#5 The First Serial Killers
History has hidden some of the strangest incidents in its garb. This is one of the weirdest one till date! The Bender family, which is considered to be the first family of serial killers in America, consisted of John, Elvira, Kate, and John, Jr.
The story of their killings is really brutal! Some evidence call them a family, while the newer ones beg to differ..let's find out!
#4 Alleged Serial Killers Family
This family has killed over a dozen of people around 1870s. Collectively, they owned an inn, where they used to kill the patrons of the inn. Scary, isn't it?
What is, even more, scarier is the way of killing! Read on to know what they killed the guests of their inn!
#3 The Killing Technique
They would make the guest sit on the "seat of honor," before one would kill them using a hammer, the other person of the family would slit their throat, and then, the killed people were dumped down through a trap door to the basement.
This is the blueprint of the inn where they killed their guests!
#2 Innocent Outside, Scary Inside
This is the outside look of the inn the family owned. It looks so innocent and normal outside, while what happens inside it is extremely opposite!
Further, there are doubts about all the killers being a family. While old shreds of evidence claim them to be members of the same family, the newer ones are different!
Read on to know the entire truth!
#1 The History Of Violence
The Benders had an old history of violence. Elvira, the eldest woman of the family, had several previous husbands, all of whom she killed which are why some believed that they were an organized group of killers and not a family.
Furthermore, they even tried to blame the killings on on the nearby First Nations people. But after an official investigation began, the Benders vanished without a trace
