Speaker 1: On the evening of March tenth, nineteen twenty nine, on
Speaker 1: New York City's East one hundred and thirty second Street,
Speaker 1: something strange was brewing. It had just gone ten thirty
Speaker 1: pm when Missus Smith was alerted to a short burst
Speaker 1: of screams coming from the laundrette next to her home.
Speaker 1: The laundrette, located at number four East one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty second Street, belonged to thirty year old Isadore Fink,
Speaker 1: who also lived at the property. Smith summoned nearby police
Speaker 1: officer patrolman Captain Bone, who proceeded to investigate the situation.
Speaker 1: Unable to see anything through the windows, cat and Bone
Speaker 1: attempted to access the building, only to find the front
Speaker 1: door and all the windows locked from the inside. There was, however,
Speaker 1: a small transom window just above the door that appeared
Speaker 1: to be open, but it was far too small for
Speaker 1: the officer or Missus Smith to fit through. With Smith's help, Cat'
Speaker 1: and Bone asked a local child to climb inside the
Speaker 1: property and unlock the door for them. After squeezing through
Speaker 1: the window, the boy appeared moments later at the front door,
Speaker 1: having opened its heavy bolt lock from inside, turning on
Speaker 1: the lights. The officer quickly found Fink lying on the
Speaker 1: floor in a pool of blood, having died from three
Speaker 1: gunshot wounds. Robbery was quickly ruled out as a motive.
Speaker 1: Since no money or anything of any value was found
Speaker 1: to have been taken, and since the transom window was
Speaker 1: far too small for an adult to climb through, police
Speaker 1: concluded that Fink had shot himself, only no gun was
Speaker 1: ever found at the scene. The case, which was never
Speaker 1: satisfactorily resolved, was described by then police Edward mulrooney as
Speaker 1: an insoluble mystery. The death of Isadore Fink has since
Speaker 1: become known as one of the most compelling real life
Speaker 1: examples of the fabled locked room mystery, a subgenre of
Speaker 1: crime fiction in which usually someone is murdered despite it
Speaker 1: appearing impossible for a perpetrator to have committed the crime
Speaker 1: without detection. The locked room mystery in literature is widely
Speaker 1: thought to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe's Disturbing the
Speaker 1: Murder in Room Morgue, published in eighteen forty eight. With
Speaker 1: Soji Shimada's dark and puzzling Tokyo Zodiac Murders, considered to
Speaker 1: be one of the finest examples of the hugely popular genre,
Speaker 1: though Isadore Fink's murder is one of the better known
Speaker 1: real world examples. Only six years later, in a hotel
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, Missouri, another infamous locked room mystery would
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Speaker 1: thirteen twenty nine Baltimore Avenue in Kansas City is one
Speaker 1: of those grand old downtown hotels that speak of a
Speaker 1: bygone age of glitz and glamor. Built in nineteen twenty
Speaker 1: five in a bold Jacobean revival style, complete with ornate
Speaker 1: terra cotta moldings and its name in lights high up
Speaker 1: on the rooftop, it soon established itself as one of
Speaker 1: the more aspirational venues of its day. In nineteen twenty eight,
Speaker 1: the fifteen floor hotel was selected for that year's Republican
Speaker 1: Party convention, and its famously plush drum room lounge would
Speaker 1: go on to host Frank Sinatra and King of Swing
Speaker 1: Benny Goodman, among many other prestigious performers, and it was
Speaker 1: there just after one twenty pm on Wednesday, January second
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five, when Randolph Propsed, one of the hotel's bellhops,
Speaker 1: was called over to reception to escort a new guest
Speaker 1: to his room. The man, neatly dressed in a black overcoat,
Speaker 1: had checked in under the name Roland t Owen and
Speaker 1: claimed to have recently arrived from Los Angeles. As Probst
Speaker 1: was quick to note, despite booking the room for a
Speaker 1: number of days, the man carried no luggage with him.
