One of the most intriguing mysteries of the Old West concerns the disappearance of the Kansas murder family known as the Benders. From October 1870 until April 1873, a German family consisting of Ma and Pa Bender and their two grown children, quiet John and vivacious Katie, ran a murder inn seven miles northeast of Cherryvale in Labette County.
The family provided lodging where unsuspecting travelers became a grotesque statistic in the Bender apple orchard.
Their tiny, 16-feet-by-24-fe
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