Speaker 1: Welcome to day six of Halloween Week with Wicked and Grim.
Speaker 1: My name is Jacko, and although there are only two
Speaker 1: days remaining, I will continue and remain your master of
Speaker 1: ceremonies until Halloween is done. After that, I guess I
Speaker 1: might kick my feed up on a little vacation, but
Speaker 1: I will be sure to be careful in my travels
Speaker 1: and as should you. You see, the story today deals
Speaker 1: in a murderous family who took advantage of travelers. They
Speaker 1: lured them in by means of their family business, a
Speaker 1: lodging in. It was there when tired and weary tourists
Speaker 1: would let their guard down, only to be struck when
Speaker 1: list expected. In fact, this case would later spawn a
Speaker 1: vicious Hollywood horror movie, and it was called The Devils Rejects, Ladies, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: theyse and them's. It is time to present to you
Speaker 1: your hosts Ben and Nicole to tell you the tale
Speaker 1: of the Bloody Benders.
Speaker 2: Jacko and his countdown. There is only two days left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why, I thought you were mid sentence. You just
Speaker 3: stared at me.
Speaker 2: You're just stared at me. That was so much The
Speaker 2: hell with you?
Speaker 3: I was like, and yeah, where are you going with this, Well.
Speaker 2: That's shocking. It's shocking.
Speaker 3: It is very much. So hopefully you guys have your
Speaker 3: Halloween costumes and Halloween candy ready to go, because you're
Speaker 3: running out of time.
Speaker 2: But he's got to stop the campdowns here. It's already
Speaker 2: making me miss Halloween week.
Speaker 3: You're already like thinking in past tense, like it's gone already.
Speaker 2: No, we said, got two days left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're still in the best of it. We're not
Speaker 3: even at the climactic moment of Halloween itself yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, So two things I wanted to talk about on
Speaker 2: Halloween Day. Okay, So we're doing a live, Yes, we are.
Speaker 2: So we're doing a live. It will be on Instagram
Speaker 2: and we're going to be doing it at six pm
Speaker 2: Pacific Standard time, correct, and then after that's over, so
Speaker 2: like there, I guess you can kind of chat with us,
Speaker 2: ask us questions, you can see what our Halloween costume is,
Speaker 2: and then we will be bouncing over to Patreon after
Speaker 2: that for a live just with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's like almost like the pre party will
Speaker 3: be on Instagram and then like like the after party.
Speaker 3: I guess, well, I guess it's not the parties on
Speaker 3: Instagram the after parties on Patreon. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 2: We's the actual party.
Speaker 3: Well that's kind of what I was thinking of subscribing it.
Speaker 3: But the actual parties Instagram, and then the after party
Speaker 3: is Patreon.
Speaker 2: And then super Cool. We will also be having a
Speaker 2: giveaway on our socials on Halloween Day for a T
Speaker 2: shirt and we also need to release it, but bend
Speaker 2: it up. A new piece of merch we did. We
Speaker 2: waket ingram, so we got to share that because you
Speaker 2: could you could literally win that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the design, we're going to put it up
Speaker 3: on Instagram and facebooks. You can check it out. Link
Speaker 3: for the merch is all down below in the description
Speaker 3: of the podcast. You can go check it out there
Speaker 3: right now if you want. But the design is called
Speaker 3: crime Scene and it's got like a little like body
Speaker 3: outline and like a little like crime scene going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's really awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. Yeah. And we also feel like we've just
Speaker 3: been doing that a lot lately.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh gosh, okay, let's stop always have something. It changes.
Speaker 2: I mean, with the progression of Wicked and Grim, we've
Speaker 2: had so many just sayings that we use for like
Speaker 2: a few episodes. It seems, and then we almost bounced
Speaker 2: to something else, and then like today, I think I've
Speaker 2: already said bounced twice, which is fucked because I never
Speaker 2: say bounce.
Speaker 3: But I mean such as the growth and flow of conversation.
Speaker 3: I guess, like someone will say a word that just
Speaker 3: like you latch onto for a week, or a saying
Speaker 3: or you saw something in a TV show. I mean,
Speaker 3: remember what was that show with all like the three
Speaker 3: nerd or four Nerdy dudes and Penny and Sheldon the
Speaker 3: Big Bang Theory, Big Bang Theory?
Speaker 2: How could you not?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know, but like when Sheldon
Speaker 3: was saying bazinga, like that's what all anyone fucking said
Speaker 3: for a month.
Speaker 2: I don't think I ever said bazinga into that.
Speaker 3: But like, you know what I mean, I know what
Speaker 3: you mean. Everyone's dialogue is constantly changing, and I think
Speaker 3: it's just I mean, considering we're recording ourselves and we
Speaker 3: have people pointing it out sometimes and we listen to
Speaker 3: ourselves that we notice it.
