered didn't take long t
o find out Casey was an old friend of James Hendrickson he'd moved to the oil patch specifically to work for Hendrickson at Blackstone James A Trucking Company rary knew him well so what you do the two of you we'd go up to the bar we' chase the girls we' do the normal things a GU do during a boom you know Rick and Casey were field superintendents for the trucking company which Sarah was helping to run how were you involved in the business I work directly with like the accountant make sure they g
ot signed off so we could get paid you make sure payroll was turned in on time to the accountant so sort of the middleman for all the paperwork but you were really kind of a minor partner if I can put it that way it was the James show for sure as much as people saw me all the time time off was rare eventually Rick Ary and casy made secret plans to work for a rival Trucking Company he was extremely worried about James finding out about this whole transition on February 22nd 2012 Casey dropped bri
efly into blackstone's headquarters and then was gone so did he leave in a huff or was it something else because nobody never saw him again no sign of in mul and he' been missing for about a year almost two years at that point was HRI ever questioned about it he had been questioned extensively and actually taken a polygraph with the North Dakota law enforcement and it passed yes still James Hendrickson had to know something about KC Clark and Doug carile and so the two detectives got in the car
and drove 700 M to Watford City North Dakota with the windchill I believe it was 60 below when we were there their destination the home of James Hendrickson and his Sarah we went to the side door from there you can see the garage and in the garage was a uh like a 2-year-old Bentley um flat tires kind of almost laying on its belly a Bentley on almost new Bentley yes obviously not taking care of it all no Sarah answered the door very pleasant said the detectives and went to get James how did James
Hendrickson greet you did he you know tell you a story did he sit you down for a cup of tea what he leaned out the door and slapped me on the shoulder and said you know it's too bad you drove all that way my attorney told me not to talk to you and then he shut the door and you got nothing got nothing you got nothing except a kind of a rude reception which might have told you something or not he's a big man he was probably 510 250 lb of steroid Rock muscle he bragged he was benching over 500 lb
and he looked like it but I don't intimidate and just kind of grew werewolf fangs when he reached out tried to belittle me but nothing to do but suck it up and drive those 700 miles back home again empty-handed along the way detective cesnik got a blood clot it nearly killed him a month after duck Carl's murder they had suspects oh yes but nothing was coming together coming up finally a clue and it's a big one the very top of the paper is the word GL and then there's show getaway route on Google
Earth practice with pistol what killer makes a to-do list who does it point to Jack jackpot when dat line [Music] continues back from North Dakota suspicious but empty-handed Spokan detectives Burbridge and cesnik got back to grunor cesnik still recovering from a near fatal blood clot I got ordered to go home I don't know how many times over the next couple days but obviously I wasn't going anywhere and the case well they knew they had something but what exactly it was just one of those cases w
here we knew we were on the right track but we also knew that there was a lot of work left and for the cares a lot of grief Alberta was a barely functioning mess I didn't lose just my dad I lost my mom too cuz she wasn't the same person for a really long time and adding insult Doug secrets were exposed for the whole world to see that big house on the South Hill heavily mortgaged the fancy cars not paid for the paperwork that claimed he was worth millions a facade Doug Carlile was flat broke hadn
't even bought life insurance do you feel angry at all at for not providing more like an insurance policy or something no not at all because he was a very good provider all the days that he was alive and I really didn't believe in insurance policies like that I believed in trusting the Lord for our finances and that's what we did Secrets just another casualty as the little army of detectives search the neighborhood for Clues like for example the strange find that turned up on the Killer's Escape
path that weirdly out ofpl welding glove they swapped it for DNA on the off chance really just a shot in the dark that something in or on that glove might match a known person like a felon say whose DNA would be stored in a data bank and how about that it did what was your name Timothy sukka have you ever heard that name before never heard the name before who was Timothy sukka a violent individual been to prison for robbery what did you think when you found this out I thought this could be our
guy was he local he was local he was working at IRS environmental which is an asbestos removal company they don't drive around in white Vans by any chance at IRS do they I checked that list and lo and behold IRS environmental was one of the companies that owned a van that matched our van in the video well well well what were the chances Timothy Suka must have been the muscular man in Black seen on this video running for dear life toward the equally mysterious white van they looked him up he live
d in the suburbs a wife kids his house was 10 mil from the murder scene we had the SWAT team sitting on him for about 12 hours waiting for him to move cuz we didn't want to take him at his house the potential of firearms but when suko and another men left the house the police moved in to make the arrest here a few hours later the police photographed suko's many tattoos Mr sukko is a very hardened prison type individual very large man 275 lbs of solid muscle a few minutes we got some paperwork to
