The Case of the Soddard Family

Jenny Soddard was very vocal in her belief that the children had been kidnapped. Many of their household appliances had survived the fire almost completely intact. Jenny also cited a similar incident which had occurred around the same period when a freak house fire killed a family of seven. The skeletal remains of all seven family members were recovered from the smoldering ruins, and as possible for human bones to withstand temperatures of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit or 1,090 degrees Celsius. In the spring of 1946 she began turning the site of her burned and bulldozed home into a memorial garden for her departed children.