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Escape From A House Of Horrors FULL AUDIO The Turpin SistersEscape From A House Of Horrors FULL AUDIOPERRIS, Calif. -- Jordan Turpin quietly climbed up on a windowsill of her parents' home without them knowing and dropped down into the outside world.The 17-year-old had only been outside a few times in her entire life and she was terrified. Her hands were shaking uncontrollably as she held a deactivated cell phone her parents didn't know she had, but thinking of her siblings chained up inside the house, she worked up the courage to dial 911."I was always terrified that if I called the cops or tried to escape, I would get caught, and then I knew I would die if I got caught," Jordan, now 21, told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview. "But at the end, when I saw all my younger siblings, I knew that's what I had to do."Jordan's bravery that day in January 2018 freed herself and her siblings from a life of horrific abuse and captivity at the hands of their parents, David and Louise Turpin, who are now in prison for beating, shackling and starving 12 of their 13 children."That was my only chance," Jordan said. "I think it was us coming so close to death so many times. If something happened to me, at least I died trying."Jordan and her eldest sibling, Jennifer Turpin, are telling their story for the first time in an exclusive interview with Sawyer. They are the first of any of the Turpin children to share their stories. In their interview, the Turpin daughters described physical abuse and being deprived of food, hygiene, education and health care for years."The only word I know to call it is 'hell,'" said Jennifer Turpin, reflecting on the trauma of her childhoodGrowing up, Jennifer Turpin attended public school from first to third grade but then her parents took her out. From then on, the parents claimed to be homeschooling their children but weren't in reality. The children were rarely allowed to leave their home when the family lived in Texas and then in California, they said they were never allowed outside without their parents."We [weren't] even allowed to stand up. We were supposed to be sitting down all the time," added Jennifer, now 33. "Most of the time we were up at night and then sleeping in the day."In the family's Perris, California, home that Jordan escaped from, she told investigators she was kept in a bedroom where two little sisters were chained on and off for months. She said she and her siblings lived in filth and that she hadn't bathed in seven monthsJennifer said for years she and her siblings only ate once a day, primarily peanut butter sandwiches, bologna, a frozen burrito or chips, while their parents ate fast food and other full meals. She said some of the children would try to "steal" food and their parents would beat them or chain them up for it. When rescued, all of the children except for the youngest, a toddler, were severely malnourished, prosecutors said.An 11-year-old child was so malnourished that her arm circumference was the equivalent of a 4-and-a-half month old baby, investigators said.Jordan said she hadn't been to a doctor in five years, she said, and had never been to a dentist in her life.The plan to escapeIn 2016, Jordan said she got a hold of one of her parents' old smartphones. It opened up a whole new world she had never seen before, and eventually she discovered Justin Bieber's music videos."I don't know where we would be if we didn't watch Justin Bieber," Jordan said. "I started realizing that there is a different whole world out there... I wanted to experience that."The smartphone became a critical escape for Jordan. She said she watched Bieber's interviews, movies and used it to make little videos to post on social media. One day, she said someone commented on one of her posts to ask why she was always inside and awake at night."I did tell him that I didn't really go to school, and I wasn't allowed to go in the backyard or front yard and that I'm always kept inside, and I told him how we eat and how we're not allowed to get out of bed," she said. "He was like, 'This isn't right, you should call the cops' ... I was so happy to hear him say that because I was like, 'I was right. I was right that this situation is bad.'"One day, a sibling in the house told their mother she had been watching Bieber's videos. Jordan said her mother came at her and began choking her."I thought I was going to die that day," she said. "After that whole day happened, I kept having nightmares that... she was going to kill me."After that