On Christmas Eve of 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jennie Sodder, along with four of their nine children who were in the house at the time, escaped the blaze. However, the other five children—Maurice, 14; Martha, 12; Louis, 9; Jennie, 8; and Betty, 5—were never seen again. While authorities concluded the fire was accidental and that the children had perished in the flames, the Sodder family believed for the rest of their lives that th
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