and louise turpin surrounded by their 13 children but behind the smiles and outfits a reality so disturbing. >> extremely mal nourish they have muscle wasting and cognitive damaging. they were tied with rope. moved up to chains and padlocks. >> now this mother and father are in shackles accused of years of cruelty. >> this is off the chart sadistic. >> torture, false imprisonment and child endangerment happening in the couples home in the town of perris, california. the alleged horror all hidden in plain site. but the family's story started 2300 miles away in the heart of a app lashia in princeton where they grew up in the 70s and 80s. >> i'm full of emotion, angry, sad, heartbroken, confused how this happened.

>> this is elizabeth flores who is louise's younger sister. >> it was always her way or no way she had to sneak around to do it she would do it. >> the younger sister said she and others in the family were sex umpireually aabused. >> i think it may have been an under lining issue. >> another constant in her life was david turpin in 1979 sporting the same bowl cut he sports today. >> he was quiet, nerdy, tended to dress welled sometimes with a

bow tie. >> she started to date him at 15 and dad didn't want them to. >> when she was only 16 she ran away with him and they were found several days later in texas. her parents decided not to pursue charges, the couple then got married in 1985. in 1986 the couple moved to texas where david had a job. by the 90s were living in fort worth where lists bhej is elizabeth spent the summer with them and said she noticed things were off. >> i remember they were really strict on the oldest daughter. would wander in her room a lot and let her eat meals before she would sit down she'd have to give permission. i felt like maybe i shouldn't question her parenting. it was like i wasn't allowed to talk to the kids and they couldn't talk to me without

permission. >> louise came up with a hybrid religion but they didn't go to church. she says david was very reserved and louise made all of the rules. >> she always seemed to be in control but there were always looks him sitting back watching. i was told couldn't make phone calls from their phone, wasn't allowed to have anyone over, wasn't allowed to talk or hang out with anybody, if i wanted to i had to find another place to go. >> and things got creepier. >> i'd get in the shower. lock the door, and louise would unlock it with a coat hanger and they would both come in and made me get out of the shower in front of them. >> she found out louise talked to friends at work and kicked her out. despite david's job their fort worth house was foreclosed on. the scene they left behind can

deplorable filth with scratches on the backs of doors and walls which the homeowner assumed came from animals. they moved to the rural texas town of rio vista. >> it is hard to find on a map. >> neighbors sided strange behaviors. >> something was wrong over there, something was not right. >> money problems made them foreclose and they also left a mess and bizarre photographs. >> pretty bad shape. >> the turpin family went west to california. >> it's unclear why they moved to california. they don't have any family out here. perhaps it was for work. we just don't know. >> eventually they settled in a small city perris registering

his house with sand castle day school so his kids could be home schooled. a neighbor seen something odd one night. >> i would come home from 12:30 to 3:00 in the morning and kids would be marching between the rooms. >> they were marching literally in the middle of the night back and forth from room to room. >> like a loop. >> how long. >> hours. >> hours? >> yeah. >> finally for the siblings living in what prosecutors say was hell, a breaking point, two kids escaped out of a window just after 6:00 on sunday. the younger child frightened turns back the 17-year-old keeps going to call 9/11 on a deactivated cellphone. >> she explained her siblings were held against their well and some chained. deputies noticed when they arrived the children were malova nourished and it was dirty with

horrific conditions. >> the parents arrested at the scene, children authorities say were severely malnourished a 29-year-old woman weighing just 82 pounds. >> it's hard to say what is most horrific, you have parents torturing their children, causing them pain, causing them suffering, over a long period of time through mal nourishment, through physical and psychological abuse. >> authorities say hidden behind a neatly manicured lawn in cookie cutter house a mountain of evidence. >> when demetriouss fouputies f siblings what were the conditions. >> conditions were deplorabldep some that were chained were not taken to the badge robathroom t

relieve themselves. my guess there's going to be powerful evidence in the journals what was happening in that house. >> in court daft and david and louise turpin pleaded not guilty to 75 counts including torture, child endangerment and false imprisonment. investigators say only the two-year-old child appears to have escaped the abuse. the couple is being held on $12 million bail each. elizabeth says she hasn't seen the children in more than a decade. she didn't know what was going on until she saw the news. >> somebody posted the link on my facebook and said is this your sicko sister. my initial response was oh, my god and i broke down. i knew my sister was different from us but i would have never, ever imagined this, ever. >> and for the 13 siblings who

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this special edition of "nightline" continues with matt gutman. >> charges of unimaginable cruelty at the hands of their own parents. the children of david and louise turpin allegedly endured starvation, torture and squalor. 13 siblings in this house, the youngest two, the oldest 29. yet as horrific as this case

seems the allegations after abuse and depraved captivity happen more freak then imaginable. >> i was like, oh, no, not another one. to have a similar situation where children had to go through that. >> suds an and her seven children six boys and girl made headlines when the documentary "the wolf pack" was released. combined to a small new york apartment for 14 years during the 1990s and 2000s forbidden to leave by their father who had the only key to the front door, only he could use it. >> in the summer there was more a chance of us getting out. >> the only contact with the outside world was movies, which they created in the apartment. >> if i didn't have movies life would be pretty boring and there wouldn't be any point to go on. >> and while those children were not shackled or starved they say

their father controlled them and their mother through fear. >> we were taught not to talk to strangers, the whole thing, but it was farther than that, it was like don't even look at people. >> in 2010 one of the brothers then 15 venturing out into the streets of new york. the others soon followed. two of the brothers talked about it with elizabeth vargas. >> very first time you went outside what did that feel like? >> i remember feeling very afraid because in many ways we still were under our father's thumb in a lot of ways. >> psychologically? >> psychologically. i remember it feeling surreal. >> was strange too because it also felt liberating. >> this new found freedom known too well for amanda barry. >> help me i'm amanda barry i've

