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>>> an amazing escape to save a

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family by a terrified girl with

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towering counselor.

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>> this is 911.

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Do you have an emergency?

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>> I just ran away from home,

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because we have abusing parents.

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>> my hole body was shaking.

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>> trying to save her 12

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siblings from a house of

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horrors.

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>> the only word I know to call

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it is hell.

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>> diane sawyer with a story of

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survival like you've never seen.

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>> every day did you wake up in

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terror?

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>> for the first time anywhere,

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the raw police body cam footage.

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Inside the house in realtime,

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and the secret recordings the

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children made on a camera hidden

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in a barbie doll, and the

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superstar who never knew he

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inspired them to break free.

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>> I started realizing there was

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a different world out there.

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>> now, two sisters who risked

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their lives to save them all and

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move them from terror to

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triumph.

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>> I went, wow, they're strong.

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>> this is life.

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>>> a security camera is rolling

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in a quiet, suburban california

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neighborhood.

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At the house across the street,

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in the shadows, someone quietly

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opens a window and slips out.

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Watch.

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There, a blurry figure stepping

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forward.

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A small, uncertain girl heading

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one way.

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Then she turns, hesitates, and

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starts to run, clutching an old

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cell phone.

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>> that was my only chance.

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At least if something happened

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to me, at least I died trying.

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>> 911 emergency.

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What are you reporting?

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>> um, help.

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>> this is 911.

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Do you have an emergency?

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>> um, I just ran away from

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home.

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>> do you know what street

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you're on?

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>> um, no.

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Uh, I just ran away from home

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because -- I live in a family of

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15, okay?

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Can you hear me?

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And we have abusing parents.

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Did you hear that?

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>> okay.

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How do they abuse you?

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>> okay, they hit us.

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They throw us -- they like to

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throw us across the room.

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They pull our hair.

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They yank our hair.

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I have two -- my two little

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sisters right now are chained

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up.

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>> okay, how old are you?

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>> I'm 17.

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>> what's your name?

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>> jordan turpin.

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>> okay, I'm going to connect

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you to the sheriff's department

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so that they can help.

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>> what?

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>> one moment.

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Don't hang up.

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>> I won't.

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>> a second dispatcher picks up.

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>> hello.

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>> oh, yes, I'm still here.

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>> nearly four years later,

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this is jordan turpin

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remembering that night.

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>> my whole body was shaking.

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And when I was holding the

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phone, I remember the phone

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was sh -- like, I couldn't

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really dial 911 because --

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I'm sorry.

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>> you were shaking too much?

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>> yeah, I was shaking, and so I

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was trying, like, to -- to dial

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911, but I couldn't even get

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my -- my thumb to press the

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buttons because I was shaking so

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bad.

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But I was, like, trying to,

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like, calm down.

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Thank you so much.

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I was trying to, like, calm down

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so I could -- I could --

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to do it.

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And then I finally, like,

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pressed it, and then they

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answered.

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I literally never talked to

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somebody on the phone.

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>> what's your address?

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>> okay, you got to give me a

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minute.

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This is going to take a while.

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I've never been out.

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I don't go out much, so I don't

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know anything about the streets

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or anything.

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>> the dispatcher tracks her

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location from the gps on her

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cell phone and sends out a

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request for a police officer.

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A deputy across town volunteers.

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He's 14 minutes away.

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>> and I was freaking out

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because I was like, "wait, are

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they gonna take me back there?"

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like, I was so scared in that

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moment.

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I was actually on the road,

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because I didn't even know about

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the sidewalks.

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You're supposed to be on the

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sidewalk, but I'd never been out

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there.

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>> the caller tries to find her

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house address on a piece of

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envelope she stuffed in her

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backpack.

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>> my address is

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9-2-5-7-0-5-7-4.

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Did you get it?

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So now you just gave me a whole

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bunch of numbers.

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You didn't give me any kind of

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street name there.

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>> oh, okay, I'm sorry.

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I think those are the numbers on

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my house.

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>> that's your zip code.

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You're -- the numbers on your

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house should only be three

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digits.

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>> finally she reads the correct

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address but is panicking, not

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knowing whether her parents can

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look out a window and see her.

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>> are you at a corner right

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now?

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>> uh, I -- I might be.

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>> are you at -- is there a

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street sign?

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Is there a pole with two names

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at the top?

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>> I just see -- I just see a

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stop sign.

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>> okay, can you go over and

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stand right at that stop sign?

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>> yes.

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And then eventually I saw a stop

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sign.

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And I stood by the stop sign.

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And she told me to stay there,

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and I was like, "I'm scared

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they're gonna come."

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like, I wanted to leave.

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I was so terrified because I

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know they way they were.

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They wouldn't care if they knew

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police were coming.

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They would just kill me right

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there and there if they realized

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that -- especially if they knew

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I was on the phone with the

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police.

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>> but she tries to remain

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brave, because of her siblings.

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She is their hope.

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>> the reason I ran away from

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home was because the chains were

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making places, and they will

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wake up at night.

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And they would start crying, and

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they wanted me to call somebody

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and tell them.

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And so I wanted to call -- I

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wanted to call you all so you

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all could help my sisters.

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>> do you think anybody in the

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house will need to go to the

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hospital?

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>> uh, I'm not sure.

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Sometimes we live in filth, and

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sometimes I wake up and I can't

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breathe because of how dirty the

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house is.

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We never take baths.

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>> when was the last time you

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had a bath?

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>> what?

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>> when was the last time you

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had a bath?

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>> almost a year ago.

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>> I had to make sure that if I

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left, we wouldn't go back.

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Because -- and we would get the

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help we needed, because if we

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went back, there's no way I

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would be sitting here right now.

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>> I don't know how you had the

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courage, never having spoken to

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anyone like that.

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>> I think it was, like, us

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coming so close to death so many

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my siblings, and when I saw them

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crying and worried, I just felt

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like I had to do it.

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Like, like, I just wanted to do

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it.

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I wanted to help everyone.

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>> do you know if your parents

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keep any kind of weapons in the

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house?

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>> uh, I think that my father

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has a gun.

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>> have you seen the gun?

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>> no.

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But they've talked about it.

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>> the dispatcher knows if this

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girl with the strange cadence

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and vocabulary hangs up or the

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call drops, there's no way to

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get her back.

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Her old phone has been disabled.

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It can only call out to 911.

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So the dispatcher tries to keep

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her talking.

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>> do you know what your dad's

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name is?

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>> david turpin.

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I don't know much about my

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mother.

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She doesn't like us.

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She doesn't spend time with us

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ever.

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>> does anybody at the house

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take any kind of medication?

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>> oh, I don't know what

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medication is.

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>> any medicines?

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>> ah, when we have a cold,

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sometimes we take robitussin.

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>> at incredible speed, the

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girls rattles off the names and

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ages of each sibling.

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Their names have been redacted.

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>> [ bleep ] is 2.

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>> [ bleep ] is 11.

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12, 14, 16.

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I'm 17.

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18, 19, 20.

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>> the deputy is now just seven

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minutes away.

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>> I just want to stay on the

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phone with you.

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Um, how did you get this phone

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that you have?

291
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>> ah, it was a phone that my

292
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brother had that he was gonna

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throw away, and I had to have a

294
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way to contact somebody like

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you.

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So I got it so I could call 911.

297
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>> and you guys don't have any

298
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friends or anybody who comes

299
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over to the house?

300
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>> hi.

301
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>> hey.

302
00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:10,382
>> okay.

303
00:09:10,417 --> 00:09:11,283
>> is that the deputy?

304
00:09:11,318 --> 00:09:13,552
>> um, yes.

305
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>> go talk to him, okay?

306
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>> yes.

307
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>> all right.

308
00:09:16,023 --> 00:09:16,655
Bye-bye.

309
00:09:16,690 --> 00:09:18,423
>> hi, jordan.

310
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>> you're looking at the body

311
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camera footage from the deputy

312
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as he arrives.

313
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>> hi, what's going on?

314
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>> reporter: Moving into frame,

315
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the skittish girl who has to

316
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convince this stranger her story

317
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is real.

318
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>> I was so nervous, because it

319
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was -- I've never had, like, a

320
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conversation with a stranger

321
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before.

322
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And so I saw him, and he was so

323
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serious.

324
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And he was tall, and aye never

325
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talked to a stranger.

326
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I was so, like, scared.

327
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I didn't know what he was

328
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thinking, because he had just

329
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like, one straight face.

330
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>> reporter: You didn't know if

331
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he believed you or not.

332
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>> right.

333
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He was like, did you have any

334
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proof of this?

335
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I was like yes.

336
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>> he knew they were real.

337
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It was obvious they were real.

338
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>> reporter: When we come back,

339
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the photos, the body cam

340
00:10:05,272 --> 00:10:07,572
footage, and what the deputy saw

341
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that changed everything.

342
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>> reporter: You're watching

343
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footage from a body camera, a

344
00:10:23,290 --> 00:10:25,123
deputy walking up to an anxious

345
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girl with a disjointed story.

346
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>> hi, what's going on?

347
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>> okay.

348
00:10:28,395 --> 00:10:29,361
I --

349
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I just ran away from home.

350
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>> okay.

351
00:10:37,604 --> 00:10:39,237
>> and I live in a family of 15.

352
00:10:39,272 --> 00:10:40,639
>> okay.

353
00:10:40,674 --> 00:10:41,139
>> my two little sisters right

354
00:10:41,174 --> 00:10:41,673
now are chained up.

355
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>> they're chained up?

356
00:10:42,409 --> 00:10:44,376
>> yes.

357
00:10:44,411 --> 00:10:45,143
>> where are they chained up at?

358
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>> on the bed.

359
00:10:46,546 --> 00:10:47,278
Now, mother didn't chain them up

360
00:10:47,314 --> 00:10:48,713
just to be mean.

361
00:10:48,749 --> 00:10:51,783
Okay.

362
00:10:51,818 --> 00:10:53,151
They're chained up because they

363
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stole mother's food.

364
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>> uh-huh.

365
00:10:57,557 --> 00:10:58,890
>> but -- I'm sorry if I talk

366
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too much.

367
00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:00,458
Okay.

368
00:11:00,494 --> 00:11:01,960
I've never talked to anybody out

369
00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:05,030
there, so I don't -- I've never

370
00:11:05,065 --> 00:11:08,400
been alone with a person, so

371
00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:08,767
this is very hard for me to

372
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talk.

373
00:11:09,069 --> 00:11:09,634
Okay.

374
00:11:09,670 --> 00:11:11,036
>> how did you -- do your

375
00:11:11,071 --> 00:11:11,302
parents know you left your

376
00:11:11,338 --> 00:11:12,570
house?

377
00:11:12,606 --> 00:11:13,838
>> no, they don't.

378
00:11:13,874 --> 00:11:14,439
>> do you take any medication?

379
00:11:14,474 --> 00:11:15,140
>> what's medication?

380
00:11:15,175 --> 00:11:16,107
>> medication?

381
00:11:16,143 --> 00:11:16,775
>> yeah.

382
00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:17,375
What's medication?

383
00:11:17,411 --> 00:11:19,544
>> do you take pills?

384
00:11:19,579 --> 00:11:22,113
Do you take pills for --

385
00:11:22,149 --> 00:11:22,614
>> oh, I don't think I've ever

386
00:11:22,649 --> 00:11:23,515
taken a pill before.

387
00:11:23,550 --> 00:11:25,316
>> okay.

388
00:11:25,352 --> 00:11:25,684
>> right, I haven't.

389
00:11:25,719 --> 00:11:28,653
Um, but --

390
00:11:28,689 --> 00:11:29,621
>> reporter: The girl with the

391
00:11:29,656 --> 00:11:31,856
strange vocabulary nervously

392
00:11:31,892 --> 00:11:32,891
puts on a little hat, a reminder

393
00:11:32,926 --> 00:11:33,725
of one of her sisters who's

394
00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:34,893
depending on her.

395
00:11:34,928 --> 00:11:35,794
>> our parents are abusing.

396
00:11:35,829 --> 00:11:37,696
They abuse us.

397
00:11:37,731 --> 00:11:38,663
But the reason I called and the

398
00:11:38,699 --> 00:11:44,035
reason I managed to get out

399
00:11:44,071 --> 00:11:45,603
here -- this is one of the most

400
00:11:45,639 --> 00:11:46,371
scariest things I've ever done.

401
00:11:46,406 --> 00:11:47,205
I'm terrified.

402
00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,642
But I called because my two

403
00:11:50,677 --> 00:11:51,042
little sisters, they're chained

404
00:11:51,078 --> 00:11:54,446
up right now.

405
00:11:54,481 --> 00:11:55,380
>> reporter: The deputy, a

406
00:11:55,415 --> 00:11:56,614
9-year veteran of the force, is

407
00:11:56,650 --> 00:11:57,682
not sure what to make of the

408
00:11:57,718 --> 00:11:58,483
17-year-old girl who looks so

409
00:11:58,518 --> 00:11:59,484
much younger.

410
00:11:59,519 --> 00:12:00,285
He is ending a graveyard shift,

411
00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,554
and it's been a hard night.

412
00:12:02,589 --> 00:12:03,588
>> robbery calls, assault calls.

413
00:12:03,623 --> 00:12:06,057
Deputies were shot at.

414
00:12:06,093 --> 00:12:06,725
>> reporter: He responded to the

415
00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:07,592
runaway call because he knows

416
00:12:07,627 --> 00:12:09,327
how they usually end.

417
00:12:09,362 --> 00:12:10,395
You take the kids back home to

418
00:12:10,430 --> 00:12:12,931
reconcile with their parents.

419
00:12:12,966 --> 00:12:15,667
>> I decided to take it

420
00:12:15,702 --> 00:12:16,735
thinking, hey, this might be a

421
00:12:16,770 --> 00:12:19,204
good way just to end my shift.

422
00:12:19,239 --> 00:12:19,871
>> reporter: And then, on

423
00:12:19,906 --> 00:12:21,506
instinct, he asks a question.

424
00:12:21,541 --> 00:12:22,173
>> do you have pictures of that?

425
00:12:22,209 --> 00:12:24,909
>> yes.

426
00:12:24,945 --> 00:12:28,146
I can show you.

427
00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:30,281
I actually didn't have it, and

428
00:12:30,317 --> 00:12:33,084
then one of my sisters told me I

429
00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,153
need to get pictures.

430
00:12:35,188 --> 00:12:37,155
>> do you have pictures of your

431
00:12:37,190 --> 00:12:40,458
sisters chained up?

432
00:12:40,494 --> 00:12:42,527
>> yes, because they're -- yeah,

433
00:12:42,562 --> 00:12:43,828
they're in here.

434
00:12:43,864 --> 00:12:44,529
I don't have proof of everything

435
00:12:44,564 --> 00:12:45,730
but I have proof that my sisters

436
00:12:45,766 --> 00:12:46,664
are chained up.

437
00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:48,633
So, see?

438
00:12:48,668 --> 00:12:51,636
>> reporter: She doesn't seem to

439
00:12:51,671 --> 00:12:52,303
know the word "bruised."

440
00:12:52,339 --> 00:12:52,737
>> here you can look at them.

441
00:12:52,773 --> 00:12:54,272
See?

442
00:12:54,307 --> 00:12:54,639
Those are the places that make

443
00:12:54,674 --> 00:12:56,474
in on them.

444
00:12:56,510 --> 00:12:57,342
And see how dirty she is?

445
00:12:57,377 --> 00:12:57,942
We're so filthy.

446
00:12:57,978 --> 00:12:59,377
We don't take baths.

447
00:12:59,412 --> 00:13:00,845
We don't --

448
00:13:00,881 --> 00:13:01,479
>> how did your sisters get like

449
00:13:01,515 --> 00:13:02,547
this?

450
00:13:02,582 --> 00:13:03,481
>> okay.

451
00:13:03,517 --> 00:13:04,149
>> your parents chained them up?

452
00:13:04,184 --> 00:13:04,883
>> yes.

453
00:13:04,918 --> 00:13:05,650
Because they stole food.

454
00:13:05,685 --> 00:13:07,051
>> okay.

455
00:13:07,087 --> 00:13:07,952
>> but they stole it because

456
00:13:07,988 --> 00:13:08,586
they were hungry.

457
00:13:08,622 --> 00:13:09,120
>> who took this picture?

458
00:13:09,156 --> 00:13:10,121
>> I did.

459
00:13:10,157 --> 00:13:10,989
I took those pictures.

460
00:13:11,024 --> 00:13:12,323
>> okay.

461
00:13:12,359 --> 00:13:13,024
You make sure to save these

462
00:13:13,059 --> 00:13:13,591
okay?

463
00:13:13,627 --> 00:13:14,159
>> okay.

464
00:13:14,194 --> 00:13:15,393
I will.

465
00:13:15,428 --> 00:13:15,727
>> don't get rid of those.

466
00:13:15,762 --> 00:13:17,262
>> I will.

467
00:13:17,297 --> 00:13:18,630
I won't.

468
00:13:18,665 --> 00:13:20,899
>> they looked very sad,

469
00:13:20,934 --> 00:13:21,399
malnourished.

470
00:13:21,434 --> 00:13:24,402
They were very pale.

471
00:13:24,437 --> 00:13:24,969
>> reporter: This is that

472
00:13:25,005 --> 00:13:26,604
deputy, anthony colace.

473
00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:27,705
>> once I saw that photo, it

474
00:13:27,741 --> 00:13:29,607
really sealed the deal for me.

475
00:13:29,643 --> 00:13:30,375
>> reporter: Colace knows this

476
00:13:30,410 --> 00:13:31,409
girl is not your usual runaway.

477
00:13:31,444 --> 00:13:34,412
She has identified a possible

478
00:13:34,447 --> 00:13:35,113
crime in progress, and her

479
00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:35,713
parents could be trying to find

480
00:13:35,749 --> 00:13:37,148
her.

481
00:13:37,184 --> 00:13:37,782
>> can you do me a favor, take a

482
00:13:37,818 --> 00:13:39,050
seat in the back of my car?

483
00:13:39,085 --> 00:13:39,851
>> okay.

484
00:13:39,886 --> 00:13:41,452
>> do you have any injuries?

485
00:13:41,488 --> 00:13:41,886
>> what's injuries?

486
00:13:41,922 --> 00:13:43,154
>> are you hurt?

487
00:13:43,190 --> 00:13:44,222
>> oh!

488
00:13:44,257 --> 00:13:44,856
No.

489
00:13:44,891 --> 00:13:50,962
Not right now.

490
00:13:50,997 --> 00:13:51,729
>> reporter: Colace radios in

491
00:13:51,765 --> 00:13:55,033
for backup.

492
00:13:55,068 --> 00:13:55,300
>> 1 perris 32, can I have

493
00:13:55,335 --> 00:13:58,269
11-10?

494
00:13:58,305 --> 00:13:59,971
>> reporter: With his body cam

495
00:14:00,006 --> 00:14:02,040
running, he gathers more facts,

496
00:14:02,075 --> 00:14:02,841
trying to piece the story

497
00:14:02,876 --> 00:14:04,209
together.

498
00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:05,176
>> what are your parents going

499
00:14:05,212 --> 00:14:05,743
to do when they find out you

500
00:14:05,779 --> 00:14:06,444
left?

501
00:14:06,479 --> 00:14:07,645
>> uh, they're going to want to

502
00:14:07,681 --> 00:14:09,380
literally kill me.

503
00:14:09,416 --> 00:14:10,315
>> what's the worst thing

504
00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:13,284
they've done to you?

505
00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:14,219
>> uh --

506
00:14:14,254 --> 00:14:15,420
they have choked me against the

507
00:14:15,455 --> 00:14:17,322
bed and --

508
00:14:17,357 --> 00:14:21,025
>> did you call the police?

509
00:14:21,061 --> 00:14:22,460
>> no, I didn't have a way to

510
00:14:22,495 --> 00:14:23,494
get a phone yet.

511
00:14:23,530 --> 00:14:23,862
This is the first chance I've

512
00:14:23,897 --> 00:14:27,665
had a phone.

513
00:14:27,701 --> 00:14:28,766
>> reporter: Suddenly, she

514
00:14:28,802 --> 00:14:29,701
remembers another detail, a

515
00:14:29,736 --> 00:14:30,101
horror recounted as part of her

516
00:14:30,136 --> 00:14:32,871
everyday life.

517
00:14:32,906 --> 00:14:33,271
>> oh, my brother's chained up

518
00:14:33,306 --> 00:14:34,472
too right now.

519
00:14:34,507 --> 00:14:36,741
>> they're chained up?

520
00:14:36,776 --> 00:14:37,342
>> one of my brothers is chained

521
00:14:37,377 --> 00:14:40,411
up.

522
00:14:40,447 --> 00:14:41,112
So three people are chained up

523
00:14:41,147 --> 00:14:47,418
right now.

524
00:14:47,454 --> 00:14:48,853
>> and what does your mom do?

525
00:14:48,889 --> 00:14:49,554
>> nothing.

526
00:14:49,589 --> 00:14:51,122
She just stays at home.

527
00:14:51,157 --> 00:14:52,357
But she's always gone.

528
00:14:52,392 --> 00:14:53,191
>> well, why don't you guys just

529
00:14:53,226 --> 00:14:54,926
leave the house?

530
00:14:54,961 --> 00:14:57,562
>> because we're terrified.

531
00:14:57,597 --> 00:14:58,663
We don't really have a way.

532
00:14:58,698 --> 00:14:59,631
Everyone is always looking.

533
00:14:59,666 --> 00:15:01,900
There's always somebody.

534
00:15:01,935 --> 00:15:03,534
>> reporter: Deputy colace is

535
00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:05,003
stunned by the girl in the back

536
00:15:05,038 --> 00:15:05,803
seat with limited words and so

537
00:15:05,839 --> 00:15:07,672
much courage.

538
00:15:07,707 --> 00:15:08,406
>> I asked her what her middle

539
00:15:08,441 --> 00:15:12,610
name was.

540
00:15:12,646 --> 00:15:14,646
She said it was elizabeth.

541
00:15:14,681 --> 00:15:15,413
I asked her to spell it.

542
00:15:15,448 --> 00:15:16,080
She couldn't spell it.

543
00:15:16,116 --> 00:15:17,548
I wanted her to know people on

544
00:15:17,584 --> 00:15:17,849
the outside are loving and

545
00:15:17,884 --> 00:15:20,184
caring.

546
00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:21,185
>> reporter: He notices a video

547
00:15:21,221 --> 00:15:22,186
on her cell phone.

548
00:15:22,222 --> 00:15:22,787
She's singing.

549
00:15:22,822 --> 00:15:25,490
He asks to watch it.

550
00:15:25,525 --> 00:15:27,558
♪ you blame me for everything ♪

551
00:15:27,594 --> 00:15:30,561
♪ I don't understand ♪

552
00:15:30,597 --> 00:15:31,162
>> this is a great video and

553
00:15:31,197 --> 00:15:34,832
you're a beautiful singer.

554
00:15:34,868 --> 00:15:35,400
>> reporter: Daylight arches

555
00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:36,567
over a pleasant suburban

556
00:15:36,603 --> 00:15:39,437
neighborhood.

557
00:15:39,472 --> 00:15:40,305
It's Sunday.

