The attorney general called it pure evil. The sheriff said livestock lived better. A judge just ordered both of them — along with the prosecutor, the clerk, and all defense counsel — to stop talking about the Siders case publicly. Read more…
In Mississippi, a sheriff declared no foul play in the death of Nolan Wells before the autopsy was complete, before toxicology was in, and before the FBI examined the phone. In Ohio, a county had truancy complaints on the Siders Read more…
The story of Nolan Wells has produced a dozen theories and almost no confirmed facts — and the gap between those two things is exactly where this breakdown lives.It opens where the family’s doubt began: with a phone. Nolan photographed Read more…
Elizabeth Siders was fifteen when she married into the family whose house would eventually hold sixteen children in a single room in rural Ohio. She gave birth to every one of them. She now faces sixteen felony counts. And her Read more…
Nolan Wells’ case has a phone at the center of it — and whatever his mother found when she opened it after his death sits at the heart of everything unresolved here. This is the Nolan Wells timeline laid out Read more…
A reporter emailed Sheriff Chris Nanos about discrepancies in his official work history. The man leading the search for Nancy Guthrie wrote back one line, and it was not an answer. Tony Brueski lays out every contradiction the Pima County Read more…
While the investigation into Nolan Wells’ death was still active, one of his friends appeared on Good Morning America with his voice altered and then sat down with Rolling Stone magazine to publicly tell his version of events. Defense attorney Read more…
Before the toxicology came back, before the FBI examined his phone, before anyone reconciled the contradictions in the witness statements, the Jackson County Sheriff told the country no foul play was suspected in the death of Nolan Wells. Defense attorney Read more…
Ask the simple question and the whole thing falls apart. Whose job was it to find the Siders children? Sixteen kids were living in a house in Vinton County, Ohio. Not one school district had a record of them. Not Read more…
Sixteen children were failed three times — by the minds that confined them, by the development that confinement stole from them, and by every mind outside that chose comfortable blindness over one phone call. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins for the Read more…
