Two Autopsies, Zero Arrests: The Boys on the Track Case
Two Autopsies, Zero Arrests: The Boys on the Track Case
In the pre-dawn hours of August 23, 1987, a 6,000-ton freight train came around a bend near Alexander, Arkansas, and the crew saw two teenage boys lying motionless across the rails, partly covered by a tarp. The train could not stop, and the boys never moved. Why did the state medical examiner rule that 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old Don Henry smoked so much marijuana that they slept through a mile-long train? And why did it take an exhumation, a second autopsy, and three years of fighting by their parents to get the word…
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