Maurice Antonio Sodder, a 14-year-old boy of Italian descent, was one of ten children residing with his parents in Fayetteville, West Virginia. On Christmas Eve of 1945, Maurice and four of his siblings—Louis, Martha, Jennie, and Betty—were granted permission to stay up late and play with their new Christmas toys. Their mother, Jennie Sodder, was later awoken twice; first by a strange phone call shortly after midnight from an unknown woman who laughed strangely before hanging up, and then ag
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