I
Forgot what we say
What do we say oh
Duh, I'm Kendall
Stop, okay
I'm serious. I'm Kendall and I'm Bree and this is when the light goes out welcome back everyone
We took a little
Little hi-ness. Yeah, and I'm so glad that we're back here because it's been a goddamn minute
I feel like it's been a week. It's been a week. It's been kind of weird. I'm not gonna lie us not doing it for one week was kind of like
Odd but we're back. We're here. I think we did we did get a little justice in that little week
We got a lot done. Yeah, we're able to catch up on some stuff. Yes. Well first of all happy belated anniversary, Bree
Thank you
Happy belated Halloween and happy belated birthday
I'm so happy. Yeah, we did celebrate my birthday the past week
so technically my birthday was on the 7th, which is the Monday and
Previously before that like I said in the previous episode we went to a couple friends and I went to
Atlanta and it was really fun. We did a lot of shit. So we got drunk. We got drunk and
Holding down the floor. I love it
I'm not getting drunk or drunk. No, it's okay. I did get a chance to get in a lot of a
Lot of research which I'm really happy about too
I think that taking off a little week just gave us enough time to just
Recoupere and we also have two mics now. So we
Yeah, our sound doesn't sound like shit anymore. I know I know it really is nice to
Be on our own mic now. I feel more free and we can there's space space
I didn't like to be right next to you
I did love to be like next to you but now we're on the opposite side of tables and we're looking at each other and we can
Actually have a conversation. So I love it and this is professional. Yeah, this is episode 11. This is so crazy
Yeah, well, so 11 I was gonna also say this is kind of weird because this is our first time ever recording not on the Tuesday
Not on a Wednesday, but on a Thursday
Right
11 11 we'll see if I can stay up, but if it does episode 11 on 11 11, which is an important date for me
So
Don't you have a tattoo that's 11 11 last I thought
You went to God it with me. Oh shit. I did I remember
By a janky ass tattoo, you know, I don't know how I managed to recycle that memory, but it came back
So we're here was $80. It's the size. It's like some
The size of a dime. I have a tattoo. It's a K
Well, okay, listen, I think some of you know that my first name doesn't Kendall my middle name is Kendall
So my first name is
Jvon so it's Jvon. Oh my god. I like the way you say it like that because I hate my name
I never use my first name. I don't think I've ever said that on the show before. Yeah, I don't go by my first name guys
Fun fact, but yeah, and in the matter of a week, I've managed to watch like everything that's on TV. I feel like
I've had a little time on my hands not gonna lie
I have not I
What was the really good one that I like oh I watched the
Terrifier 2 and that came out there was a terrifying or two. Yeah, it just came out
I came out in theaters, but it also came out on I think you watch on the Amazon and
No, okay, the thing is I have I have like a lot of like the the horror
Like channels on Amazon. You have to like buy them separately
So I watched it that way, but I think you can still buy it pretty pretty cheap. So
Boo's coming over here to bite my computer. I know you are stop it
Oh my god is she's creeping she is creeping on me
The sweetest cat, but she's also a kitten
So she is a menace to society and one of her menace habits is to chew on the corner of your laptop and
The Apple pencil on top of the iPad in the corner of the iPad
I love you. She's so bad. She acts like they aren't
She does expensive
I know only have animals noom and I mind you this girl has like
Probably like realistically she probably has over 20 toys and she has like one two three four
Maybe like six or seven scratching posts. I was gonna say your cat has more toys than I have toys myself
Not in that way. Oh my god. She's got you in the couch
Oh, she is catching the carpet. Why is it this one spot?
She does it everywhere
She did it to her studio phone
She like fucked up Kendall literally bought the studio foam put it in the room and one of the days
We left the door open a crack mistakenly and she went in there and tore some of them up
They're still functional. It's just like a chunk of the corners missing off one boo into town on that
Such a menace and here's my beautiful bunny my angel child. Well, you can't see you can see them
But they're so cute my angel child
Let me tell you I'm not even a super huge cat person
But her cats are free freaking cute not gonna lie
But we can move on from the cat talk even though we love them
I could talk about my cats all day. We'll bring them back up later. Don't worry
Just a couple things I wanted to go over
We won't waste too much time until we go to our story of the evening
I just quickly wanted to just thank everybody for listening, of course
Please as usual just keep going on
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I love that. I want to leave well
Guess what Bree?
