Slow Burn Media and Evergreen Podcast presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

Hello and welcome to episode 200 and something of Who Killed.

I am your host, Bill Huffman, and this is a slow burn media, killer podcasts, and

Evergreen Podcasts production.

On this week's episode, we are going to take a look back at the mystery of the

Sotter family and the Christmas fire that is absolutely a mystery.

With that being said, let's jump into this wild and crazy mystery that happened many years ago,

but still remains a mystery to this day.

And that is the Soder family Christmas fire.

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. One of my main sources for this

story comes from an article written in the New York Post from 1975 detailing the strange

circumstances surrounding this fire. 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.

Now, the kids had received their presents earlier in the evening, so needless to say, they were excited and wanted to play with their new toys.

Now, the parents would to bed approximately at 10.30 p.m.

Now, reports vary on when this happened, but we'll say midnight, the phone rang and Mrs.

Sodder answered it. There was a woman on the other end of the phone and said she must have had the

wrong number. And then she heard people laughing in the phone and said she must have had the wrong number.

And then she heard people laughing in the background and had decided that it must have been a prank call.

So Mrs. Sotter went back to bed.

And about 90 minutes later, in roughly 1.30 a.m., she was woken up again when she heard something land on the roof. Now, if the kids would

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