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Digital OriginalWere The Serial Killers Known As The Benders Really Related?
Author Susan Jonusas wrote the book “Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier.” She weighs in on if she thinks the family were really relatives.