1 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: On the evening of March tenth, nineteen twenty nine, on 2 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: New York City's East one hundred and thirty second Street, 3 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: something strange was brewing. It had just gone ten thirty 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: pm when Missus Smith was alerted to a short burst 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: of screams coming from the laundrette next to her home. 6 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: The laundrette, located at number four East one hundred and 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: thirty second Street, belonged to thirty year old Isadore Fink, 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: who also lived at the property. Smith summoned nearby police 9 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: officer patrolman Captain Bone, who proceeded to investigate the situation. 10 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: Unable to see anything through the windows, cat and Bone 11 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: attempted to access the building, only to find the front 12 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: door and all the windows locked from the inside. There was, however, 13 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: a small transom window just above the door that appeared 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: to be open, but it was far too small for 15 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: the officer or Missus Smith to fit through. With Smith's help, Cat' 16 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: and Bone asked a local child to climb inside the 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: property and unlock the door for them. After squeezing through 18 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: the window, the boy appeared moments later at the front door, 19 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: having opened its heavy bolt lock from inside, turning on 20 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: the lights. The officer quickly found Fink lying on the 21 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: floor in a pool of blood, having died from three 22 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: gunshot wounds. Robbery was quickly ruled out as a motive. 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,199 Speaker 1: Since no money or anything of any value was found 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: to have been taken, and since the transom window was 25 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: far too small for an adult to climb through, police 26 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: concluded that Fink had shot himself, only no gun was 27 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: ever found at the scene. The case, which was never 28 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: satisfactorily resolved, was described by then police Edward mulrooney as 29 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: an insoluble mystery. The death of Isadore Fink has since 30 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: become known as one of the most compelling real life 31 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: examples of the fabled locked room mystery, a subgenre of 32 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: crime fiction in which usually someone is murdered despite it 33 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: appearing impossible for a perpetrator to have committed the crime 34 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: without detection. The locked room mystery in literature is widely 35 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: thought to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe's Disturbing the 36 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: Murder in Room Morgue, published in eighteen forty eight. With 37 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 1: Soji Shimada's dark and puzzling Tokyo Zodiac Murders, considered to 38 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: be one of the finest examples of the hugely popular genre, 39 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: though Isadore Fink's murder is one of the better known 40 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: real world examples. Only six years later, in a hotel 41 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 1: in Kansas City, Missouri, another infamous locked room mystery would 42 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: unfold as compelling and strange as fiction you're listening to 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: unexplained and I'm Richard McClean smith. The President Hotel at 44 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: thirteen twenty nine Baltimore Avenue in Kansas City is one 45 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: of those grand old downtown hotels that speak of a 46 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: bygone age of glitz and glamor. Built in nineteen twenty 47 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: five in a bold Jacobean revival style, complete with ornate 48 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: terra cotta moldings and its name in lights high up 49 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: on the rooftop, it soon established itself as one of 50 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: the more aspirational venues of its day. In nineteen twenty eight, 51 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: the fifteen floor hotel was selected for that year's Republican 52 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: Party convention, and its famously plush drum room lounge would 53 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: go on to host Frank Sinatra and King of Swing 54 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: Benny Goodman, among many other prestigious performers, and it was 55 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: there just after one twenty pm on Wednesday, January second 56 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five, when Randolph Propsed, one of the hotel's bellhops, 57 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: was called over to reception to escort a new guest 58 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: to his room. The man, neatly dressed in a black overcoat, 59 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: had checked in under the name Roland t Owen and 60 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,239 Speaker 1: claimed to have recently arrived from Los Angeles. As Probst 61 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: was quick to note, despite booking the room for a 62 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: number of days, the man carried no luggage with him. 63 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: But perhaps even stranger was how particular he'd been about 64 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: his choice of room, insisting that it be at least 65 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: several floors up and hidden from the street. The desk 66 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: clerk decided that room number ten forty six would be 67 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: the perfect solution, being as it was an interior room 68 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: located at the back of the hotel, overlooking and inner court. 