Sodder Family Interview with Miranda Weeks, Great Great Granddaughter of Jennie and George Sodder

At around 1:00 am on December 25, 1945, Jennie Sodder woke up to smoke pouring into her bedroom. She woke up her husband, George, and they started evacuating the house of their nine children. By the time the fire took over the Sodder residence, only Jennie, George, and four of their children made it outside safely. George and two of his sons frantically tried to get into the house to save the remaining children, but they couldn’t. When George went to fill up a bucket with water to start extinguishing the flames, the water was frozen, when he went to grab their ladder to get his children from the top story, the ladder was missing; when he went to drive his trucks to the second story window, neither would start despite having worked just the day before. And when they tried to call the fire department for help, no one responded for hours. The only thing the family could do was watch as their home burned to the ground. Hours later, after the smoldering ashes were put out, a group of people began searching for the children’s remains, but nothing was found. Not a single bone was found in the ashes. The fire was quickly ruled an accident, and investigators told the family the children’s bodies had burned up completely in the fire, leaving nothing of them behind, not even their bones. But between the mishaps, while trying to put out the fire, threats made against the family before the fire, and the strange behavior of authorities throughout the investigation, Jennie and George Sodder refused to believe five of their children were killed in the home. They were convinced their children didn’t die in the fire, and they spent the rest of their lives trying to prove it. Anyone with information is urged to contact Miranda Weeks, great great granddaughter of Jennie and George Sodder at 5SodderKids@gmail.com Join Miranda's Facebook Group: ⁠ Sign Miranda's petition to create a flowerbed for the Sodder children: For more information about the show, visit⁠⁠ VoicesforJusticePodcast.com⁠⁠.

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Sodder Family Interview with Miranda Weeks, Great Great Granddaughter of Jennie and George Sodder is an episode from Voices for Justice by Sarah Turney.

This episode is 95:13 long.

This episode was published on Dec 25, 2025.

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