Judgy After Dark, Episode 14: The Mysterious Unsolved Murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison

On the evening of Sept. 12, 1980, Rose Burkert, 22, and Roger Atkison, 32, checked into the Amana Holiday Inn along Interstate 80 near Williamsburg, Iowa, for a romantic getaway….but they never checked out. The next day, shortly after noon, a housekeeper discovered the couple dead in their room. Blood was splattered across the wall, headboard and carpet…it was gruesome. When Police got to the room, they discovered the most horrific and bizarre things had been done to the couple and the room. Toothpaste had been squirted into the bathtub and someone had written the word “THIS” on the mirror. It looked like as if there might have been other words too, but if so, those had been wiped away. Nothing made sense in Room 260…
The show “DNA of a Murder” with Paul Holes did an episode on this, but even after 43 years this case is still unsolved.

Anyone with information regarding the murders can contact the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office at 319-642-7307 or the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at 515-725-6010. You can also email DCIinfo@ps.staate.ia.us.
It’s never too late to come forward. 

Sources available upon request. 

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