558
00:15:40,340 --> 00:15:42,340
Most residents are still asleep.

559
00:15:42,375 --> 00:15:44,008
Quietly, riverside county

560
00:15:44,044 --> 00:15:46,811
sheriff's deputies pull up to

561
00:15:46,846 --> 00:15:48,079
a house.

562
00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:48,513
On the outside, a house just

563
00:15:48,548 --> 00:15:52,951
like the others.

564
00:15:52,986 --> 00:15:55,787
It has been an hour and a half

565
00:15:55,822 --> 00:15:57,055
since jordan turpin climbed out

566
00:15:57,090 --> 00:16:01,159
the window.

567
00:16:01,194 --> 00:16:04,095
>> so they were like, if we walk

568
00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:05,229
in, would they still be chained.

569
00:16:05,265 --> 00:16:08,232
I was like, if they didn't

570
00:16:08,268 --> 00:16:10,568
notice me missing yes, yes.

571
00:16:10,603 --> 00:16:11,269
But if they notice me missing,

572
00:16:11,304 --> 00:16:11,903
they're gonna try to cover that

573
00:16:11,938 --> 00:16:13,371
all up.

574
00:16:13,406 --> 00:16:14,439
And they asked me if I wanted to

575
00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:16,841
come up, and I was freaking out,

576
00:16:16,876 --> 00:16:17,542
I was, like, no, no, no, no.

577
00:16:17,577 --> 00:16:20,078
Like, honestly, I thought, like,

578
00:16:20,113 --> 00:16:20,778
knowing them, what if they

579
00:16:20,814 --> 00:16:22,347
killed me right there and there,

580
00:16:22,382 --> 00:16:24,315
even if the police were there?

581
00:16:24,351 --> 00:16:24,582
>> say I'm doing a welfare

582
00:16:24,617 --> 00:16:25,717
check?

583
00:16:25,752 --> 00:16:28,286
>> yeah.

584
00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:29,454
>> since a child may be in

585
00:16:29,489 --> 00:16:30,955
danger, the deputies do not need

586
00:16:30,991 --> 00:16:35,093
a warrant to enter the house.

587
00:16:35,128 --> 00:16:35,460
They knock for two minutes and

588
00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:39,297
ten seconds.

589
00:16:39,332 --> 00:16:39,597
>> they're obviously not

590
00:16:39,632 --> 00:16:44,068
opening.

591
00:16:44,104 --> 00:16:44,335
>> then suddenly the door cracks

592
00:16:44,371 --> 00:16:46,604
open.

593
00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:47,572
>> hi.

594
00:16:47,607 --> 00:16:48,606
>> hi.

595
00:16:48,641 --> 00:16:48,906
>> reporter: A mother and father

596
00:16:48,942 --> 00:16:49,440
appear.

597
00:16:49,476 --> 00:16:49,974
>> how you guys doing?

598
00:16:50,010 --> 00:16:51,275
>> good.

599
00:16:51,311 --> 00:16:51,976
>> we got a call um for a check

600
00:16:52,012 --> 00:16:54,078
the welfare here at your house.

601
00:16:54,114 --> 00:16:54,746
>> reporter: They are breathing

602
00:16:54,781 --> 00:16:55,913
heavily.

603
00:16:55,949 --> 00:16:57,248
>> yeah, why?

604
00:16:57,283 --> 00:16:57,882
>> do you guys have kids in the

605
00:16:57,917 --> 00:16:58,449
house?

606
00:16:58,485 --> 00:16:59,717
>> yes.

607
00:16:59,753 --> 00:16:59,951
Okay, what kind of call did you

608
00:16:59,986 --> 00:17:02,587
get?

609
00:17:02,622 --> 00:17:03,955
>> how you doing, sir?

610
00:17:03,990 --> 00:17:04,756
>> I'm doing okay.

611
00:17:04,791 --> 00:17:05,990
>> we were just in bed.

612
00:17:06,026 --> 00:17:06,691
I mean, like --

613
00:17:06,726 --> 00:17:07,825
>> david and louise turpin, who

614
00:17:07,861 --> 00:17:11,963
have concealed a chamber of

615
00:17:11,998 --> 00:17:12,663
horrors for almost 30 years now

616
00:17:12,699 --> 00:17:14,198
watch as deputies start to make

617
00:17:14,234 --> 00:17:16,401
their way through the door.

618
00:17:16,436 --> 00:17:20,505
>> we're going the come in and

619
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,373
check, okay?

620
00:17:22,409 --> 00:17:23,074
>> reporter: And in one of the

621
00:17:23,109 --> 00:17:25,376
rooms inside the house, someone

622
00:17:25,412 --> 00:17:26,444
is waiting in her bed, eyes wide

623
00:17:26,479 --> 00:17:27,178
open, praying that knock on the

624
00:17:27,213 --> 00:17:28,146
door means her sister made it to

625
00:17:28,181 --> 00:17:29,480
freedom.

626
00:17:29,516 --> 00:17:32,750
>> knock, knock, knock.

627
00:17:32,786 --> 00:17:36,387
And I'm like -- and then they

628
00:17:36,423 --> 00:17:37,789
said, it's the police.

629
00:17:37,824 --> 00:17:39,223
And I'm like, this is it.

630
00:17:39,259 --> 00:17:40,591
>> reporter: In the next hour,

631
00:17:40,627 --> 00:17:43,061
we will show you the video as it

632
00:17:43,096 --> 00:17:44,562
happens, what law enforcement

633
00:17:44,597 --> 00:17:46,130
sees when they walk into the

634
00:17:46,166 --> 00:17:46,798
house.

635
00:17:46,833 --> 00:17:49,333
Their first encount we are

636
00:17:49,369 --> 00:17:50,568
emaciated children, some of them

637
00:17:50,603 --> 00:17:54,872
chained to their beds.

638
00:18:02,015 --> 00:18:02,980
>> reporter: I can't believe the

639
00:18:03,016 --> 00:18:04,615
two young women walking toward

640
00:18:04,651 --> 00:18:05,650
our cameras were travelers from

641
00:18:05,685 --> 00:18:06,350
a dark world who invented their

642
00:18:06,386 --> 00:18:07,185
own light.

643
00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:08,820
It's been four years since the

644
00:18:08,855 --> 00:18:10,288
day in January 2018 when they

645
00:18:10,323 --> 00:18:12,457
were rescued, treated at a

646
00:18:12,492 --> 00:18:14,659
hospital, and given new life.

647
00:18:14,694 --> 00:18:17,261
Jordan turpin, now 21 years old.

648
00:18:17,297 --> 00:18:19,397
Her sister who helped plan the

649
00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:20,765
escape, the oldest turpin child,

650
00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,233
jennifer, now 33.

651
00:18:22,268 --> 00:18:23,301
How are you?

652
00:18:23,336 --> 00:18:24,535
>> awesome.

653
00:18:24,571 --> 00:18:28,906
I'm doing really good.

654
00:18:28,942 --> 00:18:31,209
>> reporter: January 14th, 2018.

655
00:18:31,244 --> 00:18:32,176
>> yeah.

656
00:18:32,212 --> 00:18:35,847
Big day.

657
00:18:35,882 --> 00:18:37,081
>> reporter: What's the first

658
00:18:37,117 --> 00:18:39,183
thing you did that you look back

659
00:18:39,219 --> 00:18:39,951
on and think, that was my first

660
00:18:39,986 --> 00:18:42,587
moment of real freedom"

661
00:18:42,622 --> 00:18:43,354
>> actually, being in the

662
00:18:43,389 --> 00:18:44,055
hospital.

663
00:18:44,090 --> 00:18:46,691
When music was playing, I got up

664
00:18:46,726 --> 00:18:47,925
and I made sure there was a

665
00:18:47,961 --> 00:18:49,360
little bit of a floor cleared

666
00:18:49,395 --> 00:18:50,695
out, and I danced.

667
00:18:50,730 --> 00:18:52,230
>> the first place we went, we

668
00:18:52,265 --> 00:18:54,265
went to a park with two of my

669
00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:54,932
sisters.

670
00:18:54,968 --> 00:18:56,334
And I was so excited because I

671
00:18:56,369 --> 00:18:58,436
could smell the air.

672
00:18:58,471 --> 00:19:02,707
I could smell the grass.

673
00:19:02,742 --> 00:19:03,541
I was, like, how could heaven be

674
00:19:03,576 --> 00:19:06,911
better than this?

675
00:19:06,946 --> 00:19:08,613
Oh, my gosh, this is so free.

676
00:19:08,648 --> 00:19:10,481
Like, this is life.

677
00:19:10,517 --> 00:19:11,115
>> reporter: They are speaking

678
00:19:11,151 --> 00:19:12,717
for the first time, ready to

679
00:19:12,752 --> 00:19:14,318
talk about their lives but

680
00:19:14,354 --> 00:19:16,187
respecting the privacy of the

681
00:19:16,222 --> 00:19:16,821
siblings they love and the

682
00:19:16,856 --> 00:19:18,589
stories written on all their

683
00:19:18,625 --> 00:19:19,590
bodies when they arrived at the

684
00:19:19,626 --> 00:19:21,726
hospital, where doctors and

685
00:19:21,761 --> 00:19:23,828
nurses wept at what they saw.

686
00:19:23,863 --> 00:19:24,996
Children so emaciated they had

687
00:19:25,031 --> 00:19:27,932
difficulty walking, stunted

688
00:19:27,967 --> 00:19:28,332
growth, heart damage from a lack

689
00:19:28,368 --> 00:19:30,735
of nutrients.

690
00:19:30,770 --> 00:19:33,204
A preteen whose arm was the size

691
00:19:33,239 --> 00:19:34,338
of a 4-month-old baby.

692
00:19:34,374 --> 00:19:39,477
Their speech, their language,

693
00:19:39,512 --> 00:19:39,777
limited by the isolation and

694
00:19:39,812 --> 00:19:43,181
neglect.

695
00:19:43,216 --> 00:19:45,082
>> all of us went through a lot,

696
00:19:45,118 --> 00:19:48,419
and all of us went through our

697
00:19:48,454 --> 00:19:50,521
own things, and to be honest,

698
00:19:50,557 --> 00:19:54,659
not even all of us know every

699
00:19:54,694 --> 00:19:56,060
single thing each one of us went

700
00:19:56,095 --> 00:19:56,794
through.

701
00:19:56,829 --> 00:19:57,728
>> exactly.

702
00:19:57,764 --> 00:19:58,763
And nothing's ever going to be

703
00:19:58,798 --> 00:20:00,932
that bad.

704
00:20:00,967 --> 00:20:01,866
Nothing's gonna be as bad as

705
00:20:01,901 --> 00:20:02,433
29 years in what the only word I

706
00:20:02,468 --> 00:20:05,169
know to call it is hell.

707
00:20:05,205 --> 00:20:05,970
>> reporter: A hell created by

708
00:20:06,005 --> 00:20:09,373
her own parents, who started

709
00:20:09,409 --> 00:20:10,041
out two kids growing up in a

710
00:20:10,076 --> 00:20:14,145
small town in west virginia.

711
00:20:14,180 --> 00:20:15,746
David turpin, by all accounts,

712
00:20:15,782 --> 00:20:16,614
a nerdy boy with bowl cut hair

713
00:20:16,649 --> 00:20:17,548
and a shy stutter.

714
00:20:17,584 --> 00:20:18,249
He graduated from virginia tech

715
00:20:18,284 --> 00:20:19,817
and was offered a well paid job

716
00:20:19,852 --> 00:20:23,120
at lockheed martin.

717
00:20:23,156 --> 00:20:25,256
Louise robinette, a girl six

718
00:20:25,291 --> 00:20:27,058
years younger, a member of the

719
00:20:27,093 --> 00:20:27,792
bible club.

720
00:20:27,827 --> 00:20:28,960
She sang in the choir.

721
00:20:28,995 --> 00:20:29,994
She grew up suffering a family

722
00:20:30,029 --> 00:20:30,528
secret which we'll tell you

723
00:20:30,563 --> 00:20:32,096
later.

724
00:20:32,131 --> 00:20:33,397
This is their wedding photo.

725
00:20:33,433 --> 00:20:34,632
She's just 16.

726
00:20:34,667 --> 00:20:35,700
They are a couple both steeped

727
00:20:35,735 --> 00:20:37,268
in the pentecostal church.

728
00:20:37,303 --> 00:20:39,971
With its message about the

729
00:20:40,006 --> 00:20:41,606
insidious power of the devil,

730
00:20:41,641 --> 00:20:42,440
and the rules -- no drinking, no

731
00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:44,775
sex before marriage.

732
00:20:44,811 --> 00:20:49,847
And that's how the young couple

733
00:20:49,882 --> 00:20:50,448
began life in this nice house

734
00:20:50,483 --> 00:20:52,483
in a nice neighborhood in

735
00:20:52,518 --> 00:20:53,618
fort worth, texas.

736
00:20:53,653 --> 00:20:54,318
They tell family god has called

737
00:20:54,354 --> 00:20:55,553
on them to have as many children

738
00:20:55,588 --> 00:20:59,223
as they can.

739
00:20:59,259 --> 00:21:00,124
He is 26, she's 20 when they

740
00:21:00,159 --> 00:21:01,559
have their first little girl.

741
00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:03,294
There's jennifer.

742
00:21:03,329 --> 00:21:05,296
You can see her smile is so much

743
00:21:05,331 --> 00:21:05,663
like the smile of the mother she

744
00:21:05,698 --> 00:21:07,064
once loved.

745
00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:09,667
>> my first memory, I was about

746
00:21:09,702 --> 00:21:11,736
2 years old, and it wasn't to

747
00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:14,872
me.

748
00:21:14,907 --> 00:21:15,606
>> reporter: What was it?

749
00:21:15,642 --> 00:21:18,643
>> I went downstairs for a glass

750
00:21:18,678 --> 00:21:19,677
of water, for a cup of water.

751
00:21:19,712 --> 00:21:21,312
And on the stairs, I saw my

752
00:21:21,347 --> 00:21:21,979
father yelling very loudly at my

753
00:21:22,015 --> 00:21:22,713
mother.

754
00:21:22,749 --> 00:21:23,781
My mother was crying.

755
00:21:23,816 --> 00:21:28,686
>> she started to say something.

756
00:21:28,721 --> 00:21:29,754
He's like, "no, you shut up!"

757
00:21:29,789 --> 00:21:30,655
and he took his fist and punched

758
00:21:30,690 --> 00:21:30,988
it in the wall, made a hole in

759
00:21:31,024 --> 00:21:33,691
the wall.

760
00:21:33,726 --> 00:21:36,060
I was terrified.

761
00:21:36,095 --> 00:21:38,629
>> reporter: As her father yells

762
00:21:38,665 --> 00:21:41,666
in anger, she says her loving

763
00:21:41,701 --> 00:21:42,033
mother heads into unpredictable

764
00:21:42,068 --> 00:21:42,833
mood swings.

765
00:21:42,869 --> 00:21:43,968
>> it was like I never knew

766
00:21:44,003 --> 00:21:45,036
which side I was going to get of

767
00:21:45,071 --> 00:21:46,237
her if I was going to ask her a

768
00:21:46,272 --> 00:21:48,072
question.

769
00:21:48,107 --> 00:21:49,573
Like, she going to call me

770
00:21:49,609 --> 00:21:53,411
stupid or something.

771
00:21:53,446 --> 00:21:55,546
But anyway -- and then -- or

772
00:21:55,581 --> 00:21:58,582
like yank me across the floor.

773
00:21:58,618 --> 00:21:59,083
Or she going to be nice and

774
00:21:59,118 --> 00:22:01,452
answer my question?

775
00:22:01,487 --> 00:22:02,987
>> reporter: Neighbors are never

776
00:22:03,022 --> 00:22:04,055
invited inside that house, where

777
00:22:04,090 --> 00:22:04,755
the bright white walls are now

778
00:22:04,791 --> 00:22:06,057
gray with dirt and stains.

779
00:22:06,092 --> 00:22:07,191
Carpets with human filth.

780
00:22:07,226 --> 00:22:08,492
The shower floor seems black

781
00:22:08,528 --> 00:22:10,928
with mold.

782
00:22:10,963 --> 00:22:12,530
When jennifer shows up at grade

783
00:22:12,565 --> 00:22:18,869
school, she's a little girl with

784
00:22:18,905 --> 00:22:19,904
unwashed hair, unwashed clothes.

785
00:22:19,939 --> 00:22:20,571
>> I remember wanting to make

786
00:22:20,606 --> 00:22:22,006
friends.

787
00:22:22,041 --> 00:22:23,474
I remember all of them didn't

788
00:22:23,509 --> 00:22:24,642
want to be my friend.

789
00:22:24,677 --> 00:22:26,744
Didn't really understand why.

790
00:22:26,779 --> 00:22:27,878
They called me skinny bones

791
00:22:27,914 --> 00:22:28,646
and acted like they didn't want

792
00:22:28,681 --> 00:22:29,313
to be around me.

793
00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:31,916
I probably smelled.

794
00:22:31,951 --> 00:22:32,249
But I didn't realize at the time

795
00:22:32,285 --> 00:22:35,653
I smelled.

796
00:22:35,688 --> 00:22:37,054
But that stench clings to you.

797
00:22:37,090 --> 00:22:40,925
It stays with you.

798
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:41,625
'cause we would literally live

799
00:22:41,661 --> 00:22:42,927
in houses piled with trash, and

800
00:22:42,962 --> 00:22:43,194
I mean literally piled with

801
00:22:43,229 --> 00:22:45,696
trash.

802
00:22:45,732 --> 00:22:49,400
Mold and everything.

803
00:22:49,435 --> 00:22:50,401
And there's no good way to get

804
00:22:50,436 --> 00:22:53,504
rid of a smell like that.

805
00:22:53,539 --> 00:22:53,771
So it was on my clothes, it was

806
00:22:53,806 --> 00:22:57,708
on me.

807
00:22:57,744 --> 00:22:58,008
And I think that had a lot to do

808
00:22:58,044 --> 00:23:02,079
with it.

809
00:23:02,115 --> 00:23:03,180
>> reporter: Is it possible that

810
00:23:03,216 --> 00:23:03,948
some of her teachers noticed

811
00:23:03,983 --> 00:23:08,352
something?

812
00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:08,919
Years later, there are no

813
00:23:08,955 --> 00:23:11,088
records from the school.

814
00:23:11,124 --> 00:23:12,757
But after the third grade,

815
00:23:12,792 --> 00:23:13,657
jennifer's parents take her out,

816
00:23:13,693 --> 00:23:14,158
and no turpin child will go to

817
00:23:14,193 --> 00:23:16,861
grade school again.

818
00:23:16,896 --> 00:23:18,462
The family moves into an

819
00:23:18,498 --> 00:23:21,098
isolated house in rural texas.

820
00:23:21,134 --> 00:23:22,533
David turpin commutes to

821
00:23:22,568 --> 00:23:23,801
lockheed martin.

822
00:23:23,836 --> 00:23:27,505
They pose for photographs to

823
00:23:27,540 --> 00:23:29,640
send home to family, as four

824
00:23:29,675 --> 00:23:31,208
kids become nine, nine become

825
00:23:31,244 --> 00:23:32,610
12.

826
00:23:32,645 --> 00:23:33,244
But when they go back to the

827
00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:34,011
house, the children are not

828
00:23:34,046 --> 00:23:34,845
allowed outside.

829
00:23:34,881 --> 00:23:37,815
All of them taught to honor thy

830
00:23:37,850 --> 00:23:38,249
father and mother and only to

831
00:23:38,284 --> 00:23:38,949
call them that.

832
00:23:38,985 --> 00:23:40,551
>> we'll call them mother and

833
00:23:40,586 --> 00:23:41,619
father for the sake of the

834
00:23:41,654 --> 00:23:42,520
interview, but I don't like

835
00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:44,822
calling them that.

836
00:23:44,857 --> 00:23:46,424
'cause they're not that to me.

837
00:23:46,459 --> 00:23:48,926
They literally used the bible

838
00:23:48,961 --> 00:23:49,260
to explain their behavior

839
00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:52,229
toward us.

840
00:23:52,265 --> 00:23:52,863
>> reporter: What parts of the

841
00:23:52,899 --> 00:23:54,265
bible?

842
00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:56,967
>> they loved to point out

843
00:23:57,003 --> 00:23:59,103
things in deuteronomy, saying

844
00:23:59,138 --> 00:23:59,870
that, we have the right to do

845
00:23:59,906 --> 00:24:01,305
this to you.

846
00:24:01,340 --> 00:24:03,541
That they had the right to even

847
00:24:03,576 --> 00:24:09,713
kill us if we didn't listen.

848
00:24:09,749 --> 00:24:10,748
>> reporter: Disobey mother,

849
00:24:10,783 --> 00:24:14,418
talk back, steal a piece of

850
00:24:14,454 --> 00:24:15,553
candy -- you can be thrown

851
00:24:15,588 --> 00:24:16,187
across the room, pushed down the

852
00:24:16,222 --> 00:24:17,588
stairs.

853
00:24:17,623 --> 00:24:21,292
Father also used belts and

854
00:24:21,327 --> 00:24:22,359
sticks and eventually dog

855
00:24:22,395 --> 00:24:23,260
kennels with padlocks and

856
00:24:23,296 --> 00:24:25,095
homemade cages.

857
00:24:25,131 --> 00:24:25,696
Jennifer draws the shape of the

858
00:24:25,731 --> 00:24:29,667
cage.

859
00:24:29,702 --> 00:24:30,000
And every day, did you wake up

860
00:24:30,036 --> 00:24:31,035
in terror?

861
00:24:31,070 --> 00:24:35,105
>> yeah.

862
00:24:35,141 --> 00:24:36,073
'cause I -- I was afraid to do

863
00:24:36,108 --> 00:24:38,175
one little thing wrong.

864
00:24:38,211 --> 00:24:39,677
If I did one little thing wrong,

865
00:24:39,712 --> 00:24:44,114
I was going to be beaten.

866
00:24:44,150 --> 00:24:44,482
And not just beat, like, beat

867
00:24:44,517 --> 00:24:55,292
till I bled.

868
00:24:55,328 --> 00:24:56,193
>> reporter: You okay?

869
00:24:56,229 --> 00:24:57,528
Want to take a minute?

870
00:24:57,563 --> 00:24:59,063
>> I want to take a break.

871
00:24:59,098 --> 00:24:59,697
A little break.

872
00:24:59,732 --> 00:25:00,564
Sorry.

873
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,933
>> reporter: Let's do it.

874
00:25:02,969 --> 00:25:07,705
Let's take a break here.

875
00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:08,205
Wade walsvick, lead investigator

876
00:25:08,241 --> 00:25:11,008
on the turpin case.

877
00:25:11,043 --> 00:25:12,376
A 33-year veteran of abuse and

878
00:25:12,411 --> 00:25:15,179
homicide cases.

879
00:25:15,214 --> 00:25:17,248
How long did it take you to

880
00:25:17,283 --> 00:25:18,949
figure out that this was unlike

881
00:25:18,985 --> 00:25:23,120
anything you'd ever seen before?

882
00:25:23,155 --> 00:25:23,921
>> probably within the first

883
00:25:23,956 --> 00:25:33,197
couple of days.

