I'm Kendall and I'm Bree and this is When the Light Goes Out.
Today is a very, very, very, very special day in history. Today is the day that Brianna Dwayne was born.
Happy birthday!
One year closer to death people.
Oh that's so true. We're all dying slowly but surely.
I just wanted to give my fellow Scorpio a shout out because wow, this girl is doing the most and she is 23 and I'm just so proud of you.
You've achieved so much and you have so much to achieve and I just love you. I'm such a proud friend.
This is a proud dad moment.
Thank you, celebrity.
Thank you fans.
No worries.
Of course I feel like you guys all know by now that when this comes out it's Friday but it is a Tuesday for us so yeah, happy fucking birthday girl.
Thank you!
I love you.
I'm old. I love you too.
I know.
I'm old now.
Well, first of all, I'm very also thankful that you decided to still work on a Tuesday even though you're off on Tuesday and have this show happen today.
We're kind of going through a little bit earlier. We're like, oh should we?
Should we not?
Should we? Should we do it today?
Y'all, school is like, I have the easiest classes but I have one class that's like a little bit more time consuming than the rest I guess.
And in theory it's like an elective so it should be easy but I definitely have to put in that work for this class and I have a paper and I don't fucking want to do it.
I don't believe you. I really don't.
So and it's due like literally in four days and it's like a six page paper and I just started researching it and wrote the introduction.
So that's how I'm at.
You guys, as far as I've ever gotten college, I would literally have a paper due and I would do it literally the morning of.
That's crazy.
I would get like pages and pages done. I'd be like good enough. I would come out with a decent grade but hey, whatever.
That's crazy. I could never. I have to get that shit done.
That's true.
Yeah, this shit was really, yeah, it's stressful but I'll get it done.
She's almost there though guys. She's almost done. After this year, she is officially a graduate student.
Oh, one second. One second. We got Bay calling us. We're back everyone. Sorry about that. We were finding out what choice could we get.
My boyfriend spoils me and today is my actual birthday so he did all my fun plans.
Like, okay, so this week I've been doing a lot of fun things for my birthday and then he took me to Chicago because he got money or whatever.
No, I'm kidding. He does have. No, anyway.
And what was I saying? Just ADHD things.
No, you're in Chicago and you saw Jesse Riaz, which I'm so fucking jealous about.
Yeah, I'm so Jesse Riaz. By the way, she puts on a great show. That was on my brother's birthday though.
So we went to Chicago like two days ago or whatever and then that was like part of my birthday gift and then for my actual birthday, he had to work.
So he's coming home from work right now and he's getting me things to spoil me.
Some ice cream and some Taco Bell. I love it.
I love that our birthdays. It's like my birthday, your brother's birthday and then your birthday. Not to make it about me, but.
We love Scorpio season.
I honestly am. I'm learning that there's a lot of Scorpios.
There's a lot of Scorpios in November. Like there's a lot of October Scorpios, but shit. There's a lot of November Scorpios.
Yeah, because October, like for November, it's the whole month. I think is Scorpio month.
Is it? Or the last two?
No, because such a terrier season, I think it's at the end of this month.
I think you're from a mistake game. But if you're not a Scorpio, what are you doing?
Yeah, if you're not a Scorpio, then what the fuck are you?
Go and get rebirthed as a Scorpio. It's pretty awesome to see him.
So parents who have sex on Valentine's Day.
Yeah, I know.
Can you stop fighting for like two goddamn seconds, please?
Get in your coffin.
It's another one of those cat things where the cats are like fighting guys.
Always fighting.
It's always a fighting match with them.
She has a bed that looks like a coffin.
Get in your bed.
Do we ever talk about how like everything in the house in your apartment is Halloween?
I don't think so.
Your round.
My apartment is literally your round.
My neighbors probably think I'm like insane too because at my door mat and I have like a sign that hangs on my door.
That's Halloween too.
And they probably think I'm fucking crazy.
Just watch.
It's Christmas.
Just watch till your your present comes.
Your present.
Oh, I'm so excited.
