Comments on: The Children Who Went Up In Smoke

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:00:33 +0000

The ears of the adult “Louis” do not match the ears in the photo of the young Louis. One has attached lobes, the other has unattached earlobes. This is just a strong resemblance. It’s a very sad history. I’d hope the remaining family would post their DNA in hope that the lost ones might have a chance to reconnect.

By: Peg

Peg — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:24:42 +0000

How very strange.
I had never heard of this.
The children may have been told that their parents and the other children had died in the fire.
Did they speak Italian?
What is that show? “The Locater? Perhaps get this on National news.. the Smithstonian is a good start.
I wish you all the best. May you solve this mystery.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:48:48 +0000

This is a story for the TV show “Secrets of the Dead”.

By: Miriam S. Ratner

Miriam S. Ratner — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:56:00 +0000

I read the story. I wasn’t born yet. I am from Virginia. I think the missing children were kidnapped. I don’t know about the one brother who was missing. That some one saw after the fire. I heard about and saw movies about World War Two. It could be true that they were kidnapped. Miriam S. Ratner

By: its_an_opinion

its_an_opinion — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:02:57 +0000

What a mystery! Pretty shocking & chill-inducing, to think that five children could have been stolen away on a Christmas Eve. I grew up in a small town in the 1960s & ’70s & learned then that police, judges & other “community leaders” could sweep almost anything under the rug if they chose, so I’m not surprised that poor George and Jennie Sodder were shut out so thoroughly in the ultra-conformist 1940s. I hope that the missing children are located or their fates reported one day….

By: riz

riz — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:38:49 +0000

Did anyone check the basement or tried to dig under the basement floor? (Don’t mean to sound insensitive and with all due respect to the family)
My question has its roots in the fact that if there was a 3rd party, he thought ahead on George as to how he would react under emergency situation. Half of us can’t even tell how we will react ourself under such a scenario. It’s very suspicious to me. (Sorry no offence meant)

By: Tenton Horton

Tenton Horton — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:59:55 +0000

What appears to be unusual is the idea of the father filling the basement with dirt. Why ???? I realize that he may have been distraught. But still, I find this question needs to be answered. The whole investigation appears to be “blotched” and maybe full of “cover ups” by local persons who may not have wanted their actions that night well known. Why didn’t the local officials accept FBI help ? We may never know the answers…but we should never stop trying to find them. Italian extraction families (along with other immigrants) were fairly prejudiced against in those times. Another factor to be considered. Well..these are my impressions of this event.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:31:04 +0000

That is so sad to me. I would also say that I agree with every remark made about the case. My input would be maybe the boys ran from a mafia family of there own. Maybe some revenge or retailiation. Its so sad that they died never knowing were there children were. What a beautiful family they had. I hope someday someone will come forward before they died and tell the truth. I would like to think that maybe the kids were taken to Italy. My deapest regards to the remaining family.

By: Sue Arencibia

Sue Arencibia — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:50:49 +0000

Numbers starting with a letter can be a prison number. I hope one of those poor boys didn’t get locked up as an adult.

By: Herman King

Herman King — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:17:37 +0000

No bones in the ashes? Must have been abducted.