When a young couple sets off for a weekend away, disappointment awaits at their destination where a mortician's convention has the hotel fully booked.

A last-minute vacancy proves to be more deadly than lucky, resulting in a double-axe murder with an incredible array of possible suspects in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Music in this episode of Last Seen Alive. Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime

storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co. Scott. This is the revisited and enhanced edition

of one of our early episodes, which features the unsolved double murder of Rose Berkert and Roger Atkinson.

The original edition was recorded in 2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode on their

case in 2025. As I'm sure those of you who've been listening since the early days of Last

Seen Alive have noticed, our production and audio quality have improved significantly over the

years.

Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes.

When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time.

However, our best wasn't the best, and we've learned a lot since then.

We want to honor those victims by telling their stories with the production quality they

deserve.

So, we've been completely remaking all of our early episodes, including this one.

A quick heads up. This episode contains brief mention of the subject of sexual assault.

We won't go into any graphic detail, but still, please listen with care.

Rose Berkert and Roger Atkinson were last seen alive on September

12, 1980. They were 22 and 32 years old, respectively at the time, and they were dating. Both lived in

St. Joseph, Missouri, and on that September day, they left St. Joseph together and drove north across the

border into Iowa. They stopped after

four hours of driving when they reached the creatively named Iowa County, arriving at the Amana

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