I know. I got her present. It's just not here yet.
So we had to... I did that two-day shipping though. It's okay.
Hit him with the two-day.
Hit him with that two-day.
Hit him with the two-day shipping.
But she's gonna love it.
I'll share it with you guys while I got her next week.
I'm excited.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Ah, well.
Can you stop?
Get in your bed.
Get in your coffin.
Boo.
Sit and listen.
It's story time.
It's so evil.
Okay.
She's gonna do it again.
Oh yeah.
She's gonna go bother Bunny.
Oh.
She's gonna go fuck with the Christmas tree.
My Halloween Christmas tree.
Hey.
Boo.
Hey.
Bunny's like, are you...
You get her, Bun.
You tell her how it is.
Boo, go ahead and swear.
Why do you have to be...
Stop.
Not my computer.
God.
Not her annoying you two.
Okay.
So she's sitting down.
So why is she's doing that?
Okay.
Yeah.
Can we really get started?
It took us a minute to get in here.
We're really excited.
It took us a minute to get in here.
We're recording late.
It's a late night when the light goes out.
So where we left off last week, we were talking about the disturbing case of the Terpun family
and it was really wild.
If you guys don't remember, of course, you can always go back to episode...
12, I think, right?
Fuck, we're already on episode 12.
That's insane.
I think this is episode...
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is episode 12.
It's part two.
This is episode 12.
But dude.
That was episode 11, yeah.
So yeah, where we left off, we really got to understand who Louise and David were as,
you know, growing up prior to becoming parents or lack thereof.
Eventually, 15-year-old Louise had got hitched to 22-year-old David.
They started their life in Fort Worth, Texas, where they also gave birth to their first
son, I'm sorry, first daughter.
Over the next two decades, they managed to birth 12 more kids as they moved around for
David's job and along the way, neglecting, torturing, and abusing every child.
So much to the point where they abandoned 11 of their children for a solid four years.
David would have the makeshift cages on deck for punishing his children made of pegboards,
and sightings, kind of the type of things you would find on tools hanging in the, or sorry,
the boards out of a hang in the garages where you put tools at.
They were set about seven inches wide by five inches tall.
Did I say that right?
Five inches wide by five inches tall.
Anyways.
Did you just say five by five?
Five by five.
Seven by five.
Yeah.
And so quote unquote, the mother and father, aka Louise and David, have moved to the family
into a trailer while staying in Real Vista, Texas.
And then like I said, they soon neglected and abandoned their children for four years
and then decided to move into apartment 40 miles away to take only two of the youngest
bunch, two of the youngest of the bunch.
And sorry, a correction from last week, just before we get started.
David, what actually he would bring frozen foods to the kids and nevertheless still neglect
them.
Louise would never even visit.
So I knew last week we had talked about if the kids fit themselves.
Actually David did bring them food, but still neglected them.
Bare minimum.
Yeah.
And then the entire time the two left their children in the trailer, they still held authority
from afar.
They called via phone to make their demands and their children were neglected of all the
knowledge in the world.
So they didn't really know how to take care of themselves.
So they had no options, but to just abide by the parents rules.
Josh and Jennifer Turbin, the two oldest, were required to change diapers, provide
meals for the rest of their siblings.
And every so often they would actually have to enforce punishments that Louise and David
would usually enforce.
These would usually result in timeouts and cages.
And if they ever refused to punish their siblings, David would punish the entire group of children
whenever he'd come back to check on the kids.
Now there is an instance where Josh and Jennifer attempted to rebel against their own parents
during this time.
Josh actually tried standing up to against David, but became so overwhelmed with the
fear that he couldn't even carry on rebelling and thought if he tried to escape it, he would
eventually just hurt his own siblings and put themselves in danger, which is just really
sad to think about.
But Jennifer would actually go almost the distance to attempt escaping.
Actually, one day in early 2008, she did manage to run away from the trailer.
Her and her siblings were captain.
One of the distant neighbors had actually saw Jennifer running towards her while the
neighbor had been taking her daughter to school that morning.
