Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie – Audiobook Online
Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is a memoir by author Harold Schechter.
A small secluded inn not far from the Kansas home of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Bender family lived. This pioneer greeted unwary guests with a hare stew and a sledgehammer to the skull.
Over time, their apple orchard revealed its secrets – the burial place of their mutilated victims, each of whom was deprived of their possessions. The demonic enterprise on “Hell’s Half-Acre” would give the Bloody Benders an immortal place in America’s infamous annals. The mysterious fate of their eldest daughter, Kate, has made them the stuff of savanna campfire myths.
The Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is part of the Bloodlands, a macabre collection of addictive short historical stories from best-selling true-crime master Harold Schechter. Spanning a century into our nation’s murderous past.
Schechter revives the almost forgotten stories of maniacs and horror killers that dominated the most sensational headlines of their time.
The story of the Benders, a mysterious quartet who murdered unlucky guests and sought refuge in their Kansas pub, has all the elements that make for a good book.
From the uncertainty as to whether they are all really related, to speculations of incest, to the daughter’s alleged mediumship, preaching the occult and communicating with spirits, to the actual murders themselves and the mystery of Benders’ final fate, and the teaser that Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Pa” may have stopped at the bendy pub and maybe even engaged in vigilante justice against murderers…. many things could have made this book a hit!
Doing my research and I can only guess that, although he used a lot of sources, the information about this “family” of serial killers is surprisingly little. There are a lot of aspects to their story that I wish I could add, and I don’t think the source material is enough to make that happen.
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