June 5, 2023

Terrifying & True | Room 1046 - The Mysterious Death of Roland T. Owen

Terrifying & True | Room 1046 - The Mysterious Death of Roland T. Owen

Delve into the chilling enigma surrounding the death of Roland T. Owen, a haunting mystery that captivated the nation. Uncover the secrets lurking within the walls of an eerie hotel and see if maybe you can solve this massive mystery.

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Delve into the chilling enigma surrounding the death of Roland T. Owen, a haunting mystery that captivated the nation. Uncover the secrets lurking within the walls of an eerie hotel and see if maybe you can solve this massive mystery.

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You start your shift at a hotel
in a major city in the Midwest.

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You go to check on a guest
who's left their phone off the hook.

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But instead of discovering a drunk patron
or worse yet, a suicide, you

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discover something much more terrifying, much
more mysterious, and it's a mystery never

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to be solved what you were about
to be based on witness accounts, testimon

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piece, and public record. This
is terrifying and truth. The mystery of

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Room one O four six really got
to me. I'd never heard of it

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at all. It's a creepy one, especially if you've stayed in many hotels,

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because sometimes when you crash at your
accommodations, you notice that your neighbors

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are a bit strange. Perhaps they
keep odd hours, or have very loud

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conversations, or just listen to the
TV two damn loud. But in my

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wildest dreams, I would never imagine
something like what you're going to hear about

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tonight could have happened on the other
side of a thin hotel wall. But

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that's what we're diving into tonight.
So get ready to learn all about the

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mystery of Roland t Owen or was
he right after these quick words from our

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sponsors eighty seven years ago? In
nineteen five, Kansas City, Missouri,

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became the home of one of the
strangest unsolved cases in American history after a

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young man displayed peculiar behavior after checking
into the President Hotel. He was found

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slumped over in a pool of his
own blood. His body showed signs of

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torture as he was bound with cords
and stabbed numerous times. The man was

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still semi conscious, though, so
the detectives asked who did this to him.

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He replied nobody before falling unconscious and
later dying in the hospital. After

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two years of the case running cold, the investigators believed they'd found what they

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were searching for. However, this
discovery only left everyone more puzzled and with

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many many more questions. On Wednesday, January second, nineteen thirty five,

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a lone man walked into the President
Hotel at fourteenth and Baltimore Street in Kansas

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City, Missouri. He didn't have
any luggage with him, but he dressed

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neatly in his black overcoat and appeared
polished. The hotel staff recalled that he

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was well mannered and signed the register
as Roland t Owen. Roland requested a

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single room on one of the upper
floors, specifically an interior room without access

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to the outdoors. Witnesses later described
him as being someone who could easily look

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like he was in his early twenties
or he could very well pass for his

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late thirties. Roland had dark brown
hair and a noticeable scar on the side

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of his scalp, rising horizontally above
his ear. He also had a cauliflower

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left ear, which is a deformity
of the outer ear that's caused by blunt

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force trauma. This kind of injury
is from repeated blows to the ear and

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is typically found on professional boxers and
amateur wrestlers. The hotel clerk gave Roland

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a key to room one oh four
six on the tenth floor and sent the

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bellboy on duty, Randolph Probst,
to escort him. While the two chatted

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on the elevator ride, Roland told
the bellboy that he stayed at the neighboring

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Muleibach Hotel the night before, where
they had charged him an outrageous amount for

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his accommodations. When they entered the
room, Roland walked through the short entryway

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and Randolph watched as he took out
a black hair brush from his coat pocket,

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as well as a black comb and
toothpaste. He then placed them above

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the bathroom sink. These were the
only items he had on him. The

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housekeeper for the day, Mary Soptic, was making her rounds at noon when

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she knocked on room one O four
six. Most of the hotel guests weren't

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there during midday, so she was
surprised when Roland opened the door. She

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said she could come back later,
but Roland insisted she just go ahead.

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Once she was in the room,
Roland asked her to not lock the door,

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as he was expecting a friend.
In a few minutes, Mary noticed

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that all the shades were completely closed
and the only source of light in the

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room was the dim lamp on the
desk. Mary told the police that his

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face showed anxiety and uneasiness. While
Mary was cleaning, Roland put on his

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coat, brushed his hair in the
bathroom, and then left. He reminded

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her to still leave the door unlocked
for the friend he was expecting. Mary

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would return to the room several times
over the next few days, and each

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time she did, Roland's behavior grew
stranger. Mary finished and as she continued

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working throughout the hotel, she didn't
see Roland, but at four pm she

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stopped by room one O four six
to give him fresh towels. The door

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was unlocked just as she left it, but the room was now completely dark.

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She could see from the light in
the hallway, though, that Roland

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was lying across the bed, completely
dressed. She also noticed a note on

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the desk that read down, I
will be back in fifteen minutes. Wait.

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The following morning, on January third, Mary went to room one O

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four six at around ten thirty am
to clean. She assumed Roland was checked

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out, so she used her master
key to unlock the door that was now

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locked. When she entered, she
found Roland sitting in the dark. This

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is when she realized that someone else
had locked his door from the outside.

