House of Horrors parents wanted MORE children and TV show

House of Horrors parents wanted MORE children and TV show

House of Horrors couple David and Louise Turpin wanted a 14th child so that they could land their own reality television show, it has been revealed.

'She used to say how they would be perfect for TV and would often ­mention they would be bigger than the reality show Kate Plus 8,' Billy Lambert, Louise Turpin's half brother, told the Sunday People.

'It is the reason they moved to California to be nearer to Hollywood,' Lambert said of Louise's desire to become a star, like Kate Gosselin and her children.

The west coast couple have achieved fame, but not the good kind, for allegedly shackling, starving and torturing their 13 adult and minor children, who range in age from two to 29, while holding them captive in their Riverside County home.

Lambert and Louise's younger sister, Teresa Robinette, shared more details of the life of their sister and her husband in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com. 

'Only last month Louise told me her and David were planning to have another child,' Lambert said.

'I asked her why on earth they wanted more children and she said about wanting a reality TV show.'

Lambert said that Louise 'thought the world would be fascinated by their lives.'

He added: 'They thought it would make them millions and household names. They didn’t care about the kids – it was all about them.'  

Lambert was the last person to speak with Louise before her arrest.

Authorities have charged the Turpins with 75 counts including torture, false imprisonment, child abuse and abuse of dependent adults.

David, 57, also faces a charge of lewd acts with a minor. They are each being held on $13 million bail and deny all charges.

But both Billy and Teresa are adamant neither their sister nor her husband should ever see life outside prison walls again.

'I hope they suffer as much, if not more, than those kids suffered,' Teresa said in their extensive, exclusive joint interview.

Independent of the couple's desire to land their own television show, the story of the start of their life together is the stuff of a made-for-tv movie. 

Turpin kidnapped his tenth-grade sweetheart from her high school and took her on a wild 1,000-mile cross-country trip in a vain bid to elope.

He persuaded school employees in Princeton, West Virginia, to release then-16-year-old Louise Robinette to him without her parents' knowledge more than 30 years ago, two of Louise's siblings have revealed exclusively to DailyMailTV.

And they got all the way to Texas before they were finally caught and returned home.  

'I hope they torture my sister for the rest of her life,' Teresa said.

'I have four siblings now instead of five,' she added. 'She is off my family tree, she is dead to me. I couldn't care less about speaking to Louise ever again.'

And Lambert added: 'I think they should get life. That's not just spur-of-the-moment anger, I'm not changing that view.'

Teresa, 36, revealed how the marriage that for decades seemed so perfect, began in 1984. Her mother Phyllis had allowed 16-year-old Louise to date David even though he was eight years her senior.

But Phyllis Robinette was too scared to tell her preacher husband Wayne what was going on.

He only found out when David and Louise went missing and authorities at Princeton Senior High School were forced to admit that they had let David sign her out of school.

'My mom allowed Louise to date David secretly because she loved him and he was from a Christian family and she trusted Louise,' Teresa said.

'But she was doing it behind my dad's back — he wasn't aware that they were dating — and then one day, David went into the high school and they let him sign Louise out of school and they ran away. He had his car and they drove.

'They made it all the way to Texas before the police stopped them.'

Cops made 16-year-old Louise call home, Teresa recalled. 

'What was crazy was that after that my mom and dad sort of switched roles,' she said.

'My mom, who had let them date, ended up being the one telling the police they had to send her home. She wanted her home right now, but my dad said, "No, she has made her choice, she should go off and live her life."

'He was angry at my mom for letting them date. He was so upset. He told her it was all her fault. He got on the phone and told Louise, "This is the life you want, you're now an adult, I love you and I'll always be your daddy, but now you can take care of yourself. If this is what you want, you go for it."

'So he let her marry him. They came back to Princeton and had a small intimate church wedding, just the two families. Then they went back to Texas to start their lives together.'

 said.