Tonight’s True Crime For Sleep takes you to Fayetteville, West Virginia, where a Christmas Eve house fire in 1945 became one of America’s most unsettling unsolved mysteries. Five Sodder children vanished without a trace, and the official explanation never matched what the family, and later investigators, believed.
As you relax, you will hear the calm, detailed timeline of the Sodder Children disappearance, including the strange phone calls, the missing ladder, the cut wires, and the search that found no remains. We will also explore the haunting clues that followed, from reported sightings to the mysterious photograph mailed to the Sodders years later.
If you enjoy sleepy true crime stories, cold cases, and unsolved mysteries told in a soothing voice, this episode is made for you. Get comfortable, let the details unfold, and decide for yourself what happened to the Sodder children.
📚 Chapters:
0:00:00 Christmas Night, Fayetteville: The House That Won’t Stay ...
0:17:00 The First Failures: Calls That Don’t Connect and Help Tha...
0:34:00 Dawn After the Fire: The Missing Bodies Problem
0:51:00 Reconstructing the Night: Sabotage, Threats, and a Fire T...
1:08:00 Sightings and Fragments: Leads That Refuse to Stay Dead
1:25:01 Motive and Mechanics: Who Could Do This, and How Could Th...
1:42:01 Aftermath, Echoes, and the Unanswered Door Left Open