85: The Sodder Children

Down The Rabbit Holes

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A horrific fire destroyed the home of the Sodder family on Christmas Eve 1945. The family had 10 children, and 5 did not emerge from the home in Fayetteville, West Virginia during that fire. For years, it has been debated if the children had passed in the fire…or if they were missing. The case is summed up perfectly in this quote from NPR “”There is enough genuine weirdness about this whole thing ... that if someday it is learned that the children did not die in the fire I won't be shocked”.”

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0:00.0	A missing person is a person who has vanished and is unconfirmed as alive or dead as their location and fate are unknown. Hey, everyone back to Down the Rabbit Holes podcast.
0:38.2	I'm Melissa and I'm Melissa.
0:39.9	And I'm Amy.
0:47.4	I am overwhelmed and excited by the case that I have for you today.
0:50.4	I'm actually excited, too.
0:57.3	You just told me 30 seconds ago, and I, my response was, this is super requested,
0:59.0	and I know nothing.
1:07.4	Yes. So Jenna, Julio, Tracy, Allison, those are some of the requests that were sent into us. It might have even been mentioned a couple of times in passing on social media
1:12.4	about the case. Yep, I agree with you. So I definitely wanted to touch on it. It was, it's a case
1:19.6	that's right up my alley, which is like the 40s. So, I mean, it was like a no-brainer for me. It was
1:27.4	going to be my case.
1:29.0	I knew about the case a little bit.
1:31.7	If you put into Google, like, famous missing person's cases or whatever, this one will almost always come up on any list.
1:41.6	And without going into theories initially, I could just say that I had certain thoughts about it,
1:48.2	which made me never deep dive into it.
1:52.6	Okay.
1:53.2	And now that I've read into it, I'm like, okay, so I see why it's so interesting.
1:58.0	And I see why my jump to a particular conclusion doesn't always work that
2:03.5	you know there might be some other things out there so I'm really glad I did it I was super overwhelmed
2:10.5	by the information out there there is a ton there's a ton of YouTube there's a ton of There's a ton of YouTube. There's a ton of articles. And I just want you to know that I picked delicately the stuff that I'm choosing. And of course, because the biggest part of our podcast is the theory piece that, you know, you have to tell the story in a certain amount
2:39.2	of time so that we have plenty of time to do the theories piece. So I know that there's stuff
2:46.0	that might be overlooked or briefly talked about. I did so with intention.
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