The Sodder Children pt 1 - 676
Generation Why: True Crime
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4.5 • 18.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family, consisting of George, Jennie and 9 of their 10 children, awoke in the middle of the night to flames engulfing their house. Not everybody made it out of there; five of the Sodder children were believed to have perished in the fire that night. Despite what the authorities said, George and Jennie Sodder were certain that their children did not die that night. What actually happened to the five Sodder children?
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Generation Y ad-free right now. |
| 0:05.1 | Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. |
| 0:08.5 | Alison Matt here from British Scandal. |
| 0:10.8 | Matt, some news for you. |
| 0:12.2 | British Scandal is going to Broadway. |
| 0:15.2 | What? I didn't know about this. |
| 0:17.0 | Sorry, not literally. |
| 0:17.9 | I just mean we're taking it to the stage to do the show live. |
| 0:20.9 | Right. But in New York? Sort of. In New Yorkshire, we're going to Sheffield! |
| 0:27.1 | Is this your festival crossed wires? Where all the UK's biggest podcast do live shows across |
| 0:31.2 | iconic venues in Sheffield between the 2nd and 5th of July. That was a beautiful read. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank very much. And because I did such an incredible live show last year, you've basically begged me to return this year. Don't add to the script, thanks. Matt and I cordially invite you to our British Scandal live show on Sunday, July the 5th. And if we're doing the story, I think we are, it is potentially one of the most ridiculous scandals we've ever told. Yes, we are doing the theft of the golden toilet. |
| 0:57.4 | So grab a ticket at crossedwires. Live. |
| 0:59.7 | That's C-R-O-S-S-E-D-Wires. |
| 1:05.7 | It's a |
| 1:13.6 | It's a very strong. |
| 1:15.6 | It's a very strong. How are you doing tonight, Aaron? I'm doing good, man. How are you? |
| 1:46.0 | I'm doing wonderful. We're doing a older, but a very known case, I would say. |
| 1:54.4 | And it's one that I'd heard about this case a hundred times, but I never really dug into it. |
| 1:59.7 | What are your initial thoughts on covering |
| 2:01.8 | this case? Well, I think the main reason we're covering is because we spoke to Miranda, which she's the |
| 2:07.6 | great-great-granddaughter of George Sauter, one of the people in this case. And she was referred to |
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