884
00:25:33,232 --> 00:25:34,698
>> reporter: The parents move

885
00:25:34,734 --> 00:25:35,366
their children further off the

886
00:25:35,401 --> 00:25:37,735
radar.

887
00:25:37,770 --> 00:25:39,937
A trailer behind the house.

888
00:25:39,972 --> 00:25:43,674
And then they abandon them

889
00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:44,575
to seek their own adventures.

890
00:25:44,610 --> 00:25:45,743
They drop off weekly

891
00:25:45,778 --> 00:25:48,946
groceries -- never enough.

892
00:25:48,981 --> 00:25:49,413
Jordan was 6 when her parents

893
00:25:49,448 --> 00:25:50,014
left.

894
00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:52,383
She says at times she ate

895
00:25:52,418 --> 00:25:53,450
leaves, grass.

896
00:25:53,486 --> 00:25:54,118
>> there was a lot of starving.

897
00:25:54,153 --> 00:25:56,053
So I would have to figure out

898
00:25:56,088 --> 00:26:01,859
how to eat.

899
00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:05,963
Like, I would either eat

900
00:26:05,998 --> 00:26:09,300
ketchup, or mustard or ice.

901
00:26:09,335 --> 00:26:10,067
>> reporter: Ice cubes and

902
00:26:10,102 --> 00:26:10,501
ketchup?

903
00:26:10,536 --> 00:26:13,037
>> yeah.

904
00:26:13,072 --> 00:26:13,971
>> reporter: And jennifer is

905
00:26:14,006 --> 00:26:14,605
forced to discipline the

906
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:15,472
children by putting them in

907
00:26:15,508 --> 00:26:16,740
father's cages.

908
00:26:16,776 --> 00:26:17,875
>> the cages that they were

909
00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:19,510
instructed to put their siblings

910
00:26:19,545 --> 00:26:20,511
in.

911
00:26:20,546 --> 00:26:21,745
Or that they would be put in if

912
00:26:21,781 --> 00:26:26,183
they didn't.

913
00:26:26,218 --> 00:26:27,651
>> reporter: That is the

914
00:26:27,687 --> 00:26:28,953
nightmare choice.

915
00:26:28,988 --> 00:26:30,354
>> which is why she struggled so

916
00:26:30,389 --> 00:26:30,654
hard as a 17, 18, 19-year-old,

917
00:26:30,690 --> 00:26:35,092
so much.

918
00:26:35,127 --> 00:26:37,895
>> reporter: It's not a choice

919
00:26:37,930 --> 00:26:38,762
if survival is --

920
00:26:38,798 --> 00:26:44,301
>> the answer.

921
00:26:44,337 --> 00:26:47,104
But living in that, you kind of

922
00:26:47,139 --> 00:26:48,305
feel like you're torn because

923
00:26:48,341 --> 00:26:50,975
you don't know what to do.

924
00:26:51,010 --> 00:26:51,809
Because I was on the brink of

925
00:26:51,844 --> 00:26:52,443
suicide.

926
00:26:52,478 --> 00:26:53,944
I wanted to just end it all.

927
00:26:53,980 --> 00:26:57,815
All my pain, everything.

928
00:26:57,850 --> 00:26:58,716
>> three years go by, and no one

929
00:26:58,751 --> 00:26:59,650
seems to notice them.

930
00:26:59,685 --> 00:27:00,951
No one intervenes.

931
00:27:00,987 --> 00:27:02,086
But after the turpin story

932
00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:03,087
breaks, a little boy remembers

933
00:27:03,122 --> 00:27:04,755
he once had a classmate in

934
00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:07,858
ft. Worth named jennifer turpin.

935
00:27:07,893 --> 00:27:09,493
A frail girl with a brave smile.

936
00:27:09,528 --> 00:27:11,629
He has since become a doctor.

937
00:27:11,664 --> 00:27:14,298
He wrote this plea on facebook.

938
00:27:14,333 --> 00:27:15,766
Jennifer turpin was the one girl

939
00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:16,600
nobody wanted to be caught

940
00:27:16,636 --> 00:27:18,369
talking to.

941
00:27:18,404 --> 00:27:20,137
I can't help but feel an

942
00:27:20,172 --> 00:27:20,771
overwhelming sense of guilt

943
00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:22,706
and shame.

944
00:27:22,742 --> 00:27:24,241
The person who sat across from

945
00:27:24,276 --> 00:27:25,843
you at the lunch table went home

946
00:27:25,878 --> 00:27:27,945
to squalor and filth while you

947
00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:28,746
went home to a warm meal and a

948
00:27:28,781 --> 00:27:32,416
bedtime story.

949
00:27:32,451 --> 00:27:34,151
The resounding lesson -- teach

950
00:27:34,186 --> 00:27:35,853
your children to be nice.

951
00:27:35,888 --> 00:27:36,520
Befriend the jennifer turpins of

952
00:27:36,555 --> 00:27:39,523
the world.

953
00:27:39,558 --> 00:27:41,325
Coming up --

954
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:42,559
the video of david and

955
00:27:42,595 --> 00:27:44,728
louise tuprin celebrating their

956
00:27:44,764 --> 00:27:47,931
love story.

957
00:27:47,967 --> 00:27:50,467
>> mm, baby.

958
00:27:50,503 --> 00:27:51,602
>> reporter: Certain their

959
00:27:51,637 --> 00:27:52,403
abused children will keep their

960
00:27:52,438 --> 00:27:53,904
secret.

961
00:27:53,939 --> 00:27:54,538
What did they tell these

962
00:27:54,573 --> 00:27:55,239
children that paralyzed them

963
00:27:55,274 --> 00:27:58,876
with fear of the outside world?

964
00:28:04,350 --> 00:28:16,860
♪

965
00:28:16,896 --> 00:28:17,895
>> reporter: In a las vegas

966
00:28:17,930 --> 00:28:19,363
chapel, a middle-aged couple

967
00:28:19,398 --> 00:28:21,565
is renewing their vows.

968
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:22,332
The chapel is filming the

969
00:28:22,368 --> 00:28:27,171
occasion.

970
00:28:27,206 --> 00:28:28,739
>> I, david --

971
00:28:28,774 --> 00:28:31,041
>> I, david --

972
00:28:31,077 --> 00:28:32,609
>> take thee, louise --

973
00:28:32,645 --> 00:28:33,677
>> take thee, louise --

974
00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:34,712
>> to be my wedded wife.

975
00:28:34,747 --> 00:28:35,679
>> to be my wedded wife.

976
00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:36,747
>> my best friend.

977
00:28:36,782 --> 00:28:37,247
>> my best friend.

978
00:28:37,283 --> 00:28:38,315
>> my soul mate.

979
00:28:38,350 --> 00:28:39,850
>> my soul mate.

980
00:28:39,885 --> 00:28:41,051
>> to have and to hold.

981
00:28:41,087 --> 00:28:43,053
>> to have and to hold.

982
00:28:43,089 --> 00:28:43,954
>> from this day.

983
00:28:43,989 --> 00:28:45,122
>> from this day.

984
00:28:45,157 --> 00:28:46,190
>> and forever.

985
00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:47,758
>> and forever.

986
00:28:47,793 --> 00:28:50,360
>> mmm, baby.

987
00:28:50,396 --> 00:28:54,231
>> mmm, baby.

988
00:28:54,266 --> 00:28:58,569
♪ wise men say ♪

989
00:28:58,604 --> 00:28:59,636
>> reporter: And while their

990
00:28:59,672 --> 00:29:00,337
children were starving in that

991
00:29:00,372 --> 00:29:01,805
texas trailer, investigators say

992
00:29:01,841 --> 00:29:02,940
the devoted couple had moved

993
00:29:02,975 --> 00:29:03,841
into a motel to go out drinking,

994
00:29:03,876 --> 00:29:05,209
posting photos of their

995
00:29:05,244 --> 00:29:06,577
adventures.

996
00:29:06,612 --> 00:29:07,678
And now the children they had

997
00:29:07,713 --> 00:29:08,512
abandoned are in the chapel with

998
00:29:08,547 --> 00:29:11,181
them, dressed in identical

999
00:29:11,217 --> 00:29:14,251
outfits to celebrate their

1000
00:29:14,286 --> 00:29:18,255
parents' love story.

1001
00:29:18,290 --> 00:29:21,425
♪ you ain't nothing but a ♪

1002
00:29:21,460 --> 00:29:24,461
>> say hound dog.

1003
00:29:24,497 --> 00:29:24,895
>> hound dog!

1004
00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:25,996
>> hunka hunka.

1005
00:29:26,031 --> 00:29:26,530
>> hunka hunka.

1006
00:29:26,565 --> 00:29:27,564
>> burning love.

1007
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,065
>> burning love.

1008
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:28,999
>> baby, baby.

1009
00:29:29,034 --> 00:29:29,633
>> baby, baby.

1010
00:29:29,668 --> 00:29:30,701
>> mama, mama.

1011
00:29:30,736 --> 00:29:31,935
>> mama, mama.

1012
00:29:31,971 --> 00:29:33,103
>> and we put our hands

1013
00:29:33,139 --> 00:29:35,639
together, ladies and gentlemen.

1014
00:29:35,674 --> 00:29:35,906
♪ you ain't nothing but a hound

1015
00:29:35,941 --> 00:29:40,043
dog ♪

1016
00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:40,811
>> reporter: There's jennifer,

1017
00:29:40,846 --> 00:29:42,112
the oldest.

1018
00:29:42,148 --> 00:29:45,149
There's jordan, the eighth.

1019
00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:47,484
Rail thin arms, awkward dancing.

1020
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:47,785
So these are the pictures that

1021
00:29:47,820 --> 00:30:11,008
we saw.

1022
00:30:11,043 --> 00:30:14,044
>> that moment --

1023
00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:14,945
we, of course, were happy to be

1024
00:30:14,980 --> 00:30:18,148
out doing something.

1025
00:30:18,184 --> 00:30:20,450
At the same time, I know inside

1026
00:30:20,486 --> 00:30:21,285
I was like, this is all a mask.

1027
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,252
This is all fake.

1028
00:30:22,288 --> 00:30:23,520
We're not this big, happy family

1029
00:30:23,556 --> 00:30:24,288
that they always portray to

1030
00:30:24,323 --> 00:30:26,356
everyone.

1031
00:30:26,392 --> 00:30:29,793
And that always bothered me.

1032
00:30:29,829 --> 00:30:40,437
And --

1033
00:30:40,472 --> 00:30:41,505
that's, like, a mix of things in

1034
00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:42,239
that moment that I was feeling,

1035
00:30:42,274 --> 00:30:45,709
personally.

1036
00:30:45,744 --> 00:30:46,777
>> she would get us all dressed.

1037
00:30:46,812 --> 00:30:47,544
We would get clean, and then we

1038
00:30:47,580 --> 00:30:48,879
would go out.

1039
00:30:48,914 --> 00:30:49,580
And it would be, like, the best

1040
00:30:49,615 --> 00:30:52,516
day ever.

1041
00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:56,720
We were so happy, all of us.

1042
00:30:56,755 --> 00:31:01,658
♪ falling in love with you ♪

1043
00:31:01,694 --> 00:31:06,430
>> but then when we would come

1044
00:31:06,465 --> 00:31:07,297
back, it was just like, put on

1045
00:31:07,333 --> 00:31:09,600
the same dirty clothes and sit

1046
00:31:09,635 --> 00:31:10,567
back to where -- and I used to

1047
00:31:10,603 --> 00:31:11,401
always wonder, like, why

1048
00:31:11,437 --> 00:31:12,669
couldn't we just be a family

1049
00:31:12,705 --> 00:31:15,372
like that all the time?

1050
00:31:15,407 --> 00:31:16,506
>> reporter: The family now

1051
00:31:16,542 --> 00:31:17,975
lives under one roof in perris,

1052
00:31:18,010 --> 00:31:19,610
california, a suburb with

1053
00:31:19,645 --> 00:31:20,911
spanish style homes, flowers

1054
00:31:20,946 --> 00:31:23,347
by the door.

1055
00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:24,882
David turpin has a new job as an

1056
00:31:24,917 --> 00:31:26,917
engineer at northrop grumman.

1057
00:31:26,952 --> 00:31:31,088
He also has a new mustang.

1058
00:31:31,123 --> 00:31:31,688
On another car a vanity plate --

1059
00:31:31,724 --> 00:31:34,358
"david and louise 4 ever."

1060
00:31:34,393 --> 00:31:35,859
but behind the closed door of

1061
00:31:35,895 --> 00:31:37,027
this house in the suburbs,

1062
00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:38,528
louise turpin seems to have a

1063
00:31:38,564 --> 00:31:40,063
manic pattern of shopping

1064
00:31:40,099 --> 00:31:43,367
sprees, racking up huge credit

1065
00:31:43,402 --> 00:31:45,002
card debts with her childlike

1066
00:31:45,037 --> 00:31:48,272
obsession with buying children's

1067
00:31:48,307 --> 00:31:50,274
clothes, toys, games she hoards.

1068
00:31:50,309 --> 00:31:51,808
The children are not allowed to

1069
00:31:51,844 --> 00:31:52,376
touch mother's toys unless she

1070
00:31:52,411 --> 00:31:55,479
gives permission.

1071
00:31:55,514 --> 00:31:56,446
This is a video made in the

1072
00:31:56,482 --> 00:31:57,247
house of one the children's

1073
00:31:57,283 --> 00:31:58,649
closets.

1074
00:31:58,684 --> 00:32:01,785
Brand-new clothes with price

1075
00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:02,352
tags on them, while the children

1076
00:32:02,388 --> 00:32:05,622
remain dressed in filth.

1077
00:32:05,658 --> 00:32:07,758
>> they would buy literally so

1078
00:32:07,793 --> 00:32:09,760
many expensive clothes and toys

1079
00:32:09,795 --> 00:32:10,494
and stuff that they wasn't ever

1080
00:32:10,529 --> 00:32:12,829
gonna use.

1081
00:32:12,865 --> 00:32:15,098
About 100 different collector

1082
00:32:15,134 --> 00:32:17,567
monopolies and stuff like that.

1083
00:32:17,603 --> 00:32:18,101
>> reporter: At this point,

1084
00:32:18,137 --> 00:32:22,139
david turpin files for

1085
00:32:22,174 --> 00:32:22,973
bankruptcy.

1086
00:32:23,008 --> 00:32:23,840
They decide the children will

1087
00:32:23,876 --> 00:32:25,075
have to economize.

1088
00:32:25,110 --> 00:32:25,876
So every day it was bread and

1089
00:32:25,911 --> 00:32:26,843
peanut butter?

1090
00:32:26,879 --> 00:32:29,212
>> mostly.

1091
00:32:29,248 --> 00:32:32,516
Very occasionally we would get,

1092
00:32:32,551 --> 00:32:33,250
like, food frozen or maybe fast

1093
00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:36,053
food place.

1094
00:32:36,088 --> 00:32:36,586
>> reporter: So what did your

1095
00:32:36,622 --> 00:32:38,155
mother and father eat?

1096
00:32:38,190 --> 00:32:38,722
>> oh, they -- they always ate

1097
00:32:38,757 --> 00:32:39,723
fast food, frozen meals.

1098
00:32:39,758 --> 00:32:41,358
They had the good stuff.

1099
00:32:41,393 --> 00:32:42,192
And I was the one usually

1100
00:32:42,227 --> 00:32:47,631
preparing it.

1101
00:32:47,666 --> 00:32:49,666
>> reporter: A video of the

1102
00:32:49,702 --> 00:32:50,767
turpin refigerater, stocked with

1103
00:32:50,803 --> 00:32:52,002
items the parents eat.

1104
00:32:52,037 --> 00:32:53,070
>> reporter: What did they say

1105
00:32:53,105 --> 00:32:53,737
to you about eating what they

1106
00:32:53,772 --> 00:32:56,106
wanted?

1107
00:32:56,141 --> 00:32:57,140
>> they blamed it on us.

1108
00:32:57,176 --> 00:32:57,774
They said they couldn't afford

1109
00:32:57,810 --> 00:33:00,444
it because we were stealing.

1110
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:01,345
>> reporter: And by stealing,

1111
00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:01,712
you're really -- you're talking

1112
00:33:01,747 --> 00:33:02,012
about food?

1113
00:33:02,047 --> 00:33:04,614
>> yeah.

1114
00:33:04,650 --> 00:33:05,782
We had a weird schedule.

1115
00:33:05,818 --> 00:33:06,850
Most of the time we were up at

1116
00:33:06,885 --> 00:33:07,451
night and then sleeping in the

1117
00:33:07,486 --> 00:33:10,187
day.

1118
00:33:10,222 --> 00:33:13,657
>> reporter: And the blinds were

1119
00:33:13,692 --> 00:33:14,224
closed so the neighbors couldn't

1120
00:33:14,259 --> 00:33:15,592
see.

1121
00:33:15,627 --> 00:33:15,993
>> we wasn't allowed to look out

1122
00:33:16,028 --> 00:33:17,361
or open them.

1123
00:33:17,396 --> 00:33:17,961
We wasn't even allowed to stand

1124
00:33:17,997 --> 00:33:19,463
up.

1125
00:33:19,498 --> 00:33:20,430
We were supposed to, like, be

1126
00:33:20,466 --> 00:33:22,466
sitting down all the time.

1127
00:33:22,501 --> 00:33:24,201
>> reporter: Later police find a

1128
00:33:24,236 --> 00:33:25,235
video of the hungry, unbathed

1129
00:33:25,270 --> 00:33:25,936
children hiding from view in a

1130
00:33:25,971 --> 00:33:27,871
hallway.

1131
00:33:27,906 --> 00:33:28,638
Their father, en route to his

1132
00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:29,906
job, smiles.

1133
00:33:29,942 --> 00:33:30,674
Jordan is filming this.

1134
00:33:30,709 --> 00:33:31,942
It's a little camera she found

1135
00:33:31,977 --> 00:33:33,710
on her barbie doll.

1136
00:33:33,746 --> 00:33:36,713
You can see the camera there on

1137
00:33:36,749 --> 00:33:37,314
the barbie's neck, the record

1138
00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:38,849
button on her little belt.

1139
00:33:38,884 --> 00:33:40,183
So take a look at this scene

1140
00:33:40,219 --> 00:33:46,289
again.

1141
00:33:46,325 --> 00:33:49,860
13 children in their perris,

1142
00:33:49,895 --> 00:33:50,560
california, home.

1143
00:33:50,596 --> 00:33:51,161
So many houses just a few feet

1144
00:33:51,196 --> 00:33:53,196
away.

1145
00:33:53,232 --> 00:33:54,331
>> that bothers me because I

1146
00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:55,098
know some neighbors knew things

1147
00:33:55,134 --> 00:33:57,968
were going on.

1148
00:33:58,003 --> 00:34:00,037
So I wish they did something

1149
00:34:00,072 --> 00:34:00,337
like, just have somebody look

1150
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:03,306
into it.

1151
00:34:03,342 --> 00:34:04,408
>> reporter: And why did the

1152
00:34:04,443 --> 00:34:05,475
california school system never

1153
00:34:05,511 --> 00:34:07,511
check up on a homeschool called

1154
00:34:07,546 --> 00:34:08,512
the "sandcastle day school"?

1155
00:34:08,547 --> 00:34:11,615
These are documents filed by

1156
00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:12,549
david turpin, who proclaims

1157
00:34:12,584 --> 00:34:13,683
himself principal.

1158
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:14,851
Louise is the teacher.

1159
00:34:14,887 --> 00:34:16,453
>> a lot of child abuse gets

1160
00:34:16,488 --> 00:34:17,888
reported through our schools.

1161
00:34:17,923 --> 00:34:19,022
Teachers and school

1162
00:34:19,058 --> 00:34:19,790
administrators are mandated

1163
00:34:19,825 --> 00:34:21,158
reporters.

1164
00:34:21,193 --> 00:34:23,927
So, you know, if a child comes

1165
00:34:23,962 --> 00:34:25,996
to school with bruises or

1166
00:34:26,031 --> 00:34:26,963
emaciated, that is a very common

1167
00:34:26,999 --> 00:34:29,166
way that it gets reported.

1168
00:34:29,201 --> 00:34:30,133
>> reporter: Mike hestrin is the

1169
00:34:30,169 --> 00:34:30,901
riverside county district

1170
00:34:30,936 --> 00:34:32,102
attorney.

1171
00:34:32,137 --> 00:34:33,370
>> in this case, the turpin

1172
00:34:33,405 --> 00:34:35,939
family claimed that they were

1173
00:34:35,974 --> 00:34:36,807
homeschooling their kids.

1174
00:34:36,842 --> 00:34:38,108
They weren't.

1175
00:34:38,143 --> 00:34:39,142
They used the homeschooling

1176
00:34:39,178 --> 00:34:39,876
system as a way to avoid any

1177
00:34:39,912 --> 00:34:43,447
scrutiny.

1178
00:34:43,482 --> 00:34:44,381
>> reporter: And when mother and

1179
00:34:44,416 --> 00:34:45,415
father are out of the house, the

1180
00:34:45,451 --> 00:34:50,187
little prisoners emerge.

1181
00:34:50,222 --> 00:34:51,888
>> when mother was gone or

1182
00:34:51,924 --> 00:34:52,589
father was gone, we would, like,

1183
00:34:52,624 --> 00:34:54,424
sneak and talk.

1184
00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:56,693
And, like, sometimes we would

1185
00:34:56,728 --> 00:34:57,461
open the window, and we would

1186
00:34:57,496 --> 00:35:00,263
stick our head out.

1187
00:35:00,299 --> 00:35:00,764
>> reporter: They listen to

1188
00:35:00,799 --> 00:35:02,332
music.

1189
00:35:02,367 --> 00:35:04,101
There's a tv to watch.

1190
00:35:04,136 --> 00:35:05,702
A few trusted older siblings now

1191
00:35:05,737 --> 00:35:06,770
have smartphones so that mother

1192
00:35:06,805 --> 00:35:09,773
and father can always reach them

1193
00:35:09,808 --> 00:35:11,308
they take videos of the food

1194
00:35:11,343 --> 00:35:13,076
they hide in their beds.

1195
00:35:13,112 --> 00:35:14,978
And most of all, these children

1196
00:35:15,013 --> 00:35:17,180
are so desperate for an

1197
00:35:17,216 --> 00:35:19,883
education they try to teach each

1198
00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:20,550
other language and what it is to

1199
00:35:20,586 --> 00:35:24,454
be human.

1200
00:35:24,490 --> 00:35:24,754
You taught each other --

1201
00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:28,191
>> yes.

1202
00:35:28,227 --> 00:35:29,159
>> reporter: What you knew.

1203
00:35:29,194 --> 00:35:30,026
>> we just did the best we could

1204
00:35:30,062 --> 00:35:31,261
with what we did know.

1205
00:35:31,296 --> 00:35:32,796
>> I knew the whole alphabet,

1206
00:35:32,831 --> 00:35:33,563
but I had my sisters help me

1207
00:35:33,599 --> 00:35:37,634
with that.

1208
00:35:37,669 --> 00:35:42,506
They taught me the --

1209
00:35:42,541 --> 00:35:43,140
>> the vowels?

1210
00:35:43,175 --> 00:35:45,842
>> yeah, the vowels.

