The Strange Disappearance of the Sodder Children: A Mystery That Remains Unsolved
On the night of December 24, 1945, a fire broke out at the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jennie Sodder and nine of their ten children were asleep at the time. George and Jennie managed to escape the burning house with four of their children, but the other five - Maurice (14), Martha (12), Louis (9), Jennie (8), and Betty (5) - were nowhere to be found. Despite extensive searches by the police and the FBI, the Sodder children were never found, and their disappearance remains one of the most enduring mysteries in American history.