Speaker 2: You betcha, Oh yeah, you bet youa.
Speaker 3: Bud, you bet youa.
Speaker 2: We also have people sending us drink photos and I
Speaker 2: just wanted to say we did get a couple, even
Speaker 2: via email, and not all of them are alcoholic beverages.
Speaker 3: No, which is totally cool.
Speaker 2: Someone sent a frappuccino yeah, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I like frappuccinos too, that's freaking awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Just if you want to be a part of it,
Speaker 3: I mean, message us, email us, tag us in a
Speaker 3: post on Instagram or Facebook. Just be like, yo, Wicked
Speaker 3: and Graham, we're chilling doing the thing. Yeah. I'm actually
Speaker 3: drinking a margarita right now and coleport it for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all about the margaritas right now.
Speaker 3: I love margaritas.
Speaker 2: Are so good. They're pretty dang good.
Speaker 3: Yeah they are.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's uh, let's back ounce.
Speaker 3: That's bad. You bet ya?
Speaker 2: Okay, ready for this?
Speaker 3: You bet ya?
Speaker 2: Are you all ready for this?
Speaker 3: You bet ya? Kay? I'm not going to say that again.
Speaker 2: Okay. Once upon a time, in the heart of the
Speaker 2: untamed wild West, where the prairies seemed to stretch on forever,
Speaker 2: there lived a family, the Bender family. But they weren't
Speaker 2: your typical family. The family consistent consisted sorry of John Bender,
Speaker 2: who I will be referring to as Paul or John Senior.
Speaker 2: His wife, who had many names for some reason. She
Speaker 2: went by Elvira Elmyra, and I will be referring to
Speaker 2: her as.
Speaker 3: Ma as Ma Ma Ma, gotcha, okay.
Speaker 2: And then they also had their grown children, So they
Speaker 2: had John Junior and a daughter named Kate supposedly in quotations.
Speaker 2: I say supposedly because it's still unclear today if they
Speaker 2: were actually related in the way that I had mentioned.
Speaker 2: This is how they portrayed themselves as a family. But
Speaker 2: being that the two kids were quite affectionate towards each other,
Speaker 2: it was rumored they may have actually been married or
Speaker 2: together in a common law situation, rather than brother and sister.
Speaker 3: I see, okay. I mean it's not unheard of though,
Speaker 3: for family members to live such lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wasn't going to really go there, but that
Speaker 2: is an option.
Speaker 3: Too, I said it very politely.
Speaker 2: You did. So, Ma and Kate were potentially the only
Speaker 2: ones that were of like blood relation that I that
Speaker 2: I could find, But they could all have been to
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's something that isn't is kind of
Speaker 2: what's the.
Speaker 3: Word, I have no idea?
Speaker 2: Unclear, okay, unclear in my mindings.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was very unclear. Got it, I follow?
Speaker 2: Okay, So to touch a bit more on the family,
Speaker 2: John Senior was around sixty years old. He spoke little
Speaker 2: English with a thick German accent, and was known for
Speaker 2: his perpetual look of contempt, which is an interesting way
Speaker 2: to describe someone resting bitch face. Basically, yeah, yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2: Yeah guess resting bitch face. That's way better. Yeah ma.
Speaker 2: She was aged fifty five. She also spoken little English
Speaker 2: with a thick German accent, and had an unfriendly demeanor,
Speaker 2: often referred to as a she devil by neighbors. Wow,
Speaker 2: can you imagine my she devil neighbor?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Holy heck?
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 2: John Junior, approximately twenty five years old, was handsome with
Speaker 2: an auburn hair and auburn colored hair sorry, and a mustache.
Speaker 2: He spoke English fluently with a German acc accent. He
Speaker 2: apparently had the tendency to laugh kind of aimlessly, though,
Speaker 2: and this led people to think that he wasn't all
Speaker 2: that bright. Okay, So, and finally, Kate, she was around
Speaker 2: twenty three years old, was cultured and attractive. She spoke
Speaker 2: English well and was a self proclaimed healer and psychic,
Speaker 2: known for advertising her supernatural powers and advocating free love.
Speaker 2: Kate was the most social and likable member of the
Speaker 2: Bender family. She was the face of the family and
Speaker 2: her popularity attracted people, mostly men, to the family.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so she's a bit of a hippie type.
Speaker 2: Then hippy and a babe.
Speaker 3: I guess a hippie babe, gotcha, peybabe.
