WEBVTT 1 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:30.719 Welcome to day six of Halloween Week with Wicked and Grim. 2 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:35.560 My name is Jacko, and although there are only two 3 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:40.719 days remaining, I will continue and remain your master of 4 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:48.280 ceremonies until Halloween is done. After that, I guess I 5 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:52.479 might kick my feed up on a little vacation, but 6 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.079 I will be sure to be careful in my travels 7 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:00.880 and as should you. You see, the story today deals 8 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:05.760 in a murderous family who took advantage of travelers. They 9 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:10.400 lured them in by means of their family business, a 10 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:16.719 lodging in. It was there when tired and weary tourists 11 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:21.680 would let their guard down, only to be struck when 12 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:28.400 list expected. In fact, this case would later spawn a 13 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:40.719 vicious Hollywood horror movie, and it was called The Devils Rejects, Ladies, gentlemen, 14 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:44.799 theyse and them's. It is time to present to you 15 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:49.599 your hosts Ben and Nicole to tell you the tale 16 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.120 of the Bloody Benders. 17 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.680 Jacko and his countdown. There is only two days left. 18 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.760 Yeah, why, I thought you were mid sentence. You just 19 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:06.400 stared at me. 20 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.319 You're just stared at me. That was so much The 21 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:10.520 hell with you? 22 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.000 I was like, and yeah, where are you going with this, Well. 23 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:14.719 That's shocking. It's shocking. 24 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.719 It is very much. So hopefully you guys have your 25 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:22.360 Halloween costumes and Halloween candy ready to go, because you're 26 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:23.400 running out of time. 27 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.280 But he's got to stop the campdowns here. It's already 28 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:27.560 making me miss Halloween week. 29 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.919 You're already like thinking in past tense, like it's gone already. 30 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:33.240 No, we said, got two days left. 31 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.599 Yeah, we're still in the best of it. We're not 32 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:40.039 even at the climactic moment of Halloween itself yet. 33 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.039 Okay, So two things I wanted to talk about on 34 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:47.000 Halloween Day. Okay, So we're doing a live, Yes, we are. 35 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:49.759 So we're doing a live. It will be on Instagram 36 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.599 and we're going to be doing it at six pm 37 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.400 Pacific Standard time, correct, and then after that's over, so 38 00:02:57.759 --> 00:02:59.960 like there, I guess you can kind of chat with us, 39 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.280 ask us questions, you can see what our Halloween costume is, 40 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.240 and then we will be bouncing over to Patreon after 41 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:11.240 that for a live just with them. 42 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.759 Yeah, so it's like almost like the pre party will 43 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.000 be on Instagram and then like like the after party. 44 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:19.759 I guess, well, I guess it's not the parties on 45 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.280 Instagram the after parties on Patreon. Okay, there we go. 46 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:24.879 We's the actual party. 47 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:26.680 Well that's kind of what I was thinking of subscribing it. 48 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:30.000 But the actual parties Instagram, and then the after party 49 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:31.759 is Patreon. 50 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.520 And then super Cool. We will also be having a 51 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.400 giveaway on our socials on Halloween Day for a T 52 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:41.840 shirt and we also need to release it, but bend 53 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:43.879 it up. A new piece of merch we did. We 54 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.159 waket ingram, so we got to share that because you 55 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:47.560 could you could literally win that. 56 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:49.560 Yeah. So the design, we're going to put it up 57 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:52.280 on Instagram and facebooks. You can check it out. Link 58 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.360 for the merch is all down below in the description 59 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:55.840 of the podcast. You can go check it out there 60 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:58.840 right now if you want. But the design is called 61 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.080 crime Scene and it's got like a little like body 62 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.000 outline and like a little like crime scene going on. 63 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:06.560 Yeah. Yeah, it's really awesome. 64 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.520 Yeah yeah. Yeah. And we also feel like we've just 65 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:10.560 been doing that a lot lately. 66 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:15.080 Yeah. Oh gosh, okay, let's stop always have something. It changes. 