When fourteen year-old David escaped from Lester Roloff's Anchor Home for Boys in Zapata, Texas, he followed the power lines because he knew they would lead him back to civilization, but they just took him back to the streets of Fort Worth, then to the horrors of state homes.

The sister facility, Rebekah Home for Girls, was for unwed mothers and delinquent girls where Charlotte spent many months in the early '70s, some of the best months of her life the now fifty-four year…