All language subtitles for Dark Side Of The Ring s06e07 Billy Jack Haynes.eng

The standoff took place
this morning in front of

this house, after police
say they responded to

reports of a shooting...

...85-year-old,
Janette Becraft

was killed yesterday
morning at a home.

You want to say that nothing
in wrestling surprises you...

The former professional
wrestler is now accused of

shooting and
killing his wife.

That's surprising.

And then, all of a sudden,
the news broke.

It's Billy Jack.

He just electrifies the crowd,
and they love him.

What?
Billy Jack did what?

I could have believed it,
but I didn't.

I didn't want to believe it.

Billy Jack Haynes!

[Narrator] Years before
this shocking crime,

Billy Jack Haynes
had lived the dream,

rising from Oregon's
regional circuit to stardom

in wrestling's golden age
of the 1980s.

From Portland,
Oregon...

Billy Jack Haynes!

Billy Jack had everything...

All the tools to be a top
professional wrestler.

Whoa! Oh, look at the slam!
Billy Jack is strong.

His career was in reverse.

He started as a star,

and he finished as a nobody.

But Billy Jack's dealings
outside the ring

hinted at a mysterious life,

one almost too
extraordinary to believe.

Billy said he had been
involved in the drug business

as a collector and enforcer.

When I was in Portland,
I was about

a kilo a day
cocaine dealer.

Billy has made
many, many claims.

I was contracted to go
down there to kill

two Arkansas
State Police officers.

You don't know fact from
fiction with Billy Jack Haynes.

I kept that secret
from everybody.

Now, as the former star
faces murder charges,

those who knew
Billy Jack Haynes

look back on the road
that led him here.

So Billy Jack was his
own worst enemy...

and didn't even know it.

He was a loaded gun,
brother.

You never know
what he's thinking.

You know, a lot of guys fall
hard in wrestling, but...

he fell harder than most.
Without a doubt.

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[cheering]

In the wrestling industry,
I guess a lot of people

may have forgotten
about him.

I got Oregon blood flowing
through these veins!

Even the most diehard WWF
fan today would say,

"Well, yeah, Billy Jack.
He was there."

Billy Jack reaching down!
That intentional fortitude.

What did he do?

People now in the present
day are trying to go back

because of what's
happened with Billy,

and trying to figure out,
where did this start?

We knew one day Billy Jack
would do something crazy.

But, we never thought
it would be that crazy.

It shocked me,
and then again, it didn't.

I don't know if you can
understand that.

That's one thing where,
when Billy messed up,

he messed up.
Final mess up.

I guess if you took
everything and laid it

on the table, you could
see it coming up.

Before his recent
murder charge,

Billy Jack's past
reveals other crimes,

including two assault
charges before he's 30.

But the same mean streak that
gets him into trouble also

creates new opportunities
in the wrestling business.

Billy Jack Haynes
was a thug.

He was a street fighter.

He was a boxer,
a wrestler.

Tough guy,
don't get me wrong.

My dad found him as a
gym rat, and he's...

below that now.

All his bios say he was
trained by Stu Hart.

Stu Hart threw him out of
Canada 'cause he was

too rough and beat
all his boys up.

So, he was back to being a
gym rat in Portland, Oregon

when my dad,
and "The Assassin"

Dave Sierra,
found him.

Well, he came to the Portland
Sports Arena looking for work.

And, we got him
hooked up.

He looked unreal,
he was like, you know,

jacked to the max.

Look at him!

Me and Rip
"The Crippler" Oliver...

talked to promoter Don Owens
into using him.

We knew with
that size body,

and his home being the
Pacific Northwest,

that we can draw
money with him.

Billy Jack Haynes, I mean,
he just, he fit the part,

and everybody was
giving him a chance.

In 1982, Billy
rockets to the top...

with a persona
tailor made for fans

in the Pacific Northwest.

Billy Jack's gimmick and
look came from the movie

Billy Jack,
starring Tom Laughlin,

about the
ex-service man

who was a karate expert
and a loner.

He was a dangerous man,
but soft spoken.

But don't cross him.

Billy Jack,
whose look, physique,

the aura, and the
presence he had,

the fans went crazy for him
like he was

their very own hometown
movie star.

The Portland, Oregon boy
is coming up victorious!

So Billy Jack was a very
effective babyface promo guy

for Portland, Oregon.

Thank you everybody in
Portland for supporting me.

