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then, batches clemency hearing, with his life on the line, he stuck to his story that he had not sexually assaulted her. >> they had denied raping me. so, i think, right then, it really just threw me for a loop. i was only supposed to talk for 30 seconds, ended up being three or four minutes. i was just so upset. i remembered every minute of it like it was happening, right then. >> not only did i have nightmares, i was afraid to go into restrooms. i was afraid of sleep at night. i heard noises that would wake me because i was afraid that somebody was coming to get me. not only did i never go to my parents funeral, i could not mourn that they had died. >> still, after all of these ears, they seemed like there was no remorse. >> not only denying this, but calling you a liar? >> right.
i thought that was a unique, and important story. >> he says that is the one you need to write. he says, i don't think i can write it, it is too personal, too painful. but, he convinced me i should try it, so i wrote a few scenes. parts of it were very difficult. i mean, extraordinarily difficult. >> oh, yes. difficult. but before long, as important as everything in his life had ever been. could he make the movie? he had never done anything like this before, not even close. but, egos are destroyed, fortunes may vanish. with amazing regularity here. still, he believed this was the answer. he hired brown to cowrote and directors movie. he raided his bank account, and when fundraising with friends and family, scraping together a couple of millions of dollars. he poured three years into his labor of love. he cast hollywood actors, as well as some of his friends.
sheriff stedman watched and decided they had to be a ploy. he was feigning insanity. >> it took five years or so to come up with this act. >> the jury came back and sentenced him to life for each of the murders, and 200 years
his three-legged dog. the dog went to jump up on the bed and one of the guys shot and killed the dog. they told him that if he didn't do exactly as they said, he would be next.>> after the bloody warning, the ranchers stalled for time. >> he got them to drink a lot of beer, and when they went to sleep or passed out, he got away from them. his quick thinking and the way that he handled himself in that situation absolutely saved his life. >> the rancher met with the sheriff. >> we showed him the pictures, he instantly identified them as the two people who had taken him hostage before. >> the rancher warned the lawmen that hatch had an access to an arsenal. firearm and ammunition that he had brought, they were very, very well armed. there were close to 30 different firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition. >> early the next morning,
could begin to gain a little control over what was happening to me. >> did it seem ludicrous? >> i felt oblivious. >> you didn't know what was impossible? >> nobody told me i couldn't do it.>> he won. it was an upset. at 27, it made him the youngest senator in oklahoma history. a tv reporter covering the capital became a close friend. >> his teenage years were tough. he struggled for a long time. but he was starting to get the pieces back together.>> i think that at that point, he was ready to start moving forward with his life. you could see a transformation.>> later gov. brad henry. >> was natural that we graduated - - gravitated toward one another.
paul whalen out of the equation but you know how washington works, she is free because ther was so much political pressure on joe biden to spring her. i don't know that the same amount of pressure was on him t spring paul whelen. >> that's it for eight it is a reality of celebrity culture. its become a cause and understandably in a righteous cause for her to come home come but for an average citizen, it just is like pardons which i wa involved in the trump administration, if you don't have the ability to elevate you case and make your case to thos people that make those types of decisions ordinary americans ca be left unlawfully in prison fo years which whalen has now. if you're a marine, that should qualify you that should put you above wnba or nba or athlete in my mind. that's on my harkie list. usa either way, but you put you life on the line for the country , you should be at the
until on the way home from d.c. yesterday. i had no idea. i think it's awful. i mean, he put his life on the line. he didn't have to do that. >> he almost met the same fate as brian. >> he almost died. he wasn't asked to go to the capital. he put on his uniform and went. >> you brought up the constitution. it was this weekend that the former president, donald trump, called to terminate. >> you mentioned the constitution as well. >> because brian can't be here to say what he went to work for every day, which was to defend it with everything he had, what do you think he would say? >> i mean -- >> about this moment in america. >> he would have been appalled. you know, it's -- we have 200 plus year history of -- we have bad moments, of course, through history. we've gotten through many of them, but now we seem to be going through more.
into the death of his wife, it wasn't as if he could suddenly relax as if the worst two weeks of his life. >> distract me from all of the -- [inaudible] >> i did a little talking. very few questions. we basically just let him go, and he talked for multiple hours. >> brett knew the rules of court, had to know that he was very much a person of interest but he was content to chat for something like seven hours. did not bring a lawyer with him. did not ask for one. even when the investigators zeroed in on what they saw as holes in his story. >> things are not adding up. i think you know that. we just want to make sure we get all the facts right. and that is true. >> what do you want to know? >> brett rylan lee answered almost every question they had. why why there was no evidence
forecast shows an additional 6 to 12 inches and blanket cities in the shores of lake erie, and lake ontario through sunday. the most intense fall started this morning. now back to dateline! dateline >> red sea cat, unable to pay a lawyer to represent him was lucky. in one particular way. his court appointed defense attorney just happened to be veterans of murder cases. val and roger falke. >> my dear grandmother used to love to put together jigsaw puzzles. >> men who understood perfectly well, that the puzzle didn't always go together the way the prosecution tried to make it look. >> there's a second side to this story. and that is, that vashti seacat depressed, and confronted with