Episode 6: The Turpin 13

In January 2018 a case of child abuse so shocking that it was deemed torture by the legal system rocked the world. From a seemingly idyllic Californian house, 13 starved, beaten and imprisoned children were rescued and almost thirty years of horror inflicted by their own parents was revealed, in the case of the Turpin children.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/ceq53m28lywt/turpin-captivity-case

https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/turpin-family?CMP=ILC-refresh

https://abcnews.go.com/US/siblings-allegedly-held-captive-robotic-marched-hours-circles/story?id=52418033

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578227666/couple-arrested-after-children-found-shackled-to-their-beds-in-california-home

https://nypost.com/2018/01/19/horror-house-moms-sister-detailed-their-own-childhood-abuse-in-self-help-books/

https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-to-turpin-children

https://allthatsinteresting.com/turpin-family-children

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=robinette&oc=0&p=louise+ann

https://people.com/crime/house-of-horrors-siblings-dodge-rats-snakes-hallways-texas-home/

https://people.com/crime/inside-the-house-of-horrors-2-years-after-escape-new-secrets-emerge-about-how-turpin-kids-survived/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Turpin-13-Season-1/dp/B07CQSJKSR

A husband and wife team explore the dark side of human behaviour and try to understand why people stray so far from the norm, dressed with a pinch of profanity and very British gallows humour.

• No. of episodes: 9
• Latest episode: 2020-10-30
• Comedy True Crime

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