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>> the rancher met with the sheriff. >> we showed him the pictures of ake and hatch, he instantly identified them as the two people that had taken him hostage the night before. >> the rancher warned the lawmen that ake and hatch had access to an arsenal. >> between the firearms and the ammunition that he had and the firearms and the ammunition that they brought, they were very, very well armed. i want to say close to 30 different firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition. >> early the next morning, nearly a dozen lawmen stormed the ranch house. >> and right as we're driving up to the hous...

Harrowing stories of the eyewitnesses and survivors brooks and leslie douglass. and then ake and hatch's thanksgiving confessions. the state had ballistic evidence linking them to the murders and the testimony of ginger keep, the traveling companion while they were on the run. keefe, who was never charged with any crime, testified that ake and hatch told her about killing the douglasses and shooting brooks and leslie. >> we had two surviving witnesses. we were able to identify who the people were. we were able to put the bullet in. we somewhat kept it simple. >> simple? to the judge hearing th...

And remember. so it was like, i don't know what got in my head, i just have to remove all emotional attachment. >> the jury needed just two hours to make up its mind. ake was convicted. he was sentenced to 1,000 years for shooting the douglass children, and as for the murder of brooks and leslie's parents -- >> we the jury empaneled and squorn by -- to try the issues in the above entitled cause do upon our oaths having heretofore found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree fix punishment at death. >> so end of the road for ake and hatch or so lawmen and prosecutors assumed. sherif...

Downtown baggs, wyoming. ake got drunk, started slapping ginger around. she'd had enough, and at her first opportunity spilled her guts to the barkeep. the bar owner alerted the police. by then ake and hatch had escaped in colorado. jeff coreville was a detective sergeant in colorado back then. >> our deputies found out that the car was associated with ake and hatch and that they were wanted on a number of different murders in oklahoma and texas. they tried to pursue the car but what we had then was just kind of old pickup trucks for pa terrell vehicles. and of course these guys got away real ...

They had a couple of thousands dollars, a car, guns, why go into yet another house? >> i think it was so easy, they had somewhat of a high from doing it the first time so they wanted to do it again. >> the county sheriff, the state police, the oklahoma bureau of investigations, the fbi, were all looking for ake and hatch. but the fugitives had at least a six-hour start. >> they were here, they were gone, yeah. >> meanwhile, back in an oklahoma city hospital, brooks and leslie douglass clung to life in an intensive care unit. and lawmen had a bad feeling. >> i really was afraid when i was on th...