Couple's 'Hooked on Phonics' House of Horror Hoarding Nightmare | Katie Koch/Joel Manke Analysis

A very similar situation happened a few blocks from my house. My wife and I took daily walks and started to see some concerning evidence of some abuse at this one house. My wife worked for the school system and found out there were 4 kids from a new born to a 8 year old the older 2 being “homeschooled”. The children were never seen outside. We decided to bring the family a pizza one evening hoping to see the children. The mother accepted the pizza, but we saw no kids. Said they were sleeping. Surprisingly they let us in, the house was filthy. Dogs everywhere. After that we called local PD to do a welfare check. The state quickly got involved, the children were taken into foster care. The house had no running water. The upstairs bathroom, where the children stayed, the tube was full of poop. Dog crap covered the floors. Turns out the woman had already lost custody of 3 children! Her ex had been abusing and making abuse content. How she was not on someone’s radar is frightening. This is probably happening all over the place. Very sad.

“She did not want her sons to lose the stability that they had in her house.” If that’s stability, I’d hate to see what chaos looks like.

Regarding the smell, extreme hoarders seem to lose their sense of smell. My mother couldn’t smell rotten food in her fridge, whereas I was tormented by it and always wound up trying to keep it contained. It took over my life. So I moved several states away to save what’s left of my sanity.

i remember pulling fleas out of my hair and eyebrows as a child living in a similar environment. After 14 years of not speaking to my mother, I tried to reconcile and have a relationship with her as an adult and when I told her about the fleas, she told me...."why didn't you tell me?" She is not a part of my life and won't until she apologizes for a lot but she will never see her actions.. It's always someone else. Thank God those kids are out of there. Things like this make me livid.

The mom's hair looks like she never washed or brushed it. I hope wherever the kids are, that they are adjusting well and are getting some kind of love and affection.

not everyone should be a parent. poor children. to be illiterate. neglected and covered in feces and blood is awful. you dont deserve that life. im so sorry.

Funnily enough. In Scotland “Mankey” means filthy, disgusting or otherwise repulsive but with connotations of dirty. “ you can’t wear that manky top to school today”

Someone commented on a video about a homeless encampment being covered with liter, "just because they do not have jobs that's no excuse for them to keep the place so dirty". I think keeping a disordered environment can come from a disorder in the mind. I think laziness would not explain a mountain of garbage on the floor. It's too extreme.

I cannot even fathom how many children live in these kind of conditions. I hope these boys get the help and love they need.

If I lived in a neighborhood where children were though to live but we're never seen and bad smells were coming out of the house and other weird behavior observed by the owner, I'd call the police and explain my suspicion.

She said it was paint, chocolate and clay, but it was obvious she was talking sh!t.

Those poor boys, I hope they can recover! Some people should never have children. Thank you Dr. Grande for looking into this.

The way Dr. Grande so calmly recounts horrors is surprisingly soothing. ASMR nightmares.

Heartbreaking to think of those poor babies pressing their faces against the window to see outside. Their road to a normal life is going to be difficult since they are probably very delayed mentally. Just to breathe fresh air was probably amazing for them. I pray that they get the help and, most importantly, the love they need

I hope you give us updates on this case. Nothing triggers my outrage to the surface more than child abuse cases.

I once worked for a non-profit making home visits to new parents. Lots of babies living in horrible conditions and all that agency did was paperwork and talking non-sense to parents without addressing critical issues.

Couple times in my life I had to enter foul-smelling apartments and thought if I was stuck in them ,I'd either die or be driven insane within a couple days.

"Disheveled, anxious, agitated and flustered" is my new dating profile, and expectations.😍

"Allegedly, Katie and Joel perpetrated revolting offences like keeping Katie's sons locked in a bedrooom, boarding up a window, and exposing them to hooked on phonics." @9:45 Well-executed, Dr. Grande.

Erika Murray and the Blackstone, Massachusetts 'House of Horrors' case. I live in the next town over. They found 2 or 3 dead babies I think, a hidden toddler living alone in a room. She had two older children and was found out when one left the house looking for help. Her husband lived in the basement and claimed no knowledge of what was going on. So sad, I hope those boys heal and find some love.