67 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.240 I mean, with the progression of Wicked and Grim, we've 68 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.639 had so many just sayings that we use for like 69 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.040 a few episodes. It seems, and then we almost bounced 70 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.079 to something else, and then like today, I think I've 71 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:28.399 already said bounced twice, which is fucked because I never 72 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:29.000 say bounce. 73 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:33.360 But I mean such as the growth and flow of conversation. 74 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.000 I guess, like someone will say a word that just 75 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:38.920 like you latch onto for a week, or a saying 76 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:41.279 or you saw something in a TV show. I mean, 77 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:44.800 remember what was that show with all like the three 78 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:49.000 nerd or four Nerdy dudes and Penny and Sheldon the 79 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:50.480 Big Bang Theory, Big Bang Theory? 80 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:51.199 How could you not? 81 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:53.920 I don't know, I don't know, but like when Sheldon 82 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.439 was saying bazinga, like that's what all anyone fucking said 83 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:57.959 for a month. 84 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.720 I don't think I ever said bazinga into that. 85 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:02.160 But like, you know what I mean, I know what 86 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.279 you mean. Everyone's dialogue is constantly changing, and I think 87 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:09.120 it's just I mean, considering we're recording ourselves and we 88 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.639 have people pointing it out sometimes and we listen to 89 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:13.319 ourselves that we notice it. 90 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:17.439 You betcha, Oh yeah, you bet youa. 91 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:18.279 Bud, you bet youa. 92 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.680 We also have people sending us drink photos and I 93 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.920 just wanted to say we did get a couple, even 94 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.399 via email, and not all of them are alcoholic beverages. 95 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:30.759 No, which is totally cool. 96 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:34.160 Someone sent a frappuccino yeah, and I was like, yeah, 97 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:36.439 I like frappuccinos too, that's freaking awesome. 98 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:38.759 Yeah. Just if you want to be a part of it, 99 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:42.160 I mean, message us, email us, tag us in a 100 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.839 post on Instagram or Facebook. Just be like, yo, Wicked 101 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.560 and Graham, we're chilling doing the thing. Yeah. I'm actually 102 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:50.560 drinking a margarita right now and coleport it for me. 103 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.120 Yeah, we're all about the margaritas right now. 104 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:54.639 I love margaritas. 105 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.879 Are so good. They're pretty dang good. 106 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:57.439 Yeah they are. 107 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.360 Okay, let's let's uh, let's back ounce. 108 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.079 That's bad. You bet ya? 109 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.040 Okay, ready for this? 110 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:07.240 You bet ya? 111 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:08.360 Are you all ready for this? 112 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.519 You bet ya? Kay? I'm not going to say that again. 113 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:14.360 Okay. Once upon a time, in the heart of the 114 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:18.959 untamed wild West, where the prairies seemed to stretch on forever, 115 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:25.519 there lived a family, the Bender family. But they weren't 116 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:30.839 your typical family. The family consistent consisted sorry of John Bender, 117 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:34.600 who I will be referring to as Paul or John Senior. 118 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:39.279 His wife, who had many names for some reason. She 119 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:45.360 went by Elvira Elmyra, and I will be referring to 120 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:45.920 her as. 121 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:49.399 Ma as Ma Ma Ma, gotcha, okay. 122 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.279 And then they also had their grown children, So they 123 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:58.000 had John Junior and a daughter named Kate supposedly in quotations. 124 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.879 I say supposedly because it's still unclear today if they 125 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.040 were actually related in the way that I had mentioned. 126 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.759 This is how they portrayed themselves as a family. But 127 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.360 being that the two kids were quite affectionate towards each other, 128 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:16.040 it was rumored they may have actually been married or 129 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:20.120 together in a common law situation, rather than brother and sister. 130 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:24.040 I see, okay. I mean it's not unheard of though, 131 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:30.519 for family members to live such lives. 132 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:32.480 Yeah. I wasn't going to really go there, but that 133 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:33.279 is an option. 134 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:34.600 Too, I said it very politely. 135 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:39.560 You did. So, Ma and Kate were potentially the only 136 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.600 ones that were of like blood relation that I that 137 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.240 I could find, But they could all have been to 138 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.639 I don't know. That's something that isn't is kind of 139 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:50.199 what's the. 140 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:51.680 Word, I have no idea? 141 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:58.600 Unclear, okay, unclear in my mindings. 