“For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia, could see a billboard bearing the grainy images of five children, all dark-haired and solemn-eyed. The Sodder siblings’ names and ages—14-year-old Maurice, 12-year-old Martha, 9-year-old Louis, 8-year-old Jennie and 5-year-old Betty—were stenciled beneath the photos, along with speculation about what happened to them: “What was their fate: kidnapped, murdered or are they still alive?””
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