reposting an old true-crime BBS thread on the Sodder children fire — the photo is the worst part

Lifting this from a long-dead West Virginia history board because it deserves an archive. Real case, still officially unsolved. Christmas Eve 1945, Fayetteville WV, the Sodder family. House catches fire in the night. The parents and four of the kids get out. Five children — they think — die in the ……