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    The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the 13 Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
    The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the 13 Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
    The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the 13 Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the 13 Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

    Written by John Glatt

    Narrated by Shaun Grindell

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    About this audiobook

    From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Turpins: a seemingly normal family whose dark secrets would shock and captivate the world.

    On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 with shaking fingers. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her twelve siblings-ranging in age from two to twenty-nine-were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. "I've never been out," she stammered.

    To their family, neighbors, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin presented a picture of domestic bliss: dressing their thirteen children in matching outfits and buying them expensive gifts. But what police discovered when they entered the Turpin family home would eclipse the most shocking child abuse cases in history.

    In the first major account of the case, investigative journalist and author John Glatt delves into the disturbing details and recounts the bravery of the thirteen siblings in the face of unimaginable horror.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 6, 2019
    ISBN9781977346261
    The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the 13 Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
    Author

    John Glatt

    English-born JOHN GLATT is the author of more than thirty books including The Lost Girls and My Sweet Angel, and has over thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He has appeared on television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, ABC’s 20/20, BBC World News, and A&E Biography.

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    • 2/5
      This audiobook seems to have a few chapters that are cut off or glitched in some way

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      It's a very interesting case, of which I had no knowledge. However, the narrator has a very specific style of narrating which does not suit me. Some chapters end mid sentence so I'm hoping the recording did get to the end. Kudoz o quality control I gres. As for the content, the last chapters are extremely verbatim and repeat what was said in previous chapters, so it felt like padding more than a conclusion.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I love true crime and this is a case I've always been interested in revisiting. I can genuinely say I did learn a bit about this family, but more about the parents than anything else. Also the same bits of information were repeated chapter after chapter. The first repetition or two of the same information, it was okay, but it eventually became redundant. Felt like filler for a case that has a lot of limited public information. I wish the best for these poor children though. I cannot imagine being raised in that sort of environment.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I was very curious about this case but since I’m not a TV watcher I didn’t know much beyond the initial disclosure. This book is a very straightforward telling of the lives of the Turpins. Unfortunately, I think the reader was a poor choice for this subject matter; he has certain quirks of inflection that became annoying to me and in some ways seemed to indicate he didn’t believe what he was narrating. I think a female voice artist would have been a better choice.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Really good book but to listen to what those poor children went through is heartbreaking especially when it was the parents doing the abuse.
    • 4/5
      The book was okay, meaning there wasn’t anything insightful that you couldn’t find doing your own research, from reading the headlines or watching some of the TV interviews. So no new information. At times the book didn’t flow, as if author was randomly jumping around to different facts. I give it 4 stars because the author did include a lot of background information and most of all the details of the court hearings.
    • 3/5
      An interesting story but was disappointed not to hear more of the parents' POV as to their motives etc. Also found this book to repeat itself a LOT. As the court appearance mostly went over what the book had already covered, it felt redundant to go through it step by step as it did.
    • 5/5
      A really good account of these two evil parents . May God bless those children .
    • 2/5
      This book is mainly repeating what was already said by all news outlets that have been made
    • 4/5
      (SPOILERS)

      This is one of those books that you can't put down until the end. These 13 siblings are the strongest, bravest, and compassionate people and their story is absolutely horrific. I'm glad the parents had the maximum sentence; may they never find happiness or freedom for as long as they live!

      The only criticism I had was the repetitiveness. Many parts of the story are retold over and so much so that I thought my bookmark wasn't saved and I was rereading what I just read over again, but nope- that's just how it's written because the court hearing at the end goes through the whole story that was just told.

      Other than that, this is worth the read, I'd absolutely recommend checking this out, and I'll definitely be putting this in my "Read Again" list ?
    • 3/5
      Interesting story, but the second half of the book is ridiculously repetitive. You hear the same words maaaany times again and again in the same ways. Very repetitive.
    • 5/5
      What a truly shocking story, those poor young children no one should ever have to go through what they went through.
    • 3/5
      Interesting story. It gets a bit repetitive when it comes to the end of the book when the author is quoting the court case and he used the same information in the book word for word. It's tiresome and needed some editing to fix it. Otherwise it's a good book to get all the info of the heartbreaking case
    • 5/5
      It’s incredible how all those kids even though they were abused mentally and physically. They still have love in their hearts and I wish him all the best.
    • 3/5
      I've followed the Turpin children's horrific story since it broke. I did learn some new details from this book that can't be found on online news sites, but not much -- not enough for an entire book. The chapters are filled with the same, repetitive information , over and over again. The narration of the audiobook becomes very formulaic and annoying, the same voice pattern over and over. I wanted to finish and was desperately glad when it was over. I don't recommend listening. And don't expect to learn much about how the children are doing since early 2019; it's not there.

      6 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This book was not recorded correctly it skipped a lot towards the end of some chapters. Otherwise good book to listen to.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      A shocking and horrifying story. "Heartbreaking" is right. The writing is just okay, though. It lacks clarity at times and is extremely redundant. Events are recounted in narrative format and then, later, multiple chapters are devoted to what is basically just transcripts of witnesses recounting those events in court. They didn't add anything and just made it obvious how the writer had taken things word-for-word from witness testimony.
    • 3/5
      This book about the abuse that the thirteen children of the Turpin family suffered at the hands of their parents is a ripped from the headlines story. It's unbelievable that anyone could treat their children like this but it happens again and again all over the world.This was an interesting compilation of the news reports about the Turpin family. There isn't much here that couldn't be found elsewhere but it is all well put together and an interesting book to read. It reports what happened but there are no answers to WHY it all happened. I also thought that there were too many quotes from psychiatrists who never met the family- how can a person be an expert on a family that they've never met. It is sad to think that no one called Child Protection about these children - not the school when the oldest daughter was going to school, not the neighbors and not the other family members. When it finally went to trial, David and Louise were given life sentences with a chance of parole in 25 years - so they are finally being punished for their sins.