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På juldagsmorgonen 1945 förvandlades familjen Sodders hem i West Virginia till aska. Fem av barnen försvann spårlöst, och fallet är än idag ett av historiens mest förbryllande mysterier. Var det en tragisk olycka, eller något mörkare?Vill du höra hela berättelsen? När Jens Nielsen berättar om detta mystiska fall i vårt senaste Patreon avsnitt. För bara 20 kronor i månaden får du tillgång till detta och alla våra andra avsnitt – med minst ett nytt varje månad. Stötta oss lite extra för 40 kronor i månaden och hjälp oss fortsätta skapa podden.Sök efter Brottshistoria på Patreon och lyssna vidare!Instagram: @Brottshistoria_Kontakt: brottshistoria@gmail.comÄlskar du Brottshistoria? Stöd vår podcast och få tillgång till exklusivt innehåll, bonusavsnitt och mycket mer på Patreon! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Christmas Eve 1945, George and Jennie Sodder woke up to their home on fire. They were able to escape with 4 of their 9 children who were at home, but the others never made it out. There was no evidence that the 5 children died in the fire, so the Sodders believe something else happened to their children. Where are the 5 missing Sodder children?Instagram: @caffeinatedcrimespodTwitter: @caffcrimespodEmail: caffeinatedcrimespod@gmail.comFacebook: Caffeinated CrimesSupport the Show.

Γειά σας ντεντεκτιβάκια! Σας λείψαμε? Γιατί εμάς πολύ! Γυρίσαμε πιο ορεξάτοι από ποτέ και σας φέραμε μια περίεργη υπόθεση του 1945. Οι οικογένεια Sodders έχασαν το σπίτι τους από μια περίεργη φωτιά. Αλλά ήταν το μόνο που έχασαν? Αν σας αρέσει παρέα μας ακολουθήστε μας στο Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/crimegroupers_podcast/ Δήλωση Δικαιοκτησίας Όλα τα περιεχόμενα του podcast "[Crimegroupers Podcast]" (το "Περιεχόμενο") είναι πνευματική ιδιοκτησία του/της "[Γιώργου Γουρνά και της Μαρίας Κουφού]" και προστατεύονται από το εθνικό και διεθνές νόμιμο πλαίσιο περί πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας. Καθετί που δεν προέρχεται ρητά από τον/την "[Γιώργο Γουρνά και της Μαρία Κουφού]" και δεν υπάγεται στο καθεστώς της δικαίωσης άλλου, αποτελεί παραβίαση της πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας. Απαγορεύεται η αναπαραγωγή, ανακοίνωση, ανακοίνωση κοινού, μετάδοση, δημόσια εκτέλεση, διανομή, επαναπροβολή ή αναδημοσίευση του Περιεχομένου χωρίς την προηγούμενη γραπτή άδεια του/της "[Γιώργου Γουρνά και της Μαρίας Κουφού]". Οποιαδήποτε παράνομη χρήση του Περιεχομένου θα επιφέρει τις κατάλληλες νομικές ενέργειες. Για να αιτηθείτε άδεια για τη χρήση του Περιεχομένου, παρακαλούμε επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας στο email crimegroupers@gmail.com. Ευχαριστούμε για την συνεργασία σας και τη σεβασμό προς τα δικαιώματα της πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας.

This week Julie and Chrissa are joined by Mady Sodders, a high school teacher for those with significant disabilities. In this episode we talk about Mady's experience seeing a variety of counselors over the last 18 years. She shares with us her experiences of trauma, depression and anxiety and how counseling has helped. While not all of her counseling experiences have been great, she has always found it to be beneficial. Mady now tries to help others by being a listening ear and using what she has learned with others.  We want to hear from you! How have you handled switching counselors? Let us know by texting or calling our anonymous number: (515)-650-3231 To start behavioral or mental health services in Iowa call Heart and Solutions at (800) 531-4236.  Connect with Heart and Solutions online at: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2dWKD6TenIMIC76ctq21YN Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPmrcmi5HUINpWEjHfHzTnQ/featured Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YouNeedaCounselor Heart and Solutions Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Heartandsolutions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/you_need_a_counselor/ Web: http://www.heartandsolutions.net

This is the story of the Sodder family, who lost five of their children in a mysterious fire on Christmas Eve in 1945. I have based my account on a New York Post article from 1975, which reveals some of the odd details of this case. The children had opened their gifts earlier that night and were eager to play with them. Their parents went to sleep at 10:30 p.m. Around 1:30 a.m., Jennie smelled smoke and saw that their room was filled with it. The house was on fire. The Sodders managed to escape, but they could not find their five children. They were not outside, and there was no way to see them inside the burning house. The fire department declared that they had died in the fire. However, no remains, bones, or any evidence of human tissue were ever found in the ashes... The mystery remains unsolved... Sources: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sodder-children-disappearance-unsolved-mystery_n_6574961ae4b09724b4345a46 https://stacyhorn.com/2005/12/28/long-long-long-sodder-post/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water Podcast the guys get the chance to talk with Gavin Sodders, host of the Whitetail Bloodline Podcast. We basically just get into Gavins background in hunting and how he attacks whitetails nowadays. We talk about run and gun preferences for him and how he likes using hang ons over other methods. We also get into using blinds, bow setups, fixed versus mechanical broadheads, fletchings, and more. Finally, we talk about Gavins 2023 season so far and plans moving forward. Make sure to head over and check out Gavins podcast wherever you listen to your shows. Thanks for listening! Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast Network for more relevant outdoor content!   Check out the MWW Website for shows, partner discounts, and more!!!   Morrell Targets   Weber Outfitters   Athlon Optics   Midwest Gun Works: Use code woodswater for 5% off   Rivers Edge Treestands: Use code Missouri10 for 10% off plus free shipping on Hang-Ons and Ladder Stands   Lucky Buck   OnX Use code MWW20 for 20% off    Camofire   Black Ovis: Use code MWW10 for 10% off   Reveal Cameras by Tactacam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Missouri Woods & Water Podcast the guys get the chance to talk with Gavin Sodders, host of the Whitetail Bloodline Podcast.  We basically just get into Gavins background in hunting and how he attacks whitetails nowadays.  We talk about run and gun preferences for him and how he likes using hang ons over other methods.  We also get into using blinds, bow setups, fixed versus mechanical broadheads, fletchings, and more.  Finally, we talk about Gavins 2023 season so far and plans moving forward.  Make sure to head over and check out Gavins podcast wherever you listen to your shows.  Thanks for listening!Check out the Sportsmen's Empire Podcast Network for more relevant outdoor content! Check out the MWW Website for shows, partner discounts, and more!!! Morrell Targets Weber Outfitters Athlon Optics Midwest Gun Works:  Use code woodswater for 5% off Rivers Edge Treestands:  Use code Missouri10 for 10% off plus free shipping on Hang-Ons and Ladder Stands Lucky Buck OnX  Use code MWW20 for 20% off  Camofire Black Ovis:  Use code MWW10 for 10% off Reveal Cameras by Tactacam

today episode Joe sits down with Gavin Sodders from the Whitetail bloodline. Gavin tells us how he got started hunting and how he started the bloodline. What he going into this next season with plans to hunt his family farm. Talks about harvesting his public land Kentucky buck. we talked about making mistake but having fun and learning at the same time https://www.instagram.com/whitetailbloodline/ https://www.instagram.com/generations_to_hunt_podcast/  https://www.facebook.com/Generationstohunt  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgw2EHkf5538DV6j9Xwxhbw  tik tok @generations_to_hunt

