Escape from a House of Horror l 20/20 l PART 1

a security camera is recording in a quiet suburban California neighborhood in the

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across the street in the shadows someone quietly opens a window and runs away look there a blurry figure stepping forward a small unsure girl heads in one direction, then turns around, hesitates and starts running Grabbing an old cell phone that was my only chance at least if something happened to me at least I died trying now an emergency what are you reporting? Well, this is 911. I just ran from the hallways. Do you know what street you are on? um no uh, I just ran away from home because I was in a family of 15.

Okay, can you hear me? We have abusive parents, you hear? Okay, how did they abuse you? It's okay, girls cross paths, they like to throw us across the room. They pull our hair They pull our hair I have two, my two little sisters are chained right now okay, how old are you? I'm 17. What's your name? okay I'm going to connect you to the sheriff's de

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ment so they can help one second don't hang up a second dispatcher answer hello oh yeah I'm still here almost four years later this is jordan turpin remembering that night my whole body was shaking and when I held the phone I remember that the phone was like I really couldn't dial right now because I'm sorry, yeah, I'm shaking it, so I was trying to die on number one, but I couldn't even get my thumb to press the buttons because I was shaking so much, but um , I was trying to calm down, thank you very much, I was trying to calm myself down so I could do it and then I finally pressed it and then they answered, I literally never talked to anyone on the phone.

What is your address? Okay, you have to give me a minute. I'm going to take them off. I have never gone out. I don't go out much, so I don't know anything about the streets or anything. The dispatcher tracks his location from the gps on his cell phone and sends a request for a police officer, an officer on the other side of town volunteers, he's 14 minutes away and I was freaking out because I thought, wait, am I Are they going to take you back there like you were so scared at that moment? I was actually on the road because I didn't even know about sidewalks.

You're supposed to be on the sidewalk, but I've never been there. The caller tries to find his home address on an envelope he has stuffed in his backpack. My adress. It's nine two five seven zero five seven four Did you understand that right? Now you just gave me a bunch of numbers. You didn't give me any kind of street name. Oh, okay, sorry, thanks for the numbers on me.

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, that's your zip code, your house numbers should only be three digits, she finally reads the correct address, but panics not knowing if her parents can look out the window and see her, are you in a corner now same?

Could it be Are you in? Is there a sign on the street? Is there a pole with two names on top? I just need I just see a stop sign. Can you come up and stop right at that stop sign? Yes, and finally I saw a stop sign. and I stood by the stop sign and she told me to stay there and I was afraid that they would come, like I wanted to leave. I'm so terrified because I know how they were, they wouldn't care if they knew the police were coming, they would just kill me right there if they realized that, especially if they knew I was on the phone with the police, but she tries to stay brave thanks to her brothers, she is their hope, the reason I ran away. house was because the chains were making places and they would wake up at night and start crying and they wanted me to call someone and tell them and then I wanted to call them I wanted to call them all so they can help me sister do you think anyone in the house will need to go to hospital? uh I'm not sure, sometimes we live in dirt and sometimes I wake up and I can't breathe because no matter how dirty the house is, we never take that, when was the last time you took a bath, when was the last time you took a bath?

Almost a year ago. I had to make sure that if I left we wouldn't come back because we would get the help we needed. Because if we come back, there will be no way I would be sitting here right now. I don't know how you had the courage not to have spoken to anyone like that. I think it was like we were so close to death so many times and like I was worried about my brothers and when I saw them crying and worried, I felt like I had to do it like I just wanted to do it.

I wanted to help everyone. Do you know if your parents keep any type of weapons in the house? I think my father has a gun, have you seen the guns? No, but we have talked about it. The dispatcher knows that if this girl with strange cadences and vocabulary hangs up or hangs up on the call, there is no way to get her back. Her old phone has been deactivated. She can only scream. to 9-1-1 so the dispatcher can try to keep her talking. Do you know your father's name? I don't know much about my name.

Does anyone in the house take any type of medication? Oh, I don't know what medicine. medicine when we have a cold sometimes we take gravitation at an incredible speed the girl recites the names and ages of each brother their names have been written here it is 11 12 14 16 I have 17 18 19 20 22 23 20 I think 5 29. The deputy is now just seven minutes away. I just want to keep talking on the phone with you. How did you get this phone of yours? It was a phone that my brother had and that I was going to throw away and I had to find a way to contact someone like you, so I have it so I can call number one and you don't have friends or anyone to come to the house hello, it's okay, okay, it's the officer here um, yeah, go talk to him, okay, yeah, bye, hello. jordan, you're looking at the officer's body camera footage when hello, what's going on, in comes the scary girl who has to convince this stranger that his story is real.

He was very nervous because he had never had a conversation like this. with a stranger before and then I saw him, he was so serious, he was tall and he had never talked to a stranger, I was so scared that I didn't know what he was thinking because he just had a serious face, you I don't know if he believed you or not, He said: Do you have any proof of any of this? and I was like, yeah, he knew they were real, yeah, they were all avenues, they were real when we got those photos back, the body camera footage and what. the MP saw that changed everything hello everyone, george stephanopoulos, thank you for visiting the abc news youtube channel.

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