Sunday People

HOUSE OF HORRORS PARENTS’ WARPED My sister said a reality show would make them millions BROTHER TELLS OF HIS DISGUST

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is unforgivab­le. Seeing my sister laughing in court when they were charged made me ashamed to be her brother. “I’ll never speak to her again. She is dead to me.” Billy last spoke to his sister on January 10. Up until their arrest he, like the rest of his family, thought David and Louise lived the perfect life. Now Billy and his sisters Teresa Robinette and Elizabeth fear David, who faces a charge of lewd acts with a minor, may have more sinister secrets. He said: “They ran off together when Louise was 16 and David was 23. The police forced them to come back. But when y ou think about it, what kind of grown man runs off with a what has happened.” Billy recalled how 16-year-old girl? It makes you question his family were duped into believing his mind. the Turpins and their children lived

“It’s sick. Girls at that age have not the American dream. fully developed, they are still g girls, , so He said: “They didn’t want for it leaves you asking why? hy? nothing. D David had a good job

“He clearly lusted after fter in the aeroplane industry in schoolgirl­s. It may be that hat Texas and was well-paid. TexWt he still does. It’s just perrWhen I was a kid he used verse. He is perverse.” ” to take me to his plant

Billy, a mobile home i in the Fort Worth area r renovater, said his where they lived. b brother-in-law would “He worked on w watch his eldest sister A Air Force One when Elizabeth in the shower Bill Clinton was when she briefly lived p president.” with the couple in Texas. For 10 years as a

“Whenever Elizabeth got in youngster, Billy would visit his th the shower he would go in and watch nieces and nephews in Texas. h her,” he explained. “When I look back their upbringing “She was only 18 or 19 at the time. was very odd, it was military-like,” he “Elizabeth was so scared she kept said. “At the time I thought nothing it to herself, but now we are piecing of it but knowing what I do now it th things together. It is wrong on every wasn’t right. le level. “Everything was so regimental. The

“David is clearly very sick. He children were not allowed to mix with c controlled everything and my sister others and everything they did had its Louise just sat back and went along own routine. with it. “Even getting back on in their

“They are equally to blame for minibus would see them all line up in single file and stand to attention ntion before they were allowed on. It appeared to be discipline but now we e know the children were scared stiff.

“Any sign of dissent and they would be punished.”

Billy said 2002 was the last time he was allowed to see the children. ldren.

“Every time I tried to visit them Louise had an excuse as to why I couldn’t,” he said.

“It is now clear why. When en you hear how they were forced to stay awake at night and sleep through h the day so as not to raise suspicion cion it makes you want to be sick. k.

Scarred

“What kind of life is that at for anyone? They will be scarred for life.

“I just thought it was because of logistics that they would never travel to see us in Tennessee.

“Louise used to say taking all the children on a plane was too expensive but the reality was they were being abused even back then. n. As

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