Speaker 2: Now we're living in the nineteenth century, a time where
Speaker 2: the government was offering plots of land to anyone who
Speaker 2: was to move to canvas and farm said land. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: So the Venders were a family that took them up
Speaker 2: on this offer, moving to canvas and building a small
Speaker 2: cabin in the eighteen seventies adjacent to the Great Osage
Speaker 2: Trail in Labette County. Being that the trail was frequently
Speaker 2: used by pioneers and travelers heading farther west, the family
Speaker 2: eventually hung a grocery sign and turned their cabin into
Speaker 2: a way station and in if you Will. The cabin
Speaker 2: was divided with a canvas wagon cover to create two rooms.
Speaker 2: They used the smaller room at the rear for living
Speaker 2: quarters and the front room as a general store where
Speaker 2: they sold dry goods and potentially goods from their vegetable
Speaker 2: garden and apple orchard.
Speaker 3: Okay, gotcha. So we're talking like eighteen hundreds year. So
Speaker 3: they took converted their cabin and just with canvas kind
Speaker 3: of sorted out sections.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one room, and it wasn't very big cabin. But
Speaker 2: I also think back then two people probably lived. They
Speaker 2: didn't have high as high of expectation.
Speaker 3: No, they were quite modest living, which yeah, isn't a
Speaker 3: terrible thing. No, I mean cutting down some of the
Speaker 3: stuff in today's society would be nice, you know, technology
Speaker 3: and live in the large kind of means we don't
Speaker 3: necessarily need that. No, No, hence why we live in
Speaker 3: a tiny home. I know, I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the front section also contained the kitchen and
Speaker 2: dining table, where travelers could stop for a meal or
Speaker 2: spend the night. Kate also offered her services of being
Speaker 2: able to talk to the dead, which she did charge
Speaker 2: a price for. The inn was rather unassuming, a refuge
Speaker 2: for those weary from their long journeys, but behind the
Speaker 2: facade of hospitality, a sinister secret lay concealed. The ves
Speaker 2: in wasn't just a resting place for travelers. It would
Speaker 2: actually be their final resting place. For many unsuspecting visitors.
Speaker 3: Oh that was sinister. It wasn't just a resting place.
Speaker 2: It was their final rest final resting place.
Speaker 3: I don't think we've ever had a better time to
Speaker 3: do this. Dun dun dun.
Speaker 2: Well just wait, you have to do it again in
Speaker 2: a secon because I want more align.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll hold the organ the piano. That sounded dirty.
Speaker 3: So the piano.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. This is how the Bender family would
Speaker 2: go about receiving their nickname as the Bloody Benders.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, okay, dune dun dun free. I'm just making
Speaker 3: sure I didn't want to suck it up.
Speaker 1: Shit.
Speaker 2: So the bendersmo was chillingly simple. They would invite travelers
Speaker 2: often loan men, into their inn for a meal or accommodation.
Speaker 2: They would seat their guests at a table cleverly placed
Speaker 2: in front of a canvas that separated the diners from
Speaker 2: the rest of the room, and they had like a
Speaker 2: certain seat that it was like the guest of honor
Speaker 2: chair or whatever that they had to sit in right.
Speaker 2: So as the guests ate their meal, one member of
Speaker 2: the family, generally Kate, would go about distracting the guests
Speaker 2: with conversation and you know her good looks and charm yep,
Speaker 2: while another assumed to be either John Senior or John Junior,
Speaker 2: approached the curtain with the victim's head outlined through the canvas.
Speaker 2: They would then smash the skull hidden as they were
Speaker 2: still hidden behind the canvas, with a hammer Jesus like
Speaker 2: as hard as they all could, right and just to
Speaker 2: ensure the job was complete, because sometimes it wasn't. Kate
Speaker 2: or Ma would then go about slashing the victims through Wow, like,
Speaker 2: holy shit.
Speaker 3: I'm curious as to why what they're just stealing and
Speaker 3: taking all this shit?
Speaker 2: I guess or you got to keep listening here. But
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say one more thing than I forgot to
Speaker 2: put in here. But I think they I don't know
Speaker 2: if they always did the slashing of the throat, but
Speaker 2: it seemed like maybe they always did. But at times
Speaker 2: after I think hitting them in the head, or maybe
Speaker 2: right before these victims probably was like what's going on
Speaker 2: and got like an unedged feeling because there were I
Speaker 2: think they had said, like at least ten bullet holes
Speaker 2: within this cabin.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, so individuals firing back or.
Speaker 2: Somethingah like trying to fight back right dang so then
Speaker 2: the body would fall through a conveniently placed trapped door
Speaker 2: basically right under them under this chair, into the basement,
Speaker 2: never to rise again. In the basement, the benders continued
Speaker 2: with their smooth operation. The lifeless victims were stripped of
Speaker 2: their valuables, and because many of them were traveling, some
Speaker 2: victims had a substantial amount of money on them, and
Speaker 2: not to mention their modes of transportation to boot like
Speaker 2: their horses or their buggies or whatever, right and.
