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Existence, and he was going to come save me. >> and you still loved him? >> i still loved him. yeah. >> so, jen, where are we going now? >> we're headed to my old elementary school. this is where i was a fourth grader when my mother came and told me about his arrest and crimes. >> when was the last time you were here? >> 35 years. i have just avoided coming over here because it is completely intertwined in the worst day of my life. >> how does it feel to be here right now? >> i don't know. it's strange.

Beliefs matter and understanding them matter. >> ladies and gentlemen, here's zach ibrahim. >> this is model united nations. thousands of high school students from all over the world have gathered here to learn how to become future leaders and now zach has their full attention. >> i was 7 years old when my father went to prison and there's not a day that goes by that i don't wish he had chosen a peaceful path. instead, he exposed me from a very young age to the intolerance and radical nature of extremism. yet i stand before you all today with this simple message. that no matter the level of vi...

You want it touched up a little bit? >> go ahead and look at me. >> this is jen carson. at 43 years old, jen has returned home to care for her mother, with whom she shares a close bond and a dark history. >> recently i was helping clean out my mom's house. and i found a bunch of girl scout patches. i also found some pictures. >> jen's childhood started off like many others, with a mom and dad who loved her. >> those were my parents, jim and lynn, and that's me. my mom was teaching and my father was staying home with me. >> and there's your dad doing your hair. >> yeah, i remember him doing my ...

Very, very different but strangely enough, they are very similar. they are both very protective of their mothers and they're both very passionate about their mission. in many ways, their childhoods and adult lives have been defined by what their fathers have done but they have chosen to spread messages of life and not death. >> being a child of a killer is a silent burden but jen and zach are no longer hiding. >> in the past i was trying to atone for my father's crimes and now i know i cannot bring back his victims. i can't pay this debt. it is not my debt. >> of course. thank you. >> there ar...

After trauma, that feeling goes into overdrive. sensing her ex-husband was a danger to her child, jen fled with lynn to southern california. >> when you first came here you were essentially in hiding? >> yeah. we were renting rooms and sleeping on couches. we were kind of semi-homeless. >> this place, while it looks like paradise, marks a difficult chapter in lynn's life. >> this is where my mom was working. she had to take very low-income jobs. you know, we were just very poor. i often couldn't get to a doctor to get my asthma medication, i didn't have glasses. it was an incredibly difficult ...