In the early hours on Christmas dady, 1945, a fire quickly spread through the Sodder house and five of the nine children at home never made it out. They were presumed dead. It wasn't long though before the Sodders began to notice that certain details didn't add up, and they began to suspect the children were actually alive. A theory that persists to this day. The Sodder Children story has been passed down through generations and it's getting harder and harder to solve the mystery. Bringing a new perspective to this case is guest Mr. Matt Glass. Famed composer of A Study Of Strange's theme music!   Find Matt's work: https://www.glassbrain.com/ & https://www.mattglass.net   Have you seen a UFO, UAP, or USO? We'd love to have you on a future episode. Write us at astudyofstrange@gmail.com    Visit our sponsor here: https://www.audibletrial.com/strange Join Patreon for exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/astudyofstrange Instagram: @astudyofstrange Website: www.astudyofstrange.com Hosted by Michael May Email stories, comments, or ideas to astudyofstrange@gmail.com! ©2022 Convergent Content, LLC ----- Links!   https://nodirectevidence.com/ - Bob Bragg's Book https://www.wvgazettemail.com/obituaries/sylvia-paxton/article_eb50dc1f-1551-58c2-9763-2642ac0979a1.html - Sylvia's Obit https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46375952/sodder-children-died-in-the-fire/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/47889477/?terms=sodder%20children&match=1 https://stacyhorn.com/2005/12/28/long-long-long-sodder-post/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance https://www.npr.org/2005/12/23/5067563/mystery-of-missing-children-haunts-w-va-town https://www.nytimes.com/1945/12/26/archives/11-children-die-in-4-home-fires-weather-mans-christmas-greetings-to.html https://www.amazon.com/Sodder-Family-Tragedy-Mystery-Children/dp/1942294085 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/sodder-children