69 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: Probst took the key and motioned for mister Owen to 70 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: him into the lift. Riding the car up together in silence, 71 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: Probst couldn't help but notice the peculiar scar just above 72 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,559 Speaker 1: the man's left ear. It was some kind of burn 73 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: that had left a bald patch of skin loosely covered 74 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: by an otherwise thick head of dark brown hair. As 75 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: a bell hop, it was almost impossible not to wander 76 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: about the secret lives of the many guests that came 77 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: and went through the hotel doors, and for Probst, mister 78 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: Owen was already proving to be fertile ground for the imagination. 79 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: This was only exacerbated moments later, when having let mister 80 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: Owen into his room, the man asked Probs to wait 81 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: by the door as he removed a hair brush, comb, 82 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: and tube of toothpaste from his coat pocket and placed 83 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: each item carefully on the small shelf above the sink. Then, 84 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: turning to Probst, he announced he would be heading out 85 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: for the afternoon. The pair then rode the elevator back 86 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: to the first floor, with Owen handing him a small 87 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: tip before heading on out of the hotel. It had 88 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: just gone seven am on Friday, January fourth, two days 89 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: after Owen had checked in that Probst received an instruction 90 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: from the hotel's telephone operator to make a quick check 91 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 1: on his room, as the phone appeared to be left 92 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: off the hook. Arriving at room ten forty six moments later, 93 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: Probst founder do not disturb sign hanging from the door handle. 94 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: After knocking on the door. A muffled voice from inside 95 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: instructed him to come in, but when he tried to 96 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: handle the door wouldn't budge, having been locked from the inside. Sorry, sir, 97 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: I think the door is locked, he said, After hearing 98 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: someone inside saying turn on the lights. Probst knocked again, 99 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: but there was no further response. After knocking a few 100 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: more times, the bellhop eventually gave up and yelled for 101 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: mister Owen to put the phone back on the hook 102 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: before heading back downstairs. An hour later, with the phone 103 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: still off the hook, it fell, this time to twenty 104 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: five year old bellhop Harold Pike to make another check 105 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: on the room. Pike found the door was once again locked, 106 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: only this time it had been locked from the outside, 107 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: suggesting the occupant had now left the room. After knocking 108 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: and receiving no reply, Pike used his pass key to 109 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: open the door and was immediately hit by a waft 110 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: of warm, stale air. With the shades completely shut, it 111 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: was hard at first to see anything when a Pike 112 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: was suddenly startled by the shape of some one lying 113 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: on the bed. Sir, he called out as he stepped 114 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: in a little further, pulling back suddenly in embarrassment at 115 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: the sight of a naked mister Owen lying sprawled out 116 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: and fast asleep on top of the bed sheets. Sir 117 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: Pike said again, but Owen would not be roused. Noticing 118 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: then that the phone had been knocked off its stand 119 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: in the corner of the room, Pike simply placed it 120 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: back on its holder and left, locking the door behind him. 121 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: Two hours later, the phone was once again off the hook. 122 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: With Randolph Probst back on duty, he swiftly made his 123 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: way to Room ten forty six to investigate again. Having 124 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: got no reply. 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With police arriving on the scene soon after, 156 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: Detectives Irah Johnson and William Edridge, along with Detective Sergeant 157 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: Frank Howland and doctor Harold Flanders, succeeded and barging their 158 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 1: way into the room, they found Owen breathing rascally and 159 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: lying face down in a small pool of blood, similar 160 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: to how Probst had first found him. What Probst hadn't seen, however, 161 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: was that Owen's neck, hands and feet had been tied 162 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: together with cord, having assumed the blood had come from 163 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: the man's head wound. After cutting him free, doctor Flanders 164 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: was surprised to find a series of what appeared to 165 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: be deep knife wounds on his chest, one of which 166 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: Flanders's guest had punctured his lung, which explained his raspy breathing. 167 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 1: There was bruising on his neck too, from where someone 168 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: had tried to strangle him. Then, suddenly, as if roused 169 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: from a deep sleep, Owen began to stir, rising to 170 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: his feet as the doctor helped him up. He stumbled 171 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: into the bathroom, clearly on shore of where he was exactly. 