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- 2026-10-22 22:31
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Christmas Eve, 1945. Fayetteville, West Virginia. 10 children, one family. The five youngest asked to stay up late, excited about their new Christmas gifts. At 1:30 in the morning, the house caught fire. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their children. The other five were never seen again. When investigators searched the ashes, they found no bones, no teeth, no remains, not a single trace of five children. The phone line hadn't burned through, it had been cut by someone who climbed the pole deliberately that night. The ladder George needed to rescue his children from the windows was found in a ditch 75 feet away. A witness said she saw the five children watching the fire from inside a moving car. They were not in that house when it burned. For decades, George and Jennie put up a billboard on the highway. Five faces, one question. What was their fate? Kidnapped? Murdered? Or are they still alive? In 1967, 22 years later, Jennie received an anonymous letter. Inside was a photo of a young man. He looked exactly like her son, Louis. The case was never solved. George and Jennie died without answers.
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