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BLOODY BENDERS
THE BLOODY BENDERS
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS
Cappello, Niles “The Bloody Benders: America’s First Family of Serial Killers” 19 August 2019 CRIMEREADS. Accessed 12 July 2022. https://crimereads.com/the-bloody-benders-americas-first-family-of-serial-killers/
Weiser, Kathy “Rhe Bloody Benders – Serial Killers of Kansas”. LEGENDS OF AMERICA. Updated Dec 2019. Accessed 3 AUG 2022. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-benders/
Johnston, Harriet “Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie”. 22 OCT 2021 DAILY MAIL UK Accessed 3 AUG 2022. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10119965/The-gruesome-tale-Bloody-Benders-set-explored-new-series.html
Dickey, Colin. “The Story of the “Bloody Benders,” the Serial-Killing Family That Terrorized the Wild West – Then Disappeared”. SLATE. 16 March 2022. Accessed 3 AUG 2022.
Deutschmann, Jennifer “The Truth About the Bloody Benders Serial Killer Family” GRUNGE. July 26, 2021 Accessed 3 AUG 2022. https://www.grunge.com/470265/the-truth-about-the-bloody-benders-serial-killer-family/
Kelly, Debra. “Messed Up Things That Actually Happened In The Old West”. GRUNGE Updated 25 Jan 2022. Accessed 12 July 2022. https://www.grunge.com/89266/messed-things-actually-happened-old-west/
“Bender Knife” Kansas Historical Society. Dec 2006 Updated April 2019. Accessed 3 AUG 2022. https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/bender-knife/10106
Kim, Allen “A Property That Once Belonged to a Family of Serial Killers Known as the “Bloody Benders” Goes Up For Sale”. CNN. 6 Feb 2020. Accessed 3 AUG 2022. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/us/bloody-bender-house-trnd/index.html
Katz, Brigit. “The Kansas Homestead Where America’s First Serial Killer Family Committed Its Crimes Is Up For Sale”. SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE. 4 Feb 2020 Accessed 3 AUG 2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sale-kansas-land-where-bloody-benders-committed-their-crimes-180974121/
Sharp, Rachel “Land owned by America’s first family of serial killers goes on sale where ‘the Bloody Benders’ bashed the heads of 11 victims with a hammer, slit their throats and dropped them through a trapdoor in the 1870s”. DAILY MAIL .com. 25 Jan 2020 Updated 26 Jan 2020. Accessed 3 Aug 2022. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7929989/Kansas-land-Bloody-Benders-slayed-11-people-1870s-auction.html
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