I love you.
Thank you.

Nice guy, loved his father.
Loved Oregon,

loved Portland.
You know what I mean?

And he was Billy Jack
from the movie,

trying to get revenge on,
on these different heels.

Make a little bit more noise
and I'll get it for you.

Let's go, come on!

Everyone knew
he was a rising star.

You know, the 80s was
all about the look.

He had the look.

And I'm sure all the fans
here are going to

like this man,
Billy Jack Haynes.

What a fantastic build on
this young man, Johnny.

They loved him,
you know?

Every time Billy Jack was
on the card, we sold out.

From the time he first
stepped foot in the ring,

he was featured.

He was pushed by
the promoters.

Small territory,
pushed him.

Went to a bigger territory,
pushed him.

I know Billy Jack Haynes
from the territory days,

when he came to Florida
Championship Wrestling.

He was pretty laid back.

Kind of a low key
guy and a loner.

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My name's
Bill "Fonzie" Alfonso,

and I've been in the
wrestling business

for 45 years.

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I don't want to use
the word oddball,

but he was kind of different
from all the wrestlers.

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We'd go out to
the after party,

have cocktails and drink
and smoke a joint and so on.

Billy Jack would
go with the fans

and their kids to pizza,

and have pizza with 'em.

The fans loved him.

He loved the fans.
He was committed.

After just four years of
working in smaller promotions,

Billy Jack Haynes
gets the call in 1986 from

Vince McMahon's World
Wrestling Federation.

From Portland,
Oregon...

If you wanted to go deep
into Vince McMahon's mind

and create a professional
wrestler based on

what he thought they
should look like,

Billy Jack was the guy.

And now I'm
here in the WWF,

it's the World Wrestling
Federation.

And believe me, I know
full well this is where

the stiffest and the
toughest competition is.

He wrestled in that
Detroit WrestleMania.

They had over 100,000
people show up.

Billy Jack Haynes!

For a wrestler,
that's top of the mountain.

Look at the builds
on these two guys.

[cheering]

Ken Patera!

And his tag team partner.

Billy needed a
tag team partner

to elevate his
persona, so...

it worked out good.
It worked out real good.

This is Ken Patera,
coming straight at you.

And I used to wrestle
with Billy Jack Haynes.

His appearance was,
"don't -- with me."

How's that?
[chuckling]

[cheering]

Well, we weren't told
anything about the gimmick.

Pat Patterson came in the
locker room, and said,

"Well, we got chain saws,
and you guys are

the Oregon Lumberjacks now."

And they wanted us to
crank those chainsaws up

so they were actually
running.

I said, "Are you
--ing nuts?"

"I'm not gonna turn
this chainsaw on."

You know, somebody
could get an arm cut off.

Just stupid.

Oh, there it is!

Billy had a super nice
personality and everything,

soft spoken and whatnot.

The nicest guy you'd
ever want to meet.

Billy Jack Haynes!
And Ken Patera!

But the gloss

wears off after a while.

All respects, Billy Jack
had a fantastic body,

stayed in shape.
But upstairs, brother,

that's a different story.

Everyone knows me in pro
wrestling as The Grappler.

I wrestled Billy Jack Haynes
many times.

He's one of those guys
you never know

what he's gonna try.
I never could trust him.

He's liable to decide,
you know,

he's mad about something
and all of a sudden

knock the hell out of ya.

[indistinct commentary]

He was an off the
hinge type character.

[screaming]
Ah!

-Oh, baby!
-[cheering]

His finishing maneuver
would be the Full Nelson,

and once he locked that
Full Nelson into you,

you felt like he was
gonna break your neck.

Nobody has ever gotten
out of the Full Nelson

once Billy Jack Haynes
has got it locked in.

Once you gave up, he would
just sling you, I mean,

like a piece of trash
to the side.

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In the locker room, he had a
reputation for- [snaps] Boom!

I could see in his eyes,

he was like a Dr. Jekyll,
Mr. Hyde.

I've seen him snap
several times.

There was one night,
we're in Florida.

The match is over.

And Percy Pringle
was Rude's manager.

And Billy Jack came in,

and he didn't like the way
the finish went.

He walks in and slaps the
piss out of Percy Pringle.

He goes, "This guy
screwed up the finish.

You idiot!"
That was his mentality.

That's the way
he handled things.

We did a show and, ah...

Smirnoff pulled a fire alarm.
Got us in trouble.

