On Christmas Eve 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia, George and Jennie Sodder spent the Christmas season celebration with nine of their ten children, when Jennie decided it was time for the children to go to bed.> The Sodder children begged to stay playing a little longer , and Jennie agreed to let them continue playing and took only her youngest daughter, to bed with her.
The mysterious disappearance of the 5 children Sodder.30 years and no answer
The phone bell woke Jennie a little later than midnight.Jennie answered the phone and a woman asked to speak with someone Jennie didn't know. When Jennie told her that she was calling the wrong number, the woman laughed and hung up .Jennie thought this was just a joke call and didn't give it much importance.But then she realized that the house she was on fire .She shouted to her husband and children to leave.The eldest sons, John and Geor ge Jr.managed to leave the house, as well as the oldest of the girls.
When George was away he saw that five of his children were still inside and tried everything possible to return to Enter the house and take them out without achieving it .The police arrived on the scene in the morning and claimed that no remains of any kind had been found in the ash and debris. The investigating judge still ruled that the missing children had died in the fire.After only a two-hour investigation, he concluded that the fire was started by faulty wiring.George said that could not be, because he had just obtained a new wiring and the lights had remained on for a while afterwards.the fire began.
George and Jennie however believed that their children had been kidnapped and that the fire was intended to cover the crime scene.And there were witnesses and rumors that supported the version:
A strange man was seen circling the Sodder's garage while the fire burned.He stole his ladder and tried to cut his telephone line.That's why this man was never closely regarded as a suspect.The only thing he was ordered was to pay fines for stealing.On the other hand, there was a woman who claimed to have seen the children in a moving vehicle when the fire was in progress .A woman from a self-service station 50 miles west of the Sodder house said, later, that she had seen the children in the morning after the fire and served them breakfast, and she left in a vehicle with Florida license plates.
A medical expert involved in the case stated that it would be highly unlikely that all the remains were destroyed in a fire so quickly .George Sodder died in 1969 and Jennie in 1989.Most people believe that the Sodder children perished in the fire that night and that the Sodders simply refused to accept it.There are also those who believe that the children were kidnapped and taken to Italy.
The rumors and strange testimonies are endless .The idea that the 5 corpses were burned to dust, leaving nothing behind in the night fire, is so unreasonable that he immediately gave trust to each and every one of the statements that appeared later.Was the call to the mother the night of the event a coincidence?
When the Sodder parents died, their children and grandchildren continued the investigation.The youngest and last surviving girl Sodder, Sylvia, is now 69 years old, and still does not believe that her brothers died in the fire. So the halo of mystery remains in the air about whether the children could be kidnapped and the fire caused to cover the kidnappers' tracks .An incognito that remains unsolved and leaves us with one last question: you who think of this mysterious case?
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