Lysandra Turpin Murder: Ernest Christie Leads Police to Where He & Dad Buried the Body

• sunshine some times u just dont known what to do .thinking if you say anything to him or anyone it could be you next. but i have a hard time thinking that at some point i time he didnt witness other horrorable things  now im going to try and tell my store about that thing that got away what what ever he whated to do here in are beautifuly co. called humbold. be hide the irion curtin.          Here goes nothing        It was back in fall of  1975,  i was 15 yr. old two male friends of mine was hich hicking in henderson center, on henderson  in front of truevalue hardware ,a pickup truck stopped so we told the three men in the cab where going. small town outside eureka city limits , told us jump in back ,  as the truck wascoming to are desination,the driver guned the gas  sofast past fields landing one of the guys started taping on the window ha ! ! stop this is where going  just agoind us driving faster  in cub the three where dring laughing just keep going no matter what we did it dind work got to jettie man on driverside juped out put a knife to my trout ,middle man had gun told two boys to start running ,so they died what they were told thing going get bullet at any moment.i was throw  into cab truck mad to suck there nasty dicks its myt ture the man by passager door kept saying shes acry baby let he go not wouth it meanwhill lick it suck it to this day i can still hear it just like when   it was happening .so this went on for what simed like fore ever ,meanwhill the guys made it to fields langing ,one of the guys dad worked for caltrans got hold dad he put out a all points bullent on me mouinted police started looking for me , took me down hyw.101 so. left on shivelly rd past the old okie bar that us to be there. im still crying sucking dick snite running out noise cruing gaging i knoun i    cwas going to die passage dued not wouth it again and again i known i was going to die then driver turn on a road i could see way down it in distants bing old scary looking house that was going to be the place were i was to the my last breath  fuck u she not worth it door open passager thow me out .going so fast mussed me up but i was ilive got up and just srarted runing it was geting was past dark by now every time see car light hide best i could boy waas i srcade still get t hat way to day findally made to the bar face bloodie choths rapped almost all the way off no shoes money scraded little girl went in to bar to get help no one wood even look at me ask to use phone bartender says no public phones im really crying b y now ask custamer if change phone every one i ask didnt have nune or didnt what to get invoild  what back out side trying not to be seen from up road just came down .findly a man came out bar phone was outside went to phone and put coin in just looked at me then jump in truck and left, good old boy the kind you can allway count on .  longstory short bolth the gfuys poss. id ernnnie from photho book  and that the last  any of us ever head about it id see him now and then turn head hide so he didnt see me . the christy family asre the good old boys so dont fool your sife to think other wise .1975 if justiest was served then just think how many life woulded have b een destoyed  thank god for the maqn by the passager door he saved my life thank you

• It seems kind of weird he waited 4 yrs to come forward after his dad died. Also how can ppl b so sure he did not play apart in the abuse his father passed out. Granted he was young at one time but stayed with this man for how long after everything. Just a lil funny for me to believe he did not develop some of the same foot steps. Have anybody notice how he smiled thru the whole interview besides when he explains how his dad beats him. Um just sayin. Good job for coming forward but when u got older did u still go visit ur day on holidays? Lysandra Turpin didnt get to visit hers.

• i dont care if thats your family or not it was wrong and sam let it go way to long , the son deserves to rot in hell in prison ,  so screw you  thinking its ok to kill and get away with  it , family or not   turn that shit in if you know something  how can you live with your self  saying fu  omg you must b e just as sick as the  father is