The neighbor somewhat recognized Jennifer, but hardly ever seen her before, and Jennifer
immediately backed the neighbor to help her get a job so that she could buy a car and
have a place to live.
And the neighbor actually did help her and drove her around to find work that day.
Although with little to no education and a license, Jennifer did not stand a chance of
finding any work, which is just really sad.
I think these day and age is what can you really do without having a job and without
having a license?
It's I don't know.
It's just so sad.
Especially if you don't have your parent, especially if you don't have like your parents.
Yeah.
To like drive you around or like friends.
It's kind of like a done deal.
You can do anything.
Yeah.
Unless it's like close enough to walk.
But I mean, God in this world, being by yourself walking somewhere as a girl is risky enough.
It is very risky.
It's very scary.
Living around the corner from your job can be brutal.
Yeah, it can be like not good.
Yeah.
And now the neighbor remembers how sad Jennifer was that she couldn't find a job and immediately
she asked to dial her mother Louise.
And Louise immediately came to get her assuming people would begin to ask questions, which
is just so sad that she didn't know who else to go to.
So you just went back to her mother.
This incident actually left all the real Vista residents kind of in shock.
Not all of them, but most of them.
Just on her age, being a 20 something year old woman trying to escape her family definitely
raised red flags and no police investigation or CPS reports or ever made or came of us.
Jennifer was punished earlier that day or later on that day and she was just returned
home.
Now had the authorities been called from that neighbor or anyone in the neighborhood about
this, the turban children could have been rescued long before Jordan had the time to
make her escape 10 years later.
Now in Bambrook, Texas, again 40 miles away, Louise hits a midlife crisis and decides to
dabble in drugs and alcohol for the first time in her life.
All the while, convincing David to open the relationship up to a polyamory.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
So while their children sat unfed in prisons and fighting to stay alive day after day,
Louise and David decide it would be a great idea to drive 1200 miles from Texas to Las
Vegas, Nevada to party to gamble and this becomes swingers.
As Louise tells it, quote, I just want to sew the wild oats.
I wasn't able to sew as a young 20 year old unquote.
Bitch, you have that time long time ago, but you know what happened?
Yeah, you have 13 kids at home waiting to be fed and loved.
Yes.
So you decided to be 15 years old and get hitched to a 22 year old man and then wait
till you're 40 years old to have 12 children and then start living your life recklessly.
Yeah, like that's your own fault.
As if she wasn't already living her life recklessly.
This bitch.
Louise even went as far as posting risqué photos with her random man that she would
hook up with.
Shut up.
Wearing expensive lingerie on Mindspace.
Okay, period with the expensive lingerie.
Mindspace.
I guess she like early 2000s.
Oh, she was about 40 at this time.
So my spit.
Oh, so not only but she captioned underneath the photos descriptively how the rough how
the man would be all rough with her and all of her distant relatives could see this and
she knew this too.
What the fuck.
And when she'd receive angry messages from her mom, sisters and other family members,
she would just reply, it's my life.
Now so weird.
It's all good and all if you're, you know, you don't have 13 kids at home that are being
malnourished and not going to King Shane, but like, bitch, but like you're weird.
You have no time for that.
And yeah, definitely like, like she's just weird.
It's just the fact that they and it's like they don't have the money to do any of this.
They lived in Texas, they just decided to go on this random trip to Las Vegas just to
have fun just to do all this.
Yeah, well, their kids are literally starving.
Starving at home.
Like what the fuck is wrong with you?
Like that's just gross.
Like she's just they're both gross.
Like it's not even like the fact that she's posting like risky pictures on MySpace.
That's gross.
Just they're gross.
Like they are gross.
It's just so many reasons for so many reasons.
And so guys, listeners, if you really thought from part one that Louise and David may have
learned their lesson the hard way from their debt based on their bank foreclosing on their
house, their home and going bankrupt, you are mistaken because the debt severely increased
and the two somehow managed to sneak by way free for some time.
People they barely walked away with anything from the gambling trips.
