The Sodder Family Christmas Fire

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On December 24th, 1945, the Sodder family of Fayetteville, West Virginia, went to bed without knowing the hell they were about to endure. Around 1:30 AM a fire broke out in the 2 story home. The Sodder's had 9 children in the house that Christmas Eve. It became paramount for George & Jennie to save their children. Four of the children were located and the other five were presumed to be caught in the fire. After a number of failed attempts to reach the children the family could only watch the house burn down. What makes this case so mysterious is when the fire marshall and investigators searched the property there was no sign of the missing children. What happened to the five Sodder children remains a mystery to this day. If you enjoy this podcast and my other shows you can help support independent journalism by clicking on the DONATE button on the LEFT hand side of sloburnmedia.com, that is slo minus the w. You can also contribute to the show via the Venmo app with my username @bill-huffman-3. I will also provide a link in the show notes. Every contribution helps keep these SLO Burn podcasts running. You can also support the show by leaving a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to favorite shows. Those 5 stars help keep the important cases I cover, SUCH AS Angela’s from last week, in the spotlight. If you’d like to stay up to date on the cases I have covered, as well as the new shows I have in the pipeline, please follow me on Twitter @billhuffman3. Thank you so much again for listening. Until next time… BE Healthy & Stay SAFE! SOURCES: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/ https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Sodder+Family+Fire&dr_year=1945-1945 https://www.newspapers.com/image/221584400/?terms=Sodder%20Family%20Fire&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65279024/the-bradenton-herald/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/480767666/?terms=Sodder%20Family%20Fire%201945&match=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, before we get started today, I just wanted to let you know that we're going to be doing
0:02.9	something a little different this week, being a holiday week and all. And again, with the
0:09.2	holidays, we're going to try to keep things a little bit more on the lighthearted side of things.
0:15.1	Now, this is a mysterious disaster, but it does not include a murder. And again, this is a holiday week.
0:23.4	So we're just going to keep things a little bit more on the lighthearted tone.
0:28.1	So I hope you guys enjoy this holiday episode, as well as whatever celebrations that you guys are taking part in this week, as well as Who Killed and
0:41.6	everybody here would like to wish you guys a Merry Christmas, and again, happy holidays
0:49.0	to everybody.
0:51.1	And have a great day.
0:53.1	Enjoy the food and enjoy the episode thanks and take care
1:00.0	slow burn media and bill huffman present who killed a podcast that provides a voice for the
1:07.5	voiceless.
1:14.9	Hello and welcome to episode 98 of Who Killed?
1:19.5	I'm your host Bill Huffman, and this is a slow burn media podcast.
1:25.1	On this week's episode, we will take a look back at a mysterious fire in 1945 that broke out on Christmas Eve at the Soder family home in West Virginia.
1:29.7	One of my main sources for this story comes from an article written in the New York Post from
1:34.2	1975 detailing the strange circumstances surrounding this fire.
1:39.2	George and Jenny Soder were typically on the stricter side of things, but this was Christmas Eve, after all, so they let their children stay up late.
1:48.0	Now, the kids had received their presents earlier in the evening, so needless to say, they
1:52.2	were excited and wanted to play with their new toys.
1:55.6	Now, the parents went to bed approximately at 10.30 p.m.
1:59.5	Now, reports vary on when this happened, but we'll say midnight,
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