I did some investigating and found some interesting info at the below link. It revolves around the murder of Vince Foster but it seems the doctor that worked on his case, also worked on the Henry/Ives and Burkett cases. Under the heading of DR. JAMES C. BEYER - DR. "SUICIDE", it talks about the Henry/Ives case and about Tommy Burkett's murder. I copied the relevant info down below.


http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/AUTOPSY/autopsy.html


DR. JAMES C. BEYER - DR. "SUICIDE".
Beyer's past history isn't the most reassuring. Indeed he seems to be the Virginia version of the infamous Dr. Fahmy Malek, the Arkansas M.E. under Bill Clinton who ignored clear evidence of homicide in the deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives and in one case ruled that a man who had been beheaded was dead of natural causes.

Beyer himself, in the case of Tommy Burkett, ignored a broken jaw in order to rule that Burkett had killed himself with a gun. Despite having shown the autopsy photos to Burkett's father, Beyer later claimed (as he did with the Foster X-rays) that they had never really existed. After a second autopsy, the case was reopened as a homicide.

Likewise, in 1989 there was an autopsy on establishing the death of a man named Tim Easley. Mr. Beyer, the coroner, ruled that Easley killed himself by stabbing himself in the chest. He failed to notice a defensive wound on the man's hand. The case was reopened, and, after an outside expert reviewed the case, Easley's girlfriend confessed to murdering him.

In short, Dr. Beyer's consistent performance (indeed his "specialty") appears to be the cover-up of murder by declaration of suicide!

Whoa.

Thanks for posting this, kamy. I was unaware that the Tommy Burkett case was re-opened as a homicide.

Looks like all the folks around here suspicious of that one were on to something!

^ WTF!!! - That signature is insane!! - LOL You rock.

What was this story about? I dont seem to remember it.

The Burkett Case? - Short version is a college kid I believe in his first semester at Marymount University in Virginia starts behaving strangely, paranoid...believes that some people are following him and really begins to go off the deep end when he discovers his campus mailbox has been broken into.

A few weeks later during the Thanksgiving holidays, he is found dead in his parents home. The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the temple I believe. Police rule the case a suicide but many here feel and the subject of the UM segment was that Burkett may have been involved as an informent for the DEA trying to uncover an illicit trail of drug trafficing on the Marymount Campus.

At some point Burkett seemed to have had his cover blown as several other students at the University began wanting to cause him physical harm. He had an altercation with one boy a few days before his death and was basically assaulted. Other students approached his mother (a professor on the Marymount campus) and told them they wanted to beat up Tommy.

There are also some strange events leading up to Tommy's death that do not fit with a suicide. Video camera at a bank show Tommy making an ATM withdrawl and these videos seem to indicate someone may have been stalking Tommy Burkett in the hours before his death. Even more compelling was a high speed chase around the Burkett neighborhood hours before Tommy died. Tommy's car was seen being chased by another vehicle at high speeds and the occupants in this vehicle are believed by Tommy's family to be the ones who murdered him. Blood splattering were found on the walls and stairwell leading up to Tommy's room and there were indications found on Tommy's body that suggested he was the victim of a beating prior to his death.

The Burketts believe that their son was murdered by students at Marymount University but their son's murder was orchestrated by people higher up in the chain possibly with the DEA. The reason is because they believe that Tommy got "too close" in his drug investigation and may have uncovered someone involved in the chain of drugs at the University who either had some great political power or was related to someone with great political power. It is then believed that somewhere along the line a deal of some sort was struck to shut the investigation down and since Tommy Burkett already knew the identity of this person he had to be eliminated.

Tommy's parents believe that the DEA or someone high up in state or the federal government orchestrated their son's killing and instructed the killers (likely students at Marymount University) on how to stage Tommy's death to look like a suicide.

Strangely after Tommy's death a number of clues began to surface to back up the Burkett's theory of an orchestrated hit. Linda McMahon then Vice President of Marymount University seemed to clam up immediatley and in the Burkett's mind impeded the investigation which could've revealed their son's killer. In addition prior to his death Tommy made some 911 calls but the police say those tapes were either erased or did not occur.

Also the first officer on the scene before he even saw Tommy's body made the odd comment to the Burkett's saying "Don't blame yourself these things happen all the time". Finally the boy who assaulted Tommy the week prior to his death (for what The Burketts believe to be retalation against their son once this boy found out Tommy was a narc) was found to be in posession of Tommy's drivers license after he was murdered.

