Terrified, that they would come back . Absolutely, the chilling matter, a young survivor driven to become a state senator. He was very, very passionate. What they ever come Out Of The Dark . I always get a little emotional and i cant believe its in here 30 years later, an answer. The Power Forgiveness. This is what my dad and my mom taught me. In his 40s and married again, he started fresh, here in the beach, in malibu. It was time, finally to put it to rest. Ali use hollywood to release those demons, get that in the rearview mirror. I look back and it was just building this coat of armor. And that was killing me and it was killing my marriages, my friendships. It was protecting me but it was keeping me away from people that i loved. After all, what else but a movie could make sense of it . But those people did to him. And then what came of it . You couldnt make up. And the movie, it turned out to be a decadeslong saga of crime and punishment retribution and forgiveness. Perhaps it was too unbelievable not to be true. Though backward happen. Back east along the old route 66 for its next through oklahoma. Where his sister lived with demons of her own. A warning. It was really true. Its not like some scary movie that you watch on tv or csi or whatever show it is youre watching. This really happened. It all did. The unspeakable crimes, the strange painful past toward punishment and then could there ever be forgiveness . God knows thats what the father demanded. God knows all about us, theres not a secret crevice of our heart that hes not fully aware of. But could the sun obey . God never expects of us that which we cannot lose. God never demands of us what he does not empower. Imagine now that its 1979 in a little place called okarche, oklahoma before it happened. Okarche is a Small Community and pretty quiet, peaceful little town. And to be frank, the douglasss didnt quite live in okarche proper. They preferred a medicinal plays way out by itself miles beyond the street lights. A little detail with keeping in mind later. But mention the douglass name back in 79, and this would be the location people will be apt to think of. The patino city Baptist Ridge of Oklahoma City. Where the reverent Richard Douglas and family had established a remarkable reputation. Richard douglass was one of the most influential baptist pastors in oklahoma. At the time, he was a pastor of over 3000 member church. Everyone wanted to associate with them. The pastors daughter, leslie we became the people who we are because my parents were so strong. We lived a life that he would want us to live and learn the lessons he wanted us to know. And the fact that reverend mr. Douglass was a man of some heft in the Baptist Church seemed somewhat secondary to his nature. Kindly, approachable, principled. If he wasnt at the church, he was visiting people and helping them work out their problems all the time. Pastor douglas preached his first tournament at 16. And once he had grown into a husband and father, took his family all the way down to the jungles of brazil where he and they spent their happiest years in a missionary outpost. It was for leslie and her big brother unlike anything they would ever know again. Magic time. We grew up in a city Called Mullin which is right on the mouth of the amazon. So its where the atlantic meets the amazon river. And it finally occurred to me why i liked being near the water so much and thats where i grew up. And i traveled with my dad. So they were close as close as a family on its own in such a place as this could possibly be. And accomplished. Maryland douglass could have sung professionally, if she wanted to. Couldve done all kinds of things. She was a straight a student and i just saw her being so smart and successful and what it was she wanted to do. And what she wanted to do more than Anything Else was raise brooks and leslie. You could see their faces still . Oh yes. And i can hear my mom singing. She did once. Every week a church. And at home where shes so the outfits leslie war to compete in misty in oklahoma. I was the one who spent time with my mom whether it be singing or her making me a new dress for a pageant. So autumn, 79. 16yearold brooks was an advance football playing a senior in high school. But used to get her money walking doberman pincher dogs. Leslie, a pretty 12 year old, was in middle school. That was busy and all over oklahoma, a chaplain at the State House Visit Of Prisoners at Mccollister Penitentiary and packing them in at putnam peptides. For the pastor and his wife, charity began at home. Their door was always open. And really truly cared about people and where they were, and how they could help them. And how they could serve people. It was that generosity and openness that many years later, brooks would honor and his movie about his parents. And about that haunting night. It was up to her 15th on monday, everybody at home. Everybody was in the kitchen. Fixing dinner. Leslie was in the kitchen with her. It was brooks who answered the knock at the door. People called and all the time at the pastures house. This one he didnt recognize. A bearded stranger who wanted a favor. And no one felt the evil then. As it entered the house. The first thing i remember is raising my hands is it always happens together. Guy never happens to you. [inaudible] coming up. Suddenly, just before dinner, terror. He pulled out a 3 57 headed in my face and said, move over here. I remember that night. I was thinking, youve gotta remember this, youve got to remember this. Youve got to remember this. Who was this at the door . When dateline continues. [sneeze] astepro allergy, steroid free allergy relief that starts working in 30 minutes, while other Allergy Sprays take hours. 