142 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:02.040 Okay, that was very unclear. Got it, I follow? 143 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:04.720 Okay, So to touch a bit more on the family, 144 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:08.279 John Senior was around sixty years old. He spoke little 145 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.680 English with a thick German accent, and was known for 146 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:16.439 his perpetual look of contempt, which is an interesting way 147 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:21.439 to describe someone resting bitch face. Basically, yeah, yeah, gotcha. 148 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:25.720 Yeah guess resting bitch face. That's way better. Yeah ma. 149 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.000 She was aged fifty five. She also spoken little English 150 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.879 with a thick German accent, and had an unfriendly demeanor, 151 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:39.759 often referred to as a she devil by neighbors. Wow, 152 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.480 can you imagine my she devil neighbor? 153 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:43.720 Like? 154 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:44.519 Holy heck? 155 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:46.919 Sorry. 156 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:53.320 John Junior, approximately twenty five years old, was handsome with 157 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:57.159 an auburn hair and auburn colored hair sorry, and a mustache. 158 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.240 He spoke English fluently with a German acc accent. He 159 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.360 apparently had the tendency to laugh kind of aimlessly, though, 160 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.279 and this led people to think that he wasn't all 161 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:14.600 that bright. Okay, So, and finally, Kate, she was around 162 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:19.240 twenty three years old, was cultured and attractive. She spoke 163 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.759 English well and was a self proclaimed healer and psychic, 164 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:28.159 known for advertising her supernatural powers and advocating free love. 165 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.320 Kate was the most social and likable member of the 166 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.279 Bender family. She was the face of the family and 167 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:40.200 her popularity attracted people, mostly men, to the family. 168 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.639 Okay, okay, so she's a bit of a hippie type. 169 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:45.639 Then hippy and a babe. 170 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:48.720 I guess a hippie babe, gotcha, peybabe. 171 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.519 Now we're living in the nineteenth century, a time where 172 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.000 the government was offering plots of land to anyone who 173 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.000 was to move to canvas and farm said land. Okay, yeah, 174 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.240 So the Venders were a family that took them up 175 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.759 on this offer, moving to canvas and building a small 176 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:10.960 cabin in the eighteen seventies adjacent to the Great Osage 177 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:15.080 Trail in Labette County. Being that the trail was frequently 178 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:20.519 used by pioneers and travelers heading farther west, the family 179 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:25.279 eventually hung a grocery sign and turned their cabin into 180 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:29.639 a way station and in if you Will. The cabin 181 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:34.440 was divided with a canvas wagon cover to create two rooms. 182 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.600 They used the smaller room at the rear for living 183 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:42.799 quarters and the front room as a general store where 184 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.879 they sold dry goods and potentially goods from their vegetable 185 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:48.480 garden and apple orchard. 186 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.559 Okay, gotcha. So we're talking like eighteen hundreds year. So 187 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:57.919 they took converted their cabin and just with canvas kind 188 00:10:57.919 --> 00:10:59.159 of sorted out sections. 189 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:03.519 Yeah, one room, and it wasn't very big cabin. But 190 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.519 I also think back then two people probably lived. They 191 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:10.320 didn't have high as high of expectation. 192 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:14.440 No, they were quite modest living, which yeah, isn't a 193 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.759 terrible thing. No, I mean cutting down some of the 194 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:21.120 stuff in today's society would be nice, you know, technology 195 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:25.759 and live in the large kind of means we don't 196 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.720 necessarily need that. No, No, hence why we live in 197 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:30.600 a tiny home. I know, I'm just saying. 198 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:35.840 Yeah. So the front section also contained the kitchen and 199 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.200 dining table, where travelers could stop for a meal or 200 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.200 spend the night. Kate also offered her services of being 201 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.879 able to talk to the dead, which she did charge 202 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:50.600 a price for. The inn was rather unassuming, a refuge 203 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.399 for those weary from their long journeys, but behind the 204 00:11:54.440 --> 00:12:00.440 facade of hospitality, a sinister secret lay concealed. The ves 205 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:04.519 in wasn't just a resting place for travelers. It would 206 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:10.080 actually be their final resting place. For many unsuspecting visitors. 