been missing for ten years i'm here, i'm free now. >> she was kid named in 2002-2004 and imprisoned in his home and after ten years impregnatimpre impregnated by her captainor escaped with her daughter. >> what was the biggest thing he took from you that you lost. >> normal life, as a teenage girl, going to birthdays, going to prom, having fun times, a regular teenager. >> let's get one thing straight my name is jacy kidnapp kidnapped in 1991. was not a day i didn't cry. if i felt there would never, ever be a day i didn't cry fenway. a again. and then after a while i told myself i can't cry any more. >> despite law enforcement

called to their compound several times she wasn't freed until 2009 after giving birth to two daughters. those who have been through traumatic experiences say heal something possible. >> we all of us have a story, we all of us have -- have our demons, our nightmares, our troubles, but it's not what happens to you that define who's you are. >> in 2002 elizabeth smart was kidnapped and held in captivity for nine months her story gripped the nation. >> for so long i couldn't even decide when i wasn't to sleep or went to the bathroom or what i got to eat or drink. the chains of manipulation or threat are so much stronger than physical chains. life is not as dark and terrible as it has been probably for their entire life. that there is happiness in the future and that they can go on to have wonderful lives.

>> like smart, psychiatrist bruce perry believes the turpin children can be helpd. >> gradual transition is really the key to successful transition. taking appropriate, you will, steps and not going too far too gaft. too fast. >> every day another step at a time. >> going to be the hardest and most important thing to hear is that the world is not the way their parents made them think it is. the world really has people that are going to be generous and going to be kind and going to be nurturing to them i think one of the hardest things for them do in the end will be to trust people. >> something that this family understands. >> this is a huge wake up call. and it's by think, i think now each of us caring for who we are around on a daily basis. >> their doctors tell us that

turpin siblings physical condition can quickly be repaired with nourishment. but the psychological scars will last longer. >> what you're doing now is sort of teaching them social behavior. >> they are at the first stage of introduction to the outside world. >> tonight the elder turpin children are surrounded by a hand-picked team at the corona region medical center receiving round the clock care by doctors and nurses and something prosecutors say they missed their whole lives, tenderness. >> do you ever sometimes leave the ward and break down in tears. >> absolutely how could you not can't wait for these children to come back and sometime it's invite me to their graduation. that would make a smile on my face on that day. >> for "nightline" i'm matt gutman from perris, california.

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national tour to playing on the "millionaire" stage, let's welcome our next whiz kid, a 13-year-old from franklin, massachusetts, amanda wylie's here. welcome. >> thank you. >> if you were touring with "annie," this is nothing for you. >> it's still a pretty big deal. >> i mean, it's a big deal to us, and it could be a big deal to you. it could be a million dollars to you. you're about to face 14 questions, the money values growing from $500 all the way to that $1 million. [cheers and applause] you have your three lifelines, as usual, but today's a little special. we've added a special fourth lifeline just for you. it's called "cut the question." if you get a question that you don't think you can answer, you can ask to cut it, and we'll replace it with an easier question. you can use that lifeline on any question up into and including that $50,000 threshold, all right? >> okay. >> are you ready to go? >> yes. >> try and smile and have fun. you don't smile enough. >> [chuckles] >> let's go. let's play "who wants to be

a millionaire." [cheers and applause] [dramatic musical flourish] all right, amanda, we start you off with that $500 question. good luck, here we go. which of these is not worn by the statue of liberty? >> okay. well, i know that the statue of liberty has on a robe, sandals and a crown. and she definitely does not have a nose ring. so d, final answer. >> of course. [applause] well done, that's $500. $1,000 question is up next. according to the humane society website, you should mix hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and dishwashing liquid if you want to do what to your dog?

>> well, the only one that really makes sense would be de-skunk because i don't think that mixing those would make him invisible, triple his size or turn him into a cat. so c, final answer. >> yeah, that's right. good job, that's $1,000. third question worth $2,000. toys modeled after which movie villain make use of u.s. trademark #77419252, described as the "sound created by breathing through a scuba tank regulator"? >> i'm pretty sure, 'cause darth vader goes [imitates darth vader] so c, final answer. >> the cutest darth vader ever. yes, that's right.

[applause] you would have changed "star wars" completely. like, "no, we love him." all right, that's $2,000. here's $3,000. which of these numbers, whose square root is 11, equals the world record for the most scoops of ice cream ever balanced on one cone? >> okay, so if the square root is 11, so it's 11 times 11, which i'm pretty sure is 121. but i'm gonna check just because, you know. okay, so 11 times 10 is 110. plus another 11 is 121. so yeah, c, final answer. >> your math was correct. you got it. [applause] that's a tall ice cream cone. okay, fifth question. chance to get to that first threshold of $5,000.

here's the question. in total, how many sets of double letters are there in the names of the states that have nashville and boston as their state capitals? >> whoo-hoo, boston. how many sets of double letters? okay, so boston is massachusetts. m-a-s-s-a-c-h-u-s-e-t-t-s. so that's two so far. and nashville is tennessee. so t-e-n-n... e-s-e-e. so that's four, but i'm gonna double-check. massachusetts. m-a-s-s-a-c-h-u-s-e-t-t-s. okay. and nashville, tennessee. t-e-n-n-e-s-e-e. okay.

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