Welcome aboard for another crazy episode! Today on the train we step into a familiar world…or should we say .. Worlds? A couple episodes ago we did some mass disappearances and you know we love some true crime so today we sort  of combine the two. You see, for the mass disappearances episode there was one case that kept popping up. Now this was interesting to us because we've had that particular case on our list of shows to do for some time now. We figured this would be a good time to go ahead and finally do it. Today we are talking about the disappearance of the Sodder children.  The incident happened on Christmas Eve in 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jenny Sodder lived with 9 of their 10 children. At the time, the oldest son was off fighting in WW2. The night of the incident, Jennie was awoken three times.   First, at 12:30 a.m., she was awoken by a phone call during which she could hear a woman's voice she didnt recognize asking for a name she didn't know, as well as glasses clinking in the background. Jennie told the caller she had reached the wrong number, later recalling the woman's "weird laugh". As she did, she noticed that some of the lights were still on and the curtains hadn't been closed, two things the children normally did when they stayed up later than their parents. Marion had fallen asleep on the living room couch, so Jennie assumed the other children ,who had stayed up later, had gone back up to the attic where they slept. She closed the curtains, turned out the lights, and returned to bed. She then went back to bed only to be startled by a loud bang and a rolling noise on the roof. She soon dozed off again and finally awoke an hour later at around 130, to see the house engulfed in smoke. She found that the room George used for his office was on fire, around the telephone line and fuse box.   Those are pretty much the facts that can be proven for the most part. Everything else…well it's strange to say the least.   George and Jennie made it out of that fire, as did Sylvia, just a toddler at the time. Also two of their teenage children, Marion and George Jr, made it out. 23 year old John rounded out the kids that made it out alive. Or did he? John said in his first police interview after the fire that he went up to the attic to alert his siblings sleeping there, though he later changed his story to say that he only called up there and did not actually see them. The children remaining inside were Maurice 14 , Martha 12, Louis 9, Jennie 8, and Betty 5. According to accounts, Marion, ran to the neighbors house to call the fire department because their phone was not working. A driver on the nearby road had also seen the flames and called from a nearby tavern; they too were unsuccessful either because they could not reach the operator or because the phone there turned out to be broken. It was Christmas Eve and I've read that the police chief sent everyone home to their families. She couldn't get an answer so another neighbor went to find the fire chief and let him know what was happening.    While this was going on, George, who climbed an outside wall, barefoot, to get to the attic and Jennie tried desperately to save their other children. This is where some of the strange things happen. First off neither of the Sodders trucks would start, despite having worked perfectly during the previous day.. Then their ladder was found to be mysteriously missing. Because of the family not being able to get help from the neighbor and their trucks oddly not starting when they tried to leave to look for the fire chief, help didn't arrive until 8am, almost 7 hours later. The fire department is just 2 miles from the home. The fire department was low on manpower due to the war and relying on individual firefighters to call each other. Chief F.J. Morris said the next day that the already slow response was further hampered by his inability to drive the fire truck, requiring that he wait until someone who could drive was available. Because he was fucking drunk; partying at a local pub, celebrating Christmas Eve. Oh, and one of the firefighters was Jennie's brother, their children's uncle.   The fire was initially blamed on faulty wiring, even though the Sodders claim there had never been any kind of issues with the electrical wiring before. In fact, A visitor to the house, seeking work, went around to the back of the house and warned George that a pair of fuse boxes would "cause a fire someday." George was puzzled by the observation, since he had just had the house rewired when an electric stove was installed, and the local electric company had said afterwards it was safe.   During the investigation something happened that makes this case the crazy thing that we are talking about. 5 of the Sodder children allegedly perished in the fire but the body's were never found. The fire chief told them the fire had cremated the bodies. Jennie asked a crematorium worker if that was possible, the worker told Jennie that bones remain even after bodies are burned at 2,000 degrees for two hours. The Sodder home only took 45 minutes to burn to the ground. So we did a little fact checking about this and there is a lot of argument about whether a house fire can burn bones to ash, but, it seems like those who have degrees and a bunch of letters after their name all agree that a house fire typically will not burn hot enough to get rid of bones. Also another thing we found is that even during cremations bones do not actually turn to dust. In fact after being incinerated at usually between 1800-2000°f, for about 2 hours, the bones are the only thing left. Now, the bones are not the same, granted, as with all the heat, it destroys the structure of the bone but does not turn it to ash. The ashes you receive are actually the bones of the deceased that have been put into what is essentially a big mixer, to pulverize them into dust. So enjoy that thought.    At any rate, due to what the experts said, the family did not believe that the other children simply burned up in the fire. They believed something else happened to the kids. But what else could have happened?   What else would lead one to think something possibly nefarious happened? Well according to some reports, some strange things happened in the lead up to the fire. One strange thing that happened was that in the months before the fire a "ominous drifter, hinted at doom '' We're assuming it was like Friday the 13th…the guy just points and goes…you're all dooooooomed, doomed! Whatever happened it sounds funny.    A few weeks earlier, not too far out from the incident, an angry insurance salesman berated George, telling him that his house was going to go up in smoke and his children would be destroyed as a retaliation for his criticisms of Mussolini in the mostly Italian immigrant community. Actually he said "the dirty remarks you have been making about Mussolini." If it was a sales tactic, it definitely needs work, otherwise, it's oddly specific! Also a bus driver came forward and spoke of how she saw "fireballs" being thrown into the roof of the house, could that be the noise she heard?   In the weeks before Christmas that year, George's older sons had also noticed a strange car parked along the main highway through town, its occupants watching the younger Sodder children as they returned from school.   What about the man who cut off the telephone lines at the Sodder residence? Someone witnessed him taking away a block and tackle used to remove car engines during the fire. He admitted to the theft but answered that he had no part in starting the fire; he had just wanted to cut off the power lines but instead clipped the telephone line. He was let go, and no records exist identifying him or questioning why he wanted to cut lines to steal a block and tackle.    Then on top of that you have the incidents on the night of the fire. There was the phone call and then the noise on the roof and she woke up to smoke in the house. Put all that together, and one could see where people may start to form some theories that this was more than just a tragic house fire.  You know we love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next folks…well at least Moody does.    Not only that, sightings of the children started almost immediately. For starters, locals reported seeing the 5 children in a car that was driving past and watching the fire. Then the next morning a woman operating a truck stop claimed she saw the children come in for breakfast with 4 Italian speaking adults.  Once pictures began to circulate, more sightings came in. a woman said that she saw four of the children (where was the fifth?) in the company of four adults at a hotel in South Carolina.  Which could lend credence to the truck stop story, which also mentioned 4 adults.    Armed with all these facts, George and Jennie went back to the police and demanded to have the fire further investigated. But the police refused, claiming that the coroner's inquiry determined that no crime had been committed.   This is when George and Jennie decided they would continue the search on their own.   George would constantly go and dig through the rubble trying to find something. At one point his searching seemed to find the first evidence of the children. He found what appeared to be an internal organ and also some small pieces of bone. They were sent for testing and the tests revealed that the "organ" was a cow's liver, and that the bones were from someone older than any of the missing children. The small bone fragments that were unearthed were determined to have been human vertebrae. The bone fragments were sent to Marshall T. Newman, a specialist at the Smithsonian Institution. They were confirmed to be lumbar vertebrae, all from the same person. "Since the transverse recesses are fused, the age of this individual at death should have been 16 or 17 years", Newman's report said. "The top limit of age should be about 22 since the centra, which normally fuse at 23, are still unfused". Thus, given this age range, it was not very likely that these bones were from any of the five missing children, since the oldest, Maurice, had been 14 at the time (although the report allowed that vertebrae of a boy his age sometimes were advanced enough to appear to be at the lower end of the range). Also the bones show no sign of being affected in any way by the fire. It was speculated that the bone fragments were mixed in with some dirt brought in to help fill in the basement. Later, Tinsley supposedly confirmed that the bone fragments had come from a cemetery in nearby Mount Hope, but could not explain why they had been taken from there or how they came to be at the fire site. The Smithsonian returned the bone fragments to George in September 1949, according to its records; their current location is unknown.  As far as the liver, it is said that a private investigator found out that the liver was put there by the fire chief at some point in hopes the family would find it and accept the idea that the kids perished in the fire.  George sometimes made his own sightings. On one occasion, George saw a magazine photo of a group of young ballet dancers in New York City, one of whom looked like his missing daughter Betty. He drove all the way to the girl's school, where his repeated demands to see the girl himself were refused.   The investigation and its findings attracted national attention, and the West Virginia Legislature held two hearings on the case in 1950. Afterwards, however, Governor Okey L. Patteson and state police superintendent W.E. Burchett told the Sodders the case was "hopeless" and closed it at the state level. The FBI decided it had jurisdiction as a possible interstate kidnapping, but dropped the case after two years of following fruitless leads.   After this second official investigation ended, George and Jennie continued their search.   George followed up on many leads on his own including heading to St Louis where a woman claimed Martha was being held in a convent but nothing came of that. Another woman in Texas claimed that she overheard two other patrons making incriminating remarks about a fire that happened on Christmas Eve in West Virginia several years before. Again nothing here proved significant.    At one point George heard that a relative of Jennies who lived in Florida had children that looked exactly like his had. He went down there to check it out and only when the relative was able to prove the children were his that George would leave it alone.         In 1967, George went to the Houston area to investigate another tip. A woman there had written to the family, saying that Louis had revealed his true identity to her one night after having too much to drink. She believed that he and Maurice were both living in Texas somewhere. However, George and his son-in-law, Grover Paxton, were unable to speak with her. Police there were able to help them find the two men she had indicated, but they denied being the missing sons. Paxton said years later that doubts about that denial lingered in George's mind for the rest of his life.   That same year the family would receive something pretty crazy. A photo showed up in the mail one day. The photo showed a man that appeared to be around his early 30s with strikingly similar features as their son Louis had had.    Written on the back of the photo was this:               Louis Sodder I love brother Frankie Ilil boys A90132 or 35   Interesting…. Very interesting.    The photo was in an envelope postmarked central city Kentucky. There was no return address.    The Sodders hired a private detective to go to Central city and try and track down where this letter came from and follow this lead. The private detective headed to Central city and guess what he fucking found….. well no one will ever know because after he left he was never heard from again. He never reported back to the Sodders and they were unable to ever locate him. Did he disappear with their money or was he made to sleep with the fishes?   Unfortunately, this took a pretty heavy toll on George. He said in an interview the following year that the lack of information had been "like hitting a rock wall—we can't go any further". "Time is running out for us", he admitted in another interview around that time. "But we only want to know. If they did die in the fire, we want to be convinced. Otherwise, we want to know what happened to them".   George would pass a year later in 1969 believing that his children were never killed in that fire and they were still out there someplace.    After this the rest of the family would continue to search and publicize the case. The only one that would not get involved was John. John believed that the family should accept what happened and all move on with their lives. Jennie stayed in the family home and built a fence around it and added rooms. She wore black for the mourning for the rest of her life and tended the garden at the site of the former house.    These are basically the facts as we know them. Since there's not much in the way of actual forensic evidence in this case, there's no way of telling for sure what happened as far as the children's bodies being burned. Obviously the investigation was quick, taking only 2 hours, and there wasn't a ton of forensic detective work back then. Plus DNA testing wasn't a thing. And just in general investigating wasn't generally as thorough as it is these days.   