and richard douglass and shooting the douglass children. steven hutch was judge first at the canadian county courthouse. steven hutch was a follower. that s the one that picked up the house that night. he s the one that wanted to commit another crime. he is one that created the energy for the set. crime and the state of oklahoma, lucky to have an ironclad case against him, most important, of course, the harrowing stories of the eyewitnesses and survivors, leslie and brooks douglas. and ake hutch s the testimony of ginger keith, a traveling companion while they were on the run. keep, who was never charged with any crime, testified that ake and hutch told her about killing the douglass s and shooting brooks and leslie. we had two eyewitnesses to identify them. we someone kept it simple. simple?
that they wanted first crack at glen ake that steven hutch. had to be there before some of the texas beat them to it. news of the capture was a huge relief to brooks and leslie douglas. now, a race to bring back ache and touch. flying from colorado it was 2:30 to 3:00 in the morning that we landed at rogers airport here and on the city with them and took them back to laredo. the sort of think that almost never happens. all the way back to oklahoma, hutch and ake told them they wanted to make a statement. we had a semblance of thanksgiving that day. they did this that evening. they were meeting. they locked up hutch in this whole building and the laredo jail. ake, they kept in a more secure
i m convinced that glen ake, mr. ake, did not know right from wrong. throughout it all, in court, glen ake remained silent. presented himself more like a mental patient with a convicted murder. detective stephen washed and decided had to be a ploy. he was feigning insanity. he had five years or so to come up with this act. but did the jury see but the sheriff believed he sought? the decision, when i came, was quite a surprise? i remember when the verdicts were read in the courtroom. there was an audible gasp. where that jerry, empaneled and sworn, upon her boss had found the defendant, glen ake, guilty of murdering in the first degree of the death of richard douglass, fix the punishment up live in the state
ake was convicted. he was sentenced to 1000 years for shooting that douglass children. as for the murder of brooks and leslie s parents we the jury for the entitled cause, for our oath, and hearing and finding the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. punishment to death. so, down the road for ake ed hutch. or so the prosecutors assumed. the sheriff ex courted ake to the penitentiary and death row. when i took glen ake to oklahoma to be processed and the department of corrections, when we got out of the car, i told him, glenn, this is the last time i will see you until i come back to see you die. what this monstrous chapter of their lives apparently over,
not only in the douglass killings but in texas as well. the incident with the two shootings of the fellas in texas. did ake tell you about that? he said that he had to do it because steve hutch was just too weak to do. it was afraid to pull the trigger? guests, are. did either one of them expressed any remorse? the only remorse that i got was that ake said, about the death penalty. all this here, i want the death sentence. i want to injection as soon as possible. after, i looked up a little bit of time so i can see my parents and my nephew. i want to be executed. he knew what he had done. yes, sir. for brooks and leslie douglass, capture of the killers appeared to put an end to their ordeal. little did they now did you have any idea how much you still had to go through even though you cut