In 1945, the mother followed a traveling salesman to Indianapolis and they took the boy along with them.Two years later, she tried to farm her son out to foster parents, as she occasionally had done before. But this time the law moved in.Young Manson was made a ward of the county, and sent off to the Gibault School for Boys, a caretaking institution in Terre Haute, Ind. After 10 months, he ran away.