‘House Of Horrors’: Chilling Case Of Turpins, US Couple Who Chained, Starved & Tortured Their 13 Children

In 2019, David & Louise Turpin were sentenced to life imprisonment with possibility of parole after 25 years, after they pleaded guilty to holding their children captive and torturing them for years.

David & Louise Turpin were sentenced to prison for holding their children captive and torturing them for years. ( Image Source :Getty )

On January 14, 2018, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office in California received a 911 call at 6 am. The caller informed the authorities that two of her siblings were chained to their bed. The perpetrator of this torture, the caller said, was none other than their own parents.  Thus came to light a story of child abuse in the US that shocks the world to this day. The case involves a couple named David and Louise Turpin who subjected their 13 children to unimaginable horrors –