FARGO (AP) - A felon linked to fraud and terror in the North Dakota oil patch has been indicted on charges he hired people to gun down a former business associate in Washington state and kill a former employee whose body has not been found.
James Henrikson is charged with murder for hire in the deaths of Doug Carlile and Kristopher "K.C.'' Clarke. Henrikson's also charged with eight counts of conspiracy to commit murder for hire and one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin. He last lived in Watford City, North Dakota.
The indictment comes nine months after Carlile was shot in the kitchen of his house in an upscale Spokane, Washington, neighborhood and 2 1/2 years after Clarke was last seen at Henrikson's trucking company.
Five other people are also charged.