10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes. What you are about to hear is real and violent in nature. Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder.

Welcome to 10-minute Murder, the brief and bingeable true crime podcast.

I'm Joe, I'm the host, and thanks for being here.

If you're new to the podcast, thank you for checking it out today.

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into the search bar of Facebook and Instagram. And that's where I post visuals to go along with

the stories that you're hearing about. It's nothing gross and graphic, but it's enough for you

to put a face to the names that you're hearing about. And today's story, I'm not sure how much of a visual I can post, because

it happened a long time ago. The story today, it's not a new one, and it's going to be a little

bit longer than 10 minutes, so plan accordingly. It may be the first recorded case of a family

working in collaboration as serial killers.

You're going to hear about the Bender family and how they ran a little bed and breakfast,

which was basically just a one-room cabin with a burlap curtain dividing it to make it into another room.

When they built it, they made it to what it became.

A kill house, complete with a trap door to the cellar.

This is the story of the bloody benders.

Being a traveler back in the 1800s must have been something awful.

There's no online booking, and you can't even call ahead to make sure there's a room reserved

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