The Bloody Benders - Part II: Hell's Half Acre | Ep. 23

As travelers continued vanishing along the Osage Mission Trail, suspicions slowly began to gather around a lonely cabin on the Kansas prairie. In Part II, we follow the unraveling of the Bloody Bender mystery...from the disappearance of Dr. William York to the manhunt that followed, and the legends that blurred the line between history and folklore. Related Reading: Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier By Susan Jonusas All the Blood We Share: A Novel of the Bloody Benders of Kansas By Camilla Bruce Murder & Mayhem in Southeast Kansas By Larry E. Wood *Listen ad-free on Patreon: True Crime of the Historical Kind Podcast