1211
00:35:45,878 --> 00:35:47,544
>> reporter: The children are

1212
00:35:47,579 --> 00:35:48,512
told not speak to strangers when

1213
00:35:48,547 --> 00:35:49,513
they are taken out on rare

1214
00:35:49,548 --> 00:35:49,880
occasions to get those posed

1215
00:35:49,915 --> 00:35:50,614
photographs.

1216
00:35:50,649 --> 00:35:51,948
And again, that video in

1217
00:35:51,984 --> 00:35:52,849
las vegas.

1218
00:35:52,885 --> 00:35:53,650
Would you have spotted any fear

1219
00:35:53,685 --> 00:35:54,918
in their faces?

1220
00:35:54,953 --> 00:35:55,919
They've been told one mistake

1221
00:35:55,954 --> 00:35:58,054
and something called child

1222
00:35:58,090 --> 00:36:00,157
protective services could come

1223
00:36:00,192 --> 00:36:02,926
and separate them forever.

1224
00:36:02,961 --> 00:36:03,760
>> I thought that we all go in

1225
00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:05,529
different countries.

1226
00:36:05,564 --> 00:36:08,131
And I thought that we would

1227
00:36:08,167 --> 00:36:09,166
never see each other again,

1228
00:36:09,201 --> 00:36:10,233
and I thought that we would be

1229
00:36:10,269 --> 00:36:10,934
put into cages and they would

1230
00:36:10,969 --> 00:36:13,436
starve us.

1231
00:36:13,472 --> 00:36:14,471
And then as soon as we turn 18,

1232
00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:16,006
just throw us out on the street.

1233
00:36:16,041 --> 00:36:21,311
Mother usually spoke for us.

1234
00:36:21,346 --> 00:36:22,212
>> we were also instructed on

1235
00:36:22,247 --> 00:36:22,579
certain questions that may be

1236
00:36:22,614 --> 00:36:26,216
asked of us.

1237
00:36:26,251 --> 00:36:27,984
Like, if they say what grade

1238
00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:30,887
you're in, you tell them this.

1239
00:36:30,923 --> 00:36:32,589
There would be times where I

1240
00:36:32,624 --> 00:36:34,991
would be like, wait, what grade

1241
00:36:35,027 --> 00:36:37,027
am I supposed to be in?

1242
00:36:37,062 --> 00:36:37,527
>> I know.

1243
00:36:37,563 --> 00:36:38,995
Me, too.

1244
00:36:39,031 --> 00:36:39,763
I would be, like, going to one

1245
00:36:39,798 --> 00:36:41,097
of my sisters.

1246
00:36:41,133 --> 00:36:41,932
I used to be, like, memorize,

1247
00:36:41,967 --> 00:36:42,365
like, "6, 7, 8."

1248
00:36:42,401 --> 00:36:44,267
>> I know.

1249
00:36:44,303 --> 00:36:45,335
>> like, it's, "I'm 8, and I'm

1250
00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:48,471
supposed to be in 3rd grade."

1251
00:36:48,507 --> 00:36:49,272
>> reporter: So they dance.

1252
00:36:49,308 --> 00:36:50,106
They pretend.

1253
00:36:50,142 --> 00:36:50,707
And the parents don't know that

1254
00:36:50,742 --> 00:36:51,374
one of their children has

1255
00:36:51,410 --> 00:36:52,576
borrowed a sibling's phone and

1256
00:36:52,611 --> 00:36:53,243
is about to see something that

1257
00:36:53,278 --> 00:36:53,877
will ignite a plan to escape.

1258
00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:09,826
>> reporter: In 2015, how does

1259
00:37:09,861 --> 00:37:11,194
jordan turpin start to summon

1260
00:37:11,230 --> 00:37:13,897
the courage to run?

1261
00:37:13,932 --> 00:37:14,264
She secretly opens a sibling's

1262
00:37:14,299 --> 00:37:16,666
smartphone.

1263
00:37:16,702 --> 00:37:17,601
>> I don't know where we would

1264
00:37:17,636 --> 00:37:18,001
be if we didn't watch

1265
00:37:18,036 --> 00:37:19,636
justin bieber.

1266
00:37:19,671 --> 00:37:24,975
♪ and I was like

1267
00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:26,676
baby, baby, baby, ooh

1268
00:37:26,712 --> 00:37:27,978
like baby baby

1269
00:37:28,013 --> 00:37:28,812
baby nooo ♪

1270
00:37:28,847 --> 00:37:29,779
>> justin bieber was the first

1271
00:37:29,815 --> 00:37:30,747
thing who fascinated you?

1272
00:37:30,782 --> 00:37:31,181
>> oh, well, I never talked to

1273
00:37:31,216 --> 00:37:33,950
justin bieber.

1274
00:37:33,986 --> 00:37:34,417
>> reporter: No, but watching.

1275
00:37:34,453 --> 00:37:35,418
>> oh, I'm sorry.

1276
00:37:35,454 --> 00:37:36,286
I'm so sorry.

1277
00:37:36,321 --> 00:37:37,654
Yes.

1278
00:37:37,689 --> 00:37:38,288
I loved "as long as you love me"

1279
00:37:38,323 --> 00:37:42,125
and "boyfriend" and "baby."

1280
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,930
♪ na na na

1281
00:37:46,965 --> 00:37:48,265
na na na

1282
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:50,467
if I was your boyfriend ♪

1283
00:37:50,502 --> 00:37:51,234
>> reporter: Never underestimate

1284
00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:52,469
the power and reach of a teenage

1285
00:37:52,504 --> 00:37:53,470
heartthrob to enchant a

1286
00:37:53,505 --> 00:37:54,070
14-year-old fan, even one

1287
00:37:54,106 --> 00:37:55,138
trapped in a cruel prison.

1288
00:37:55,173 --> 00:37:56,239
>> I started realizing that

1289
00:37:56,275 --> 00:37:56,906
there is a different world out

1290
00:37:56,942 --> 00:37:58,375
there.

1291
00:37:58,410 --> 00:37:59,409
I only knew one world, and that

1292
00:37:59,444 --> 00:38:01,578
was, like, always being there.

1293
00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,147
I was just blown minded by how

1294
00:38:04,182 --> 00:38:07,250
different it is out there,

1295
00:38:07,286 --> 00:38:07,584
and I always, like, I want to be

1296
00:38:07,619 --> 00:38:08,852
out there.

1297
00:38:08,887 --> 00:38:09,452
I want to be like that.

1298
00:38:09,488 --> 00:38:10,353
I want to experience that.

1299
00:38:10,389 --> 00:38:12,689
I want to do that.

1300
00:38:12,724 --> 00:38:13,556
>> reporter: In bieber's videos,

1301
00:38:13,592 --> 00:38:14,724
the houses are nice.

1302
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:15,825
He has friends, and he talks

1303
00:38:15,861 --> 00:38:16,860
about being sad and searching

1304
00:38:16,895 --> 00:38:17,460
for god and comfort just like

1305
00:38:17,496 --> 00:38:19,562
her.

1306
00:38:19,598 --> 00:38:21,131
She says she loved learning new

1307
00:38:21,166 --> 00:38:21,865
words from him for her stunted

1308
00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:23,733
vocabulary.

1309
00:38:23,769 --> 00:38:24,534
>> I, like, watched all his

1310
00:38:24,569 --> 00:38:30,640
interviews.

1311
00:38:30,676 --> 00:38:32,108
And it was actually, watching

1312
00:38:32,144 --> 00:38:33,109
him that made me learn fast,

1313
00:38:33,145 --> 00:38:34,044
smarter, because I started

1314
00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:34,744
paying attention.

1315
00:38:34,780 --> 00:38:38,882
>> if god is based on love,

1316
00:38:38,917 --> 00:38:42,085
it's, I love you first,

1317
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,220
regardless of what you do,

1318
00:38:44,256 --> 00:38:45,588
rather than, you do this and

1319
00:38:45,624 --> 00:38:47,424
I'll love you.

1320
00:38:47,459 --> 00:38:48,124
>> reporter: She started to

1321
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:48,591
understand the fragments of hope

1322
00:38:48,627 --> 00:38:51,428
she'd seen on tv.

1323
00:38:51,463 --> 00:38:54,164
♪ we're all in this together ♪

1324
00:38:54,199 --> 00:38:55,298
>> reporter: Happy kids in

1325
00:38:55,334 --> 00:38:55,999
pretty dresses, so far away from

1326
00:38:56,034 --> 00:38:56,766
her life.

1327
00:38:56,802 --> 00:38:58,435
She had tried to make a pretty

1328
00:38:58,470 --> 00:38:59,302
dress with old paper she found

1329
00:38:59,338 --> 00:39:00,637
around the house.

1330
00:39:00,672 --> 00:39:01,638
>> but, yeah, like, "high school

1331
00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:03,640
musical" and all those other

1332
00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:04,207
disney channels and stuff,

1333
00:39:04,242 --> 00:39:06,276
like, "hannah montana."

1334
00:39:06,311 --> 00:39:06,910
>> now why don't you tell me

1335
00:39:06,945 --> 00:39:08,378
what's really on your mind?

1336
00:39:08,413 --> 00:39:09,045
>> those movies when their

1337
00:39:09,081 --> 00:39:10,547
daughter would feel like they

1338
00:39:10,582 --> 00:39:14,918
could talk to their mom.

1339
00:39:14,953 --> 00:39:17,253
And we'd be like, oh, my gosh,

1340
00:39:17,289 --> 00:39:20,757
if I did that, there's no way.

1341
00:39:20,792 --> 00:39:22,659
But it's like -- it's just

1342
00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:24,327
always like, is that really how

1343
00:39:24,363 --> 00:39:27,430
it is in real life?

1344
00:39:27,466 --> 00:39:28,998
>> reporter: Something is

1345
00:39:29,034 --> 00:39:30,300
changing inside this quiet

1346
00:39:30,335 --> 00:39:33,002
child.

1347
00:39:33,038 --> 00:39:33,636
And, like, somehow get, like,

1348
00:39:33,672 --> 00:39:35,605
social media and then start

1349
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:36,639
talking to other people.

1350
00:39:36,675 --> 00:39:37,107
'cause I've never talked to

1351
00:39:37,142 --> 00:39:39,909
strangers before.

1352
00:39:39,945 --> 00:39:40,944
>> reporter: With her secret

1353
00:39:40,979 --> 00:39:41,845
phone she decides to post a

1354
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:42,746
little song she has written

1355
00:39:42,781 --> 00:39:44,981
online.

1356
00:39:45,016 --> 00:39:47,117
♪ you blame me

1357
00:39:47,152 --> 00:39:48,151
for everything ♪

1358
00:39:48,186 --> 00:39:49,586
♪ you blame me

1359
00:39:49,621 --> 00:39:50,019
for what they say

1360
00:39:50,055 --> 00:39:51,821
what they say ♪

1361
00:39:51,857 --> 00:39:53,456
♪ you blame me

1362
00:39:53,492 --> 00:39:56,826
for everything ♪

1363
00:39:56,862 --> 00:40:00,029
>> when mother and father would

1364
00:40:00,065 --> 00:40:01,631
leave, I would -- that's when I

1365
00:40:01,666 --> 00:40:04,768
would sneak in the bathroom and

1366
00:40:04,803 --> 00:40:05,468
I would make my videos and put

1367
00:40:05,504 --> 00:40:08,438
them out.

1368
00:40:08,473 --> 00:40:09,506
And I was hoping, like, if I

1369
00:40:09,541 --> 00:40:10,507
made those videos, then people

1370
00:40:10,542 --> 00:40:11,875
might follow me on social media.

1371
00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:16,413
And some did.

1372
00:40:16,448 --> 00:40:17,447
>> reporter: A stranger writes,

1373
00:40:17,482 --> 00:40:18,248
asking why she's always inside

1374
00:40:18,283 --> 00:40:21,151
and up at night.

1375
00:40:21,186 --> 00:40:23,720
>> he kind of just realized that

1376
00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:24,687
I was always in my room, and

1377
00:40:24,723 --> 00:40:25,522
then he started asking

1378
00:40:25,557 --> 00:40:26,890
questions.

1379
00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:27,857
And I told him how we eat and

1380
00:40:27,893 --> 00:40:28,158
how we're not allowed to get out

1381
00:40:28,193 --> 00:40:30,393
of bed.

1382
00:40:30,429 --> 00:40:30,994
He was like, this isn't right.

1383
00:40:31,029 --> 00:40:32,662
You should call the cops.

1384
00:40:32,697 --> 00:40:34,764
Like, I was so happy to hear him

1385
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:35,532
say that because I was like,

1386
00:40:35,567 --> 00:40:36,900
I was right.

1387
00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:37,634
I was right that the situation

1388
00:40:37,669 --> 00:40:40,103
was so bad.

1389
00:40:40,138 --> 00:40:41,004
>> reporter: And one day, jordan

1390
00:40:41,039 --> 00:40:41,504
is caught secretly watching a

1391
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:44,841
justin bieber video.

1392
00:40:44,876 --> 00:40:45,842
>> mother, she choked me, and I

1393
00:40:45,877 --> 00:40:46,509
thought I was gonna die that

1394
00:40:46,545 --> 00:40:49,479
day.

1395
00:40:49,514 --> 00:40:50,513
And after that whole day

1396
00:40:50,549 --> 00:40:53,817
happened, I kept having

1397
00:40:53,852 --> 00:40:54,751
nightmares that we were gonna --

1398
00:40:54,786 --> 00:40:57,487
that she was killing me.

1399
00:40:57,522 --> 00:40:58,521
>> reporter: What jordan turpin

1400
00:40:58,557 --> 00:40:59,255
knows is that the moment has

1401
00:40:59,291 --> 00:41:02,158
arrived.

1402
00:41:02,194 --> 00:41:02,492
You either crack, or you decide

1403
00:41:02,527 --> 00:41:04,961
to fight.

1404
00:41:04,996 --> 00:41:05,662
>> I kept having nightmares that

1405
00:41:05,697 --> 00:41:07,096
I was dying.

1406
00:41:07,132 --> 00:41:07,730
And when I woke up, I was crying

1407
00:41:07,766 --> 00:41:10,200
so hard.

1408
00:41:10,235 --> 00:41:11,801
And that day was when I was

1409
00:41:11,837 --> 00:41:19,209
like -- I told my two sisters,

1410
00:41:19,244 --> 00:41:22,579
I'm gonna leave.

1411
00:41:22,614 --> 00:41:23,580
>> reporter: Coming up --

1412
00:41:23,615 --> 00:41:24,180
she starts to plan her escape.

1413
00:41:24,216 --> 00:41:25,281
But the clock is ticking.

1414
00:41:25,317 --> 00:41:26,149
One chance to get out and not

1415
00:41:26,184 --> 00:41:26,850
pay with her life.

1416
00:41:26,885 --> 00:41:27,784
And the video cameras in real

1417
00:41:27,819 --> 00:41:28,051
time as police move through that

1418
00:41:28,086 --> 00:41:31,888
house.

1419
00:41:38,096 --> 00:41:39,596
>>> the time for escape is now.

1420
00:41:39,631 --> 00:41:40,063
>> help.

1421
00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:41,531
>> this is 911.

1422
00:41:41,566 --> 00:41:42,832
Duff an emergency?

1423
00:41:42,868 --> 00:41:43,466
>> it's literally a now or

1424
00:41:43,502 --> 00:41:44,167
never.

1425
00:41:44,202 --> 00:41:48,137
>> a desperate plan for freedom.

1426
00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:49,839
>> if something happened to me,

1427
00:41:49,875 --> 00:41:51,841
at least addaed trying.

1428
00:41:51,877 --> 00:41:54,344
>> 13 siblings held captive by

1429
00:41:54,379 --> 00:41:55,211
their parents.

1430
00:41:55,247 --> 00:41:57,981
>> locked inside for decades.

1431
00:41:58,016 --> 00:41:59,616
For the first time, we're taking

1432
00:41:59,651 --> 00:42:01,951
you inside that house of horrors

1433
00:42:01,987 --> 00:42:03,520
as the police saw it in

1434
00:42:03,555 --> 00:42:06,556
realtime.

1435
00:42:06,591 --> 00:42:08,024
The sights, the secrets.

1436
00:42:08,059 --> 00:42:10,393
>> I found the missing link.

1437
00:42:10,428 --> 00:42:11,494
>> reporter: What do you know

1438
00:42:11,530 --> 00:42:14,430
about why these two people did

1439
00:42:14,466 --> 00:42:15,532
this to their children?

1440
00:42:15,567 --> 00:42:18,101
>> 13 times over.

1441
00:42:18,136 --> 00:42:19,502
>> and what's happened since

1442
00:42:19,538 --> 00:42:20,236
then?

1443
00:42:20,272 --> 00:42:21,037
Were many of the promises made

1444
00:42:21,072 --> 00:42:24,073
to them promises broken?

1445
00:42:24,109 --> 00:42:25,074
Who is accountable?

1446
00:42:25,110 --> 00:42:26,609
We're looking for answers.

1447
00:42:26,645 --> 00:42:29,212
>> can I ask you, sir?

1448
00:42:29,247 --> 00:42:31,114
>> and looking at joy.

1449
00:42:31,149 --> 00:42:34,517
>> I want my name and her name,

1450
00:42:34,553 --> 00:42:36,085
the turpin name -- like, wow,

1451
00:42:36,121 --> 00:42:40,557
they're strong.

1452
00:42:40,592 --> 00:42:41,524
>> reporter: Behind the closed

1453
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,159
door of a suburban house in a

1454
00:42:43,194 --> 00:42:44,294
nice neighborhood, where a

1455
00:42:44,329 --> 00:42:48,464
christmas ornament hangs in the

1456
00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:49,399
window, inside, there is a

1457
00:42:49,434 --> 00:42:49,699
cruelty you do not have to

1458
00:42:49,734 --> 00:42:51,701
imagine.

1459
00:42:51,736 --> 00:42:53,269
You can see it in the pictures.

1460
00:42:53,305 --> 00:42:53,803
Chains used to tie little arms

1461
00:42:53,838 --> 00:42:56,406
and legs.

1462
00:42:56,441 --> 00:42:57,907
One child tied with a rope uses

1463
00:42:57,943 --> 00:42:58,942
his teeth to escape so they

1464
00:42:58,977 --> 00:42:59,676
switch to thicker, heavier

1465
00:42:59,711 --> 00:43:04,213
chains.

1466
00:43:04,249 --> 00:43:09,586
A child both hands attached to

1467
00:43:09,621 --> 00:43:10,186
run railing can't roll over or

1468
00:43:10,221 --> 00:43:14,290
itch the lice on his head.

1469
00:43:14,326 --> 00:43:16,859
Chained for a month, two months,

1470
00:43:16,895 --> 00:43:18,394
only released to go to the

1471
00:43:18,430 --> 00:43:24,834
bathroom, if they can make it in

1472
00:43:24,869 --> 00:43:25,501
time.

1473
00:43:25,537 --> 00:43:26,536
Jordan turpin looks at what is

1474
00:43:26,571 --> 00:43:27,470
happening to her siblings and

1475
00:43:27,505 --> 00:43:28,137
wrestles an agonizing choice.

1476
00:43:28,173 --> 00:43:28,805
>> I knew I would die if I got

1477
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,006
caught.

1478
00:43:30,041 --> 00:43:30,673
But at the end, when I saw,

1479
00:43:30,709 --> 00:43:33,076
like, all my younger siblings,

1480
00:43:33,111 --> 00:43:33,776
and everyone -- everyone was

1481
00:43:33,812 --> 00:43:34,043
scared, I knew that's what I had

1482
00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:36,579
to do.

1483
00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:37,647
>> reporter: She decides to go

1484
00:43:37,682 --> 00:43:38,348
to her sister secretly to ask

1485
00:43:38,383 --> 00:43:41,317
for help.

1486
00:43:41,353 --> 00:43:41,784
>> she's like, we ned to get out

1487
00:43:41,820 --> 00:43:42,452
of here.

1488
00:43:42,487 --> 00:43:42,952
So I gave her all the advice I

1489
00:43:42,988 --> 00:43:44,454
knew.

1490
00:43:44,489 --> 00:43:46,389
All the advice I could.

1491
00:43:46,424 --> 00:43:47,056
>> reporter: Jennifer had tried

1492
00:43:47,092 --> 00:43:48,391
to escape herself long ago but

1493
00:43:48,426 --> 00:43:49,659
came back.

1494
00:43:49,694 --> 00:43:50,293
She wrote a song, a kind of

1495
00:43:50,328 --> 00:43:52,895
prayer for god to help them.

1496
00:43:52,931 --> 00:43:55,932
♪ lord, I hate my life ♪

1497
00:43:55,967 --> 00:43:57,433
♪ help me see the light ♪

1498
00:43:57,469 --> 00:43:59,335
♪ I am losing faith ♪

1499
00:43:59,371 --> 00:44:01,804
♪ help me see the day ♪

1500
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:07,543
♪ lord, help me see the light ♪

1501
00:44:07,579 --> 00:44:11,347
♪ light in this darkness ♪

1502
00:44:11,383 --> 00:44:12,615
>> reporter: She draws a

1503
00:44:12,651 --> 00:44:14,550
primitive little map for her

1504
00:44:14,586 --> 00:44:17,954
sister jordan, trying to

1505
00:44:17,989 --> 00:44:19,656
re-create what she knows about

1506
00:44:19,691 --> 00:44:21,257
the world outside their house.

1507
00:44:21,292 --> 00:44:23,359
She thinks the road out may be

1508
00:44:23,395 --> 00:44:24,460
there or there.

1509
00:44:24,496 --> 00:44:25,428
It's hard to be sure.

1510
00:44:25,463 --> 00:44:27,730
In a dark room, jordan films a

1511
00:44:27,766 --> 00:44:29,899
phone call with another sister

1512
00:44:29,934 --> 00:44:32,101
who asks a taxi company how much

1513
00:44:32,137 --> 00:44:34,103
it would cost to take someone

1514
00:44:34,139 --> 00:44:35,271
out of california to nevada.

1515
00:44:35,306 --> 00:44:37,173
>> the very beginning of nevada.

1516
00:44:37,208 --> 00:44:40,309
>> yeah, how much would it cost?

1517
00:44:40,345 --> 00:44:45,648
>> a couple hundred?

1518
00:44:45,684 --> 00:44:46,582
I'm not going.

1519
00:44:46,618 --> 00:44:48,484
I'll take a bus.

1520
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:49,719
>> reporter: Did your parents

1521
00:44:49,754 --> 00:44:51,754
know you had the phones?

1522
00:44:51,790 --> 00:44:52,588
>> no.

1523
00:44:52,624 --> 00:44:57,694
No, they didn't.

1524
00:44:57,729 --> 00:45:01,364
>> reporter: Since a taxi costs

1525
00:45:01,399 --> 00:45:01,998
too much, jordan remembers

1526
00:45:02,033 --> 00:45:02,865
something she's seen on a tv

1527
00:45:02,901 --> 00:45:04,067
show called "cops."

1528
00:45:04,102 --> 00:45:04,867
>> I got those photos 'cause I

1529
00:45:04,903 --> 00:45:05,935
knew that -- that I would need

1530
00:45:05,970 --> 00:45:07,236
proof of that.

