‘House of Horrors’ parents David and Louise Turpin once came to Alabama for affair, relative says

David and Louise Turpin, a California couple accused of abusing their children in horrid conditions, once came to Alabama for the wife to have sex with another man, a relative said Monday.

Teresa Robinette, the sister of Louise Turpin, spoke with NBC’s Megyn Kelly, about the abuse her 13 nieces and nephews have suffered. Their parents are accused of chaining the children to their beds, as well as starving and beating them, according to authorities. The children’s ages range from 2 to 29. They lived with their parents in Perris, a city in Riverside County, California.

Robinette told Kelly about abuse she and her sister suffered as children. She said their mother and some of their cousins were sexually abused by another relative.

Robinette said she’s had little communication during the past several years with her nieces and nephews. She described a change in her sister’s behavior, saying the woman and her husband never drank alcohol but suddenly quit attending their church and started going to bars.

Robinette recalled getting a strange call from her sister in 2009 or 2010.

“…She told me that her and David had met a man online from Huntsville, Alabama, and that they were on their way there to meet him and that she was going to sleep with him and that David was OK with that,” Robinette said.

Robinette told Kelly her brother-in-law dropped her sister off at the motel. She said she told her sister sleeping with the other man was a mistake, but she did it anyway.

“What makes it even worse and even weirder, is that exactly one year to the date of the anniversary that she did that, she called me and thought it was funny that David was taking her back to the exact same hotel room, the exact same hotel, everything, the exact same bed she slept with this man in, so that David could sleep with her in the same bed,” Robinette continued. 

The Turpins previously lived in Forth Worth, Texas, then moved to California. Both are charged with 12 counts of torture, seven counts of abuse of a dependent adult, six counts of child abuse or neglect and 12 counts of false imprisonment for crimes dating back to 2010. They were arrested a week ago after their 17-year-old daughter escaped through a window and called 911 with a cellphone she found, according to authorities.

“David and Louise are dead to me now,” Robinette said to Kelly.

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Neil Diamond Retires From Touring After Parkinson’s Diagnosis

Here are some highlights from his live performances over the years.

‘Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon’ — 1967

In 1967, Mr. Diamond appeared on daytime TV on the “The Mike Douglas Show.” Among the songs he performed was “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon,” his hit from the same year. The song enjoyed a second lease of life when it featured on the 1994 “Pulp Fiction” soundtrack, recorded by the alternative rock group Urge Overkill.

‘I Am … I Said’ – 1976

In 1976, Mr. Diamond went on tour after a four-year break from live performances. At the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, he performed “I Am … I Said” from the 1971 album “Stones.” John Rockwell, The New York Times’s pop music critic at the time, reviewed the Forest Hills Stadium show in Queens which was part of the same tour. “His musical virtues are considerable,” he wrote, “above all his rich, easily produced bass baritone, smooth enough for ballads yet rough enough to suggest a personable sexiness.”

‘Golden Slumbers,’ ‘Carry That Weight’ and ‘The End’ – 1988

During a concert at the Aquarius Theater in Los Angeles in 1988, Mr. Diamond performed three B-sides from the Beatles’ 1969 album “Abbey Road.” Mr. Diamond dedicated the performance to the memory of John Lennon, who had died eight years earlier.

‘Holly Holy’ – 2008

Mr. Diamond went on a world tour in 2008 that included a four-night run at Madison Square Garden in New York, during which he performed “Holly Holy.” The Times music reporter Ben Sisaro reviewed the gig at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., where “more than 12,000 fans rose to their feet and shouted when he began the opening number, ‘Holly Holy,’ though most had sat back down by the second verse — they’re getting older too.”

‘Sweet Caroline’ – 2017

Mr. Diamond was on his 50th anniversary tour when he announced his retirement from live performances. As part of that tour, he performed at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore in June 2017, where he sang probably his best-known and most-beloved hit, “Sweet Caroline.” In the statement announcing his retirement, he cited a line from the song: “This ride has been ‘so good, so good, so good’ thanks to you.”

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