incident, Jordan secretly talked to a couple of her sisters about trying to come up with a plan to escape."She was like, 'We need to get out of here,'" Jennifer said. "So I gave her all the advice I knew, all the advice I could."Jordan eventually decided her best option would be to climb out of her bedroom window and call 911.Jennifer said she tried to draw a map of their neighborhood based on the few times she had been allowed outside. Jordan and another sister tried calling a taxi service to drive them to another state, and then they discussed something Jordan overheard on the rare instances her brother secretly watched the TV show "Cops": Calling 911, and making sure they had proof to back up their claims for police."[I told her] get pictures, anything to prove so they can't think you're a teenager looking for attention," Jennifer said.On Jan. 14, 2018, Jordan realized time was running out. She and Jennifer heard her mother scream that the family was moving to Oklahoma."If we went to Oklahoma, there was a big chance that some of us would have died," Jordan said of her severely malnourished and frail siblings.At the time, she said two of her sisters were in chains for stealing their mother's candy. One of them, she said, had been chained up for 15 straight days.She said she asked her sisters, chained to a bed, for permission to take their photos before doing so, which she did with her brother's old cell phone that she had secretly gotten hold of."They said, 'yes,'" Jordan said. "They knew why I was taking pictures, and they knew what it was for, they were letting me.""The very next day we were moving. It was literally now or never," Jennifer added.The escapeJordan said she placed pillows under a blanket to make it look like she was asleep, in case anyone looked into her room. She said she put on some clean clothes, gathered her pre-packed bag and slipped out of the window. Then she ran.Once outside, Jordan didn't know where to turn. She was standing in the road, she said, because "I didn't even know about the sidewalks.""I had no idea what direction to go. I was so scared," Jordan continued. "I was trying to dial 911, but I couldn't even get my thumb to press the buttons because I was shaking so bad."Jordan reached a dispatcher who kept her talking as she wandered the neighborhood. Eventually, the dispatcher helped guide the shaky and confused girl to a stop sign where she could wait for a deputy to arrive."I was telling them everything: We don't go to school, we live in filth, how we starve and all this stuff," Jordan said. "Because I had to make sure that if I left, we wouldn't go back.""[Talking to the dispatcher], I was like, 'I'm scared [my parents] are going to come,'" she continued. "They would just kill me right there, especially if they knew I was on the phone with the police."Jordan said she was petrified that law enforcement wouldn't believe her."I was freaking out because I was, like, 'Wait, are they gonna take me back there?' I was so scared," she said. "I was so nervous because it was -- I've never had a conversation with a stranger before.Deputy Anthony Colace was coming to the end of a long and busy graveyard shift when he took the dispatcher's call to assist on a runaway call. Colace said the majority of runaway calls only require taking the child home to their family.When he arrived, Jordan quickly tried to tell him her life story and then he asked her a critical question: "Do you have pictures of that?"She showed him the photos of her dirty, shackled sisters, explaining that the chains were punishment for taking food."They looked very sad, malnourished, they were very pale. They had bags underneath their eyes," Colace told ABC News. "Once I saw that photo, it really sealed the deal for me."Colace asked if Jordan was injured, and she asked what "injured" meant. He further explained to ask if she was hurt. She said no. He also asked her if she was on medication and she explained she didn't know what "medication" meant.On Colace's body cam, Jordan is heard telling him that if her parents found her outside they would kill her. As he's listening to Jordan describe the horrors inside the home, Colace was impressed by her courage. Through his questioning, he could tell she'd had little education."I was just thinking how smart and how brave she was," he said. "I asked her what her middle name was and she said 'Elizabeth.' I asked her to spell it. She couldn't spell it."True Crime Police Interrogations, 911 Calls, Police Stories, Unsolved Mysteries Reddit PodcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

