House of Chains

💡 Did You Know?

In the actual Turpin Case, David and Louise Turpin the parents were not in a cult like setting and did not give their children hippie names. Instead the parents were childhood sweethearts with Pentecostal parents who left the church and rarely enforced religious views, only when discussing discipline. The father was an engineer and the mother unemployed who would often leave the kids in fear. Another factual error is that the father abused the mother when in fact that never happened and the mother was the primary abuser, she caught the middle child in a closet with a cellphone and choked her till the child past out. The parents were hoarders from Texas and often took the children outside to take pictures to post online to show a happy setting, the children were instructed on how to speak in public and threaten if they ever left the house that C.P.S. Would remove them from each other and lead to their deaths. Another major fact was that two children escaped, when only Jordan Turpin the 17 year old girl escaped via window and had taken an old cellphone she found from her brother to dial the police and Set off the chain of events that led to an popularized crime in history.