New mugshot of horror house father David Turpin emerges after he’s moved from prison ‘for safety reasons’
The infamous California dad who tortured his 13 children by shackling, starving them and confining to the family home has been moved to a new prison over security concerns.
David Turpin, 62, appeared haggard with deepening bags under his eyes, but still sported a piercing stare, grimace and his signature gray mop-like haircut in a new mugshot taken Feb. 3 and obtained by The Post.
Turpin had housed at the California State Prison in Corcoran — once home to cult leader Charles Manson — before he was moved “due to safety and security concerns,” prison officials told The Post.
Prisoners may be transferred for various reasons, including if their security category has been changed, if the inmate is behaving in a disruptive way or for their own safety if there are threats of violence toward them.
While Turpin’s new housing arrangements are being kept under wraps, his children can request regular notices when he is moved and when his next parole hearing will taken place, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Turpin’s wife, Louise Turpin, 55, remains at a women’s prison in Chowchilla, Calif. where she has been since the pair were sentenced in April 2019 to 25 years to life each for torturing their children.
In her most recent mugshot taken on June 5, 2023, Louise appears bright-eyed, cracked a smile and sported noticeable grays in her pulled back brunette hair.
The Turpins’ trial garnered national attention after the Perris, Calif. couple were arrested for a dozen counts each of torture and false imprisonment, all directed at their own 12 children.
They also were charged with seven counts of abuse of a dependent adult and six counts of child abuse.
David Turpin was also charged with one count of a lewd act on a child under the age of 14. They both pleaded guilty.
The children were rescued after one of the older kids, then 17-year old Jordan, bravely escaped from the house of horror, immediately called 911 and told authorities she and her siblings had been abused and living in squalor for years.
“It was literally now or never,” Jordan Turpin said in a 20/20 interview. “If something happened to me, at least I died trying.”
Jordan, now 22, has since become a bona fide TikTok star, garnering hundreds of thousands of followers with her dance routines and life updates. She also has inked a modeling deal.
Years of physical and mental abuse, however, still plague the children. One of the Turpins’ sons, Joshua, who is now around 30, told a judge during the sentencing he still suffers nightmares of his siblings being chained up.
“I cannot describe in words what I went through growing up. Sometimes I still have nightmares about. Things like my siblings being chained up,” he said.
He added, “I love my parents and have forgiven them.”
The younger six Turpin children were placed in a foster home in Riverside, Calif. but were allegedly abused by the foster family, Riverside County DA authorities have said.
Marcelino Olguin, 64, his wife, Rosa, 59, and their daughter Lennys, 38, were released on bail after pleading not guilty to the charges in March 2022.
The six youngest Turpin children filed a lawsuit against Riverside County and private foster care agency, ChildNet Youth and Family Services, in July 2022, which has yet to be resolved.