Next thing I know, Billy
done face lock Smirnoff.

Smirnoff went to the
bathroom on himself.

It was so bad.

In Tampa, some smartass guy
was checking Billy Jack out.

Said, "Oh,
that fake bullshit.

I could kick ass."

I just remember him
snatching him in

a headlock and punching him
in the face

about 20 times,
really quick.

Bam, bam, bam, bam,
bam, bam, bam, bam, bam!

He'd beat the hell
out of the person,

and then kick right out of it
like nothing happened.

He did it because he could.

I mean, right there I know
is this guy's a bully.

He takes on who he
knows he can handle.

You know, so I
didn't respect that.

He went to jail on two or
three occasions, I believe,

for beating people up.

But he always said,
"They deserved it!"

Oregon men don't
back down to nobody!

You know, he's got a heart.

But then he's got
the other side...

you know, where you
screw him over,

he'll come in your house,
pull you out,

and beat you to death.

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I would never think that the
Billy Jack that I knew

in the 80s would 'a ended up
doing what he did.

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Police have now confirmed a
woman was found dead

and a man was
taken into custody

after an hours-long
police standoff.

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There's a whole lot that
people don't know about me.

And, the law isn't
always right.

The law isn't always wrong.

Believe half of what you hear
and nothing of what you see.

Billy Jack Haynes!

I'm Billy Jack Haynes,

from the World
Wrestling Federation,

and a 14-year pro.
Ready to talk to you.

Right now, I'm in Multnomah
County Justice Center jail.

I've been incarcerated
six months.

What I'm talking to you guys
today about is

one small percentage
of my life,

and there's a whole
big part of my life

I'm leaving out here.

The position
I'm in right now,

it's hard for me to bring up
anything and talk about it.

I have my attorney
out there,

and I'm glad that
he's here today.

It's second-degree murder.

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And, it's just
way over charged.

It didn't happen.

There's only really two
human beings I really love.

That was my father, who was
blind and in a wheelchair.

And then, the other
was my wife, who...

allegedly I murdered,

which you're gonna
find I didn't.

And, ah...

I loved her
more than life.

[cheering]

Weighing 247 pounds...

Pro wrestling is a work.
We all know that.

But we took it real serious
back when we were in it.

Oh! Look at the blood just
spewing out of the forehead.

I don't want to be negative
towards anybody

in this industry,
you know, I don't.

I respect the
wrestlers so much.

But you know,
they don't know me.

Throughout his
wrestling career,

Billy Jack Haynes
remains distant,

private to the
point of secrecy.

He was not the
life of the party,

the life of the locker room.

He wasn't making friends
hand over fist.

He was just
that big guy over there.

It's like,
something's going on.

Billy Jack was a...
a true loner.

Then I realized he was
very manipulative.

He always had an agenda.

And, you never knew
what he was up to.

Ah, we'd go check in
at the hotel there.

Five minutes later,
Billy'd be gone.

And he did that
every --ing night.

I didn't know
what he was doing.

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At that time,
I was, ah...

really heavy into the,
into the narcotics,

into the painkillers.

Uppers, lowers,
I mean, you name it.

You couldn't
survive without it.

I was five days a week
in and out of airports.

It's all over!

Different cities.

Billy Jack going to work now!

340 nights a year.

Heavyweight champion,
Billy...

I took 20, sometimes
25 pills a day.

Vicodin, Percocet.

It got in the way of
wrestling and my life.

All you beautiful children...

drugs are negative.

You are a positive
influence for the world.

I love you very much.
Say no to drugs.

Drugs are no good,
you know...

it's not,
they're not good.

Well, we're at the
Oakland Coliseum...

in a tag team.
It's time for the match.

Billy's nowhere to be found.

About an hour later,
all the matches were over,

and here comes Billy.

Oh, he looked
like hell.

And I said, "Billy,
you missed the match."

"Ah-ah-ah..."
Completely out of it.

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McMahon said that he was
gonna give us a big push,

and I think...

we can throw that
out the window.

Oh, yeah, yeah, now I...

I probably- What do
you think about that?

On the plane?

You think I should
talk about that?

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Now, what I heard is
that he overdosed

on some codeine,
I think.

He was foaming at the mouth.
He was jerking.

We had to have an
emergency landing.

They thought he was dying.

I was this close
away from death.

And they had to
jump start me twice.

