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An out-of-the-way stop

that spot in the middle of the night,

totally dark and pretty darn remote.

Leads straight to a dead end.

Unh!

No. Please, no!

This heinous crew without conscience.

No concept or care of human life.

Caught between right and wrong.

What choice would you make?

You gonna stay quiet?

She knew there was bad people in the world,

but she didn't know that there was anybody

capable of being that bad.

An hour's drive north of Oklahoma city

lies the agricultural town of Perry, Oklahoma.

It's a ranching community.

Lots of cattle, lots of wheat.

I considered Perry to be a stepping stone

before I'd been here, you know,

just go there until you can move elsewhere.

But I'd been here, probably, 6 weeks

before I stopped and called my wife one day

and I just said, "you know what?

I don't ever wanna leave."

The same affection for the town of Perry

is shared by susie and Steve neiman,

who met here in high school

and now how a high school senior of their own,

Stephanie.

Did you get it?

Yes!

I'm so happy for you.

You've worked so hard for that truck.

I am so proud of you.

Wait. Hold that pose.

I gotta get a picture.

When Stephanie was a senior in high school,

we went and found this truck for her

and I told her, I said, "if you want this truck,

you're gonna have to help US pay for it."

All right. Ready?

One, two, three.

Say, "Chevy!"

Chevy!

I bet you that turns out so good.

She was an only child, so her parents doted on her.

They helped her buy things that she wanted,

but then she would have to get out there and work

and make money to supplement that.

All right, Stephanie, there's something

I need you to understand, okay?

Now you're going to have monthly payments,

plus insurance,

and that is your responsibility.

We just stressed to her that, if she wanted anything in life,

she was gonna have to earn it.

We're not just gonna give it to her.

Don't worry. I already picked up

another shift at work for the rest

of the summer, and I told Gary

that I can pick up any other extra shifts.

I even have one for tonight.

Really?

See? She's on top of it.

I'm so proud of you.

C'mere, baby.

She was 19.

She had graduated and we were trying to let her be herself.

Growing up in small-town Perry,

Stephanie's got friends on every corner,

including 23-year-old summer hair,

who lives just a block away,

with her husband, Matt, and their baby girl.

Put some elbow grease behind that, girl.

I can still see a speck of road tar.

Hey. You're just jealous 'cause you don't have

your own 4-wheel-drive monster truck.

Summer was a touch older and had a new baby.

She and Steph had, I think, had just come to know each other,

maybe, through school, but also just through

parties and get-togethers.

I don't believe they were particularly

best friends or anything of that nature,

but that, again, is a product of Perry.

Wow!

You've even got the extended cab. Nice!

That's so I can drive all my friends around.

What you talking about?

All you do is work. -No.

Stephanie would get out there and work and make money

and I know that some people probably saw that

and maybe even took advantage of her generosity.

She would help anybody, so,

"Stephanie has money.

Let's ask her for help."

Well, since you mentioned giving rides to friends,

I might have a friend who needs visiting tonight.

No. No.

Yes.

Let me guess. Bobby?

Maybe.

Bobby was a bit older,

also had an infant child of his own,

and summer and Bobby had some kind of relationship.

It's wrong, summer.

Besides, I hear rumors at school

that Bobby's into drugs. Did you know that?

She was very blunt, but even when she was blunt,

you knew she loved you.

Even if something came across a little bit gruff,

it came from a place of love.

I know we've been friends for a long time, but,

I have to work tonight

and Bobby lives so far away.

Okay. Can't blame a girl for trying.

See ya.

Bye.

As darkness falls,

the neiman family settles in for the night.

Everyone, that is, except Stephanie.

Wait. Hold on a second.

You're going to work?

I told you.

It's 10:00.

I signed up for a special shift.

We're taking inventory. I have to take everything

out of the stockroom. -Yeah.

All right. Let me get my keys.

Hello. Earth to dad.

I have my own truck.

Remember? -Aw, baby.

I forgot.

All right. Listen. It's a Saturday night.

I want you to be careful out there on the road.

There's lots of crazies out there, okay?

-Okay. -Love you, baby.

-I love you. -Love you.

-Bye. See you later. -Bye-bye.

Steve: It was just a typical evening.

She'd come in, we'd talk for a few minutes,

and then she'd go out

and do what she was wanting to do for the evening.

But it was late at night, and, you know, things can happen.

Summer, what happened?

Are you okay?

I got into another fight with Max.

I'm sorry.

I can't be in that house with him right now.

Please take me to Bobby's.