okay what's going on sure when the interview began detectives made no bones about it they thought they had suko dead to rights today is the day to help yourself out I didn't come to you by accident okay my killer left something up at the house and your DNA has all over it no joke the ban at your work that you drive is on my video up there just scar of me now you should be scared you're looking at Federal conspiracies to commit murder fraud life in prison yeah I need worry before we even do anyt
hing that's your choice probably be smarter some serious accusations you're making at this point we're probably Beyond accusations you are you are under arrest okay and you you can help yourself out you can take me to jail we in the court cuz you guys are already a tree I'm not kidding you about having your DNA kiding you either man I have your DNA up there let's go to jail and take it to C Timothy Suka was done talking and he just looked me ey and laid his head down and went to sleep seriously
seriously it's like a big emotional release to him that it's finally over after that the detectives rounded up some search work warrants for Zuko's house and his car in his car we found a very significant piece of evidence what was that it's a piece of notebook paper with a list of items to be done at the very top of the paper is the word glove with a question mark and then there's statements about Wheelman and wingman show getaway route on Google Earth practice with pistol that's almost like a
confession right on a notepad right what killer makes a list of to-do list of to-do list of how to prepare to go do this murder what did you think when you saw that it's almost Hollywood likee it was kind of shocking to find that this is a month after the murder and we arrest who we believe is our shooter and he has a to-do kill list in his car I mean you can't make this stuff up suko also had a storage unit where a surveillance camera picked up a white van pulling up soon after the murder zgo h
ad to be there shooter question was who put him up to it why suko wouldn't tell them refused to say a word so then they got a search warrant for his phone his contact list said James n n jackpot jackpot so that was the that was the first time we had ever connected him with henriksson James and Sarah arrived to become the kennet Barbie of the oil patch and before long one man is missing another other is dead and the suspected Hitman has James on speed dial and as for Sarah it was a shock in store
for her too I mean emotionally difficult to deal with oh absolutely I mean 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 do with it it seemed fishy to me then she gets a call from the sheriff he said you need to come to my office right the second when dat line [Music] continues Sometimes the best detective is named luck a dropped welding glove leads to a tattooed presumed Hitman named Timothy sukko Timothy E
ugene whose phone provides a direct connection to the man who may have ordered the murder of Doug carile James hendrikson in North Dakota investigators were now able to rule out all of Doug carlile's business partners in Washington state by this point did you feel as if you had the outlines of what the conspiracy was I thought we had a pretty good idea of of what had actually been going on and but it turned out to be a lot more the sentiment which as the investigation turned rapidly back to Nort
h Dakota Sarah cring AKA Mrs James henrion could have put in exactly the same words but for more personal reasons best I remember remember is there was rumors of James having an affair it's an old story of course husband cheats on wife with a younger woman even younger than Sarah who was only in her 20s what was it like to hear that he was cheating on you in the first place well I mean that was hurtful but it was so off the wall I just didn't believe it like generations of wives before her until
the truth was impossible to avoid what was that like to hear horrific and especially when I found out with who I just thought absolutely not like no way wouldn't believe it wouldn't believe it I mean she was like my little sister this is her the young woman in the unpleasant Little Triangle but she wasn't just some other woman this is pton Martin daughter of Tex Hall the chief of the mha Nation on Whose tribal land was the oil leash the one James Doug Carlile wanted so badly Payton was 19 you k
new her mhm yeah I had vacation family vacation with her quite a bit in fact here they are in Hawaii James in the water Sarah there on the paddle board and there on another board was Payton I think I found a picture of her on Facebook where she was pregnant and uh so I called her and asked her and she said it's none of my business but if it's my husband's then get over it mhm Payton denied saying that by the way but when the baby was born a very healthy and happy looking little boy James and pto
n named him Bentley of all things Bentley just like that expensive 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 Bley yeah as you can see he was the one who wanted the car and the name in the show Chief 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 Sa
rah's Wayward husbands out on the North Dakota Prairie another law man had been poking around for more than a year home security Agent Derek trudell 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 it just sounded it sounded unbelievable is what it did Derek jell was hooked so by the time Burbridge started showing up trudell could tell him a thing or two about James Hendrickson how would you describe him yeah I m
ean he he comes across as a I mean just you lost for words I mean you could say that he comes across as a is used car salesman but that's really not fair to use car salesman I mean the guy is just he's a scumbag the time Doug carile was murdered trell had really just coincidence been on james' trail for more than a year looking into possible illegal drug Imports and the Mysterious disappearance of friend and employee casy Clark he had to look like Hendrickson was behaving like some sort of latte