Like they made nothing from the gambling.
Oh, and in addition, David made his annual gift to himself each year to buy himself a
new luxury convertible, a new luxury convertible every year for the next four years.
By the way, I wish I wish I had that.
What the fuck?
He literally had he can't even feed his children and he's buying himself luxury luxury convertibles
and he's OK with his wife over here doing this while their kids are again, goofy at
home, goofy.
Thank you.
He's goofy.
She's goofy.
They're terrible.
And so if he also a call from part one, Elizabeth and Louise did not end up on the best terms.
That was her sister.
But after the feud between the two, Elizabeth had eventually found a husband.
They got married, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, but unfortunately, Elizabeth and her husband got into a huge argument, leaving
Elizabeth homeless while also pregnant.
Oh my God.
And right away, Louise came to help her sister, which I would say, yeah, go help her.
And then eventually her sister to get dig at birth and mom long after, you know, they're
just, you know, they're together to help each other out.
But I just thought that was really weird.
I just really needed to shoehorn that in there because it's ironic that it's this ironic that
Louise is there to help her sister, but none of her own children.
I think that's what's really weird to me.
I don't know.
The whole family's well, not the whole family.
Sorry.
It's like the older, the older parents are weird.
Yeah.
The parents are weird.
The kids have nothing to do with it.
It's not their fault.
The parents are weird.
So not to mention that Louise and David were barely scraping by acknowledging that David
also lost his job again for a second time.
Oh my God.
Man.
But this did not stop the life of being big spenders and constantly trying to wow their
family members back home because, you know, dad, it just always goes away on its own,
right?
So well, eventually Wells Fargo for clothes on their apartment.
Makes sense.
And the couple, you know, the couple shared that aside from the shitty trailer.
And it's just something right back to the shitty trailer where they left their children
abandoned and in that same day that Louise and David returned to the trailer, they packed
up the remainder of their things, packed the kids into a van and abandoned the trailer
where the kids did have pets such as dogs and cats and they just left them behind.
Oh my God.
Eventually bill collectors in the mortgage company did come looking for the turpans when
they realized the family had ditched the place weeks prior.
And the area that they lived in was just left so filthy it took the mortgage company three
months to clean it out and to resell it.
That just worth of damages cost them 30 million, sorry, $30,000.
I was going to say 30 million.
30 million.
Just tear the house down.
Ain't that bad.
It's bad, isn't it?
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
Yeah, that's as much as my car is worth.
Geez.
Well, on June 4th, 2010, the turpans managed to find comfort in their new home in Merida,
California, a beautiful home they bought off credit and redundantly Louise couldn't stop
bragging about her new home with her quote unquote loving family on social media.
But now that the family had been in a more highly populated area, people began to question
if any of these kids were receiving an education.
So to satisfy the nosy neighbors from calling the police for a welfare check, David opened
up a city day school where he'd be deemed principal and with legal documentation acknowledging
that eight children were in attendance receiving legal requirements for the grades and then
that it would only be a private school.
So this made David a valid owner of the school after several documents that he had to file
and the eight students his own kids but receive lessons from Louise maybe twice out of the
year if that.
And fun fact, legally, if a school has more than six students, a fire marshal should be
inspecting a school yearly to validate the safety for all the children.
But for years, no one would even come to inspect the school and it was just left untouched.
So this is just another incident where authorities felt these children allowing Louise and David
to continue tying these children to furniture and just neglecting them.
Now they slightly spoiled the two oldest children, Jennifer and Josh, with a camera
and a smartphone but the smartphone may only cause to Louise and David and authorities.
And this only happened because they felt that the kids were disciplined enough to where
they wouldn't dare portray their mother and father.
And they were right.
The two oldest were just so afraid that they even want to touch the technology.
So moving to Merida, California only made things worse.
It was unknown which girl but one of the adolescent girls at the time had went into the parents
room while they were gone and was curious to try on Louise's makeup and dresses.
And when they found out this, they resulted to putting all 12 children chained up by ropes.