ANNOYING 20-Year-Old Girl Becomes Uncooperative After DWI Arrest a MUST listen!Around 1:42 AM on November 5, 2021, officers from the Vernon Township Police Department were dispatched to the site of a possible disturbance on Steamboat Drive. When Police arrived, they noticed 20-year-old Gabriella Colon sitting in a locked 2011 BMW. Her boyfriend informed Patrolman Adam Kraus that Gabriella had been drinking, while she defied the officers’ instructions and threatened to drive away. Patrolman Mangano and Patrolman Rembish also arrived on scene. As a result of her behavior, officers had to threaten to break the window of her vehicle before she finally exited the BMW. While they suspected that Gabriella was intoxicated, they declined to perform field sobriety test because of possible safety concerns. Based on her uncooperative behavior and standard indicators of impairment, Gabriella was arrested for driving under the influence. She was transported to Vernon Township Police HQ, where she continued to act belligerent and uncooperative. She had to be physically restrained and she even attempted to game the breathalyzer test repeatedly. After Gabriella was processed and fingerprinted at police HQ, she was released to her boyfriend after he signed the Potential Liability Warning form on her behalf. She was issued the following summonses: Operating under the influence, reckless driving, refusal to submit to chemical test, and obstructing the administration of law.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

Stephen McDaniel Full Length Collection of Press Interviews - Lauren Giddings DisappearanceStephen Mark McDaniel Full Length Collection of Press Interviews - Lauren Giddings DisappearanceMcDaniel stalked and murdered Lauren Giddings; severing her body, leaving the torso in a garbage can outside his apartment. They were neighbors and classmates. McDaniel gives interviews to the press while police search for Lauren's body. The last interview in the collection features McDaniel recieving news from the reporter they found Lauren Giddings' body. It was a case that shocked the community: ]Stephen McDaniel admitted to murdering and dismembering Lauren Giddings, his Mercer Law classmate. The grisly case returned to the spotlight Friday night as "Dateline NBC" re-aired "The Watcher". The hour-long show originally aired last June. In June 2011, the dismembered torso of Giddings, an Agnes Scott graduate and Mercer law student, was discovered in a trash cart outside her Macon, Georgia apartment. She was just 27. n 2014, McDaniel pleaded guilty to the murder. Macon-Bibb District Attorney David Cooke said McDaniel admitted choking Giddings in her sleep and dumping parts of her body in a dumpster at the Mercer Law School. Evidence against McDaniel included a hacksaw found in the apartment complex with his DNA on it. Packaging for the hacksaw was found in McDaniel's apartment, according to prosecutors. Cooke said interviews with classmates showed that McDaniel had a fantasy of committing a perfect murder. Before sentencing, Giddings' parents read a statement describing the impact of the killing; "He tried to extinguish Lauren's light with his darkness. He did not come close." A friend of Giddings read her own statement, telling McDaniel, "You are the devil." Describing the crime as "truly evil", Judge Howard Simms sentenced McDaniel to life in prison.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

Stephen McDaniel's FULL Police Interrogation with Macon police after Lauren Giddings' MurderStephen McDaniel's first interview with the Macon Police Department. McDaniel later pleaded guilty in the killing of Lauren Giddings, a Mercer University law student. As part of the plea deal, McDaniel was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole in 2041.Macon police interview Stephen McDaniel after Lauren Giddings' disappearanceThis is a video of Macon police interviewing Stephen McDaniel for the first time following the disappearance of his fellow Mercer University law student, Lauren Giddings.True Crime Podcast 2025 Full Police Interrogations and Police Bodycam Audio Crime InvestigationsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

Real and Disturbing 911 Calls #1 Killing Of Pregnant WomanCall #1 Solicitor's Office releases 911 call from castle shootingAllen Stephenson, the founder of Southern Tide, shot and killed Matthew Whitman, 32, last month on the grounds of Stephenson’s estate, which was built to look like a German castle. Stephenson said Whitman was hostile and armed with a knife.Stephenson said Whitman took a knife out of his pants and thrust it at him, at which point Stephenson shot Whitman five times, the solicitor's office said. According to the solicitor's office, Stephenson fired seven shots: two warning shots from his porch, and five shots at Whitman from outside the home, three that struck him.Stephenson's girlfriend was on a call with 911 when the shots were fired. The shots can be heard in the call, according to officials. The solicitor's office said the two men did not know each other. The Solicitor's Office announced Tuesday that they wont prosecute Stephenson in connection with the shooting. The statement by Whitman's family said; "The Whitman family is disappointed by the decision not to prosecute Allen Stephenson for the homicide death of our son, Matthew. We have waited patiently while this investigation has proceeded and have been provided small pieces of information along the way.""We look forward to seeing the entire investigation file now that the Solicitor’s Office claims the investigation is 'over' and the Solicitor’s and Sheriff’s Offices have promised to now release it."Whitman lived on Nature Trail Drive, about a mile and a half from the estate.Call #2 Man, 43, 'who didn't want a baby' killed his heavily pregnant girlfriend, 36, and then himself - and one of her young sons was there when her body was discoveredJulia Young, 36, was shot dead by Cedric Jones, 43, in her Ohio home MondayShe was found by her mom and one of her sons; Jones also killed himself thereJulia's dad said Jones was upset because he didn't want her to have his childThe pair had an on-and-off relationship before her death, police saidShe was due to have a cesarean section on May 17, also her father's birthdayBoth of Julia's sons - ten and 13 - were from a previous relationship Julia was a volunteer with local domestic violence organizationsA six-months-pregnant Ohio mother of two was shot to death in her family's home after her boyfriend decided he didn't want to father a child, the victim's dad said.Julia Young, 36, was found dead in her family's Medina home Monday by her mom and one of her sons. She had been killed by on-and-off boyfriend Cedric Jones, 43, who also killed himself.'He didn't want the baby,' her father, Philip Duke, told Cleveland.com. 'I don't know if this is his way of dealing with it. We'll never know.' Call #3 Gwinnett teen suing CSX after train accident severed his legsJacob Ohl lost both his legs below the knee when he was run over by a train in Lilburn in March. Four months after he was released from the intensive care unit, Ohl is suing CSX and the operators that were allegedly running the train that hit him.Ohl, 17, filed suit in DeKalb County last week. The lawsuit claims CSX and operators Derrick Tyrone Marshall, of Stone Mountain, and Clifton Edward Martin, of Greenwood, South Carolina, were negligent and that CSX was liable for his injuries, which have already racked up more than $200,000 in medical bills.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