Speaker 3: Whatever supplies that are carrying with them.
Speaker 2: And yeah, saddles. I think one person had a saddle
Speaker 2: that was actually worth quite a bit of money.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I can imagine, like an waste leather saddle.
Speaker 3: Like they're not cheap.
Speaker 2: No, no, So fear and suspicions spread through the surrounding
Speaker 2: community as travelers passing through the AIRA vanished without a trace.
Speaker 2: It wasn't long before one particular traveler became entangled in
Speaker 2: the web of the bloody vendors. Vendors. Did I say vendors?
Speaker 3: You said vendors, which almost makes it sound like actually
Speaker 3: like that terrifying story, because well, I mean they almost
Speaker 3: are vendors, like they're offering the.
Speaker 2: Fartality offering a service. Yeah, so his.
Speaker 3: Bloody bending benders.
Speaker 2: Bending benders, I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was trying with something there just didn't really work.
Speaker 2: So his disappearance would set in motion the events that
Speaker 2: would eventually finally expose the family of serial killers. His
Speaker 2: name was doctor William Henry York. Now doctor York was
Speaker 2: actually in search of a friend. I think it was
Speaker 2: a neighbor that had went missing in the area. And
Speaker 2: this neighbor was called George Longcour and his one year
Speaker 2: old daughter Mary Anne.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I meta, Margarita, what is up with you? What?
Speaker 2: First of we are eating candy on here. Now you're
Speaker 2: like sipping from a straw really loud.
Speaker 3: Wanted my last sip of margarita.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I apologize.
Speaker 3: You should not to you. Oh shit, okay.
Speaker 2: Okay. But when he himself also went missing, his brothers
Speaker 2: Ed York and Colonel Alexander York, who was a Civil
Speaker 2: War veteran, lawyer and politician, so he had like that's
Speaker 2: a resume, Yeah, no kidding a began an all out
Speaker 2: search for their missing brother. So they they missed, they
Speaker 2: mess of the wrong family here this time. Clearly, I
Speaker 2: mean that always happens, right something, Well not always, but
Speaker 2: I feel like there's always something like luck generally runs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Alexander, leading a company of more than fifty men,
Speaker 2: like at least fifty men, questioned every traveler along the
Speaker 2: trail and visited all the area homestead, including the Benders. In.
Speaker 2: The Benders did, however, admit to him that his brother
Speaker 2: did stay with them, but that he was alive and
Speaker 2: well when he left, and suggested the possibility that he
Speaker 2: had ran into some trouble after his stay with them,
Speaker 2: like mans, you know, it was the wild West. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Alexander agreed, this, you know, could be a possibility. But
Speaker 2: as he continued his investigation, it kept leading him back
Speaker 2: to the Venders, as several people had unpleasant stories to
Speaker 2: share about them. But he wanted to do things the
Speaker 2: right way and insisted on finding evidence. So he didn't
Speaker 2: want to just like storm a blazon go in there
Speaker 2: and be like I got you. You know, he wanted
Speaker 2: to do it the right way.
Speaker 3: Nothing willy nilly here. He's going to do it good.
Speaker 2: Maybe well, I was going to say he's a politician,
Speaker 2: but actually it probably doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, sorry.
Speaker 3: In shape.
Speaker 2: So now, around the same time, neighboring communities began to
Speaker 2: make accusations that the o Sage community was responsible for
Speaker 2: the disappearances. So the Sage they were like, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: They arranged a meeting to discuss the disappearances, and it
Speaker 2: was agreed upon that a warrant would be obtained to
Speaker 2: search every homestead in the area.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so at this meeting, both Paul and John Junior
Speaker 2: were there. They were at the meeting, which then led
Speaker 2: the family to flee their homestead. I wonder why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure we're about to find out why and
Speaker 3: how many bodies are reasons? Why?
Speaker 2: As you count on your fingers. Yeah, it wasn't noticed initially,
Speaker 2: but several days after the meeting, a neighbor noticed that
Speaker 2: the benders in was abandoned and the farm animals they
Speaker 2: had were unfed and unintended to, which is terrible. This
Speaker 2: was reported to the township trustee, which then called for
Speaker 2: volunteers to form a search party. So a lot of reports.
