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What a Creep

"The Bloody Benders" of Labette County, Kansas

What a Creep

Margo Donohue

True Crime, Entertainment News, News, Comedy

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What a Creep
Season 29, Episode 9
“The Bloody Benders”

The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who operated a small inn and general store in Labette County, Kansas, during the early 1870s. They are considered one of America’s first known serial killer families.

The Benders lived along a remote stretch of the Osage Trail (later part of the Santa Fe Trail), where they ran a waystation for travelers. Guests who stayed at the Bender property were sometimes never seen again.

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Trigger Warnings: Murder and incest


Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! 



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0:00.0

Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present.

0:08.4

This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst.

0:14.6

From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.

0:31.4

Welcome back to What a Creep. This is Margo Donahue, and my cohort in Creepatooten as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. Hey, Sonia. Hello, my friend. Hello, my friend. We are the

0:36.8

podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present.

0:39.8

We're doing a spooky, old-timey creep today.

0:44.4

It's one of Margo's fave.

0:45.8

It's gothic.

0:47.8

It's Americana.

0:49.0

It's just creepiness galore.

0:51.0

And hopefully you don't know too much about this case. So it'll be new and interesting for you.

0:55.3

But if this is your first time listening, I do want to let you know that we always end the show with

1:00.2

someone or something that is not a creep. So you will leave feeling better than when you started.

1:05.7

That's the way we hope anyway. But we're always looking for suggestions for creeps and for

1:09.9

non-creps. So you can reach out to us in several different places. Starting with Facebook, we do have a basic Facebook page, but that's where people go to complain about our language. It's not worth it to complain about our language, y'all. This is just how we talk. We don't fucking care. We don't care. So this is your warning. We use salty

1:29.1

language because we're grownups. You've, you know, that's just the way it is. We're much more

1:33.6

interactive, though, in our private Facebook group. You do have to answer a few questions and promise

1:38.1

not to be an asshole, but that's where we go mostly to hang out. But we have more spots.

1:42.9

We're on threads and Instagram and

1:45.1

Blue Sky at all those places. It's What a Creep podcast. And we have an old-timey email. Yep, we still do that.

1:51.8

It's What a Creep podcast, spell it out at gmail.com. And I do have What a Creep stickers still.

1:58.0

All my other stickers are gone. I have to like get a new vendor and find it out. But if you'd like some stickers, email us with your address and I will drop them in the mail for you. I did send some out last week a bunch. Hopefully it got out to y'all.

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