What I have a story for you today. Oh you have a story. I have a story and today's story is actually a listener's
Story they had some to us and
Shout out to you Addis you requested this story. It's a very widely known story
But I kind of decided to do something a little different and dive in a little deeper on this one
So was this one gonna be a two-parter? It's gonna be a two-parter
Let's get it. Yo, yo, yo
I love it
So guys if you haven't already seen from the title of this episode today's episode is
About the turpin family
Bom, ba ba ba. They're really fucked up family. Yeah, well the kids not so much
But the parents though fucked up people. Yeah, if you guys don't know which I feel like a lot of people know
the turpin family is a family of
15 15 people and
Unfortunately a lot of a lot of bad shit had went down
throughout the years with this family and
Yeah, we're definitely gonna dive into it and you know get a little taste of what happened
This story is definitely worth two parts. I think so too
I from what I know this is actually the first case that we are doing that I've actually read a full-length book
For I read the book
Yeah, I know I put a mark on this one guys. I strongly suggest you guys go check it out
It's called the family next door. It's a very popular book that had come out and I just think that it's amazing
You guys can definitely check it out. It's on Amazon. It's everywhere. You guys can find it
And yeah without further ado, let's get into the story
episode 11
We need to add the sound effects. Do you ever do that? Yeah, I did it once I'll do it again
I like this
Cool, this is this disturbing case of the turban family
just 71 miles southeast of LA in Paris, California
approximately at
530 a.m. On January 14th 2018 Jordan Turpin and her 13 year old sister
Joe Linda opened up the window of their homes climbed out from the first floor bedroom window into a world
They had hardly ever seen before they sneak out through the backyard as it's still night out and creep through the neighborhood
frightened and scared of who might see them. I mean he got two sisters running around at night slash a morning and
13 year old Joe Linda was so frightened that she had turned back home leaving Jordan all alone and dead of night
With planning an escape two years in the making which is crazy
Jordan knew she had to keep going
Jordan then reached into her pocket and
And grabbed a old used in deactivated cell phone. She remembered her brother giving her discreetly behind her parents back
With little knowledge of the use of technology
She knew she could still dial the authorities if she needed to and at that moment with little hesitation
She dialed 911 so dispatcher Kelly Akely had answered the call and Jordan
Immediately tells the dispatcher about her running away from home in a stagger kind of threeding. She's like
Really out of breath and she's saying that she lives in a household of 15 people
She has abusive parents and that at that moment her two little sisters were chained up which happens as punishment
It's so terrifying and she needed help because she cannot stand seeing them being tortured any longer
So when the operator asked her for her name, she literally actually spelled her name
T-u-r-p-e-n
She's well her name wrong. Yeah, I was about to say is it an I am yeah, it's I am and she didn't even know how to spell her own name
Over the next 20 minutes Jordan describes the horrors that she experienced with her siblings and explained that the only child that her mother
Really actually looked after was a two-year-old in the family
Jordan had mentioned that
The house her family lived in was so filthy that she'd wake up unable to breathe and
How the children including herself would rarely take baths to the point where she can even remember the last time she'd taken a bath
It was a pretty big house too, right? Like it was a nice like a really nice house like a nice house
Yeah, like or gross like the inside was nasty
you would have not known either because I want to say that the
the city or sorry the town of
Paris, California was actually very nice. They had a very nice area
Yeah, you have you know the cut grass everywhere everyone had the really nice cute garden gnomes in their area suburban
Very suburban. Yeah, and it was just the fact that no one really knew because everything on the outside looked really
Prestige everything inside totally different
Oh, it's not crazy. They're terrible people. It just makes you think you really know what's happening be clean clothes stores
See, you know, you know, it's just insane insane
So Jordan had mentioned that the house her family was lived in was filthy like I had said she had never taken a bath
Can it remember the last time she'd taken the bath?
so about 25 minutes later to police deputies has shown up and
They located Jordan on the street when they had first pulled up she was seen as really small and frail and the officers
Actually thought she was 10 years old. She was 16. She was that small. I know and so one deputy gets out and he says
What's going on?
