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This Serial-Killing Family Terrorized the American Frontier

family affair

The Bender family was one of many homesteading families moving west after the Civil War. But when they vanished, their farm was revealed as an abattoir.

Susan Jonusas
Susan Jonusas
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Susan Jonusas

Susan Jonusas

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