I was just a picture on the mountain trees,

and then they have a picture of the student,

they're smiling, the picture of the teachers, you know,

and the kids look happy.

In the mountains of California,

there was a program that promised to fix troubled kids

using a controversial form of therapy. Kids would come to that school because parents were absolutely desperate

for some kind of help, some kind of solution,

because they thought their kids were killing themselves.

We were trying to save lives.

We were in like a psychological sandstorm you know like everything was strange you were you were

going to confront yourself you're going to let people confront you and you take a deep look at who you're on how you

got there i mean by today's standard it would all illegal. You're not allowed to touch students at all.

We were always all over each other.

CETU was not a therapeutic community.

It was a school where kids came to learn how to grow up.

Just imagine, like, sitting there in a chair with people spitting on you in your face,

telling you what a piece of shit you are.

We weren't miracle workers, but we certainly produced a miracle or two.

Daniel, Daniel, was really upset. This is the really best school I don't want to stay.

Twelve months ago, I began investigating the story of a 16-year-old boy

who went missing from a so-called

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