Jordan says, okay. I just ran away from home
He says okay, and I live in a family of 15
Okay
My two little sisters right now are chained up
They're chained up. Yes
Where are they chained up at in the bed now?
Mother chained them up just to be me not just to be mean. Okay, they're chained up because mothers they stole mothers food
uh-huh
But oh, I'm sorry if I talk too much. Okay, I've never talked to anybody out there
So I don't I've never been alone with a person. So this is very hard for me to talk. Okay
How do you how how did you do your parents know you left your house? No, they don't
Do you take any medication?
What's medication?
medication
Yeah, what's medication?
Pills do you do you take pills? Oh, no, I don't think I've ever took in any pill before
Okay
Right, I haven't our parents are abusing they they abuse us
But the reason I called in the reason I managed to get out of here
This is one of the most scariest things I've ever done. I'm terrified
But I called because my two little sisters they're they're chained up right now
So that is the little interaction between the deputy and Jordan. You actually did that really well
I did I that video like recently just so yeah, yeah, thank you. Yeah, I was just gonna say that actually just came out as a
Video that just surfaced so I'm really happy that someone actually
Reference this story because I'm like that just came out and I had seen that and I was like wow
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, she does stutter a lot and so that was something that I really wanted to just make sure I got I actually did
Rehearsal
So yeah, so that had to happen and before Jordan had actually escaped her home
She was smart enough to take pictures
She took pictures of her two malnourished sisters and one of the room and one of the rooms where they had chained up
Or a lot of the kids have been chained up to the bunk beds
So after showing the deputy the photos the sheriffs immediately go up to the home of 160 mirror woods
Road to conduct a welfare check the deputy knocks on the door and eventually the door opens
She was so smart for that considering she like I know we're gonna get into it later. Oh go for it
considering that
The way she grew up was so bad. Yeah, truly knew nothing
Now never been in the outside world before like yeah
I hope I don't sound like a broken record but a lot of these kids only had what was up to a first grade education
So they didn't know a lot of stuff about anything quite honestly and they only took whatever they really knew
From as we'll find out later a lot of the biblical things are on the walls a lot of the stuff that was just laying around the house and
At most they had maybe a couple
alphabet books and most of them even know how to finish alphabet at that point
Yeah, and they like really went outside and if they did it was like super vise super. Yeah
Was
We're gonna get to that. Oh, yeah. No, you're good. You're good. I love it
So before we go any further, let's just rewind a bit. We're gonna just turn about the clock
so let's just pay attention to who these awful parents were and
What the hell they did to do these to these kids up at the miss predicament? Okay, so
David Turpin the father of 13 Turpin children first started having feelings for a 10 year old Louise Turpin
Mother of 13 Turpin children. We're really early on wait one more time
How old was he you heard that right?
David Turpin the father of 13 Turpin children at the time being age 17
First started having feelings for a 10 year old Louise Turpin. That's
Disgusting but wait girl
So bad so
David was always very pretty tall next to standard the male height
He was somewhere around, you know six feet and over and at a young age both David and Louise would
always go to the same
Pentecostal church service and Princeton, West Virginia where they both were born and raised and around the same age of 10 years
old Louise knew she actually loved David and
Even told her grandmother quote. I'm having a dozen children with this man one day
What the fuck?
Yeah, I know I hate everything about that. I know I know it makes me very ill and just just wait
So eerily enough almost a decade earlier
David's Reverend father had also been having an affair with a 16 year old girl and along with that David already
Had a gnarly family background where he was raised to believe that he needed to have as many children as possible to grow the Turpin family lineage
David Turpin as a young boy was very
Smart he was a high achiever. He was top of his class. So he was on the honor roll and
He was also very reserved and quiet around people
So also, I just had to know his hairstyle fucking bugs me if you ever look at pictures of him fucking bull cut
It's the bull cut and he was influenced. I saw in the book by
The Star Trek character caught Spock, but all I see is coconut head from that's the classified
Guys look up. I'm sorry. That might be more of a Gen Z show, but look up. That's classified
It is the best show that has to be like a millenial show to you. Come on. It's a great show
That was from no, that was not well. Are we Gen Z?
