Evil Couple Exposed After Cops Discover Secret Torture Room

“Oh, hello. How are you? You live here, Arson? Where’s Stacy? Does she stay here with you? Can I talk to her? Can I see her real quick? That’s all right. Let me go in there. What are you going to go to jail for? Have you been doing anything to her?”

Around 2:30 p.m. on November 28th, 2023, Baldwin County deputies pull up to this home after a disturbing report about a woman supposedly living inside. But the moment they step through the doorway, nothing prepares them for the horror waiting behind one of the closed doors.

“I mean, if you picture some old history pictures of like the concentration camps of the Jews and stuff, that’s kind of what I’m seeing here, except it’s in color and I’ve seen it with my two eyes.”

The Initial Encounter

“I don’t think this thing’s been used in forever. Yeah? Yeah, that is. Oh, hello. How are you? You live here, Arson? Okay, what’s your name? Okay, Stacy. Do you know where she’s at? Where’s Stacy? Does she stay here with you? Okay, where is she at right now? She is there? Can I talk to her? Can I see her real quick? Well, I just… Well, can you show me where she’s at? I just want to see her, put eyes on her and make sure she’s okay. That’s all right. Let me go in there. What are you going to go to jail for? Have you been doing anything to her?”

Almost immediately, Bobby appears nervous and evasive. And when deputies demand to see her sister, Stacy, the excuses she offers only deepen their unease.

“Bobby, we’re running in a nice place. You okay? Uh, severely malnourished lady. We have contact with her. The sister’s here. Sweetheart, can you move the things away from the door so I can open it?”

Her husband soon arrives and repeats the same account his wife gave to officers, carefully sticking to the same version of events. He appears calm, almost rehearsed, subtly distancing himself from any direct involvement. But as investigators continue digging, cracks begin to form, and what they uncover next is far more disturbing than either of them expected.

The Disturbing Discovery

“How long has she been here with you? Does she have a bathroom in that room that she’s in? How many bathrooms are in this house? Just one bathroom?”

Because there was only one bathroom in the house and its door was jammed, making it difficult to open, investigators began to consider a troubling possibility: Stacy may have been forced to use that same space repeatedly. If that was the case, it would only further explain how her condition deteriorated so severely inside that home.

“We’re going to take you see a doctor, okay? What? Okay, all right, sweetheart. Okay. Stacy, can you walk? Come here. Can you walk? Let me see your hands. You… Okay, we got you. We can do that. Hey, open the door. Open the door. Come here, sweetheart. All right, take a seat right there. Let her have a seat, sweetheart. Sit right here. Yeah, we’re going to get the kitty for you, okay? I know. Scoot up. Okay. Scoot up. No, it’s okay. Nothing to be sorry about, okay?”

Stacy is carefully carried out of the room and rushed for urgent treatment, her condition critical after what she’s endured. At the same time, authorities detain the couple on suspicion of abusing and neglecting her, separating them from the scene as the investigation begins to intensify.

“Feet first. I got shoulder problem. Can I get these in front of me? I’m not… I’m not going to… Uh, 40. Put your feet in. I’m on the left. Can I at least take my shoes off? You want to take your shoes off? Yeah, it just makes me feel better. Female’s going in the back of your car right now.”

As officers take in Stacy’s condition, the weight of what they’re seeing hits hard. So hard that for some, it’s almost too much to process.

“The smell. It’s terrible. Safest way to have it up is to have… And start lowering the legs. Hit the plus sign. All right, you got it? Yeah, we’re good.”

The Interrogation of Bobby Barber

As Stacy is taken for emergency treatment, detectives are left asking why she was kept there in the first place. The answer is more disturbing than anyone expects.

Detective: “Tell me about this. I mean, I’m not sure where to begin, to be honest with you. I’m just asking you… Okay, how long have you lived at that house?”

Bobby: “Well, we all used to live on Mount Pleasant Church Road. Okay. And then we moved over there. It’s been… I’m trying to remember how long it’s been. I know that my youngest was like 9 years old, 1 year old then. Okay. And she’s 8 now. So she’s 8. So 7 years ago was about the time that you all moved over there. We lived with my mom and dad then.”

Detective: “With your mom and dad, okay.”

Bobby: “And she don’t know how to read, she don’t know how to write. She don’t know… This is Stacy. Yes, she don’t know how to give herself a bath.”

Detective: “Okay. So, is she able to communicate? She’s able to talk to you, okay?”

Bobby: “She can talk, but some of her stuff… she had imaginary people that she talked to and all.”

Detective: “I got you.”

Bobby: “Yes, I got you. It’s a different situation.”

The longer Bobby talks about her past, the clearer it becomes. Whatever happened between the sisters didn’t fade with time. It hardened into something far more dangerous.