I'd be gone.

You know, and with WWF,
I mean, it's like,

they don't want that bad
publicity getting out.

You know what I mean?
And that was the final straw.

He was never in the
top spot in WrestleMania.

He was never a major
singles champion.

And after about
a year and a half,

he was fired
by the WWF.

Returning to Portland,

Billy Jack shocks
his former colleagues

by turning on the promoter
who made him.

But everybody knows that
the state of Oregon has the

number one wrestling
fans in the world!

The Oregon Wrestling
Federation is what

Billy Jack wanted to open so
he could be Vince McMahon

of the Pacific Northwest.
That was his words.

The OWF was gonna
be his baby.

We said, "Billy,
Don Owens made you,

and now you're opening
a company against him?"

And, I couldn't believe it.

You gotta have money
to back that.

Sponsors and all that.

You know, somebody that's
got some deep pockets

if you want to
try to do that.

Was there two weeks,
and the shows that

were running weren't
drawing anything.

There was a couple hundred
people in the audience,

so it kind of fizzed out
pretty quick.

And I got a check on Friday,
and he said, "Fonzie,

can you please not cash it
'til Monday?"

So, I knew I was in trouble.

And I went right to the bank
and cashed it, and I left.

Finally, one day
we come in.

He said, "I'm closing, guys,"
and that was it.

The collapse of the Oregon
Wrestling Federation

was pretty spectacular.

Billy Jack Haynes really
left a lot of guys hanging,

and there was
a lot of bad blood.

It hurt Billy's reputation
with a lot of people.

And that was my bad
due to the fact that

my head wasn't
screwed on right.

And, ah...

probably a little bit to
do with the, the pills too.

Struggling with addiction
and running out of allies,

in 1996, Haynes' once
promising career

crashes to a halt.

A just, a shame and a pity

'cause he had the world
by the string.

He never became the star
to the magnitude

of what people
had predicted.

By the time his wrestling
career was over,

nobody trusted him.

And all of that potential
just dribbled away with it.

Though his wrestling days
may be over,

it doesn't take long for
Billy Jack to find his way

back into the spotlight.

He was a little strange,
little standoffish,

sometimes a little
off-putting, whatever.

He was kind of weird.

And suddenly,
you saw him a few

years later, and there
started to be this change.

In retirement, Billy Jack
hits the interview circuit,

revealing a
shocking detail.

While in wrestling,

he'd been living a secret
double life of crime.

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Starting way back
in the 70s,

I was about a
kilo a day cocaine dealer,

and I kept that secret
from everybody.

I just wanted to go in and
actually do something

in the pro wrestling industry
instead of a drug runner,

leg breaker,
and worse.

I mean, making
30 grand a week,

I lit a lot of guys up,
and a lot of guys

got addicted to the cocaine
that I sold them.

You know, very nefarious
things went on

back in the 80s.

In 2017,
Billy Jack makes

an even more
shocking claim,

linking himself to a
famous unsolved murder.

It's been over 30 years
since two teenage boys were

found dead on these tracks
in Saline County.

The tracks are still here
and so is the mystery

regarding what happened.

What's new is a witness
has come forward.

I helped put the kids
on the tracks.

They were already dead.
They'd been murdered.

[train bell ringing]

Well, over 30 years ago,
a Union Pacific train

ran over two Saline
County teenagers.

The deaths of Kevin Ives and
Don Henry have become

one of Arkansas' most
notorious mysteries.

There was a famous
murder case in Arkansas

back in the 80s,
where these two

teenage boys were run
over by a train,

is what they thought
originally happened.

In the pre-dawn hours
of August 23rd, 1987,

a 75-car cargo train
made its regular night run

to Little Rock, Arkansas.

As engineer Stephen Schreiner
grew closer,

he made the horrifying
discovery that two boys

were lying motionless
across the railroad tracks.

Well, then somebody
else investigated,

found out they
had been beaten.

They had injuries.

They weren't just
run over by a train.

And Billy Jack
started claiming...

that he was there and saw
the murder because

these two teenagers
wandered into a drug deal.

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His story, the drug people
wanted him to supervise the

drug drop and pay off to
make sure that everything

goes okay, and he was gonna
videotape it also.

And, he said, "I wore
a wrestling mask."

Apparently, these kids
wandered up on it and

as a result, the drug people
killed them

and put them on the
railroad tracks.