What about Maggie? You can't just leave her.

She's his baby, too. He can watch her.

Please, Stephanie.

Okay, but get in. I have to be at work by 11:00.

Okay.

Stephanie was caring.

If somebody needed a ride somewhere, she would take them.

If somebody needed something, she would go do it or get it.

Whatever they needed help with,

she would try to help 'em with it.

It takes a little while

for Stephanie and summer to get to Bobby's house

and, when they arrive, it's hard to tell if anyone's even home.

Okay. Here we are.

Hey. I didn't have time to call him,

so I'm not sure if he's alone.

Do you mind waiting until I give you the thumbs-up?

Summer!

Please?

Hurry up. You're gonna make me late for work.

Okay. Thanks.

Bobby.

Shh.

Shh.

Summer and Stephanie went by Bobby's house,

not knowing that there was already a full-scale assault

going on in that house, on Bobby,

and then whoever came in.

Where'd she come from?--

Clayton lockett, Shawn Mathis, and alfonzo lockett

arrived at Bobby's house to get money that Bobby owed 'em.

They hit 'im in the face and the shoulder

with the butt of a shotgun,

knocked him down, and then taped his hands,

and that's when summer and Stephanie

showed up at the house.

There's another one outside,

in the truck.

Hey.

Hey there.

Your friend wants you to come inside for a second.

I can't. Tell her I have to -- I have to leave for work.

Hang on.

Hang on.

She said she's leaving.

-Get her in here.

I can't!

Unh!

Get her in here, or I'll kill you.

At some point, they

forced summer to call Stephanie inside

and, you know, she was frightened for her life

and she was frightened for Bobby's life, her friend.

Hey.

Hey, Steph, can you --

can you come in for a second, please?

Good grief!

You're gonna make me late for work.

This is the last ride I give you.

I just wish they hadn't had gotten her out of her truck.

I wish they would have told her to go on.

"It's none of your business.

You don't need to be here."

I wish she like would've drove away or..

Just left or, you know, justsomething.

What's wrong?

I'm sorry.

What?

Unh!

She was immediately hit in the head

with the butt of the shotgun and thrown to the floor.

I have no idea what she was thinking.

Steps outside of rural Perry, Oklahoma

unh!

Stephanie neiman and her friend summer hair

have just walked into a violent trap.

Bobby, what's happening?

Summer, why did you bring me here?!

She didn't know these people.

She really didn't know what was going on inside the house.

She hadn't been in the house. She stayed in her truck.

So, why didn't they just let her leave?

Don't do it.

Gonna be a good girl, right?

Where do you think you're going?!

! Get off of me!-

yo, we got US a live one.

Put your wrists together.

Put your wrists together.

Like her.

You can't do this.

It's not right.

She was not afraid to stand up to anybody.

She'd tell them what was right and what was wrong,

that she wasn't gonna put up with it.

-Aaaaah! -That's it!

Next time, it won't be my fist.

It'll be this shotgun.

You hear me?

Put your wrists together.

Get up!

Sit down!

Lockett and a cousin of his,

a minor who was every bit as violent of Clayton lockett;

and another friend, named Shawn Mathis;

they had come to Perry from enid

and their story was that Bobby owed them for weed.

But Bobby insisted that was not the case,

that he didn't owe Clayton locket for weed.

In a worst-case scenario, he owed 'em 20 bucks.

Stop whimpering.

Cute family.

This the wife and junior?

It's okay. You can talk.

We're separated.

They don't live here.

Man, that's a shame.

I would love to meet them.

Let's get to business.

Now,

before our visitors got here,

you was about to tell US where you keep the Booty.

There's some weed in the bedroom,

in the nightstand.

And?

In the pantry,

second shelf from the top.

There's a coffee can in the back.

You're such a good friend.

You took real good care of my weed.

You know him?

I-I-It's a long story.

God.

I told you.

Back at summer's house,

her husband, Matt, has no idea

of the terror his wife is experiencing,

or that she's even left the house.

Summer!

Summer!

Maddie's up!

It's okay. It's okay.

I got the milk. It's okay.

Of course you did.

It's okay. It's okay.

Daddy's here.

As the night ticks closer to 11:00 pm,

the thugs back at Bobby's house show no signs of letting up.

In fact, things only get worse.

They started trying to gather up stereos

or anything they could find in the house that looked of value.

They'd take anything that would bring money,

where they didn't have to work for it.

Not what I call a fortune.

I'm violating my parole for this?

Tss tss tss tss.

Hey, now.

You wanna come with me?

Come on.