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So he went outside but then, when he returned a moment later, he bent down, reached behind his back and the awful business began. He pulled out a 3 57 and in my face and he said, you know, what its all about, move over here. The second, man armed with a Double Barrel shotgun stormed the door. It was a robbery, the man said. I took my wallet out and i had 43 bucks on me. I handed it to. Him thats all you got . Thats all you got . Yeah. And then he went through my moms purse. And then he asked my mom if we had any rope. They pointed their guns, herded the family together. Hogged tied them. So he told us all to lie down in The Living Room floor, faced him and they tied me up with our hands and feats behind her back. One stood with the shotgun, the other ransacked the house. Then the man with the pistol had turn to The Living Room. And he looked at pretty 12 year old leslie. And now, the character of the attack changed. And he got leslie and he said show me were all the other phones are and where youre Hiding Places for money are. And she, said we dont have any Hiding Places for money. He said, well were going to find some. And so he put his gun to the back of her head and walked around the house and then i heard him walk back into leslies room and i heard her start crying and saying, no, no, no. You all knew what was going on . Yeah, and my mom of course was next to me and she was just sobbing and i said, mom, leslie is going to be okay. Were going to be okay. Were all going to be okay. Brooks and his parents lead on The Living Room floor, hogtied and they listened hopeless as each man took his turn as each one raped leslie. And then they brought leslie in, tied her up, hands and feet behind her back like the rest of us for. I remember that night just thinking, you know, youve got to remember, this youve got to remember, this youve got to remember this. The two gunman helped themselves to maryland had cooking on the stove. They sat down at our table and ate our dinner. And then, the terrifying round bargaining began. They went back and forth about what they were going to do. That one, point he had, said if you dont give us four hours before you go to the police, were going to shoot you. And of, course will give you four hours. Two hours into their ordeal, the family heard the leader, the one with the pistol, issue an order go outside, start the car, turn around and listen for the sound. Was a pretty clear to you, listen for the sound meant thats what i took it to mean was that he was going to shoot us. And at that point, it came home to you that it was going to happen . I dont think i believed that there was actually going to happen. And, all they could do then was wade and pray. I remember him walking right up over my head and saying, well, i dont want to have to shoot you but i heard the first shot go, off hit me and i heard another shot went off and my mom screamed and then there was two other shots and to more. And they all ran to the door. Shot twice in the backs, Brooks Shimmied on his stomach towards his parents. And then i went over to my mom and it was untangling her rope with my teeth, i was able to get a hold of them now. And i said mom, i love you, i love you that. Yeah, my dad was, Like I Love You to, get me untied. And he said quit worrying about things and just get your mother untied. I said, that, im trying. Mom, you lose your ropes are loose, and time, and me. And she looked up at Me One Last Time and her head tip down and she just faded in and then she died and then i went over to my dad and looked at him in the face and said mom stead. And they never really said Anything Else. I told them again that i love them. And he said i loved you. And i said its okay that. And, yeah leslie and i are going to be okay. It was the last thing pastor Return Douglass ever heard. He died with his son at his side, the suns assurance whether the father may or may not had understood to be. Wishful thinking because brooks and leslie were aghast to themselves. Coming up you just think, i want to live, i have to do something i cant just lay here. What could they do . I need to make a decision, i remember thinking as long as i could draw a breath or even twitch muscle i need to keep trying. A race for life and for the gunman begins. [sirens] when dateline continues. Eline continues. Am i a big deal . Yeah you are, because its a big deal, when you get a big deal. Wayfair deals so big that you might get a big head. Because with savings so real. You can get your dream sofa for half the price. Wayfair. Its always a big deal. Wayfair, youve got just what i need when i was diagnosed with hiv, i didnt know who i would be. But here i am. Being me. 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Xfinity rewards creates experiences big and small, on the night of october 15th, and onceinalifetime. 1979, two drifters raced away from the okarche Oklahoma Oklahoma home of the Douglas Family. In the wake of the dead, died. Pastor Richard Douglass and his wife marilyn, shot to death. 16 year old brooks and a 12 year old sister leslie, each shot twice. Hogtied, bleeding beside the bodies of their parents. If i was going to live, i needed to make a decision. I remember thinking, as long as i could draw a breath or even twitch muscle, i need to keep trying. The house was eerily quiet. And brooks feared his sister to, was gone. I had been shouting periodically and she was responding and she stopped responding. Yet, despite being shot twice herself, leslie had somehow escaped her bonds. And made her way to the kitchen. And i looked up and leslie came running in with a knife and cut me loose. Youre the one who got things going afterwards . Right, right. Where did that come from . I dont, know i guess that internal drive that you just think, you know, i want to live. I want to be here. I have to do something, i cant just lay here. Brooks and leslie were bleeding to death, both of them. And, at least brooks knew it. We needed to get to the hospital where we were going to die. Brooks carried leslie out to the family car. They were terrified, all but you are the killers must be out there, somewhere. Lying in wait for them. I remember also thinking they might be at the end of the driveway, so i drove really fast. And they went there, and then thinking they might be on the highway. As they raced up route 80, one brother and sister had a serial surprisingly composed conversation. There was very strange because there were moments of silence and leslie asked me, mom and dad, dad, and i said yeah, yeah they. Our. And i said what are they going to do and i guess were going to live with their aunts and uncles and i said i guess so. We dont need to wear but it right now. We just need to get better. Brooks was doing better than 100 Miles Per Hour in this that 1970 duster.