The truth is gonna come out
so this woman,

Linda Ives,
can have a life.

Billy Jack's claims about
the unsolved murders

are taken seriously by the
mother of one of the victims,

as well as by the family's
private investigator.

I mean, there is no good
reason to insert yourself

into a murder case.

He has nothing to gain
and everything to lose.

He's put himself
in jeopardy.

Not only his freedom,
but also his life.

They're hopeful
that law enforcement

will now take a look.

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As Billy Jack continues
sharing his story,

other details sound
increasingly unbelievable.

I was sent down there to...

take care of two state police
officers from Arkansas.

He told me that he was
running with one of the

biggest drug dealers
in the country.

Well, in the beginning,
when I first started hearing

the stories, I thought,
come on, Billy. Really?

But when it gets right down
to it, he can prove it.

He brought it all out
in an interview.

On several occasions,
as a matter of fact.

The things that he said
about it and all the stuff,

it's all verifiable.

But that's about all
I can say about.

I can't talk about.

I'd love to, but I can't.

I wish I could talk to
you guys. I can't.

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Did you hear that?

Leave it alone.

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As Billy Jack's interview
appearances become

more frequent, his claims
extend far beyond

drug dealing and
the boys on the tracks,

and many begin to wonder
what's behind it.

Bombshell tonight!
Nancy Grace would say!

Everything you're gonna
hear is the truth.

He looked completely
ridiculous,

and then he had
this white hair,

but it was like a
mop top cut,

like he was Pete Best,
the fifth Beatle.

My, my mother and
my uncle, when I was 15,

were both murdered.

There was two politicians
that were involved.

And he started concocting
these stories...

where he was in
the middle of

a variety of
newsworthy events.

Andy Gibb had a gig
in San Francisco,

and one of my first big
deliveries was, was,

was there to the concert.

I delivered one kilo to him
July 31st, 1978.

Some say, well, he knows
stuff that nobody else knows.

Well, this dude studies shit,
I can tell you that.

And that's how nutty he was.

He don't have nothing better
to do but to try to find

a way to make himself
back in the scene.

I had cocaine from the
meeting cartel in Colombia,

so I started
making more money.

Well now, was he a drug
enforcer for the Clintons?

Why the -- would
Bill Clinton

call Billy Jack Haynes?
Yeah, that's stupid.

I took it for a,
a grain of salt.

He had to be on some
good drugs to think that.

But then the
question becomes,

where was the bizarre
behavior originating?

Conspiracy theories and being
the Forrest Gump of crime,

it not only sounds
so preposterous,

but there was no
upside to him.

It was just interviews
being done with this

kooky old man that

people would put up on
the internet.

I've wanted to know who my
real dad is for a long time.

Whether it's Lenny Montana.

Whether it's
Vince McMahon Sr.,

which it could have been.

'Cause he supposedly
had sex with my mother.

Vince Sr. could be my father.

There's a long
history to that.

I don't know if we can
get into it today or not.

Claiming to be the son of
Vince McMahon Sr.,

you know, aside from
being ridiculous, that's,

that's unbelievable
that someone even

tried to pass that off.

When I heard stuff like that,
I would say,

man, Billy's really
losing it.

What's causing Billy Jack

to make up stuff that's
obviously not true?

9/11 was an inside job.

There's no
question about it.

All you have to do in this
world is follow the money.

So, this isn't gonna make
the Bush family too happy,

but they're involved too.

He did look like someone
that would say anything

just to be on a podcast.

[laughing]

Get more money out
of that podcast.

I'm not afraid to come in
front of this camera and

tell you the truth, and either
you're gonna believe it,

or you're not
gonna believe it.

The idea was, if you
tell crazy stories

and there will be an
appetite for more,

even though
it's all bullshit.

You're probably gonna be
looking at a dead man.

Maybe by the time
this video gets out.

Everything I've said
could get me killed.

Everything I've said with
Vince can get me killed.

One preposterous thing
in wrestling can be true.

With some people,

a couple of preposterous
things can be true.

But when you're just pulling
shit out of your ass

over and over,

then even if 1 or 2 of
those things is true,

nobody's gonna
believe 'em.

Amid all the astonishing
claims Billy Jack makes,

at least one truth
stands out.

January 10th, 2006.

It was attempted
murder on me.

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Once again, I'm speaking
for the people...

under the ground right now.

They can't speak
for themselves.

So let me do it, please.

