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Apr 9, 2020 · In the early morning hours of Jan. 14, 2018, two Turpin siblings decided to flee their suburban house in Perris, Calif. One went first, out a bedroom window. Before she left, she faked a lump in...
- Christine Pelisek
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U.S. news. Turpin sisters who escaped California house of horrors speak out about abuse. The parents, David and Louise Turpin, pleaded guilty to multiple charges including torture and false...
- Senior Breaking News Reporter
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- Their First Glimpses of Freedom
- “If Something Happened to Me, at Least I Died Trying”
- Free, But Still Neglected
When police arrived at the Turpin home and declared they were conducting a welfare check, it didn’t take long for them to recognize the magnitude of the children’s horrifying reality. They discovered a home reeking of human excrement, decaying garbage, and molding food, with every surface covered in trash, ABC News reported in the 20/20 program tit...
The parents had starved their 13 children, shackling them with padlocks and taunting them with pies left on the counter of their home, authorities said. None of them had seen a doctor in more than four years, and none of them had ever visited a dentist. Usually, their only diet consisted of just peanut butter sandwiches, the sisters told Sawyer. On...
Despite overcoming a life many could not even begin to imagine, the Turpin children aren’t completely safe yet. ABC reported that a few of the Turpin children were placed with a foster family that was arrested and charged with abusing multiple children in their care, including at least one Turpin child. Another Turpin child who is now an adult was ...
1 day ago · The 2015 escape wasn’t the first time Matt broke out of a prison. In 1986, he scaled the fence surrounding the Erie County Jail in Alden, N.Y. and was on the lam for four days before being ...
- Inmate flees on tractor. Alright, so the inmate in this story did evade being recaptured, but only for a short time. On the morning of August 7, 2019, Curtis Ray Watson, an inmate at West Tennessee State Penitentiary, was spotted on work detail outside the residence of Debra Johnson, a longtime prison official.
- Three escape from Alcatraz. On June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and the brothers John and Clarence Anglin, three inmates of the Alcatraz maximum-security federal prison located on an island in San Francisco Bay, pulled off one of the “greatest” prison escapes in American history.
- The only New York State prison escapee who’s never been found. On February 6, 1997, Victor Figueroa, a convict serving one to four years for drug possession, was supposed to be on the way to the mess hall when he wandered off from the Moria Shock Incarceration Facility, a minimum-security prison in Mineville, New York.
- Boxed up. Glen Stark Chambers, a convicted murderer originally on death row, was lucky enough to have his sentence commuted to life. But he wasn’t sticking around.
Orange County Men's Central Jail escape. On January 22, 2016, three inmates of the Orange County Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana, California, escaped from the jail's maximum-security unit by climbing through the plumbing pipes and ascending to the roof. They stole a utility van and a taxi in Los Angeles, taking the taxi driver hostage, and ...
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The following is a list of historically infamous prison escapes, and of people who escaped multiple times:
