leslie douglass, now 20 years old, a college student.ry. >> and then i heard two more shots which hit my father and then another shot, and i screamed. and then he shot me again. and then i heard him run out the door. >> i was amazed by her courage. she had to go back there in her mind and tell you exactly what happened. what she did. she did not falter. >> and she was rock solid. >> yes. >> brooks douglass wasn't spared his turn on the stand. >> i felt the bullet hit me and another went off and i heard my mother scream. >> the core of the defense case was the testimony of psychiatrists, three of them. >> do you believe that he was insane on the 15th of october, 1979? >> yes, sir. i'm convinced that on that date mr. ake did not know right from wrong. >> and throughout it all in court, glen burton ake remained silent. presented himself more like a mental patient than a convicted murderer. sheriff stedman watched and decided it had to be a ploy. he was feigning insanity. >> he'd had about five years or so to come up with this act. >> but di