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Deadly hosts: Family robbed and murdered at least 11 at their small southeast Kansas inn
The Topeka Capital-Journal ^
| August 25, 2013
| Tim Hrenchir
Posted on 02/06/2015 3:22:59 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Kate Bender loved to flirt.
The beautiful young woman smiled and batted her eyes at male travelers who stopped during the early 1870s at the tiny inn where she lived in southeast Kansas.
But those travelers were flirting with death.
Kate and the inn's other keepers -- thought to be her father, mother and brother -- would rob and murder at least 11 people.
Often, as a lone visitor sat at a dinner table with his back to a canvas curtain, a Bender man behind the curtain would use a hammer to bash the visitor's skull.
The Benders would slash the victim's throat, take his money, open a trap door in the floor and dump the body into a pit, to be removed and buried later.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy; History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bender; kansas; murder
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Old story, but I had never heard of the Benders before.
To: Timber Rattler
Saw this on ‘History’ a few years ago. Probably Bush’s fault.
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posted on
02/06/2015 3:29:38 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Timber Rattler
Gives a different twist to the phrase “gone on a Bender.”
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posted on
02/06/2015 3:29:47 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Timber Rattler
They’re probably lucky Earp, Masterson and Holliday didn’t spend the night there. That could have been a real hoot.
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posted on
02/06/2015 3:32:06 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Look! Snowflakes! We're all gonna die!)
To: Bender2
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posted on
02/06/2015 3:33:26 AM PST
by
dynachrome
(Government canÂ’t give us anything that it doesnÂ’t first take away)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Earp, Masterson and Holliday are lucky they didn’t stay there.
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posted on
02/06/2015 3:43:47 AM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: Timber Rattler
Wow, what service. At least guests didn’t have to worry about waking up with bedbugs.
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posted on
02/06/2015 3:45:52 AM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: Timber Rattler
Welcome to Kansas, please avoid the serial murderers.
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posted on
02/06/2015 3:47:52 AM PST
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: Timber Rattler
Wondering if this inspired a very similar scene in “How the West was.Won”?
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posted on
02/06/2015 4:01:51 AM PST
by
The Duke
To: Crazieman
Great. I was just in SE KS. Passed through Cherryvale just a couple weeks ago. Never knew the history of the area.
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posted on
02/06/2015 4:02:12 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: Timber Rattler
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posted on
02/06/2015 4:05:26 AM PST
by
mowowie
(`)
To: Timber Rattler
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posted on
02/06/2015 4:26:31 AM PST
by
JPG
(The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
To: Timber Rattler
But that’s what happens in Rigoletto.
To: Timber Rattler
Neither had I,
Thanks for the touchy feely, feel good story this fine morning.
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posted on
02/06/2015 4:35:35 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
To: The Duke
Also similar to the history of the famous Claflin sisters, although they were only accused of robbery, prostitution, and poisoning, not throat-cutting.
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posted on
02/06/2015 4:40:10 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Soak your toes in hydrogen peroxide.)
To: Tax-chick
Since this is the Capitol Journal, it’s only bringing up this story to, somehow someway, blame it on Governor Brownback. Stay tuned to speeches from the Democrat leadership...like, may the Benders didn’t pay enough taxes.
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posted on
02/06/2015 4:47:40 AM PST
by
Kanzan
To: Vaquero
Pretty common story from back in our frontier past.
Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis & Clark fame may have met the same fate while traveling on the Natchez Trace in 1809. His death was ruled a suicide even though he suffered two gunshot wounds while staying at Grinders Stand (Inn) . Two gunshot wounds in an era of single shot firearms.
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posted on
02/06/2015 5:02:07 AM PST
by
Tupelo
(I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
To: Timber Rattler
Sounds like the Democrat Party.
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posted on
02/06/2015 5:07:15 AM PST
by
BobL
(REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win.)
To: Tupelo
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posted on
02/06/2015 5:08:30 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Kanzan
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posted on
02/06/2015 5:20:19 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Soak your toes in hydrogen peroxide.)
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