keith morrison (voiceover): a loving pastor's family instant targets. i heard the first shot go off and said, i love you, mom. i love you, dad. keith morrison (voiceover): they were the only ones who >> i heard the first shot go survived, and no one knew then how long justice would take off and i said, i love, you i love you dad. >> they were the only ones who survived. and no one knew then how long justice would take or what it would cost. were you frightened, terrified that they would come back and it up? >> absolutely. >> a chilling man hunt, a young survivor, driven to become a state senator. >> he was very, very passionate. >> what they ever come out the dark? >> i always get a little emotional and can't believe it's [inaudible] >> 30 years later, an answer. >> the power of 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 couldn't make up. and the movie, it turned out to be a decades-long 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. it's not like some scary movie that you watch on tv or csi or whatever show it is you're 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 that's what the father demanded. >> god knows all about us, there's not a secret crevice of our heart that he's not fully aware of. >> but could the son obey? >> god never expects of us that which we cannot lose. god never demands of us what he does not empower. >> imagine now that it's 1979 in a little place called okarche, oklahoma. commutable drive into oklahoma city before it happened. >> okarche is a small community and pretty quiet, peaceful little town. >> and to be frank, the douglass's didn't 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 pastor's 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 wasn't 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 it's where the atlantic meets the amazon river. and it finally occurred to me why i liked being near the water so much and that's 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. could've 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 she's so the outfits leslie war to compete in miss teen 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. 16-year-old 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 didn't 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. 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[sfx: video game] emergen-c crystals. a little house in the country just outside okarche, a little house in the country, oklahoma, october 15, 1979. just outside of okarche, oklahoma, 1979. pastor richard douglass and his family were getting ready for a quiet school night did or around dusk, a knock at the door. 16-year-old brooks douglass put down his homework. answered it. a bearded stranger stood before them. >> he asked if he could use the phone, i'm trying to get a hold of somebody that lived nearest. so the man went over, picked up the phone and he said, phone numbers in my pants. 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 it's 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 >> that's all you got? that's all you got? >> yeah. and then he went through my mom's 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 we're all the other phones are and where you're hiding places for money are. and she, said we don't have any hiding places for money. >> he said, well we're 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 leslie 's 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. we're going to be okay. we're all going to be okay. >> brooks and his parents lead on the living room floor, hog-tied 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, you've got to remember, this you've got to remember, this you've 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 don't give us four hours before you go to the police, we're 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 -- >> that's 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 don't 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 don't 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, i'm 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 it's 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 can't 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. 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>> right, right. >> where did that come from? >> i don't, 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 can't 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 we're going to live with their aunts and uncles and i said i guess so. we don't 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. he drove on to the law of the okarche of a family friend, a doctor, blurted out what had happened. >> he actually didn't believe us we were saying, we've been shot, mom and dad are dead, help us. and then i collapsed. and as soon as i got in the living room. >> the doctor and his son carried brooks and leslie to a nearby hospital. >> and then the doctor in his son went two -- went out to the house. to check on my mom and dad. >> the children fought for their lives, in the middle of the night, they were moved to an intensive care unit in oklahoma city. their wounds were appalling. one bullet had nicked brooks hart. >> it came in the side of my back and collapsed mullins. >> and what about your sister's injuries? >> she was shot twice, one of them went through her poor arm because we had our arms tied together around the back and then it went through her lower back and then the second bullet went through the middle, or not, even just off the seam of her back. and it came out a chess. >> the doctor called the sheriff's office, officers reach the douglass home around six pm. lynn was chair of canadian county. >> the preacher, reverend douglas and mrs. douglass were still at the residence on the living room floor. >> that? >> one. >> pretty shocking thing. >> yes. certainly. was >> like an execution? >> yes sir. >> they didn't take them long to identify the suspects, there had been another home invasion earlier that day in tennessee, oklahoma, just up the road from the douglass's. two men fled that crime in a distinctive banana yellow chevy malibu with primer spots. the victims who were robbed but not physically harmed gave deputies good descriptions. both the men in the vehicle. the >> investigators were able to trace that distinctive car to an oil feel, a few miles up the road from the douglass property. two rough next working the drilling rig had up and quit that very morning, taken off on a broad car. out there wanted for parole violations, apparently. they weren't, they thought they were. the two were named steven hutch and glen ake. and they were familiar already to the local police. >> one of them had a burglary conviction. >> these are petty criminals? >> yes sir. >> as police pieced together ake and hutch's activities those day, they learned that after they bore the yellow chevy, they drove into town and clean that their bank account. >> each one of them got approximately $500 out of a savings account. >> they bought beers and whiskey, and scored some speed and cocaine. and then roared off in the board car to rob the fami