Four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a nauseating past: the horrorhuis of the Not for sale

For sale: detached laagbouwwoning, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, 221 square meters. In a beautiful street in Perris, California. But it is not just a house. It is the home of the notorious Turpin family, where the American couple, David and Louise Turpin for many years, their children locked up, chained, severely malnourished, and psychologically tortured.

It was the daughter of 17 years old at the beginning of this year to sound the alarm pulled and the sinister history of the house unveiled. After the girl is already two years long on a breakaway, had sat brooding, she had on 14 January, the dare to be found. She escaped out a window and called with a found mobile phone the police. She told him that her brothers and sisters were captured, held and chained were. They were barely eating and training, but a regular beating.

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When the agent on the line her address asked, she would read from a letter she had found. She knew her own address. The girl, that is so thin and small that she looked like a child of 10, had photos for the police. In the case she might not be believed. Images of filthy rooms, where skinny children with chains to furniture were chained to the walls. Photos of her house. When the police on the spot arrived, they found that the 13 children between 2 and 29 years old – in inhuman circumstances, were detained, likely for years.