And they did that for not keeping close eye on her.
But child would not be curious enough to go into their parents bedroom and try on a couple
of things.
A little much, whatever.
But another instance was when Jonathan, he was 15 at the time, was found being disrespectful
for taking food and they literally hawked tight home.
But Jonathan was so skinny that he slipped right through the ropes and so David just
found another way to do it by finding thicker chains and padlocks to lock him on.
And weeks and months would go by at the time where he was just a locked up like that.
And some of the girls would receive what was called a pitching, which looked this up.
Currently it's when they're being slung around by the hair.
Literally Louise would grab the girls by the hair and swing them by their hair and their
scouts would be damaged.
So I know and I can't even have here and I can't even think about how painful that might
be.
Oh my God.
And it's certainly enough.
While this is all happening, Louise and David tried getting picked up for a reality show
to show off how big their family was.
This actually was a prime reason for them moving to from Texas to California.
And at the time versus popular TV show, it was a reality show actually called Kate plus
eight.
I was about to say, what are they trying to be?
John and Kate plus eight?
Yeah, literally.
She saw that on TV and Louise felt she could upstage the show to get bigger.
And so in doing so, she literally her and her and Dickhead David had trained the kids
for literally 24 hours a day to basically be these military soldiers to fall in line
as a snap of a finger.
Every girl were identical clothes and every boy received the same exact bull cut that
we talked about last week that David had.
The bull cut coconut head.
That's a classified.
But Louise didn't think it was enough to get recognized by TLC production.
So what did she do?
She got pregnant with number 13.
Oh my God.
She just keeps whipping off these babies like it's solar paper.
Now this is when the infamous photos of the Trapin family, I think we kind of talked about
last episode began being taken.
This is started with the family standing in the field wearing bright red t-shirts and
they all look painfully thin in the photos.
It just hurts to look at some of the kids are actually holding diplomas that Louise ordered
offline to make them seem like they were receiving an education.
So like, I don't know how to explain that.
That's just so fucked up.
But you have to literally go online and just be like, OK, let me just buy my kids diplomas
to act like they actually received the education.
Actually David got a new job where he began making six figures.
So they have begun receiving more cash to recontinue having distant relatives visit
to like it, fawn over their quote unquote amazing life that the Terpins were living.
But it was only then that the family would take excursions to Disneyland so that Louise
could post the photos on Facebook to jot in more attention of others.
And a week later, yet again, David filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, owing almost a quarter
of a million dollars to scores and creditors.
Insane.
And so for those that don't know, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is for debtors unable to pay
back their current debt and to fix this, they hired bankruptcy lawyers and that bankruptcy
lawyer that they had hired cost $2,700 just for a consultation.
Oh my God.
They're so terrible with money.
So terrible.
They're terrible with everything, but like money is not it for them.
And so they filled out the means test, which is a test that you would take to be eligible
for a debt forgiveness.
And according to their filing that they owed, they owed, can you read these numbers for
me?
That's two hundred.
Okay.
According to their filing, they owed $240,564 to 63 creditors with assets of $149,000.
They claimed $100,696 in exemptions, including David's 401k, their four vehicle, and Louise's
high end clothing and jewelry.
Their occupations were listed as engineer and homemaker and their dependence of three
sons and nine daughters.
They owed $88,421 on 27 credit cards, $1,102 in unpaid cell phone bills, $396 in unpaid
pest control, disgusting, $140 in garbage cleanup from their trailer in Texas, $45,283 for their
repossessed trailer, and $40,079 for their house prior to the trailer they moved into.
That's a lot of money.
It's a lot of money.
Oh, thank you.
I cannot do numbers right now.
It's a late guy.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Fucking a lot of money that you had to owe.
And these motherfuckers were forgiven for all of it.
They didn't have to pay a dime, but they only had to pay for $24 a month for four years
to the Ford Motor Company for those cars that David had.
And by law, according to the US bankruptcy court, they had to assure that the bank, to
the court that they make severe budget cuts.
So at this point, they're on a clean slate, had nothing to pay.
