One of the most haunting events in San Antonio history, the 1965 bloody murder on the sixth floor in the downtown Gunter Hotel, is the topic of a new book by Guillermo Fuentes.
Fuentes, the respected founder and director of San Antonio Paranormal Investigations, spent more than eight years diligently researching one of Texas’ biggest mysteries.
“The Murder of Room 636 (A Haunting Truth)” chronicles the true story of Walter A. Emerick, a disturbed man who walked into the Gunter Hotel on February 2, 1965 and checked into room 636 as “Albert Knox.”
Within a week, as police burst into room 536 at the nearby St. Anthony Hotel, Emerick shot himself in the head.
Fuentes details the chronological account that takes the reader on a journey clearing up much of the mysterious trail of blondes and light haired females with Emerick, the housekeeper that walks into room 636 as a white male overlooks the bloody wrapped brown paper bag bundle on the bed, the Sears meat grinder, the gory discoveries by the San Antonio police department, and the truth behind the puzzling green substance found on the murder’s shoes.
Fuentes, who knows more about this famous event than any human being alive, says his first book “contains the very first images of room 636 ever released to the public since 1965.”
His book “contains six pictures of the crime scene inside room 536 of the St. Anthony Hotel and pictures regarding physical evidence collected from both hotel rooms.”
The book is filled with official police documents, state files, and personal images of Walter A Emerick (as teen and adult).
Crime, paranormal and ghost enthusiasts have been anticipating Fuentes’ book knowing he includes “information of a perimeter as where the body of the victim may be located. The book also contains about 60 pictures/documents/newspapers related to the incident. More information at www.gunterhotelroom636.com.”
Fuentes is an electronics technician who has lead more than 500 paranormal investigations in south-central Texas since SAPI’s founding in 2000.
Living in Monterrey, Mexico in the early 1990’s, Fuentes said he witnessed “the levitation of objects, voices coming from empty rooms, disembodied footsteps, physical touches, unexplained temperature fluctuations and shutting and opening of doors” at age 17.
Fuentes uses video cameras, photographic cameras, various electronic equipment, and psychics in his paranormal investigations.
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