Speaker 2: I don't even think I said this in here, but
Speaker 2: it was like hundreds of people, like numerous people going there,
Speaker 2: which I feel like is just such a disaster, but anyway,
Speaker 2: it was really back in the day. So a search party,
Speaker 2: fueled by concern and a growing sense of dread, was
Speaker 2: hastily assembled. The inn, which had once seemed like a sanctuary,
Speaker 2: now seemed to hold the air of just gloom. Upon
Speaker 2: arriving at the inn, they found the empty, the cabin
Speaker 2: empty of food, clothing, and personal possessions gone. There was
Speaker 2: also a horrendous odor that could not go unnoticed to some.
Speaker 2: They knew the smell, and it was the smell of death.
Speaker 3: Cool. Well, I'm just sitting here thinking, like, Okay, the basement.
Speaker 3: Clearly there's death rotting and bodies down there. I assumed
Speaker 3: that when they dropped to the basement they were like
Speaker 3: remembering and like disposing. But doesn't seem like it.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't know a lot of people too. A
Speaker 2: lot of reports also said that there was like a
Speaker 2: fly situation, which you know kind of goes hand in
Speaker 2: hand for that. Yeah, the smell was traced to a
Speaker 2: trap door, which at this point was underneath the bed
Speaker 2: and nailed shut. Of course, you know they opened the door.
Speaker 2: I would fucking run for the hills, but they opened
Speaker 2: the door, terrified what they might find beneath it, but
Speaker 2: there was actually no sight of any bodies. There was
Speaker 2: blood and lots of it on the floor, but other
Speaker 2: than that, it was an empty room.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: The search needed to continue, though, so starting at this
Speaker 2: secret door, they broke down the stone slab floors, still
Speaker 2: finding no human remains. Every corner was searched, every floorboard
Speaker 2: examined for the hidden hoars they concealed, with the search
Speaker 2: party even apparently physically lifting the cabin dang, which I'm like,
Speaker 2: how the fuck does that even happen to dig underneath?
Speaker 2: But still, other than blood, no remains were found.
Speaker 3: Well, that kind of reminds me of like, have you
Speaker 3: seen like those Amish communities when they like move a barn. No,
Speaker 3: they will literally just like get all these dudes together
Speaker 3: from the Amish community and they literally just lift a
Speaker 3: barn and walk it somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Seriously, Oh yeah, oh so there's no foundation whatsoever? Then?
Speaker 3: Hey, No, No, it's just like sitting on the ground
Speaker 3: sort of thing, huh, or sitting on blocks.
Speaker 2: You have to make sure that you all kind of lifted.
Speaker 2: I mean, in this sense, they probably didn't give a
Speaker 2: shit if they kind of wrecked the house, but like
Speaker 2: you'd have to kind of all lift at the same time.
Speaker 2: I just feel like could.
Speaker 3: Be well, I mean, picture this. You got a small
Speaker 3: little cabin. You got one hundred dudes around it. Okay,
Speaker 3: everyone ready, one, two, three, lift? Sure, it's gonna lift.
Speaker 2: It's gonna lift.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, you.
Speaker 3: Get enough muscle behind it, She's going up.
Speaker 2: Hmm. Okay. So they then started probing the ground with
Speaker 2: a metal rod. It was the garden beneath the freshly
Speaker 2: turned soil that the group made their chilling discovery, revealing
Speaker 2: the remains of numerous victims. The once unassuming Bendorin was
Speaker 2: now a house of horrors. Doctor Yorke's body was found
Speaker 2: buried in the orchard, along with numerous other bodies. A
Speaker 2: body was also found in the well, which I'm like,
Speaker 2: wouldn't they be drinking the fucking water for the.
Speaker 3: Well that just contaminates your water source?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't even get that.
Speaker 3: Unless they weren't using that well they had another source
Speaker 3: or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's nasty and various body parts were also found that
Speaker 2: did not belong to any of the other victims. So
Speaker 2: like cool, they would find like a random arm or whatever, right,
Speaker 2: All but one had their heads bashed with a ham
Speaker 2: and their throats cut. The body of little Marianne, you know,
Speaker 2: the one year old ahit was buried with her father
Speaker 2: with no injuries sufficient to cause death, so it was
Speaker 2: speculated that she may have been buried alive.
Speaker 3: I fuck kind of saw that coming.
Speaker 2: I know that is too much. That is disturbing. Shit.
Speaker 2: Three hammers, so, a shoehammer, a claw hammer, and a
Speaker 2: sledge hammer that appeared to match indentations and some of
Speaker 2: the skulls were all found, as well as a knife
Speaker 2: with a four inch tapered blade still bearing a stain
Speaker 2: of blood. Word of the murders spread quickly, and allegedly
Speaker 2: thousands of people, including reporters from as far away as
Speaker 2: New York and Chicago, visited the site of the inn.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: The cabin, though, was destroyed by souvenir hunters who took
Speaker 2: absolutely everything, including the brook, the bricks that lined the south,
Speaker 2: and the stones that line the well.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like people wanted a piece of this, which is interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get it, and I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Nowadays that shit just can't happen though, because like crime
Speaker 2: scenes are.
