Like why leave
You know I kind of get that like if things are I mean we don't know what their point is
We just have this idea in our heads that all the aliens out there are like on this desperate hunt to find us That they, like, really want maybe they're just like no y'all we're just gonna stay in our own Milky Way
Maybe you're not even really supposed to leave it like everything that you need is right in it
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So for talk Tuesday today, I wanted to talk about a news story slash current event true crime
situation that so many of you guys have
Tweeted me about asking you to make a video on it
So I did but keep in mind this literally broke about a week ago, so the story is extremely fresh
And there's not a ton of information out there, and I'm gonna do my best of explaining what we do know so far
We are going to be talking about a family parents that held their 13 children
Captive for most of their lives, and this is actually the start of a brand-new series here on my channel
I've actually been wanting to do this series for a long time so when this story came up
I was like you know what this is a good time to start this series
I'm going to call this series found and this is gonna be about people who have been kidnapped or abducted or held captive and
escaped eventually or got out of this situation
And I really wanted to do this because I talk about
Missing-persons cases a lot and true crime you know stories where ends in not such a great place or the person hasn't been found so
I feel like I wanted to do some types of videos that are not positive
But have a happy ending to them. You know a story of survival so today
We're going to be talking about David Allen Turpin who was 57 years old and his wife Louise Anna turbine who is
49 years old and we're gonna be talking about their family and these people have
13 kids didn't take care of them and pretty much tortured them all of their lives the kids were just found and are now
safe and they actually aged and range from 2 to 29, so
Absolutely insane so going back to when David and Louise met they were really young she was really young she was only 16
and he was
23 at the time so definitely not
Legal they were both religious they actually met at in church
And they decided to run away together at some point and their families were really against this so they
Basically had no relationship with their parents
For a year. He basically took her I mean she he was 23
She was 16, but anyway they moved to Fort Worth, Texas one thing
That's really really strange about these people is they were clearly afraid like as the story goes on you're gonna realize they were
very afraid of everyone
Everything didn't trust anything
You know just super paranoid tried to stay away from everybody they were
Homebodies for sure and what was so weird is that normally people like that?
Moves like the middle of nowhere like in the middle of the mountains or in the desert or something like that, but these people
Always lived in like nice suburban neighborhoods like really nice
well-kept neighborhoods with tons of neighbors and cookie-cutter close houses
So it's very odd that they were trying to
Hide that their kids were basically their slaves for most of their lives
So of course there's barely any information about what went on in this house day to day or what happened over the years?
what we do know is coming from you know sources of people who've just came across them like they're not talking about it and
Investigators haven't given out that much information, so what we're going off is largely based on what?
Louise's sister experienced
And she actually stayed with them at one point lived with them
Because she I don't know was having some financial problems so she moved in with them
This is when they only have four children and of course
We're not sure. How old these kids what their birthdays are what their names?
Are we don't know anything like that, but there was four of them and apparently the oldest daughter was
Treated terribly and she was noticing that they were extremely strict
You know had to ask for permission to have dinner
I had to look her mother in the eyes and basically beg her to eat
She was kept in her room like all the time, and I'm sure all the kids were like this
But the sister just specifically mentioned one of the kids like I wonder in her room a lot
And they would let her come down and eat meals before she sat down
She did get permission, and they weren't allowed to talk to me without permission
you know was literally staying in her room for like hours and hours and hours like just
Unsupervised basically like she's our kid, but we don't want kids, so we're just gonna like shut her off in her room
It's really hard to get a final story on this, but I'm pretty sure they were Pentecostal and their family's growing up
We're kind of hostile
There's possibly some sexual abuse in Lisa's life as a child
So it wasn't just like a Christian Church that they belong to originally
I think it was a Pentecostal Church
But the sister kind of thought that maybe this was just part of their parenting style that they were really strict because they were
Pentecostal I have personally known and been friends with people who are Pentecostal and and it is very very strict
She kind of figured. I guess this is just part of the religion like Who am I to question them?
They're older than me because like a lot of people are like well
If you are seeing all this going on and you saw that one of the daughters was being severely mistreated. Why didn't you say anything?
So you know we don't know how much the sister actually saw
And she probably should have said some thing so this whole story really should be a reminder to people to
Always say something even if you're not sure
That something's going wrong. It's so important when you see something that feels off to tell someone
It was so creepy the sister when she's staying she said that sometimes David and Louise would
Unlock the bathroom door while she was showering and then come in there and just stand there and watch
So super creepy she moved out and that was really the last she had seen them in a long time
So eventually these two apparently decided everyone in the Pentecostal religion
They couldn't trust them anymore
She caught me, and she thought it was cool that they had you know quit going to church and that they were
Didn't trust the church anymore they were experimenting with different religions
And they decided to make their own new like hybrid religion by mashing a bunch of other religions in they looked into Mormonism
Just a bunch of different ones and then kind molded together their own
Religion and kind of lived by that so they actually moved to Rio Vista and they decided to start their own
Home school so when they lived there neighbors would notice weird things happening over at their house a lot of the neighbors
Just thought something odd was going on especially the fact that they never came to the door
One neighbor in particular said that she would knock on the door over and over again
And she could actually see a baby in the window in like a you know a little play
pack and play type thing and
She could see the baby with no supervision and no one would answer the door
And she would knock repeatedly and no one would answer. I never saw them they noticed
They would do weird things like do yard work at like 4:00 in the morning that was
Another really interesting thing about this family is they believe that they went to sleep around 4:00 or 5:00 a.m.
