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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

196 // Murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison w/ Morf

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Mike Morford about the new season of his podcast Scene of the Crime. We discuss the murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison in Iowa in 1980.  https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/iowas-unsolved-hotel-murders-still-haunt-amana-community-40-years-later Follow Morf and his shows! Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrueCrimeGuy, https://twitter.com/SceneOfCrimePod Scene of the Crime: https://www.spreaker.com/show/scene-of-the-crime-delphi, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scene-of-the-crime-delphi/id1490638628, https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/histudios/scene-of-the-crime Criminology: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criminology/id1264424015, https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/criminology Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Check out BostonGreenHealth.com and use code CRAWL to get 20% off any purchase! Check out the True Crime Podcaster's Survival Guide: Avid.FM/truecrime Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Check out Crawlspace's Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/crawlspacepodcast Follow Crawlspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/crawlspace Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Welcome. Welcome to Crawl space. I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance how are you today?

0:39.0

I couldn't be better Tim. How are you today?

0:41.0

I'm doing great because we got to catch up with an old friend, old true crime guy Mike Morford.

0:48.7

You might know him as Morf, he literally does every podcast that's not crawl space and missing more Murray or empty frames, and he's got a new season of his podcast called

0:59.7

Scene of the Crime. And this is one where he acts as more of a producer, engineer, and

1:04.6

researcher and puts together the shows from that point of view.

1:07.8

And scene of the crime season one was on the Delphi murders, make sure to check that out if you haven't.

1:14.4

But season two, he just started releasing

1:17.5

and it's about the murders of Rose Burkert

1:21.0

and Roger Atkinson.

1:23.0

It's an Iowa unsolved double murder from 40 years ago.

1:28.0

It is a crazy story once he starts talking about the details and how certain things don't line up.

1:33.4

Rose was 22, Roger was 32.

1:36.2

It was seemingly like they were having an affair.

1:39.2

They were murdered at the Amana Holiday Inn,

1:41.7

and this was in Williamsburg, Iowa. The hotel room, the scene of the crime

1:46.4

was perplexing. There's a number of suspects and when you think that you've figured out like that's the

1:52.4

guy, turns out he's got a rock solid alibi

1:55.3

so this is a incredibly interesting case and Morse doing a great job covering it.

2:00.6

He really is Lance. It's a great show. Make sure to check it it out and Lance before we throw it to the interview I want to mention something that we're doing called the True Crime Podcasters survival guide.

2:10.0

It is a course it's actually like an almost like an education course, Lance, and you can check it out at avid.com slash true crime.

2:19.0

That's right, Tim, and the first 50 students will get 50% off using the coupon code crawl space and

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