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Hello, unwelcome set apart council I'm going to try for boarding and unfair it in today's story starts with industry that began to unravel and look back County Kansas in spring of eighteen. Seventy three colonel at York was searching for his brother doktor, William York, who had vanished without a trace in early march of them, year. So when he went missing according to an article by David, Mccormick and Wild West, the doktor had been looking into another disappearance that if a man named George longer in his young daughter, Doktor York had apparently sold Wanker a wagon and a team that had later turned up inexplicably dessert. Neither longer nor his daughter were anywhere to be found near this team and wagon So it was while he was on his way back from ideas. This team and wagon and forts got Kansas that Doctor York disappeared, Colonel Edward,

have a little bit and go off of their while he was looking for his brother people had supposedly spotted Doktor York on his way home riding along this road. The of stage mission Road and it was- We're along that road which connected for Scott with Independence, Kansas that his trail ended and somewhere. In fact, right around me, home, Flash in that was run by a family called them and interestingly, several others anywhere from ten to twenty people had mysteriously disappeared in this general vicinity near the township of cherry veil during the years spanning from eighteen, seventy one to eighteen, seventy three. And in many cases, family members and other interested parties had trace them. Persons, progress from town to town and then, as with the case of York, their trails just and vanished right around spot

so it was clear that something was going on here in Northwest Lubeck, county and residents of the area were pretty freaked out about it understand, as we would be so in this absurd we're going to find out what was the deal with all of these missing people. Why were they disappearing and whether that family, that we mention the benders have to, with that are so to answer. These questions were going to have to rewind a little bit too about eighteen. Seventy, when the vendor family first showed up in this area The exact circumstances of their arrival are somewhat up for debate, as a few points in the story are according to make me, as spoke american murder. They arrived in cherry fail in the company of a small cult of spiritual s, and if you remember from our episode on the Fox sisters last year, spiritualist basically believe that people who have physically died continue to exist in kind of his spirit world and that they can continue to communicate with in the material world. Usually

through special people called mediums, so the rest of us beer chores called moved on, but the vendors stayed where they were area held some attraction at this time for lots of people white settlers, at least who wanted to put down roots, be Osage. Indians who had once lived in the area had been relocated to indian territory in present day Oklahoma. After the civil war,

and homesteaders were granted parcels of Land Phil when the vendors arrived they claimed about a hundred and sixty acres of land right around me Efface Mission Road afternoon, as the is aged trail, which connected as we mentioned, forts got independent than was about five miles from cherry veil, which was the nearest town, though they built a small house there. Basically, a cabin right near the road which was very well travelled, and understandably, they got into the business of tourism if they would say they divided their home into two separate areas by hanging a piece of canvas as the partition and on one side of that party, and the family lived on the other side, which was the front of the house. They ran and in Flash grocery store and its unclear whether their establishment had a specific name, but they did put a fine outside that they grocery

if he were travelling along with heavily travelled trail. You would know the vendors was a place where you could read fuel and maybe even spend the night. There were four members of the Bender family PA who is Ho Jon Senior Ma John Junior and Kate, and they were said to be german emigrants, so we need hell. You a little bit about all these characters because it sort of essential to getting an idea what's going on in the story and their interesting care the business directory steady ass, a soldier Vendor senior was about sixty years old and by all accounts he was a pretty surly unpleasant. Guy more danger was said. Somewhere in the same age, ranges part that there are still some debate over the exact number generally. People think she was between fifty and sixty years old. She was also heavy, sat in bad natured and unfriendly, but maybe

unfriendly, because nobody really knew her name. I mean that's one of the things that sort she was just a law that was one of the interesting things about the story is that there is never a name in any of the sources listed for her she's just so John Junior. However, we do know his name sorted. At least he was about twenty five years, old and he came off somewhat nice then both mine pod, that he apparently had a nervous giggle that went along with just about everything that came out of his mouth. So this made people believe that he was somewhat simple minded and probably adds to the creeping reputation around town to in general, these three benders made neighbours and anyone in the general community who encounter them now want to come around and visit to match. Not go get your grocery that the vendors place, but he was a different story. She was a couple years younger than John Junior and by most account she was very attractive. She was an auburn hair

beauty and she was also outgoing and talkative. So she often had five career that with separate from her families grocery store in business. She Margaret herself as a healer and spiritualist, and called herself professor myth, Kate vendor, and she would travel around two different towns leading public finances and healing and spiritual perform all according to male book, and she was quite ahead. She was, she also offered private silences back a bender home, so people could come there and visit her too and there he didn't go for growth rates may be, would go for yeah. Maybe you don't want groceries, but if you ve seen her act and you think she's pretty cool, maybe you wanna come get a private session from Kate at her house, so it the odd family, even if you took it at face value as we ve described here, but it's also noting that a lot of people believed that they weren't even all related to each other. They were prince source, give us sort of different scenarios on us, but something