They were completely like nocturnal and oh and really they would make the kids
Do you like chores during the night neighbors people who work the late shift would come home and see them
Making the kids well unless the kids voluntarily did this but I doubt it
But the kids would walk back and forth in the room just march back and forth in like a straight line
Neighbors thought it was weird, but didn't call police so again if you see weird shit like that
It's not a bad idea to make an anonymous tip at one point
they wanted to hide even more so they put a
Double-wide trailer in the back of this house like all the way in the back of the yard
So that the house was blocking anyone from seeing the trailer, and they literally lived in the trailer
So their house was just and it was the weirdest thing like these people were clearly both
Very mentally ill these kids were so malnourished they think that most of the time, they weren't fed
I mean they were starving there were kids that looked seven years
Younger than they actually were because that's how malnourished they were they all look
Younger than they are so they eventually moved again, and when they did their house was foreclosed
So if someone got it in like a foreclosure deal so everything that they had was still in the house the new owner found
Scratches on the walls that they believe were from animals, but now that this story has broke
They've realized they likely were from the children scratching the walls and when this guy went through the house there was stuff about Armageddon
the rapture like all these crazy written things and
Just trashed absolutely disgusting things everywhere so they decided to move to California
one of the weirdest things about this family though is that they had this obsession or at least the parents did with Disney World and
Vegas and they went to these places all the time in fact
One time they went to Vegas to renew their vows and I think they did this twice actually
And they brought all of the kids to Vegas with them
They would go to Vegas, and they would go to like this Elvis
You know those weird cheesy like wedding places where you know something someone's normally dressed as Elvis and Elvis marries you
So no Elvis songs and made the kids dance and the kids look so uncomfortable the video footage is so weird
I just I think it's crazy that they loved Vegas enough that they were willing to risk people finding out about them
You know this weird family their kids could have easily told someone
but
They use so many control tactics on these kids like things to make them
Not want to say anything or to be scared like they were very very afraid of the outside world
actually, they would do things like buy these kids toys and
Keep them into packaging, so they would show them the toys, but never let them have the toys
They would even be known to leave pies on the counter for the kids to look at but not get to eat and not only
Were they not fed
But they were barely allowed to shower a lot of them were shackled to furniture with literally with chains and handcuffs
And they weren't even allowed to go to
the bathroom at some times
They had to just go on the floor wherever they were
The children had
barely ever seen doctors if at all and had never been to a dentist and
All of these things that they would do to these kids were just ways of controlling them
they were scared they were completely mind controlled and
They hadn't barely spent any time in the outside world imagine how different your life would be if most of your life?
you were
Tied up or in your house
Not allowed to go outside not allowed to experience anything not allowed to read or watch movies
I mean who knows what these kids are allowed to do the only dream a were allowed to do
Was write in journals the parents actually gave them journals, and it's so interesting they wrote tons and
Tons of journals, and it's actually how investigators are now trying to put the pieces together
They're trying to read these journals and now they have a first-hand account from the kids about what was going on?
So it's going to be a lot more coming out, so how did the police find out about them?
How'd this all come crashing down well one of the daughters
We don't have a lot of information about her what her name was or anything
actually escaped through a window and had a
Disconnected cell phone, so like a cell phone
That's not even in use but you can still use it to call 9-1-1 and she called 9-1-1 she told the police
"I just escaped I have 12 other siblings chained up back at home"
And she was even able to provide them with photos as evidence
So thankfully these two were arrested as soon as the police got there and the kids were taken to the hospital
Where they are getting care and investigators are working with them as well as of course
Psychologists and people who are going to help them get somewhat of a life together
But it's gonna be a challenge for these kids. I mean they have been through some crazy shit
They probably all have PTSD
I said this earlier, but like the fact that they never really tried to be out in the middle of nowhere
It makes me wonder
How many family is that are like this like crazy
And they're scared of everything Armageddon type people have gone out into the middle of nowhere
They've had a bunch of kids and force them to stay there
And we just don't know about it like there's got to be
versions of this family that are out there actually
Doing it right. You know try and actually stay off the the grid and not go to Vegas and not so
Like if they lived in the middle of nowhere if the girl had gotten out
She wouldn't have had anywhere to go and maybe wouldn't have even had any way to call 9-1-1
Because of service so it seems like there's got to be people out there that are doing this in a smarter way
And it's scary like it really scares me, but you know at the end of the day
I'm just so happy that these kids
Aren't going to live this life forever that they you know one of them was brave enough to get out of it
And hopefully they have somewhat of a hope for their future well Louise
No longer exists to me her and David are dead to me. I have you know the children
I hope that when they come out
From where they're at now our hope is that?
They're all can lead some sort of
normal or
Happy existence
Obviously you know have never known happy except. Maybe the older ones for a little while my main
Hope is that I can put my arm around 'em
Just tell them that they have family that loves em. That's not deranged
I think it's just refreshing to hear stories like this where people are found and you know get out of a bad situation
And you know moral of the story is if you see something weird tell someone
There is a non emergency 911
Line that you can call and if you see something strange going on even if you're wrong
There is no shame in calling with concern. That's it for me today guys. I hope you're excited about this new series
I have a bunch of cases I plan to cover for this series
and I can't wait to get into it because there's some very interesting stories of survivors who are
Just tough as hell be sure to double-check that you are subscribed and have the bell turned on YouTube keeps unsubscribing people from me
Don't forget to pop on over to the podcast and watch it or listen to it
You can listen to it in the car it really helps with a commute
Or a bus ride or something and the next episode is actually going to be on a true-crime case
Yes, but that's it for me today guys. I hope you're having a great day, and I will see you next time