Hell’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family
The Benders: Fact or Fiction? Author: Susan Jonusas It’s 1873, Labette County, Kansas and the West is still very much wild. It’s no surprise then that a family of serial killers could remain, preying off lonely travelers, for years. It’s also no surprise that this family, knowing that they were finally discovered, were able to easily disappear, leaving police, investigators, and heartbroken relatives of the murdered to chase answers and justice for two decades with few results and no real answers. Even still, the story of the infamous Benders is more legend than fact, speculation piled on top of a [...]
