sheriff lynn steadman led the investigation.riod of days and weeks? >> well, they left and a lot of this is according to their statement, they left through oklahoma city and bought beer in oklahoma city. they asked directions to interstate 40 east and they ended up that next morning in fort smith, arkansas. >> reporter: still in the yellow malibu? >> yes, sir. still in the yellow malibu with primer spots on it. they ended up there about 2:00 in the morning, spent the rest of the morning up until about 10:00 or 10:30 at the sheraton in fort smith, arkansas, on rogers street. they spent the night, and they walked to the bus station. >> reporter: eventually police managed to track down their yellow getaway car, abandoned now. but by then, they were long gone, had hopped a bus to memphis. >> they spent three nights there drinking heavily. they lost about a thousand dollars while they were in the motel as a result of a cabbie bringing a couple of hookers to their room and the hookers rolled them for about a thousand dollars. >> repor

. >> reporter: sheriff lynn steadman testified for two hours about ake's thanksgiving confession. but once again, brooks and leslie were the star witnesses for the prosecution. they both calmly identified glen ake as the man who shot them and murdered their parents. did you watch the children's testimony? >> yes. brooks was very strong in his testimony. leslie was, too. but it bothered her more than it did brooks to testify. >> it was like i had to pretend like i was somebody else just telling a story of what happened. and it's kind of like the night that it happened and i had to remember all this, i have to remember all this. >> reporter: that promise that leslie douglass made to herself the night her parents were killed not to forget anything, that's what carried her through, she said. >> i didn't know why. i just knew that i had to remember every detail. and so whenever it was time to be on the stand, i knew that everything that i said was important. and that i had to be specific and remember. so it's like, i don't know what got in my head, i just have to remove all emotional a