From 2006 to 2023,

Billy Jack Haynes
makes a series of

shocking statements and
explosive accusations.

Vincent K. McMahon.

I call him Vincent
"Killer" McMahon.

And yeah, that's right.
You're a killer.

Though many of Billy Jack's
stories are dismissed as

conspiracy theories,
a violent incident in 2006

suggests that Billy Jack's
ties to organized crime

may be legitimate.

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This is the file from the
work I did 16 years ago.

Police reports, letters
from Billy Jack, and, and...

a couple photos of
Billy in the hospital.

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At the time, I was
writing a column

for the Portland Tribune.

And so,
next thing I knew,

Billy Jack is
knocking on my door.

He looked like
Frankenstein's monster.

He'd just gotten
out of the hospital.

He'd had several bones
in his face broken,

and he had stitches,
as I recall.

We sat down, and he started
telling me his story.

Basically, that he'd
been called over to

Jimmy Longoria's car lot.

The Longoria family was
certainly one of the more

prominent Portland
crime families.

Billy had been a...

a bill collector, and then
he said he delivered drugs

for the Longorias.

Yeah, these are letters
from Billy Jack from

the months after he
came to my place.

"On January 10th, 2006,

I was set up for
a hit or to be killed

by two hitmen
hired by Jimmy Longoria.

I drove through the open gate
at the time scheduled, 9 AM,

and I parked about 30 feet
inside the lot

where I met a man
and asked

where I could find
Jimmy Longoria.

The man motioned
over his left,

and Jimmy Longoria was
sitting at the desk

with his hands
behind his head

with a very cocky
look on his face.

I said, 'You're going to
kill me, aren't you?'

It was then,
I believe,

that Jimmy told me that,
'Paybacks are a bitch,

Billy Jack.'

I remember looking at
the office windows

and seeing four men,

and I thought I
was a dead man."

It was very clear that
two guys attacked him.

They beat him so badly that
he had to play dead.

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He knew they
wanted to kill him.

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Jimmy Longoria had a
pretty airtight alibi.

He said two tweakers
came onto his lot

and provoked Billy
into a fight.

He said he'd never
seen 'em before

and couldn't identify 'em.

I think they probably
worked for Longoria.

The surveillance cameras
somehow had not been working,

which was, of course,
very suspicious.

I cannot see out of
my right eye.

When looking, if you can
focus in here on my eye.

Billy said it was

retribution for 15
or 16 years before,

when he had ripped off
$200,000.

He'd been a courier back
and forth from Portland to

Los Angeles, taking coke one
way and money the other.

Let's just say in the 80s,
I transported drugs.

I had an 1986 Toyota 4x4.

They put the built-in
cabinet, toolbox.

On the way back,
he broke into the toolbox,

saw $1,200,000.

Figured the $200,000 of it
should belong to him.

I gave the million bucks.
I took my 200,000.

Billy said this beating
was retribution for that.

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I think he ripped off
the Longorias.

I think that much is true.

But the idea that they would
have waited 16 years

didn't make any sense
to me at all.

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There are also rumors that
Billy Jack's organized crime

connections might have been
involved in his short lived

promotion in
the late 1980s.

Oh, it's on.
It is on.

I've heard rumors.
I don't know,

something
about the mafia,

but I don't know
anything about that.

Oh! Oh!

What I understood,
he had crooked sponsors,

and they seen a bunch
of money get lost fast,

and they just all one by one,
pulled out and that's why

I think his promotion
folded even faster.

A lot of people that opened
wrestling promotions get

into that because it's the
easiest way to clean money.

As far as like the
money coming from

nefarious characters...
it's very possible.

He had a very dark life,

and he probably had some
very dark friends.

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I'm generally sympathetic to
oddball characters like...

Billy Jack.

But, he was a
puzzling character.

When we were having
lunch one day,

I mentioned the
30-year-old murder

of corrections official,
Michael Francke.

I explained the case to him.

We went on to
something else,

and about two months later,

Billy Jack sends
me something,

all of a sudden,
claiming to have been

involved and a witness to
the Michael Francke killing.

He didn't know anything
about Michael Francke

before I told him.

1991, in May 1st,
of my dad's birthday,

the murder of
Michael Francke,

I was forced
out of Oregon...

or my dad would be killed,
I was told.

I think, I think maybe he
convinced himself

that he was involved,

that he had actually
seen the assassination.

