The Bloody Benders

A True Crime History of America’s First Frontier Serial Killer FamilyBy Alana Sanchez
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Length1h 55m

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Between 1871 and 1873, travellers vanished along a lonely Kansas trail. The Bloody Benders is the true story of America's first known serial killer family. Reconstructed from historical records, newspaper archives, and modern criminological analysis. This is not folklore, this is history.

Audiobook details

GenreTrue Crime, History
Length1 hr 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 23, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1BLOODY BENDERS
13CHAPTER ELEVEN
2PREFACE
14CHAPTER TWELVE
3CHAPTER ONE
15CHAPTER THIRTEEN
4CHAPTER TWO
16CHAPTER FOURTEEN
5CHAPTER THREE
17CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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6CHAPTER FOUR
18CHAPTER SIXTEEN
7CHAPTER FIVE
19CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
8CHAPTER SIX
20CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
9CHAPTER SEVEN
21CHAPTER NINETEEN
10CHAPTER EIGHT
22CONCLUSION
11CHAPTER NINE
23APPENDICES
12CHAPTER TEN
24BIBLIOGRAPHY

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