rday wild west Outlaw he's a sociopath above all that I mean the guy's a coward you know he didn't he didn't get his hands dirty in any of any of it jell already suspected kendrickson may have ordered someone to kill casy Clark then Doug Carl Isle was murdered out in Washington and trell began working with Detective Burbridge if Timothy suko was the hitman at Spokan did he kill Casey Clark too agents pulled records of all the cell phones being used around the time of Casey's Disappearance in Nor
th Dakota and they checked Mr suko's number at the time against the phone records They had acquired back when Mr Clark disappeared and Mr suko's number was in those records meaning suko was in the area when KC Clark disappeared Sarah meanwhile her marriage falling apart had begun to Harbor suspicions about James and not just his cheating ways it went back to the day James told her about Doug carlile's dead he just walked into the room and was like Doug's dead straight-faced nothing it was the st
rangest thing ever did you think at the time mhm I wonder if James had something to do with this you know it it seemed fishy to me it did but again you don't your life's already crumbling you don't want to think that your husband could be doing anything like that you know I mean why did you get out of that marriage I was scared of you know everyone wants the fairy tale everyone wants to be married with a good life with kids and it kind of came crashing quickly so finally Sarah started talking ab
out divorce I told him and he'd be like how are you going to feel if you divorce me and you find out all this isn't true and the kids not mine and he's like you'll be the horrible person and I'm going to destroy you and he is very threatening was he serious a month after the murder of Doug carile January 2014 Sarah got a call from her local sheriff he said you need to come to my office right this second coming up Sarah gets some frightening news Homeland Security was waiting for me and they were
like their husband is trying to have you killed today what was that H life for you doesn't seem real it's like a movie when d L [Music] continues Sarah kley didn't know which way to turn with investigators in two states closing in her husband James had vanished their marriage was on life support and she'd just been summoned by her County Sheriff so I went into his office and Homeland Security was waiting for me and then were like sit down we need to talk to you and they said we just received in
the last 10 minutes that your husband is trying to have you killed today Sarah on a hit list but why Sarah had a pretty good idea he wanted all the money and he knew I had it locked up with the divorce getting ready so get her out of the way and we'll get all the assets so they could run to Brazil but Sarah Marked for Death yes the sheriff told her she was supposed to die that very day what was that moment like for you you can't even describe it doesn't seem real it's like a movie I sat there a
nd spoke with them all day and I had asked can I call someone like I don't know what to deal they said nope we have to take you into a safe home call no one mm- not even your mom nope no one because they were afraid that James would harass my family and friends to find my location cuz once he realized I wasn't responding to him he went into panic mode he didn't know if I was working with the police if I was dead if I was on the run the gos knew her husband was lurking somewhere out there but the
y couldn't find him he was harassing a lot of my friends and family trying to see if they'd heard from me which they hadn't now the cops were Sarah's best hope to stay alive they tried a ruse to throw James off the scent they even drove me to the Border in Canada to make it looked like I had like jumped the border to see if James would chase me he did not but where was he no one seemed to know was Sarah close enough so they could actually see her investigators tried to track her husband's phone
you're sitting in Homeland Security's office and you're listening to them ping him across the state and he's on the Run he's on the move I think a car backfired in the parking lot and all these agents pull their guns out run to the windows cuz I didn't know James was in town it's a surreal thing even if they found him though they couldn't charge him with murder or conspiracy didn't have enough evidence for that but they did have something quite useful a few days earlier a search warrant in hand
state and federal agents including Homeland secuity Derek trudell descended on James and Sarah's empty house while they were out of town what'd you find in the house found a lot of financial records uh found some Firearms some Firearms yeah I mean I can't remember the exact number of but it doesn't matter if there was one there he was a convicted felon right correct grounds for immediate harrass agents fanned out around North Dakota and a few days later in a little place called M there he was wh
at was he doing he was over at his girlfriend's friend's apartment that is the apartment of a friend of pton the chief's daughter we had guys staked out around it doing surveillance on it and as we drove by I recognized him um and that was him on the street walking into the street yeah we stopped we hopped out told him turn around show me his hands James Henrickson was surrounded by cops with guns drawn and pointed so what happened then was very odd he had his hands in his pockets and so kept te
lling him to show me his hands but he wouldn't show me both hands at the same time and he's got this stupid smirk on his face like he's playing with you yeah so then eventually enough was enough so we just put him helped him to the ground put handcuffs on him helped him to the ground he's just smiling up at me and asked me you know like you hey how are you he instantly went into like trying to charm us try to pull a c on the cop yeah I mean I know if he thought he was going to build rapport with
