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Hey guys: this was my absolute last resort and I really, really do not want to do it, but I've decided to make this group request-only due to the number of people joining just to spam the group. I sincerely apologize for the irresponsibility of a few opportunists, but Facebook is really not helping me at all with this.... If you'd like to join, be assured I will answer your requests promptly. Thank you all kindly, and again, I apologize profusely for it having to be this way. -Meghan
In the early morning hours of August 23, 1987, a 75-car long Union Pacific train was approaching the small city of Bryant, Arkansas during a regular nightly run from Texarkana to Little Rock. Just after 4:00 AM, the crew noticed a "dark spot" on the track just beyond a railroad trestle. When the engineer had finally determined what the mysterious shape on the tracks was and had thrown on the locomotive's emergency brakes---leaning all the while on the horn---it was too late. The bodies of local teenagers Kevin Ives, 17, and Don Henry, 16, had been run over and mangled by the passing train, whose crew was helpless to stop it. The crew reported that the boys were lying across the tracks in a "completely relaxed state", arms at their sides, upon impact, and that they had not moved a "flinch", even when the three locomotives of the mile-long train were seconds away from them.
The state medical examiner initially ruled that the boys had smoked over 20 marijuana cigarettes, laid across the tracks, and had fallen into a deep sleep resulting from the "psychadelic effects of THC." Only after the boys' bodies were exhumed and autopsied by an independent, out-of-state examiner was it discovered that Henry and Ives had actually been dead and unconscious, respectively, before they had even been run over by the train. What would unravel over the next 20 years would be a series of lies, coverups, obstructions and miscarriages of justice---and even death---that would haunt the grieving Ives and Henry families for decades.
Whatever happened that dark Sunday morning, Kevin and Don clearly walked upon something they were not supposed to have seen. And local, state, and federal authorities seem to know just what that "something" is.
Twenty years have passed without the Ives and Henry families gaining the answers and closure they need. Let's be an informed, active public who will see that those 20 years don't become 30.
*This case was featured in an October 1988 episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" and is usually available on such sites as YouTube and AOL Video. The segment is also available on the "Bizarre Murders" series of the released Unsolved Mysteries DVD collection which may be found on Amazon.com. A professionally-produced documentary on the case, "Obstruction of Justice: the Mena Connection" is available.
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Copied and pasted from the Justice for Kevin Ives and Don Henry FB page. Some links are banned domains, so I've put spaces in those links, and if you want to see them you'll need to paste them in yourself and remove the spaces.