What was the fate of the missing Sodder Children? (Episode #15)

On Christmas Eve, 1945, a fire broke out in the Sodder family in Fayetteville, West Virginia.  The parents, George and Jennie, managed to escape with 4 of their children but five of their other children were unaccounted for as they shared an attic bedroom. A search by officials the next day revealed no human remains in the burnt wreckage. So what happened to the missing Sodder children?

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• “Mystery That Went Up In Flames: The Disappearance of the Sodder Kids.” RT Doc, RT, 2/21/2021, https://rtd.rt.com/stories/mystery-that-went-up-in-flames-sodder-children-disappear/
• Abbott, Karen (December 25, 2012). "The Children Who Went Up In Smoke". Smithsonian. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
• Newton, Michael (2009). The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes. Infobase Publishing. pp. 348–50. ISBN 9781438119144.
• “Missing or Dead?” Greensboro News and Record, November 18, 1984; “Hope of Life in ’45 Fire Still Burns, Boston Daily Record, December 24, 1960; “The Children Who Went Up in Smoke,” Inside Detective, February 1968.
• Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes. New York: Facts on File, 2004; Melody Bragg and George Bragg, West Virginia Unsolved Murders & Infamous Crimes. Glen Jean, WV: GEM Publications, 1993; One Room Schoolin’, A Living History of Central West Virginia. Hickory, NC: Hometown Memories Publishing, 2011.

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