Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier (Jonusas Susan)
Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier (Jonusas Susan) "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader…
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Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier (Jonusas Susan)
"Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last."--Wall Street JournalA suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier--shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies.
The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for decades, sparking an epic manhunt for the Benders.The idea that a family of seemingly respectable The Benders, the family of four who once resided on the property were nowhere to be found.