• fuck u thats my family

• I agree with the others wo stand behind Sam Christie. This young man has accomplished much through psycological damage abuse and wicked force. The abuse is unimaginable. I also grew up in an abusive house old. I was a very rare form at the over 35 years ago as I am not a child of divorce. My mother was married to this man for over 40 years. The fear which abusers deliver is far reaching and at least 1 of 4 or so, has been a victim at the hands of an abuser. This may (or should) explain why so many personal relationsips are hindered in our later adult years. We either end up meeting the same abuser in a different face. Many of us will need help for the rest of our lives. The abuse was devestating.I relate to Sam very much. This is PSTD. It is so easy to judge this young man. A home like that is a virtual prison. He did not have the EMOTIONAL choices at 16 years old. I was as physically abused as Sam. Sam bears no culpability in this unspeakable crime. He was a victim in the worse way; he was forced as a prisoner to watch horrific crimes. Do not take this lightly. Most crimes are committed by those who are abused in such ways that may make you decide not to have children to protect them. I am not able to have children. Such abuse reaches to outward social crimes. The few of us who did not end up in prison or dead have been blessed. Each of of can come close to some horrific flash back at any time and never know what we may do. We just seek help and stay hidden. SAM showed amazing courage(even in the face of self-accuasation and he is accurate that he has already suffered in ways that you will never know) and has demonstrated that he is a citizen of our society who far outweighs what his father was. Sam's story shows you that Christ exists to have saved his life and to have kept his mind. All other evil that we ave seen is NOT from Father God. It is purely from Satan and evil feeds on evil, but not forever. We must step in when or if we sense abuse from our friends or neighbors. Do not be fooled by the charm of an abuser. Whomever reads this and knows who I am. Here is a clue to identify me and verify that I am that person. The name of the elementary school has a brick stone and is engraved w/ President Obama name amongst the 1000s of bricks along a tree lined path way of other names who donate and given to this school. It is a new pathway over laying the former and a recent reunion was held in 2010. A 30 year reunion. I know that those who disagree will just never know what this is like. There were nights that I thought that he would murder my mother or all of us. I could still see him in my dreams just last week and I awakened screaming in night sweats. In my dream he was strangling my sister and lifting her off her feet in the bath room where we grew up. She was so little in the dream and she was lifted off her feet as he strangled her. I was young, but I tore the door down in the dream and rescued her and my mother was next but some how I spoke him out of it. One month prior, I ad another dream of my dad threatening to attck my mother, but again, I spoke him through it. It was strange to see that. I have dreams like this multiple times per year. I am in my very early 40s now. He did everything known to man and God to all of us from sexual molestation to criminal battery and attempted murder against my mom. I was very quiet for a long time as a 4'3 kid at the time (my dad was very strong 6'1 or 6'2''. He used chairs, carriages, hammers, plungers, a collection of leather belts with metal tooling. It was what ever he knew would bring us the most pain. I have a broken nose to this day. he dislocated my jaw at 17. He forced me out of the house by nearly bashing my head in with a 4 step wooden utility ladder. He raised it over my head, I escaped with only the clothing on my back and it was in the Midwest in January on is birthday. My entire family is deeply destroyed over his abuse. We grew up in a middle-class community around College prep education. A very beautiful community who cared and helped me to make certain that I would survive and not give up. My father called my sister so many names at 6am that morning. He awakened , literally, screaming because she had secretly met her boyfriend the Sunday after noon before (January 5, 1986). Wen my father investigated her boot prints in the snow, he bashed my mother's face and blood poured from her nostrils. He threatened to leave my mom and this terrified her. He would wait a week to beat each of us one week after any petty offense that he may have forgotten to punish us over. We were not disobedient children (my brothers became socially troubled). I tried to call the police, but I knew that this may have caused my mother's murder so I could not. Wen he kicked me out for trying to protect my mother and my sister, I had to push him against the wall to prevent him from beating my sister that early school morning. I lived with neighborhood friends who knew my father's abusive behavior. Some one called DCFS (it was promoted by me, but reported by an adult friend of mine) and he was under