I don't know that wasn't from like the teenagers now time. That was teenager us
T. J. Jera's yeah, I used to watch that show religiously love that show now. I feel like watching it when I get home
It was around the time David was graduating high school when David grew mantic feelings for ten year at Louise
Their parents were both religious families. So they knew each other very well and according to the family next door
Which is the book I had just dove into David
I actually held Louise when he was just when she was just an infant if that gives you a clear picture of the age barrier
Oh my god, imagine holding your spouse. That means he was like seven when she was probably yeah, or something
Yeah, big difference big difference
So like I said Louise's family also worked for and around the pedicastal church
And if others weren't sure what the pedicastal church is because I actually didn't according to BBC dot
Co.uk
Pentecostalism is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of
Holy Spirit and the direct experience of the presence of God by the believer
Pentecostals believe that faith is most must be powerfully
Experimental and not something found merely through ritual or thinking so anyways Louise ultimately grew up working as a tailor early on
I also believe her maiden name is Louise Rubin Rubin it or Robin at Robin it
Here I'll like zoom in
It's like this word Robin Robin it Robin it Robin it. I'm gonna go final answer Robin it. We got it
locked in
Robin it Robin it like kitchen it. Oh does kitchen. I didn't think about that Robin it
We're Robin it Robin it Robin it
So she did also come from a pretty financially well off background
But not for the best reasons which we'll discuss in a minute
She had two little sisters that she deeply cared for and later on a stepbrother
Her little sister Elizabeth will actually later recall Louise being a very productive sister or protective sister
And I just find that very ironic as fuck to be so protective, but you later become a mother. That's very neglectful
So Louise's mother Phyllis would often suffer with money even though her father or their father was a working man
So she will literally drive Louise to their wealthy grandfather's house and would turn her over
To her grandfather for sexual pleasures and in exchange
ah
He would pay her a lot of money and because he apparently was so wealthy and a big-time businessman
She would just consistently take her and her sisters to his house to enact any sexual acts
Why is every case got some like gross incest?
I think it's everything I choose
We just have like I noticed that ramp up, but it's not like oh
my god, it's like just like
Straight up abuse man. It is
Well, it's just crazy because when I was reading the when I was reading about this
I was thinking like I don't think this is something that would happen, right?
No, it is and it's just crazy to think that
Your family your own family members wait even do whatever they can do just to you know
Like it's the fact that like almost every two crime case that we've talked about recently
It's like the grandpa. Yeah, isn't it? Yeah, we talked about those Eileen Warren. Oh, isn't we? Yeah. Oh shit
That's like a family member abusing one of the kids like
That's just so bad. That's so
Many levels. I just don't get it
Eventually as Louise got older
She attended the same schools that David
Had attended at the time Glenn with junior high and then Princeton high school
similar similar
Similarly, thank you
She was a very quiet student like David was and she often was bullied and harassed at times and all around
She just secluded herself from her peers and when she wasn't at school
She was just attending church at home with her siblings or clearly being sexually abused
And then many people in Louise's family suspect that this was happening to Louise but ignored it to avoid
Tarnishing the holy family name
Now by the age of 15 years old
Louise started secretly dating 22 year old David who was a student at Virginia Tech at the time
Oh my god
so a
baby but a older baby
So in 1984 the year David graduated from Virginia Tech the couple started to plan ways to escape their families and get hitched
So around the time Christmas rolled around David finally struck a scheme to take him and Louise off to get married in Fort Worth, Texas
The night before leaving Louise pulls aside one of her sisters Elizabeth with Louise's duffel already packed and tells her sister
Hey, I need to tell you something very important. I'm running away with David. He's going to be very rich and when we are
I have to have a lot of babies and I want you to come visit
So then she made her promise to keep his secret and then the next day Louise waved goodbye to her parents and headed off to school per usual with her duffel
