When the Sodder children disappeared on Christmas Eve 1945 it sparked a mystery that still captivates us 76 years later, with the death of the last of the surviving Sodder children in April of 2021, will the desire to solve the mystery die with her? Listen as we tackle the telling of one of our first unsolved mysteries.

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Information & photo credits

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Sodder_Family

https://thetruecrimefiles.com/sodder-children-disappearance/

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/what-happened-to-the-five-sodder-children/news-story/861777f8c048b45241d42dd9fc4d5ee0

https://allthatsinteresting.com/sodder-children

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/mystery-5-children-killed-house-14235748

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18304007/giorgio-sodder

and of course Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Newspaperarchives, FamilySearch.org

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