Confronting the Evidence

Detective: “It’s on her chest. I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if it’s feces, if it’s food. Uh, here’s her hands. Here’s her fingernails. And all this, you know, it’s on her abdomen. You notice anything else about this picture? What’s this right here? And that right there. Yeah. It’s my point. Why is she so skinny if you’re feeding her every day? That’s her pelvic girdle. There’s bruising. Down here there’s a big… There’s uh, brown mass or something. I don’t know if it’s feces. I don’t know if it’s… I can just tell you that it’s not normal, whatever it is. These are her fingernails.”

Bobby: “She started cutting them before too. Yeah. She was crazy.”

Detective: “Feces. So, she’s using the bathroom somewhere. Y’all didn’t smell anything?”

Bobby: “Well, I didn’t smell anything.”

Detective: “You know, now here’s the other side of her knee. All bruised up. So, her body’s breaking down. She’s whatever. I mean, somebody wasn’t going in that room and checking on her to make sure that she was… You can’t convince me that you were going in her room and looking in on her.”

Bobby: “I stayed with her every day and stuff.”

Detective: “But, remember you said you put it on a heater in one room and she was in another room. And yes, the food might be missing, but you don’t know what she did with it. It might be still…”

Bobby: “I thought she was that hungry and ate that.”

Detective: “I understand. So, that’s what I’m saying. Yeah. Nobody was going in that room in your dad’s bedroom, in her room and checking what the conditions were.”

Bobby: “No, because I was scared of that.”

Detective: “These are all sores on her right hip area. If I had to describe that picture of her laying on her back in that hospital treatment bed, to me she looks like a breathing corpse. I’ve seen people who have died that are in better physical condition than she is. I’m trying to understand how and why she got in that condition if you all were her caregivers.”

Bobby: “I didn’t sign up to say I was her caregiver. I just said that I was trying to help take care of her. I didn’t mean for her to look like that. I understand. I can’t sit there and wait on her hand and foot like mom and daddy. It’s just um…”

The Interrogation of Jerry Barber

“I mean, if you picture some old history pictures of um, like the concentration camps of the Jews and stuff. It’s kind of what I’m seeing here, except it’s in color and I’ve seen it with my two eyes rather than through black and white photos.”

Detective: “This is her hair all matted. We had to… I say we, the nursing staff, cut all this out. These are her legs. One of the things that stands out to me is how big the kneecaps are and how skinny the lower part of the thigh is. I mean, it just… you know, she’s got some abrasions on her feet. Skin’s peeling on her feet. This all went downhill?”

Jerry: “Yeah. So, it went downhill for me. It went downhill for my wife, sister-in-law, my kids. So, Bobby was the glue that held the family together.”

Detective: “Makes you wonder how he did it. Yeah. I love my father-in-law, but…”

Jerry: “What would he think? What would he think about now if he were to see it now? He’d be pissed. Really pissed.”

Detective: “Yeah. I mean, you know. But, in saying that, you didn’t make any of those phone calls to get somebody to take care of her. Instead, you let her deteriorate to the condition she’s in now. And in our own conversation, you talked about how your dad loves her more than he loved you…”

Jerry: “And I should have made the phone call, but I didn’t. Yeah. I’m sorry. I got you. I didn’t make the phone call. I know I should have.”

Excuses and Rationalizations

Bobby: “So, how do we fix this? Because I love her. I really did love my sister. Ain’t nothing right there against her because I didn’t love her more than all…”

Detective: “Well, I’ll throw this out there to you. Mom and dad are gone now. If you love her as you say you do, that’s a strange way to show you love her. You know what I mean? Can you agree with that? I mean, saying the words is one thing. I loved my mother and I still do. And as my mom was deteriorating in her life, you can ask my boss out here, I ran home several times to check her…”

Jerry: “Things are so tight… I said time and time again, I don’t want you to take your name off her check. Let’s get somebody to help her. I told her that repeatedly. Told that to your wife that this day was going to come.”

Detective: “Right. What did she say? What did your wife say when you said that to her?”

Jerry: “She said, ‘I know what we need to… We need to…’ We’ve never did. Never found out. Always tied up at work. Always tied up in hospitals, doctor’s office, kids at school, myself.”

Bobby: “Right. Just never had time to do nothing. 32-year-old woman in a 5-year-old body. She really doesn’t know I need to eat. She really doesn’t know I guess the point I need to go to the bathroom. I signed up for more than I can handle. Like, because my husband’s trying to help, but you know, like I said, he worked. And I’m trying to take care of the kids and they going to school and the school wants us to do this, do that. I mean, I really didn’t have time for her. I guess that’s what I’m saying. I’m sorry.”

The Aftermath

In January of 2024, a Baldwin County grand jury formally indicts Bobby and Jerry Barber. The charges are severe:

Two counts of exploiting and intimidating a disabled adult or elder.
Two counts of neglect.
One count of false imprisonment.

As of the recording of this video, sentencing details have not been released, and there have been no public updates on Stacy or the couple’s children.