Rat Boyz Presents: The Musclecast

Producer/Engineer: Bill Pollock Editor: Sarah Rendo Cover: Rob Mitchell Nelle Peters was one of most prolific architects in Kansas City history. She designed over a 1,000 buildings including one of the city’s most iconic high-rises, the Mark Twain. What most people don’t know is that the Mark Twain apartments have a dark secret. To understand that untold mystery, we need to first look at the moral tug of war between Peters and J.C. Nichols. Nichols was a famous real estate developer, but in the process of gobbling up land and spitting out commercial and residential properties, a radical concept began to dominate his mind. As the plans for the Mark Twain apartments neared fruition, Nichols became more and more obsessed with the idea of secretly stealing Mark Twain’s body in hopes of burying him in the cornerstone of the building. Nelle Peters pushed against this idea from the beginning, but it was like convincing a spider to clean up his own cobwebs. “Drop this body-snatching nonsense. How could you even think