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It may look like a gated mansion in suburban Arcadia, but prosecutors will tell you it's more than 10,000 square feet of shocking and heinous child abuse.

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Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously.

Hello and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously with me, your host, Annie Elise.

We have got a wild case to talk about today.

I hope you are in the right frame of mind to hear it. I know it's a Monday. I know you're probably either commuting to work, maybe you're at home cleaning the house, maybe you're listening at work already with a work buddy. I know a lot of you like to secretly listen and watch at work, which, you know, sorry for any of the bosses listening, but I fully support. But this is a wild one, and I talked a little bit about it last week in Headline Highlights. I also did a poll with a bunch of cases asking on Instagram, what do you guys want the deep dive of? And this one won by a landslide. And look, I understand why.

It is so crazy. And like, as you start peeling back all the different layers, it gets more and more unbelievable and sinister if you can even imagine that. It's almost like, oh, you think you know what the case is on the surface, which is, yeah, really fricking disturbing. But then once you dig a little deeper, oh, there's another dark secret coming out of this corner. Oh, another one popping out from under this rug. And it's just like, how does this happen?

How do people get away with things? What are people's motivations in doing? So like, I just don't understand. So with that, let me just kind of give you a little brief introduction, although I know you've seen the title of the episode already. But we're going to be talking about the case that's happening literally right in my backyard here in California, the Surrogacy House of Horrors.

It involves a very wealthy couple who had 21 kids, okay?

Let that register, 21 kids, most of whom had been born via surrogate. And now this couple is facing some very, extremely serious allegations of child abuse. And again, once you start peeling it back as to what was really going on inside this house, why were they having all of these children? Where were the children going after they were grown? What were they doing? It just gets unnerving and feels almost like borderline a lifetime movie and something that is just completely fiction. And I say that because a lot of the lifetime movies are loosely quote, loosely based on true stories, especially the ones that are on LMN., but it just feels almost unbelievable.