The Man Who Owns JonBenet's Tricycle Thinks It's They Key To Everything.

A Colorado collector, fascinated with the crime, found JonBenet’s abandoned pink tricycle.

He then set off on a bizarre voyage of discovery and now is offering new theories.
Andrew Novick was living in Boulder, Colorado, when the six-year-old girl was found murdered in her family’s basement in 1996.
Novick began walking by the large house, abandoned by John, Patsy and their nine-year-old son Burke within weeks of JonBenet’s death.

Their speedy departure to Atlanta raised a lot of questions.
The family never returned, appointing movers to pack up their possessions.
Her tricycle was left abandoned outside the house.
Novick took ownership of the  trike, along with a packet of popcorn and an oversized candy cane which had decorated the front lawn.
He took the tricycle to psychics to see what they had to say.

Novick has made a documentary about the Ramsey ‘memorabilia’ he now owns.

There have been theories pointing the finger at everyone from the parents, with Patsy’s writing appearing to match the ransom note, to the odd “Santa Claus” Bill McReynolds, to a man named Michael Helgoth who later took his own life, and owned a pair of Hi-Tec boots that seemed to match a footprint left in the basement.

In December 2016, a series of documentaries tried to provide answers to the cold case that still has everyone stumped. 

The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey by CBS pointed the finger at her brother Burke, with forensics experts suggesting he hit her over the head before his parents covered it up by tying a garotte around the girl’s neck.

Burke strongly denied the accusation he harmed his sister, saying he suspected a pedophile who stalked child beauty pageants and denouncing the “false and unprofessional television attack” riddled with “lies, misrepresentations, distortions and omissions”.
He sued the network in a $750 million lawsuit, which could go to trial late next year or in 2020.

There have long been claims of errors by law enforcement in properly searching the home, and a failure to fully investigate by the District Attorney.

A housekeeper recollected him smearing feces over her walls, possessions and bed.

“There’s a kind of a spitefulness going on there, a very ugly spitefulness.” 

Did Burke get Jealous over JonBenet's new bike that replaced the tricyle? 

“Our culture is obsessed with unsolved crimes,” 

said Novick

 “I don’t think it will go away. I think it will go on for as long as it remains unsolved.”

He Says He Loves His Family, Then Why Did He Hire a Hitman?

What made Thomas Barlett want to murder his family?

Thomas Bartlett "Bart" Whitaker was born December 31, 1979 to Kent and Patricia Whitaker.

He was never involved in anything violent before.

He was close to his family.

Thomas attended Clements High School.

He had to leave as a result of burglaries he had committed with other students. 

Thomas was then evaluated by a psychologist.

The psychologist stated that he was Experiencing the clinical symptoms of a delusional (paranoid) disorder.

It is a generally rare mental illness in which the person has delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect. 

Delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis.

Thomas had previously recruited others in a plot to murder his family in 2001 which ended up being aborted.
After high school he was given several luxury vehicles by his parents.

They also paid for his tuition at Baylor University and Sam Houston State University. 

They bought him a lakeside townhouse in Willis, Texas and a $4,000 Rolex watch was given to him as a graduation present.

He also had access to an $80,000 trust fund from his grandparents.

He had dropped out of university but did not notify his parents.

On December 10, 2003, Thomas told his family that he had just taken his final exams and would soon be graduating from Sam Houston State University. 

They drove to the nearby Pappadeaux restaurant in Stafford for dinner to celebrate.

Chris Brashear, Thomas' roommate, was dressed in black with a ski mask.

He had entered the Whitaker family home, taken Kevin's gun and ammunition from a locked box in his room, staged a burglary, and then waited near the front door for the Whitaker family to return home.
Steven Champagne, Thomas' co-worker and neighbor, waited outside the restaurant for the Whitaker family to leave and followed them back to the family home where he waited in his car near their house. 

Thomas said that he needed to collect his cell phone from his parked Yukon.
Kevin,Thomas' little brother, entered the family home first and reportedly smiled when he saw the masked Brashear. 

Brashear shot Kevin once through his chest and he fell to the floor. Patricia screamed "Oh God, no" and she was also shot in the chest and fell to the floor. 

Kent rushed in and was shot in the shoulder with the bullet shattering his humerus.

Thomas then ran inside and staged a struggle with Brashear, getting purposefully shot in his left arm.
Brashear then exited through the Whitakers' back door and jumped the fence into the rear neighbor's yard, where Champagne collected him. 

