From about 15 years on and up a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

We are all evil in some form where you know that.

Yes, I am not 100 hundred percent, but I am you.

My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman. I hated her but I wanted to love my mother.

This is serial killing a podcast.

Hello again and welcome to Serial Killing a Podcast.

My name is Alyssa Carroll and I am the host and the creator of

at Serial underscore Killing on Instagram where we go through the life stories of serial

killers to see if we might catch a glimpse of why they displayed their famous

vile and disturbing behaviors.

And of course special thanks to some of my patrons.

John, my girl Judy, David, Bree, Brandy, Cassandra, Gailen, Gabriel, Emily, Emma,

Nanette, Sophie, Sarah, Theresa, Florence, Robert, Katerina, Hammer, Janice, Freddie, Sam, and Catherine. Thank you so much.

You are truly appreciated.

So today's podcast is going to be on the Bloody Benders.

So we'll start with a bit of backstory beginning with the end of the Civil War.

Of course we know this was a war between the Union or the North of the United States and the

Confederacy of the South.

And it began in April of 1861 when the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

This war was long and bloody, but effectively ended in April 1865 when the South surrendered to the north.

It is estimated that between 620,000 and 750,000 soldiers lost their lives and there is no real numbers for the amount of civilians

that died as well.

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