-Where? -Let's go.

No!

No. Please, don't!

Hold this.

I might be a little bit.

-No! -Come on, girl.

-No, please! -I don't got all night.

Come on. -No. Please, don't!

Please!

-No! -C'mere.

-No, please! -Move your hands!

-Aah! -Move your hand!

Come on.

The reality that someone with the capability

of harming an innocent person like that,

how is that even possible?

How could anyone feel like it's okay?

I try hard not to think about

what it must've been like for her.

C'mere, girl. Unh!

-Unh!

Sounds like he's having fun in there!

Yeah.

I got next.

-Unh!

Where's summer?

What did you do to her?

Chill, girl.

She's just composing herself.

Summer was raped, and then Mathis had his turn with her.

They spent some time threatening sexual trauma on Stephanie.

However, Stephanie did not have any rape

or sexual trauma on her.

They just had no concept of human life, or no conscience

to care what happened to human life.

What are we gonna do with her?

What you mean, what we gonna do with 'em?

I ain't going back to jail.

We kill 'em.

An hour after being taken captive

inside a remote Oklahoma home, 19-year-old Stephanie neiman

and her friends summer hair and Bobby bornt

are starting to realize

just how grave the situation may be.

What are we gonna do with her?

What you mean, what we gonna do with 'em?

I ain't going back to jail.

We kill 'em.

Do they mean that?

What?

That they're gonna kill US.

I don't know.

This does not happen in our small, little town.

I do not believe, in my soul, that she had ever thought

that there was

an evil person out here that would do that to her.

She just doesn't believe in evil people

because she always seen good in everybody.

But Stephanie's friend summer knows they're evil.

She's only just emerging

after more than an hour trapped in the bedroom

where two of the men sexually assaulted her.

Come on, girl.

Come on in.

Come on. Sit you down right here.

Y'all play nice.

Come on, cuz.

Summer,

are you okay?

They're talking about killing US.

They can't do that. Right?

They can't do that, right?

Right?

At Stephanie's home, in Perry,

her parents, susie and Steve, are bound for bed.

But, there's a problem.

Okay. Thank you for letting me know.

Yes. Please have her call when she arrives, okay?

Yes. Thank you. Buh-bye.

Honey, that was the chicken shack.

They said Steph never showed up for work tonight.

She left an hour and a half ago.

I know. Do you think maybe she --

she had a flat tire or something?

I'll tell you what. I'm gonna out

and look for her, okay? -Okay. Please --

-all right? -Please be careful.

She didn't show up at home and nobody knew where she was at,

so we knew something was wrong,

so we just started hitting all the stops

and trying to figure out what was going on.

But Stephanie's parents can't even begin to imagine

that their only daughter

is at the mercy of three sadistic men.

Or, what they plan to do next.

Clay,

you really think it's a good idea to kill 'em?

Pssh, yeah, Clay,

I ain't too sure about this, man.

Really?

You ain't too sure?

You ain't the one making the decisions, are you?

Clayton was the boss man, the definite leader.

The other two were the followers.

Mathis, occasionally, would have an opinion or objection,

but, when he was overruled by Clayton,

he just done whatever Clayton said.

It's simple.

No witnesses, no charges.

Clayton decided he was gonna kill all of them.

He just couldn't have witnesses.

Clayton was gonna

take 'em out in the country somewhere and do it.

That's a nice truck you got out there.

Gimme the keys.

No. You're not taking my truck.

The love of her life was her pickup truck

that her folks had gotten her.

For better or worse, she stood up

for what she believed in, period,

and she believed in protecting what was hers

and just standing up for what's right.

Imma ask you one more time.

And then imma get angry.

Gimme the keys.

Steph, don't be stupid.

Give 'em to him.

He means it, Steph.

A'ight. Fellas, y'all take the two girls.

I'll take Bobby in his truck.

-Come on.

Yeah. Hold up.

I almost forgot. We need a shovel.

You got one in your garage, right?

N-N-No.

Get it!

-Go get it.

Get up. Get up. -Please.

-Okay. -Here we go.

We got a little road trip we gonna take.

So they loaded all of them up, both in the truck they came in,

as well as Stephanie's.

Bobby, I know, rode in the cab of the truck with lockett.

It's gonna be hard to drive like this.

You'll manage.

Can I ask where we're going?

You'll see.

After 2.5 hours of torture at the mercy of three armed men,

Stephanie neiman, summer hair, and Bobby bornt

are suddenly on the move,

with no idea where they're headed,

or whether the threats they've been hearing are serious.