Kevin died within minutes of being shot. 

Patricia died shortly after being airlifted by Life Flight service on the way to Memorial Hermann Hospital. 

Thomas told first responders that he thought the gunman was black.

Kent survived the murder attempt and was airlifted to the hospital.Thomas fled to Mexico in 2004. 

He lived there for over a year under the false name of Rudy Ríos. 

In 2005, Champagne went to police and confessed to assisting in the murders. 

He revealed that the plan was for him to watch the Whitakers eat from his car in the restaurant parking lot, while Chris Brashear, hid in Thomas' SUV outside the home.

When he knew they were headed back to the house, Brashear used the security code that Thomas had given him, enter.

Champagne watched from a nearby street. 

Not long after the gunshots went off, Brashear hopped in Champagne’s car and they sped off.

On September 15th, a capital murder warrant was issued against Thomas.

Cooperating with US authorities, Mexican authorities arrested Thomas under immigration charges.

In September 2005 Thomas was handed over to US authorities at the border town of Laredo, Texas, and was arrested for capital murder.

At his trial in March 2007, prosecutors alleged that Thomas was responsible for the murders, because he played the leading part in the conspiracy. 

He was offered and  refused a plea bargain by the District Attorney in return for his admission of guilt.

He was tried for capital murder. 

Steven Champagne, claimed that Thomas had wanted his family dead so he could capitalize on a million-dollar life insurance payout, which Thomas denied.

Thomas said that the only life insurance policy the family had was for $50,000 on his father's life and claimed that a mental disorder, exacerbated by drug abuse, caused him to want have his family killed.

Kent Whitaker had already forgiven his son for his part in the murders.

He wanted forgiveness instead of vengeance.

Kent tried to persuade the jury not to deliver a death sentence, but the jury decided to convict Thomas capital murder.

Chris Brashear received a life sentence in a plea bargain worked out with prosecutors. 

Steven Champagne agreed to testify for the prosecution in return for a 15-year sentence.
Thomas appealed his death sentence on the grounds of the ineffectiveness of his trial counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, the arbitrariness of the death penalty punishment and the cruelty of the lethal injection, in violation of the eighth amendment to the U.S. constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
In April 2017, his appeal against prosecutorial misconduct was dismissed by the Court of Appeals.
On November 1, 2017, his death warrant was signed,  ans his execution was scheduled for February 22, 2018.
Thomas stated that his father, Kent, would have been re-victimized by his execution.

Kent wrote to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles asking for clemency for his son, and the Chairman of the Board met with him.

The Board unanimously recommended clemency to Governor Greg Abbott.

In a rare decision, on February 22, 2018, 45 minutes before the scheduled execution at 6 pm, Thomas had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment without parole by Governor Greg Abbott.
The governor noted that Thomas had, 

"Voluntarily and forever waived any and all claims to parole in exchange for a commutation of his sentence from death to life without the possibility of parole". 

Hania Aguilar's rape and murder could've been prevented.

Michael Ray McLellan, the man accused of Hania's death, raped a woman at knife point back in 2016.
Using a federal data base in 2017, the North Carolina state crime lab discoverd a rape kit that had been sent in the previous year.
It matched McLellan's DNA, which was already in the system due to his troubled past.
At some point the results fell through the cracks and no one did anything about it.
Hania's family calls her their little princess
Kidnapped 13-Year-Old Hania Aguilar's Body Appears To Be Found
Arrest Made In Hania Aguilar's Murder

Their Murders Could Have Avoided If Massachusetts Corrections Officials Did Their Jobs Correctly.

Brian & Beverly Mauck

Brian A. Mauck was born October 25th, 1977.

He worked for an Auburn air conditioning company.

Brian was 30 years old and had an infectious smile.

He had a mischievous sense of adventure and the loudest voice in the room.

Beverly Jean Mauck was born on March 16th, 1979.

Shew as 28 and worked at a car dealership.

She loved sports and had hoped to become a competitive speed skater until her back was injured in a car accident.

Brian and Beverly, married in Turks and Caicos on May 5, 2006.

They were great people, they had a lot of friends, they had strong family ties.

They were neighbors of Daniel Tavares Jr.

Daniel Tavares Jr. was 44 when he was released from prison in Massachusetts in June 2007 after serving 16 years for manslaughter for the 1991 stabbing death his mother. 

