Oct 27, 2022 · The killings lead to a complicated legal case for co-defendants Glen Ake and Steven Hatch, but resulted in one receiving the death penalty in Oklahoma. Looking for more? Here’s what to know about the double murder, arrest and eventual deaths of the perpetrators.

Aug 9, 1996 · McALESTER - Steven Keith Hatch was executed by lethal injection early today at Oklahoma State Penitentiary for his role in the murder of a Baptist minister and his wife nearly 17 years ago. He became the eighth Oklahoma inmate to be executed since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 1990.

Sep 4, 2023 · Steven Hatch would be executed by lethal injection on August 9 1996. This week, Dateline shared a podcast from 2011 about the 1979 murders of an Okarche, Oklahoma couple, the Rev. Richard Douglass and Marilyn Douglass. Their two teenage children were also shot in the encounter but survived.

His accomplice, Steven Keith Hatch (October 9, 1953 - August 9, 1996) was executed in 1996 for the slayings even though he had waited in a car outside the family's home. [3] According to People magazine, Hatch was inside the house. Leslie Brooks, who …

Oct 29, 2022 · In 1980, Glen Ake and Steven Hatch were convicted for the murders of Richard and Marilyn Douglass and were sentenced to death in Oklahoma. They faced additional charges for the two men Glen murdered in Texas.

Sep 21, 2023 · How Glen Ake and Steven Hatch were caught. Within hours of the murders, investigators tracked down the identities of the killers, in part because of their distinctive yellow Chevy Malibu. Hours before the attack on the Douglass family, the pair had pulled off another home robbery in nearby Hennessey, Oklahoma.

Jan 31, 1984 · For the second time, Steven Keith Hatch today was formally sentenced to die by lethal injection for his part in the October 1979 slaying deaths of a rural Okarche preacher and his wife. On his final day on the bench, Canadian County Judge Stan C. Chatman set Hatch's execution date for April 30.

Aug 10, 1996 · Seventeen years after watching their parents die, a brother and sister sat behind a tinted glass partition, not 12 feet from Steven Keith Hatch, and watched the convicted murderer take his...

In October of 1979, Steven Hatch and Glen Ake burglarized, assaulted, and robbed the Douglass family in Okarche. After terrorizing the family, Ake told Hatch to go out to the car and “listen for the sound.” After Hatch left the house, Ake shot and killed Reverend and Mrs. Douglass.

Aug 10, 1996 · The man, Steven Hatch, 42, was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight for the murders of a Baptist minister and his wife during a robbery of their home in 1979.