What Happened to the Sodder Children?

Summary by Krater

This video tells the story of the Sodder family fire on Christmas Eve 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia, where five of the children vanished without a trace, leaving a decades-long mystery of whether they perished or were kidnapped.

From the video

Answers: What happened to the Sodder children?

• Sodder family fire
• Missing children mystery
• Fayetteville West Virginia
• Christmas Eve 1945
• Unsolved historical cases

What it concludes

• The official report stated the Sodder children died in the fire with no bone fragments recovered, but subsequent evidence and witness sightings suggest kidnapping.
• A local fire chief admitted to secretly burying a beef liver at the scene in an attempt to convince the family the children burned in the fire.
• Multiple witnesses reported seeing the children alive after the fire, including at a restaurant in Fayetteville and a hotel in Charleston, West Virginia.