Oh my God.
Why is it always like the most terrible people get away with this?
Get away with this.
Oh my God.
So where do we go from here?
Well, October 28th, 2012, they went to Las Vegas where David and Louise would make no
budget cuts, I'm sorry, to renew their vows and celebrate their marriage, leaving their
kids at home.
So what's a Las Vegas wedding without sexy wedding dresses, the expensive new platinum
blonde hair cut that she would get.
And of course, the classic Elvis at the chapel, which by the way, was called the Hound Dog
package that she paid $325 for.
And then on top of that, this was the first of three wedding renewals that they would
make in the next four years.
Jesus.
Crazy.
A lot of wedding renewals.
A lot of it.
Oh my God.
And so the trips and excursions to Disneyland will also continue when relatives would visit
and this would only be a rare excursion for the children.
So them being glad out to the public may seem like a better thing for the kids, but it's
weird because they're going out to Disneyland and I guess, again, you would think that kids
are having fun there, but think about it.
They're seeing other families very happy.
They're seeing other kids letting their, you know, other parents letting their kids roam
free around the park.
And you see turpent, you see the photos of the turpent kids all smiling, but in reality,
they're all being overstimulated because they're seeing what's in front of them just to go
home to literal hell.
So I couldn't imagine what it must feel like to be in that, that predicament of seeing
all these kids having fun.
And then you're like, it's like such a culture shock.
Yeah.
And I was like, whoa.
And it's sad because it's like, I don't think I even really thought of that until I was,
I was like, okay, wait, because these kids don't see the outside world whatsoever.
They don't know anything about the outside world and for them to be able to go to Disneyland,
that's great, but their lives aren't great.
They can't live a healthy, they can't live a happy life.
But it's going to a theme park.
Even if they are, you know what, Disneyland, they're not going to have a good time, obviously,
because their parents are still going to be like on them, you know, they still have to,
they're not going to be able to roam free.
They're not going to be able to talk to people.
They're not going to be able to really have fun.
Like they still have to listen to their parents.
And I'm sure their parents are still like very much on them.
Definitely.
Paying attention.
And the next, oh yeah.
Hold on.
Can we talk about how obviously, I mean, they're not good with money at all, but how expensive
Disneyland would be for 13 children?
Yeah.
And two parents.
Yeah, that's a really good point.
That's probably like, I swear to God, I mean, I know in today's day and age, it's almost
like $1,000 per person.
If you're like taking a flight or plane there, I don't really know.
I don't really like, don't cancel me.
I don't, I don't really like Disneyland or, well, I've never been, but I don't have any
desires to, I guess.
But I don't know how much the tickets are, but I know they're expensive.
They're expensive.
Like I know that that would cost like probably 10 grand.
And come on, it's in California.
Like only in that town.
Yeah, for sure.
It's like in an arm and a leg.
I can't even afford to go right now.
And the fact that they could, and keep in mind, they're probably taking out like lots
of money through credit, like lots of money and being that they're just, you know, forgiven
for all the debt that they already had.
And they're just putting themselves into more debt.
Like I know for sure, especially if they flew.
Like I mean, even gas would be a lot.
Like I'm sure it was well over like a few thousand dollars.
Oh, it had to be.
Had to be.
And with that, they're also consistently trying to, you know, please their family members
every time they become visit, things like that.
So the next year in September, the Terprin's would this time be all in attendance for Louise
and David's wedding renewals in Las Vegas, which Louise, but this time spent $1,195 on
a Viva Las Vegas concert package along with, sorry, along with several service fees.
And she will also pay a $400 non-refundable deposit.
Why is it so much money?
And to wrap it all up with a nice little neat bow Louise purchased a very, very high end
satin dress.
Now all the girls were handmade pink checkered dresses that she had made.
And the boys all wore very baggy dark suits.
You can also see this on our Instagram.
I'm going to post this on it.
If you guys want to, I'm not going to post this on our Instagram, but you can look at
the vowels online.
There is a video for this.
