Serial robber may be nursing grudge against mini soap, rainbows

Kansas City, Missouri, police detectives are chasing a robber who wields a sharp edge and has an apparent fondness for hotel desks and gift stores.

Recent knife-point robberies of a flower shop in Westport and a Hallmark store in Independence are believed to be connected. Then, on Tuesday, a white man fitting the broad description of the Secretaries Day Slicer used an ax to boost cash from a Comfort Inn on Parvin Road. On Wednesday, a guy with a knife demanded money from a clerk at a hotel near the airport.

NBC Action News says the crimes may be related.