He was collecting
newspaper articles,

police reports,
and marking them up.

The whole page
would be coloured.

He always had his
binders and his shit.

I don't know what was in it,
but he had 'em.

He always had 'em.

It's just documentation,
that's all I can say.

It's not my place to go
into those kinds of things,

you know.

Right now, as we speak,
I'm writing an autobiography

with one of the best
writers in the world.

It's something in there,
when people read,

you'll see it's
documented.

And, it may or may not get
me killed, I don't know.

He had quite a bit of
stuff in there, yeah.

At that point, it was
sort of hands off for me.

You know, I just sort of back
away from the case, and say,

I don't know what parts
of this are true

and what parts aren't.

The beating was certainly
for real, the...

involvement in the
coke business was

almost certainly quite real.

The rest I,
I don't know.

He talked like he believed it.

Even as nutty as
Billy Jack Haynes was,

did I think that,
you know,

he would be 70 years old
and the Swat team

would be outside of
Billy Jack Haynes' house?

There's a reason
you're in trouble. Why?

'Cause you just gravitate
towards trouble.

This matter is going
to be page 22,

line three,
Mr. Haynes.

By 2019, Billy Jack Haynes is
living a nomadic lifestyle,

making rare interview
appearances.

I wore Oregon here.

There, take that, Oregon.

Stick it up your ass.

He'd been a non-entity
in the wrestling world

for 25 years.

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By the time he started...

just being the weird person
that we've seen

in modern times, I think
you'd almost have to say

he was on some
kind of substance.

I heard that he was having
financial difficulties.

You think you're on
top of the world,

the next day
you turn around,

you ain't got two nickels
to rub together.

He was homeless, yeah.

Homeless.
Yeah, that's right.

In my van, sleeping.

Rip Oliver opened his house

for Billy Jack
to live there.

So, Rip...

I found out that
he was dying.

2019, in December.

So, I left Portland and
flew down to Florida

and spent the last
three months with him.

Not looking for
a little pat on the back.

Nothing like that.
He was a great guy.

He never came here
for my dad.

He came here to have a free
place to live, and, ah...

And if he wasn't on pills
before he got there,

he damn sure was
before he left.

Yeah.

My dad was, I don't know,
months away from dying.

My dad was on
the real shit.

The highest they go.

That stuff can put
people in comas.

He started taking Rip's
Percocets or Vicodin,

which Rip really needed
'cause he was very sick.

I think he was more
taking advantage of Rip,

and Rip was paying
for everything.

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Billy got this scheme,
and called Brian Blair up.

Brian Blair ran
Cauliflower Alley.

You know, they help
wrestlers with problems.

I don't know what happened,
but Billy called Brian.

"Oh, Rip's dying.
He needs help.

He's gonna lose
his property."

This is what
my dad told me.

Cauliflower Alley Club
paid for

his back taxes
on his house.

They paid for his rent.

They paid
everything for him.

Well, my dad
didn't owe taxes.

When he died,
he didn't owe taxes.

And my dad told me
that Billy took half

and he gave him half.

My dad was a junkie.

I don't mean to say that bad,
but he was hooked.

He was done.
You know?

He wanted me to be there,
and I was there

all the way to hospice
until he finally died.

I didn't want him
to be alone.

I know he stole all my dad's
shit when- before he died.

Everybody's got stories.
Yeah, I seen it.

They finally came out...

after, you know,
30 something years.

He took advantage
of everybody.

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Back in Portland,

Billy Jack begins a
relationship with

Jan Becraft, the mother
of his friend, Todd.

The Becraft family disapproves
of the relationship,

but when Todd
unexpectedly dies in 2021,

Billy Jack and Jan
get married.

She was like 85
and he's like 70.

And so, when I saw the
age of the woman...

You know, you hear
stuff from people.

Was he like using her
for money or

a place to live
or whatever?

This way.

This part, this is
actually the main house.

Ah, this is the main
bedroom on this side.

And then the living room.

You can kind of see
through to the kitchen.

My name is Tom Matthew.

I was actually living
here before Billy,

Billy Jack moved in.

You talked to
the neighbour?

They all loved him, man,
he just would-

he would walk around,
talk to everybody, and...

He really loved Jan
a lot.

And he was quite
devoted to her.

She was sick, you know.
She was ill with...

Dementia. Some days
she'd have good days,

and some days-
most of the days were bad.