John Junior and TAT were actually a couple rather than brother and sister. Others say that they were half brother, and turn. That John was actually Mars son from a previous marriage, and that has left me wasn't bender at all, but it was actually Gebhardt still Other sources say that all four of these people might have been completely unrelated. For not mine, part are nope not event, maybe just a plan that came together regardless. The forces as a family in these early years of eighteen, seventy years and in general, people who lived relatively near by and knew them, or at least knew of them really didn't want anything to do with them at all, because, as we mention they weren't very friend, they weren't over for dinner and asked how they were actually really They were going to hang out and get to know their past, and so the vendors in their place just generally creeped alot of people out here I mean I think that probably their personalities had something to do with it that people

no mention is kind. I had a bad feeling or fell because of that area, feeling about their business. They really had to rely on people who were just travelling along the stage trail people who didn't know their reputation and they were pretty far from any big town and even cherry veal wasn't exactly clothes, though. According to win least book deadly days in Kansas, they really did attract a lot of visitors. This way and people who lived in the area, though, probably didn't, have much of an idea about what was going on with the business that, despite this, this bustling business of of visitors and travellers, people lived in the area really didn't have much of an idea about what was going on with the business, how it was running of Lee. Related just a few instances in which people might have got an inkling that weird stuff was going on at the vendor place, but no really strong suspicion. Yet, as an example, Lee brings up a woman who was kind of thought of as the local crazy lady in her name was hustler

She was a spiritualism, devote he and for that reason pretty drawn to cape bender as you might. Jane according to Lee one night, Hassler went over to the vendors place, wanting a science, but cages wasn't in the mood to do one but still has to be said. Things went ok, until about sundown when the family started all of a sudden acting very odd. They started drawing pictures. Men on the walls and through knives. At those pictures, then Kate told Hassler that the spirits were moving her to kill Remember what a fourteen year old version of yourself out. If you could write to that kid, what would you say? I'm Chelsea arson join me on my podcast, dear young rocker were each week. I write a letter to my younger so as she brings us back into the intensity of adolescence, falling in love with their favorite song. The way only a teenager can getting up the nerve to

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thine threat to murder or something, and it would have been a cause for concern when Hassler related this story to other people. Finally, since at this point, people were already aware of some unexplained disappearances and the area, but as we already noted that Hassler was considered a local eccentric people. Just wrote at all. She must have imagine, therefore, something weird went down between two sets of weird people: another Story, though, involved a priest to his travelling along the essays trail and stopping into the benders on of stormy night. He also ended up finding an excuse to hightail it out and vendors place out of their house, but his reasons for doing so had more to do, which is a general bad feeling about the situation he's one of these people talked about in the eighties homes episode order, or rather the opposite of of those people, yet follow your get right. He followed it. So

no people who are living around this area were generally alarmed about the people who are vanishing around their between eighteen, seventy one in eighteen. Seventy three. There wasn't really any particular suspicion thrown on the benders at this time. Basically, everyone that was stage township was under suspicion, cosy little town until Doktor Yorks case came up the one that we mentioned in the intro. He does it, somewhere along the Osage trail on March, ninth eighteen: seventy three and has been Ed and his subsequent search in late March early April of that year, Trace Doktor Yorks New. Hence along the road and according to Mccormick's article met several people along the way who said that they had seen his brother. They had seen the doktor on his trip back toward his own home

At least one person recalled. The Doktor York had said that he plans to stop at the borders and on the way home, to the one thing to note here. It's kind of up for debate why Doktor York would have stopped at the vendors end because he did live relatively near by Mccormick suggests a couple possibilities, one with that he was just hunger. Eight wanted to stop at a grocery store, but the other possibility and Mccormick thinks that this is the more likely one. Maybe while looking into the long her disappear. If he started to get suspicious of the ban maybe he even confronted them about those suspicions and that's why he was there at any rate at York, decided to stop in at the bankers, and inquire about his brother makes sense right for the last place. I already made her accounts differ on what exactly they told him when he got there, but Cato I too have been really friendly in general and offered to contact the Spirit world to try to help and figure out what happened to his brother. Nice offer their, but some

as is also stated, that benders, perhaps specifically John Junior, suggested that Doctor York might have been attacked on the road by India outlaws like maybe even Jesse James, various again Ultimately, it seems that they denied any possibility that Doctor York had come to their in for any length of time. You know Teton stay there. He didn't have a meal there the least suggests that Kate told at York that his brother had watered his horse there and moved on. So we do. We didn't see him Betty genetic around. That's probably why you know we ve been mention to you, but he wasn't here for any length of time, so I didn't make that much progress at the vendors by news of his search and his this latest disappearance seem to be the final step. For the surrounding a stage community who was wondering who is the murderer among us and, as we mention pretty everyone in the township was under suspicion at this point,

