you're watching footage from a body
camera a deputy walking up to an anxious
girl with a disjointed story what's
going on
i just ran away from home okay
and
i live in a family of 15. okay my two
little sisters right now are chained up
they're chained up yes were they chained
up at
on their bed now mother didn't change
them up
just to
be mean
okay
they're chained up because they stole
mother's food
but i'm sorry if i talk too much okay
i've never talked to anybody out there
so i don't i i've never been alone with
the person so this is very hard for me
to talk
okay how did you do your parents know
you left your house no
do you take any medication
what's medication medication yeah what's
medication do you take pills
do you take pills oh
my favorite too before okay
right i have it um
that the girl with the strange
vocabulary nervously puts on a little
hat a reminder of one of her sisters
who's depending on her
our parents are abusive they beat us but
the reason i called and when i managed
to get out here this is one of the most
scariest things i've ever done uh-huh
i'm terrified
but
i called because my two little sisters
they chained up right now
the deputy a nine-year veteran of the
force is not sure what to make of this
17 year old girl who looks so much
younger he is ending a graveyard shift
and it's been a hard night
robbery calls assault calls deputies
were shot at he responded to the runaway
call because he knows how they usually
end you take the kids back home to
reconcile with their parents i decided
to take it
thinking hey this this might be a good
way just to end my shift
and then on instinct he asks a question
do you have pictures of that yes i can
shoot
i actually didn't have it and then one
of my sisters told me i need to get
pictures
you have pictures of your sisters
chained up yes but uh they're yeah
they're in here
okay
i i don't have proof of everything but i
have proof that my scissors are chained
up
so see she doesn't seem to know the word
bruise
see those are the places that make it
known
and see how dirty she is we're so filthy
we
we we don't take baths
how did your sisters get like this
your parents trained them up yes because
they stole food
who took this picture i did i took those
pictures okay
you make sure to save these okay okay
don't get rid of those i will
i won't
they look very very sad and malnourished
they were very pale this is that deputy
anthony kalachi
once i saw that photo it really sealed
the deal for me kalachi knows this girl
is not your usual runaway she has
identified a possible crime in progress
and her parents could be trying to find
her
can you give me a favor take a seat in
the back of my car
do you have any injuries
are you hurt oh
no not right now
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kalachi radios in for backup
one pair is 32. can i have 110
with his body cam running he gathers
more facts trying to piece this story
together what are your parents gonna do
when they find out you left
uh they're gonna want to literally kill
me
what's the worst thing they've done to
you
uh
they have choked me
against the bed and did you call the
police
i don't i didn't have a way to get a
phone
this is the first chance
suddenly she remembers another detail a
horror recounted as part of her everyday
life
oh my brother shouldn't help you
they're chained up
one of my brothers is
chained up
so three people are changed up right now
what does your mom do
nothing she just stays at home
but she's always gone well why don't you
guys just leave the house
because we're terrified we don't really
have a way everyone's always looking
there's always something
deputy kalachi is stunned by the girl in
the back seat with limited words and so
much courage i asked her what her middle
name was she said it was elizabeth i
asked her to spell it she she couldn't
spell it i wanted her to know people on
the outside are loving and caring he
notices a video on her cell phone she's
singing he asks to watch it
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this is a great video and you're a
beautiful singer
daylight arches over a pleasant suburban
neighborhood it's sunday most residents
are still asleep
quietly riverside county sheriff's
deputies pull up to a house
on the outside a house just like the
others
it has been an hour and a half since
jordan turpin climbed out the window
so they was like if we walk in
will
they still be
chained and i was like if they didn't
notice me missing yet yes
but if they notice me missing they're
gonna try to cover that all up
and they asked me if i wanted to come up
and i was freaking out i was like no
like honestly i thought like knowing
them what if they killed me right there
and there even if the police were there
just saying doing a welfare check
since a child may be in danger the
deputies do not need a warrant to enter
the house
knock for two minutes and 10 seconds
you're obviously not okay
then suddenly the door cracks open
a mother and father appeared
they are breathing heavily
you guys have kids in the house yes okay
what kind of club did you get how you
doing sir
okay we were just in bed i mean like
david and louise turpin who have
concealed a chamber of horrors for
almost 30 years now watch as deputies
start to make their way through the door
we're gonna come in and check okay
and in one of the rooms inside the house
someone is waiting in her bed eyes wide
open
praying that the knock on the door means
her sister made it to freedom knock
knock done
and then they said it's the police i'm
like this is it
in the next hour we will show you the
video as it happens what law enforcement
sees when they walk into the house their
first encounter with emaciated children
some of them chained to their beds
hi everyone george stephanopoulos here
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