On Christmas morning 1945, a West Virginia home burned to the ground. Four children and their parents escaped; five children were never seen again. When searchers combed the cooled ashes, they found something impossible: not a single human bone.

This episode investigates the 80-year-old Sodder cold case, where unimaginable grief collided with incompetent and possibly corrupt authority. It separates hard facts from decades of rumor, weighing alleged sabotage and cover-ups against the science of how a fire actually behaves.

• The chilling precursors: a threatening insurance salesman, a warning about the fuse boxes, and a strange car watching the children
• The night's improbable failures, a vanished ladder, dead trucks, and a phone line later found cleanly cut
• Chief Morris's claim of no bones, and Jenny's own bone-burni ...