only where they scared, not only where they concerned. They probably didn't like people from other areas, looking at them like possible, first backs. So. Finally, the locals decided to gather for a meeting at the Harmony groves glove and according to Mayo. There were about seventy five people in attendance, including the vendor man, John Senor, Don Junior and during the meeting, the group as a whole decided to search every single farm and structure in the community to just squash any possible rumour. So if there is a murderer, we'll find him. If it's not our community, we can finally tell all these people stopping by its. Not one of us look elsewhere, just make sure that the culprit wasn't any one of them and depending on what source you look out anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks after this decision, the entire bender family just up and vanished, and according to Mccormick's article, a neighbor passed by the farm notice, they work

but they had just really disappeared into the wine made left all their livestock, their unintended without food and water and in pretty bad shape that they haven't made any preparations, they're just gone and the poor treatment of those animals really riled up alive locals, but some suspected that something even more serious was going on here. Why has nobody's seen them since we have this meeting? Why did they just suddenly up and leave so Osage town? trusty worry deck, went to check out the situation he went over to their place and on May fifth, eighteen, seventy three Hebrew, and so the vendor cabin Burke, the lock off their door? And when to the seller, while in there he noticed that there was a terrible smell, basically the odor of death, a weird trap door also that led to the kitchen seller had some bloodstains around it. So Dick came back stay with a full on search, already. I think it was initially about fifty people are so and then it grew. They had shovels

plows and stuff in tow, and they didn't find, many bodies in the house. I think they tried to check under the stellar floor, but they did find a couple of other weird things like three pledge: hammers and an eight day clock that concealed a knife and at York who had been searching for his brother, said to found a pair of eye glasses in the house that matched his brothers classes, who, after the search of the house, didn't turn up anything except the sledge hammer. In these other items, they started to search the rest of the property and came up empty until had noticed the mounted dirt in the orchard, and they realise that this must be grave than the first one that they dug up reveal. The body of Doktor York adds brother and the body was decomposing badly, but he could still make out the faith when they cleaned it off. The exact number of the body found in the proper,

varies depending on what source you look at, but its generally said to be anywhere from nine to twelve different people and the people that Doctor York had been searching for, which was longer and his daughter. They were buried in the spot also, but this horrifying part, at least to me, was that this little girl who is said to be five to eight years old, they thought that she had been buried alive because she didn't have wounds that she didn't have the same wounds that the other victims with had and she appeared to have been crushed under the weight of her dad dead bodies. A few just kind of thrown in there and the body was sort of thrown on top of her, and that was the way that she passed away tie on Bobby Brown welcomed my pod cast beyond the duty. A new show from I hurt radio. You probably know me as the founder of the cosmetics company, but I walked away in two thousand and sixteen

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ever you get your bike guests. Some other unidentified business dismembered body parts were found in the area as well as the other body. I have several men and they were believed to be victims of the same killers and, of course, those suspected killer. Were the vendors because their bodies were found on the property anywhere and they had obviously left in such a hurry. So it's unclear how many people they can

there in that to your span, but some estimates range over twenty, the most of the victims who were found the sides, the little girl to win a mentioned appear to have been killed in the very same way, and that's probably why most Dorset? Do you agree that the vendors had this theme murderous strategy and, as with a lot of other serial killer stories that we ve looked at her discussed in the past? The motivation here appears to have been money, but according to leave, the vendors in general were very careful to target non locals and some sort of even suggest that's why they place their cabin where it was in the first place, because they knew that They have a lot of travellers passing through stopping in at therein and because there wasn't really another option to most sources. Also, credit Kate, under as the brains behind operation, she'd chat of the travellers, may be flirt with them and to determine who was well shield enough to be worth killing. We mention

that curtain that divided the room in their cabin the, or would typically be seated with his back to it at the table and the Kitchen Marwood cook up some food walk hated. The talking kind of entertain their guest, leaning back against the curtain as a guest often would would create sort of an outline of the visitors head, and this was the perfect target, apparently for Paul dare to hit the person with a sledgehammer, which is how the initial blow and probably often fatal blow was dealt from there steel, the travelers money, partially strip them down, and especially or daylight outside or if they were suspecting another traveller showing up soon they would dump the victor. Into the cellar very quickly through that trap door in the kitchen that we'd mentioned the final step of these trade Kills was splitting the victims through, which was an act that Lee and others.

