On Feburary 6, 1965, a man in his late 30's checked into room 636 at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, during the next 3 days he was seen going in and out of his room several times accompanied by a tall blonde woman. The following Monday Feburary 8, the afternoon maid on duty Maria Luisa Guerra prepared to check the room thinking the Do Not Disturb sign on the door was an oversight, she opened the door with her passkey, she proceeded to step inside when she saw a man standing beside the blood soaked bed. As she let out a scream , the man placed his index finger against her lips ad if cautioning her to be quiet. Then he Quickly gathered up the blood soaked bundle and ran out the door. the police arrived on the scene within the next 10 minutes. Searching the room they found the small footprints of the apparent victim, several cigar butts, one with the imprint of lipstick and a suitcase containing a mans shirt, some cheese and several empty wine bottles.Officers also found blonde hairs in the rooms, as well as nylon hose and female undergarments . The officers questioned Mrs Guerra , who described details of the bloody bundle that the man carried off. Officers said that the body of a small boned woman , dissected and blood-drained could fit the dimension of the bundle that Mrs Guerra described. The room was a bloody mess and the bathroom was literally coated in blood and smal pieces of flesh from ceiling to floor while no body was found , it was theorized that the body had been butchered in the bathroom, run through a meat grinder and disposed of down the commode . Within days the police tracked down the suspect just a few blocks away at the St. Anthony Hotel as police entered the suspects room, a shot rang out from inside as the man took his own life. During the subsequent investigation, it was discovered that the suspected murderer, Walter Emerick, attempted to check into room 636 at the St. Anthony the day of the icident at the Gunter and had purchased a very large meat grinder the previous week at a downtown department store. To this day the case is still open, no body has ever been discovered and no female matching the description given to the police has ever been reported missing. But since this bloody incident more than 45 years ago, members of the staff and hotel guests have reported strange happenings from time to time . Ghostly images of a woman outstretched have appeared to maids . Sounds of hammering and grinding have been reported coming from room 636 although it was unoccupied . The image of a woman, unknown the the staff mysteriously appeared in christmas pictures . The Gunter Hotel . a hotel rich , elegant and magnifecent in its design and haunted by the memory of a butchering in room 636