me in in relationship and and you know we were going to be buddies bizarre though the arrest was James Hendrickson was at least in custody and Sarah no choice they told her had to stay in Deep Cover herself hiding in a secret shelter unable to call friends or even her parents just in case the hit was still a go I had a bunch of friends call um the sheriff and the police and they were asking he said we think that he's had her killed I mean will you drive around and look in ditches no because no
one was allowed to know they wanted him to think that it had gone through to see what he would do you can't imagine what it would be like for your family it was hard for them and James agreed very civilized to talk to investigators but what he did not do you guys are 100% sure they couldn't protect me was tell them the real story of what he'd been up to it has to do with cartel and M Mexican Mafia and drug cartel he gave us I mean it was a story I mean he talked about the the cartels the the Tri
ad I mean all these organized crime groups that he implied having connections to I don't know like I said if I go through with it but I'm not worried about it you know I mean you guys you know put all the chars that you want on me and like you know if I don't say anything you I don't say that they kill me in prison did he think you were buying it oh I think in his mind you know he thought that uh we were buying it but I mean it was so outlandish there nobody's going to believe that I have to han
dcuff you before we can bring you back up trouble was investigators in North Dakota and Spokan still didn't have enough solid evidence to tie James Hendrickson to the murders of Casey Clark and Doug carile for that they'd have to keep digging well Henry waited in jail that is if they could keep him there when he had other [Music] ideas coming up carile murder and pass to polygraph which might say something about polygraphs now Deo admitted he recruited suko and transmitted Hendrickson's orders a
nd the money so how did Tim get paid for Casey's M it was C so in September 2014 9 months after his arrest on weapons charges James Hendrickson was flown from North Dakota to Spokan Washington and charged with multiple Federal counts of conspiracy solicitation and murder for hire in the deaths of KC 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 Henrickson was toast unless as he sat in the Spokan jail awaiting trial hendrixson did his best to see that the trial would never happen he tried to hire people to attack the Marshall van that was transported in between our jail and the US courtroom shoot the driver Set Fire to the van and break him out the back of it while the van's on fire good Lord he was still letting on that he had a lot of money and in jail obviously it doesn't take too long to find people tha
t'll bite on that unfortunately found one that also needed uh help with his current charges so he turned him in pretty quickly thus the plan was foiled yes but Henrickson wasn't done he was in a cell with another person suspected of murder our Spokane County Jail there are windows down to the ground Nine Stories oh my God some people showing up for work at the jail saw the the Rope H in out the window can you really see anybody squeezing through the window that side they're purposely designed so
that an adult human head won't fit through that window so there was no way they were getting out that window they could have charged him for his Escape attempts they didn't the prosecutor had bigger things to do and finally in January 2016 James Hendrickson encountered them a SOA see Street Doug carile still grieving family I had to close my eyes s times and actually say a prayer God calm me down I wanted to put my hands on for sure yeah and then you'd be in trouble it'd be worth it Federal pro
secutors Anie Ahmed and Scott Jones were however not exactly confident about their case proving Casey Clark's murder was the toughest part that I was thinking of we didn't have a body we had no forensic evidence so to get a conviction they'd need these two sketchy characters who allegedly on orders from Hendrickson had done some truly awful things if they didn't tell the story and make the jury believe it Henrickson would get away with murder but if they did tell it what sort of credibility woul
d a person like that have my concerns are most important witness um is going to admit that he killed two people literally beat Casey Clark's brains out so how do you handle that you have to embrace it that our number two witness has a tattoo on his back of him urinating on The Headstone of the last guy that he killed these are our two star Witnesses still Jim suko the actual killer was by far the more important witness after all sukko could tell the jury chapter and verse about the many twisted
and homicidal plots set in motion by James henriksson so two nights before the trial was to begin attorneys Jones and Ahmed went to see suko prepare him for his testimony and that's where it all went South suko is bipolar he was laying down on the floor of the prison cell in a fetal position and so this is two days before our star witness is going to testify and he's basically sucking his thumb on the floor of a jail cell I mean we're there at 10:00 at night trying to make sure that this guy get
s his medication so he could effectively testify before jury would James henriksson the Desperado of the oil patch go free coming up the entire courtroom stunned I had decided long before then that James Henrick said was crazy I didn't know he was that kind of crazy when dat line [Music] [Music] continues it was no easy task preparing Tim suko to testify at the trial of the man accused of paying him to kill two people he was off his meds he was a mess emotionally so when the trial began at feder
al court No cameras allowed the prosecutors held their breath and suko back on his meds came through and in court he repeated just what he said here in his pre-trial interviews that he met Deo when they both worked for the company that owned the white van that drove the night he shot BG carile the year before that job he said Deo told him he could make money for roughing up some guy in North Dakota but then the boss that is James Hendrickson changed the [Music] [Music] plan so when Casey showed
