Hello and welcome to episode seven of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

This week we traveled to a picturesque Florida campus where nothing is quite as it seems.

We'll speak to a former student of the dozier school for boys,

who spent decades trying to get the story out of what this place really was.

I think you'll be shocked and disgusted,

which is, of course, the whole point of this show.

Thank you. of course the whole point of the show. deep in the North Florida woods, past a narrow, grassy road surrounded by thick underbrush, is a very solemn place.

There you'll find the unmarked graves of dozens of boys, some as young as eight.

Nobody knows who they are or how they got there.

Well, except for Roger Kaiser.

I can remember every detail, every look, every smell, everything was if it were yesterday.

Roger's childhood was what any sane person would consider an absolute nightmare.

I guess I was probably three or four years old when I went to an orphanage.

My mother had abandoned me and my sister in a house for about a week.

And we lived basically off of drinking water out of the toilet and eating dogs food.

At an early age, Rogers' world was already a living hell.

My sister, I think, was about two and a half.

And then there was a baby, of course course now that's part of the thing she had

run off with some guy because her husband my stepfather was in the navy in san die and he had

seen her for like over a year so he knew the child wouldn't wasn't hers and so she came home from the hospital and left me and my sister and the baby in the house

over a week.

And when the neighbors finally called the police, they came in through the window.

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