1531
00:45:07,272 --> 00:45:08,237
>> get pictures, anything to

1532
00:45:08,273 --> 00:45:09,772
prove, so they can't think

1533
00:45:09,808 --> 00:45:10,173
you're just a teenager looking

1534
00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:13,042
for attention.

1535
00:45:13,078 --> 00:45:14,110
>> reporter: Two of jordan's

1536
00:45:14,145 --> 00:45:15,144
little sisters have now been

1537
00:45:15,180 --> 00:45:18,181
chained to their beds in the

1538
00:45:18,216 --> 00:45:18,815
room they all share.

1539
00:45:18,850 --> 00:45:19,716
They were caught stealing

1540
00:45:19,751 --> 00:45:20,983
mother's candy.

1541
00:45:21,019 --> 00:45:21,651
She cannot bear their cries at

1542
00:45:21,686 --> 00:45:23,619
night.

1543
00:45:23,655 --> 00:45:25,354
Photos of them would be proof.

1544
00:45:25,390 --> 00:45:28,391
>> I asked them permission

1545
00:45:28,426 --> 00:45:28,791
before taking it, and they said

1546
00:45:28,827 --> 00:45:29,459
yes.

1547
00:45:29,494 --> 00:45:32,662
So they knew why I was taking

1548
00:45:32,697 --> 00:45:33,396
the picture, and they knew what

1549
00:45:33,431 --> 00:45:34,731
it was for.

1550
00:45:34,766 --> 00:45:39,035
And they -- they letted me.

1551
00:45:39,070 --> 00:45:43,239
>> reporter: And then on January

1552
00:45:43,274 --> 00:45:44,006
14, 2018, the signal that time

1553
00:45:44,042 --> 00:45:45,308
has run out.

1554
00:45:45,343 --> 00:45:46,776
Jordan hears mother say the

1555
00:45:46,811 --> 00:45:47,410
family is moving to oklahoma and

1556
00:45:47,445 --> 00:45:49,545
everyone is getting chained.

1557
00:45:49,581 --> 00:45:50,246
>> the very next day we were

1558
00:45:50,281 --> 00:45:51,714
moving.

1559
00:45:51,750 --> 00:45:55,818
It was literally a now or never.

1560
00:45:55,854 --> 00:45:56,819
>> everyone's getting chained.

1561
00:45:56,855 --> 00:45:57,553
I knew I had to leave that

1562
00:45:57,589 --> 00:45:58,121
night.

1563
00:45:58,156 --> 00:46:01,157
That was my only chance.

1564
00:46:01,192 --> 00:46:02,225
At least if something happened

1565
00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:03,292
to me, at least I died trying.

1566
00:46:03,328 --> 00:46:04,861
Because if we went to oklahoma,

1567
00:46:04,896 --> 00:46:07,930
there was a big chance that some

1568
00:46:07,966 --> 00:46:12,802
of us would have died.

1569
00:46:12,837 --> 00:46:13,870
>> I honestly don't know that

1570
00:46:13,905 --> 00:46:14,504
at least one, maybe two of them,

1571
00:46:14,539 --> 00:46:15,905
would've survived the trip.

1572
00:46:15,940 --> 00:46:16,973
They were in such horrible

1573
00:46:17,008 --> 00:46:17,774
decline and on the edge of

1574
00:46:17,809 --> 00:46:21,110
starvation.

1575
00:46:21,146 --> 00:46:21,377
>> so I started grabbing my

1576
00:46:21,412 --> 00:46:23,279
bags.

1577
00:46:23,314 --> 00:46:25,982
And I put on, like, some

1578
00:46:26,017 --> 00:46:27,984
clothes, clean clothes so I

1579
00:46:28,019 --> 00:46:28,317
wouldn't, like, smell or

1580
00:46:28,353 --> 00:46:30,887
anything.

1581
00:46:30,922 --> 00:46:32,388
>> reporter: She puts pillows

1582
00:46:32,423 --> 00:46:33,923
under a blanket to look like her

1583
00:46:33,958 --> 00:46:34,657
in case her parents peek into

1584
00:46:34,692 --> 00:46:36,559
the bedroom.

1585
00:46:36,594 --> 00:46:40,530
She climbs up on the windowsill

1586
00:46:40,565 --> 00:46:42,298
and drops down.

1587
00:46:42,333 --> 00:46:43,166
There she is again in that

1588
00:46:43,201 --> 00:46:44,100
security camera footage starting

1589
00:46:44,135 --> 00:46:46,502
to run.

1590
00:46:46,538 --> 00:46:50,173
>> I could barely walk.

1591
00:46:50,208 --> 00:46:52,775
My legs were shaking.

1592
00:46:52,811 --> 00:46:53,209
Everywhere was shaking.

1593
00:46:53,244 --> 00:46:57,647
I was so scared.

1594
00:46:57,682 --> 00:46:58,714
>> reporter: And something she

1595
00:46:58,750 --> 00:46:59,549
didn't know at the time, there

1596
00:46:59,584 --> 00:47:00,850
in the shadows, someone else is

1597
00:47:00,885 --> 00:47:01,818
slipping out the window and

1598
00:47:01,853 --> 00:47:02,652
running in the opposite

1599
00:47:02,687 --> 00:47:03,653
direction.

1600
00:47:03,688 --> 00:47:05,154
It's her sister who can't find

1601
00:47:05,190 --> 00:47:05,822
jordan and then slowly makes her

1602
00:47:05,857 --> 00:47:07,056
way back.

1603
00:47:07,091 --> 00:47:07,623
You can see that too on the

1604
00:47:07,659 --> 00:47:10,393
security camera footage.

1605
00:47:10,428 --> 00:47:13,896
While somewhere in the darkness,

1606
00:47:13,932 --> 00:47:14,163
jordan is making the lifesaving

1607
00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:15,298
call.

1608
00:47:15,333 --> 00:47:15,932
>> 911.

1609
00:47:15,967 --> 00:47:17,033
What's your name?

1610
00:47:17,068 --> 00:47:19,869
>> jordan turpin.

1611
00:47:19,904 --> 00:47:21,938
>> I was trying, like, to dial

1612
00:47:21,973 --> 00:47:24,073
911, but I couldn't even get

1613
00:47:24,108 --> 00:47:27,810
my -- my thumb to press the

1614
00:47:27,846 --> 00:47:28,244
buttons because I was shaking

1615
00:47:28,279 --> 00:47:31,514
so bad.

1616
00:47:31,549 --> 00:47:32,748
My two little sisters right now

1617
00:47:32,784 --> 00:47:38,387
are chained.

1618
00:47:38,423 --> 00:47:39,388
They will wake up at night, and

1619
00:47:39,424 --> 00:47:40,189
they would start crying and they

1620
00:47:40,225 --> 00:47:40,523
wanted me to call somebody and

1621
00:47:40,558 --> 00:47:42,792
tell them.

1622
00:47:42,827 --> 00:47:44,260
>> hi, jordan.

1623
00:47:44,295 --> 00:47:44,627
>> hi.

1624
00:47:44,662 --> 00:47:45,995
>> hi.

1625
00:47:46,030 --> 00:47:48,364
What's going on?

1626
00:47:48,399 --> 00:47:51,067
>> reporter: The deputy who

1627
00:47:51,102 --> 00:47:52,101
arrives is so intuitive, he asks

1628
00:47:52,136 --> 00:47:52,802
that critical question and she

1629
00:47:52,837 --> 00:47:53,636
is ready.

1630
00:47:53,671 --> 00:47:54,503
>> you have pictures of your

1631
00:47:54,539 --> 00:47:55,338
sisters chained up?

1632
00:47:55,373 --> 00:47:58,207
>> yes.

1633
00:47:58,243 --> 00:47:59,375
I don't have proof of

1634
00:47:59,410 --> 00:48:00,409
everything, but I have proof

1635
00:48:00,445 --> 00:48:01,010
that my sisters are chained up.

1636
00:48:01,045 --> 00:48:02,144
>> who took this picture?

1637
00:48:02,180 --> 00:48:04,380
>> I did, I took those pictures.

1638
00:48:04,415 --> 00:48:05,748
>> okay.

1639
00:48:05,783 --> 00:48:06,015
You make sure to save these,

1640
00:48:06,050 --> 00:48:06,649
okay?

1641
00:48:06,684 --> 00:48:08,384
>> okay I will.

1642
00:48:08,419 --> 00:48:10,987
>> don't get rid of those.

1643
00:48:11,022 --> 00:48:11,854
>> I will.

1644
00:48:11,890 --> 00:48:12,989
I won't.

1645
00:48:13,024 --> 00:48:15,558
>> take a seat back here, okay?

1646
00:48:15,593 --> 00:48:16,525
>> okay.

1647
00:48:16,561 --> 00:48:17,393
>> reporter: The sun is up.

1648
00:48:17,428 --> 00:48:19,128
Reinforcements arrive.

1649
00:48:19,163 --> 00:48:21,497
Riverside county deputies walk

1650
00:48:21,532 --> 00:48:23,199
up to the door, no idea what

1651
00:48:23,234 --> 00:48:29,505
they'll find on the other side.

1652
00:48:29,540 --> 00:48:32,174
This is body camera footage of

1653
00:48:32,210 --> 00:48:33,242
the police officers knocking on

1654
00:48:33,278 --> 00:48:33,776
and off for two minutes and ten

1655
00:48:33,811 --> 00:48:35,177
seconds.

1656
00:48:35,213 --> 00:48:35,478
>> they're obviously not

1657
00:48:35,513 --> 00:48:36,879
opening.

1658
00:48:36,915 --> 00:48:37,546
>> suddenly the door cracks

1659
00:48:37,582 --> 00:48:38,614
open.

1660
00:48:38,650 --> 00:48:41,951
>> hi.

1661
00:48:41,986 --> 00:48:42,685
>> hello.

1662
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:43,452
>> hi.

1663
00:48:43,488 --> 00:48:44,587
Sorry to bug you.

1664
00:48:44,622 --> 00:48:48,257
>> how you guys doing?

1665
00:48:48,293 --> 00:48:49,525
>> good.

1666
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:50,159
>> we got a call for a check the

1667
00:48:50,194 --> 00:48:50,860
welfare here at your house.

1668
00:48:50,895 --> 00:48:52,194
So.

1669
00:48:52,230 --> 00:48:53,296
>> for -- for what?

1670
00:48:53,331 --> 00:48:53,963
>> check the welfare.

1671
00:48:53,998 --> 00:48:54,830
So we just basically check on

1672
00:48:54,866 --> 00:48:55,831
everybody and make sure

1673
00:48:55,867 --> 00:48:56,299
everybody's okay.

1674
00:48:56,334 --> 00:48:57,133
>> yeah, why?

1675
00:48:57,168 --> 00:48:58,267
>> do you guys have kids in the

1676
00:48:58,303 --> 00:48:58,834
house?

1677
00:48:58,870 --> 00:49:01,404
>> yes.

1678
00:49:01,439 --> 00:49:02,438
>> reporter: We now know they

1679
00:49:02,473 --> 00:49:03,372
had been scrambling to have

1680
00:49:03,408 --> 00:49:03,673
someone unlock the chains.

1681
00:49:03,708 --> 00:49:04,941
>> okay.

1682
00:49:04,976 --> 00:49:05,374
Do you mind if we just come in

1683
00:49:05,410 --> 00:49:06,542
and take a look?

1684
00:49:06,577 --> 00:49:07,543
Make sure everybody's safe and

1685
00:49:07,578 --> 00:49:08,644
everything's okay?

1686
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:08,945
>> okay, what kind of call did

1687
00:49:08,980 --> 00:49:10,413
you get?

1688
00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:11,948
>> we got a call that there was

1689
00:49:11,983 --> 00:49:12,982
a young female walking around

1690
00:49:13,017 --> 00:49:13,816
saying that she came from a

1691
00:49:13,851 --> 00:49:14,717
house over here.

1692
00:49:14,752 --> 00:49:18,154
We were able to find out that

1693
00:49:18,189 --> 00:49:18,821
this was the house, and we just

1694
00:49:18,856 --> 00:49:19,755
wanted to check and make sure

1695
00:49:19,791 --> 00:49:20,790
that everybody was okay.

1696
00:49:20,825 --> 00:49:21,357
>> they said she came from here?

1697
00:49:21,392 --> 00:49:22,358
>> that's what she said.

1698
00:49:22,393 --> 00:49:22,758
>> from inside this house?

1699
00:49:22,794 --> 00:49:24,527
>> I think so.

1700
00:49:24,562 --> 00:49:25,695
Otherwise we wouldn't be

1701
00:49:25,730 --> 00:49:26,629
knocking on your door on Sunday.

1702
00:49:26,664 --> 00:49:30,466
>> did she say her name?

1703
00:49:30,501 --> 00:49:31,100
>> um, I don't know -- did she

1704
00:49:31,135 --> 00:49:32,435
say her name?

1705
00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:33,069
>> I don't know offhand but we

1706
00:49:33,104 --> 00:49:34,070
need to check the welfare of

1707
00:49:34,105 --> 00:49:36,772
everybody inside, okay?

1708
00:49:36,808 --> 00:49:37,707
Once we get in and make sure

1709
00:49:37,742 --> 00:49:38,107
everything's okay, we'll get out

1710
00:49:38,142 --> 00:49:39,308
of your hair.

1711
00:49:39,344 --> 00:49:40,242
>> well, we have a lot where

1712
00:49:40,278 --> 00:49:42,044
we're packing.

1713
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:42,912
We're getting ready to move.

1714
00:49:42,947 --> 00:49:44,647
>> that's fine.

1715
00:49:44,682 --> 00:49:45,681
>> so it's a mess in here.

1716
00:49:45,717 --> 00:49:46,649
>> we don't mind messes.

1717
00:49:46,684 --> 00:49:47,483
We've been in worse.

1718
00:49:47,518 --> 00:49:48,284
>> but, I mean --

1719
00:49:48,319 --> 00:49:49,285
>> how you doing, sir?

1720
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,087
>> I'm doing okay.

1721
00:49:51,122 --> 00:49:51,587
>> no weapons in the house or

1722
00:49:51,622 --> 00:49:54,256
anything like that?

1723
00:49:54,292 --> 00:49:54,824
>> I do have -- I do, I do have

1724
00:49:54,859 --> 00:49:55,558
a gun.

1725
00:49:55,593 --> 00:49:56,392
But it's locked up.

1726
00:49:56,427 --> 00:49:57,093
>> okay.

1727
00:49:57,128 --> 00:49:57,560
Locked up is good.

1728
00:49:57,595 --> 00:49:59,395
We like that.

1729
00:49:59,430 --> 00:50:00,296
Okay, well we're going to come

1730
00:50:00,331 --> 00:50:01,364
in and check, okay?

1731
00:50:01,399 --> 00:50:01,831
We just want to make sure

1732
00:50:01,866 --> 00:50:03,165
everybody's okay.

1733
00:50:03,201 --> 00:50:03,866
>> do you have a search warrant

1734
00:50:03,901 --> 00:50:05,768
or anything?

1735
00:50:05,803 --> 00:50:07,503
>> no, we don't need one, sir.

1736
00:50:07,538 --> 00:50:07,970
>> reporter: The deputies move

1737
00:50:08,006 --> 00:50:12,074
through the door.

1738
00:50:12,110 --> 00:50:14,176
Coming up next, the body cameras

1739
00:50:14,212 --> 00:50:14,877
and the stunning scene inside.

1740
00:50:25,923 --> 00:50:26,522
>>> do you have a search warrant

1741
00:50:26,557 --> 00:50:27,189
or anything?

1742
00:50:27,225 --> 00:50:29,959
>> no, we don't need one, sir.

1743
00:50:29,994 --> 00:50:31,060
>> reporter: As sheriff's

1744
00:50:31,095 --> 00:50:32,094
deputies move through a door

1745
00:50:32,130 --> 00:50:33,095
into a horrifying landscape,

1746
00:50:33,131 --> 00:50:34,764
the windows are closed.

1747
00:50:34,799 --> 00:50:36,832
The room is swelteringly hot,

1748
00:50:36,868 --> 00:50:39,468
magnifying the stench of

1749
00:50:39,504 --> 00:50:41,704
excrement, decaying garbage,

1750
00:50:41,739 --> 00:50:43,105
mounds of mother's molding food.

1751
00:50:43,141 --> 00:50:46,275
Every sofa, counter, floor

1752
00:50:46,310 --> 00:50:47,209
covered in layers of trash

1753
00:50:47,245 --> 00:50:49,245
and unopened toys.

1754
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,247
>> hi, kids.

1755
00:50:51,282 --> 00:50:52,915
Hello.

1756
00:50:52,950 --> 00:50:55,217
It's okay.

1757
00:50:55,253 --> 00:50:55,851
>> reporter: Louise turpin

1758
00:50:55,887 --> 00:50:56,619
quickly tries to follow the

1759
00:50:56,654 --> 00:50:57,686
deputies.

1760
00:50:57,722 --> 00:50:59,488
>> all right.

1761
00:50:59,524 --> 00:51:00,623
Stay there for me for now.

1762
00:51:00,658 --> 00:51:01,757
>> an officer distracts

1763
00:51:01,793 --> 00:51:02,425
david turpin with topic after

1764
00:51:02,460 --> 00:51:02,992
topic.

1765
00:51:03,027 --> 00:51:04,060
>> okay.

1766
00:51:04,095 --> 00:51:04,560
What's your name, sir?

1767
00:51:04,595 --> 00:51:05,961
>> david.

1768
00:51:05,997 --> 00:51:06,695
>> where you guys planning on

1769
00:51:06,731 --> 00:51:07,263
moving to?

1770
00:51:07,298 --> 00:51:08,964
>> oklahoma.

1771
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:10,099
No, my job's moving.

1772
00:51:10,134 --> 00:51:10,699
>> louise turpin is directed to

1773
00:51:10,735 --> 00:51:11,834
go back to the front door.

1774
00:51:11,869 --> 00:51:12,768
>> why don't you stay over here

1775
00:51:12,804 --> 00:51:14,503
with my partner, okay?

1776
00:51:14,539 --> 00:51:15,404
>> a pale, emaciated child moves

1777
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,440
through the living room.

1778
00:51:17,475 --> 00:51:17,940
Her clothes dirty.

1779
00:51:17,975 --> 00:51:19,375
So is her hair.

1780
00:51:19,410 --> 00:51:20,443
>> okay.

1781
00:51:20,478 --> 00:51:21,677
What do you do for work?

1782
00:51:21,712 --> 00:51:23,212
>> I'm an engineer.

1783
00:51:23,247 --> 00:51:29,752
>> oh, engineer.

1784
00:51:29,787 --> 00:51:31,687
>> 35 is another 10.

1785
00:51:31,722 --> 00:51:32,555
>> louise turpin nervously

1786
00:51:32,590 --> 00:51:33,656
probes again.

1787
00:51:33,691 --> 00:51:34,423
>> you got a call?

1788
00:51:34,459 --> 00:51:35,391
>> yeah, we got a call from --

1789
00:51:35,426 --> 00:51:36,158
not sure if it was the young

1790
00:51:36,194 --> 00:51:36,826
girl that left or if it was a

1791
00:51:36,861 --> 00:51:37,893
neighbor that saw her walking

1792
00:51:37,929 --> 00:51:40,196
around the street.

1793
00:51:40,231 --> 00:51:40,830
So, we'll get to the bottom of

1794
00:51:40,865 --> 00:51:41,664
it.

1795
00:51:41,699 --> 00:51:42,665
Assuming we make sure

1796
00:51:42,700 --> 00:51:43,332
everybody's okay.

1797
00:51:43,367 --> 00:51:44,400
Then we'll figure out if maybe

1798
00:51:44,435 --> 00:51:45,000
she was one of your kids that

1799
00:51:45,036 --> 00:51:46,368
wandered away.

1800
00:51:46,404 --> 00:51:46,635
How many kids do you have?

1801
00:51:46,671 --> 00:51:47,703
>> 13.

1802
00:51:47,738 --> 00:51:48,237
>> 13?

1803
00:51:48,272 --> 00:51:49,105
Total?

1804
00:51:49,140 --> 00:51:50,072
Whoo.

1805
00:51:50,108 --> 00:51:51,707
You guys are busy.

1806
00:51:51,742 --> 00:51:55,945
>> yeah.

1807
00:51:55,980 --> 00:51:57,012
>> reporter: As the parents are

1808
00:51:57,048 --> 00:51:57,847
talking, deputies head into the

1809
00:51:57,882 --> 00:51:58,881
center of the house.

1810
00:51:58,916 --> 00:52:03,419
There's a hallway.

1811
00:52:03,454 --> 00:52:04,453
They pass the parents' bedroom.

1812
00:52:04,489 --> 00:52:05,121
Then down the hall, two other

1813
00:52:05,156 --> 00:52:06,388
bedrooms.

1814
00:52:06,424 --> 00:52:07,056
The deputy looks in the first

1815
00:52:07,091 --> 00:52:07,723
door and discovers a crushing

1816
00:52:07,758 --> 00:52:09,592
scene.

1817
00:52:09,627 --> 00:52:10,493
Those two young girls from their

1818
00:52:10,528 --> 00:52:12,828
sister's photos.

1819
00:52:12,864 --> 00:52:13,662
One is on a bed, the other a

1820
00:52:13,698 --> 00:52:17,066
mattress on the floor.

1821
00:52:17,101 --> 00:52:19,101
They are limp, frail, eerily

1822
00:52:19,137 --> 00:52:20,202
quiet, caked in dirt.

1823
00:52:20,238 --> 00:52:21,270
Their arms are bruised.

1824
00:52:21,305 --> 00:52:21,871
But where are the chains?

1825
00:52:21,906 --> 00:52:23,139
>> hi, sweetheart.

1826
00:52:23,174 --> 00:52:25,441
Hi, girls.

1827
00:52:25,476 --> 00:52:26,742
Can I see your wrists?

1828
00:52:26,777 --> 00:52:27,343
>> me?

1829
00:52:27,378 --> 00:52:30,045
>> yeah.

1830
00:52:30,081 --> 00:52:32,581
>> which one?

1831
00:52:32,617 --> 00:52:33,849
>> okay.

1832
00:52:33,885 --> 00:52:36,685
Hi, how old are you?

1833
00:52:36,721 --> 00:52:37,620
>> reporter: Next, the deputy

1834
00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:38,254
heads to the bedroom next door.

1835
00:52:38,289 --> 00:52:40,156
Two filthy bunk beds, but no

1836
00:52:40,191 --> 00:52:42,358
child is chained.

1837
00:52:42,393 --> 00:52:45,394
He pleads with the children.

1838
00:52:45,429 --> 00:52:45,794
Can they tell him, where are

1839
00:52:45,830 --> 00:52:48,497
those chains?

1840
00:52:48,533 --> 00:52:49,632
>> okay.

1841
00:52:49,667 --> 00:52:50,199
Thank you.

1842
00:52:50,234 --> 00:52:51,734
We're here to help you.

1843
00:52:51,769 --> 00:52:52,701
Okay?

1844
00:52:52,737 --> 00:52:54,003
Just work with my guys.

1845
00:52:54,038 --> 00:52:57,806
We will help you guys, okay?

