Sources from Episode 93

  1. “The Conman Who Pulled Off History’s Most Audacious Scam,” BBC, January 2016, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160127-the-conman-who-pulled-off-historys-most-audacious-scam.

  2. Allison Hardy, Kate Bender, The Kansas Murderess: The Horrible History of an Arch Killer (Kessinger Publishing, 1944).

  3. “The Devil’s Kitchen”, The Weekly Kansas Chief, May 22, 1873, p. 2.

  4. “The Bloody Benders,” PrairieGhosts, date unknown, https://www.prairieghosts.com/bender.html.

  5. Kathy Weiser, “The Bloody Benders: Serial Killers of Kansas,” May 2017, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-benders.

  6. Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman, Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (), p. 135.

  7. Robert Barr Smith, Bad Blood: The Families Who Made the West Wild (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), pp. 140-151.

  8. “The Bloody Benders: America’s First Serial Killer Family,” Mental Floss, January 2018, http://mentalfloss.com/article/53672/bloody-benders-americas-first-serial-killers.