The surviving Sodder children, joined by their own children, along with older Fayetteville residents, have theorized that the Sicilian Mafia was trying to extort money from George and the children may have been taken by someone who knew about the planned arson and said they would be safe if they left the house. They were possibly taken back to Italy. If the children had survived all those years and were aware that their parents and siblings had survived too, the family believes, they may have avoided contact in order to keep them from harm.   Sylvia Sodder Paxton, the youngest of the surviving Sodder siblings, died in 2021. She was in the house on the night of the fire, which she said was her earliest memory. "I was the last one of the kids to leave home", she told the Gazette-Mail in 2013. She and her father would stay up late, talking about what might have happened. "I experienced their grief for a long time". She believed that her siblings survived that night, and assisted with efforts to find them and publicize the case. Her daughter said in 2006: "She promised my grandparents she wouldn't let the story die, that she would do everything she could".   George and Jennie passed out flyers and put up a billboard on route 16 in Fayetteville. The Sodders purchased the billboard in 1952. It featured black-and-white photographs of each missing child and an account of the fire with a $5000 reward that was increased to $10,000. It was taken down shortly after Jennie's death in 1989. It read:  “After thirty years, it's not too late to investigate. So what happened to the children if they didn't die in the fire? Well there's a few  theories but nothing solid.   One of the biggest questions is how someone could abduct 5 children with nobody being woken up. Well truecrimefiles.com say of that question:             "One of the most puzzling questions is how the actual alleged abduction took place. How did the kidnapper(s) get the five children out of the house, considering that the eldest sister was asleep on the sofa in the living room and the parents were asleep in a bedroom less than 20 feet away? Surely at least one of the children would have made some noise had a stranger (or even someone known to the family) come into the house and taken them away. There is at least one scenario that may have happened that would solve this specific puzzle. One of the chores the two boys were told to do was to attend to the family's handful of farm animals.”   On a side note, Marion, the oldest daughter, had been working at a dime store in downtown Fayetteville, and she surprised three of her younger sisters—Martha, Jennie, and Betty—with new toys she had bought for them. The younger children were so excited that they asked their mother if they could stay up past what would have been their usual bedtime.   At 10 p.m., Jennie told them they could stay up a little later, as long as the two oldest boys who were still awake, 14-year-old Maurice and his 9-year-old brother Louis, remembered to put the cows in and feed the chickens before going to bed themselves.    ”It is possible that all five of the children left the house to perform these chores (the three girls went along to watch) and were taken once they were outside and away from the house."   But an even bigger question would be why would someone do this. Many people believe that it had to do with George's and his background.    George immigrated from Italy and changed his last name from Soddu to Sodder upon arrival. Nobody really knows why he came to America or the circumstances behind his immigration. He would never discuss the issues and whenever it was brought up he would change the conversation. So that's kind of strange. Also George owned a coal trucking business, and at that time the coal industry was under a lot of pressure from the mafia. That plus his little known about past, have lead many people to speculate about mafia involvement in the crime.    Another theory suggests the kids were abducted by an illegal child-selling agency similar to Georgia Tann's with help from the local police. And remember that insurance guy George argued with, the guy that warned that their house would burn and the children would vanish. He was also a member of the coroner's jury which ruled the fire accidental. Leading many to suspect foul play.   For those of you wondering, For more than 20 years, Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society, where she and an elaborate network of co-conspirators kidnapped and abused children to sell them off to wealthy adoptive parents at a steep profit. This is too crazy a story to not talk about a little here because if there was a network similar to this operating in that area, it seemed like another plausible theory.    Beulah George "Georgia" Tann was born in 1891 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Named for her father, a powerful judge, she hoped to follow in his footsteps and practice law. Instead, her domineering father forbade it, and she instead pursued a career in social work — one of the few socially acceptable positions for a woman of her means.   She first went to work in Mississippi, but she was soon fired for inappropriately removing children from impoverished homes without cause. She made her way to Texas, where it's believed she adopted her daughter, June, in 1922. Later, in 1923, she adopted Ann Atwood Hollinsworth, a woman believed to be Tann's longtime same-sex partner. It was common at the time for same-sex couples to use adult adoption as a means of transferring property or inheritances.   Tann then moved on to Memphis, where her father used his political connections to secure a new job for her as executive secretary at the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society in 1922.   By 1929, she had staged a takeover and named herself executive director.   Tann's scheme coincided with a sharp increase in families looking to adopt kids In the 1900s and 1910s, formalized adoptions were fairly rare, but in the 1920s adoption began to be marketed as a shortcut to societal improvement. According to one ad from the National Home Finding Society, adopting would "reduce divorces, banditry, murder, and control births, fill all the churches and do real missionary work at home and abroad, exchanging immigrants for Americans and stopping some of the road leading to war."   At the time, the theory of eugenics — that is, the controlling of the reproduction of genetically "inferior" people through sterilization — was popular. The movement claimed that people of better genetic endowment were subject to greater infertility. It became important in adoption not just to get babies but to get the best babies. A campaign to explain the superiority of adoption was launched.   This new outlook, along with the popularization of baby formula, helped Tann's baby-trafficking business grow. Suddenly, nonnursing mothers could easily and affordably feed their babies. The demand for adoptable infants rose, especially among busy, successful women.   Tann was calculated in her approach and targeted the rich and famous, who paid premium prices for their adopted children. Actors, authors, and entertainers, including Dick Powell and June Allyson, Lana Turner, Pearl S. Buck, Smiley Burnette, and New York Gov. Herbert Lehman, all adopted Tann babies. In 1947, Joan Crawford adopted twins, Cathy and Cindy, from Tann.   Stealing children wasn't a small side business. During the 21 years Tann ran the Children's Home Society, it's believed she made more than $1 million from taking and selling children — about $11 million in today's money. And she didn't do it alone.   Tann's extensive child-trafficking operation required connections, and she quickly linked up with E.H. "Boss" Crump, who ran a powerful Tennessee political machine. Crump offered Tann protections in exchange for kickbacks.   To kidnap and traffic her victims, Tann paid off a network of social workers, police officers, doctors, and lawyers. Some kidnapped children from preschools, churches, and playgrounds for her. Kidnappers preyed on poor children and families who didn't have the means to fight back. Tann's coconspirators were authority figures — people not to be contradicted — so children often went with them willingly. Sometimes, Tann would approach families and offer medical or other help. Tann would tell parents she could get their children into a clinic at no cost, but if they came along as well they'd be charged a large bill.   In the era before internet and with few phones, Tann relied on her network of spotters. They alerted Tann to children on riverbanks, in shantytowns, or walking home from school. She drove up in her big black car and offered them rides.   Tann was also in cahoots with a local judge who helped procure children, specifically from impoverished single or widowed mothers. One of her most high profile coconspirators was Judge Camille Kelley, who presided over the juvenile court in Shelby County, Tennessee, for 30 years.   "She had a stooge down in the welfare department when someone would apply for assistance, this person would get their name, and get in touch with Camille Kelley," Robert Taylor, an investigator, said in a 1992 interview with "60 Minutes."   In 1950, Taylor, a local lawyer, was asked by newly elected Gov. Gordon Browning to do an in-depth investigation into Children's Home Society and Tann. "Camille Kelley would send a deputy out to pick them up and award custody to Georgia Tann," he added.   Tennessee law required children to be adopted in state for a fee of $7, about $75 in today's money. But Tann moved her "merchandise" at $1,000 per head — $10,000 today. When the state finally investigated, the report on the Children's Home Society, the Browning report, found that Tann conducted "private" adoptions and pocketed up to 90% of the fee. She would gouge prospective parents on everything from travel costs, to home visits, and attorney's fees.   The report also detailed how children were then spirited away from the Home Society in the middle of the night to avoid detection by authorities who weren't in the know or others who might ask too many questions. Her "nurses" had regular circuits to New York and California, though she shipped to all US states and Great Britain.   Elaborate backstories were added to stolen children's files to make them more "marketable." Their files said they came from "good homes" with "very attractive" young mothers. Fathers were described as "intelligent" and often in medical school.   Tann also knew how to capitalize on opportunities in the adoption market. Few agencies adopted to Jewish families, and Tann saw her chance. A few pen strokes turned a Southern Baptist child into a baby from a "good Jewish" family. As the Children's Home Society scandal was exposed, the scenario played out in the adoption records over and over again.   If parents, biological or adoptive, asked too many questions about children, Tann threatened to have them arrested or the child removed. She was known for "repossessing" children whose adoptive parents couldn't make full payments on time. And she wasn't above blackmailing customers for more money later.   Often she would return to adoptive parents months later and say relatives of the child had come around asking for a baby's return. But for a hefty fee she had lawyers who could make the situation go away.   Homes for unwed mothers, welfare hospitals, and prisons were targeted. Doctors, working with Tann, told new mothers their babies had died during birth. Those children were "buried" at no cost to the families.   Other mothers were coerced into signing their children away while still under sedation from labor. Tann preyed on women's desperation, their poverty, and their sense of shame.   "If they were unsedated and tried to hold on to the babies after the baby was born, then Georgia Tann would step in and say, 'Well, you don't want people in your home town to know about [your pregnancy], do you?'" Robert Taylor, a lawyer who investigated the Tennessee Children's Home Society scandal for Gov. Gordon Browning, said in his 1992 "60 Minutes" interview.   By the 1930s, as a result of Tann's scam, Memphis had the highest infant mortality rate in the US.   Archives at the Benjamin Hooks Library, in Memphis, reveal some of the cruelties children were subjected to. Babies were kept in sweltering conditions, and some children were drugged to keep them quiet until they were sold. Other children were hung in dark closets, beaten, or put on starvation rations for weeks at a time. Drug addicts and pedophiles were hired to watch over them.   According to "The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption," sexual abuse was a common occurrence at the home.   Tann was brutally unsparing in her cruelty. Former Home Society employees revealed to Taylor that if an infant was deemed too weak, it might be left in the sun to die. If a child had a congenital disability or was considered "too ugly" or "old" to be of use, Tann had people get rid of them. Many were buried on the property, though about 20 children were buried in an unmarked plot of land within Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.   In the 1940s, Tann developed a new publicity stunt.   "They would raffle 20 or 30 babies off every year in the 'Christmas Baby Give Away' in the newspaper," Wingate said. "How did anyone ever think that was all right?"   For $25 a ticket — about $350 today — purchasers could buy as many raffle tickets as they liked.   Tann pocketed thousands of dollars that ticket holders assumed went to the Home Society, and had to give away just a fraction of her "merchandise" in the process.   Tann's baby-selling scheme carried on unabated for over two decades. But in 1949 things took a turn. Tennessee elected a new governor, Gordon Browning. Weakened, E.H. Crump, Tann's crony, lost his hold on Memphis politics.   On September 12, 1950, Gov. Browning held a press conference during which he revealed Tann and her network managed to amass more than $1 million from her child-selling scheme — again, nearly $11 million in today's money.   But Tann was never held accountable. Three days later, she died at home after slipping into a mysterious coma from untreated uterine cancer.   On November 11, 1950, Judge Camille Kelley, who had worked so closely with Tann, quietly resigned. It took until late November or early December to find safe homes for the remaining children. Somewhere in the waning days of 1950, the doors to the Tennessee Children's Home Society were closed for good.   No one was ever prosecuted for their roles in the black-market baby ring.   Holy fuck…. So we know that was a tangent but you got a 2 fer here with that crazy tale, and again the reason we went into the  details on this are because there is speculation that the Sodder children could have been victims of a similar scheme. I mean.. If it happened on that scale in one place who's to say it didn't happen here as well. https://www.ranker.com/list/best-movies-about-kidnapping/ranker-film