Now we've come full circle because a few short years later, the family picks up and
moves to 160 Muir Woods Road in Paris, California.
Later on January 14th, 2018, Jordan Turpin managed to escape from the hands of her abusive
parents.
So back to that night.
So it's at least six a.m. that morning when Louise hears the knock of the door and she
sees LED police lights from outside the front window.
She immediately demands that two of the oldest siblings and change their little sisters,
which if you remember from the first part, she had chained up the little sisters.
Jordan had escaped the house to get some help because she didn't want her sister chained
up.
She was trying to sing them in torture.
And this is where we were now.
So she told the two oldest siblings, I'm sorry, I'm talking about Louise now, to unchain
their little sisters and hide the chains and the padlocks in the closet.
According to John Glatz, the family next door, which I had briefly or kind of mentioned a
lot last episode, when the door opened, officers had rushed in, but it was difficult to even
walk in because the smell in the house was so pungent and overpowering that the sight
of the house was shockingly even more disturbing.
The first thing that they saw was Jonathan Turpin in the bedroom still locked up.
And when he was set free, he was actually really confused because he thought, you know,
he had done something wrong and he was supposed to be faced with this punishment.
And each room that the deputy, his name was Greg Fellows, by the way, when he walked through
the house, each room reached of human waste and spoiled food.
And every child was physically covered in dirt and grime.
And after a brief questioning, David and Louise have been arrested.
So 45 minutes after both Louise and David Turpin have been arrested and sent to the county
station for further questioning, every child had been assisted out of the house while still
in pajamas and driven to the station as well as being nurtured and just checked by the
AMT.
David and Louise Turpin had been integrated separately.
And honestly, Jordan was really the one to lay out everything that really happened that
night and years before in her family's household.
Months leading up to Jordan's escape, Jordan recalled her own father pulling down her
pants and forcing her to lay on his lap multiple times, attempting to kiss her inappropriately.
And before Louise could come home, he threatened Jordan not to say anything or he would punish
her.
He's so gross.
So yeah, she was freaking scared into not saying anything about this up until she had
gotten arrested.
Jordan had recanted that her mother had become significantly more cruel eventually to the
youngest siblings by hitting the infant and the on the head with a pencil and hitting
him once or twice or even pushing one of the youngest little girls in the family down the
stairs.
Jesus.
And when she pleaded for help, Louise just refused to give her any medical help.
So for weeks, investigators blocked off the house, collected evidence to use against both
Louise and David in court.
Angel Linda, one of the Terpene children, had been questioned.
She shared that in the best way she could remember, her last bath was a whole year ago
on Mother's Day 2017.
Keep in mind this is 2018.
And when mother was ready to move the teen from a kindergarten level to a first grade
level, she literally pushed her to learn quicker by slapping her, pulling her hair and even
picking her up and throwing her across the room.
In another interview room, sat Joanna, who was 14, Jessica, 24, and Joy, 20.
Joanna recounted that the time her mother had thrown her down the stairs, she was the
one that got thrown down the stairs, leaving her dizzy and in pain.
And when she asked, when she was asked to show her arms and bruises, they can even see it.
The investigators couldn't see anything there because of how much filth was kicked onto her
skin.
Wow.
She was that dirty.
The only clean spots that they could see were the wrists that were from the chains.
That's all they could see that was actually clean on her.
Wow.
Now, while the three girls shared their stories in another room was, you also had Joshua, who
was 25, Jaleesa, who was 11, and Janetta, who was 18 years old at the time.
Jaleesa would share how sometimes the kids had just bread and water if they were lucky.
And while watching the parents eat hearty meals, they would just sit there starving.
So she also mentioned one December in 2013, her and her three siblings were so hungry
that they had no choice but to break into the parents' pantry.
And in return, they were forced to watch everyone else eat a hearty Christmas meal while they
starved.
They just had to watch.
And Jaleesa told deputies that she had to teach herself never to cry in pain or she'd
suffer more serious consequences.
I know.
And it's just so sad because the thought that you go on Christmas not eating with your family
is heartbreaking to me.
