Unexplained Deaths and Disappearances: The Sodder Children (Season 3)

What happened to Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie, and Betty Sodder?

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Resources:

• Youtube - ‘The Mysterious Disappearance of the Sodder Children’ - uploaded by Buzzfeed Unsolved Network - December 16th, 2016
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18304176/jennie_lauriessa-sodder: accessed June 28, 2026), memorial page for Jennie Lauriessa Cipriani Sodder (2 Mar 1903–15 Feb 1989), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18304176, citing High Lawn Memorial Park, Oak Hill, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by Robin Hager (contributor 46843239).
• The Doe Network - ‘The Children Who Went Up In Smoke A tragic Christmas mystery remains unsolved more than 60 years after the disappearance of five young siblings’ - by Karen Abott for smithsonian.com - December 25th, 2012 - https://doenetwork.org/media/sodders.pdf
• NPR - ‘Mystery of Missing Children Haunts W.Va. Town’ - by Stacy Horn - December 23rd, 2005 - https://www.npr.org/2005/12/23/5067563/mystery-of-missing-children-haunts-w-va-town
• Youtube - ‘What Happened to the Sodder Children?’ - uploaded by Nexpo - April 11th, 2025
• Legends of America website - ‘Missing Sodder Children in West Virginia’ - by Kathy Alexander - August 2024 - https://www.legendsofamerica.com/missing-sodder-children/