“Known as “The boys on the track” case, reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation” (Dishaw). The initial coroner's report said “they were killed by a train because they had fallen asleep on the tracks while under the influence of marijuana” (Dishaw). “Later reports claim the two boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks” (Dishaw). It is believed that the boys were killed because they witnessed a secret drug smuggling operation. “The operation was started by Barry Seal under the governorship of Bill Clinton. Barry Seal, facing drug charges, became a CIA and DEA informant” (O’Brien). “Under the watch of police and politicians, several more suspicious deaths occurred” (O’Brien). Many people who were linked to the case were killed or died in mysterious ways. The first of them being Keith Coney, a potential witness; he was “killed in a motorcycle wreck after his throat was slit, ruled an accident, but no autopsy was ever performed” (O’Brien). The next person to die was Keith Makaskle. “He was an informant in the drug smuggling case, Keith was found in his garage stabbed to death 113 times” (O’Brien). “Greg Collins a friend of Keith Coney’s was found shot to death, then Boonie Bearden went missing and was presumed dead” (O’Brien). All three of them, Bearden, Coney and Collins, were witnesses, they all died, …show more content…
Vincent Foster was a “Deputy White House Counsel who filed three years of delinquent Whitewater corporate tax returns” (Washington Post). “John Parnell Walker was a Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp” (Dishaw). “He jumped to his death from his Arlington, Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993” (Dishaw). He was investigating the Madison Guaranty scandal. “Don Adams was a lawyer in Arkansas who got involved trying to help the people who were being swindled out of their life savings” (Dishaw). He had discovered that long before Whitewater's land flips made the Clinton and Company rich, “many of the same players had been involved in a similar land swindle in Branson” (Dishaw). “Lastly James Mcdougal, Clinton’s convicted Whitewater partner, died of an “apparent” heart attack while in solitary confinement” (Dishaw). “He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation (Dishaw)". “Ken Starr was a former federal appeals court judge and U.S. solicitor who worked in the Reagan and Bush administrations” (Washington Post). He replaced Robert Fiske as the independent counsel to investigate Whitewater matters due to Fiske having possible “conflict of interest”(Washington Post). “The conclusion of the Whitewater investigation was made during the first day of impeachment hearings, Starr clears Clinton in relation to the firing of White House