Dear POL,
My name is Linda Ives and I am asking for your help. In 1987, my son Kevin was murdered along with his friend Don Henry after witnessing a drug drop in Arkansas. I have devoted the last 30 years of my life trying to bring the killers to justice.
The case was covered up on the local, state, and federal level from the very beginning. Many of you will be familiar with the case as it was a huge story at the time prompting thousands of articles, television shows, news segments, and documentaries, two of which were on the show Unsolved Mysteries.
Much more information has been uncovered including ground breaking information over the last couple of years. But the local and national media, that was once helpful in reporting on this story, has joined in the cover up by censoring it completely.
60 minutes sent a producer here back when Clinton ran for his first term as president and was getting negative publicity. Remember the segment where they did a fluff piece for him that saved his candidacy? Evelyn Lee, the producer spent 2 or 3 days here with Jean Duffey and I on the pretext of doing a segment on Kevin and Don. We spent hours and hours with her going through the case and showing her documents. When she was about to leave, she told us that she had been sent here to do a hit piece to discredit us but after looking at evidence she could not and would not do that to me. That was the end of the 60 minutes segment.
Last April our local channel 16 came out and filmed and spent hours with me to do a segment on the confession of Sharline Wilson. A retired detective was also here. A reporter told me she would be in touch about when it was to air but I did not hear from her so I contacted her. She said they had decided to hold it until May for sweeps week.
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