VIDEO: Shocking Unresolved Case – The Disappearance of the Sodder Children!

People really love mysteries. The kind that really makes your hair sit up on end and makes you go in overdrive trying to figure out what really happened. When those mysteries are the kind that really happened and disappearances or deaths are part of it and they have never been solved before, things get a lot more interesting.

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The Sodder case is one of the most interesting cases we’ve ever heard about. This family had a lot of children and in a freaky fire all of the family’s children went missing. Some said they died, while the family thinks they were kidnapped and that through the years they’ve seen their older versions through the country. Still on every lead they ever had they ended up with no result.

According to buzzfeed.com, in 1945 on Christmas Eve in Fayetteville, West Virginia, a family’s house burned to ash. Five children were trapped in the upstairs bedrooms, never to be seen again. Did they die in the fire or was something else going on here? Let’s delve into the case:

George and Jennie Sodder, along with nine of their children, were asleep when a fire started in their house around 1 a.m. George, Jennie, and four of their children escaped, but five remained upstairs in the house.

George broke back into the house to save them, but the staircase was on fire. When he went to get a ladder, he discovered that it was missing. Additionally, both of his trucks, which he wanted to use to climb on top of, would not start.

One of the children, who escaped the fire, ran to a neighbor’s house to call the fire department, but got no answer. Another neighbor also called with the same result. That same neighbor drove to town and found the fire chief in person.

Still, even though the fire department was only 2.5 miles from the Sodder house, firefighters didn’t arrive until 8 a.m.! It literally took them seven hours to get there.

Authorities scavenged the ashes of the fire looking for bones and remains, but found nothing. This is suspicious, as typically when bodies are cremated, bones are still left behind.
George and Jennie began to suspect that their five children were not dead, but instead kidnapped. They believed that the fire was deliberately set as a diversion.

But why would someone kidnap their children? As it turns out, George had emigrated from Italy and was very anti-Mussolini, which sparked several heated debates with fellow Italian immigrants in the community. He also may have been involved in some shady business back in Italy.

Weirdly enough, a life insurance salesman threatened George in the fall before the house fire, when he tried unsuccessfully to sell George life insurance. He literally told George his house would go up in smoke and his children would be destroyed!

Also, in the days leading up to the fire, two of the surviving Sodder children witnessed a man watching the younger kids from the highway.