Speaker 1: But perhaps even stranger was how particular he'd been about
Speaker 1: his choice of room, insisting that it be at least
Speaker 1: several floors up and hidden from the street. The desk
Speaker 1: clerk decided that room number ten forty six would be
Speaker 1: the perfect solution, being as it was an interior room
Speaker 1: located at the back of the hotel, overlooking and inner court.
Speaker 1: Probst took the key and motioned for mister Owen to
Speaker 1: him into the lift. Riding the car up together in silence,
Speaker 1: Probst couldn't help but notice the peculiar scar just above
Speaker 1: the man's left ear. It was some kind of burn
Speaker 1: that had left a bald patch of skin loosely covered
Speaker 1: by an otherwise thick head of dark brown hair. As
Speaker 1: a bell hop, it was almost impossible not to wander
Speaker 1: about the secret lives of the many guests that came
Speaker 1: and went through the hotel doors, and for Probst, mister
Speaker 1: Owen was already proving to be fertile ground for the imagination.
Speaker 1: This was only exacerbated moments later, when having let mister
Speaker 1: Owen into his room, the man asked Probs to wait
Speaker 1: by the door as he removed a hair brush, comb,
Speaker 1: and tube of toothpaste from his coat pocket and placed
Speaker 1: each item carefully on the small shelf above the sink. Then,
Speaker 1: turning to Probst, he announced he would be heading out
Speaker 1: for the afternoon. The pair then rode the elevator back
Speaker 1: to the first floor, with Owen handing him a small
Speaker 1: tip before heading on out of the hotel. It had
Speaker 1: just gone seven am on Friday, January fourth, two days
Speaker 1: after Owen had checked in that Probst received an instruction
Speaker 1: from the hotel's telephone operator to make a quick check
Speaker 1: on his room, as the phone appeared to be left
Speaker 1: off the hook. Arriving at room ten forty six moments later,
Speaker 1: Probst founder do not disturb sign hanging from the door handle.
Speaker 1: After knocking on the door. A muffled voice from inside
Speaker 1: instructed him to come in, but when he tried to
Speaker 1: handle the door wouldn't budge, having been locked from the inside. Sorry, sir,
Speaker 1: I think the door is locked, he said, After hearing
Speaker 1: someone inside saying turn on the lights. Probst knocked again,
Speaker 1: but there was no further response. After knocking a few
Speaker 1: more times, the bellhop eventually gave up and yelled for
Speaker 1: mister Owen to put the phone back on the hook
Speaker 1: before heading back downstairs. An hour later, with the phone
Speaker 1: still off the hook, it fell, this time to twenty
Speaker 1: five year old bellhop Harold Pike to make another check
Speaker 1: on the room. Pike found the door was once again locked,
Speaker 1: only this time it had been locked from the outside,
Speaker 1: suggesting the occupant had now left the room. After knocking
Speaker 1: and receiving no reply, Pike used his pass key to
Speaker 1: open the door and was immediately hit by a waft
Speaker 1: of warm, stale air. With the shades completely shut, it
Speaker 1: was hard at first to see anything when a Pike
Speaker 1: was suddenly startled by the shape of some one lying
Speaker 1: on the bed. Sir, he called out as he stepped
Speaker 1: in a little further, pulling back suddenly in embarrassment at
Speaker 1: the sight of a naked mister Owen lying sprawled out
Speaker 1: and fast asleep on top of the bed sheets. Sir
Speaker 1: Pike said again, but Owen would not be roused. Noticing
Speaker 1: then that the phone had been knocked off its stand
Speaker 1: in the corner of the room, Pike simply placed it
Speaker 1: back on its holder and left, locking the door behind him.
Speaker 1: Two hours later, the phone was once again off the hook.
Speaker 1: With Randolph Probst back on duty, he swiftly made his
Speaker 1: way to Room ten forty six to investigate again. Having
Speaker 1: got no reply. After knocking on the door, Probst promptly
Speaker 1: opened it and were shocked to find a naked Owen
Speaker 1: a few feet inside the door, down on the floor
Speaker 1: on his knees and elbows and holding his head in
Speaker 1: his hands. Probst switched on the light and recoiled in horror.