It was mentioned in the segment that The Burketts probably know who is responsible for their son's murder but did not have/and still don't have enough evidence to name the suspect publically. Tommy Burkett's mother Beth passed away several years ago but her husband apparently is still pushing forward with the investigation. It is believed by those who buy into the Burkett's theory of an organized hit that the killer's identity is being protected because this thing runs very high up in federal government and would result in some very well known names in politics being implicated.

Okay,I do remember.This is where the neighbors saw him in his car being chased by someone else in a car,right?

I was looking at some stuff on snopes.com and was reading about the reported "list of suspicious deaths" that are attributed to the Clinton administration. I found some interesting stuff on the Ives and Henry death.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

A little over half way down (starting at #22) it discusses the Ives and Henry death.


Has anyone else ever read this????

I'd trust the info. coming off of this site (http://www.idfiles.com/) alot more than I would a site where someone's going off and debunking an urban legend.........

*(Coincidentally....that site run by the mother of Kevin Ives, makes no mention of their supposed murderer--Paul William Criswell)

Well, now, I wasn't necessarily saying the info was true, it was just interesting to me that two kids killed in the woods one night, can supposedly be linked to high ranking officials as high as the president. I just found this very bizarre.

Well, now, I wasn't necessarily saying the info was true, it was just interesting to me that two kids killed in the woods one night, can supposedly be linked to high ranking officials as high as the president. I just found this very bizarre.

When people think too much and/or have too much time on their hands, they'll start thinking up some craaaaaaazy things ;)

The chief investigator in the Ives/Henry case, whom the families had accused of covering up the true nature of the crime, and of being involved in illegal drug trafficking, was recently convicted more or less of the latter. Specifically, of being involved in precisely the drug smuggling operation which the families of the dead boys had said was the real reason the boys were killed.

So... not so crazy after all.

Well, now, I wasn't necessarily saying the info was true, it was just interesting to me that two kids killed in the woods one night, can supposedly be linked to high ranking officials as high as the president. I just found this very bizarre.

This case is not as bizarre as it seems. The boys through their night hunting must have stumbled into the drug smuggling operation that was going on in that area. Not far from were the boys were murdered in Mena, Arkansas were a small municipal airport was used by the CIA and its cut-outs to run arms smuggling out of the US to south america to supply the Contras who president Reagan supported - this had to be done this way because congress forbade official US funding for the Contras so Reagan helped them secretly through the CIA. Planes with guns left Mena airport and flew to south america with the guns and money for the guns was carried back on the return flights and dropped in Mena at designated airdrops . Those pilots also smuggled drugs on these flights back. Since the whole operation was supposed to be clandestine they effectively bypassed radar, coast guard and customs and no one was non the wiser except the DEA which was was somehow investigating some of the pilots in other drug related cases . Kevin and Don possibly saw or stumbled into something they shouldnt have -which cost them their lives.

Since this operation was in Arkansas the then governer Bill Clinton knew of the details hence the allegations of the cover ups and events such as Polk county DA not getting state funding to fully investigate activities at Mena airport..... now you see how this links all the way up to 2 presidents ! If you want full details of this Mena operation that is connected to Don and Kevins deaths there is a book published in 1994 called Compromised by Terry Reed who was one of the pilots involved and he also details other unsolved murders and deaths surrounding people associated with all these activites .....

This stuff was real and certainly not bizarre as it seems if you connect the dots...

The chief investigator in the Ives/Henry case, whom the families had accused of covering up the true nature of the crime, and of being involved in illegal drug trafficking, was recently convicted more or less of the latter. Specifically, of being involved in precisely the drug smuggling operation which the families of the dead boys had said was the real reason the boys were killed.

So... not so crazy after all.

Yeah you are right ! There is also the issue of the ME who initially ruled that the boys had carried out suicide or something and that they had smoked spliffs and layed on the tracks - that was one of the most shocking things and thenlook at the friends of associates of Don and Kevin who were systematically and in some cases brutally murdered in the years that followed .....

There were material wiitnesses in the case of Don and Kevin who went to the local prosecutor and told of what they knew and were also murdered, this was a huge conspiracy .....