[*] The remaining 5 Sodder children were never accounted for.
George started his own trucking company in West Virginia and the two were a respected middle class family.
(He was strongly opposed to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini).
She heard other voices in the background along with clinking glasses and weird laughter.
[*] When Jennie got off the phone, she checked on her children.
She had allowed her kids to stay up later playing with new toys.
She went back to sleep.
[*] Next, the family tried to call for help.
The Sodder phone did not work so one of the children ran to a neighbors and called.
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It was usually resting against the side of the house but was now missing.
Both were previously in good working order and now would not start.
The fire chief still believed the children died in the fire.
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Death certificates for the children were issued.
However, after things calmed down, the family began to question what really happened.
[*] Jennie Sodder tried to burn animal bones to ash and was unable to do so.
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[*] George Sodder was confused about why neither of his previously working trucks would move that night.
[*] In 1949 the site of the house fire was excavated.
The oldest of the missing children was 14 at the time of the fire.
I do not remember the exact date, she said in a statement.
Immediately, the whole party stopped talking to me.
