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Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. It is suspected that many... read more
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Quotes edit
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“You damn orphan kids are nothing more to me than a herd of caribou.”
The judge who sent the author and his best friend to reform school -
“"Dear God, please help me!" But it didn't do any good. God didn't hear me that day. Maybe He was smart enough not to ever enter the White House, even to save a child.”
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“Tonight, I will stand out on my front porch with a glass of cold milk in hand, and I will give myself a toast. Not because of what I became, but because of what I did not become.”
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“That thing is in your head fresh as a daisy. That feeling is there forever.”
Robert Straley -
“When I exited this damn building I was so bloody that no one could recognize me...I screamed in horror when I saw nothing more than a bloody monster in the mirror. Shaking and screaming, I begged Matron Mother Winters to please come and save me..."I'll help you masturbate Mother Winters, really I will and I won't complain ever again." YOU CAUSED ME TO BEG MY MOLESTER TO COME AND SAVE ME! THAT'S WHAT YOU DID TO ME!”
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Setting & Locations edit
Northern Florida, 1950s
- White House: A building on the ground of the Florida Industrial School for Boys, set aside for punishments
First Sentence edit
If you were to drive down a long, narrow, winding grassy road, hidden far from sight, deep in the beautiful, thick underbrush of the north Florida woods, you will find unmarked graves containing the remains of thirty-two bodies, most likely all boys, some possibly as young as nine.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: The Victims. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Roger Dean Kiser (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 362.76092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › South
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health › Abuse & Self Defense › Sexual Abuse
- Books › Nonfiction › True Accounts › True Crime
- Books › Parenting & Families › Family Relationships › Child Abuse
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Family & Childhood
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