The Kansas City Two Trunks Murder (1890s) — A Forgotten Crime in the Heartland

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Season 5: Kansas City’s Darkest Crimes — Heartland Homicide Deadly Truths exposes the violence, corruption, and hidden history shaping America’s cities. This season we return to Kansas City—the place I lived the longest and still consider home. From Jesse James to the Union Station Massacre, the KC Mob, and modern mysteries, we uncover the stories behind the Heartland’s darkest crimes. No myths. No filters. Step inside the Murder Factory.

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The Kansas City Two Trunks Murder (1890s) — A Forgotten Crime in the Heartland | Deadly Truths

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The Kansas City Two Trunks Murder (1890s) — A Forgotten Crime in the Heartland | Deadly Truths

The Kansas City Two Trunks Murder is one of the Midwest’s most chilling forgotten cases—a woman dismembered, packed into two cheaply made trunks, and shipped through Union Depot in the 1890s. This is not the Kentucky trunk murder. This is Kansas City’s own nightmare, buried in the archives and nearly erased by time.

In this episode, we uncover the victim’s life, the killer hiding in the same boarding house, and the investigation that chased him across the rail lines.
None of the shock. All of the truth.

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DISCLAIMER

This episode is based on historical newspaper reports, municipal archives, and surviving investigative records. Some 19th-century case materials are incomplete or lost; no speculation is presented as fact. All sensitive content has been handled with respect for the victim.

RESOURCES

Primary sources and research for this episode include:

Kansas City regional newspapers (1890s)
Municipal boarding-house records and rail-shipping documentation
Missouri historical crime archives and case summaries
Contemporary analyses of 19th-century trunk murders and victimology

The truth isn’t dead. It’s just being forged in the murder factory.