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December 8, 2025 33 mins

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Episode 142:  Christmas Fire Mystery: The Sodder Family Case Ft. Heather

Welcome back guest co-host Heather to this episode of Operation Evil! 

  • Smithsonian Magazine —What Happened to the Sodder Children?
  • Wikipedia (well-sourced summary, with primary citations listed at
  • bottom)
  • NPR / Stacy Horn’s reporting and archived audio
  • Newspaper archives (Beckley Post-Herald, New York Times)
  • Primary artifacts: the 1967/1968 photograph sent to Jennie (images and transcriptions appear in museum/commons archives and in reporting). 
  • Newspapers.com 
  • Marshall T. Newman / Smithsonian analysis noted in state file

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