In January 2018, the world was horrified by the shocking rescue
of 13 children from their parents’ so-called “house of horrors”
in Perris, California. The Turpin family story became one of the
most disturbing child abuse cases in modern American history. For
years, David and Louise Turpin kept their children — ranging in
age from 2 to 29 — chained, starved, beaten, and isolated from
the outside world inside their modest suburban home. The children
were denied medical care, education, and even the basic right to
wash themselves.
When 17-year-old Jordan Turpin bravely escaped through a window
and called 911 with a deactivated phone, she set in motion a
rescue operation that stunned the nation. Police discovered
children so emaciated they looked half their age, shackled to
filthy beds in squalid rooms. The Turpin parents had maintained a
carefully constructed facade of a large, happy homeschooling
family, even registering their house as a private school called
“Sandcastle Day School” to avoid suspicion.
The Turpin parents, both originally from West Virginia, carried a
dark history of strict religious beliefs mixed with total
psychological control. Their twisted discipline methods and
obsession with power left their children traumatised, unable to
speak in full sentences, and terrified of the outside world.
After their arrest, David and Louise Turpin were sentenced to
life in prison, while their children began the long road to
recovery. But even after their freedom, the Turpin siblings faced
further challenges from the child welfare system meant to protect
them, revealing heartbreaking gaps in America’s social safety
net.
Crime at Bedtime takes you deep into this haunting true crime
story, examining the hidden lives of the Turpin children, the
shocking details of their imprisonment, the bravery of a teenage
girl who saved her family, and the failures of the system to
support them even after rescue. This is more than a tale of
unimaginable cruelty — it is a story of survival, courage, and
the will to rebuild a life from the ashes of abuse.
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