FULL Police Interrogation of Former Police Chief For MurderOn October 2017, Hardin, then 50 years old, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, admitting that he had killed James Appleton. Appleton pulled into a parking lot on Gann Ridge Road in Gateway, Arkansas on February 23, 2017, to talk with his coworker and brother-in-law on his cell phone. A passerby saw the pickup and a blue Chevrolet Malibu parked behind it.The driver of the Malibu waved him around, the passerby told police, and when he was a few hundred yards away, he heard a bang and saw the Malibu speed toward him, before turning onto the dirt road where Hardin lived. With his family. And his blue Malibu. His wife Linda thought he had been outside spreading grass seed, but the passerby knew Hardin all his life. He was sure it was him.Hardin was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was required to provide a DNA sample to the state. It was a match. Hardin had never even been a suspect, but on February 7, 2019 Hardin pleaded guilty to two counts of rape, finally closing the 1997 case. Hardin received 25 years on each of the two counts, which are running concurrently with his murder sentence. All in all, Hardin will serve at least 21 years of the 30-year murder sentence, and then another 14, before he is first eligible for parole at age 84.Hardin had worked for four police agencies. He was fired from one, allowed to resign from one rather than be fired and resigned from two, always claiming his separation was on higher ground. For example, he claimed to have left Fayetteville Police Department because other officers were stealing and his work environment became intolerably hostile after he reported their theft. He resigned after seven months from Huntsville, stating that he refused to treat people unfairly, as was expected of him. A couple of departments later, and he found himself filing for unemployment. And being denied.Hardin returned to the private sector, but kept his toe in law enforcement, serving two one-year terms as volunteer constable in Benton County. In 2016 Hardin became chief of police in Gateway, resigning after four months to earn an associate's degree in criminal justice at Northwest Arkansas Community College.Hardin was working in corrections when he was arrested for Appleton's murder.Hardin is now #168541 at Arkansas DOC's North Central Unit, where — apart from the whole murder and rape thing — he has no major disciplinary violations, has completed an anger management course, and in October 2017 was determined to be minimum risk classification.To this day no one knows why he killed Appleton.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

The Case Of The Cannibal Cop - True Crime Documentary Filmcrime documentary #truecrimeGilberto Valle, a former NYPD officer accused of planning to abduct and eat women, is the subject of the movie. With a life sentence on the line, Valle claimed that it was a fantasy and that he had no genuine ambitions, which resulted in an astonishing turn of events.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

Michael Mitchell Interrogation Room Confession | Louisiana State Trooper finds BODY in trunk during traffic stopLouisiana state trooper finds body in trunk and this is the interrogation room video & audio of the driver Michael Mitchell.Louisiana State Trooper finds BODY in trunk during traffic stopOn Wednesday, July 29, 2020, shortly before 5:00 p.m., a Louisiana State Trooper conducted a traffic stop involving a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro on Louisiana Highway 17, near Winnsboro, for a traffic violation. During the traffic stop, the Trooper noticed bullet holes in the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver gave verbal consent for the Trooper to search the vehicle. During the search, the Trooper discovered the deceased body of 23–year-old Michael Robinson of Monroe, in the trunkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

Louisiana State Trooper finds BODY in trunk during traffic stopOn Wednesday, July 29, 2020, shortly before 5:00 p.m., a Louisiana State Trooper conducted a traffic stop involving a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro on Louisiana Highway 17, near Winnsboro, for a traffic violation. During the traffic stop, the Trooper noticed bullet holes in the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver gave verbal consent for the Trooper to search the vehicle. During the search, the Trooper discovered the deceased body of 23–year-old Michael Robinson of Monroe, in the trunkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/best-true-crime-documentaries--6015157/support.

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