![]() ![]() ![]() During winter, when the ground was frozen, the family dumped mutilated bodies miles away on the snowbound prairie or tossed them during spring thaw into a local creek.īetween 1871-73, reports of missing travelers began filtering throughout the community. Victims with split skulls or slit throats were dropped into a pit under the house, then dragged outdoors after dark and buried in the garden. Their tiny, 16-feet-by-24-feet wooden shack had been built as a house of horrors, complete with a trapdoor under the kitchen table. The family provided lodging where unsuspecting travelers became a grotesque statistic in the Bender apple orchard. ![]() From October 1870 until April 1873, a German family consisting of Ma and Pa Bender and their two grown children, quiet John and vivacious Katie, ran a murder inn seven miles northeast of Cherryvale in Labette County. One of the most intriguing mysteries of the Old West concerns the disappearance of the Kansas murder family known as the Benders. ![]()
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