Hell Comes to Play: The TRUE Untold Story of America's Mass Murdering Family, The Bloody Benders

by Lee Ralph

Myth and fabrication have dominated the re-telling of the Bender's story. NOW for the first time ever, new facts are presented, documented and sourced to tell the TRUE story of The Bloody Benders, as never before told!
Justice has finally come for the victims of the Bender's devilish deeds.

Many pioneers lost their lives in their trek westward. Among those taking this risk were the Benders. A family of German immigrants who settled on the barren prairie, in the early 1870s. When the brother of Col. Alexander M. York, a Kansas Senator, went missing, the Colonel and his posse set-out to locate him, at all costs.

He was not prepared for the EVIL that he found. Cold-blooded murder, fueled by robbery, fame and twisted Spiritualism. Age nor gender mattered. None were spared!

The Bender's history has been hidden for 150 years …..until now!
HELL COMES to PLAY shines new light in to the darkness surrounding this historic murder mystery.

243 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 2023

Reviews

[Sean · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have no doubt that it took the author a great deal of time and effort to collect all of the facts presented in this book. The presentation of those facts leaves a lot to be desired. I had my doubts when I found the first grammatical error in the first paragraph of chapter one. It didn’t get any better. The author doesn’t know the difference between set, sat, and sit. He uses set in every instance and every instance is wrong. An example of this is when he writes about a person “setting outside”. There’s a page in the book with the heading…”The Ingalls Connection” (referring to Laura Ingalls Wilder. The page presents six or seven facts about the Ingalls family. The only “connection” is that the Ingalls family and the Bender family both lived in southeast Kansas during 1870. Visually, the book looks like a middle school student was told to use 10 or 12 point font on their research paper and then used 14 or 16 point font so it would reach the page number requirements. “Paragraphs” are only 1-3 sentences in length. Overall, it’s a quick read with some interesting information. It’s just hard to get past the poor grammar, misspelling, and even a directional error. Highly disappointed after being excited to find a book about local history.

[Brandy D Osborn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel like I’m on brain overload with all of the information in this book. I found it so hard to keep everyone straight, but I felt it was well written. It honestly made me want to do my own investigation with the information that I now know.

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am not a history person, but I am familiar with the Benders story. This book really went into detail with new details about the Benders that I had never read or heard before

[Nikki Pozzuto · Rating 1 out of 5]

I feel bad bc I know the author spent years researching but he got lost in the details and missed the main story. This was just random facts strung together.