There was a lot of trauma in the conversation,

about death, on the way up there.

They were told frequently they were going to die.

And they had 40 miles to talk about it, think it,

so I know the pain and the horrible anguish

is unbelievable.

If you get off highway 64 right there and start traveling north,

there are no houses between those 2 miles,

so you'd have no reason to ever come down that road,

unless you're just kids out looking for a place to drink

or get into trouble, or what have you.

Or unless you're looking for a place

where nobody's gonna bother you.

Like Clayton was.

This is as good a place as any.

Yo, Clay. Can I talk to you for a second?

Hold this.

We don't want any stray sheep.

Man, this is seriously messed up.

What if we get caught?!

-We won't. -What if we do?!

I don't wanna spend the rest of my life

looking at cinder blocks.

It looked like young lockett

did not want to take the life of any of the kids.

He had asked several times for them not to kill,

but Clayton had made up his mind.

Stephanie!

Stephanie!

As time starts running out for Stephanie and her friends,

her father, Steve, spends every waking second

searching for his daughter.

No, Stephanie.

Please.

It was late at night.

There was nobody out.

It's a pretty dead town after 11:00.

-Hello. -Hey, susie?

I've been to every gas station,

every restaurant in town.

No one has seen or heard from her.

Have you talked to any of her friends?

Well, i-I've talked to just about everyone,

but summer. I can't reach anyone

at her house. She's not answering.

Hey, listen. I'm only 10 minutes from there.

I-I'll head over to summer's house.

I'll wake 'em up, if I have to, okay?

Okay.

If I can't find her, then we can call

the police, okay?

Baby.

In fact, Stephanie's in the middle of nowhere,

in another county,

under guard of ex-cons with a score to settle.

It had immediately gone from teaching Bobby a lesson

to just this night of madness,

with Clayton clearly in charge

at every step of the way

and clearly imposing his will and his violence

upon all three of 'em.

I ain't going back to prison.

But that's gonna happen if you talk.

We won't talk, Clayton. We won't.

That's right. W-We won't say anything.

I-I won't say anything.

I have a baby at home.

P-Please, Clayton. I learned my lesson.

Bobby was very open.

He had no intention of telling because he believed

Clayton would come back and kill his baby, period.

And so then it was on to summer

and, though her baby wasn't there with her,

she quickly saw what to say

and she said, "no, I swear I won't tell anybody.

I don't even know who you people are.

Just don't hurt my baby. Just don't hurt my baby."

Then he came to Steph.

What about you, missy?

You gonna stay quiet?

No. I'm definitely going to the police.

You guys raped summer, and that's wrong!

She had no ability to filter her honesty,

her sense of right or wrong,

and, for whatever reasons, no ability to understand

"that this crazy, evil person

just wants me to be scared of him and to swear to him

that I won't tell." You know,

I mean, to even say, "I won't," even though I fully intend to.

But Stephanie said, "you're darn right I will."

Stephanie. Stephanie, no.

You are not going to the police.

They raped you. It's wrong.

Girl, you crazy.

A'ight. Your choice.

Get the shovel.

What are you doing? He means it.

He's gonna kill you.

No, he won't.

Yes, he will.

Don't do it.

She felt like she was doing what was right

and you're not gonna talk her out of it.

She would do it to the death.

With his daughter still missing,

a desperate Steve neiman checks in

at summer hair's house.

-Shoot.

-Hey! -Hey, man.

It's almost 2:00 am!

I-I'm sorry.

I'm looking for my daughter, Stephanie.

Have you seen her?

Here?

Why in the world would she be here?

Is summer here?

No! She's not here, either.

I'm sorry, but,

do you have any idea where she is?

I mean, I thought they'd be together.

I doubt it.

Unless she's shacking up with someone else, too.

Please, I-I need your help, man.

Can you help me? I'm sorry.

-I'm sorry. I can't help you. -I know it's late.

-Please. -I got my own problems.

Please, man.

Meanwhile, back in Kay county,

Clayton lockett and his crew

seem to be staying true to their word.

Still, Stephanie refuses to break.

At that point, they kind of went down an incline a bit

and Clayton had them start digging a grave.

Hey, Clay.

How's this, man? I can't dig much deeper.

It'll do.

Let's get this over with.

Get over here!

Alfonzo! Get her over here!

For real?

Yeah, for real!

Unless you wanna join her.

I'll kill all of y'all, if that's want!

Please! She won't say anything!

I'll make sure of it!

I might trust you, but I don't trust her.

Get up! -No!

