# Siders' 16 Kids: Why Did NOBODY Go Looking?

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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: 2026-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8928613
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Nobody in the state of Ohio went looking for these sixteen children. Not one person, for years. They were found in a house in Hamden by deputies who were not there for them. The warrant was for something else. Ohio's Attorney General has said there was no expectation that any children were inside that home. The school district had no record. The neighbors had no idea. Investigators believe the family had moved across more than one Ohio county while generating almost none of the ordinary paperwork the rest of us leave behind. And the oldest of the sixteen, an eighteen-year-old, could not write her own name, according to investigators. Ohio has that name. The state issued her a birth certificate the year she was born and put it in a county drawer, where it has sat untouched while the young woman it belongs to grew up in that house. Tony Brueski traces this out of Vinton County and into the machine that produced it. A mandated-reporter system with a duty and no teeth. A single comparison from Washington, D.C., where four girls were found dead by marshals inside a system a federal judge had run for nineteen years. And a ten-billion-dollar funding structure built to open the moment a child is taken, and to pay nobody, ever, for going out to look. Four adults have pleaded not guilty to sixteen counts each of second-degree felony child endangering. No grand jury has returned an indictment. This was not a family that outsmarted the system. There was nothing to outsmart. End Links 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 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkill…

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