Life was not easy on the American frontier for European and American settlers in the 19th century.

You lived off the land or you died trying. You're always one wrong move from freezing or starving to death.

You had to defend your property from horse thieves, bandits, and American Indian tribes,

understandably pissed off that you just settled on land. They still felt belonged to them.

And if you lived in or traveled around Cherryvale or the Osage township in rural

southeastern Kansas, you had another thing to worry about. Being literally hammered to death

by the bloody benders, a family of four, a family of four killers. The benders sometimes called

America's first serial killer family killed travelers that were unlucky enough to stop for the

night at their tiny inn. As settlers swung through on their way to make a new life for themselves

in the wild west, maybe carve out a small fortune. They were seated at a table and the head of the

murderer's family, old pop bender would beat their skulls in. Then daughter Kate would slit their

throats and then either Ma or John Jr. would drop their body into the cellar via a trap door.

And later one of the members of the bender brood would bury the body in the orchard or vegetable

garden out back. Today's tale is straight up a real life horror movie. They rinse and repeated

this murder method over and over again enough times to briefly give the whole area around them a

bad reputation as a place where folks just vanished. And then a group of vigilantes found the bodies.

What happened next? Did this psycho family get caught hanging from a tree or did they escape justice?

All this and more on a bloody yeah yeah is this a new Rob Zombie movie or an actual historical

examination episode of Time Suck?

Happy Monday and hail Nimrod meat sacks. A hail Lucifer Praise Bojangles glory be to triple him.

Welcome or welcome back to the Cult of the Curious. Get on get on in here. I'm Dan Cummins

a suck master the master sucker professional air banjo restringer and you are listening to Time Suck.

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