but shellshocked by the deaths of their parents the previous october, they struggled. any semblance of teenage normalcy forever lost to them. and they coped separately. leslie had moved to another town. brooks was still in the old neighborhood near his high school. they still had no idea that oklahoma winter that the legal trials of the men who killed their parents which were about to begin could become their own decades's long tribulation. despite their long and detailed confessions, glen ake, the trigger man, and stephen hatch his accomplice, had pleaded not guilty to charges of the murders of reverend douglass and his wife marilyn and shooting the children. stephen hatch was tried first at the canadian county courthouse. >> hatch was a follower, but he's the one that picked out the house that night. he's the one that wanted to commit another crime. he's the one that created the energy for -- actually for the second crime. >> and the state of oklahoma looked to have an ironclad case against him. most important, of course, the