A SHOCKING NEW QUESTION EMERGES IN THE VINTON COUNTY INVESTIGATION…
A RELATIVE of the four family members arrested on felony abuse charges is in disbelief of the horrific squalid conditions the 16 children lived in.
It’s been nearly a decade since Tessi Siders last saw Gary Siders Sr. and his wife Christina Siders, so she was completely blindsided when she learned of their arrests along with their youngest child and daughter-in-law.




Tessi, whose late husband was related to the Siders, recalled the praise other relatives had for Siders Sr., 73, and Christina, 66, remembering them as “wonderful parents.”
“As far as I know, the family talks about Lynn and Gary, like everybody says they were wonderful parents when everybody else was little,” Tessi told The U.S. Sun, saying the relatives referred to Christina as “Lynn.”
So when news broke of the Siders family’s arrest, Tessi was shocked but even more horrified by the allegations and conditions the 16 children lived in.
“It’s crazy. It’s unbelievable,” she said.
Tessi told The U.S. Sun that she last spoke to the Siders around 2018 when she sold them a car.
“We didn’t really keep up with them. My husband went through cancer, so that was our focus,” she added.
At the time, Tessi said she was aware that Gary Siders II, 36, and his wife, Elizabeth Siders, 33, were parents.
When asked if all 16 children found inside the disheveled home in Hamden, Ohio, on Tuesday were the young couple’s, Tessi couldn’t say definitively, but was “pretty sure.”