207 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.279 Oh that was sinister. It wasn't just a resting place. 208 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:15.960 It was their final rest final resting place. 209 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:17.840 I don't think we've ever had a better time to 210 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:20.240 do this. Dun dun dun. 211 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:23.840 Well just wait, you have to do it again in 212 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:25.039 a secon because I want more align. 213 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:29.559 Okay, I'll hold the organ the piano. That sounded dirty. 214 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:30.279 So the piano. 215 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.480 Oh my gosh. This is how the Bender family would 216 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:40.519 go about receiving their nickname as the Bloody Benders. 217 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:45.960 Now, yeah, okay, dune dun dun free. I'm just making 218 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:47.320 sure I didn't want to suck it up. 219 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:48.639 Shit. 220 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:55.039 So the bendersmo was chillingly simple. They would invite travelers 221 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:59.120 often loan men, into their inn for a meal or accommodation. 222 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:04.480 They would seat their guests at a table cleverly placed 223 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:08.000 in front of a canvas that separated the diners from 224 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:10.559 the rest of the room, and they had like a 225 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:13.559 certain seat that it was like the guest of honor 226 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.080 chair or whatever that they had to sit in right. 227 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.960 So as the guests ate their meal, one member of 228 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:24.600 the family, generally Kate, would go about distracting the guests 229 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.519 with conversation and you know her good looks and charm yep, 230 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:32.480 while another assumed to be either John Senior or John Junior, 231 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:38.639 approached the curtain with the victim's head outlined through the canvas. 232 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:43.000 They would then smash the skull hidden as they were 233 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:47.720 still hidden behind the canvas, with a hammer Jesus like 234 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:51.960 as hard as they all could, right and just to 235 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:56.879 ensure the job was complete, because sometimes it wasn't. Kate 236 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:01.759 or Ma would then go about slashing the victims through Wow, like, 237 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:02.879 holy shit. 238 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.440 I'm curious as to why what they're just stealing and 239 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:09.200 taking all this shit? 240 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:11.000 I guess or you got to keep listening here. But 241 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:12.679 I'm gonna say one more thing than I forgot to 242 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:15.799 put in here. But I think they I don't know 243 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.000 if they always did the slashing of the throat, but 244 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.879 it seemed like maybe they always did. But at times 245 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:25.159 after I think hitting them in the head, or maybe 246 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.240 right before these victims probably was like what's going on 247 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.960 and got like an unedged feeling because there were I 248 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.480 think they had said, like at least ten bullet holes 249 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:36.480 within this cabin. 250 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.519 Oh wow, so individuals firing back or. 251 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:45.159 Somethingah like trying to fight back right dang so then 252 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.879 the body would fall through a conveniently placed trapped door 253 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.519 basically right under them under this chair, into the basement, 254 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:57.279 never to rise again. In the basement, the benders continued 255 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:01.320 with their smooth operation. The lifeless victims were stripped of 256 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.879 their valuables, and because many of them were traveling, some 257 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:08.679 victims had a substantial amount of money on them, and 258 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:11.519 not to mention their modes of transportation to boot like 259 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.120 their horses or their buggies or whatever, right and. 260 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:16.919 Whatever supplies that are carrying with them. 261 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.480 And yeah, saddles. I think one person had a saddle 262 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.360 that was actually worth quite a bit of money. 263 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:26.159 Oh yeah, I can imagine, like an waste leather saddle. 264 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.559 Like they're not cheap. 265 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:34.000 No, no, So fear and suspicions spread through the surrounding 266 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:38.559 community as travelers passing through the AIRA vanished without a trace. 267 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:44.440 It wasn't long before one particular traveler became entangled in 268 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:48.639 the web of the bloody vendors. Vendors. Did I say vendors? 