On Christmas Eve 1945 the Sodder family home caught fire, only 4 of the 9 children made it out. After the fire was extinguished no bodies were found leading the family to believe that the children had been taken before the fire started. Were they or was this just the wishful thinking of grieving parents?
Some of Our Research:
The Smithsonian article
The NPR story
What was left out of the story
In September 1960, four teenagers camping on the shores of Lake Bodom in Finland were brutally attacked as they were sleeping in their tent, by a person or persons unknown. Three of them died. The murders remain unsolved to this day.
Some of Our Research:
A visit to the site
The wiki
Reddit’s take
In June of 1992, recent high school grads Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall returned to Suzie’s house at 2am after a night of post-graduation celebration. The plan was to stay the night with Suzie’s mom, Sherill Levitt. Then all three vanished.
Some of Our Research:
The story
Kathee Baird’s website
The wiki
John Bingham, known as Lord Lucan, was a charismatic noble with expensive tastes and a gambling habit who separated from his wife in 1972 and lost custody of his children in 1973. On November 7th, 1974 someone killed the children’s nanny and attacked Binghams’s wife. The Lord was heard from briefly the following day and then disappeared. Where did he go?
Some of Our Research:
The Lucan wiki
The kitten theory
The official Lucan website
A man calling himself Peter Bergmann showed up in the Irish coastal town of Sligo in June 2009. Over the following 3 days he carefully erased all evidence of his identity, after which point his body was found on a beach north of town, dead of unknown causes.
Some of Our Research:
From the local paper
COD
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