Speaker 3: You know, well, I'm I'm thinking that's very akin to
Speaker 3: the cabin in Evil Dead. It was like people went
Speaker 3: and took pieces of it and everything, and it was
Speaker 3: on private property too, but it eventually it actually burned down,
Speaker 3: so there's not a whole lot left of it, but
Speaker 3: there are still some stones left from the fireplace and stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh are you think still? Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can people not go there and grab them there?
Speaker 3: It's private property? Well, it's it's private property and I
Speaker 3: can't remember where it's located. But Bruce Campbell, the star
Speaker 3: of Evil Dead, he plays at Williams. He even warns people.
Speaker 3: He's like, don't go there because like I can't remember
Speaker 3: where it is. Yeah, he's like, you'll get a buckshot
Speaker 3: to your ass. Holy, Like it's redneck area sort of thing.
Speaker 2: That's terrifying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so don't fucking do that. But it's kind of
Speaker 3: very similar thing. People were rating it for pieces.
Speaker 2: See, it's kind of sad. Actually, there's a location in
Speaker 2: town that I used to shoot at that was like
Speaker 2: a beautiful barn and people would go about stealing pieces
Speaker 2: of it too, and then it wrecked the structure and
Speaker 2: the barn like fell in.
Speaker 3: Oh, is that the one went up near the airport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, and it's I mean, the thing was
Speaker 2: old and like weathered, so it might have kind of
Speaker 2: like been facing its doom anyway. But still, I can't
Speaker 2: imagine people like going stealing things as they want to
Speaker 2: make a sign for their house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just vandalism.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I also wanted to mention before I
Speaker 2: finished this off, is the weapons are at museums now,
Speaker 2: which is really cool, including that knife. But apparently the
Speaker 2: knife isn't on display because it has like bloodstain on
Speaker 2: on it, so you have to request it or something.
Speaker 2: And I think it's in the Kansas Museum.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, morbid but cool.
Speaker 2: Oh I would yeah, I would request to see if
Speaker 2: a show. I wonder if people are just like like
Speaker 2: they want to see it again, or if it's like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: I'll go get it for you. You know.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's kind of it's it's the museum.
Speaker 3: It's kind of the point. So I'd assume people working
Speaker 3: there is like understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's like saying, like you work at a bar and
Speaker 3: someone orders a beer and the bartender's like, I got
Speaker 3: to get you another beer? Are you kidding me? Like
Speaker 3: it's kind of the point of the place, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I totally get that. I'm just seeing if
Speaker 2: I can find where what what museum? It was the
Speaker 2: Kansas Museum of History. So yeah, still bearing reddish brown
Speaker 2: stains on the blade. It can be seen upon requests.
Speaker 3: Wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is wild. So a nationwide manhunt was launched
Speaker 2: for the Vendor family, including the offers offerings of large
Speaker 2: rewards for the family's arrests, and that was something kind
Speaker 2: of more rare for about then. The Bender's family wagon
Speaker 2: was found shortly after their disappearance, and it was only
Speaker 2: a few miles away from their home, and there had been,
Speaker 2: you know, over the years, numerous apparent sightings, but the
Speaker 2: family seems to have just vanished into the air, leaving
Speaker 2: behind only the echoes of their gruesome deeds.
Speaker 3: They were never found. No, oh shit.
Speaker 2: Really really fuck I mean, there's speculation that people because
Speaker 2: back then, people kind of took things into their own
Speaker 2: hands often fair enough. Yeah, so there is speculation that
Speaker 2: maybe maybe some people did get to them and they
Speaker 2: did get murdered, but maybe they literally just did get
Speaker 2: away with it too.
Speaker 3: Back then, it was also a lot easier to just like, hey.
Speaker 2: My name is now slip into the shadows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, John Doe and this is Mary Sue and we're
Speaker 3: a family from upstate somewhere, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So, including random body parts recovered and bodies found off
Speaker 2: site because there were a few of those, it speculated
Speaker 2: that the Benders killed as many as twenty people from
Speaker 2: May eighteen seventy one to May eighteen seventy three, so
Speaker 2: two years. And that's on including the stories. There's many
Speaker 2: stories of people that got away. Yeah, and I bet
Speaker 2: you anything, that number even could be higher, and they
Speaker 2: probably if they got away, literally, there's probably even more.
Speaker 2: And maybe they're doing the ship before eighteen seventy one,
Speaker 2: Like well, I.
Speaker 3: Was thinking twenty sounds like a low number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's probably numerous that they didn't even unbury
Speaker 2: and stuff, right.