control for a few months. Every one knew that he was terribly violent. Men like my father and Sam's father have power with others to create doubt and support him (he had some local power). He paid off the postal carrier to prevent my mother from recieving any correspondences from my grandparents. They died never knowing of our whereabouts since 1970. They died never hearing from their youngest child (my mother) ever again. No letters no phone calls. It was in my mid 30's when I demanded contact for my aunt and my cousins who filled in the story on their half. They never knew about the frequent violence. The point of my story is to support Sam and such a typical home life with an abuser. And remember, it really wasn't until the 1990s that spousal abuse and child endangerment were really enforced and even then, the laws were not fully recognized yet. My story is a very edited version. The psychological manipulation is by far the worse. My father had such power enough to divide all of my siblings against one another to te point where he berated and threatened each of us to snitch on one another. I personally could not do it, but my sister was obviously brainwashed the worst and this is the same one whom he beaten on January 5,6th) where she would report petty incidents to my father against each of my siblings , which would result in ungodly and bloody beating were welts were seen across the face or our skulls were cracked open and hidden by fluffy 1980s hair styles. Men like Sam's father are powder keg dangerous and they will carry out their plans to cause your disappearance if you did not stake alliance to him. They would not blink a millisecond to kill you. They were able to get away with even more violence against women and children in ALL of the 1970s to 1980s and half of 1990 until my father died in 1996. My father cursed my mother on his death bed and swore that it was a conspiracy to get rid of him (he was dying and had all sorts of kidney and bladder diseases, gout..) e served in WWII and we were never told what he saw in his experience. He never drank (no alcoholism at all), he was naturally violent. No drugs, no anything. Men like Sam's dad and my dad live to destroy you every day (they had their "loving moments" but they were only moments). My father lived to be 74 years old and my mom was in her mid to early 40s and he owned tremendous energy to beat my mom. He had te strength of a 40 year old. If he had not passed away, he would have continued and it would have worsened to murder because my brothers were teenagers and runaways and something awful would have occurred. Many of these men are responsible for unsolved murders of women for decades due to the outstanding fear that such men are able to produce. There is nothing like it, Nothing. Every abused child will always handle the out come of their abuse differently. My father was like Sam in that they successfully instill the fear as young as 4 years old. It becomes a way of life. He was sexually inappropriate with my sisters and with other females in our community. Please do not compile children or families of abuse. You have no personal idea of what each day is like. It ruins children into adulthood to the point that we are very much affected and become peculiar in our souls. We are very adept at not telling you or showing you because we have been trained for many years to shut up or we die. Some of these "tough" individuals who casually say "what they would do" are more likely to end up in prison or dead. Children of abuse have learned to handle these volcanic erupts with the toughest of kid gloves. We have to survive and even if the child arrives to adult hood, the abuse may and DOES have an incredible power over your life as an adult. My father actually rang on my apartment door bell when I was 25-26 years old looking for my runaway brother who could not stand the abuse wit father. He even abused me in my own apartment and I had to call his parole officer to take care of him to make sure that he had a place to sleep for the night. Yes, this violence is never ending until the offender has died. Even then, our entire sense of self is forever altered and other abusers are predators and can read the countenance of a abused victim. The phenomenom is worse than any of the "what I would do" believers could ever possibly imagine. The way to help the Sams and Peytons in this world is to call the police anonymously or agencies to save our lives. The community has a stake in this as well because abuse carries on and affects everyone. It affects the world. Sam is more than a victim, he is a man of courage who survived criminal abuse by the hands of murderer. You cannot cross a murderer as their passion to needlessly to destroy is far more powerful than talk. I will say that my Lord Christ rescued me and the others and have rescued the Sams as well. Please do not judge, help and help at a distance. You may save many lives including your own. 85% or more of those incarcerated have been mercilessly abused as children. Even more live amongst you very quietly never wanting to be victimized ever again.

