Billy Jack Haynes arrested after wife murdered, standoff with police
William Albert Haynes III, known in the professional wrestling world as Billy Jack Haynes, was arrested on Thursday morning after a near two-hour standoff with police, which included gunshots reportedly being fired from his home in the Lents area of Portland, Oregon.
Local authorities received reports of a gunshot at 6000 SE 100th Avenue around 9:52am on Thursday, February 8.
KOIN Channel 6 reported that Haynes, 70, was not cooperative with the authorities who responded on the scene, leading to a special tactical team and crisis negotiators being brought to the home to handle the situation.
His local neighborhood was ordered to shelter in place while the ordeal was handled.
Haynes was arrested and taken into custody and question regarding the death of his wife, Janette Becraft, 85.
In June 1986, Haynes went to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF at the time, now WWE) and feuded with ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage over the Intercontinental Championship and then with Hercules Hernandez over who was stronger, more muscular, and who had a better version of the full nelson (their mutual finishing maneuver). Their feud in the WWF peaked with what was dubbed “The Battle of the Full Nelsons” at WrestleMania III, where the two men battled to a double count-out.
