It was Christmas Eve, 1945, when a quiet Appalachian town awoke to a tragedy that would become one of the most haunting mysteries in American history. The Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, went up in flames just after 1 a.m. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their ten children—but five never made it out.
Authorities declared them dead.
The Sodders insisted they were taken.
What followed was a decades-long search for truth: strange phone calls, cut wires, missing ladders, trucks that mysteriously wouldn’t start, and witnesses who claimed to see the children alive long after the fire. The case grew darker with every passing year—from Mafia rumors to cover-up theories to a chilling photograph mailed to the family more than twenty years later.
This episode dives deep into the clues, contradictions, and unanswered questions that have kept this story alive for nearly 80 years. It’s a tale of heartbreak, defiance, and a family who refused to let their children be forgotten.
What really happened that Christmas Eve?
Was it a tragic accident—or something far more sinister?
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