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The Amanda Axe murder sounds like a case that would have happened in 1910, but it happened in 1980 and in spite of developments in DNA, it remains unsolved.

But two similar cases point to a single suspect with an odd signature. I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Welcome to Crime Lines. This case that we're talking about today is one that I first found when I was doing tick tox on historical true crime cases and I wanted to look into this one more and realized there was plenty here for a full episode.

If you didn't know, I am on TikTok. I'm not doing any dancing or lip syncing.

Last year I did today in true crime history short videos that you can see also on YouTube and Instagram.

But I decided for this year to change how I'm doing things on social media and focus more on missing persons cases and cold cases that need more attention, like this one.

It has gotten more attention in recent years. The show DNA of a murder did an episode on this as well as the podcast scene of the crime which devoted an entire season to this case.

Scene of the crime is a deep dive multi-parter series. So I'll leave the link in the show notes. It's hosted by Jamie Rice from the Murderish podcast. So perfect podcast voice and they get very deep into all of the theories and angles that the police explored over the years.

So this case starts in St. Joseph, Missouri, which is an hour north of Kansas City. 32-year-old Roger Atteson grew up in St. Joe and had been with his wife Marcella since they were teenagers.

They met at church in a youth group and married in September 1973, being separated only by his service in the Navy during the Vietnam War.

The couple attended the King Hill Baptist Church and Roger was very active there. He drove the church bus. He sang in the choir. He was teaching the Bible lessons.

According to Roger's family, the marriage wasn't entirely a happy one. One major stressor on the couple was that in spite of years of trying, they couldn't get pregnant.

But even more than that, Marcella had a very strong personality. And Roger was one who would bend a little bit more easily.

And part of this included the decision on staying in the marriage even when Roger appeared to want to leave it.

Divorce would be brought up occasionally and then taken off the table. But that didn't stop Roger from pursuing other relationships.

Roger worked for General Telephone just north of St. Joe in Savannah, Missouri. He was an installer and a repairman, meaning he went into the homes to work on people's phone lines.

And one phone he installed or repaired in June of 1980 was that of 22 year old Rose Burkert.

Rose was working her way through nursing school as a nurse's aide at a nursing home called La Verna Village, though she was set to start a new job in the fall of 1980.

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