# 16 Siders Kids: Did Anyone Even Know They Existed?

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Podcast: [True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948)
Published: 2026-07-15T18:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8928140
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An eighteen-year-old who can't write her own name. A fifteen-year-old bride married off by a judge while seven months pregnant. Sixteen children found in a twelve-by-twelve room covered in human waste in a village of seven hundred people where neighbors say they never saw a single kid. The Siders case isn't one failure. It's every failure at once. Deputies in Vinton County, Ohio, showed up at 182 Ohmer Street to serve a misdemeanor warrant on Gary Siders Jr. They found sixteen children ages eighteen months to eighteen years in conditions the Attorney General called "pure evil." Four adults now face sixty-eight felony counts of child endangerment. The AG says if they'd arrived a day later, children would likely have died. And the word he used to describe the case — intrafamilial — has former prosecutors saying this investigation is heading somewhere no one expected. None of those kids were enrolled in school. Ohio's homeschool oversight was gutted in 2023. All sixteen were born at hospitals over eighteen years — one delivery roughly every thirteen months — and no medical professional raised a flag. The family moved across multiple Ohio counties, resetting the clock with every jurisdiction. Elizabeth Siders was married at fifteen in a state with no minimum marriage age. Her brother says she was "indoctrinated" and estranged from her family for fifteen years. The system that handed her over as a child is the same one that missed her own children for nearly two decades. This episode traces every broken link in the chain. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1…

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