HELL'S HALF-ACRE by Susan Jonusas

I really enjoyed Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier by Susan Jonusas. Never heard of the Bender family before reading it. Jonusas does a good job of keeping the book engaging with so little info after the family hightailed it out of Kansas after their murders started to come to light. I gave the book four out of five stars on LibraryThing because it's a little infuriating that the Benders got away with it, though it sounds like living life on the lam wasn't a cakewalk in the wild frontier. What I liked about the book is that it showed how much lawlessness there was in the 19th century Midwest, not just the West.