Speaker 3: That they're not aware of or yeah.
Speaker 2: Wild And that's the grim till of the Bloody Benders,
Speaker 2: which apparently is America's first serial killer family.
Speaker 3: That's cool, what's Paul?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 3: It's cool because I mean it's I learned a little
Speaker 3: bit about. Okay, the whole Bloody Bender situation not cool,
Speaker 3: trust me. The douchebags and murders. Fuck them. However, there
Speaker 3: is a movie called The Devil's Rejects that this inspired.
Speaker 2: Which I didn't even know about that, to be honest.
Speaker 3: Well, you were kind of just filming in like before this,
Speaker 3: just a brief thing about like, hey, they ran an
Speaker 3: end and the daughter kind of like swooned them a
Speaker 3: little bit and distracted them and then they caught. And
Speaker 3: I was like, that sounds like Devil's Rejects. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I gave a quick google and yeah, it's based.
Speaker 2: Off of that, which apparently is the movie that scared
Speaker 2: the shit out of you the most.
Speaker 3: That is one of the horror movies that has bothered
Speaker 3: me the most ever, and the reason for it is
Speaker 3: it's it's too real. So imagine, like think of horror movies.
Speaker 3: There's there's ghost stories, There's there's demons, there's monsters, there's
Speaker 3: creatures coming out from wherever. There's serial killers, there's the
Speaker 3: slasher films where they're wearing a mask and they're chasing
Speaker 3: you with a knife, and it's like the intense music.
Speaker 2: Things that a lot of times you're like, oh, that
Speaker 2: would never happen to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would never happen to me. And even if
Speaker 3: it does, it's like it's just such a weird chain
Speaker 3: of events to lead you there. It's like that's one
Speaker 3: in a fucking million. Yeah, But with Devil's Rejects the movie,
Speaker 3: it's the killers are not a monster. They're just another
Speaker 3: fucking person. They're not some deranged psycho who had this
Speaker 3: terrible upbringing and got them there. It's just another fucking
Speaker 3: person that you just happen to run into, and they
Speaker 3: put you in a position where you're absolutely fucking helpless,
Speaker 3: And it just got to me so bad. It's such
Speaker 3: a well done movie. Love the movie, but goddamn it
Speaker 3: gets to me.
Speaker 2: Oh in the darkness, I just saw Kiwi's eyes. You know,
Speaker 2: housemers are like reflective. That was freaking creepy.
Speaker 3: Good Oh my god, Halloween decoration.
Speaker 2: Ever, Well, I did want to say too about this family,
Speaker 2: is their main motive was, is you know, like stealing, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I kind of figured out. But then and a lot
Speaker 2: of because a lot of people had quite a bit
Speaker 2: of money, but then some of them didn't actually have
Speaker 2: very much money at all, but they still want about
Speaker 2: killing them, and so it was you know, kind of
Speaker 2: speculated that they also enjoy doing this which is so
Speaker 2: fucked well.
Speaker 3: I mean, typically someone who's becoming a serial killer, it's
Speaker 3: not just about the money, it's not just about the trophy.
Speaker 2: It's they enjoy the thrill of it.
Speaker 3: They enjoy the thrill of it. And there's actually even
Speaker 3: speculations of individuals going on conversations like psychology wise and
Speaker 3: stuff about how these individuals almost want to get caught,
Speaker 3: and that's.
Speaker 2: At some point it seems like they really do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why, I mean, that's why they taunt police. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why they write these letters, or that's why they
Speaker 3: leave a calling card, That's why they get sloppier, that's
Speaker 3: why they get more brave, and all these things. It's
Speaker 3: like they kind of want to get caught.
Speaker 2: Well, even think about too, how there's so many people
Speaker 2: in jail are just random people who oh, I can't
Speaker 2: think of the word, but they admit to a crime
Speaker 2: that they didn't do, yeah, because they almost want I
Speaker 2: don't I don't even know what would they want of that.
Speaker 3: It's kind of almost like a badge of honor, being
Speaker 3: like yeah, fuck, yeah that was.
Speaker 2: Me, which is so disgusting.
Speaker 3: Yeah that renown that yeah fuck that.
Speaker 2: So anyway, one more thing I wanted to just say
Speaker 2: too is the this is a this is a pretty
Speaker 2: dang large story, and like our Halloween episodes are a
Speaker 2: little bit shorter. So there is a book out there
Speaker 2: that I kind of got some information from, and it's
Speaker 2: called Hell's Half Acre, The Untold Story of the Venders,
Speaker 2: a serial killer family on the American Frontier. That would
Speaker 2: probably be like a pretty amazing read, just to like
Speaker 2: if you really wanted to die into this story.
