This is an I-Heart podcast.

This mind-boggling episode is an old-timey, true-crimey.

It concerns one of the worst families that ever set up shop in Kansas, which is really saying something.

In the early 1870s, the Bender family's surreptitious killing spree carried out in their own home, no less,

resulted in the murders of at least 21 people, which are in the family they nicknamed the Bloody Benders.

This episode will knock your socks off, assuming they're still on your feet after the other episodes so far.

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too.

So this is Stuff You Should know. The Murder Family Edition.

Yeah.

Halloween, right around the corner.

I've always liked to think of you, me, and Jerry as a kind of murder family.

As in you and I and Jerry, right?

We always have to correct that because people think you're talking about you and me, your wife.

That's right. Okay. Yes.

You, me, comma. You comma, me, comma.

No, no. I mean me. My wife, Yumi and Jerry. I've always thought of us as a. No, I'm kidding.

I miss what you said, though. You thought it was this is what? A murder family? Yeah.

Sure. In the kindest possible way. Exactly. Exactly. No, we're no murder family. And after everybody learns about the bloody benders, they'll be like, yeah, Josh and Chuck and Jerry are no murder family. And we wouldn't want to be either because it turns out murder families are not so great, Chuck.

Right. And can we shout out a listener who submitted this topic? Oh, yeah, definitely.

That's, I feel like that's happening more and more lately. A lot, yeah. As our world gets smaller,

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