To say, was typically performed by Kate, although I'm not really sure how they know that have to be honest spear how they knew it was Kate yeah. I'm not sure how they know that for sure, but a lot of sources say that probably was heard that did the throats letting In the night, though, when no one was around, they would take the bodies out in very than in the orchard and some tender certain whether money was always the motor Vader for them, because, according to him, make some estimates put the money they made off of the victims at about five thousand dollars, but some of their victims didn't seem to have much more than part. Change on them when they were killed- and I mean there's always a chance that didn't know. Maybe they killed them and then found out o the sky really doesn't have any money Butler killed today for five dollars. So true, but Mccormick suggests that this could have simply have been blood last. So that might have been part of that, and we should mention that part the reason that Europe situation was different. I mean they had been caught at all. They kind of stuck to this were only it

king lonely travellers thing, but they did realize early sunset sources suggests that they didn't realize that York was from near by and that is why follow up, and yet what happened? His brother turned out to be very tenacious in searching for him and they probably weren't expecting that, though, after the bodies were found, there is this kind of madness that commenced, in which everybody with pointing finger. Trying to find somebody who was around to blame, because the vendors of course were just out of town of Cormick, actually compare that to the failing which child than a neighbour of the vendor same Brockman, who is also german, was suspected of knowing something about their activities. Are their whereabouts, he was hanged in revived, several times as people tried to get in fell out of him. Apparently, though, he had nothing to tell after this torture treatment yeah it's kind of terrible. They would just they struck him up and they were just hang him every time there train.

Information out of eminence or to let him down, and he would be unconscious a couple times really brutal, but the house interestingly, was also basically looted after it ass. The story was all over the papers and thousands of people reportedly came to take what Mccormick cause Quote Mc Cobb souvenirs from Pretty yak yeah teaches owning a souvenir department, I guess, but he knows, on June, twenty fifth eighteen. Seventy three, a Kansas paper called the headlight, ran a report that said quote the whole of the house, except in the heavy framing timbers on the vendor farm and even the few tree have been carried away by the relic hunters, and then the newspaper addressed the families escape by saying quote them. Themselves are probably in the middle of China by this time and will never be heard from one. That's the real mystery of this story, because, to this day

No one knows what happened to the benders. Their wagon was found abandoned. They were cited getting on a train. Some people say that they split up mine. Paul went one way: Katyn, John Junior, when another four years afterwards, as you can imagine, it were sightings there were a wrath, even a promising one in Michigan and eighteen, eighty nine, but nothing ever stock laughing with were proven. Nobody knew what had happened to the vendors there's even alleging that they were all murdered by a anti group from the Osage Township area who killed them took their money and never spoke of it again, basically like they had gone out right after this over, the body is managed to find them, kill, em and just sort of kept it to themselves, but there's no proof of this either. So the whole thing, like you said, is still unnecessary, but present day, Terry Veil Museum still display some of the memorable.

That was found them and how it didn't get. Take another look at it: didn't get taken away yapping from that initial search. Some of the things were preserved, so you can still kind of go and check. This out Do they have the three slash the words I think they're, the sledge hammers and maybe the eighth day clock in the knife. Gad brief ledge hammers. Well, I guess, if you do that much herein brisk business. It is Christy now, even with three sledge hammers, their approach was It's so think it so well defined in a way compared to some of the other serial killers we ve covered. Look, we covered the h, H, home story in detail on the roof or gas them in special room He was very elaborate and strategies, homes was, and I think they had a formula yeah so having three sledge hammers, maybe isn't so complex when it comes to the sort of thing that

when there was no one in the home, is already to at least there is fear the relative of one of the wives, who sort of got out of the bad situation and ended up not a victim, didn't wanna, take the riff tour. Finally got one though, who acted on his bad feeling. There was no one in the home is already to at least there is the air, the relative of one of the wives, who sort of got out of the bad situation and ended up. Not a victim didn't wanna, take the rift or occasionally people deal follow their instinct, which is good but people love these gruesome story. Sarah, they do. We are always getting suggestions from you. Guys were serial killers in and other murder and we even got a book from one of you. We did. We got the saga of the bloody ventures, and it is a graphic, of all by Writ Geary based on a bloody thunder story, and we, a while back actually from Listener Steve, and I have to apologise to see that we have only done the story now, because I think he probably centre after

said Bell. Ghana, Sir one of the others killers and we try to put a little gap between them as much as you guys love these scary stories. Sometimes we have to space the matter. There's a long incubation period for certain podcast topics to less that have been building for years and years now, very true, but have any other suggestions for us. Of course, we are always open to any kind of story, no matter how creepy or it might be in. You can write us their suggestions that history pie cast a discovery. Dot com were also unfair, look. Enron. Twitter in this industry you want to learn a little bit more about people like the vendors. We do have an article called how serial killers work. You can search for that on our homepage at W W W dot helstone dot com. For more or less and thousands of other topics, as it has a workshop com,

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