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Mountain State Mysteries contains adult content and may not be suitable for all audience.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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I'm your host Mark and I'm Courtney and this is Mountain State Mysteries.

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The story we have for you today is about an army sergeant who disappeared without a trace.

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Some say he was a victim of the mad butcher. Others say he was a victim of three men after a bar room fight.

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This is the story of James Lee Haines.

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James Lee Haines was born on August 10, 1932 in Moorhead, Kentucky.

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His father was Archie Haines, 19, and his mother, Edna Joel Haines, 17.

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James married Theda Ruth Arnold in 1959.

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We know his mother married Vernon Clay. We aren't sure if James's parents got a divorce or she remarried due to his father's passing.

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James was a 32-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant who sadly went missing on December 7, 1963.

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Fifty-nine years later, there are still questions about his disappearance.

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James lived in Baltimore, Maryland, along with his wife and three children.

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James was coming home to visit his mother and stepfather for Christmas in Salisville, West Virginia, located in Wyoming County.

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James decided to leave the family car with his wife and children.

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He decided to hitchhike the 370-mile trip from Baltimore to Wyoming County, West Virginia.

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His trip was mostly uneventful, that is, until he got to Bolt, West Virginia.

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He decided to stop in a local tavern in Bolt to warm up because it was a chilly December night.

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The tavern was located in what is now a wide spot across from the road from Breckinridge Road.

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Sadly, James ended up getting into the fight with three men at the tavern.

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James Cazord, James Floyd Cox, and William Lundy Trump.

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We have no idea what started the fight or what the reasoning for it was.

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After things settled down, James decided to leave the tavern and head to Salisville.

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After he left, the three men decided to follow him.

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When they turned up Bolt Mountain heading towards Glen Rogers, West Virginia, they saw James walking.

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When they saw James, they ran him over and to make sure he was dead, they backed over him.

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A man who were going called John Doe, who was at the tavern that night,

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recalled turning up the mountain and a few feet off the side of the road.

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There was a wide spot where he saw the three men pulled over with their trunk open.

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Not to lose any momentum, he rolled down the window and asked if they needed any help.

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They told him no, and he went on his way.

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The very next day, he heard about James going missing.

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You're listening to Mountain State Mysteries.

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A few weeks later, a cook at Glen Rogers High School recalled one of Lundy Trump's family members

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telling her how he brought the body of James home and had his wife help wrap him up in a blanket.

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He allegedly stuck the body in a room that just had a dirt floor.

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Soon after James' arrival at his mother and stepfather's home, he was reported missing.

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Not too long after he was reported missing, authorities got a tip and started a search for James on Bolt Mountain.

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The search led authorities to an area where they found a tree that had his dog tags nailed to it,

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his wallet, and a few bloody rags stuffed in a tree stump.

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However, they weren't able to find the body of James.

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A year later, in 1964, James Lee Haynes was declared dead.

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James Paul Cazort, James Floyd Cox, and William Lundy Trump was allegedly heard bragging about the murder of James.

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Police have had around 150 interviews of people testifying to the confession of the three.

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In 1971, Trump was arrested and charged with the murder of Haynes.

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Sadly, the charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence.

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James Cazort, who moved to Oregon, was questioned in 1971.

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His brother promised to tell authorities where the body of Haynes was located if James didn't tell him.

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Sadly, this was a broken promise.

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At this time, authorities say changes are unlikely.

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In 2015, the family of James went to the property of Trump.

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The room that had the dirt floor at the time of the murder was a room they were curious about.

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They used ground scanning equipment.

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They actually saw something on it.

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Sadly, it was just a rock.

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Since then, we haven't heard any updates on the case.

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James Haynes hasn't been seen alive since 1963.

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However, his spirit has made an appearance a few times since then.

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A listener messaged us.

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He heard our second episode would be on James.

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He told us that his wife and daughter, Anna Cazin,

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had seen a man standing out in various points of their property.

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When his daughter and cousin told him about the man who disappeared,

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they both described him in the same outfit that his wife saw him in.

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He told us he wasn't originally from the area, so he did some research on missing persons

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because he didn't imagine knowing anything like that.

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He determined that the man they could be seeing wearing military-type clothing

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so he searched missing soldiers or missing persons in both West Virginia on Google.

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The guy he saw was James Lee Haynes.

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He talked to an older person in the area,

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and he told that the boys killed James on Bolt Mountain,

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and they buried him in a holler where he came off of the mountain down off a bolt.

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He never really thought anything else about it until his boss had a random encounter

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with a woman who claimed to be the Claire Foyant and mentioned his name

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and said that they had a spirit that they were dealing with, but not to worry.

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He was just a soldier trying to find his way home, and they needed to help him find peace.

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The listener said he is not a person who is easily freaked out or anything,

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but he didn't dabble in paranormal.

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He said he called the Wyoming County Sheriff's Department because they were the ones handling the case.

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They said that they were going to come down and do something to see if they could find his body.

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Sadly, they never showed up. He said they've never seen his spirit again.

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The next paranormal story actually comes from the home Haynes was taken to after he was murdered.

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A woman who lived there years later were going to call her Jane Doe.

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She and her family would be asleep and everything would be off in the house.

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She said she would wake up in the middle of the night to watch what she thought was the TV being on.

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However, she walked in the living room and saw that it was actually the radio.

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She said it was always this one song, North to Alaska by Johnny Horan.

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In 2015, she learned from the daughter of Haynes that North to Alaska was James' favorite song.

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If you have any information on the remains of James Lee Haynes, please call the Raleigh County Sheriff's Office at 304-255-9300

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or call the Wyoming County Sheriff's Office at 304-732-8000.

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If you think you are able to assist, Courtney, do you have any final thoughts before we sign off?

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I just, I don't know. I mean, it's so weird now because the tavern that he allegedly was at,

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it was the only tour down just a few years ago, maybe about 10 years max.

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I was that. I never really knew much about this until you told me and we started investigating a little bit on it.

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And, you know, it's so funny because it's something that my grandmother was telling me about along with my mom.

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It was something that they knew well about, but I never knew anything about it.

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So, you know, that was quite interesting.

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I hate that this has happened to him. I hate that this happened to his family.

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I hate that his family never really got any justice for what was done.

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I mean, that's the sad part about everything because I will say it again just the way that I said last time.

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A wife and his children lost their husband and their father.

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His mother and stepfather lost a son and his life was ended.

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And you had three other people who went on living normal lives.

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And it's really sad and it just makes you wonder why no justice was ever done with this.

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I hate it more than anything. Do you have anything to add?

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I mean, just knowing where the house is, seeing it for all these years,

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knowing that they've done investigations and all that, and I didn't add this in.

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But the woman who actually lives on the property said that her kids would always bring buttons that would be like off of an army jacket or something like that.

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And she never thought anything of it until 2015 and sadly she threw the buttons away.

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It was like almost 50 years right there before you even really thought anything about it.

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I really hate that, but in all honesty, if there's any information that you think could help,

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please reach out to the Sheriff's Department and the phone numbers that we have gave you.

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Next time on Mountain State Mysteries, we're going to tell the story of Elizabeth Mae Williams-Aggie.

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