The Turpin House of Horrors: Turpin Sisters Share Details About How They Escaped

As the world learned what had been going on inside David and Louise Turpin’s home for decades, they went from being the quiet neighbors to being household names. Even though the House of Horrors was enough to give most people nightmares, it appears the Turpin kids are now ready to open up about their traumatic experience. Jordan’s courage on that day in January 2018 saved her and her siblings from a life of horrific abuse and captivity at the hands of their parents, David and Louise Turpin, who are currently in prison for beating, shackling, and starving their 13 children. “That was my only chance,” Jordan said. “I think it was us coming so close to death so many times.”

No one had any idea that something horrific was taking place in the Turpin house

From the outside, it appeared that the Turpin family was living at the pinnacle of perfection. In actuality, the neighbors eventually acknowledged that they rarely saw the family outside of the house, which gave them no cause to suspect anything other than a typical family that kept to themselves. They had no idea that the Turpin residence was a horror.

Following a series of horrific and horrible experiences, their 13 children wondered if the horror would ever stop. When the media found out the truth, conditions were so atrocious that the Turpin residence was dubbed the “House of Horrors.”

Some of the Turpin children had been locked in the House of Horrors for decades

For the neighbors in Perris, California, not seeing the Turpin family became routine. However, the fact that all 13 of the kids were being held captive in their own home was the real reason they never saw them. The horrific actions that took place behind closed doors were later made public.

The Turpin children had all been raised in this manner for their entire lives; some had been held captive for almost three decades. In fact, a large number of the children were so cut off from the rest of civilization that they were unaware of things like medicine or the police.

Louise Turpin came from a troubled childhood that was riddled with inappropriate behavior

It didn’t take long for the rest of the world to start wondering why David and Louise Turpin had kept their kids in captivity for such a long time. Louise appears to have had an especially difficult childhood, as her sister Teresa Robinette subsequently recalled. She acknowledged that their mother Phyllis was the catalyst for everything.

Teresa alleges that the sisters were frequently “sold” to an older, rich guy who subjected them to a variety of improper behaviors. Teresa claims that her mother would respond, “I have to clothe and feed you,” despite her pleas for him not to.

Louise’s sister claims she rarely saw her nieces and nephews

The sisters experienced many traumatic events, but Teresa later admitted that she was shocked to learn how Louise had treated her own children. She told The Daily Mail that Louise was thought of as the “nice girl” who never broke the law or did anything illegal. However, Teresa’s relationship with her nieces and nephews did finally come to an end.

She only appears to have met Louise’s four elder children once, and the others were only introduced to her via video chats. The Turpin family seemed to be expanding quickly, but it didn’t imply presenting the babies to the family.