Massachusetts corrections officials could have kept Tavares behind bars for nearly a year longer had they filled out paperwork documenting his assaults on others in the prison.

Authorities also failed to turn him over to the Florida Department of Corrections on an outstanding warrant or to immediately notify Washington state law-enforcement officials when they learned he had moved.

After meeting a woman through an online-inmate pen-pal service, Tavares married her upon his release and moved to Graham, Pierce County, where they lived in a trailer on property owned by her family.

Tavares said he went to collect a $50 debt from Brian Mauck for a tattoo on Saturday morning Nov. 17, 2007.

He became upset when Mauck insulted him and said he wasn't going to put up with being called a name after spending 20 years in prison.

He shot Brian in the face with a .22-caliber handgun.

Beverly Mauck witnessed her husband's killing and tried to run away.

Tavares chased her down and shot her in the head. 

He he then dragged her body to where her husband was lying and  placed her body over his.

He covered them both with a blanket because "he respected them." Tavares  bloody palm print  was found on the front door of the Mauck's home.

Shoe prints that match the unique tread design of a pair of shoes owned by Tavares were also found. 

Tavares initially told investigators he heard gunshots while he was in bed with his wife at their home. 

He also described two men and a red truck he said he saw outside.  Daniel Tavares was forbidden to have a gun as a condition of his parole. 

Taveres' wife, Jennifer, was arrested and charged with rendering criminal assistance, a gross misdemeanor.

She told detectives that her husband was with her at the time the Maucks were killed.

She later admitted to investigators that her husband was gone for about 20 minutes and he told her what he'd done. 

She also told detectives that her husband threw the murder weapon off a cliff. 

The Maucks were found dead in the living room of their home, with three close-range gunshot wounds to each of their heads.

In February, in 2008, Tavares was sentenced to life in a Washington state prison after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated first-degree murder.
In 2015, Taveres was also sentenced to life in prison for a 27-year-old Fall River cold case.

Gayle Botelho, 32, disappeared in October 1988.
Her body was discovered buried in the backyard of a home Tavares previously lived at in 2000.

Princess Diana And Bryan Adams?

Bryan Adams' ex girlfriend, Cecilie Thomsen, dated the rocker for several years and claimed that she knew about his romance with Princess Diana.

“I knew Diana had an affair with Bryan,” 

she told the Daily Mail. 

She also claimed that Bryan Diana’s former Butler, very well and 

"Paul was part of the inner circle around Bryan, and he also introduced him to Diana. 

The first time Bryan met Diana I wasn’t invited. 

Ours was a stormy relationship and Bryan’s affair with Diana didn’t make it easier."

It was widely believed that Adams’ song “Diana” was about the princess and in 2014.

In a 2018 interview, Adams was asked if he was in fact romantically involved with the royal and would sneak into Kensington Palace.

Adams replied,

“She didn’t sneak me in, I would just roll up,” 

adding that they were just “great friends.” 

O.J. Admitted He Killed His Wife Nicole

Lyle Menendez along with his brother Erik, was imprisoned for the shotgun murder of their parents in 1994.
By the time O.J. arrived on the cell block in June of 1994, the Menendezes were already veterans of the California penal system.Allegedly Lyle took O.J. under his wing, and the two of them quickly developed a close friendship and he confessed to killing his wife in one of his first conversations with Lyle.
Lyle and O.J. were both waiting for their lawyers in the prison's "attorney room," O.J. admitted to killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman after he “snapped in the heat of passion.”

Lyle advised O.J. he should consider taking a plea deal.
O.J. told Menendez he couldn’t do that because it would ruin his reputation and he would never work again.
Nicole Brown Simpson And Ron Goldman
O.J. Simpson's Ex Manager Says He Can Prove That O.J. Had Help Murdering His Wife

A Former Friend Of Casey Anthony Says She Is Lying About Everything.

Clint House is a former friend of Casey Anthony.

He says he is still astonished that Casey Anthony, was reportedly in good spirits while her daughter was missing.
Caylee Anthony, 2, was last seen on June 16, 2008, but was first reported missing by her grandmother on July 15. 

Casey was arrested on charges of child neglect.

She told police at that time Caylee had disappeared with a babysitter.
A utility worker working in a wooded area near the Anthony home in Orlando, Fla., found Caylee's skeletal remains on Dec. 11. Experts would testify that air samples indicated that decaying human remains had been present in Anthony’s trunk.
The government failed to establish how Caylee died, and they couldn’t find her mother’s DNA on the duct tape they said was used to suffocate her. 

