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Was that i can just see my parents dying and knowing that they would never they would never be fully avenged. that they died, that this person took their life and yet he s going to be allowed to continue living at our expense. as brooks saw it, after all this time, all the suffering, his parent, his, his sister s, glen ake had plain cheated the excuser. that day after sentencing, the shellshocked brooks escaped into a hallway followed by sheriff s deputies escorting glen ake back to a prison cell. there they were, standing feet apart. brooks looked at ake and something in him snapped. he saw the deputy passing by, his revolver tantalizingly close. and in that moment, brooks douglass contemplated murder. he reached the for the officer s weapon. ....
It was february, 1995. brooks douglass found himself sitting across a table from the man who d murdered his parents and shot him and his sister. i said for 15 years i ve wanted nothing more than to see you dead. and i still want it. and, you know, hearing some of that hearing myself say that was very, very strange. to confront the fact that you just said that to this man. yeah. that you wanted him dead. i wanted him dead. and by saying it, something went click inside. yeah. that that what i really wanted was for it to be for it to be over. ....
Captured in colorado after another home invasion. it was the call he was waiting for. i jumped over the railing, ran to the office to prepare the extradition papers. i put a call in to the governor, had him sign him. we had it done in a few hours. why the hurry, why the rush? we wanted them. remember, the fugitives had committed a double murder in texas, too. but the oklahomans were determined they wanted first crack at ache and hatch. had to get there before some lawmen from texas beats them to it. the news of the capture was a huge relief to brooks and leslie douglass. and now the tries bring back ache and hatch. sheriff lynn stedman flew by charter to colorado. . it was about 2:30 to 3:00 in the morning this we landed at ....
He hired fwroun co-write and direct his movie. he raided his bank account, then went fundraising among friends and family, scraped together a couple of million dollars. for three years into his labor of love cast hollywood actors, as well as some of his friends. and then called it heaven s rain, kwt k for reasons his fa would have understood. heaven s rain opened late last year, and leslie who had survived the whole long ordeal in her own private way, had to watch someonele very publicly be her. brooks, do you realize that every time we go through this i have to relive everything again? and that who s going to show up in my dreams. the thing that kept coming into my head was, i wonder how ....
Movie, a flashback to the night of the crime and maybe this was the scene he needed to play to finally move on. i wondered how it must have been your portraying him when he died. that was one of the very few instances in my life where it was actually much harder and much more painful than i started out thinking it was going to be. his wife was with him on set for that one. brooks was up stairs before we filmed and he was just gut-wrenching bawling saying, i just feel so bad for my mom and dad. he knew that was their last day, and he was so young and had so much to live for, and that whole night was really excruciating for everyone, more real than you would have imagined. ....