This will show you Clayton lockett means business.

He asked her again, "are you gonna tell?"

She said, "yes."

And he shot her once.

Aaaaaaaaaaaah!

And she fell into the grave.

But she was still alive.

He went to shoot he the second time.

The gun jammed.

Once the gun was unjammed, Clayton lockett come around

and shot her the second time.

Fill that up!

You cross me,

your kid gonna be in the next ditch.

Aye, Clay.

Clay!

What?!

She still alive.

Out in the remote Oklahoma countryside

aaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Summer hair and Bobby bornt are forced to watch in horror

as their 19-year-old friend Stephanie neiman

is shot twice and thrown into a shallow grave.

Clayton lockett come around and shot her the second time.

Unfortunately, she was still breathing.

They could still hear her gurgling and breathing

when they started covering her with earth.

Aye, Clay.

She's still alive.

What you mean, she's still alive!

She's still breathing!

Bury her, anyway.

And do it quick.

I wanna get back to town.

Let's get back to the trucks.

Aah!

It's crazy.

I mean, you just can't wrap your head around it.

That really happened.

That really happened to our family.

Ripped away from their friend in her darkest hour,

summer and Bobby are hauled back to the town of Perry,

where their own fate hangs in the balance.

Come on.

Get in there.

I better not hear about y'all going to the cops.

Or we're gonna have some problems.

W-We won't say a word to anyone.

-Unh!

It never happened.

-Good.

Unh.

It's been fun.

Imma miss you.

Bobby and summer are alive today

for the simple reason that they promised him they wouldn't tell.

Which, again, flies in the face of intelligence

or of reason or anything else, with all the things he had done.

My god.

My god.

Neither he nor summer went to the police, initially.

But Bobby's mother came over when he didn't show up for work

and saw how beat up he was.

She made him tell her what happened, and he eventually did,

but, "mom, I can't tell.

He'll come back for the baby, you know."

And she said, "you're going to the police."

As soon as law enforcement is informed,

they get to work, zeroing in on the location

at the heart of Bobby's story.

I was first in disbelief, you know.

Surely, Bobby's made up a story.

This can't be right.

And then the more details that come out,

we realized "this is bad."

When we got to the scene, it was obvious that she was deceased.

She's been dead for several hours.

It looks like two buckshots, one to the back,

the other to the shoulder.

Is that the cause of death?

That, or asphyxiation.

That morning, I went to the police station

and that's when they told me what happened.

At first, we couldn't believe it

because we were a small town.

This does not happen in our small, little town.

Why would they do this to our child?

They don't even know her.

And we said that he needed to pay.

Sometimes it takes years to solve a homicide.

Sometimes it takes weeks.

This one, the pieces of the puzzle

started coming together very quickly.

That same day, thanks to Bobby's description of the car

the three men were driving that night,

it's not difficult for investigators

to track down the suspects.

Yeah, that's him.

The young one.

Alfonzo lockett, Clayton's cousin.

That's all three of 'em.

You'll be glad to know all three

were arrested this afternoon.

They're bringing them in now.

Well, speak of the devil.

Get 'im outta here!

Hey.

Don't worry.

Where he's going,

he'll never have a gun again.

We were thankful that they were arrested quick enough

that no one else had to die.

They didn't have time to come back and try to hurt any,

either Bobby, his family;

summer, her family; Or anybody else,

and no police officers were hurt in the apprehension,

so everything worked out great,

as far as solving the case and the apprehension of them.

Though Shawn Mathis and alfonzo lockett

plead not guilty,

at trial, they are convicted of burglary, assault,

rape, kidnapping, and first-degree murder.

Both are sentenced to life in prison.

Clayton derrell lockett ultimately provides

a full confession.

He is convicted of burglary, assault,

rape and sodomy, kidnapping, and first-degree murder.

He is sentenced to death and is executed in 2014.

Clayton lockett was the most evil human being

I've ever been around.

And that's saying something,

to have prosecuted crime for 28 years.

One, two, three.

Say, "Chevy!"

Chevy!

If Stephanie was sick

and she would've passed away, that'd have been different.

That's part of life.

If she was in a car wreck, that's part of life.

But going out and shooting somebody is not part of life.

It's not part of our society.

Stephanie was our child.

She was our only child.

She was funny, honest.

She was caring.

We lost out on a lot that night that he took her from US.

We never got to see her go to college.

We didn't get to watch her fall in love.

We'll never be able to have grandchildren.

Cherish your time with your kids

because you're never promised the next day,

because it can be gone in an instant.