mrs. douglass.fter the douglass murders, ake, hatch and ginger caught a bus as far as their remaining funds would take them. that was lumberton, texas. >> ake and hatch and ginger keefe arrived there. they were on a continental trailway bus. >> billy payne was sheriff back then. >> they got the bus to stop right in front of the house, and they went and broke into the house. the two men did. and virginia stayed out in the woods. and they was going to wait till somebody come home. >> reporter: and when the homeowner returned, a friend along with him, ake and hatch were waiting with a sawed-off shotgun. sheriff payne later found some signs of a struggle but otherwise the crime scene was a carbon copy of the douglass murders. >> they had been tied with the ropes, their feet and hands were bound behind their backs. they had hoods over their heads and both of them had been shot execution style. >> reporter: payne didn't know then about the douglass case, didn't connect the two right away. but he did have

mr. douglass, continue to feel. i can say sorry for the rest of time and that would not be enough. could die a hundred times and it would never be enough to make up for what had happened. >> reporter: but then testimony that astounded leslie douglass and brought back all the horror. >> i had found out some things at the clemency hearing that i was not aware of. and so it kind of shattered my world. >> reporter: it happened at the very beginning, when the state brought those murder charges against ake and hatch in first place. they chose not to put leslie through the additional trauma of testifying about the rapes. after all, they could prove murder easily. and leslie never knew, not in all those years, that the killers denied raping her all along. then, hatch's clemency hearing. when with his life on the line, he stuck to his story that he had not sexually assaulted her. >> they had denied raping me. and so i think right then it just really threw me for a loop. i was only supposed to talk like 30 seconds and it ended up being three or four minutes because i was so upset. and rememb