• @ Captain Grumpy. Maybe the flouride? I'm guessing if the guy's dad was a meth-head with a penchant for abducting, abusing and killing women, then he grew up in a pretty f-cked up situation. (OK, that's not just a wild guess - I've been watching Criminal Minds!) It's hard to know how this would affect someone. At the very least, this guy ought to get a vasectomy just in case. I think it'd be a good idea if he didn't breed.

• The kid DID serve for his dad's crimes. He served when he was growing up in his dad's house and suffered all the abuse at his father's hands. Give him a break!

• The kid should serve his dad's fucking heinous crimes, the apple also never falls far from the tree. Even if I was eight years old I'd know for a fact that killing is wrong.

• Captain Grumpy, I think Austria might have us beat at this terrible game - Joseph Fritzl and Wolfgang Priklopil.

• How can we judge another when we haven't been there ourselves. I couldn't imagine how a kid would've bore all those terrible things upon himself.

• I am the second cousin to the perpetrator and my sister is the one that he had on the boat and beat. He beat her so bad that she was afraid for her own life and the lives of her family. That is why she did not come forward. He sat at our dinner table and threaten all of us and said that we were all going to hell. He did shoot a hole in my Mother's house. We thought he was a nut case, but never knew the true gravity of the situation. One time I tried to rescue my sister from him but she whispered to me that he would kill me. She was only 19 or 20 years old at the time. Because of this incident and the fact that he got her hooked on drugs, she is dependent on society to this day due to the mental and physical abuse he put her through. Please don't ever judge someone until you are in the same situation (Deborah Jean). May the Powers that be bring peace to all of the victims and their families.

• Someone close to me was one of his (Ernie's) victims. She didn't come forward for fear there would be retribution. Her mother said something and Ernie put a bullet through her window. The mother mentioned things to the police department when they came out to do a police report. That was 30+ years ago. It would be nice to think that you could report something and live without fear of retaliation -- that's not necessarily the case.

• Is it just something about Americans that they want to keep a sex slave ?? There seems to be a lot of the girls kidnapped and held captive,some for years.Oh yeah,the wife always says "I didnt know that he kept a girl captive here in our house" Take my word,wives know everything. I think its in the water.

• I am glad that the family knows who killed thier child but I think the son should have come forth earlier as he is guilty by association and as one of your viewers said maybe he abused this poor girl also so I hope he has a hard time living with this every day !!!

• It's too bad that the son had to wait until his father died to out him........good thing HE feels better though....not like her family can say the same.

• I'm not sure what the relationship was like between him and his father, but he was obviously afraid of him, I know I would be if I watched him abuse then murder someone. However, I can't believe that he waited until now to say something when his father died in 2006, I would have said something the moment they buried that bastard in the ground. These girls who escaped never said anything, which is another issue I have with this case. How horrible of them not to care about his future victims. I'm so glad that her family can be at peace now, and this poor woman can finally get the proper burial she deserves.

• you might say that you would rat your family member out now, because you haven't had to deal with something like this. you probably haven't been in the shoes of this person. i know i would say the same things as you would say, that i would rat my family member out; i'd like to think that i would... but in all reality, you'll never know unless you're put in that situation. then again, you also don't know what he was put through by his father at this point in time, he was probably scared and even 4 years or so after his dad died, he was probably still scared that something would happen if he ratted his dad out to the police. i'm glad he did because her family can now be at peace.

• Hey iqb-for running a red light no, I'd not rat out my Dad but murder, rape or any other violent crime? yes indeed I would.

• If u've never been a victim or near-victim of a violent crime, you would never understand. So @ iqb, I'd sing like a canary! I love my family, but cold-blooded murder? I'll send u to the slammer in a heartbeat!

• ya but dude, its his dad. would you be able to rat out your dad?

• what a horrible thing to live with for so long-don't know how he did it.

• kudos? fuck that asshole kid for not going to the police when this girl was still alive. what a bastard he probably helped abuse this poor woman

• even though he did it once his dad was dead, kudos to the son for coming forward with this. If it were my dad who did this stuff, i can't guarantee that i would be able to do the same

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