Speaker 1: The walls, ceiling, bathroom and bedsheets were covered in blood,
Speaker 1: and so too was the man's head. Here's something you
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Speaker 1: use prescription medications after running to get help. Probst returned
Speaker 1: with the hotel manager, only to find Owen had by
Speaker 1: then collapsed with his body blocking the door from the
Speaker 1: other side. With police arriving on the scene soon after,
Speaker 1: Detectives Irah Johnson and William Edridge, along with Detective Sergeant
Speaker 1: Frank Howland and doctor Harold Flanders, succeeded and barging their
Speaker 1: way into the room, they found Owen breathing rascally and
Speaker 1: lying face down in a small pool of blood, similar
Speaker 1: to how Probst had first found him. What Probst hadn't seen, however,
Speaker 1: was that Owen's neck, hands and feet had been tied
Speaker 1: together with cord, having assumed the blood had come from
Speaker 1: the man's head wound. After cutting him free, doctor Flanders
Speaker 1: was surprised to find a series of what appeared to
Speaker 1: be deep knife wounds on his chest, one of which
Speaker 1: Flanders's guest had punctured his lung, which explained his raspy breathing.
Speaker 1: There was bruising on his neck too, from where someone
Speaker 1: had tried to strangle him. Then, suddenly, as if roused
Speaker 1: from a deep sleep, Owen began to stir, rising to
Speaker 1: his feet as the doctor helped him up. He stumbled
Speaker 1: into the bathroom, clearly on shore of where he was exactly.
Speaker 1: The detectives followed him inside and demanded to know what
Speaker 1: had happened. Who did this to you, they asked, Nobody,
Speaker 1: said Owen droggily. Then how did you get hurt? A
Speaker 1: fell against the bathtub, replied the man. The detectives looked
Speaker 1: to each other in confusion. After asking if Owen had
Speaker 1: somehow done it all to himself, the man reply i'd know,
Speaker 1: before toppling over and falling unconscious once more. Mister Owen
Speaker 1: was rushed to hospital by ambulance, only to fall into
Speaker 1: a coma later that night, from which he would never recover,
Speaker 1: dying shortly after midnight later that evening. Oddly, despite Owen
Speaker 1: being completely naked, no shoes or clothes were found in
Speaker 1: his room, not even the ones he'd arrived in. The
Speaker 1: room had been almost completely stripped, with all the usual
Speaker 1: hotel supplies found to have been taken, including the room's towels.
Speaker 1: In the end, detectives found only a single unlit cigarette,
Speaker 1: as well as a hairpin and an unopened bottle of
Speaker 1: diluted sulfuric acid, perhaps used to treat mouth ulcers. Detectives
Speaker 1: also found to drinking glasses, with one left unused on
Speaker 1: the shelf above the sink, while the other was found
Speaker 1: in the sink with a large chunk of glass missing
Speaker 1: from it. Four small fingerprints were also found on top
Speaker 1: of the telephone stand that did not belong to Owen
Speaker 1: or any of the hotel staff, leading detectives to conclude
Speaker 1: that despite Owen's protestations, he'd almost certainly been murdered, or
Speaker 1: at the very least had not acted alone. After placing
Speaker 1: a call to the Los Angeles Police Department to find
Speaker 1: the man's home address, the police turned their attention to
Speaker 1: anyone who'd come into contact with him over the last
Speaker 1: few days. Having left the hotel shortly after arriving on Wednesday, January,
Speaker 1: the second hotel cleaner, Mary Soptic, found him back in
Speaker 1: his room when she went to clean it in the
Speaker 1: early afternoon. Mary cleaned the room as Owen sat on
Speaker 1: the bed under the dim light of a single lamp
Speaker 1: with the shades pulled tightly shut over the window. Mary
Speaker 1: was nervous at first to be in the room with
Speaker 1: him alone, but something about the man gave her reason
Speaker 1: to feel safe. Despite having the physique of a boxer
Speaker 1: or wrestler. Perhaps as he sat there alone in the dark,
Speaker 1: he looked, she thought, like a small wounded animal, and
Speaker 1: from the troubled look on his face, it was clear
Speaker 1: he was deeply preoccupied with something. As Mary continued to clean,
Speaker 1: Owen eventually stood up from the bed, pulled on his jacket,
Speaker 1: and left the room, telling Mary on his way out
Speaker 1: to leave the door unknocked when she left because he
Speaker 1: was expecting company. After finishing up, Mary did as she
Speaker 1: was instructed. When Mary returned to the room four hours
Speaker 1: later to deliver clean towels, she found Owen once again inside,
Speaker 1: this time lying down on his bed. As she quietly
Speaker 1: put the towels away, she caught sight of a note
Speaker 1: on the desk which read, don I will be back
Speaker 1: in fifteen minutes. Wait. The next morning, around ten thirty
Speaker 1: a m. Mary returned again to the room to clean it.
