The Skeleton Key Chronicles

7 hours ago

Sixteen children are now safe after authorities made several disturbing discoveries at a home in Hamden, Ohio, a small community southeast of Chillicothe. The children, ranging in age from 18 months to 18 years old, are now in state custody, where they're receiving medical care and support as the investigation continues. Authorities said during the press conference they are all "part of the same family".

At a news conference, Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said it was one of the worst environments he's seen in his career. Sheriff Ryan Cain said investigators believe the children appeared to have been kept within roughly a 12-by-12-foot area for much of the past four years. Wilson said several of the children needed immediate medical care, with seven taken to hospitals in Columbus, two transported by helicopter, and one child admitted to the ICU. Investigators also said the oldest child, an 18-year-old, was unable to spell her own name. That detail alone gives you an idea of just how isolated the children may have been.

Four adults have now been charged: Elizabeth Siders, 33, Christina Siders, 67, Gary Siders II, 36 and Gary Siders, 73. All have pleaded not guilty, and a judge has ordered they have no contact with one another or with the children while the case moves forward.

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21 hours ago

A Las Vegas social media creator who films himself walking around and trying to pick up women may have unknowingly captured one of the last known videos of missing Australian traveler Sally Grace Contarino before she vanished.

The video was recorded on June 17th outside a 7-Eleven on Boulder Highway, just days before Sally was due to fly home to Australia. In the brief interaction, the creator approaches the woman and asks for her phone number. She politely replies, "I have a boyfriend." He then asks if she's waiting for him before the conversation ends. The creator later turned the original footage over to Las Vegas police.

The video gives investigators another possible look at Sally just days before communication with her family. Nothing released so far that suggests the creator had anything to do with Sally's disappearance but the video adds another confirmed stop in Sally's timeline leading up to her going missing.

Sally, 26, had been traveling alone through the western United States and was due to fly home to Australia on June 21st. Instead, she never boarded the bus that was supposed to take her to Los Angeles for her flight, and she hasn't been heard from since. Police say she was last in contact with her family on June 20th when she sent them a picture from the Mount Charleston area about 45 miles outside Vegas. She has not been seen or heard from since.


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The Skeleton Key Chronicles

1 day ago

Update: Since this post was written, the FBI has clarified that while some of the messages connected to the case have been determined to be fake, other communications are still being looked into. Officials also said Nancy Guthrie's disappearance continues to be handled as an active case as investigators work to separate credible information from everything else. OP follows:

Those mysterious messages that have been the basis of much speculation in the Nancy Guthrie case, including the latest one that made headlines just yesterday, have all been dismissed by the FBI. Federal investigators have concluded that all three of the widely publicized notes were fake. That includes the two early messages that surfaced shortly after Nancy disappeared, along with the more recent message sent to TMZ claiming the sender knew who took Nancy and even had video from the day she went missing.

Of course every time one of these messages appeared, people wondered if it was finally the break everyone had been waiting for. Now the FBI says none of them were real so back to the drawing board. If those messages are out of the picture, it brings the attention back to the touch DNA and other forensic evidence investigators collected from the house. If this case is eventually solved, there's a good chance that's where the answer has been all along.

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