And the fact that this little girl had to teach herself not to feel pain in order to
get past just, you know, a day is just another sad thing to even think about.
So after everyone had given their statements, Louise and David were taken to Robert Pressley
detention center and helped for nine counts of torture, ten counts of child endangerment,
and bail was set to $9 million.
Each.
All the while, police went to work to make sure that the terrible people that had kept
their kids from being fed, tortured, neglected would never see the delight of day again.
And on an even better note, that day, the kids were all sent to get medical help and
they had no clothes or anything to wear.
So medical stuff literally just went out to buy clothes with their own money.
And even the adult kids were given kids clothes because they were just so tiny at the time.
And they still wanted the kids to be in the best care.
So I literally handpicked all the physicians that were going to help them, which just makes
my heart happy because every kid deserves that.
And it's just so sad to think that there is such a bad care and to so neglect it that
the physicians even felt this way.
It's just the whole thing is just so sad.
So eventually the news outlets got hold of the case and the story just became one of
the biggest national news stories to date.
Neighbors began being interviewed and they shared all they really could, but they didn't
know a lot about them because they were never really outside.
But they did have a sense of surprise, but always did feel that something was kind of
off.
And I think having this happen was kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back.
They also all recanted that the night Louise and David were arrested, David was just crying
profusely and Lassie Louise was just just being very arrogant.
She even spit at the police and she was just just being a very ugly person.
Not surprised.
Yeah.
Why should we be right?
Well, 75 family charges were made against David and Louise Turpin, which by the way,
only apply to anything that happened between 2010 and 2018.
Oh my God.
So it's not even everything.
Not even everything.
And bail would be set up to $13 million each.
One million dollars for each child.
Good.
Now multiple hearings had taken place in regards to the case.
And during one, the judge had read protective orders to David and Louise Turpin, sitting
on behalf of the children that they must not harass, strike, threaten, assault, follow,
stalk, molest, destroy or damage property of the victims.
Distrupting the peace or surveillance of the following victims may turn into a higher
federal offense and they may not try to or get the address of any of the 13 children,
nor may they contact the list of victims unless it is specifically through the lawyer.
And they must stay at least 100 yards from them at all times other than the court proceedings.
So on April 19, 2019, in Riverside, California, David and Louise Turpin were sentenced to
25 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to holding captive and torturing their 13
children.
So that's the end of David and Louise Turpin.
As of today, UKIS can still find a lot of information about the Turpin children.
There are so many different interviews.
There's a lot of 2020 interviews and things like that between, I think it's Jordan and
I think the oldest sister, if I'm not mistaken.
You guys can find that all online.
Today Jordan looks amazing.
You guys can look up pictures of her and I'll also post a picture of her and what she looks
like today.
Unfortunately, a lot of the Turpin children want to keep their names secret, which is
understandable because I can only imagine how many press and news outlets will want
to get that story from you.
But yeah, I think they're all just living happy lives now.
A lot of them actually have full families and they're living happy lives and it just
makes me so happy.
If you guys also want to find Jordan Turpin, I think she does have a she does have a TikTok.
She's popped up on my timeline before.
Yeah, she's become very famous on TikTok.
She's actually met really big names like Hayley Baldwin.
She's met a lot of big stars, quite honestly.
And she's just for her.
Yeah, she's kind of icon.
I'm so proud of her.
And yeah, hope and as for David and Louise Turpin, fuck them.
They're gone.
They're literally right in jail, right in jail, right in hell.
And may you never see peace again.
There's a light of day again.
I hope they don't even let you outside.
No, seriously, I hope they step their foot every day.
But yeah, that is the story of the Turpin family and pretty crazy story guys.
Can't believe that we got through that.
Thank you guys for holding on to those two parters.
Next week is going to be a really nice one.
We're going to throw it back to another murder case.
It's going to be a little timey one.
That's going to be also that was recommended to us from a listener.
So shout out to that listener.
We'll get into that next week.
Thank you this week for Addis giving us this recommendation.
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