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On December 24, 1945 the Sodder family went to bed and woke up to a fire in their house. Five of their nine children were presumed to be caught in the fire. However, the investigation showed no signs of human remains. Decades later, a mysterious photograph was sent to the Sodders. Were the five children actually in the house when the fire broke out? Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com626-604-6262Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / MerchSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/webcrawlers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A Christmas of nightmares, a family stricken with fear and grief. The Sodders not only lost their home but 5 of their children. But what happened and why? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shayna-edwards/support

Dezember 1945, eine Kleinstadt in West Virgina: es ist mitten in der Nacht. Der erste Weihnachtstag hat gerade begonnen. Jennie Sodder schrickt aus dem Schlaf. Holz knackt und es stinkt nach Rauch. Das Haus der Familie steht in Flammen. In diesem grausamen Feuer wird Jennie Sodder fünf ihrer Kinder verlieren. Doch die Knochen der Kinder werden nie gefunden. Sind sie also gar nicht gestorben? Was hat den Brand überhaupt ausgelöst? Wer hat die Telefonleitung durchschnitten? Wieso springen die Trucks nicht an, mit denen man die Kinder vielleicht hätte retten können? Nur eins ist sicher: in diesem rätselhaften Fall geht so einiges nicht mit rechten Dingen zu. ***IN EIGENER SACHE*** Wir sind für den Deutschen Podcast Preis nominiert! Hier könnt ihr für uns abstimmen: http://bit.ly/akte-preis ***WERBUNG*** Mit unserem Code SCHWARZEAKTE bekommt ihr 5% Rabatt auf das gesamte KoRo-Sortiment: www.korodrogerie.de Vielen Dank an unsere Partner, die es uns ermöglichen, auch weiterhin coole Folgen für euch aufzunehmen. ***Wir übernehmen keine Haftung für die Inhalte externer Links*** ***Links zum Fall*** Foto der fünf vermissten Kinder: http://bit.ly/akte46-kinder *** Foto eines Flyers, mit dem nach den Kindern gesucht wurde: http://bit.ly/akte46-flyer *** Foto des angeblichen Louis Sodder und Foto des 9-jährigen Louis: http://bit.ly/akte46-louis *** Notiz auf der Rückseite des Fotos: http://bit.ly/akte46-notiz *** Foto der Werbetafel, mit der die Sodders ihre Kinder suchten: http://bit.ly/akte46-tafel1 *** Foto der zweiten Werbetafel mit den Eltern der Sodder-Kinder: http://bit.ly/akte46-tafel2 ***Wir übernehmen keine Haftung für die Inhalte externer Links*** Herzlich Willkommen bei der Schwarzen Akte - dem Mystery True Crime Podcast. Es sind Details, die ein gewöhnliches Verbrechen von einem unglaublichen Mysterium unterscheiden. Wir stellen euch hier Fälle vor, bei denen sich eure Nackenhaare sträuben und von denen ihr bislang steif und fest behauptet hättet, dass so etwas nie im Leben passieren kann. Jeden Dienstag veröffentlichen wir eine neue Folge mit außergewöhnlichen Kriminalfällen und überlegen, ob auch an der merkwürdigsten Spekulation doch ein Fünkchen Wahrheit zu erkennen ist. Schreibt uns gern eure Theorien und weitere spannende Fälle an schwarzeakte@julep.de, auf Instagram an @schwarzeakte, auf Facebook an @SchwarzeAktePodcast oder YouTube an @SchwarzeAkteTrueCrimePodcast