172 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: The detectives followed him inside and demanded to know what 173 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: had happened. Who did this to you, they asked, Nobody, 174 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,719 Speaker 1: said Owen droggily. Then how did you get hurt? A 175 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: fell against the bathtub, replied the man. The detectives looked 176 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: to each other in confusion. After asking if Owen had 177 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 1: somehow done it all to himself, the man reply i'd know, 178 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: before toppling over and falling unconscious once more. Mister Owen 179 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: was rushed to hospital by ambulance, only to fall into 180 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: a coma later that night, from which he would never recover, 181 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: dying shortly after midnight later that evening. Oddly, despite Owen 182 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: being completely naked, no shoes or clothes were found in 183 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: his room, not even the ones he'd arrived in. The 184 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: room had been almost completely stripped, with all the usual 185 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: hotel supplies found to have been taken, including the room's towels. 186 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,359 Speaker 1: In the end, detectives found only a single unlit cigarette, 187 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 1: as well as a hairpin and an unopened bottle of 188 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 1: diluted sulfuric acid, perhaps used to treat mouth ulcers. Detectives 189 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: also found to drinking glasses, with one left unused on 190 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: the shelf above the sink, while the other was found 191 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,679 Speaker 1: in the sink with a large chunk of glass missing 192 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: from it. Four small fingerprints were also found on top 193 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: of the telephone stand that did not belong to Owen 194 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: or any of the hotel staff, leading detectives to conclude 195 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: that despite Owen's protestations, he'd almost certainly been murdered, or 196 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: at the very least had not acted alone. After placing 197 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: a call to the Los Angeles Police Department to find 198 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: the man's home address, the police turned their attention to 199 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: anyone who'd come into contact with him over the last 200 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: few days. Having left the hotel shortly after arriving on Wednesday, January, 201 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: the second hotel cleaner, Mary Soptic, found him back in 202 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: his room when she went to clean it in the 203 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: early afternoon. Mary cleaned the room as Owen sat on 204 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 1: the bed under the dim light of a single lamp 205 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: with the shades pulled tightly shut over the window. Mary 206 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,079 Speaker 1: was nervous at first to be in the room with 207 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: him alone, but something about the man gave her reason 208 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: to feel safe. Despite having the physique of a boxer 209 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: or wrestler. Perhaps as he sat there alone in the dark, 210 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 1: he looked, she thought, like a small wounded animal, and 211 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: from the troubled look on his face, it was clear 212 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: he was deeply preoccupied with something. As Mary continued to clean, 213 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: Owen eventually stood up from the bed, pulled on his jacket, 214 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: and left the room, telling Mary on his way out 215 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: to leave the door unknocked when she left because he 216 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: was expecting company. After finishing up, Mary did as she 217 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: was instructed. When Mary returned to the room four hours 218 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: later to deliver clean towels, she found Owen once again inside, 219 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: this time lying down on his bed. As she quietly 220 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: put the towels away, she caught sight of a note 221 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: on the desk which read, don I will be back 222 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes. Wait. The next morning, around ten thirty 223 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: a m. Mary returned again to the room to clean it. 224 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: Finding it locked from the outside and getting no response 225 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: when she knocked, Mary thought it safe to assume that 226 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: the room was empty, so it was with some surprise 227 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: when she opened the door to find Owen inside, once 228 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: again sitting quietly in the dark. Owen motioned for her 229 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: to continue with her duties. When the phone rang suddenly, 230 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: Owen hastily picked it up. Mary heard a muffled voice 231 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: from the other end. Then Owen replied, no, don I 232 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: don't want to eat. I'm not hungry. I just had breakfast. 233 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: Owen hung up the phone, then asked Mary if she 234 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: looked after the entire floor. Yes, she replied, a little 235 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: taken aback by the question. Owen also wanted to know 236 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: if there were any permanent residence living at the hotel, 237 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: then moaned a little about the prices at the nearby 238 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: Muleback Hotel, where he'd stayed a few nights before. When 239 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: Mary returned at four that afternoon with clean towels for 240 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: the room, she heard two men talking inside. This time, 241 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: when she knocked, she was met with a curt who 242 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: was it laundry? She'd replied, we don't want any came 243 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: the rough reply. Other hotel guests were spoken to, including 244 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: Jean Owen, no relation to the dead man, who was 245 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: staying in room ten forty eight the night before the incident. 246 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: Though she hadn't seen anyone coming in or out of 247 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: room ten forty six that night, she remembered hearing the 248 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: voices of what she assumed to be men and women 249 00:16:55,480 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: squabbling loudly with each other. Later that night, around one 250 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: thirty am, elevator operator Charles Blocker took a woman up 251 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: to the tenth floor. Blocker identified the woman, who was 252 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: about five foot six with black hair and was dressed 253 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: in a coat of black Hudson Seal as a possible 254 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: sex worker who was a regular visitor to the hotel. 