
Blair Schneider, lead investigator & science outreach manager. That concentration tells us where we should set up our geophysical grids to try and see what anomalies we pick up,” said Dr. Which is why we’re doing the ped survey first where we’re actually like marking everywhere we find a little piece of even a little piece of glass or a little piece of ceramic. “We’re really trying to understand like where was this like house foundation, in particular cellar, out houses, anything associated with the historic house. Hours into their research, the team found several items, such as old square nails, pieces of broken glass, and pieces of pottery.

Property owner Bob Miller has been campaigning for researchers to uncover “what the ground has been hiding for the last 150 years.” Blair Schneider is leading the team of six students using multiple geophysical methods to discover artifacts that could help tell more of the Bloody Bender mystery that happened back in the late 1800s in southern Labette County. “I reached out to several universities, Kansas University was the one that had the most interest, the full scope of what we want to do, and they want to set up a field school to not only research this year but if we can find some stuff, come back and excavate next year,” said Bob Miller, property owner.ĭr. LABETTE COUNTY - A team of University of Kansas student researchers and their lead investigator are doing a two-week “field study” on the site where the “Bloody Bender” murders took place.
