CONSPIRACY: Boys on the Track
When two boys are found deceased on the train tracks in Bryant, Arkansas, their deaths are considered a tragic and unexpected accident. But as their parents begin looking for answers, they uncover deep-rooted corruption and a scheme to cover up their deaths that everyone from the police to the prosecutor seems to be in on.
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Episode Source Material
- Unsolved Mysteries: (Season 1, Episode 5).
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Second autopsy report concludes teens hit by train were murdered, by Associated Press.
- Blytheville Courier News (Blytheville, AR): Mystery Surrounds Fatal Mishap, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): UP perplexed about deaths of two youths, by Associated Press.
- Blytheville Courier News (Blytheville, AR): Parents encouraged by Malak, by Associated Press.
- Blytheville Courier News (Blytheville, AR): Review Hearing Scheduled In Train Investigation, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Hearing begins today on train deaths, by Associated Press.
- Blytheville Courier News (Blytheville, AR): Testimony At Hearing Describes Armed Mystery Man Near Tracks, by Associated Press.
- Blytheville Courier News (Blytheville, AR): Paramedic Says Blood At Site Darker Than Normal, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): State medical examiner reaffirms ruling of deaths of two boys run over by train, by Dennis Byrd.
- Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection (Film). Directed by Patrick Matrisciana.
- Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Bryant (Saline County).
- THV 11 CBS (Benton & Bryant, AR): 25th Anniversary: Boys on the Tracks, by Ashley Blackstone.
- ID Files: Editorials.
- Blytheville Courier News (Blytheville, AR): Material Said Not Linked To 2 Fatalities, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Benton newspaper reports finding of possible evidence, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Pathologist disputes report of Bryant teen-agers’ deaths, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Prosecutor: 2 Bryant teens may have seen something they shouldn’t have’ before dying, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Teens’ deaths ‘definitely homicide’ Grand Jury says in its interim report, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Grand jury says teen-agers’ deaths should be investigated as homicides, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Grand jury is impaneled, by James Jefferson.
- Arkansas Online (Little Rock, AR): Judge to look at files in 1987 deaths of 2 boys found on central Arkansas railroad tracks, by Linda Satter.
- KARK NBC (Little Rock, AR): New Witness? Man Claims to Have Seen “Boys on the Tracks” Murders, by Staff.
- Arkansas Times: Out of control in Lonoke County, by Mara Leveritt.
- The Daily Oklahoman: Death Probe Resurrects 1984 Case.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Report says medical examiner changed his grand jury testimony, by Associated Press.
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): Grand jury’s final report released; no indictments issued in train deaths, by Associated Press.
- Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Ex-prosecutor arrested on drug charges, by Associated Press.
- Los Angeles Times: Clinton’s Ties to Controversial Medical Examiner Questioned, by James Risen and Edwin Chen.
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