All kinds of creepy and what ifs. Read more at the wiki page. Too many vehicles didn’t run that night especially the fire chief not able to drive a fire truck. Too many warnings the house was going to burn down one day.
No way could the kids have been kidnapped without at least one of them screaming bloody heck and knocking over furniture. One boy was 14 so old enough to land a few punches loud enough to wake the parents.
Yeah, it’s hard to burn bones so don’t know where to go with that. Forensics wasn’t worth beans in 1945 so no telling what really happened.
I’m going to chalk it up to the parents couldn’t deal with the children’s deaths so wanted to believe they were still alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_disappearance
According to wiki, the kids were instructed to do more than take care of the door and lights - they had to tend to the livestock, too. So at some point, some of them may have been outside.
Bizarre.