an embankment about NUMBER_TOKEN feet away from the home a telephone repair man informed them that their phone line had not been burned through causing the phone to not work the night of the fire in fact it had been cut at the top of the telephone pole also witnesses saw a man stealing a block and tackle which is a type of lifting system that uses pulleys from one of the buildings on the solder property the night of the fire the man later confessed to the theft stating that he used the latter to climb the pole and cut the power line but must have cut the telephone line by mistake he said he did steal the block and tackle from the property but insisted that he had nothing to do with the fire george insisted that someone must have tampered with his truck in order for it to not start that morning others believed that it was just too cold and the boys flooded the engines while they were trying to get them started a bus driver claimed he saw people throwing balls of fire at the house a few months later sylvia was playing in the yard and found a hard green rubber-like ball with a twist-off cap military officials identified it as a grenade used as an incendiary device this must have been the sound that jenny had heard that morning the sodders hired a private investigator named cece tinsley to look into the case he learned that the insurance salesman who had threatened them with a fire the previous year over george's remarks about mussolini had been on the coroner's jury that ruled the fire an accident the same private investigator found that the fire marshal had found remains in the ash that night but didn't tell the sodders he found internal organs which he placed in a box and buried on their property when they dug up the box they took the box to a funeral director who reported that the box contained a very fresh beef liver that had never been exposed to fire some people believed that the box was planted to convince the sodders that their children did die in the fire george was asked by morris to leave the site alone until they were able to return and search some more but only four days later he bulldozed the site and covered it with dirt in order to turn it into a memorial for his children in august of NUMBER_TOKEN the sodders decided to do another search of the property where the fire had happened the excavation of the area uncovered several pieces of human vertebrae which were sent to the smithsonian institute for evaluation the smithsonian responded with this report the human bones consisted of four lumbar vertebrae belonging to one individual since the transverse recesses are fused the age of this individual at death would have been NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN years the top limit age should be about NUMBER_TOKEN since the sentra which normally fuse at NUMBER_TOKEN are still unfused on this basis the bones show greater skeletal maturation than ones expected for a NUMBER_TOKEN year old boy the oldest missing solder child it is however possible although not probable for a boy NUMBER_TOKEN and a half years old to show NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN maturation additionally the bone showed no signs that they had been exposed to a fire and it was determined that they were most likely already in the fill dirt that george brought in to fill the basement and create a memorial for his children george spent the next NUMBER_TOKEN years investigating any
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