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TIL about the Bloody Benders, a family of 4 serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas from 1871 to 1872. The Ingalls family, from Little House on the Prairie, lived near Independence, and Laura Ingalls Wilder mentioned the Bender family in her writings.

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