Episode 45: Sodder Children Disappearance

George and Jennie Sodder lived in Fayetteville, West Virginia, with their 10 children (with one son away in the military). On the night before Christmas in 1945, the family goes to sleep but a fire breaks out around 1AM. Four of the children escape with their parents, but the other five children are nowhere to be found. The fire destroys the house but an investigation finds no traces of the missing children; their "deaths" are ruled due to fire or suffocation. Decades go by and George and Jennie continued to search for their missing children, believing them to have been kidnapped rather than perishing in the fire. Join Matt and Carolanne this week to talk about the Sodder children disappearance. 

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This week's booze of choice: Stone Tangerine IPA and Stone Buenaveza

Sources: 

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance
• https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/cpvxde/the_sodder_children_new_leads/
• https://stacyhorn.com/2005/12/28/long-long-long-sodder-post/