Back in 1945, a devastating house fire broke out on Christmas Eve at the home of the Sodder family in West Virginia. Despite their best efforts, parents George and Jennie Sodder were unable to save five of their ten children from the flames…or so they thought. As strange evidence began to mount, the Sodders became … Continue reading Episode 240 LIVE: The Disappearance of the Sodder Children

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children have never been found. The Sodders believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived.This episode is sponsored by PodDecks: Use Code TCNS for 10% off. https://powered-by-pod-decks.peachs.co/a/lawrence-leaseFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/truecrimensLike Us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/truecrimeneversleepspodcastSupport Us By Buying Us a Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/tcns

In this episode we discuss the disappearance of Nicholas Barclay & the unsolved mystery of the 5 Sodder children. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A mysterious fire breaks out at the home of the Sodders, but only the parents and 4 kids made it out with 5 of the 9 children still missing with no trace. Please make sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a 5-star review! PHOTOS: Missing flyer of the children You can listen to this episode wherever you find your podcasts.

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On Christmas Eve of 1945, Jennie and George Sodder were asleep along with 9 of their children when a fire startled them awake. Their home was burned to the ground within 45 minutes, allowing only Jennie, George, and 4 of their children to escape. The remaining 5 children, between the ages of 5-14, did not make it out, nor were any of their remains found in the rubble. The children were dismissed to have been burned to cremation in the fire, although the Sodders almost immediately began to question the odd occurrences that surrounded the days and hours leading up to the fire. The children are still unaccounted for to date, but what led to the fire and lack of answers? Was it George's mysterious childhood in Italy prior to immigrating to the US, his public outspoken political reputation, a bad deal with a local banker, mafia troubles, or were they simply targeted by some unknown dark individuals? This is one of the most mind racking mysteries we have ever heard, and we dig up all of the details.References:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

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The Sodders were a well-respected Italian family in their town of Fayettville, WV. They were happily married with 10 children. Tragedy struck this family on Christmas Eve 1945 when a fire took the lives of 5 of the children, or did it? Listen as this story takes twists and turns that you would never expect. Then decide for yourself if you think the children have perished. Sources : Historycollection.com, NPR.org, News.com.au, thoughtcatalog.com, truecrimefiles.com, wikipedia.org, smithsonianmag.com, West Virginia Crime Files Series: Volume 1 : The Sodder Family Tragedy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/crimesandclosets/message

DID YOU HEAR THAT INTRO?! Thank you so much to our friend Ben Lobban for making that amazing intro for us. Ben is a super talented music producer and all round creative so please give him a follow at @sayhellotorufus Don't send this episode to FJ Morris because he probably won't appreciate what Alex and Lucy have to say about him... This episode Lucy and Alex discuss the unbelievable story of the missing Sodders children! 5 kids just disappear in a house fire with no trace they were ever really in the house? Ooky spooky if you ask us. Your hosts attempt and fail to understand the science around fires and gush over the aloof and lustrous private investigator, CC Tinsley. As always, if you've enjoyed the episode please share it on your social media and tag us on Instagram @deadtalkpodcast

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A fire. A string of mysterious coincidences. Five missing children. This week, Jess and Philippa look at an unsolved case of disappearance of five members of the Sodder family.Music: "Never Can Stop It" by Lobo LocoFrom the Free Music ArchiveCC BY NC"Der Fruling: Chorus: Ewiger, Machtiger, Gutiger Gott!" by MIT Concert ChoirFrom the Free Music ArchiveCC BY NCSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/Awfulforeverpodcast)

On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about a listener-voted favorite, the mysterious disappearance of the Sodder Family. On Christmas Eve of 1945, an odd fire raged through the Sodder home, supposedly killing five of the 10 Sodder children. However, the circumstances around the fire are pretty baffling, and the lack of evidence and bodies suggest the kids weren’t actually in the house in the fire. But if that was the case, where did they go, and why did nobody ever find them? Good question! George and Jennie Sodder were both first generation Italian immigrants who came through Ellis Island and settled in Fayetteville, West Virginia. It was a town with a large Italian population, half of whom hated George Sodder for his stance against Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He got in regular arguments with the locals about this, and it got so heated that an insurance salesman once said that his house would one day go up in smoke, and his children would be destroyed! Well, turns out that guy was right. On Christmas eve, a strange series of events took place that may or may not have put the kids in their beds up in the attic as they were supposed to be. At 12:30 AM, an odd phone call came in. At 1:00, there were noises on the roof (those ain’t reindeer!), and by 1:30 George’s office and the roof were on fire. The couple ushered four of their children out of the house, but the flames were too intense for them to return for the remaining 5. And then came the series of “No’s”. The ladder that was always against the house (and could save the kids) was gone. The water barrels were all frozen solid. The phone line was cut. The neighbors couldn’t reach anyone on the phone to get help. The trucks wouldn’t start. The Cosmic Muffin really dropped his hammer. Or did he? Investigations started to reveal mysteries and odd happenings. The phone line wasn’t dead from the fire but was cut. A burglar was caught on the premises but released for no good reason. There were no children screaming in the fire. It took the fire department 7 hours to get on the scene. And most importantly, there were no bodies or bones found after the fire died. So, were the kids inside, and if so, what happened to their bones? Why did George go against the will of the fire department and bury the Sodder house under five feet of dirt just four days after the fire? What did the guy who threatened the Sodders have to do with the findings of the fire department? Did this all have to do with the mob? How long does it take Brad, Brent, and Dave to descend into talk about the Mario Brothers? Listen, laugh, learn.