255 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: After arriving at the tenth floor, the woman asked for 256 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: directions to room ten twenty six, then headed off down 257 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: the corridor to find it. After returning to the ground floor, 258 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: Blocker returned to the tenth floor minutes later to find 259 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: the same woman waiting for him, having seemingly been stood 260 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: up by whoever called her to the hotel. Wandering aloud 261 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: if she'd perhaps got the room number wrong. The woman 262 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: stayed for another thirty minutes before leaving the hotel. An 263 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: hour later, the woman returned, this time in the company 264 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 1: of a man in a brown hat and overcoat. Blocker 265 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: took the couple to the ninth floor. Than just over 266 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: an hour later, the woman left the hotel once again, 267 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: followed fifteen minutes later by the man who muttered something 268 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: to the reception staff about not being able to sleep 269 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: and that he was going out for a walk with 270 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: mister Rowen having died in the early hours of Saturday morning. 271 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: By the afternoon, detectives had made some headway in piecing 272 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: together the events leading up to his death, but then 273 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: came an unexpected call from the Los Angeles Police Department. 274 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: They'd made inquiries into the man's address, only to find 275 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,719 Speaker 1: there wasn't one, simply because Roland t Owen didn't exist. 276 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: The name had been made up. 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Find Strange and Unexplained with Daisy 295 00:19:52,920 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: Egan wherever you get your podcasts. On Saturday evening, front 296 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: page articles in the Kansas City Star and the Kansas 297 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: City Journal Post encouraged anyone to get in touch with 298 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: police who might be able to identify the man. Members 299 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: of the public were also encouraged to go down to 300 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: Melody mc gilly funeral Home on Linwood and Maine, where 301 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: the man's body was being kept, to identify it for themselves. 302 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: One man, Robert Lane, who visited the body the following day, 303 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: recognized the man as the same individual he'd given a 304 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: lift to on Thursday night, the night before the man died. 305 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: Lane had first seen him in some distress running down 306 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: Thirteenth Street, a few minutes walk from the President Hotel, 307 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: bleeding on his arm and wearing only an undershirt on 308 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 1: his top half despite the freezing cold weather. When Lane 309 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: pulled over to see if the man was okay, he 310 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: asked if Lane could take him to the nearest taxi rank. 311 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: After a gree to help, Lane heard the man saying 312 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: I'll kill that son of a bitch tomorrow as he 313 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: jumped into the back of his car. He dropped him 314 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: off at the next junction, where the man promptly found 315 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: a cab and drove off into the night. As many 316 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: as fifty to three hundred people are said to view 317 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: the body, with many more calling in to inquire if 318 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: it was a missing loved one or family member, sometimes 319 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: sending pictures to back up their requests. However, none were 320 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: able to successfully identify the deceased. Efforts to locate the 321 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: mysterious don were also made, with some wandering if the 322 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: woman in the Hudson sealed coat and her companion in 323 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: the brown hat had anything to do with it, but 324 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 1: nothing was ever found of the pair. Inquiries were also 325 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: made at the mule Back Hotel, where the man was 326 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: thought to have stayed shortly before arriving at the President Hotel, 327 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: staff identified the man as the guest known to them 328 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: as Eugene case Scott, who also claimed to have arrived 329 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: from la although once again the LAPD could find no 330 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: record of such a person. After further investigations, the man 331 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: was also found to have stayed at the city's Saint 332 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: Regis Hotel, this time checking in under the name Duncan Ogletree, 333 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: where he shared his room with another guest named Donald 334 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: Kelso perhaps this man was their don thought police. However, 335 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: despite continued efforts to locate the man and countless more 336 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: failed attempts to identify the body, the case eventually went cold. 337 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,880 Speaker 1: On Sunday, March third, it was announced in the Kansas 338 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: City Journal Post that the unidentified man would be buried 339 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 1: the next day in the Potter's Field or a pauper's Grave, 340 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: as it is sometimes known, an area reserved for the 341 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: unknown and unclaimed. Later that afternoon, however, a call was 342 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: received at the Melody mc gillie funeral Home. The caller, 343 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: a woman who didn't leave her name, asked only that 344 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: they hold off on the burial to give her time 345 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: to find some money to pay for it. Three weeks later, 346 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: an envelope stuffed with cash arrived at the funeral home 347 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: with a note to use the money for the unknown man. 348 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: Payments were also made to a local flower company for 349 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: the purchase of thirteen roses to be placed on the 350 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 1: man's grave, alongside a card that dread simply Love Forever, Louise. 