269 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.240 You said vendors, which almost makes it sound like actually 270 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:55.159 like that terrifying story, because well, I mean they almost 271 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:56.879 are vendors, like they're offering the. 272 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:01.480 Fartality offering a service. Yeah, so his. 273 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:03.960 Bloody bending benders. 274 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.320 Bending benders, I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. 275 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:09.399 I was trying with something there just didn't really work. 276 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.120 So his disappearance would set in motion the events that 277 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:18.360 would eventually finally expose the family of serial killers. His 278 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:23.039 name was doctor William Henry York. Now doctor York was 279 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:25.759 actually in search of a friend. I think it was 280 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.240 a neighbor that had went missing in the area. And 281 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.840 this neighbor was called George Longcour and his one year 282 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:35.200 old daughter Mary Anne. 283 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.720 Sorry, I meta, Margarita, what is up with you? What? 284 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.360 First of we are eating candy on here. Now you're 285 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.000 like sipping from a straw really loud. 286 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.519 Wanted my last sip of margarita. 287 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:51.559 Oh my gosh, I apologize. 288 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:57.519 You should not to you. Oh shit, okay. 289 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:03.120 Okay. But when he himself also went missing, his brothers 290 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:07.279 Ed York and Colonel Alexander York, who was a Civil 291 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.400 War veteran, lawyer and politician, so he had like that's 292 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.640 a resume, Yeah, no kidding a began an all out 293 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:18.400 search for their missing brother. So they they missed, they 294 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:21.200 mess of the wrong family here this time. Clearly, I 295 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:24.599 mean that always happens, right something, Well not always, but 296 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:28.440 I feel like there's always something like luck generally runs. 297 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:30.440 Yeah. 298 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:34.599 So Alexander, leading a company of more than fifty men, 299 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:39.519 like at least fifty men, questioned every traveler along the 300 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:44.519 trail and visited all the area homestead, including the Benders. In. 301 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.400 The Benders did, however, admit to him that his brother 302 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.799 did stay with them, but that he was alive and 303 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.640 well when he left, and suggested the possibility that he 304 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.440 had ran into some trouble after his stay with them, 305 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.119 like mans, you know, it was the wild West. Yeah, 306 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.839 Alexander agreed, this, you know, could be a possibility. But 307 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.640 as he continued his investigation, it kept leading him back 308 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:16.880 to the Venders, as several people had unpleasant stories to 309 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:19.960 share about them. But he wanted to do things the 310 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:24.079 right way and insisted on finding evidence. So he didn't 311 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:27.359 want to just like storm a blazon go in there 312 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.680 and be like I got you. You know, he wanted 313 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:30.599 to do it the right way. 314 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.599 Nothing willy nilly here. He's going to do it good. 315 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:34.839 Maybe well, I was going to say he's a politician, 316 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.440 but actually it probably doesn't mean anything. 317 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.279 Oh, I know, sorry. 318 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:47.799 In shape. 319 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.160 So now, around the same time, neighboring communities began to 320 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:57.039 make accusations that the o Sage community was responsible for 321 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:02.039 the disappearances. So the Sage they were like, no, no, no. 322 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:05.440 They arranged a meeting to discuss the disappearances, and it 323 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.519 was agreed upon that a warrant would be obtained to 324 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:11.519 search every homestead in the area. 325 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:12.079 Good. 326 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:18.240 Yeah, so at this meeting, both Paul and John Junior 327 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.119 were there. They were at the meeting, which then led 328 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:27.000 the family to flee their homestead. I wonder why. 329 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:29.759 Yeah, I'm sure we're about to find out why and 330 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:33.519 how many bodies are reasons? Why? 331 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.279 As you count on your fingers. Yeah, it wasn't noticed initially, 332 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.400 but several days after the meeting, a neighbor noticed that 333 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.240 the benders in was abandoned and the farm animals they 334 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:48.920 had were unfed and unintended to, which is terrible. This 335 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:52.400 was reported to the township trustee, which then called for 336 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:58.559 volunteers to form a search party. So a lot of reports. 