Neighbor of ‘House of Horrors’ family denies missing warning signs
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“I just thought they were really private,” the neighbor said of the Turpins’ odd behavior
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January 26, 2018
Neighbor says ‘House of Horrors’ family fled to California days after daughter’s first escape attempt
The current owner of David and Louise Turpin’s Texas home said the family fled to California days after one of their abused daughters escaped and tried to get help. Speaking with The Mercury News, Nellie Baldwin, 78, a former neighbor who currently owns the 36-acre Hill County property with her son, claimed the family trashed …
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January 24, 2018
Faith healer uncle says he wants custody of tortured ‘House of Horrors’ children: Source
The brother of David Turpin, the California father accused of torturing and starving his 13 children, says he wants to care for the minor siblings–sparing them from being placed into foster care. A source told CBS News that Dr. Randy Turpin, a faith healer and megachurch preacher, was looking into adopting the children. But before this …
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January 24, 2018
Former classmate says eldest ‘House of Horrors’ child was ‘frail’, mercilessly bullied
“She had this whimsical optimism to her that couldn’t be dampened, couldn’t be doused no matter what anybody threw at her”
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January 23, 2018
‘I wish I could hear that baby cry again’: Mom speaks out after cellphone distraction led to her baby girl’s bathtub drowning
An Idaho mom shared her story on Saturday morning with a local outlet, after serving time in jail for the death of her toddler daughter, who drowned in a bathtub in 2016. East Idaho News reports that Kelsee Flatland, 27, is now free after serving time for involuntary manslaughter. Her daughter, 13-month-old, Zyra Flatland, drowned in a …
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January 23, 2018
Mother, children were held prisoner in same ‘House of Horrors’ town decades earlier
In an eerie coincidence, the California town rocked by allegations that 13 children were found shackled and starving in deplorable conditions, was the location of a similar scandal nearly two decades earlier. Speaking with WJW, Laura Cowan recalled how police rescued her and her two children from a Perris home in 1998. When learning of the …
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January 23, 2018
Classmate says college student Turpin son looked starved, wore the SAME clothes all semester
While attending community college, the eldest son of 13 tortured California children would never look anyone in the eye and wore the same clothes every day, a classmate revealed. Angie Parra, who had a music class with one of the Turpin children at Mount San Jacinto College, described him to KNBC as a “sweet, but odd, …
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January 22, 2018
Were any of the ‘House of Horrors’ children kidnapped? Investigators seeking DNA tests to confirm all siblings are related, source says
Authorities are reportedly planning to conduct DNA tests on the 13 abused children found in the California House of Horrors to confirm that they weren’t kidnapped. Sources reportedly told Crime Watch Daily that investigators are considering conducting genetic tests to verify that all 13 children found in the Perris residence are related. However, the Riverside County …
Child Abuse
January 22, 2018
House of Horrors aunt says David Turpin drove wife cross-country to have sex with a man she met online
Louise Turpin, the California mother accused of abusing her 13 children and keeping them imprisoned in deplorable conditions, had her husband drive her to Alabama so she could have sex with a man she met online, according to her sister. Teresa Robinette made the explosive claims during an appearance on Megyn Kelly Today. Robinette said that …
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January 22, 2018
Meth mom’s bad day out: Leaves screaming baby in car, goes shoplifting: Cops
A Florida mom’s day trip to a convenience store to buy poop containing deodorant spray found her behind bars for abandoning her infant in a car and in possession of meth. The Miami Herald reported that Sarah Wilmoth, 30, of Vero Beach, was arrested January 13 in the parking lot of a Publix store after …
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January 19, 2018
‘House of Horrors’ dad David Turpin kidnapped Louise from school when she was 16 to elope: Source
David Turpin, the patriarch of the Perris, California, home where 13 children were found starved and shackled, was 24 when he allegedly kidnapped Louise Turpin from school and attempted to elope. Per the Daily Express, David pulled a 16-year-old Louise out of her Princeton, West Virginia, high school, by convincing school employees to allow him …
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January 19, 2018
‘Healthy’ dogs found in House of Horrors will be raffled off for adoption: Officials
A pair of 1-year-old dogs found in the Perris, California, home where 13 children were reportedly shackled and starved will be placed up for adoption. According to the Independent, the two Maltese-mix dogs–one of which is named Fluffy–will be rehomed together sometime in February. Animal control officer Christina Avila said in a press release that …