After a trial of a month and a half, the jury found Casey not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse.
She was convicted of four counts of lying to police and served about three years in prison while awaiting trial.

Today, she lives in the South Florida home of private detective Patrick McKenna.

He was the lead investigator on her defense team. 

She also works for him, doing online social media searches and other investigative work.
Four days after Caylee was last seen, Casey was celebrating at Fusion nightclub and participating in a “hot body contest” at a party hosted by House. 

According to House no one in Anthony’s circle knew the toddler had vanished.

House said that when Casey's friends out about the toddler being missing at the time,

"We were shocked and surprised that she could be out here doing what she had been doing that night, and meanwhile, her child is missing. 

It came as a big shock once we found out about it. But we just didn’t know.”

House says the last time he saw casey before the trial was in downtown Orlando on July 3.
House said that Casey didn’t seem like there was anything wrong. He said,

“She was like, ‘Hey, how’s it going? 

Good to see you.’ 

Then we went our separate ways. 

That’s the hardest part about this whole story, is that she was just completely so normal during the time Caylee was supposedly missing.”

House said he met Caylee a few times before she vanished.
He said that she was a very intelligent 2-year-old.

“She was going on 3 years old before she went missing, but she was probably one of the sweetest little girls. 

Very articulate for her age. 

You could understand 90 percent of the words that were coming out of her mouth when she was talking to you. 

She seemed just so full of life, and she was just a great little girl. She was very well-behaved.”

House also said that he never saw Casey be abusive and that she was an attentive mother.

I never saw her get angry at Caylee. 

I never saw her grab Caylee in any kind of abusive manner. 

I never saw her have to discipline Caylee because Caylee was such a well-behaved child… 

She just seemed like a good mom.”

During her murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse on June 30, 2011 in Orlando, Florida, Casey's defense attorneys argued that she didn't kill her two-year-old daughter Caylee, but that she accidentally drowned.

The Florida Department of Children and Families concluded that Anthony was responsible for her daughter’s death because her “actions or the lack of actions… ultimately resulted or contributed to the death of the child.” 

In 2017, former Circuit Judge Belvin Perry Jr., who presided the trial, theorized that Anthony may have killed Caylee accidentally when she was using chloroform to calm her.
House said Anthony’s actions from over the years speak for themselves.
House says that Casey is lying about everything.

“And that interview, where she says she sleeps pretty good at night, are you kidding me? 

If I was put on trial for killing my kid, and I was acquitted because I didn’t do it, as soon as I walked out those doors at the courthouse, I would be on a manhunt trying to find out who killed my kid. 

I wouldn’t sleep again until I found out who killed my kid. 

That says everything you need to know.”

Caylee Anthony

What Natalee Holloway's Friends Have To Say About Her Disappearance.

At night everyone got really dressed up to have dinner at the Aruba Holiday Inn , and afterward people would go to Carlos'n Charlie's. 

It was your average beach bar; everybody mixed together, American kids and Arubans.
The Aruba Holiday Inn had a casino that they all went to the last night of the trip. 

Her friends found out after Natalee disappeared that Joran was a regular gambler there. 

Her friend Claire left, and Natalee went to Carlos'n Charlie's with some of the others.
The next morning Natalee's roommate and another friend noticed Natalee was missing and told some of the police stationed around the hotel.

Claire said as she was boarding the plane to leave Aruba, two of our friends ran up and said, 

"Natalee's not on the plane! 

We don't know where she is!" 

She said she thought that Natalee's might still be lying on the beach.

But by the time she landed in Atlanta, her dad called her and said,

                              "things aren't looking good."

Her fried Mallie said,

"We knew in our gut it was Joran. 

We just knew."

While the students were returning to Birmingham, Natalee's mother, Beth, talked to one of the boys who'd been on the trip.

She learned that he'd seen Natalee with van der Sloot on the last night. 

Beth was in Aruba and got the address of Joran's house.

She was standing outside the gates when she called Natalee's friends, who were gathered at Claire's house.

They put her on speakerphone and Beth said, 

"Kids, I need more details!" 

Anyone who had seen Joran in Aruba shouted whatever information they had. 

Beth pleaded to be let in the house so she could talk face-to-face with Joran,

Leaning into the speakerphone in Claire's living room, her friends were all screaming.

