Betty Dolly Sodder was 5 years old when she vanished after a house fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, on Christmas Eve 1945. Five of the ten Sodder children—Betty, Maurice, Martha, Louis, and Jennie—were allowed to stay up late and were never seen again after the blaze consumed the house in under forty-five minutes. Parents George and Jennie escaped with four other children but could not find the five who had been upstairs.

Official inquiries at the time concluded the children perished in the fire, yet no conclusive remains consistent with full skeletons were recovered. Reports differ about small bone fragments and an object thought to be a human organ that was later identified as beef liver. The family found telephone lines had been cut, a ladder was missing from its usual place and later found in an embankment, witnesses claimed to have seen the children after the fire, and the family pursued leads for decades, including an anonymous 1968 photograph that they believed showed Louis.

The Sodders maintained the children were abducted and sought further investigation, but authorities did not reopen the case. Does anyone have information about Betty or the other missing Sodder children, or memories of the case in Fayetteville around 1945–1968?