And, that wore on
Billy pretty hard.

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She had some good days,
but they were getting worse,

and her family definitely did
not like them being together.

And, I don't think they
were gonna separate.

In my opinion,

he took very good care
of her and wanted

to protect her and keep her
from any kind of harm.

The last time I spoke to him
was two days before...

the incident, and...

I told Billy, I said,
"Billy, you look terrible."

He hadn't slept.

He hadn't hardly
eaten anything.

People with, um, dementia,
they become combative.

It's tough to watch a
loved one, you know,

go through that kind
of mental decline.

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And I seen the cop cars and
stuff on my security camera.

So, I, I went outside to
see what was going on,

and I looked down the street,
and I saw 'em all down

in front of Billy's place,
and I thought, oh, shit.

Detectives have been
at the scene all day,

and police say
the investigation

is just getting started.

I hear a banging on the
window, at the back window,

like, and I looked out
and there was Swat.

It was freaking overkill.

I mean, they had this
place locked down.

Tactical teams, including
the Special Emergency

Reaction Team and the
Crisis Negotiation Team,

were called to the scene.

Around two hours later,
a man was detained.

[Off-screen]
So what happened?

Well, I mean, he...

he took her life,
and I mean...

and it took them like maybe
an hour to be in and out

when they actually
took her body out.

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When Billy was arrested,
the whole neighbourhood

basically was in shock.

And, you know,
just like me, I didn't,

I didn't believe it
either at first.

He's just a big,
gentle giant, you know?

And when you see it,
firsthand, it's...

you know, it tears
your heart out.

Billy Jack was
kind of a, a nut.

You know, and people thought
at this point, he's that old.

He's a harmless nut.

Nobody thought he was
gonna go off and...

murder anybody.

But then the
question becomes...

why in the world

would you ever do
something like that?

Billy Jack Haynes is facing
unlawful use of a weapon and

murder charges today after
the alleged shooting

earlier this month.

Although questions linger
around Billy Jack's

numerous claims and
criminal activity,

one fact remains
undeniable.

On February 8th, 2024,

Billy Jack Haynes took
the life of Janette Becraft.

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Now, as he faces trial
for second degree murder,

Billy Jack has
a new story to tell.

Billy claims that she had
dementia so bad

that it was unbearable.

He couldn't live
with it anymore.

He called it a
mercy killing...

because she didn't know
who she was anymore.

He supposedly shot
his wife in the head.

And that's a mercy killing?

I don't know, brother.

Maybe he thought that was
justifiable to do that.

It's a very sad situation.

And, I don't know what
they're gonna do justice-wise.

But, that's up to...

I guess, a court to decide.

I don't care for him.

It ain't 'cause
he killed his wife.

I'll let that
play out in court.

If I were his lawyer,
I'd certainly make

a diminished capacity
case for him.

I mean, he's obviously
been taking beatings

throughout
his career.

And, and if
nothing else...

ah, dating from the
beating he got

at the Longorias' car lot.

You ask anybody and
they'll tell ya,

he loved Jan
unconditionally.

She was his world.

Whatever happened,
as unfortunate as it is,

I think was a
big mistake.

That's what makes it
all that much more

difficult to deal with.

Damn it,
God bless her.

And it hurts my heart.

Mercy killing is the
phrase that they used.

Who's ever gonna know?

The only person
that's alive that was

in the room with 'em
is Billy Jack,

and you can't believe
a thing he says.

If I come across crazy,
I must be

the smartest craziest guy
there ever is.

I'll never, ever forget
the state of Oregon,

and the beautiful fans
that supported me

through pro wrestling.

The fans in Oregon old
enough to remember,

probably still have a
fond spot for him, but now,

more people in and out
of wrestling are going to

remember the crazy stories
he told and the things that

he invented that he was
involved in, and finally,

the murder of his wife.

They're gonna remember
that more than

anything he did
in wrestling.

Let me have
your attention.

I don't want any fan to
ever come up to me

and ask for an
autograph again.

He was a guy that had a
couple good years at a time

when wrestling
was pretty big,

made something of a name,
and had a very,

very troubled existence...

after that fame ended.

It's not a happy ending.
There's, there's no

silver lining in this story,
unfortunately.

Boy, that's
a million dollar question.

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When that door shuts,
it gets to reality real quick,

that there's no
getting out of here.

You know?
No.

Not 'til trial.

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I do...

I do.

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