up at James's office before going on vacation suko was behind the door with a heavy truck [Music] Jack he and fell to [Music] get more times they ditched Casey's truck in a nearby Town said suko and then they took Casey's body to a lonely spot 20 mi out of town suko said he did the digging while Hendrickson stood [Music] nearby around a couple [Music] he anyway he said he got the 20 grand and he burned the bloody clothes investigators found buttons and other evidence of that bird pile but though
they took suko out to the Prairie twice to look for the burial site they never found Casey Clark's body Casey Clark was simply killed for the reason that he just wanted to leave James Hendrickson's employment he felt wrong so I'm going to kill him yeah it was almost like a jealousy cheating spouse kind of thing and why according to the prosecutors did James henriksson want Doug carile killed he really thought that the oil deal that they were involved with was worth tens of millions of dollars a
nd he thought that Doug Carlile was standing in the way of him getting most large share of those tens of millions of dollars Mr car had already threatened Mr Hendrickson that he was going to get him out of the oil drilling business and that was the thing that triggered this whole business yeah they were each trying to get each other out of the deal after the trial prosecutors introduced hundreds of text messages an almost play-by-play account as the plan rolled out you can watch a text message g
o from henriksson to Deo and then the content is pass pass from to Leo to suo and then back the other way negotiations over payment um who's going to be there does he have an alarm system so when Doug carile returned from church that evening in December suko was waiting he brought a heavy welding glove in case he had to punch in a window he didn't have [Music] to this seemed like the fourth [Music] shot and then somehow the welding glove got left behind the glove that revealed suko's DNA and bro
ke the case without the glove we would probably be unsolved to this day and what could have happened then James Henrickson according to prosecutors was a very dangerous man was actively planning more murders eventually they said that suko not lost his welding glove Hendrickson might have become that worst of all criminals a serial killer is someone who causes the death or murder of three people and he certainly got an A for effort because he tried there were about 11 people that we know of that
he tried to have murdered James Hendrickson's defense attorneys declined our request for an interview but they blamed the murders on suko and Deo not Hendrickson and essentially argued the jury should not believe two such unsavory characters Alberta Carlile watched the trial play out day after day same prayer on her lips I prayed for justice for my husband I prayed that the truth would come forth and that there would be a way to go on in life deliberations took less than a day on all 11 counts m
urder For Hire solicitation conspiracy and more the jury found James henriksson guilty we wanted to jump up and down and clap you know as a family cuz our whole family was there it was great in the weeks that followed Robert Deo the goet was sentenced to 22 years in prison when Timothy suko The Hitman fac the judge the only thing that he ever asked for was that we do what we can to ensure that he W was sent to a prison with appropriate mental health facilities so he could figure out what was wro
ng with him then in court he turned around and faced Elberta said please forgive me I'm so sorry for what I've done did he seem genuine he did he said it in tears and he said I can't forgive myself but can you forgive me and I I told him yes I said I forgive you and God forgives you 30 years for Tim suko when it was James Hendrickson's turn a ripple ran through the court would he to ask forgiveness admit guilt apologize reveal the location of Casey Clark's body well no not a chance he read a sho
rt story that was very graphic about abortion so much so that everybody in the courtroom was very uncomfortable with what he was saying and I think he just did that to purposely upset people I had decided long before then that James Hendrickson was crazy I didn't know he was that kind of crazy Henrickson will leave prison only in a box having received two consecutive life sentences he's chosen not to appeal and here in the vast North Dakota grasslands Casey Clark's friends and family are still s
earching allowing to stay with it until they find him you just wanted like all right James you son of a [ __ ] we're going to get him oursel we don't need you we're going to go bring him home and we're going to finally get some closure for everybody here and Alberta sometimes grief overwhelms me you know I'm just in a pile of tears and I've not lived alone ever takes some figuring out it takes some figuring out Sarah thoroughly investigated was held blameless not involved in james' violent consp
iracies though in the community and among some in law enforcement suspicion lingers in June 2017 she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit male fraud Sarah was sentenced to 3 years of Probation and ordered to pay over $340,000 in restitution so as you look at all of these events and you think gosh what sin did I commit to in this spot what would you say I trusted a con artist I trusted a sociopath I since I married the monster some people think I should be one too but I'm not wreckage lots of i
t once upon a time in a flat and gracious land where tough men wrestle for oil murderous ambition bubbled up with the crud and made a play as old as humankind what was it all about really why greed plain simple it just came down to Greed it was all about money that's all for now I'm Lester Holt thanks for joining us
Comments