351 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: A few days later, at the Memorial Park Cemetery in 352 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: Kansas City, as the reverend conducted the service for the 353 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: unidentified man, some police detectives gathered as a sign of respect, 354 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: but also in the hope that the mysterious Louise might 355 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: make an appearance, but nobody came. In early autumn nineteen 356 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: thirty six, in Birmingham, Alabama, Ruby Ogletree had spent the 357 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: best part of a year agonizing about the whereabouts of 358 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: her seventeen year old son, Artemis. Back in April of 359 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, Artemis decided he wanted to see more 360 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: of America and set out to hitchhike to California. Ruby 361 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: missed her son greatly, but gained solace from the frequent 362 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: letters he would write to her informing her of his 363 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: latest adventures. By spring the following year, however, things had 364 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 1: taken a peculiar turn. Artemis's letters, which had once been 365 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: free flowing, handwritten and upbeat accounts of his travels, had 366 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: suddenly become typewritten and strangely curt often using slang that 367 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: sounded very unlike her son. In one letter, the apparent 368 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 1: Artemis declared he was traveling to Chica to enroll in 369 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: business school, while another soon after said he was in 370 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: fact going to visit Europe and was scheduled to leave 371 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: on a boat from New York imminently. But by far 372 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: the strangest communication came a few months later, in August 373 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: of nineteen thirty five, when Ruby received a phone call 374 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: from a man named Jordan, who said he was calling 375 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: from Memphis, Tennessee. The man, who spoke with great speed 376 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,120 Speaker 1: and energy, was bringing to let her know that Artemis 377 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: was by then in Cairo in Egypt, having married and 378 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: settled down with a wealthy woman he'd met there. Jordan 379 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: also explained that her son had saved his life in 380 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: a fight, but had lost his thumb in the process 381 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: and so would be unable to write to her any time. Soon. 382 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: Realizing that something was up, a confused and distressed Ruby 383 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: wrote to j Edgar Hoover at the FBI to look 384 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: into the matter. She also wrote to the American Consulate 385 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,640 Speaker 1: in Cairo in the hope that they might be able 386 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: to help track her sundown, but nothing came of it. 387 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: A year later, having heard nothing more of her son, 388 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: a friend of Ruby's arrived one morning at her house 389 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: carrying an old issue of the American Weekly magazine. Handing 390 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: it to Ruby, she said, I think that something you 391 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: should see. It was an article titled the Mystery of 392 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: Room Number ten forty six, the story of the unidentified 393 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 1: man who had been found mortally wounded at the President Hotel, 394 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: and right in the middle was a large photo of 395 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: the man lying dead at the funeral home, with his 396 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: unusual scar showing prominently on the side of his head. 397 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: Ruby took the magazine from her friend and felt her 398 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: legs buckle beneath her. The man, or, as it turned 399 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: out more a boy, was unmistakeably her son Artemis. After 400 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: the boy's identity was confirmed with Kansas City Police, further 401 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 1: efforts were made to locate the mysterious Donald Kelso, but 402 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: they were to no avail. In nineteen thirty seven, a 403 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 1: man named Joseph Ogden was arrested for killing a roommate 404 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,479 Speaker 1: of his. Ogden was later found to sometimes go by 405 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: the name of Donald Kelso. However, this was never investigated 406 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: further in connection to the Ogletree case. Littlemore was heard 407 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: of the story until around two thousand and three, when 408 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: writer John Horner, who was working at Kansas City Library 409 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,119 Speaker 1: at the time, took a phone call from someone who 410 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 1: wanted to find out more about it. As Horner later 411 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: detailed in a twenty twelve article he wrote about the 412 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: case for the Kansas City Library, the caller was going 413 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: through the belongings of an elderly person who'd recently died 414 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: and had come across a box of newspaper clippings about 415 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: the incident. 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