In this weeks episode Dave and Kate put on their Deerstalker hats and attempt to solve some of the worlds most famous mysteries. Dave goes all the way to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil to study the Lead Mask Case. Where two men wearing lead masks were found dead on top of a hill. Kate heads to Fayetteville, West Virginia to search for the missing Sodder children. How can they disappear without a trace? Are they alive or are the dead? Also don't forgot today April 15th 2019 is the last day to enter the contest so go check out our social media and enter! Instagram: @sasquatchatemybaby Twitter: @sasatemybaby Facebook: Sasquatch Ate My Baby Email: sasquatchatemybaby@gmail.com

Steve Sodders drops by the garage on the inaugural episode, and we discuss bits about his life as a Sheriff Deputy, State Senator, Mayor, and discuss his impending retirement. Steve asks me about my hobbies, my political aspirations, and much more. You can support the show as a paid member with a monthly recurring subscription to hear bonus audio, deleted stuff from the numbered episodes, and extra bonuses TBD later right here on the site! Simple! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wiwhom/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wiwhom/support

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After five of their children died in a tragic Christmas Eve fire in 1945, George and Jennie Sodder were certain that it was not due to faulty wiring. With the police department unwilling to reopen the case, the Sodders hired private detectives to investigate. What they found would reinforce what the Sodders knew all along: The fire was no accident. Sponsors! Caffé Monster - Available in Vanilla, Mocha, and Salted Caramel. Pretty Litter - Go to PrettyLitter.com and use promo code UNSOLVED for 20% off your first order. Third Love - Go to ThirdLove.com/UNSOLVED now to find your perfect-fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase.

TRUE CRIME - On Christmas Eve, 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia, the Sodder Family went to bed for the last time together. George and Jennie Sodder and their 9 kids went to bed that night and a fire supposedly claimed the live of 5 of the 9 Sodder Children but mystery has surrounded their deaths and suggestions of illegal and suspicious activity plague this case to this day.A mysterious set of circumstances and witnesses began the growth of the seeds of doubt for George and Jenny Sodder. They didnt believe their children died in a house fire and that something more sinister was afoot. Especially when authorities were planting fake evidence and interfering with investigations.When witnesses and inexplicable letters and photographs began surfacing the Sodders knew something was definitely up. Could George Sodders sedition against the Mussolini regime in his homeland of Italy be the cause of the fire and the alleged kidnap of his children at the hands of disgruntled expats?________________________This podcast is supported by the generous donations of the wonderful folks over at Patreon. If you want to support the show and get exclusive content, ad-free episodes, access to live chats and private social media like Instagram and Discord and a whole load of other stuff click here http://bit.ly/TCG-PatreonIf you want to follow TCG on social platforms including the Discord, watch video versions of the livestream podcast and documentaries; or even join in on live chats about current events; buy TCG merch; get notifications of and buy tickets to upcoming live stage shows or to just support the show on Patreon; all the links, info and instructions you can find by clicking this link http://www.linktr.ee/thoseconspiracyguys

TRUE CRIMEOn Christmas Eve, 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia, the Sodder Family went to bed for the last time together. George and Jennie Sodder and their 9 kids went to bed that night and a fire supposedly claimed the live of 5 of the 9 Sodder Children but mystery has surrounded their deaths and suggestions of illegal and suspicious activity plague this case to this day.A mysterious set of circumstances and witnesses began the growth of the seeds of doubt for George and Jenny Sodder. They didnt believe their children died in a house fire and that something more sinister was afoot. Especially when authorities were planting fake evidence and interfering with investigations.When witnesses and inexplicable letters and photographs began surfacing the Sodders knew something was definitely up. Could George Sodders sedition against the Mussolini regime in his homeland of Italy be the cause of the fire and the alleged kidnap of his children at the hands of disgruntled expats?Presented by Gordo and Paul---LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTIm doing a LIVE SHOW as part of the Cork Podcast Festival this weekend on Saturday 12th October in Kino theatre in Cork City. The show starts at 6pm and you'll be well on your way home by 8pm; so click here http://bit.ly/Cork-Oct19-Gig-Tickets to get your tickets. ---**CONTACT AND WEBSITE**Email - mailto:info@thoseconspiracyguys.comWebsite - http://www.thoseconspiracyguys.com**SUPPORT THE SHOW**This podcast is supported by the generous donations of the wonderful folks over at Patreon. You can get exclusive content, ad-free episodes, access to live chats and private social media like Instagram and Discord and a whole load of other stuff. Click the link here and choose your support level, and thanks :) Appreciate ya!Patreon - http://bit.ly/TCG-Patreon**SOCIAL MEDIA**Probably the most useful and well maintained social space for TCG fans is the Discord server so click the link below and join in the conversation with fellow fans. Send me a DM or post to episode specific channels yourself, share links, or join in discussions.Discord - http://bit.ly/TCG-DiscordGordo is the one replying to all of the social media below so click the links here to be brought to the apps OR just search for 'thoseconspiracyguys' in any of these websites :D Some sites in this list are obviously more active than others but I read all messages sent to me, even though I may not reply straight away. Twitter - http://bit.ly/TCG-twitter or find @tconspiracyguysFacebook - http://bit.ly/TCG-facebook Instagram - http://bit.ly/TCG-Instagram or find @thoseconspiracyguysMinds - http://bit.ly/TCG-MindsPinterest - http://bit.ly/TCG-PinterestReddit - http://bit.ly/TCG-RedditAnchor - http://bit.ly/TCG-AnchorVero - http://get.vero.co/vero and find @thoseconspiracyguysSnapchat - http://bit.ly/TCG-SnapchatVoat - http://bit.ly/TCG-VoatGab - http://bit.ly/TCG-GabTumblr - http://bit.ly/TCG-TumblrMix - http://bit.ly/TCG-MixMySpace - http://bit.ly/TCG-MySpaceMeetup - http://bit.ly/TCG-Meetup**MERCH**Get conspiracy themed merch designed and curated by Gordo on our TeePublic store!Top sellers include: Sasquatch - Forest Police Unit, Time to Pay the Bill, and That Sh*t is Bananas Click this link below to be brought straight to the storeTeepublic - http://bit.ly/TCG-teepublic**VIDEO** For TCG video content subscribe to any of these services where you will find: LiveChats; Episode and Recording Day Vlogs; LiveStreams of Podcast Episodes; and loads more. You will also get notifications of upcoming Live events and can join in the conversation!YouTube - http://bit.ly/TCG-YouTubeBitchute - http://bit.ly/TCG-BitchuteTwitch - http://bit.ly/TCG-TwitchVimeo - http://bit.ly/TCG-VimeoDLive - http://bit.ly/TCG-DLiveGetVokl - http://bit.ly/TCG-GetVokl