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Before she would say anything to him, the phone rang. Roland answered and

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responded to the caller, No,
don I don't want to eat. I'm

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not hungry. I just had breakfast, And then after a moment he replied

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again, no, I am not
hungry. After he hung up the phone,

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Roland began interrogating Mary with questions about
her did she work by herself.

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On the entire floor was the President, a resident hotel where guests can live.

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Then he began complaining about the Mulebach
Hotel's prices, as he did with

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the bellboy. Mary answered his questions
and made small talk as she finished cleaning

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and gathering the soiled linens. Around
four pms, she went back up to

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Room one O four six to deliver
a fresh set of towels, but when

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she approached, she overheard two men
talking. When she gently knocked on the

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door and announced that she had fresh
towels, a loud and deep voice told

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her to leave, claiming they didn't
need them. Mary found this odd because

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she knew they didn't have any towels, but she left the two men alone,

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not wanting to intrude on what sounded
like a very private conversation. That

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same afternoon, the President Hotel checked
in two more guests, whose statements would

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later contribute to the mystery of what
happened in Room one O four six.

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Around six pm, thirty year old
Jean Owen, who had no relation to

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Roland, arrived at the hotel and
registered. Shortly thereafter. She had come

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from Lee's summit to do some shopping
and meet up with her boyfriend, but

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she began feeling ill and decided to
check into the hotel rather than driving the

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thirty minutes back home. Her room
number was one O four eight and shared

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a wall with Room one O four
six. Her boyfriend visited her around eight

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p m and then left around ten
later. Jean told police that during the

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night of her stay, she heard
a lot of noise. She said she

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heard men and women talking loudly and
swearing. She almost called the front desk,

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but decided against it. The noise
continued throughout the night. The other

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guest was a regular at the President
Hotel. One of the bell hops described

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her as a commercial woman who frequented
the hotel with male patrons. Charles Blocker,

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the elevator operator on the graveyard shift, escorted the woman to the tenth

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floor around two a. She made
inquiries about room one oh two six,

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but couldn't find the man she was
looking for, despite her reporting that he

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was very prompt in his appointments.
After searching for hours and calling Charles up

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and backed down the elevator, she
finally gave up and left the hotel.

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Could she have been looking for Roland
in room one oh four six on the

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tenth floor. The following morning,
Randolph, the same bellhop who escorted Roland

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the first day, was called by
the telephone operator. The operator reported that

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the telephone in room one oh four
six had been off the hook for ten

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minutes. When Randolph went to check
it out, he noticed the do not

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disturb sign hanging on the doorknob.
He knocked on the door and Roland told

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him to come in, but the
door was locked and Randolf didn't have a

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master key. He told Roland this
and yelled for him to put the phone

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back on the hook, but he
got no response, assuming he was simply

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just drunk, Randolph left. However, an hour and a half later,

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the telephone operator told Randolph that the
phone in room one o four six was

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still off the hook and had been
the entire time. This time, Randolph

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took a master key up with him. Roland was lying naked on the bed,

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and the bellboy assumed he was passed
out drunk, not trying to invade

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his personal space or be in there
any longer than needed. He simply put

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the phone back on the receiver and
locked the door after he left. But

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an hour later, at a round
ten thirty am, the phone was again

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off the hook. When Randolph went
a third time to investigate, what he

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walked into shocked him to his very
core. Just within two feet of the

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door. The man was curled over
his knees and elbows, holding his head

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in his hands, and the room
was now splattered with blood all over the

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walls, the bed, and the
bathroom. He immediately left the room,

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and his manager hurried to the room
in his wake, but could barely open

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the door. Now Roland had collapsed
on the other side. Police arrived to

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investigate and saw that the man had
been restrained with cord wrapped around his neck,

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his wrists, and his ankles.
It was a clear sign of torture

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as he had multiple knife wounds bleeding
in his chest just over his heart.

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The man's skull had been fractured on
the right side, and he was struck

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forcibly more than once, bruising braided
his neck, suggesting strangulation was used as

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one of the many methods of torture, but Roland was still semi conscious,

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so Detective Ira Johnson asked who had
been in the room with him. Roland

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replied nobody. After being asked how
this happened, he said, I fell

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against the bathtub. They asked if
he attempted to commit suicide, to which

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he mumbled no before falling unconscious.
After he was rushed to the hospital,

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investigators noticed the blood on his body
was dry, indicating the stabbing and cutting

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would have taken place well before.
The bellboy went to room one oh four

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six at seven in the morning,
and when they searched the room, no

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clothes were found anywhere. The black
coat he'd arrived in was gone, There

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was no shirt, pants, and
no socks or shoes. The closest thing

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to clothing was the label from a
necktie. Also missing from the room were

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the toiletries, soap, shampoo,
and towels, and anything that could have

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been the weapon was also nowhere to
be found. This, along with Roland

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being bound by cord, set aside
the possibility of suicide. The only things

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in the room were two empty water
glasses, an unlit cigarette, a hairpin,

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a safety pin, and a bottle
of deluded sulfuric acid. One of

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the glasses had a broken piece missing, and the other had four small fingerprints,