All of Natalee's friends thought that he was keeping her in his house.

Claire said,

"We were enraged Beth wasn't being let in. 

We were pacing the room and freaking out. 

Here is a mother in crisis, and if nobody will let her in the house…well, something is really suspicious! 

We knew in our gut that Joran was behind her disappearance.

 By now we knew from talking to other kids who'd been on the trip that Joran was a regular at the casino, and that Natalee had left Carlos'n Charlie's in the backseat of a car with him. 

Nobody would let Beth into the house. 

It just added up. 

He'd done something bad to her—we didn't know what, but we knew it was him."

On June 9, van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, who had been in the car with him and Natalee, were detained as part of the investigation.

The Kalpoe brothers were released on July 4, but van der Sloot was still being detained.

Searches for Natalee continued that summer, but with no results. Van der Sloot was released from custody on September 3 for lack of evidence.

In November 2007,van der Sloot was taken into custody again, as were the Kalpoe brothers, for "suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter." 

But the prosecutors did not present enough evidence to charge them, and all three were released.

Mallie said,

"I used wine to hide my feelings from myself. I drank and drank. Numbness was what I was after."

Claire said she had horrible anxiety.

"I was afraid of parking my car in the dark. 

I would fly out of the car and into the house."

In March 2008 a Dutch journalist had taped van der Sloot saying that he had seen Natalee die on an Aruban beach.

All of Natalee's friends got together to watch the video on TV.

Claire said,

"There were 12 of us in our friends' basement, watching Joran saying 'of course' Natalee was dead. 

Did we believe it? 

Yes."

Mallie said, 

"We never spoke of Natalee anymore. 

She'd not only disappeared from our lives, she disappeared altogether."

Where do they think Natalee's body is?

They won't even talk about it.

Natalee Holloway

Was Football Partially To Blame For The Oklahoma City Bombing?

The Buffalo Bills lost four Super Bowls in a row in the early 1990s, 

Among their most heartbroken fans was Timothy McVeigh.

He was a New York native who killed 168 people and injured over 680 more in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
It was their third consecutive Super Bowl loss and it was by far the worst of them all.

McVeigh left New York state, his only real home, a few days later. He would live adrift in a nomadic life of gun shows and spiraling extremism.
McVeigh was a Bills super fan.

He was working for little pay as an overnight security guard at the Buffalo Zoo when he bet $1,000 on the Bills winning the Super Bowl in 1993.
Quarterback Jim Kelly re injured his knee and the Cowboys scored four touchdowns, including two just 15 seconds apart, all before halftime.
The Waco siege happened a few weeks later.

This led to the deaths of 86 people, mostly children when the Branch Davidians cult refused to surrender to the FBI. 

McVeigh saw this and started plotting revenge against the U.S. government.
Two years after Waco, McVeigh targeted the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, with a truck bomb. 

It was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil until September 11, 2001, and remains the worst domestic terrorist attack in American history.
McVeigh was executed in 2001 for carrying out the attack.
McVeigh had a history of being bullied, a broken family.

He stayed in Buffalo with his dad when his mother moved to Florida with his sisters when he was an adolescent.

He spent his free time nursing conspiracy theories about the U.S. government and writing ominous letters to the editor of his local paper.
He reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown and contemplated suicide.

He also possibly suffered from undiagnosed PTSD from serving in the Gulf War.
The Oklahoma City Bombing
Interesting Things About The Oklahoma City Bombing.

Interesting Facts About The Missing Sodder Kids.

1n 1945, a Christmas Eve fire destroyed their home in Fayetteville, West Virginia where George and Jennie Sodder lived with 9 of their 10 children.

Their oldest son, Joe, was overseas fighting in WWII.
George and Jennie Sodder were able to escape the burning house with 4 of their children.
The remaining 5 Sodder children were never accounted for.
George Sodder and Jennie Sodder were Italian immigrants who came to the US separately as children. 

George started his own trucking company in West Virginia.
George had strong political opinions he expressed, which some people did not like.

He was strongly opposed to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
George was able to break back into the house but was unable to make it back up the stairs on their 2nd story. 

Their bodies or remains were never found. 

The house burned down quickly, not allowing enough time to cremate their bodies completely.

So why were their remains never found?

The Sodder family believe that the remaining 5 children escaped the fire due to a series of events before and after the fire. 