Their plan was David would actually act as a child and then she would go to school
Actually act as her dad to sign her out of the high school
It's sad because of that age difference and now the crazy thing and the thing I feel like I kind of thought about is hey
David went to the same school as her because they went to the same, you know, they grew up in the same town
but
David got a little smart and maybe a little dumb at the same time
He was at least bold enough to buy a fake mustache and cowboy hat
Oh, he's so stupid to pretend to be her father and
The crazy part is no one questioned him. Oh my god Louise just came down to the office and they were gone
Now I want to just explain what happened afterwards
I didn't put this in my notes or anything because I felt like I could have this by muscle memory
But the next day
Well, I'm gonna even say the next day later on that day Elizabeth that came home and she came home without Louise
and so their their parents or sorry her parents
Elise was just like where where the hell is, you know, look where the hell is your sister and
Elizabeth is just standing there like
She didn't come home with me. She knows but she was just keeping her secret. Yeah, and
So immediately she and her dad go to the store go to the school. They look for her
They're like, where is she the the office tells her, you know, something her dad checked her out
so they call her dad her dad's like I never picked her up and
They later figure out that
Who could it be? It's David
now
David
Was very close with her family because like I said her their families were pretty close because of the church and
The problem was is that they knew that David had this thing going on with her and so
Her father's name was actually Alan and he had mixed emotions about the couple and after the cop actually found them in Fort Worth
He was going to press charges because you can't take a minor across state lines
but he decided not to and he did it for the sake of not tarnishing the family's religious reputation and
He just left the marriage happen. He got on the phone with her and he told her
You're an adult now. You're gonna take care of yourself and this is if this is what you really want
I'll sign the papers
That was that so on February 11th 1985
they were officially married and
Parisbury, Virginia and
Then quickly went back to Fort Worth to begin their new life together and Louise never went back to school after that
Hmm
Crazy enough to me. I
Thought about it and I'm like well, they wanted to go to Fort Worth writing they get married in Fort Worth
I don't look this up or whatnot, but I assume it was partly because maybe they have laws against children getting married
But I don't know I'm just taking a hunch
So on July 28th 1988 Louise gave birth to her firstborn
Jennifer Dorn and at this point the Turpins were living in Southern, California
Both Louise and David were ecstatic to be bringing a newborn into their lives and Louise even invited her mother and sister to visit
To show them how well they were doing Louise's sister Teresa will also recall that she had a blast
Visiting them and she actually had the best time of her life
She said that they would take trips to Disneyland's wax museums
You know if it's a studio's and they kept their home actually very neat and clean, but eventually
David's line of work would move around a lot
Especially between Fort Worth and Southern, California and what David's nice job
Which I think he went into aerodynamics dynamics. He eventually start making
Five figures. It's pretty damn good for someone who's just starting out
so
We make five figures
Do we?
That'd be like twenty thousand dollars. Maybe that's kind of normal. Never mind. It's five figures
Yeah, you're right. Never mind. Oh, I do. I'm so dumb. I'm thinking like is it?
No, that's no
I'm thinking about six figures and how well that is but he did start making five figures
He did start making that at a point. We'll get to that. Everybody be making five. Everyone's settled down. Gosh
I'm so excited for her. Jeez. I just smack this. Oh, no, you're fine. You're good. I'm an amp see. I'm sorry. No, it's okay
You're good. So on February 3rd 1992
Louise would give birth to her second child Joshua David and surely after the turpans had to file but for bankruptcy. Oh my god
David was making good money, but they were spinning well over their means and well over the budget by July
1993 Louise was heavily pregnant with her third turpin child. Oh, I didn't let me say that like that. Okay, so
By 1993 Louise was heavily pregnant pregnant with a third turpin child and gave birth to a baby girl named Jessica
Louise on November 3rd 1993
That's a cute name. That is
Notice that everyone starts with a J. Yeah
Weird weird, right?
