THE BLOODY BENDERS: PROPRIETORS OF THE KANSAS HOTEL FROM HELL
1001 True Crime From Another Time with Host Jon Hagadorn
Release Date: 11/17/2024
1001 True Crime From Another Time with Host Jon Hagadorn
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1001 True Crime From Another Time with Host Jon Hagadorn
Two great episodes from True Crime Classics radio
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1001 True Crime From Another Time with Host Jon Hagadorn
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1001 True Crime From Another Time with Host Jon Hagadorn
This famous kidnapping/murder case made headlines numerous times over a period of 50 years. In December of 1957 young Maria Rudolph was kidnapped from her neighborhood in Illinois by a young man who introduced himself as Johnnie to she and her friend. Her body was found by a roadside some weeks later 90 miles away. Not long after, a neighbor named John Tessier was arrested on suspicion of murder, and from that a series of twists and turns led to his conviction and,years later,his release as investigations turned up new evidence which verified his timeline alibi. The killer, as far as justice...
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The great depression was setting in. In Eastern North Dakota families were suffering from the effects of money shortages, and it wasn't unusual to see entire families packing up and gheading west toward what they hoped was a beter future. So when the Haven family, consisteing of two adults and 4 kids between the ages of 18 and 2 months, disappeared, no one in the small community of Schafer really missed them. When they asked, the a 22 year old man who they had hired as farm help said they had gone to Oregon and left him there to take care of things. But the facts were quite...
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On Dec 10, 1971, Middelbury College freshman Lynn Kathryn Schulz was last seen at 2:10 pm standing across from a small health food store and bus terminal on Court Street in Middlebury VT. Despite continuing investgation, the killer was never found, but a person of interest named Robert Durst, a convicted murderer, now deceased, is believed by many to have been the killer. He was present in the health food store then in Middlebury and was believed in years after to have been a serialkiller. If you were in Middelbury in 1971 the Middlebury Police would like to speak with you. ...
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On December 10th, 1971, Middlebury VT college fresman Lynne Schulz failed to attend a final exam and was seen standing across from a health food store on Court Street in Middebury.One witness would later say they saw her walking down the main route that led out of town. That was the last anyone ever saw her. Investigations continued but nothing turned up until 2012 when the police received an anonymous call suggesting they loook into the fact that a suspected murderer named Robert Durst had owned that health food store which Lynne was known to have frequented. Durst was suspected for a...
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The Ratcliffe Hwy murders were attacks on two separate families-the Marr and Williamson families-living within a few blocks of each other in the East End of London-that resulted in 7 deaths. The attacks occurred only 7 days apart and were very similar, although no reason was ever given as to why the two families were chosen. Both were doing well in business, but no money was shown to have been stolen. the main suspect in the slayings, John Williams,was found hanged in jain before he could be put on trial. This crime has been followed by many but William's guilt was never absolutely...
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The Lizzie Borden trial made a huge splash in the newspapers of the time,not only in Fall river, Massachusetts, where the double axe murder occurred, but across the country. Police investigations of families with any kid of social status were not known for suspecting upright citizens- they tended to think immigrants or low-lifes were responsible. And investigations were limited- very poor when held up to today's standards. Lizzie was declared not guilty by a jury- even when all the evidence led to her murder of her stepmother and father. This is the story-
info_outlineFrom 1871 to 1873 a loose-knit "family" of serial killers opened up a general store and inn on a popular travelers's route in frontier Kansas.Using a pretty "daughter" they lured single male travelers in and soon murdered them for their money, letting them bleed out under the house and later burying them in their orchard. It is believed they killed 20 people before evidence was found and they were able to flee. Laura Ingalls Wilder, in a public speaking event in 1937.acknowledged that her family stopped at the Bender Inn to water their horses, but as they could not afford anything, they moved on.
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