1846
00:52:57,842 --> 00:52:58,741
>> reporter: Back at the front

1847
00:52:58,776 --> 00:52:59,942
doorway, the deputy who has been

1848
00:52:59,977 --> 00:53:00,709
talking to the parents notices

1849
00:53:00,745 --> 00:53:02,578
something.

1850
00:53:02,613 --> 00:53:03,646
Almost obscured by the 6'1"

1851
00:53:03,681 --> 00:53:06,182
david turpin and the pile of

1852
00:53:06,217 --> 00:53:09,618
boxes to his right --

1853
00:53:09,654 --> 00:53:12,388
>> is there a bedroom back here?

1854
00:53:12,423 --> 00:53:13,289
>> yeah.

1855
00:53:13,324 --> 00:53:17,526
>> you got another couple of

1856
00:53:17,562 --> 00:53:17,826
kiddos that sleep here?

1857
00:53:17,862 --> 00:53:18,527
>> yeah.

1858
00:53:18,563 --> 00:53:19,228
>> sarge, you got another room

1859
00:53:19,263 --> 00:53:20,596
in the front right here with two

1860
00:53:20,631 --> 00:53:20,996
kiddos in the bed.

1861
00:53:21,032 --> 00:53:21,864
>> where at?

1862
00:53:21,899 --> 00:53:25,367
>> right here.

1863
00:53:25,403 --> 00:53:26,402
>> reporter: Deputies move the

1864
00:53:26,437 --> 00:53:27,403
parents to the living room.

1865
00:53:27,438 --> 00:53:28,604
And when officers walk inside

1866
00:53:28,639 --> 00:53:29,505
the bedroom behind those boxes,

1867
00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:31,140
they see three remaining

1868
00:53:31,175 --> 00:53:32,741
children, including a boy

1869
00:53:32,777 --> 00:53:34,210
shackled to his bed, thick

1870
00:53:34,245 --> 00:53:35,611
chains on his wrist.

1871
00:53:35,646 --> 00:53:36,679
Another set of thick chains on

1872
00:53:36,714 --> 00:53:39,148
his ankle.

1873
00:53:39,183 --> 00:53:41,784
He has been this way for weeks.

1874
00:53:41,819 --> 00:53:43,786
A deputy gently asks his name

1875
00:53:43,821 --> 00:53:45,654
and starts looking for the keys

1876
00:53:45,690 --> 00:53:49,024
to unlock him.

1877
00:53:49,060 --> 00:53:50,659
Back in the bedroom down the

1878
00:53:50,695 --> 00:53:53,262
hall, where the two girls from

1879
00:53:53,297 --> 00:53:54,930
jordan's photos sit quietly,

1880
00:53:54,966 --> 00:53:57,566
the deputy is directed to go the

1881
00:53:57,602 --> 00:53:59,001
closet, and there on the floor

1882
00:53:59,036 --> 00:54:00,169
he finds the chains.

1883
00:54:00,204 --> 00:54:02,338
>> okay.

1884
00:54:02,373 --> 00:54:06,575
I found the missing link.

1885
00:54:06,611 --> 00:54:08,210
>> all right, let's just go

1886
00:54:08,246 --> 00:54:10,312
ahead and detain the parents.

1887
00:54:10,348 --> 00:54:11,280
>> ma'am, why don't you step

1888
00:54:11,315 --> 00:54:15,017
over here for a minute?

1889
00:54:15,052 --> 00:54:15,351
Okay.

1890
00:54:15,386 --> 00:54:16,018
With you.

1891
00:54:16,053 --> 00:54:16,552
And, sir, step over here for a

1892
00:54:16,587 --> 00:54:19,355
second.

1893
00:54:19,390 --> 00:54:22,358
>> reporter: After decades of

1894
00:54:22,393 --> 00:54:24,059
hiding their cruelty --

1895
00:54:24,095 --> 00:54:24,760
david and louise turpin are in

1896
00:54:24,795 --> 00:54:26,028
handcuffs.

1897
00:54:26,063 --> 00:54:26,262
>> go ahead and come out this

1898
00:54:26,297 --> 00:54:29,898
way.

1899
00:54:29,934 --> 00:54:30,866
Want to just walk him to my car

1900
00:54:30,901 --> 00:54:31,267
in.

1901
00:54:31,302 --> 00:54:32,935
>> yep.

1902
00:54:32,970 --> 00:54:34,470
>> and walked out of the house.

1903
00:54:34,505 --> 00:54:34,770
>> put her in a different car,

1904
00:54:34,805 --> 00:54:36,205
please.

1905
00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:37,773
>> as the parents head towards

1906
00:54:37,808 --> 00:54:38,874
police cars, inside a problem.

1907
00:54:38,909 --> 00:54:39,942
Deputies can't find the key to

1908
00:54:39,977 --> 00:54:40,576
unlock the boy still chained to

1909
00:54:40,611 --> 00:54:43,078
his bed.

1910
00:54:43,114 --> 00:54:45,681
>> now, let me ask you --

1911
00:54:45,716 --> 00:54:46,548
>> yes.

1912
00:54:46,584 --> 00:54:49,051
>> quickly, are there keys to

1913
00:54:49,086 --> 00:54:49,985
the little locks?

1914
00:54:50,021 --> 00:54:50,686
>> yes.

1915
00:54:50,721 --> 00:54:52,054
>> where are they?

1916
00:54:52,089 --> 00:54:53,856
>> my son and daughter can get

1917
00:54:53,891 --> 00:54:54,356
them.

1918
00:54:54,392 --> 00:54:55,057
That's in the house.

1919
00:54:55,092 --> 00:54:58,127
>> the ones in the house know

1920
00:54:58,162 --> 00:54:59,428
where they are?

1921
00:54:59,463 --> 00:55:00,195
>> yeah.

1922
00:55:00,231 --> 00:55:03,232
>> is that what this is about?

1923
00:55:03,267 --> 00:55:05,401
>> that's part of it,

1924
00:55:05,436 --> 00:55:09,738
definitely.

1925
00:55:09,774 --> 00:55:11,940
>> back in the house, the

1926
00:55:11,976 --> 00:55:12,841
deputies ask the kids for help.

1927
00:55:12,877 --> 00:55:13,542
>> it's in the drawer?

1928
00:55:13,577 --> 00:55:13,909
>> it's in the drawer that I was

1929
00:55:13,944 --> 00:55:15,644
in.

1930
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,646
>> they are directed to go back

1931
00:55:17,682 --> 00:55:18,747
into the parents bedroom,

1932
00:55:18,783 --> 00:55:19,848
a chaotic mountain of trash.

1933
00:55:19,884 --> 00:55:20,916
But as you look at this photo,

1934
00:55:20,951 --> 00:55:21,650
is this a portrait of chaos or

1935
00:55:21,686 --> 00:55:24,086
derangement?

1936
00:55:24,121 --> 00:55:26,188
By the way, there's a child in a

1937
00:55:26,223 --> 00:55:26,889
crib who smiles and waves at the

1938
00:55:26,924 --> 00:55:29,658
strangers.

1939
00:55:29,694 --> 00:55:30,292
The missing key is found in

1940
00:55:30,328 --> 00:55:31,593
mother and father's dresser

1941
00:55:31,629 --> 00:55:35,531
drawer.

1942
00:55:35,566 --> 00:55:36,598
The last child rescued.

1943
00:55:36,634 --> 00:55:54,283
The last chain unlocked.

1944
00:55:54,318 --> 00:55:55,617
Outside, a 17-year-old girl sits

1945
00:55:55,653 --> 00:55:57,986
in a police car.

1946
00:55:58,022 --> 00:56:00,022
It has been less than two hours

1947
00:56:00,057 --> 00:56:00,789
since she climbed out of the

1948
00:56:00,825 --> 00:56:04,793
window.

1949
00:56:04,829 --> 00:56:07,162
>> I saw them taking father,

1950
00:56:07,198 --> 00:56:10,165
and I started freaking out.

1951
00:56:10,201 --> 00:56:10,999
And I didn't know what was going

1952
00:56:11,035 --> 00:56:13,902
to happen at all.

1953
00:56:13,938 --> 00:56:15,337
The person in the car was, like,

1954
00:56:15,373 --> 00:56:16,705
saying, it's okay, it's okay,

1955
00:56:16,741 --> 00:56:19,441
it's okay.

1956
00:56:19,477 --> 00:56:22,244
Like, you don't have to watch or

1957
00:56:22,279 --> 00:56:22,878
see.

1958
00:56:22,913 --> 00:56:23,545
Like, he was really nice.

1959
00:56:23,581 --> 00:56:26,982
He was really calming me down.

1960
00:56:27,017 --> 00:56:27,616
>> reporter: Deputies take all

1961
00:56:27,651 --> 00:56:29,585
13 children to the hospital.

1962
00:56:29,620 --> 00:56:30,686
Children wasted by starvation

1963
00:56:30,721 --> 00:56:31,453
with atrophied muscles, crushed

1964
00:56:31,489 --> 00:56:31,720
by isolation and emotional

1965
00:56:31,756 --> 00:56:33,789
abuse.

1966
00:56:33,824 --> 00:56:35,324
Doctors and nurses give them

1967
00:56:35,359 --> 00:56:37,292
food, clean rooms, clothes,

1968
00:56:37,328 --> 00:56:41,063
kindness, love.

1969
00:56:41,098 --> 00:56:41,530
>> we were dehydrated.

1970
00:56:41,565 --> 00:56:43,799
We were starving.

1971
00:56:43,834 --> 00:56:45,300
They needed to do a lot of stuff

1972
00:56:45,336 --> 00:56:48,070
to help us get healthy.

1973
00:56:48,105 --> 00:56:49,071
>> reporter: Do you remember the

1974
00:56:49,106 --> 00:56:49,805
first things you ate there?

1975
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,207
>> yes.

1976
00:56:52,243 --> 00:56:55,277
It was macaroni and cheese.

1977
00:56:55,312 --> 00:56:56,278
>> reporter: And enough of it.

1978
00:56:56,313 --> 00:56:56,812
>> yes.

1979
00:56:56,847 --> 00:56:59,047
It was good.

1980
00:56:59,083 --> 00:57:01,250
>> reporter: Coming up next,

1981
00:57:01,285 --> 00:57:01,817
inside a courtroom, the parents

1982
00:57:01,852 --> 00:57:01,884
respond to the charges.

1983
00:57:16,534 --> 00:57:17,533
>>> the riverside county

1984
00:57:17,568 --> 00:57:18,200
district attorney's office filed

1985
00:57:18,235 --> 00:57:20,102
criminal charges against david

1986
00:57:20,137 --> 00:57:21,370
and louise turpin.

1987
00:57:21,405 --> 00:57:22,371
12 counts torture, 7 counts

1988
00:57:22,406 --> 00:57:25,140
abuse of a dependent adult,

1989
00:57:25,176 --> 00:57:26,475
6 counts child abuse, 12 counts

1990
00:57:26,510 --> 00:57:29,812
of false imprisonment.

1991
00:57:29,847 --> 00:57:31,380
>> reporter: The turpins sit in

1992
00:57:31,415 --> 00:57:32,181
a courtroom, chains around their

1993
00:57:32,216 --> 00:57:34,516
waists and feet.

1994
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It is four days after their

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00:57:36,086 --> 00:57:37,653
children have been freed.

1996
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Louise turpin's attorney is

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00:57:38,789 --> 00:57:45,093
trying to get the case against

1998
00:57:45,129 --> 00:57:46,128
her dismissed, arguing she's now

1999
00:57:46,163 --> 00:57:46,962
been diagnosed with histrionic

2000
00:57:46,997 --> 00:57:50,232
personality disorder.

2001
00:57:50,267 --> 00:57:52,367
A kind of unstable extreme

2002
00:57:52,403 --> 00:57:54,870
narcissism.

2003
00:57:54,905 --> 00:57:55,904
She even writes that when she

2004
00:57:55,940 --> 00:57:59,241
gets the family together again

2005
00:57:59,276 --> 00:58:00,309
she promises no chains this

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00:58:00,344 --> 00:58:01,777
time.

2007
00:58:01,812 --> 00:58:02,644
And her sisters say louise may

2008
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:03,345
have been cracked by a truly

2009
00:58:03,380 --> 00:58:04,913
horrible secret in their family.

2010
00:58:04,949 --> 00:58:06,482
The trauma of ongoing sexual

2011
00:58:06,517 --> 00:58:08,083
abuse since she was a child.

2012
00:58:08,118 --> 00:58:13,422
>> a very, very close family

2013
00:58:13,457 --> 00:58:16,191
member that we should have --

2014
00:58:16,227 --> 00:58:18,861
I'm sorry.

2015
00:58:18,896 --> 00:58:21,163
>> it's okay.

2016
00:58:21,198 --> 00:58:26,435
>> we should have loved and

2017
00:58:26,470 --> 00:58:30,939
trusted, he abused my mother and

2018
00:58:30,975 --> 00:58:35,844
sexually abused my mother, and

2019
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,647
then me and louise elizabeth.

2020
00:58:38,682 --> 00:58:39,548
>> but the judge rejects the

2021
00:58:39,583 --> 00:58:40,215
mental illness plea, saying

2022
00:58:40,251 --> 00:58:41,550
louise turpin poses a risk to

2023
00:58:41,585 --> 00:58:45,020
the public.

2024
00:58:45,055 --> 00:58:45,854
To this day, david turpin has

2025
00:58:45,890 --> 00:58:46,288
refused to talk to

2026
00:58:46,323 --> 00:58:47,689
investigators.

2027
00:58:47,725 --> 00:58:51,860
>> when you have parents abusing

2028
00:58:51,896 --> 00:58:52,494
their kids to this level, and

2029
00:58:52,530 --> 00:58:56,064
they're their own flesh and

2030
00:58:56,100 --> 00:58:57,633
blood it begs the question,

2031
00:58:57,668 --> 00:58:58,667
how could any sane person do

2032
00:58:58,702 --> 00:58:59,635
this, right?

2033
00:58:59,670 --> 00:59:02,304
And the truth of the matter is

2034
00:59:02,339 --> 00:59:03,171
that sane people commit evil

2035
00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:04,306
acts all the time.

2036
00:59:04,341 --> 00:59:04,673
>> sometimes there is no why.

2037
00:59:04,708 --> 00:59:06,408
In my work.

2038
00:59:06,443 --> 00:59:08,076
There's no reasoning.

2039
00:59:08,112 --> 00:59:09,711
There's not logic to explain

2040
00:59:09,747 --> 00:59:11,847
that type of behavior or why

2041
00:59:11,882 --> 00:59:13,982
someone would actually do that,

2042
00:59:14,018 --> 00:59:15,183
not only to anybody but your own

2043
00:59:15,219 --> 00:59:18,487
offspring.

2044
00:59:18,522 --> 00:59:21,089
I don't have a why.

2045
00:59:21,125 --> 00:59:26,128
I really don't.

2046
00:59:26,163 --> 00:59:26,929
>> reporter: The d.A. Amasses a

2047
00:59:26,964 --> 00:59:28,030
mountain of evidence.

2048
00:59:28,065 --> 00:59:28,864
The turpins make a deal.

2049
00:59:28,899 --> 00:59:30,232
No trial.

2050
00:59:30,267 --> 00:59:30,899
They're ready to submit their

2051
00:59:30,935 --> 00:59:32,801
plea.

2052
00:59:32,836 --> 00:59:33,468
>> count one, which is a

2053
00:59:33,504 --> 00:59:34,536
violation of torture.

2054
00:59:34,572 --> 00:59:35,103
How do you plead to that charge,

2055
00:59:35,139 --> 00:59:36,271
sir?

2056
00:59:36,307 --> 00:59:36,972
>> guilty.

2057
00:59:37,007 --> 00:59:37,539
>> and mrs. Turpin?

2058
00:59:37,575 --> 00:59:39,107
>> guilty.

2059
00:59:39,143 --> 00:59:39,441
>> dependent adult abuse.

2060
00:59:39,476 --> 00:59:41,643
>> guilty.

2061
00:59:41,679 --> 00:59:42,077
>> child endangerment.

2062
00:59:42,112 --> 00:59:43,145
>> guilty.

2063
00:59:43,180 --> 00:59:44,179
>> guilty.

2064
00:59:44,214 --> 00:59:44,713
>> guilty.

2065
00:59:44,748 --> 00:59:46,315
>> guilty.

2066
00:59:46,350 --> 00:59:46,848
>> guilty.

2067
00:59:46,884 --> 00:59:49,851
>> guilty.

2068
00:59:49,887 --> 00:59:50,886
>> reporter: At the sentencing,

2069
00:59:50,921 --> 00:59:51,954
the parents weep when a few of

2070
00:59:51,989 --> 00:59:53,522
the children send notes saying

2071
00:59:53,557 --> 00:59:55,591
they forgive them, but the two

2072
00:59:55,626 --> 00:59:56,692
oldest children come to the

2073
00:59:56,727 --> 00:59:57,659
courtroom to face their parents.

2074
00:59:57,695 --> 00:59:58,660
The camera turned away to

2075
00:59:58,696 --> 01:00:00,228
protect their identity.

2076
01:00:00,264 --> 01:00:02,130
The eldest son speaks.

2077
01:00:02,166 --> 01:00:06,234
>> I cannot describe in words

2078
01:00:06,270 --> 01:00:09,404
what we went through growing up,

2079
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:10,005
but that is the past and this is

2080
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,040
now.

2081
01:00:12,076 --> 01:00:13,508
I'm getting a bachelor's degree

2082
01:00:13,544 --> 01:00:17,846
in software engineering.

2083
01:00:17,881 --> 01:00:18,513
In June of last year, I learned

2084
01:00:18,549 --> 01:00:19,881
how to ride a bike.

2085
01:00:19,917 --> 01:00:21,483
I also have learned how to

2086
01:00:21,518 --> 01:00:23,652
advocate for myself, how to

2087
01:00:23,687 --> 01:00:24,620
swim, how to eat healthy, and

2088
01:00:24,655 --> 01:00:28,857
prepare a balanced meal.

2089
01:00:28,892 --> 01:00:30,459
>> reporter: That young man is

2090
01:00:30,494 --> 01:00:31,493
still not ready to go on camera,

2091
01:00:31,528 --> 01:00:32,561
but he sent us a video and wants

2092
01:00:32,596 --> 01:00:33,528
to send a message you'll hear

2093
01:00:33,564 --> 01:00:34,896
coming up after the break.

2094
01:00:34,932 --> 01:00:36,732
And next up in the courtroom,

2095
01:00:36,767 --> 01:00:38,300
the oldest daughter speaks.

2096
01:00:38,335 --> 01:00:39,801
It is jennifer looking her

2097
01:00:39,837 --> 01:00:44,239
parents in the eyes.

2098
01:00:44,274 --> 01:00:46,341
>> um, my parents took my whole

2099
01:00:46,377 --> 01:00:47,109
life from me, but now I'm taking

2100
01:00:47,144 --> 01:00:50,545
my life back.

2101
01:00:50,581 --> 01:00:52,114
They almost changed me, but I

2102
01:00:52,149 --> 01:00:54,783
realized what was happening.

2103
01:00:54,818 --> 01:00:56,251
I immediately did what I could

2104
01:00:56,286 --> 01:00:58,420
to not become like that.

2105
01:00:58,455 --> 01:00:59,454
I'm strong, and I'm shooting

2106
01:00:59,490 --> 01:01:03,258
through life like a rocket.

2107
01:01:03,293 --> 01:01:04,059
>> reporter: It's the parents'

2108
01:01:04,094 --> 01:01:07,362
turn to speak.

2109
01:01:07,398 --> 01:01:07,629
David turpin starts, breaks

2110
01:01:07,665 --> 01:01:10,432
down.

2111
01:01:10,467 --> 01:01:13,735
>> your honor --

2112
01:01:13,771 --> 01:01:14,336
I'm going to have my attorney

2113
01:01:14,371 --> 01:01:15,637
read my statement for me.

2114
01:01:15,673 --> 01:01:16,772
>> all right.

2115
01:01:16,807 --> 01:01:19,941
>> I love my children and I

2116
01:01:19,977 --> 01:01:23,512
believe my children love me.

2117
01:01:23,547 --> 01:01:24,046
>> reporter: He asks his lawyer

2118
01:01:24,081 --> 01:01:26,715
to let him try again.

2119
01:01:26,750 --> 01:01:27,416
>> I miss all of my children,

2120
01:01:27,451 --> 01:01:31,553
and I will be praying for them.

2121
01:01:31,588 --> 01:01:33,722
I long for the opportunity to

2122
01:01:33,757 --> 01:01:36,324
have contact with them again.

2123
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,994
>> I want to say to you, your

2124
01:01:39,029 --> 01:01:40,429
honor, and the court, I'm sorry

2125
01:01:40,464 --> 01:01:41,296
for everything I've done to hurt

2126
01:01:41,331 --> 01:01:43,198
my children.

2127
01:01:43,233 --> 01:01:44,533
I don't want any of them to be

2128
01:01:44,568 --> 01:01:45,434
sad or depressed because of all

2129
01:01:45,469 --> 01:01:46,935
of this.

2130
01:01:46,970 --> 01:01:48,437
I want them to know that mom and

2131
01:01:48,472 --> 01:01:51,039
dad are going to be okay.

2132
01:01:51,075 --> 01:01:52,240
>> reporter: And in the

2133
01:01:52,276 --> 01:01:54,342
courtroom when she said she was

2134
01:01:54,378 --> 01:01:55,744
sorry for hurting her children?

2135
01:01:55,779 --> 01:01:56,812
>> I -- I believed it.

2136
01:01:56,847 --> 01:02:00,148
I'm gonna be honest.

2137
01:02:00,184 --> 01:02:01,717
But then I remembered that they

2138
01:02:01,752 --> 01:02:02,551
both are extremely good at

2139
01:02:02,586 --> 01:02:04,953
manipulation.

2140
01:02:04,988 --> 01:02:08,857
Whether that was true or not at

2141
01:02:08,892 --> 01:02:12,127
the courtroom?

2142
01:02:12,162 --> 01:02:13,195
Yeah, it's too late.

2143
01:02:13,230 --> 01:02:14,062
>> when they cry and stuff, I

2144
01:02:14,098 --> 01:02:15,397
feel bad.

2145
01:02:15,432 --> 01:02:17,299
But also it's, like, why?

2146
01:02:17,334 --> 01:02:19,501
It's just confusing.

2147
01:02:19,536 --> 01:02:21,203
>> I don't know.

2148
01:02:21,238 --> 01:02:22,404
I'm never gonna know.

2149
01:02:22,439 --> 01:02:23,839
I mean, sometimes I think maybe

2150
01:02:23,874 --> 01:02:25,073
they didn't have a good

2151
01:02:25,109 --> 01:02:26,074
childhood, but it's still their

2152
01:02:26,110 --> 01:02:28,043
choice.

2153
01:02:28,078 --> 01:02:29,578
You always have a choice.

2154
01:02:29,613 --> 01:02:30,645
>> I don't know what it's

2155
01:02:30,681 --> 01:02:32,380
called, maybe bipolar.

2156
01:02:32,416 --> 01:02:33,415
But I definitely think it could

2157
01:02:33,450 --> 01:02:34,149
have been something like that

2158
01:02:34,184 --> 01:02:36,084
with her.