Family's weird not kids. Just the parents the parents something wrong with them
December 17th 1995 the fourth child Jonathan Wang was delivered and shortly after his birth the family of six takes the
Chilil trip back to Princeton
Oh, it is. Oh my god, sorry sight note real quick
So I'm gonna accidentally text it Bree and it just got really set for a minute because what did they say?
it was a
Obviously a wrong number text, but it was saying something along the lines of like hey Mike like you're gonna beat cancer's ass
Kid cancer's ass today. Oh, blah, blah, blah, blah
And I was like I gotta respond to this normally I don't respond to like yeah wrong messages
wrong messages unless they're like
Seem kind of important or whatever, but if it's just like a high or whatever. It's whatever um, but I was like
I gotta respond to this one and I was just like hi you have the wrong number
But I really hope my kicks cancer's ass will keep him in my thoughts
And I'm definitely keeping this man in my thoughts. That's so sad too. Oh my god. The way she replies is so sorry
She's like OMG. I'm so sorry, but like don't be sorry
Oh, that's so sad. I'm like I hope he makes it through piss through man
It's not an inconvenience for me. I'm so sorry that you know someone with cancer
That's so sad. I know I'm like I'm really crying
Geez, okay. Well, let's take it from a sad story to another sad story
So where were we okay December 17th
1995 the fourth child Jonathan Wayne was delivered and surely after his birth a family of six takes a little trip
Back to Princeton to show off their succeeding family quote-unquote even though they're
Bankrupts bankrupt still probably right. Yeah, they still are yeah, and
Although dis relatives did start noticing that for such a wealthy family the kids were very low in clothes
And we're very dressed all the same
Which I guess isn't too weird
If you go shopping at a at that time maybe like a Kmart and you're getting close for everyone whatever
Yeah, I don't think it's that weird but
Louise's sister Teresa will also recall the kids being very well tamed and
walking a single file line wherever they went from point A to point B as if they were like
You know and boot camp or something
She described the bunch as a private school rather actually than a family which is really sad and
Louise and David seemed a little bit overly strict
So keep in mind this family just filed for bankruptcy like Bree said and yet
Still trying to impress distant relatives with expensive meal trips and materials to guide them
So I think that also says a lot about this family that yeah
I was gonna say how you're gonna be bankrupt, but like be going on trips and like yeah
I'm not going around and and having more children like you don't have that money and and you're having more children
and one thing we will not discuss in this in this
two-parter is
Why because I don't know like I don't know why I wish I did but I don't know why they did what they did so I
Think the first person to kind of realize appearance neglects of the turpent children was Louise's sister Elizabeth
When summer she came to visit actually she came to visit the family and I think she kind of stayed for the whole summer
She was just off from college and she recounted realizing that her niece
Needs and nephews had to ask to use the bathroom. They had to ask to eat before eating and
She felt that her sister and brother-in-law which is very cold towards the young children
She shared how they'd yell at all the kids and just belittle them to no degree
Red flag red flag all the way so they would actually
Rarely be able to socialize with Elizabeth unless Louise was around and it's also sad that from this point on David would
Solidify his family from being a normal family into a cult where he was the authority in command and making Louise the second in command
He often abused Louise as well and claimed at a point he stopped but it was never actually analyzed
There is a term that the novel that I have read
used caught call it brainwashing, which is was
kind of like a morbid technique that is used to kind of
Take effect of like your own family members or like people around you to obey and stuff like that and the kids were only
To address their parents as mother and father, which is very much very cold very cold very DC
Like yeah, I don't like that the kids would have to follow strict orders or they would be
Severely punished. Unfortunately. There were probably many families out there or probably are so many families out there that
Might still be doing this and it's just so sad to think about that, you know, we won't know that unless someone comes forward
so
So as if Elizabeth didn't already feel uncomfortable about being around her sister and brother-in-law
Especially with the parenting skills eventually David would make passes at Elizabeth and he would eventually pull aside Louise
And tell her I have a thing for your sister
So, oh my god, what they did hate this man
Was him and Louise were repeatedly going to the bathroom when Elizabeth would take a shower and just watch her
Just she know sit there and watch her
Did she know at a certain point she did figure out they were doing this and the visibit Elizabeth wanted to do something about it
But she didn't have enough money to fly back home. So she had to get a summer job while she was staying with them and
Louise made it clear that Elizabeth could not be making any friends. I'll stay with her family
But like any normal human would Elizabeth made a friend with her fellow co-worker and Louise noticed that this was
Happening and when she chopped her off one day
So Louise literally just left her sister there and never picked her up later that day. I hate that. I am mad about this
So so controlling she literally stranded her sister for several days and she had to go to a nearby Walmart
It's to sleep on a bench and eventually when Elizabeth could get a hold of her sister Louise told her go back home
The only reason why she was able to even go back into the house is because she threatened to call the police
So May 21st 1997 Louise
Louise thank you. Louise Louise Louise. Thank you. Yeah, you got it Louise births a baby number five
Hi, it's a tongue twister joy Donna. I thought we were on number six
Where are we?