337 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:00.400 I don't even think I said this in here, but 338 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.480 it was like hundreds of people, like numerous people going there, 339 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:06.960 which I feel like is just such a disaster, but anyway, 340 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.559 it was really back in the day. So a search party, 341 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:15.680 fueled by concern and a growing sense of dread, was 342 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:21.880 hastily assembled. The inn, which had once seemed like a sanctuary, 343 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:26.480 now seemed to hold the air of just gloom. Upon 344 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.599 arriving at the inn, they found the empty, the cabin 345 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:34.720 empty of food, clothing, and personal possessions gone. There was 346 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:40.359 also a horrendous odor that could not go unnoticed to some. 347 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:44.319 They knew the smell, and it was the smell of death. 348 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:51.119 Cool. Well, I'm just sitting here thinking, like, Okay, the basement. 349 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:57.839 Clearly there's death rotting and bodies down there. I assumed 350 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.720 that when they dropped to the basement they were like 351 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:03.799 remembering and like disposing. But doesn't seem like it. 352 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:06.759 Well, you don't know a lot of people too. A 353 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:10.640 lot of reports also said that there was like a 354 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:14.160 fly situation, which you know kind of goes hand in 355 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:18.000 hand for that. Yeah, the smell was traced to a 356 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:21.319 trap door, which at this point was underneath the bed 357 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:26.599 and nailed shut. Of course, you know they opened the door. 358 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:28.480 I would fucking run for the hills, but they opened 359 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:32.240 the door, terrified what they might find beneath it, but 360 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:35.519 there was actually no sight of any bodies. There was 361 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:38.680 blood and lots of it on the floor, but other 362 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:40.200 than that, it was an empty room. 363 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:41.240 Okay, Okay. 364 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:46.079 The search needed to continue, though, so starting at this 365 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:50.240 secret door, they broke down the stone slab floors, still 366 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:56.200 finding no human remains. Every corner was searched, every floorboard 367 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:01.039 examined for the hidden hoars they concealed, with the search 368 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:06.640 party even apparently physically lifting the cabin dang, which I'm like, 369 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:09.599 how the fuck does that even happen to dig underneath? 370 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:13.279 But still, other than blood, no remains were found. 371 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:14.880 Well, that kind of reminds me of like, have you 372 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:21.920 seen like those Amish communities when they like move a barn. No, 373 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:26.279 they will literally just like get all these dudes together 374 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:28.960 from the Amish community and they literally just lift a 375 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:31.160 barn and walk it somewhere else. 376 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:35.440 Seriously, Oh yeah, oh so there's no foundation whatsoever? Then? 377 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:37.920 Hey, No, No, it's just like sitting on the ground 378 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:40.759 sort of thing, huh, or sitting on blocks. 379 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:43.440 You have to make sure that you all kind of lifted. 380 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:45.160 I mean, in this sense, they probably didn't give a 381 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:47.039 shit if they kind of wrecked the house, but like 382 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:49.200 you'd have to kind of all lift at the same time. 383 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:50.160 I just feel like could. 384 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:51.559 Be well, I mean, picture this. You got a small 385 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:53.680 little cabin. You got one hundred dudes around it. Okay, 386 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:58.440 everyone ready, one, two, three, lift? Sure, it's gonna lift. 387 00:22:58.880 --> 00:22:59.680 It's gonna lift. 388 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:00.000 Yeah. 389 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:01.039 Yeah, Wow, you. 390 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.039 Get enough muscle behind it, She's going up. 391 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:08.640 Hmm. Okay. So they then started probing the ground with 392 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:12.880 a metal rod. It was the garden beneath the freshly 393 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:17.920 turned soil that the group made their chilling discovery, revealing 394 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:23.519 the remains of numerous victims. The once unassuming Bendorin was 395 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:28.960 now a house of horrors. Doctor Yorke's body was found 396 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:32.799 buried in the orchard, along with numerous other bodies. A 397 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.480 body was also found in the well, which I'm like, 398 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:38.960 wouldn't they be drinking the fucking water for the. 399 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:41.279 Well that just contaminates your water source? 400 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:42.559 Well, I don't even get that. 401 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:44.920