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I don't know little in, not far from the Kansas Homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder,

lived the Bender family.

These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with Jackrabbits stew and a sledgehammer to the

skull.

In time their apple orchard gave up its secrets, a burial ground for their mutilated victims,

each stripped of their possessions.

The devilish enterprise on Hell's Half Acre would earn the bloody benders an undying place

in the annals of American infamy.

But it was the mysterious fate of eldest daughter Kate that would make them the stuff of

mythic campfire prairie tales.

Little slaughterhouse on the prairie is part of Bloodlands, a chilling collection of short

addictive historical narratives from bestselling True Crime Master Harold Schechter.

Spanning a century in our nation's murderous past, Schechter resurrects nearly forgotten

tales of madmen and thrill killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their day.

The book we're featuring this evening is Little Slotter House on the Prairie Bloodlands

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