About a year ago, a real estate agency announced a sale of roughly 1,000 acres in southeastern Kansas. It sounded like an ordinary property deal, except for one 160-acre tract. This small piece of ...
Jul. 13—INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — A special presentation on the mystery of the Bloody Benders will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Jim Halsey Memorial Hall auditorium, 410 N. Pennsylvania Ave. in ...
A historical marker near Cherryvale, Kansas tells the tale of the Bloody Benders, a family suspected in a string of serial robberies and killings. The remains of 11 bodies were discovered on the ...
The "Bloody Benders" murdered at least 11 travelers who stopped during the early 1870s at the small inn those two men and two women ran at their home near Cherryvale in Labette County in southeast ...
IT’S BEEN A MYSTERY FOR OVER 150 YEARS. WHAT BECAME OF THE FAMILY KNOWN AS THE BLOODY BENDERS AND THE TEN PEOPLE OR MORE THEY KILLED. KMBC NINE’S JACKSON KURTZ TRAVELED TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, KANSAS, ...
The family has become known as the "Bloody Benders," inspiring movies, television shows, books and more There is renewed interest in the Bender family murders, including a University of Kansas ...
PITTSBURG, Kan. — An upcoming lecture will focus on the true story of the Bloody Benders, a murderous Southeast Kansas family who lived more than a century ago. The lecture, titled "The Bender Family ...
Geary's ninth volume in his violent but informative and well-researched series covers the little known tale of the so-called Bloody Benders, a mysterious family of possibly German immigrants who set ...