A FORMER pro wrestler has sensationally admitted witnessing the 1987 murder of two teen boys – and claims US politicians covered it up to hide cocaine trafficking links.

Kevin Ives, 17, and Don Henry, 16, were hit by a train in Alexander, Arkansas, 30 years ago after heading out to the woods to hunt deer at night.

5 Billy Jack Haynes has claimed he is a witness to an old cold case murder

An initial probe ruled their deaths a suicide, but a follow-up investigation claimed they had passed out on the tracks after smoking cannabis.

After pressure from the boys’ families, a grand jury ruled in 1988 that they had “probably” been murdered.

Mystery has continued to swirl around the case since then, with nobody ever brought to justice for the killings.

But Billy Jack Haynes has now come forward to claim he witnessed Kevin and Don’s murder – and helped to place their bodies on the train tracks.

5 The former pro wrestler said he was involved in a cocaine-smuggling ring

5 Kevin Ives, 17, and Don Henry, 16, were killed in Alexander, Arkansas, in 1987

Speaking in a video recorded in December, Haynes says: “Now August 23, 1987 – thirty years ago – I was on the railroad tracks in Alexander, Arkansas, and witnessed everything that happened to two young boys on the tracks.”

The former fighter claimed the boys were murdered after stumbling upon a drug deal involving corrupt cops and high level US politicians.

And he admitted he was once involved in a cocaine-smuggling network that stretched back to Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel in Colombia.

Haynes alleged he was there when the boys were killed after being drafted in by a politician who wanted to use him as muscle for the drug drop.

5 Haynes admitted helping to dispose of the teenagers' bodies

5 The wrestler said the murders were covered up by corrupt cops and politicians

He claimed the lads saw a plane dropping off bags full of the substance to cops.

He said they fled but were caught and battered to death by the corrupt lawmen.

Haynes denied having a hand in their murder but admitted helping to dump their bodies on the track with the aim of making it look like a tragic accident.

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Several of the officials named in Haynes' confession reportedly went on to be convicted on unrelated drug charges, or were themselves murdered.

Haynes is said to have had a history of making far-fetched claims in interviews.

But relatives of the boys say they hope his statement will be investigated by cops.

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