In 1980, Roger Atkison and Rose Burkert were found bludgeoned in an Iowa motel room: no forced entry, no suspects, and a message scrawled on the mirror. And in 1943, rising Hollywood actor David Bacon was stabbed mid-drive, bleeding out as his car idled on a quiet LA street. "True Crime This Week" explores two of the most baffling cold cases in American history and the strange clues still haunting them. Decades later, both cases remain ice cold, and the killers are still out there.

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