Season 3: Episode 7- Villisca Axe Murders and The Murder in Room 1046

In this chilling episode of Humor, Haunts, and Homicide, Dylan cracks open one of America’s most haunting cold cases — the Villisca Axe Murders of 1912. A peaceful Iowa town. A quiet home. Eight lives brutally ended in the dead of night. No witnesses. No clear motive. No one ever brought to justice. Over a century later, the questions still echo: who could commit such an act… and why?

Then, Josh takes us 400 miles south and 23 years forward to Kansas City’s Room 1046, where mystery drips from every blood-stained detail. A man checks into the Hotel President under a false name. He’s found days later, tortured and dying — and no one knows who he really was, or who was in that room with him.

Two crimes. Decades apart. Bound by eerie silence, shadowy figures, and the unanswered whispers left behind.

Lock your doors. Turn down the lights. It’s time for another descent into the dark.

Show Sources-

Villisca Axe Murders

• Villisca Axe Murders official website

• Villisca Axe Murders Wikipedia

• Smithsonian Magazines article on the case

• Ghost Adventures Travel Channel

• Villisca: Living with a Mystery

Murder in Room 1046

• Murder of Artemus Ogletree Wikipedia

• Kansas City Star Newspaper Archives 1935

• Murder she told's article

• Coursehero.com's article