Wait, I say number six. No hold on maybe you I'm so stupid. I keep doing this. Maybe my family of six
Oh, yeah, yeah, I did I did I was like, oh shit that I say
Yeah, okay, there we go. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Okay. No, you're right
You're prettier
Jennifer the oldest around this time was eight years old and she really started to become hyperactive
She would just sit around her room for hours on end fiddling and playing with her hair and constantly doodling on any surface and at school
She showed some kind of weird deserving behavior
So you would be playing with other kids then just start touching herself and just itching herself in her genital region
Definitely not normal. Not normal. I want to say I mean with the
Given information, maybe she was just really dirty. I'm assuming that might have happened
So I'm also sorry in the background the cats are playing
My apologies. No, I love it
So the kids that went to school with her had later on reported that she would reek of mildew and urine
I know and she will also just reference topics about sexual abuse that usually children should never know or have any
acknowledgement of or sorry not acknowledgement knowledge of and
Just that all around gives red flags. So she would be sent to the principal's office
But the school never contacted her parents or conducted any Wilfrich act so June 15th
1988 the sixth this
June 15th
1998 the sixth child Julian Phyllis is born
The family of eight then take to what would be their last and final trip to Princeton, West Virginia
So they visit their family members and now this visit ended very abysmally to say the least
long story short
Luisa's sister Teresa saw the state of her nieces and nephews and she was extremely horrified
Assuming that Luisa's giving these children the same treatment that their own parents gave them
there was also a lot of disagreements on this trip and Luiz and David about never to return back to West Virginia
So spring of 1999 came and things got way worse
The bank had eventually foreclosed on their Fort Worth home and Luiz
David and their six children were evicted
thereafter the kids were just pulled out of school and
No one really questioned it
the turban children would never ever be going to an education in public again and
They were under their parents custody, so they just learned from them Luiz who dropped out at 16 years old
To get hits with David what just become the teacher going forward
So creepy
so David would also begin feeding false narratives and
Just about the outside world to scare the children out of any curiosities they would have and on July 27th
1999 Janetta Betty would be the seventh child in the turban family
The family moved into a home in Rio Vista
They were very secluded now and the area was actually a pretty nice area that clean community even had its own private school
But the turban children were completely just out of the public view or public eye
They did have curious neighbors not too far away from where they lived in Rio Vista
The couple had some kids their neighbors and they would get excited seeing such a big family moving in across the street
And when they went across the street to greet the turpans, no one would acknowledge them. They just ignore them. I
Know and the neighbors would tried several times actually and time and time again to get Luiz and David's attention
Whenever they saw them come and go, but they just ignore them and just act like they weren't there
I know these these Luiz and David come on
Yeah, y'all they get there. It's don't worry
So now the eighth child I wasn't really
Sure about because the book didn't really explain it very well
And I didn't really find many good sources to say who the eighth child actually was
So I'm just gonna assume that I was shortened because it seems based on her age when she gets, you know
She escapes from home and everything it kind of matches up. So I'm assuming that
Let this child being bored between 2000 and 2001. It was property Jordan
I do know by 2002
Luiz was pregnant with her ninth child. What's his James? Yeah, I know, right?
