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Welcome to True Crime Brewery.

I'm Jill.

And I'm Dick.

So today we're going way back to the 1940s. It was just after midnight on Christmas Eve of

1945 and Jenny Sodder woke up to the smell of smoke. The home she shared with her husband George

and nine of their children was going up in flames. It would be over seven hours before the

fire department arrived.

And by then the two-story house had burned to the ground,

and five of the solder children were missing.

In fact, to this day, no one knows what happened to the solder children.

Their family never saw them again, and the remains were never found.

Join us at the quiet end for the missing solder children, although authorities determined that the children, Maurice 14, Martha

12, Louis 10, Jenny Irene 8, and Betty just 5 years old, had died in the fire.

Their family was not convinced.

How could they have perished in the fire without any bones being found,

none?

Now because of some strange events before, during, and after the tragic fire, as well as a

studdingly incompetent investigation, this case continues to be one of history's most disturbing and intriguing unsolved mysteries.

So you know what I always like with a mystery?

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