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possibly from a woman. The hotel
guests were all questioned, but nothing

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was resolved. Since Roland had listed
his hometown as Los Angeles. The detectives

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reached out to the LA Police,
but there were no wreck of a Roland

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t Owen, and after finding nothing
about him, they were beginning to think

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that a Roland t Owen did not
exist. Tragically, they weren't able to

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speak to him because he had died
from his injuries just after midnight on the

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fifth of January. A possible sighting
of Roland on the night of January third

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was investigated, but eventually ruled out. One lead seemed promising after speaking to

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the staff about Roland complaining about the
neighboring hotels prices. Detectives checked the register

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in the Mulibach hotel and didn't find
a Roland t Owen, but the front

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desk did recognize the man as staying
in the hotel the night before he went

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to the President. His home address
was also listed as Los Angeles, but

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the name he used was Eugene K. Scott. Yet, after searching for

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this man, they realized this was
just another false name, and after another

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name, Cecil Werner, arose through
the search, the police were beginning to

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wonder if they would ever identify the
John Doe. An announcement was made in

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the papers that the man who claimed
to be Roland t Owen would be buried.

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Later, the funeral home received an
envelope containing cash from an anonymous sender.

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The cash was just enough to pay
for the funeral expenses and the burial.

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Along with this was a floral tribute
to Roland and a card that read

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love Forever Louise. Even after this
mysterious donation, the case went extremely cold.

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That is until two years later when
the Kansas City Police received a letter

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from a woman named Ruby Ogletree.
She aimed a friend of hers saw the

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picture of Roland t Owen in a
newspaper along with a description of the bizarre

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murder. When Ruby saw the picture, her heart sank. She positively identified

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the scars and other features and claimed
he was her seventeen year old son and

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his real name was Artemis Ogletree.
The detectives expected this lead to flourish new

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evidence, but it ended up leaving
them with more questions than they had before.

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Artemis left home in nineteen thirty four
to travel America and initially would pen

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handwritten letters to his mother, but
in nineteen thirty five, Ruby began receiving

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letters from a typewriter. After Artemis's
murder, three letters were sent to her

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from someone claiming to be him.
The sender of the letters also claimed he

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was leaving the United States and was
off to Egypt in nineteen thirty six.

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Ruby tried locating him through the US
consul in Cairo, Egypt, but they

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weren't able to confirm that an Artemis
Ogletree had ever traveled there. Detectives were

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able to find out that Artemis had
shared a room with another man in a

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different hotel in Kansas City sometime before
his murder. They wondered if this man

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was the Dawn Artemis spoke of and
referred to in his note, and if

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Don was the rough voiced man who
told Mary Soptic through the locker door of

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Room one O four six that they
didn't need any towels. The strange murder

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of now Artemis Ogletree leaves endless room
for theories and speculation. A major threat

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in the case is the involvement of
Don. It's believed the mysterious man beat

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and tortured Artemis to death in room
one O four six, But how did

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no one in the hotel see dawn
or hear such violence taking place. Many

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also believed Don did not act alone. On the night of the murder.

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The elevator operator, Charles Blocker claimed
the commercial woman was attempting to find the

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man and was looking all night.
Could she have been somehow connected to Artemis.

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This theory is also backed by the
four small finger prints found on the

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broken glass in the room. Additionally, the guest Jean Owen, who stayed

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in Room one O four eight,
claimed to hear the loud voices of both

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a man and a woman. Although
the police were able to identify their John

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Doe, this case still remains a
baffling mystery, and everyone is still asking

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the same questions. Why was Artemis
killed and by who? What exactly went

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on in room one O four six
that night? Who was Don and who

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was the anonymous donor Louise? Could
she have been the woman whose voice was

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heard. When Artemis's mother Ruby watched
as her seventeen year old son left and

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went to travel the country, she
wasn't aware he would become entangled in one

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of the twentieth century's most peculiar crimes, a crime that remains unsolved eighty seven

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years later. The mystery of Room
one oh four six. This mystery really

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jogged my brain. Maybe it's because
I've spent so much time at hotels all

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over the country and in Canada.
I've had a lot of boring experiences and

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a lot of creepy and odd experiences
staying at temporary accommodations. And I have

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to say, one of the things
that always creeps me out when i stay

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in a hotel in a new city
that I've never heard of, or never

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been to, or never looked at
the Yelp page for is the fact that

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hotels are used for so many things, from something as innocent as needing a

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quick nap to as vicious as murder. Often people check into hotels in order

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to commit suicide or to have a
rendezvous with a sexual partner that maybe society

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or their wives or husbands would not
agree with. My first thought is that

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this was a crime involving passion.
That perhaps Artemis had become connected to a

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woman, maybe in love with her, and that either she had a jealous

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husband or she had some kind of
a connection to some lascivious individual who killed

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Artemis for some kind of gain.
Because who sent the letters? Why did

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it appear that Artemis was still alive
to his own mother, or perhaps Ruby

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was mistaken. Maybe the man who
died wasn't Artemis at all. This is

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nineteen thirty six thirty seven, so
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