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On Christmas Eve, 1945, a house in Fayetteville, West Virginia caught fire. Inside were ten members of the Sauder family. When the flames were finally extinguished, five of the children were gone—without a trace. No bodies. No evidence. Just vanished. This episode unpacks one of America's most disturbing unsolved mysteries, exploring the theories, inconsistencies, and strange events that followed. Were the children taken? Was the fire a cover-up? Or did something even darker happen that night?
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