Christmas Eve 1945. Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jenny Sodder are preparing to celebrate the holidays with nine of their children, but shortly after they go to bed, their home burns completely to the ground. When the smoke clears, five of the Sodder children - whose ages range from five to fourteen years old - are nowhere to be found and a search of the rubble fails to turn up any trace of their remains. Due to a number of suspicious events surrounding the fire, the Sodders begin to suspect their five missing children were the victims of a bizarre kidnapping. Did the Sodder children really die in the fire that night or did they somehow survive and remain hidden from their family for the rest of their lives? And if the children did perish in the fire, who was responsible for starting it? In this week’s special holiday-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we chronicle one of the most infamous Christmas mysteries of all time. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/ http://charleyproject.org/case/jennie-irene-sodder http://charleyproject.org/case/maurice-antonio-sodder http://charleyproject.org/case/louis-erico-sodder http://charleyproject.org/case/betty-dolly-sodder http://charleyproject.org/case/martha-lee-sodder Click here to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Click here to listen to the podcast on Stitcher. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Music. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Boy, is this story a doozy. The Mysterious Deaths of the Sodder Children on Christmas Eve, 1945, is one of the most bizarre cases you'll ever hear of, guaranteed. At first, it seems to be a pretty straightforward case. A house fire in Fayetteville, West Virginia ends with the unfortunate deaths of five children. However, if you only dig a little bit further -- unintended pun -- you'll come up with the facts in a story that just never can be squared up with reality.   Here are the Outline Show Notes for this Ep: Christmas Eve, 1945 Fayetteville, WV There were 10 Sodder children. Sodder was Italian-American. Fayetteville had a vibrant Italian-American population. TEN CHILDREN. George and Jennie -- Parents Maurice, 14 Martha, 12 Louis, 9 Jennie, 8 Bettie, 5 Around 1AM a fire broke out. George and Jennie and four children escaped (one was off in the war) House layout: the parents lived downstairs; the kids lived upstairs.   The ladder was missing. Neither of the two vehicles would start. The ‘phone tree’ that the fire department used was slow, and they didn’t show until 8AM. By that time, the Sodder house was ash and rubble. A search of the Sodder homestead on Christmas Day revealed no remains of any of the five children. The fire was attributed to faulty wiring. After four days of intense grief, George Sodder covered the house / basement over, even though he was told to leave it for an investigation. This is where things start to get weird. An itinerant worker, a few months before, claimed that the house would catch fire. Some time later, a man tried to sell the family life insurance and became incensed when George didn’t take. He reportedly told them that their house would burn down. “Your goddamn house is going up in smoke,” he warned, “and your children are going to be destroyed. You are going to be paid for the dirty remarks you have been making about Mussolini.”   Death certificates were issued on December 30, 1945. The Sodders became convinced their kids weren’t in the house. Jennie Sodder soon became confused about the circumstances of the fire. No bones? She began doing her own experiments. A crematorium employee told her bones would remain after burning for 2K degrees for 2 hours. The wires, a phone co. employee told them, had been cut not burned. Contradicts the narrative. Recalled a thud on the roof just before the fire. People reported seeing the kids be carried away the night of the fire.   In 1947, the Sodders hired a Private Investigator named CC Tinsley, who found out that -- get this -- the insurance salesman who had threatened George was a member of the coroner’s jury that deemed the fire an accident.   It continues to get bizarre. FJ Morris, the fire chief of Fayettville, claimed to have found no remains, but a rumor circulated that he’d found a heart in the ashes that he kept in a dynamite box, which he buried at the site. It. Gets. Weirder. The family convinced him to show them the spot. They dug up the box and had it analyzed. Turns out, it wasn’t even a heart. It was a beef liver, a liver, I might add, that the chief admitted to burying himself, supposedly to put the family at ease.   The family becomes frantic, searching for any answers at all. They eventually brought in a pathologist from DC, who managed to find some bones in the scene.   When analyzed, however, the bones turned out NOT to be from any of the children. They had come from someone else altogether, someone older. So NO bones from the kids were found. The bones that were found had not been exposed to fire at all, so no dice.   Fast forward twenty years. The Sodders receive a photograph in 1968 that looked very much like their Louis. It had a cryptic message on the back, and they sent a PI to check it out, but never heard from him again.   George died shortly after and Jennie in 1989. The last surviving child, Sylvia, refuses to believe they were in the fire.   Theme: "Ten" by DJ Sun You can find my books on Amazon, as well. Here are the links to the first two works in the Rolson McKane tetralogy: Boogie House: A Rolson McKane Mystery (by T. Blake Braddy) The Devil Came Calling: A Rolson McKane Mystery (by T. Blake Braddy) Here are the other links to find both the podcast(s) and my own thoughts and ramblings: Web site: tblakebraddy.com Amazon Author Dashboard: T. Blake Braddy Facebook: Rolson McKane Official Page Twitter: @blakebraddy Instagram: @tblakebraddy The Principled Uncertainty Podcast Web site: principleduncertainty.libsyn.com Twitter: @PUPodcast  

This Week we welcome Bob Warner, Betty Sodders and Jerry Everhart from all the way up in the U.P. To talk about bear hunting and how it's done. Bob Warner owner of Raber Bay Outfitters in Goetzville, MI is an experienced guide and long time hunter. Betty Sodders is a outdoor writer for Michign's Woods and Water and many other publications as well. Betty has written over 2000 articles and six books. Our own Jerry Everhart needs no introduction and as you know, Jerry always has an interesting story from his past. So sit back and grab yourself a hot steaming cup of Hemisphere Coffee Roasters Coffee and enjoy this page in the Hunt Fish Journal. Thank you Betty Sodders and Bob Warner for taking the time to do this show!!! Remember our sponsors! Hemisphere Coffee Roasters in Mechanicsburg, Ohio contact Paul or Grace at 937-834-3230  You'll be glad you did!                   "you just can't get a better tasting cup of coffee"

Hosted by Larry 'Zaracon' Sodders and M.Rev. Donald Lewis-Highcorrell, to honor one of our Elders, and honor his life as he asked. We shall Celebrate his life. Join us and let us talk about Isaac with his wonderful widow, Phaedra along with calls from Selena Fox, Ian Corrigan, Oberon and Morning Glory Zell Ravenheart. Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, founder and Archdruid Emeritus of of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, one of North America's leading experts on ancient and modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement, died today after a short struggle with cancer.

Hosted by Larry 'Zaracon' Sodders and M.Rev. Donald Lewis-Highcorrell, to honor one of our Elders, and honor his life as he asked. We shall Celebrate his life. Join us and let us talk about Isaac with his wonderful widow, Phaedra along with calls from Selena Fox, Ian Corrigan, Oberon and Morning Glory Zell Ravenheart. Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, founder and Archdruid Emeritus of of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, one of North America's leading experts on ancient and modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement, died today after a short struggle with cancer. PLEASE CALL IN WITH MEMORIAL COMMENTS AT 347-308-8222