so many and
Now to the outside world Luiz and David did a pretty good job putting up a front with their co-workers neighbors and extended family members
Because they were all just believing that they were living a great life the whole time
They went by the kids expensive clothes ranging from a hundred to two hundred dollars. There's actually one instance when
Luiz's sister
had come to visit and
She hadn't noticed that other clothes like she knows the kids clothes were just
She knows that kids clothes were just
Really neatly folded and they were like 200 and like 200 and 300 dollar clothes like they're really nice expensive clothes
Yeah, but the crazy thing is they would also buy them nice foods presents for Christmas
But the kids would never be able to actually touch any of it
Luiz and David will even put a cake out in front of the kids and make them just stare at it
It's not crazy
Oh, that's so fucked like Jesus Christ. Some people like should not this is a perfect example of
Some people should not have kids some people should not be allowed to have children
You would think after the first one you'd be like, okay, I don't I don't need kids. They should not be allowed to have made
How many 13? Mm-hmm 13 children
That's insane just thinking about not have been able to raise those 13 children like that is so
What still bonkers to me is that?
Boo is playing with that toy over there. No, it's not like babe
Anyways
Wait, actually, oh well, it's fine. I don't know what that is
What I was crazy is what's crazy to me is just that um
it's like no one caught the
Authorities like no one up until a certain point when Jordan escaped
Caught the authorities and it's just crazy that they kept this whole family under wraps so long
So it's the fact that people notice though like they notice small things
comes to school
stinky
Bad clothes and doing weird things like those are red flags. Those are big
To you know fucking the flags like oh my gosh. Yeah, and so
Once again, I'm not sure of the 10th child's name
But we know they laugh in push a Linda the 10th child's name again
I tried my best to look this much as I could maybe in the part, too
I could find that by then but gonna find their name if you guys know let us know by then in
2006 the 12th child
Jaleesa was born and Louise and David were so excited because they really wanted this 12th child
it's the number of children that Louise had always said that she'd have and
They even made a fucking email and get this it's called
Blast by the dozen at whenever I don't know what it's called that calm which was a little spoof of cheaper
Brother doesn't with Martin Lawrence like don't fucking run that movie for me
Blast by the dozen I don't like that like fuck off shut up shut up
So we're getting closer and closer to the day that we left on out and left on at at the beginning
David has managed at this point to construct a makeshift cage to keep the kids in for days at a time
Days at a time now for a small bit of time Louise would let the kids see their extended family members over
Skype
But she never allowed them to actually visit in person
She always said after that we're never going back to West Virginia
But eventually she cut that off, too
she does never let them even see the kids in Skype and
She would spend lives to the disenfamily members as to why they couldn't see them
The craziest part to me though that really broke my heart is
Randomly Louise and Ticket David abandoned their kids for a solid four years
The only
Took two of the youngest ones and left the rest to fend for them for themselves
Oh my god having absolutely no knowledge of the outside world with first-grade knowledge levels
They didn't know anything else to do other than stay in the house
So they had no medical treatments given to them the pets that they had and they were allowed to have
Which is die and they're just be left around the house the king and
As well nurses they were I'm really surprised they just stayed alive that long
Yeah, like where were they getting food from?
I think one one source told me that I think one of the older older ones
I think at this point they're in the 20s still living under the roof and unknowingly
About what the outside world was about they wouldn't manage to be able to get frozen foods
But other than that they're just surviving on that for four years
four years
but
For now that wraps us up for part one of the Turban family
Stay tuned for number two because it gets crazy and I
Know when we come back next week guys we're going to discuss
Of course what happens at night when Jordan had called the police what they saw when I got in the house
What happened during the trial period when the Turban parents were arrested?
Justice was served where those kids are not today. They are thriving today. I think one of them has a tiktok
They do and we were gonna talk about that because I saw that and I did not know about that
Know about that before yeah, she does she's actually become very successful. I'm really proud of her
We're gonna definitely dive in deep for that and yeah, that rest me up for part one guys
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