Episode 7, "The Family That Preys Together, Slays Together"

Throughout history, stories of families that murdered for money, or simply to satisfy a lust for blood, have caused sleepless nights for nobility and commoners alike. On this episode of Fatal Gothic, hosts Julia Parker and Stephen Savage explore some of the most notorious Killer Clans ever to haunt our nightmares. These include the Beans, Scotland's legendary Cannibal Clan, The Harpe Brothers, who are considered by many the first true serial killers in America, a century before H.H. Holmes, and Kansas' Bloody Benders, an immigrant family from Germany who, in the years following the Civil War, murdered scores of western bound travelers before escaping into legend.