They Left My 8-Year-Old Son on the Side of the Road. Two Hours Later, Their Perfect Lives Began to Fall Apart. My parents had always believed they were untouchable. My father, Thomas Caldwell, was a well-known contractor in our quiet Ohio town — the kind of man people trusted with handshakes and Sunday smiles. He was a Rotary Club board member, the one who sponsored the high school football team every year and paid for the town’s Christmas lights. My mother, Margaret, ran the community garden an