All of this haunts me.
Two things from this article
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-na-perris-texas-20180120-story.html
1. Sometimes in the evenings she would hear the Turpin children playing in their yard, so one day she grabbed a jump rope and knocked on the door of the trailer. . . . A skinny, pale girl with long brown hair opened the door and just stared, she said. Her eyes just got real wide. She closed the door back in my face, Vinyard recalled.
If the children were being restrained while living in Texas, which it seems they were (see the next quote), can you imagine opening the door to a playmate and seeing her holding a jump rope, which, if youve possibly never jumped rope before, would look very much like a restraint. [emoji174]
At that moment at the door, the child could have thought, Parents restrain and torture usand people outside this house want to, too? Horrifying.
2. After the family left, repo men showed up for their two cars, and their house was foreclosed. Billy Baldwin and his mother bought the house a year later, the interior trashed, the bathroom floor rotted through, he said. Inside, Baldwin found a handful of Polaroids taken when the Turpins left. One shows a bed with a metal rail that has a rope tied to it, he said.
I keep wondering why DT and LT would photograph the bed with restraints on it and who knows what elseand why they would leave such incriminating photos behind.
Then, it occurred to me that perhaps, even then, one of the children had the wherewithal to take photos as evidence of the torture, neglect, and abuse and left it behind, in the hope that whoever lived in the home next would put two and two together and alert authorities.
Remembering that attempt at sending up a flare to signal distress did not work, this time child #8 took the evidence with her when she made her dash for life.
Maybe. Maybe not. JMO.
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