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Peter Anderson's avatar

If you are going to Montana let me know. I might be able to arrange a ride in a Working WW1 tank for you.

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Nduka Dikearizi's avatar

So interesting

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Andrew Wolrich's avatar

There is a great true crime POD episode on this free to listen on Redhanded from Surity and Hannah

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Robin Granicy-Sergent's avatar

WOW! This was a surprising story. Makes me want to reach in to my family history on me Dad's Mom's side as they are Benders. Who knows....... What if.............

They were German and Dutch and English. Now I must know!

Thank You Alex.

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Youngblai's avatar

One thing about Kansas is there's a whole lotta killin' that goes on. Bleedin' Kansas, the Benders, Quantrill's Raid, In Cold Blood...just sayin'. :)

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James McNeill's avatar

What an extraordinary story. I’m vaguely aware of the ‘Bleeding Kansas’ story, that was about slavery I believe. I’ve been reading a fair bit of non-Nazi German history lately and I have noticed the importance of newspapers to spread information and disinformation very much in the manner of our social media. I suspect the ‘family’ came to a squalid end.

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Alex Churchill's avatar

There’s some accounts of them on the run. Apparently Kat liked to moan about it loudly and complained she lived like a prairie dog. Shame.

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James McNeill's avatar

As we say here Alex, hell mend her!

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Alex Churchill's avatar

Yeah - people didn't think she was pretty anymore. Waaaah. Prettier than if her skull was caved in with a hammer. I hope the rest of her life was purgatory

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Youngblai's avatar

I mean, I'm not saying "I hope vampires exist and that's what that clan ran into...". But I'd certainly be okay with that outcome if there was later evidence of it.

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Sam's avatar

You tease Alex, you didn't say if the Benders

(and I'm risking the new Scottish hate crime law using that word😉) were caught?

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Alex Churchill's avatar

🤷🏼‍♀️ Fate unknown. Some people were arrested at some stage that turned out not be Ma and Pa, there was a claim of a lynching. Or they got clean away with it…

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Andrew Wolrich's avatar

Updated on the RedHanded POD !

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