137 - The Bloody Benders
Sep 28, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 137
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Episode description
Often called America's first family of serial killers, the Bender family lived on the prairie of Kansas, not far from the famed site of "The Little House on the Prairie". However, their story is a bit more macabre than that of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Were the Benders indeed the blood thirsty band of depraved killers that they have been made out to be, or were they just scapegoated German immigrants who's spiritualist bent was unpopular with their neighbors?
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