At 12:30am on Christmas Jennie Sodder woke up to the phone ringing. 

On the phone a woman, whose voice she didn’t recognize, asked for a name Jennie was also not familiar with. 

She heard other voices in the background along with clinking glasses and “weird laughter.”
She then checked on her children. 

She had allowed her kids to stay up later, playing with new toys. She noticed that lights were on and the curtains were closed.

She found one child  asleep on the couch, then returned her to bed, assuming the other children were in the attic and had forgotten to close down the house.
At 1:00am, Jennie Sodder woke up again to the sound of “an object hitting the house’s roof with a loud bang, then a rolling noise.” 

She went back to sleep.
At 1:30am, Jennie Sodder woke up again to the smell of smoke. She got up and found a fire in George’s office.

This was also where the fuse box and telephone wires were.
Jennie woke George up and they escaped the house with four children.
The family yelled at the house, but did not hear from the other children and could not go upstairs to get them because the staircase was aflame.
The family tried to call for help, but their phone did not work so one of the children ran to a neighbor’s to call.
The family tried to locate their ladder to get to the children in the attic. It was usually resting against the side of the house but was now missing.
George Sodder tried to use both of his trucks to drive closer to the house so that he could crawl up to the attic. 

Both were previously in good working order and now would not start.
The fire department was small and volunteer only. They did not arrive until morning when the family assumed the other five children had already died.
When the fire department finally arrived, they began going through the ashes of the Sodder house.

They did not find any bones. 

The fire chief still believed the children died in the fire.

The family’s Christmas lights stayed on through the beginning part of the blaze.

Would this have occurred if it was truly an electrical fire?
They found the family ladder had been moved from the side of the house and hidden on an embankment hear the home.
The telephone company discovered that someone had crawled up a telephone pole and cut the phone line leading to the Sodder’s house.
While sorting through the rubble, they found kitchen appliances intact.

How could this be if the fire was truly hot enough to burn human bones to ash?
Jennie Sodder contacted a crematorium who told her a two hour fire at 2,000 °F, both hotter and longer than the Sodder’s house fire, would still leave human bones intact.
Why were neither of George Sodder's previously working trucks  able to move that night?
A local bus driver, passing through Fayetteville late Christmas, provided an alternate account.

The driver said he had seen some people throwing “balls of fire” at the house. 

A few months later, Sylvia found a small, hard, dark-green, rubber ball-like object in the brush nearby. 

George, recalling his wife’s account of a loud thump on the roof before the fire, said it looked like a “pineapple bomb” hand grenade or some other incendiary device used in combat. 

The family later claimed that the fire had started on the roof, although there was by then no way to prove it.
People in the town claimed they saw the missing children in a vehicle the night of the fire, or have seen them since.
In 1949 the site of the house fire was excavated and human vertebrae bones were found.

An expert said they could only come from a human aged 16-23 and had never been exposed to fire. 

The oldest of the missing children was 14 at the time of the fire.
The expert also noted that it was “very strange” that more bones weren’t found, as they should not have burned up in that situation.
A woman who ran a Charleston hotel, claimed to have seen the children a week afterwards. 

She said that the children had come in, around midnight, with two men and two women, all of whom appeared to her to be “of Italian extraction”. 

When she attempted to speak with the children, 

“One of the men looked at me in a hostile manner; he turned around and began talking rapidly in Italian. 

Immediately, the whole party stopped talking to me”.

In 1967 Jennie Sodder received a photo in the mail of a man resembling one of the missing children, Louis Sodder. The back of the photo read:

“Louis Sodder

I love brother Frankie

Ilil boys

Two months before the fire in October 1945 a traveling life insurance salesman tried to sell George Sodder a policy. 

When Sodder declined, the salesman told him his house would go “up in smoke … and your children are going to be destroyed.” 

The salesman told George the cause of this tragedy would be “the dirty remarks you have been making about Mussolini.”
Someone in town had told George that he could fix his fuse boxes, warning him that they needed to be fixed or they would catch fire. George opted not to hire him as he had recently had the house rewired and cleared by the electric company.
The month of the fire, some of the Sodder children noticed two people in a car that would watch them on their way home from school.
The family, believe the Sicilian Mafia may have taken the children and started the fire in an attempt to extort money from the Sodders, though no one has reached out to them to ask for money. 
The Death of the Sodder kids.
The Sodder kids forced into slavery?