Rose Burkert

Roger Atkison

The motel where Rose and Roger were murdered

(Police Photo)

A tube of toothpaste that had been emptied into the bathtub

(Police Photo)

Georgia:

The murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison

Episode sources:

1. Axed! The 1980 Amana, Iowa, Ax Murders by Marcella Lynn Hatcher-Atkison (2023)

2. “Death at the Morticians’ Convention: Murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison 1980” by Nancy Bowers (Iowa Unsolved Murders, 2011)

3. “Is A Serial Killer Responsible For 4 Brutal Hotel Murders?” by Aly Vander Hayden (Oxygen, 2019)

4. “One year ago — horror in Room 260” by Kent Darr (Quad-City Times, 1981)

Karen:

The unkillable Michael Malloy

Episode sources:

1. “On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy” by Simon Read 2005

2. “The Many Lives of Michael Malloy” (Criminal podcast) 2020

3. “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” by Abbott Kahler (Smithsonian Magazine) 2012

4. “The Curious Case of Michael Malloy – ‘Rasputin of the Bronx’” by Daniel Rennie (All That’s Interesting) 2018

5. “Michael Malloy – the Irishman in the Bronx that could not be murdered” (IrishCentral) 2025

6. “New York’s Most Fantastic Murder” (The Washington Herald) 1933

7. “Insurance Murder Charged to Five” (The Sault Star) 1933

8. “Directors Murder, Inc, Found Guilty, to be Sent to Chair” (The Punxsutawney Spirit) 1933

Daniel Kreisberg, Joseph Murphy, Frank Pasqua, and Tony Marino

Death record of Mike Malloy

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