2159
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:36,752
I've just always known him as a

2160
01:02:36,787 --> 01:02:40,188
monster.

2161
01:02:40,224 --> 01:02:41,056
That's the only way I can

2162
01:02:41,091 --> 01:02:44,559
describe it.

2163
01:02:44,595 --> 01:02:45,961
>> the sentence will be the same

2164
01:02:45,996 --> 01:02:47,529
as to both defendants.

2165
01:02:47,564 --> 01:02:47,796
Both defendants are sentenced to

2166
01:02:47,831 --> 01:02:50,699
life.

2167
01:02:50,734 --> 01:02:51,066
>> reporter: Can you imagine

2168
01:02:51,101 --> 01:02:52,434
seeing them?

2169
01:02:52,469 --> 01:02:57,139
>> definitely not any time soon.

2170
01:02:57,174 --> 01:03:00,308
I have been up and -- I -- I --

2171
01:03:00,344 --> 01:03:03,311
I -- I -- never, never, never.

2172
01:03:03,347 --> 01:03:05,981
I guess I get afraid of them

2173
01:03:06,016 --> 01:03:07,315
manipulating the system and

2174
01:03:07,351 --> 01:03:09,317
getting out and then somehow

2175
01:03:09,353 --> 01:03:12,854
trying to find us.

2176
01:03:12,890 --> 01:03:16,458
Yeah.

2177
01:03:16,493 --> 01:03:17,459
>> reporter: There's nothing you

2178
01:03:17,494 --> 01:03:18,727
think you want to say to them?

2179
01:03:18,762 --> 01:03:20,061
>> I want to know why, but I

2180
01:03:20,097 --> 01:03:22,631
would never get that answer.

2181
01:03:22,666 --> 01:03:25,500
>> reporter: So it's not

2182
01:03:25,536 --> 01:03:26,668
the --

2183
01:03:26,703 --> 01:03:26,935
>> it's just, like, a hundred

2184
01:03:26,970 --> 01:03:29,504
whys.

2185
01:03:29,540 --> 01:03:30,539
>> reporter: Tonight we've

2186
01:03:30,574 --> 01:03:31,006
requested statements from david

2187
01:03:31,041 --> 01:03:32,641
and louise turpin.

2188
01:03:32,676 --> 01:03:33,842
We have not heard back.

2189
01:03:33,877 --> 01:03:34,843
They are currently serving their

2190
01:03:34,878 --> 01:03:35,610
time in separate prisons in

2191
01:03:35,646 --> 01:03:37,012
california.

2192
01:03:37,047 --> 01:03:38,079
And three years ago after their

2193
01:03:38,115 --> 01:03:39,080
parents were sent to prison, we

2194
01:03:39,116 --> 01:03:43,318
imagined the turpin children

2195
01:03:43,353 --> 01:03:44,953
finally heading out into their

2196
01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:46,688
new lives with a team of people

2197
01:03:46,723 --> 01:03:47,956
who would ensure that they could

2198
01:03:47,991 --> 01:03:50,258
navigate the world.

2199
01:03:50,294 --> 01:03:51,760
Strangers had even donated

2200
01:03:51,795 --> 01:03:52,527
money.

2201
01:03:52,563 --> 01:03:54,362
So, where is that money, and

2202
01:03:54,398 --> 01:03:55,430
where is the team supposed to be

2203
01:03:55,465 --> 01:03:56,398
helping them?

2204
01:03:56,433 --> 01:03:57,699
>> we've got to shine a light on

2205
01:03:57,734 --> 01:03:58,667
this.

2206
01:03:58,702 --> 01:03:59,701
The public deserves to know what

2207
01:03:59,736 --> 01:04:01,303
their government did and didn't

2208
01:04:01,338 --> 01:04:02,037
do and how we failed these

2209
01:04:02,072 --> 01:04:03,371
victims.

2210
01:04:03,407 --> 01:04:06,641
They need to know that.

2211
01:04:06,677 --> 01:04:07,709
>> reporter: District attorney

2212
01:04:07,744 --> 01:04:09,311
mike hestrin says there are a

2213
01:04:09,346 --> 01:04:11,413
number of agencies in california

2214
01:04:11,448 --> 01:04:17,586
that should be accountable for

2215
01:04:17,621 --> 01:04:18,286
what happened to the turpin

2216
01:04:18,322 --> 01:04:19,354
children after they were freed.

2217
01:04:19,389 --> 01:04:20,188
>> there are resources for them

2218
01:04:20,224 --> 01:04:21,256
that they can't access.

2219
01:04:21,291 --> 01:04:21,957
They're living in squalor.

2220
01:04:21,992 --> 01:04:23,258
They're living in a crime ridden

2221
01:04:23,293 --> 01:04:25,026
neighborhoods.

2222
01:04:25,062 --> 01:04:26,494
There's money for them for

2223
01:04:26,530 --> 01:04:27,696
their education.

2224
01:04:27,731 --> 01:04:31,199
They can't access it.

2225
01:04:31,235 --> 01:04:34,202
>> reporter: This is impossible.

2226
01:04:34,238 --> 01:04:36,571
Coming up next, my colleague

2227
01:04:36,607 --> 01:04:38,240
david scott and the abc news

2228
01:04:38,275 --> 01:04:39,307
investigative unit set out to

2229
01:04:39,343 --> 01:04:40,642
get those answers.

2230
01:04:40,677 --> 01:04:41,142
>> sir, would you talk to me for

2231
01:04:41,178 --> 01:04:42,878
a moment?

2232
01:04:54,491 --> 01:04:55,190
>>> I'm david scott with the abc

2233
01:04:55,225 --> 01:04:56,324
news investigative unit.

2234
01:04:56,360 --> 01:05:00,662
We needed to go to

2235
01:05:00,697 --> 01:05:01,363
riverside county to figure out

2236
01:05:01,398 --> 01:05:02,697
who failed these kids after they

2237
01:05:02,733 --> 01:05:03,365
escaped their parents and led

2238
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:08,770
the district attorney to take

2239
01:05:08,805 --> 01:05:09,004
the unusual step of speaking

2240
01:05:09,039 --> 01:05:09,638
out.

2241
01:05:09,673 --> 01:05:10,572
>> they have been victimized

2242
01:05:10,607 --> 01:05:12,340
again by the system.

2243
01:05:12,376 --> 01:05:13,808
And that is unimaginable to me

2244
01:05:13,844 --> 01:05:14,910
that we could have the very

2245
01:05:14,945 --> 01:05:18,113
worst case of child abuse that

2246
01:05:18,148 --> 01:05:19,681
I've ever seen, maybe one of the

2247
01:05:19,716 --> 01:05:22,284
worst in california history, and

2248
01:05:22,319 --> 01:05:23,852
that we would then not be able

2249
01:05:23,887 --> 01:05:26,554
to get it together to give them

2250
01:05:26,590 --> 01:05:28,590
basic needs, basic necessities.

2251
01:05:28,625 --> 01:05:30,692
>> it turns out the siblings

2252
01:05:30,727 --> 01:05:36,131
post-rescue lives have been

2253
01:05:36,166 --> 01:05:37,332
marred by the county's missteps

2254
01:05:37,367 --> 01:05:38,667
and mistakes.

2255
01:05:38,702 --> 01:05:39,567
And the facts of the case have

2256
01:05:39,603 --> 01:05:40,235
been hidden behind a

2257
01:05:40,270 --> 01:05:41,870
court-ordered veil of secrecy.

2258
01:05:41,905 --> 01:05:42,537
>> everything's behind closed

2259
01:05:42,572 --> 01:05:44,005
doors.

2260
01:05:44,041 --> 01:05:44,973
>> but now for the first time,

2261
01:05:45,008 --> 01:05:46,541
an insider peels back the

2262
01:05:46,576 --> 01:05:48,276
curtain on what she says

2263
01:05:48,312 --> 01:05:49,844
happened to the turpin siblings

2264
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:50,478
after they entered the county's

2265
01:05:50,514 --> 01:05:51,780
care.

2266
01:05:51,815 --> 01:05:54,049
>> they felt betrayed.

2267
01:05:54,084 --> 01:05:55,617
>> tonight, melissa donaldson

2268
01:05:55,652 --> 01:05:56,618
is breaking ranks to blow the

2269
01:05:56,653 --> 01:05:59,354
whistle on the multiple agencies

2270
01:05:59,389 --> 01:06:00,722
that she says failed to protect

2271
01:06:00,757 --> 01:06:01,623
the turpin children from further

2272
01:06:01,658 --> 01:06:06,828
harm.

2273
01:06:06,863 --> 01:06:07,696
>> did we see kids having to not

2274
01:06:07,731 --> 01:06:08,096
have a safe place to live or

2275
01:06:08,131 --> 01:06:08,897
stay at times?

2276
01:06:08,932 --> 01:06:10,432
Yes.

2277
01:06:10,467 --> 01:06:11,132
Did they have enough food at

2278
01:06:11,168 --> 01:06:12,334
times?

2279
01:06:12,369 --> 01:06:13,001
They did not.

2280
01:06:13,036 --> 01:06:15,236
They had to go to churches and

2281
01:06:15,272 --> 01:06:16,004
eat because they didn't know how

2282
01:06:16,039 --> 01:06:17,105
to manage money.

2283
01:06:17,140 --> 01:06:17,439
And some without housing at

2284
01:06:17,474 --> 01:06:18,707
times.

2285
01:06:18,742 --> 01:06:19,641
>> without housing.

2286
01:06:19,676 --> 01:06:20,175
>> at times.

2287
01:06:20,210 --> 01:06:20,809
>> homeless?

2288
01:06:20,844 --> 01:06:23,645
>> couch surfing.

2289
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,848
>> their housing, at some point,

2290
01:06:26,883 --> 01:06:28,883
was in -- located in one of the

2291
01:06:28,919 --> 01:06:29,384
worst neighborhoods in this

2292
01:06:29,419 --> 01:06:35,256
county.

2293
01:06:35,292 --> 01:06:36,324
>> I will tell you, I would have

2294
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:37,025
never placed anybody under my

2295
01:06:37,060 --> 01:06:38,426
care there.

2296
01:06:38,462 --> 01:06:39,928
>> one of the adult children was

2297
01:06:39,963 --> 01:06:40,762
assaulted in one of those

2298
01:06:40,797 --> 01:06:42,597
environments.

2299
01:06:42,632 --> 01:06:45,133
>> I do know they've been in

2300
01:06:45,168 --> 01:06:46,534
unsafe crime exposure,

2301
01:06:46,570 --> 01:06:49,504
absolutely.

2302
01:06:49,539 --> 01:06:51,639
>> we really want to try and

2303
01:06:51,675 --> 01:06:56,878
understand and help the public

2304
01:06:56,913 --> 01:06:58,747
understand, you know, frankly,

2305
01:06:58,782 --> 01:06:59,080
the jeopardy.

2306
01:06:59,116 --> 01:07:04,652
>> sorry.

2307
01:07:04,688 --> 01:07:07,889
>> they all lack that sixth

2308
01:07:07,924 --> 01:07:09,157
sense of fear.

2309
01:07:09,192 --> 01:07:11,960
They had none of that and they

2310
01:07:11,995 --> 01:07:13,194
were cast right into the world

2311
01:07:13,230 --> 01:07:17,098
in a very unsafe, violent inner

2312
01:07:17,134 --> 01:07:18,099
city area.

2313
01:07:18,135 --> 01:07:21,369
>> we have to fix it.

2314
01:07:21,405 --> 01:07:22,404
You would think that this is the

2315
01:07:22,439 --> 01:07:23,905
time to really get it together

2316
01:07:23,940 --> 01:07:24,873
and do everything we can,

2317
01:07:24,908 --> 01:07:25,573
and we didn't do it that way.

2318
01:07:25,609 --> 01:07:26,741
>> they struggle to eat, still.

2319
01:07:26,777 --> 01:07:27,976
They'll take that as long as the

2320
01:07:28,011 --> 01:07:32,447
abuser is gone.

2321
01:07:32,482 --> 01:07:33,314
>> I don't really have a way to

2322
01:07:33,350 --> 01:07:34,916
get food right now.

2323
01:07:34,951 --> 01:07:37,085
>> when jordan met diane in

2324
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:37,886
July, she had just been

2325
01:07:37,921 --> 01:07:42,290
released.

2326
01:07:42,325 --> 01:07:42,824
She says without warning, from

2327
01:07:42,859 --> 01:07:45,994
extended foster care.

2328
01:07:46,029 --> 01:07:50,265
With no plan for food,

2329
01:07:50,300 --> 01:07:51,299
health care, life skills

2330
01:07:51,334 --> 01:07:52,500
training or even shelter.

2331
01:07:52,536 --> 01:07:53,568
>> one of my brothers and me are

2332
01:07:53,603 --> 01:07:54,636
the ones that don't have a place

2333
01:07:54,671 --> 01:07:55,403
to really stay, we're just being

2334
01:07:55,439 --> 01:07:56,771
passed around.

2335
01:07:56,807 --> 01:07:57,806
>> and the same goes for some of

2336
01:07:57,841 --> 01:07:58,840
the older children, whose safety

2337
01:07:58,875 --> 01:07:59,507
and well being was supposed to

2338
01:07:59,543 --> 01:08:01,576
be guaranteed by the

2339
01:08:01,611 --> 01:08:02,277
court-appointed riverside public

2340
01:08:02,312 --> 01:08:04,779
guardian.

2341
01:08:04,815 --> 01:08:05,980
>> well, where I live is not the

2342
01:08:06,016 --> 01:08:08,950
best area.

2343
01:08:08,985 --> 01:08:11,786
>> and this despite more than

2344
01:08:11,822 --> 01:08:13,488
$600,000 originally raised from

2345
01:08:13,523 --> 01:08:15,690
generous strangers.

2346
01:08:15,725 --> 01:08:17,325
Most of that money went into

2347
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:18,927
an official trust overseen by

2348
01:08:18,962 --> 01:08:19,594
the court and hidden from public

2349
01:08:19,629 --> 01:08:21,563
oversight.

2350
01:08:21,598 --> 01:08:24,065
County officials refused to tell

2351
01:08:24,101 --> 01:08:27,869
us how much has been spent or on

2352
01:08:27,904 --> 01:08:28,970
what, but the turpins we spoke

2353
01:08:29,005 --> 01:08:29,637
to say those funds are hard to

2354
01:08:29,673 --> 01:08:31,573
access.

2355
01:08:31,608 --> 01:08:33,641
>> well, when I try to have

2356
01:08:33,677 --> 01:08:35,710
access, I have difficulty.

2357
01:08:35,745 --> 01:08:37,412
>> joshua turpin, the

2358
01:08:37,447 --> 01:08:39,547
29-year-old sibling of jordan

2359
01:08:39,583 --> 01:08:40,448
and jennifer, the one you heard

2360
01:08:40,484 --> 01:08:42,350
earlier reading a letter to the

2361
01:08:42,385 --> 01:08:43,618
court --

2362
01:08:43,653 --> 01:08:43,852
>> that is the past, and this is

2363
01:08:43,887 --> 01:08:46,354
now.

2364
01:08:46,389 --> 01:08:47,388
>> sent us a video diary, but

2365
01:08:47,424 --> 01:08:48,656
did not want to appear on

2366
01:08:48,692 --> 01:08:49,491
camera.

2367
01:08:49,526 --> 01:08:51,092
He says the public guardian

2368
01:08:51,128 --> 01:08:54,295
responsible for managing the

2369
01:08:54,331 --> 01:08:55,897
siblings' healthcare, nutrition,

2370
01:08:55,932 --> 01:08:56,831
housing and education routinely

2371
01:08:56,867 --> 01:09:02,303
denied simple requests.

2372
01:09:02,339 --> 01:09:06,074
>> when I requested for a mode

2373
01:09:06,109 --> 01:09:07,108
of transportation, I called the

2374
01:09:07,144 --> 01:09:08,676
public guardian's office and she

2375
01:09:08,712 --> 01:09:09,144
refused to let me request for a

2376
01:09:09,179 --> 01:09:11,813
bike.

2377
01:09:11,848 --> 01:09:13,214
>> melissa donaldson confirmed

2378
01:09:13,250 --> 01:09:14,749
that legitimate requests have

2379
01:09:14,784 --> 01:09:16,551
been turned down.

2380
01:09:16,586 --> 01:09:17,318
When we asked why officials are

2381
01:09:17,354 --> 01:09:19,087
restricting the use of private

2382
01:09:19,122 --> 01:09:21,189
donations, they repeatedly

2383
01:09:21,224 --> 01:09:22,824
refused to answer, citing

2384
01:09:22,859 --> 01:09:24,359
court-ordered confidentiality.

2385
01:09:24,394 --> 01:09:26,961
>> I'm just asking really,

2386
01:09:26,997 --> 01:09:28,930
really basic questions.

2387
01:09:28,965 --> 01:09:29,631
You can't tell me any of that?

2388
01:09:29,666 --> 01:09:31,833
>> after their rescue, the seven

2389
01:09:31,868 --> 01:09:33,701
minors were placed into foster

2390
01:09:33,737 --> 01:09:35,470
homes, while the six adults were

2391
01:09:35,505 --> 01:09:37,605
assigned to deputy public

2392
01:09:37,641 --> 01:09:39,240
guardian vanessa espinoza,

2393
01:09:39,276 --> 01:09:40,575
seen here in a selfie when she

2394
01:09:40,610 --> 01:09:44,712
started the job.

2395
01:09:44,748 --> 01:09:46,014
While she worked full-time for

2396
01:09:46,049 --> 01:09:48,416
the county, she also work in the

2397
01:09:48,451 --> 01:09:49,050
real estate on the side,

2398
01:09:49,085 --> 01:09:51,252
according to state records.

2399
01:09:51,288 --> 01:09:52,787
Here she is promoting her work

2400
01:09:52,822 --> 01:09:53,621
at one of her previous real

2401
01:09:53,657 --> 01:09:54,989
estate agencies.

2402
01:09:55,025 --> 01:09:56,024
>> if you guys are interested in

2403
01:09:56,059 --> 01:09:56,724
buying or selling feel free to

2404
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,159
contact us.

2405
01:09:58,195 --> 01:10:01,262
>> according to the adult turpin

2406
01:10:01,298 --> 01:10:02,297
children we spoke to who were

2407
01:10:02,332 --> 01:10:03,331
under espinoza's care, she was

2408
01:10:03,366 --> 01:10:04,365
often unwilling to help them

2409
01:10:04,401 --> 01:10:06,000
with even their most basic

2410
01:10:06,036 --> 01:10:06,467
needs, including teaching them

2411
01:10:06,503 --> 01:10:08,736
how to use public

2412
01:10:08,772 --> 01:10:10,572
transportation, how to cross the

2413
01:10:10,607 --> 01:10:11,739
street safely, or how to access

2414
01:10:11,775 --> 01:10:13,107
their medical and dental

2415
01:10:13,143 --> 01:10:15,443
benefits.

2416
01:10:15,478 --> 01:10:17,078
>> when I would ask her for

2417
01:10:17,113 --> 01:10:18,780
help, she would just tell me,

2418
01:10:18,815 --> 01:10:21,249
just go google it.

2419
01:10:21,284 --> 01:10:22,850
>> vanessa espinoza did not

2420
01:10:22,886 --> 01:10:24,118
respond to repeated requests for

2421
01:10:24,154 --> 01:10:28,423
comment.

2422
01:10:28,458 --> 01:10:29,757
>> hi, vanessa.

2423
01:10:29,793 --> 01:10:30,425
This is david scott calling from

2424
01:10:30,460 --> 01:10:31,526
abc news.

2425
01:10:31,561 --> 01:10:32,860
How are you?

2426
01:10:32,896 --> 01:10:34,429
We recently tried to meet up

2427
01:10:34,464 --> 01:10:37,131
with her at her real estate

2428
01:10:37,167 --> 01:10:37,865
office, but she avoided us and

2429
01:10:37,901 --> 01:10:39,133
drove home.

2430
01:10:39,169 --> 01:10:41,369
The next day, the county

2431
01:10:41,404 --> 01:10:42,437
informed us without explanation

2432
01:10:42,472 --> 01:10:43,071
that espinoza's employment had

2433
01:10:43,106 --> 01:10:44,505
ended.

2434
01:10:44,541 --> 01:10:45,540
While jennifer and the other

2435
01:10:45,575 --> 01:10:46,674
adult turpins struggled in

2436
01:10:46,710 --> 01:10:47,442
county guardianship, some of the

2437
01:10:47,477 --> 01:10:48,776
younger siblings were failed

2438
01:10:48,812 --> 01:10:50,878
again by the california foster

2439
01:10:50,914 --> 01:10:52,280
care agency contracted by the

2440
01:10:52,315 --> 01:10:54,048
county, childnet.

2441
01:10:54,084 --> 01:10:55,617
County officials have told us

2442
01:10:55,652 --> 01:10:58,286
that some of the turpin children

2443
01:10:58,321 --> 01:10:59,053
have been re-victimized in their

2444
01:10:59,089 --> 01:10:59,721
foster care homes.

2445
01:10:59,756 --> 01:11:02,523
>> in the instance of the one

2446
01:11:02,559 --> 01:11:03,825
adult that was a minor, now an

2447
01:11:03,860 --> 01:11:06,761
adult, she has reported the one

2448
01:11:06,796 --> 01:11:07,862
foster parent telling her she

2449
01:11:07,897 --> 01:11:08,630
understands now why her parents

2450
01:11:08,665 --> 01:11:09,864
chained her up.

2451
01:11:09,899 --> 01:11:10,932
The comment was egregious.

2452
01:11:10,967 --> 01:11:13,134
>> but even that paled in

2453
01:11:13,169 --> 01:11:14,736
comparison to what is alleged to

2454
01:11:14,771 --> 01:11:17,772
have happened in another of the

2455
01:11:17,807 --> 01:11:19,340
turpin's foster homes.

2456
01:11:19,376 --> 01:11:19,941
In fact, one foster family was

2457
01:11:19,976 --> 01:11:21,576
arrested and charged with

2458
01:11:21,611 --> 01:11:23,177
abusing multiple children in

2459
01:11:23,213 --> 01:11:23,945
their care, including at least

2460
01:11:23,980 --> 01:11:25,847
one turpin.

2461
01:11:25,882 --> 01:11:27,415
Several turpin children remained

2462
01:11:27,450 --> 01:11:28,383
in that house for three years

2463
01:11:28,418 --> 01:11:29,651
while the alleged abuse took

2464
01:11:29,686 --> 01:11:31,653
place.

2465
01:11:31,688 --> 01:11:33,221
A lawyer for one of the foster

2466
01:11:33,256 --> 01:11:35,323
family members says his client

2467
01:11:35,358 --> 01:11:37,425
denies these charges are true.

2468
01:11:37,460 --> 01:11:39,560
A childnet spokesman would not

2469
01:11:39,596 --> 01:11:40,461
answer our questions about the

2470
01:11:40,497 --> 01:11:43,231
turpin case because of

2471
01:11:43,266 --> 01:11:44,265
confidentiality laws, saying

2472
01:11:44,301 --> 01:11:45,800
only, we take our work very

2473
01:11:45,835 --> 01:11:47,502
seriously, including the

2474
01:11:47,537 --> 01:11:51,239
extensive vetting of parents.

