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Five Sodder Children's Cases
It is estimated that 800,000 children go missing per year. That's more than 2,000 children per day. On Christmas Eve 1945, five children went missing. The youngest child being five and the oldest being fourteen. Many people argue that the five children didn’t go missing, but that they died in a house fire that same night. But there are many reasons that no one can say for certain if they did or did not die. The five Sodder childrens case was one of the most mysterious cases ever.
Italian immigrants George and Jennie Sodder were the parents of the five children. George came to America with his brother when he was 13. However, his brother went back to Italy soon after, leaving George on his own. George found his way to New York, where he met Jennie who had came to the U.S from Italy when she was three. They fell in love and moved to Fayetteville, West Virginia. In all they had ten children. Their names were as follows: John (23), Marian (17), George Jr. (16), Maurice (14), Martha (12), Louis (10), Jenny (8), Betty (5), and Silvia (2). Their oldest son was away in the military and his name is not known.
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At bedtime, Jennie agreed to let Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny, and Betty stay up and play with their toys as long as they locked the door and turned out the lights. Later that night, Jennie wakes up to a phone ringing. She gets up and answers the phone. The woman who had called asked for someone Jennie didn't know, laughed, and then hung up. She then looked and saw the doors unlocked and the lights on. She locked the door and turned out the lights, assuming her children had gone to bed. She went back to sleep only to be woken up again by a sound of something hitting the roof and rolling off. She dozed back to sleep. Only thirty minutes later, she woke up to the smell of

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