This is a straightforward narrative of a senseless crime. It includes reconstructions, but nothing too graphic. In September 1994, the 16 year old Lisa Rene was kidnapped from her home by a gang of miscreants who hoped to use her as leverage in a criminal transaction gone wrong. She was actually on the phone to a 911 operator when she was snatched.
Although this was not a sex crime, they took it in turns to rape her anyway, holding her prisoner at a motel, bound and gagged, before murdering her in woodland where she was buried. These dudes were so dumb that they dug the grave, took her to the site, but couldn't find it, so took her back again. Sadly though, this was only a brief respite.
It didn't take long to track them down, and no time at all to get a confession out of one of them. In the United States, kidnapping and rape can each lead to heavy sentences, and in the Deep South, especially Texas, murder can lead to something worse. Two of the defendants turned state's evidence; Bruce Webster and Orlando Hall were sentenced to death, but nearly seventeen years after this documentary was screened, they still have not been executed.