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The Sodder Fire: Five Children, One Night, No Answers | The Missing Files
The Sodder Fire of December 25, 1945, remains one of America’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. In this episode of The Missing Files, host Sally Calhoun investigates the catastrophic blaze that destroyed the Fayetteville, West Virginia home of George and Jennie Sodder, resulting in the disappearance of five children: Maurice, Martha, Louis, Frank, and Jennie. While the parents and four other siblings escaped, no bodies were ever recovered from the rubble, leading the family to believe the children had been kidnapped or smuggled away rather than perished in the flames. This detailed true…
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