2475
01:11:51,274 --> 01:11:51,906
Experts who know the system are

2476
01:11:51,941 --> 01:11:53,808
shocked.

2477
01:11:53,843 --> 01:11:54,909
>> it horrifies me to think

2478
01:11:54,944 --> 01:11:58,079
things like this are happening

2479
01:11:58,114 --> 01:11:59,514
to people who have been abused

2480
01:11:59,549 --> 01:12:01,816
in a system that was

2481
01:12:01,851 --> 01:12:02,517
specifically set up to help

2482
01:12:02,552 --> 01:12:04,519
them.

2483
01:12:04,554 --> 01:12:05,920
>> no county official agreed to

2484
01:12:05,955 --> 01:12:09,190
answer for the alleged

2485
01:12:09,225 --> 01:12:10,291
mishandling of the turpins'

2486
01:12:10,327 --> 01:12:11,225
case, including the county's top

2487
01:12:11,261 --> 01:12:12,794
lawyer, gregory priamos.

2488
01:12:12,829 --> 01:12:13,127
Mr. Priamos, david scott from

2489
01:12:13,163 --> 01:12:14,962
abc news.

2490
01:12:14,998 --> 01:12:15,963
Can I ask you, sir, about the

2491
01:12:15,999 --> 01:12:17,565
dire conditions facing the

2492
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:18,599
turpin siblings in this county

2493
01:12:18,635 --> 01:12:19,467
since they've been in the

2494
01:12:19,502 --> 01:12:20,802
county's care?

2495
01:12:20,837 --> 01:12:22,303
In some cases they're walking

2496
01:12:22,339 --> 01:12:23,037
the streets late at night.

2497
01:12:23,073 --> 01:12:25,606
Sir?

2498
01:12:25,642 --> 01:12:26,641
So we took our questions to the

2499
01:12:26,676 --> 01:12:28,743
county's top elected official.

2500
01:12:28,778 --> 01:12:29,477
Excuse me, madam chair, may I

2501
01:12:29,512 --> 01:12:31,412
approach?

2502
01:12:31,448 --> 01:12:33,014
The board of supervisors chair,

2503
01:12:33,049 --> 01:12:35,116
karen spiegel, who dodged them.

2504
01:12:35,151 --> 01:12:37,752
We've heard credible reports of

2505
01:12:37,787 --> 01:12:39,287
unsafe housing, of in some cases

2506
01:12:39,322 --> 01:12:41,422
the siblings relying on food

2507
01:12:41,458 --> 01:12:42,123
pantries and soup kitchens.

2508
01:12:42,158 --> 01:12:43,124
>> we are currently looking into

2509
01:12:43,159 --> 01:12:46,160
this.

2510
01:12:46,196 --> 01:12:47,228
>> we have been trying to get

2511
01:12:47,263 --> 01:12:51,466
these answers, and we have been

2512
01:12:51,501 --> 01:12:52,533
unable to get anybody to return

2513
01:12:52,569 --> 01:12:53,468
our calls, so we just figured we

2514
01:12:53,503 --> 01:12:54,302
would come to you as the

2515
01:12:54,337 --> 01:12:55,670
chairwoman.

2516
01:12:55,705 --> 01:12:57,305
>> well, I am not -- have the

2517
01:12:57,340 --> 01:12:58,306
information you're looking for.

2518
01:12:58,341 --> 01:12:59,807
We're still in investigation

2519
01:12:59,843 --> 01:13:00,274
stages, so I don't have anything

2520
01:13:00,310 --> 01:13:02,610
to share with you.

2521
01:13:02,645 --> 01:13:04,212
>> in a statement, espinoza's

2522
01:13:04,247 --> 01:13:05,747
former boss, the head of the

2523
01:13:05,782 --> 01:13:07,982
public guardian's office,

2524
01:13:08,017 --> 01:13:15,656
dr. Matthew chang, stood by his

2525
01:13:15,692 --> 01:13:16,357
team's, quote, exceptional work,

2526
01:13:16,393 --> 01:13:17,392
but says he welcomes an inquiry.

2527
01:13:17,427 --> 01:13:21,596
But the county's chief executive

2528
01:13:21,631 --> 01:13:22,430
admitted in a statement, quote,

2529
01:13:22,465 --> 01:13:23,097
there have been instances in

2530
01:13:23,133 --> 01:13:24,766
which those we seek to protect

2531
01:13:24,801 --> 01:13:25,767
have been harmed, and the county

2532
01:13:25,802 --> 01:13:28,469
is committed to conducting a

2533
01:13:28,505 --> 01:13:29,971
thorough and transparent review.

2534
01:13:30,006 --> 01:13:31,038
And so, some of the turpin

2535
01:13:31,074 --> 01:13:32,140
siblings continue to face

2536
01:13:32,175 --> 01:13:33,741
dangers and hardships in the

2537
01:13:33,777 --> 01:13:35,009
county that promised to keep

2538
01:13:35,044 --> 01:13:36,444
them safe.

2539
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:37,678
>> shamefully, the system failed

2540
01:13:37,714 --> 01:13:41,682
this family.

2541
01:13:41,718 --> 01:13:42,316
>> tonight, we are not backing

2542
01:13:42,352 --> 01:13:44,285
off.

2543
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:45,953
Abc news has sued to unseal

2544
01:13:45,989 --> 01:13:47,655
vital documents about the people

2545
01:13:47,690 --> 01:13:49,624
making decisions, the donated

2546
01:13:49,659 --> 01:13:50,525
money, and who should provide

2547
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:52,760
the promised support.

2548
01:13:52,796 --> 01:13:57,498
The four youngest children are

2549
01:13:57,534 --> 01:13:58,566
now together in a foster home,

2550
01:13:58,601 --> 01:13:59,667
where their siblings say they

2551
01:13:59,702 --> 01:14:01,803
are happy, while the other nine

2552
01:14:01,838 --> 01:14:03,404
older children raised in abuse

2553
01:14:03,440 --> 01:14:04,972
valiantly navigate the world.

2554
01:14:05,008 --> 01:14:07,642
>> if we can't care for the

2555
01:14:07,677 --> 01:14:09,710
turpin victims, then how do we

2556
01:14:09,746 --> 01:14:10,445
have a chance to care for

2557
01:14:10,480 --> 01:14:14,515
anyone?

2558
01:14:14,551 --> 01:14:15,550
>> reporter: Coming up, a

2559
01:14:15,585 --> 01:14:16,350
reunion.

2560
01:14:16,386 --> 01:14:16,517
>> I'm never going to forget

2561
01:14:16,519 --> 01:14:16,884
him.

2562
01:14:16,886 --> 01:14:16,917
I always think it would be cool

2563
01:14:18,688 --> 01:14:20,955
to see him again.

2564
01:14:24,627 --> 01:14:37,305
♪

2565
01:14:37,340 --> 01:14:38,940
>>> hey, guys.

2566
01:14:38,975 --> 01:14:40,808
We are on our way to see deputy

2567
01:14:40,844 --> 01:14:41,476
anthony.

2568
01:14:41,511 --> 01:14:42,877
>> I cannot wait to see jordan

2569
01:14:42,912 --> 01:14:43,711
today.

2570
01:14:43,746 --> 01:14:46,581
>> I haven't seen him ever since

2571
01:14:46,616 --> 01:14:48,316
the day he came and saved me and

2572
01:14:48,351 --> 01:14:50,818
my siblings.

2573
01:14:50,854 --> 01:14:52,019
>> reporter: 21-year-old jordan

2574
01:14:52,055 --> 01:14:53,221
now trying on blond hair.

2575
01:14:53,256 --> 01:14:55,756
>> oh, my gosh, guys, we are

2576
01:14:55,792 --> 01:14:56,691
here?

2577
01:14:56,726 --> 01:15:01,095
>> I just hope she's happy.

2578
01:15:01,130 --> 01:15:01,963
Jordan turpin.

2579
01:15:01,998 --> 01:15:03,631
>> hello!

2580
01:15:03,666 --> 01:15:04,432
>> wow.

2581
01:15:04,467 --> 01:15:05,299
So good to see you.

2582
01:15:05,335 --> 01:15:09,270
>> it's so good to see you.

2583
01:15:09,305 --> 01:15:10,037
>> how you doing?

2584
01:15:10,073 --> 01:15:11,305
>> I'm okay.

2585
01:15:11,341 --> 01:15:13,341
I always, like, talk about you

2586
01:15:13,376 --> 01:15:14,242
and stuff.

2587
01:15:14,277 --> 01:15:16,444
Like, I've told all my siblings

2588
01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:18,145
to story more than once, and I'm

2589
01:15:18,181 --> 01:15:19,747
just so thankful, because you

2590
01:15:19,782 --> 01:15:22,416
saved all of us.

2591
01:15:22,452 --> 01:15:24,118
>> I'm glad you had that photo.

2592
01:15:24,153 --> 01:15:24,819
You get all the recognition and

2593
01:15:24,854 --> 01:15:25,319
credit.

2594
01:15:25,355 --> 01:15:27,221
>> oh, thank you.

2595
01:15:27,257 --> 01:15:28,956
>> you did the hard part, the

2596
01:15:28,992 --> 01:15:30,625
scary part.

2597
01:15:30,660 --> 01:15:32,159
>> I'm just so thankful it was

2598
01:15:32,195 --> 01:15:35,496
you because you were so gentle

2599
01:15:35,532 --> 01:15:36,364
and everything.

2600
01:15:36,399 --> 01:15:40,101
>> I'm glad it was me, too.

2601
01:15:40,136 --> 01:15:40,701
>> I think god brought all the

2602
01:15:40,737 --> 01:15:42,904
right people into my life.

2603
01:15:42,939 --> 01:15:50,244
>> not just deputy colace, but

2604
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:51,112
here is that dispatcher who

2605
01:15:51,147 --> 01:15:52,179
answered the 911 call and sends

2606
01:15:52,215 --> 01:15:52,647
a message tonight.

2607
01:15:52,682 --> 01:15:53,814
>> hi, jordan!

2608
01:15:53,850 --> 01:15:54,515
You're really brave.

2609
01:15:54,551 --> 01:15:55,182
You are so strong to go out and

2610
01:15:55,218 --> 01:15:56,117
do what you did.

2611
01:15:56,152 --> 01:15:57,184
I want to let you know that the

2612
01:15:57,220 --> 01:15:58,052
world is so wide and so full of

2613
01:15:58,087 --> 01:15:58,753
bright and wonderful things.

2614
01:15:58,788 --> 01:16:01,989
I hope you get to spend the rest

2615
01:16:02,025 --> 01:16:02,723
of your days going out there and

2616
01:16:02,759 --> 01:16:03,391
exploring and doing fun stuff

2617
01:16:03,426 --> 01:16:04,792
and really living life the way

2618
01:16:04,827 --> 01:16:06,093
you want.

2619
01:16:06,129 --> 01:16:06,827
>> let us know when you're

2620
01:16:06,863 --> 01:16:08,296
rolling.

2621
01:16:08,331 --> 01:16:09,196
>> what question would you ask?

2622
01:16:09,232 --> 01:16:09,797
>> we pretty much tell

2623
01:16:09,832 --> 01:16:11,599
everything to each other.

2624
01:16:11,634 --> 01:16:13,034
>> reporter: And back in the

2625
01:16:13,069 --> 01:16:14,135
interview, we're almost done.

2626
01:16:14,170 --> 01:16:15,670
So I invite the two young women

2627
01:16:15,705 --> 01:16:17,271
who just finished their first

2628
01:16:17,307 --> 01:16:18,205
interview ever to give their

2629
01:16:18,241 --> 01:16:23,878
take on my technique.

2630
01:16:23,913 --> 01:16:25,146
>> so, ms. Jordan.

2631
01:16:25,181 --> 01:16:26,614
>> yes, jennifer.

2632
01:16:26,649 --> 01:16:27,348
>> what do you see in your

2633
01:16:27,383 --> 01:16:27,982
future?

2634
01:16:28,017 --> 01:16:30,851
>> a beautiful house with a

2635
01:16:30,887 --> 01:16:31,786
handsome husband.

2636
01:16:31,821 --> 01:16:35,623
Maybe a kid some day.

2637
01:16:35,658 --> 01:16:38,225
A nice car.

2638
01:16:38,261 --> 01:16:39,827
Ms. Jennifer, where do you see

2639
01:16:39,862 --> 01:16:41,662
yourself in ten years?

2640
01:16:41,698 --> 01:16:45,232
>> ten years.

2641
01:16:45,268 --> 01:16:46,167
Big question.

2642
01:16:46,202 --> 01:16:47,702
>> I'll hopefully have a house.

2643
01:16:47,737 --> 01:16:48,436
>> nice, nice.

2644
01:16:48,471 --> 01:16:49,403
>> a nice car.

2645
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:50,304
>> ooh.

2646
01:16:50,340 --> 01:16:52,506
>> and have a published book.

2647
01:16:52,542 --> 01:16:53,741
>> I love it.

2648
01:16:53,776 --> 01:16:54,241
Love it.

2649
01:16:54,277 --> 01:16:55,610
>> traveling.

2650
01:16:55,645 --> 01:16:56,644
I want to travel the world.

2651
01:16:56,679 --> 01:16:58,079
>> ooh, really nice.

2652
01:16:58,114 --> 01:16:59,947
>> and where are you going to

2653
01:16:59,983 --> 01:17:00,414
travel?

2654
01:17:00,450 --> 01:17:02,416
What's first stop?

2655
01:17:02,452 --> 01:17:03,117
>> paris.

2656
01:17:03,152 --> 01:17:04,085
>> reporter: Paris?

2657
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,854
>> I'm going to have little tea

2658
01:17:06,889 --> 01:17:08,923
cakes and all that stuff.

2659
01:17:08,958 --> 01:17:11,292
I'm going tee fashion show.

2660
01:17:11,327 --> 01:17:11,959
Oh, yeah, I'm going paris.

2661
01:17:11,995 --> 01:17:12,827
>> reporter: Watch out, paris.

2662
01:17:12,862 --> 01:17:16,731
>> here I come.

2663
01:17:16,766 --> 01:17:19,133
>> reporter: Out of a harrowing

2664
01:17:19,168 --> 01:17:20,267
life, so much hope.

2665
01:17:20,303 --> 01:17:22,670
No one doubts along the way the

2666
01:17:22,705 --> 01:17:24,238
mountains will be tall, the

2667
01:17:24,273 --> 01:17:25,306
challenges great.

2668
01:17:25,341 --> 01:17:26,540
They'll need a helping happened,

2669
01:17:26,576 --> 01:17:28,676
but every day the young women

2670
01:17:28,711 --> 01:17:29,410
who fought their way out are

2671
01:17:29,445 --> 01:17:32,079
trying to catch up on joy.

2672
01:17:32,115 --> 01:17:33,514
>> aah!

2673
01:17:33,549 --> 01:17:35,316
>> how does it feel?

2674
01:17:35,351 --> 01:17:36,083
>> awesome.

2675
01:17:36,119 --> 01:17:37,451
>> reporter: Jennifer is now in

2676
01:17:37,487 --> 01:17:38,152
training to be a manager at a

2677
01:17:38,187 --> 01:17:38,819
restaurant.

2678
01:17:38,855 --> 01:17:40,621
>> I'm heading to work.

2679
01:17:40,657 --> 01:17:43,057
>> a big dream of mine is to

2680
01:17:43,092 --> 01:17:47,261
become a christian pop artist.

2681
01:17:47,296 --> 01:17:48,796
>> reporter: Her favorite song

2682
01:17:48,831 --> 01:17:52,400
right now is kelly clarkson's --

2683
01:17:52,435 --> 01:17:52,967
>> broken and beautiful.

2684
01:17:53,002 --> 01:17:54,468
♪ I'm broken and it's

2685
01:17:54,504 --> 01:17:55,202
beautiful ♪

2686
01:17:55,238 --> 01:17:56,370
♪ I'm broken and it's

2687
01:17:56,406 --> 01:17:56,904
beautiful ♪

2688
01:17:56,939 --> 01:17:57,872
♪ I'm broken and it's

2689
01:17:57,907 --> 01:17:58,906
beautiful ♪

2690
01:17:58,941 --> 01:18:01,909
>> the way music has helped me,

2691
01:18:01,944 --> 01:18:04,178
I want to help people with my

2692
01:18:04,213 --> 01:18:05,479
music.

2693
01:18:05,515 --> 01:18:09,684
>> I really like doing tiktoks.

2694
01:18:09,719 --> 01:18:11,385
♪ savage love ♪

2695
01:18:11,421 --> 01:18:13,988
>> I like charlie demill.

2696
01:18:14,023 --> 01:18:15,623
Such a cute family.

2697
01:18:15,658 --> 01:18:17,658
>> jordan managed to graduate

2698
01:18:17,694 --> 01:18:19,894
high school in oneier and has

2699
01:18:19,929 --> 01:18:22,663
been taking college classes.

2700
01:18:22,699 --> 01:18:24,031
What is your favorite subject to

2701
01:18:24,067 --> 01:18:24,799
study.

2702
01:18:24,834 --> 01:18:26,767
>> >> I loved government and I

2703
01:18:26,803 --> 01:18:29,603
loved english and I loved math.

2704
01:18:29,639 --> 01:18:32,306
I would say, can I have double

2705
01:18:32,341 --> 01:18:32,973
homework?

2706
01:18:33,009 --> 01:18:34,675
I loved the learn, and I was a

2707
01:18:34,711 --> 01:18:35,876
really fast learner.

2708
01:18:35,912 --> 01:18:37,445
And I got good grades and I was

2709
01:18:37,480 --> 01:18:38,679
really happy.

2710
01:18:38,715 --> 01:18:42,383
>> she recently got food stamps

2711
01:18:42,418 --> 01:18:43,884
and housing through school, and

2712
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,686
she has a plan of her own.

2713
01:18:45,722 --> 01:18:47,221
>> me graduating college, being

2714
01:18:47,256 --> 01:18:49,690
a book writer or a motivation

2715
01:18:49,726 --> 01:18:50,391
speaker.

2716
01:18:50,426 --> 01:18:52,393
When I have kids, I want to make

2717
01:18:52,428 --> 01:18:54,395
sure I'm in a good place, I have

2718
01:18:54,430 --> 01:18:56,464
a good job, because I want to

2719
01:18:56,499 --> 01:18:58,966
give my kids the best life ever.

2720
01:18:59,001 --> 01:18:59,533
>> reporter: In the meantime,

2721
01:18:59,569 --> 01:19:01,402
the sisters say the most

2722
01:19:01,437 --> 01:19:02,470
important thing in their lives

2723
01:19:02,505 --> 01:19:03,604
is getting to see their

2724
01:19:03,639 --> 01:19:05,973
siblings, and trying to help

2725
01:19:06,008 --> 01:19:09,577
them be happy and safe.

2726
01:19:09,612 --> 01:19:10,845
What is it like to be together?

2727
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:12,913
>> it feels at home being with

2728
01:19:12,949 --> 01:19:14,482
all of us.

2729
01:19:14,517 --> 01:19:15,916
Every time we're together it's a

2730
01:19:15,952 --> 01:19:18,285
very special moment, because we

2731
01:19:18,321 --> 01:19:19,820
always know at the end of the

2732
01:19:19,856 --> 01:19:21,455
day we're always going to be

2733
01:19:21,491 --> 01:19:23,023
each other.

2734
01:19:23,059 --> 01:19:24,058
>> reporter: And their brother

2735
01:19:24,093 --> 01:19:25,860
who sent the video has a

2736
01:19:25,895 --> 01:19:26,861
message, too.

2737
01:19:26,896 --> 01:19:29,396
>> thank you for your time,

2738
01:19:29,432 --> 01:19:30,464
thank you.

2739
01:19:30,500 --> 01:19:33,234
Thank you for everything.

2740
01:19:33,269 --> 01:19:35,269
This is a big help to be able

2741
01:19:35,304 --> 01:19:37,705
to, you know, just get this out

2742
01:19:37,740 --> 01:19:39,039
and let it be heard.

2743
01:19:39,075 --> 01:19:41,575
>> I want to last name turpin to

2744
01:19:41,611 --> 01:19:43,911
be remembered as a name of

2745
01:19:43,946 --> 01:19:44,578
strength.

2746
01:19:44,614 --> 01:19:47,414
I don't want jennifer turpin,

2747
01:19:47,450 --> 01:19:51,185
oh, that poor, poor, you know,

2748
01:19:51,220 --> 01:19:52,186
30-year-old woman who went

2749
01:19:52,221 --> 01:19:53,554
through a tragic life.

2750
01:19:53,589 --> 01:19:56,257
No, I want that name to be my

2751
01:19:56,292 --> 01:19:59,493
name and her name, the turpin

2752
01:19:59,529 --> 01:20:00,127
name.

2753
01:20:00,163 --> 01:20:00,961
Like, wow, they're strong.

2754
01:20:00,997 --> 01:20:02,263
They're not weak, they're not

2755
01:20:02,298 --> 01:20:02,797
broken.

2756
01:20:02,832 --> 01:20:02,863
They've got this.

2757
01:20:03,833 --> 01:20:07,268
>> same.

2758
01:20:11,140 --> 01:20:12,373
>> reporter: We are so glad you

2759
01:20:12,408 --> 01:20:13,607
have been with us tonight, and

2760
01:20:13,643 --> 01:20:15,176
as we said before we're going to

2761
01:20:15,211 --> 01:20:18,512
stay on this story and let you

2762
01:20:18,548 --> 01:20:20,347
know what happens next.

2763
01:20:20,383 --> 01:20:26,086
And tonight a special message

2764
01:20:26,122 --> 01:20:28,656
from jc dugard, a young woman I

2765
01:20:28,691 --> 01:20:31,559
met years ago who stunned the

2766
01:20:31,594 --> 01:20:34,695
nation with her courage.

2767
01:20:34,730 --> 01:20:35,663
She established a organization

2768
01:20:35,698 --> 01:20:38,132
and tonight they created a fund

2769
01:20:38,167 --> 01:20:40,201
to receive donations for the 13

2770
01:20:40,236 --> 01:20:41,969
turpin children.

2771
01:20:42,004 --> 01:20:43,571
She writes the people who helped

2772
01:20:43,606 --> 01:20:45,039
her changed her life and says

2773
01:20:45,074 --> 01:20:46,974
now it's our turn to pay it

2774
01:20:47,009 --> 01:20:47,608
forward.

2775
01:20:47,643 --> 01:20:51,078
If you'd like to learn more

2776
01:20:51,113 --> 01:20:53,581
about the turpin siblings and

2777
01:20:53,616 --> 01:20:55,416
other children facing these

2778
01:20:55,451 --> 01:20:56,150
challenges go to the abc news

2779
01:20:56,185 --> 01:20:57,484
"20/20" website and our social

2780
01:20:57,520 --> 01:20:58,953
media pages.

2781
01:20:58,988 --> 01:21:01,288
I'm diane sawyer.

2782
01:21:01,324 --> 01:21:01,555
From all of us at abc news, good

2783
01:21:01,591 --> 01:21:14,668
night.