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

On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old lady climbed out of the windowpane of her Perris, California house and dialed 911 with shaking fingers. Struggling to remain calm, she informed the operator that she and her twelve siblings-ranging in age group from two to twenty-nine-were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. ‘I’ve hardly ever been out,’ she stammered.

To their family, neighbors, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin presented an image of domestic bliss: dressing their thirteen children in coordinating outfits and buying them expensive gifts. But what police discovered when they got into the Turpin house would eclipse the most surprising child abuse situations in history.

In the initial major account from the case, investigative journalist and author John Glatt delves into the disturbing details and recounts the bravery from the thirteen siblings when confronted with unimaginable horror.