Brian Bethel met the black-eyed children while paying his cable bill. In 1996 in Abilene, Texas, after finishing a late shift at the local newspaper, he was sitting in his car outside a strip mall, writing a check. Suddenly, the hair on the back of his neck stood up. He noticed a group of teenagers standing close to his car. The teens asked for a ride to their mother’s house to get money for tickets—they wanted to catch a late-night showing at the mall’s movie theater. But something struck Bethel…
