religious reform school in a tiny community called humansville, missouri, run by stephanie and boyd householderhave any idea what was happening in that place? >> no, i didn't. i had no idea. >> amanda householder, however, did. knew that very well. boyd and stephanie are her parents. was your dad well suited to this kind of work? >> yes. because he was a drill instructor. it was second nature to him to just put people in their place. >> before he'd started working in reform schools, boyd householder had been a marine. a trainer of marines. amanda had idolized her strong, commanding father. >> when i was, like, 2 or 3, i was -- i was a daddy's little girl. >> he'd take her for drives in his jeep, she said. listen to music together. but things began to change, said amanda, when her mother persuaded the ex-drill sergeant to start going to church. there are many versions of christianity, of course. this one? do you remember what the sermons were like or what the preaching was like? >> a lot of the sermons i remember were a lot based on fear and burning in hell for eternity. >> and some, she remembe