Lucille Miller
I love finding much older cases that are often forgotten to history. The only problem with them is the further you go back in time the more it can sometimes feel like a game of Telephone. For those younger readers maybe I should explain what that is since no one "plays" anymore. It was a game where one person would whisper a story to another and that person told another, and that person told another and so on until all the players have heard the story. The last person was to repeat the story out loud as they had been given it, or at least understood it to be. The idea was to see how different it was from the original. It is not unusual with old cases that lore and just plain false facts find their way into the stories so much so that they are often confused with the facts. A great example of this would be the "Bloody Benders." They were a family of killers in the late 1800's in Kansas. Many years later author Laura Ingalls Wilder wou...