Speaker 3: I can imagine a lot of these cases where it
Speaker 3: is like major history going back a few hundred years.
Speaker 3: You can dig really deep, and it's like if there's
Speaker 3: books on them, usually it's like that person has dug
Speaker 3: real fucking yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and like there's even quite a bit of photos
Speaker 2: and stuff. I was a bit surprised how much information
Speaker 2: was out there, but then there was a lot of
Speaker 2: reports kind of that you have to be careful because
Speaker 2: it's so long ago, so like the story, people to
Speaker 2: kind of change the story a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's always a concern with this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: The telephone game or whatever it's called. Yeap, So, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the freaking story.
Speaker 3: Well well done. I'm kind of actually, like I said, cool.
Speaker 2: It's a cool episode.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of happy you did this one because it's
Speaker 3: I don't know, like I said, it's kind of going
Speaker 3: into that horror genre a bit, and it's I kind
Speaker 3: of learned something like outside of just the realm of
Speaker 3: what we usually do. It's like, oh, I know something
Speaker 3: about that that it ties to and that's cool that Factoy,
Speaker 3: it looks.
Speaker 2: So excited right now.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Generally we end the episode were like, wow, that sucks,
Speaker 2: Like cool, well, and does this mean I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to watch the friggin movie?
Speaker 3: Oh you fucking bet you.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I really want to at all.
Speaker 2: I would weigh rather watch Okay, this is fucked, And
Speaker 2: I feel like i've I think I shared like a
Speaker 2: meme or something about this in Patreon, But I would
Speaker 2: way rather listen to a true crime podcast or watch
Speaker 2: like a true crime documentary or something that's like true
Speaker 2: versus that.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Like that, not the oh that's just scares the shit
Speaker 2: out of me. Like I don't even think it's too
Speaker 2: much visual. I think is what it is probably.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, fair enough, and yeah, it's it's not it's
Speaker 3: a story to entertain rather than a story to educate,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like when you're listening to
Speaker 3: true crime, you're watching a documentary, it's it's educating, you're
Speaker 3: learning something about someone, about an event. It's it's different.
Speaker 3: It's a completely different media of entertainment value rather than
Speaker 3: just like, oh my god, here's blood and gore and
Speaker 3: a story that was made up and it's cool and
Speaker 3: it's fun to watch and oh my god, you see
Speaker 3: I almost beat myself. Well, rather than oh this person
Speaker 3: happened this time, and it's like, wow, I know someone
Speaker 3: who lives in that city and like a block away
Speaker 3: from that house. It's wild and I can't believe someone
Speaker 3: would actually do that. Oh my god, he got bail.
Speaker 3: Are you fucking kidding me? Or justice system is shit?
Speaker 3: Like it's completely different. Yeah, sorry, I went on a
Speaker 3: bit of a rampage there, you did.
Speaker 2: But I was enjoying it. Really, I was enjoying it.
Speaker 3: Well, I enjoyed this episode. It's a good job, well done.
Speaker 3: And now we're left to just Halloween Day episode. Oh,
Speaker 3: just one to go. Goodness, unless you're a patron, of course,
Speaker 3: because Patreon is getting a little bit of extra treatment,
Speaker 3: because I mean it's Patreon that they literally subscribe for it.
Speaker 3: So if you want to join up, Patreon link is
Speaker 3: down below, along with all of our other links Facebook, Instagram, website,
Speaker 3: read it, YouTube, you know, name it all. It's down there.
Speaker 2: Well, can you say what they're getting the extra Patreon?
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2: They're getting an extra episode because they always get an
Speaker 2: extra episode at the end of the month. And they're
Speaker 2: also getting how would you say, the history, the story.
Speaker 3: Of Jacko, Jacko's backstory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, which is really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're gonna sit down. We're going to do
Speaker 3: a podcast episode discussing Jacko and his backstory, who he is,
Speaker 3: where he came from, and how he came to be
Speaker 3: the Jacko that we know today.
Speaker 2: We know and love today of course.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, we swoon over Jacko, Oh totally. I
Speaker 3: guarantee you there's someone out there swooning over Jacko right now.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, is it you?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Oh shit? Are you jealous a little bit? I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to take him on. I have a word with
Speaker 3: Jacko about this.
Speaker 2: Good lucky to kick your ass.
Speaker 3: Oh probably. Anyways, you guys, thank you so so much
Speaker 3: for being here if you want to join our Patreon
Speaker 3: like I said, links down below. If not, we appreciate
Speaker 3: you just the same, and we have that one more
Speaker 3: day to go to Halloween, so we will see you
Speaker 3: in the next episode tomorrow and until then, stay wicked.
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