Speaker 1: Finding it locked from the outside and getting no response
Speaker 1: when she knocked, Mary thought it safe to assume that
Speaker 1: the room was empty, so it was with some surprise
Speaker 1: when she opened the door to find Owen inside, once
Speaker 1: again sitting quietly in the dark. Owen motioned for her
Speaker 1: to continue with her duties. When the phone rang suddenly,
Speaker 1: Owen hastily picked it up. Mary heard a muffled voice
Speaker 1: from the other end. Then Owen replied, no, don I
Speaker 1: don't want to eat. I'm not hungry. I just had breakfast.
Speaker 1: Owen hung up the phone, then asked Mary if she
Speaker 1: looked after the entire floor. Yes, she replied, a little
Speaker 1: taken aback by the question. Owen also wanted to know
Speaker 1: if there were any permanent residence living at the hotel,
Speaker 1: then moaned a little about the prices at the nearby
Speaker 1: Muleback Hotel, where he'd stayed a few nights before. When
Speaker 1: Mary returned at four that afternoon with clean towels for
Speaker 1: the room, she heard two men talking inside. This time,
Speaker 1: when she knocked, she was met with a curt who
Speaker 1: was it laundry? She'd replied, we don't want any came
Speaker 1: the rough reply. Other hotel guests were spoken to, including
Speaker 1: Jean Owen, no relation to the dead man, who was
Speaker 1: staying in room ten forty eight the night before the incident.
Speaker 1: Though she hadn't seen anyone coming in or out of
Speaker 1: room ten forty six that night, she remembered hearing the
Speaker 1: voices of what she assumed to be men and women
Speaker 1: squabbling loudly with each other. Later that night, around one
Speaker 1: thirty am, elevator operator Charles Blocker took a woman up
Speaker 1: to the tenth floor. Blocker identified the woman, who was
Speaker 1: about five foot six with black hair and was dressed
Speaker 1: in a coat of black Hudson Seal as a possible
Speaker 1: sex worker who was a regular visitor to the hotel.
Speaker 1: After arriving at the tenth floor, the woman asked for
Speaker 1: directions to room ten twenty six, then headed off down
Speaker 1: the corridor to find it. After returning to the ground floor,
Speaker 1: Blocker returned to the tenth floor minutes later to find
Speaker 1: the same woman waiting for him, having seemingly been stood
Speaker 1: up by whoever called her to the hotel. Wandering aloud
Speaker 1: if she'd perhaps got the room number wrong. The woman
Speaker 1: stayed for another thirty minutes before leaving the hotel. An
Speaker 1: hour later, the woman returned, this time in the company
Speaker 1: of a man in a brown hat and overcoat. Blocker
Speaker 1: took the couple to the ninth floor. Than just over
Speaker 1: an hour later, the woman left the hotel once again,
Speaker 1: followed fifteen minutes later by the man who muttered something
Speaker 1: to the reception staff about not being able to sleep
Speaker 1: and that he was going out for a walk with
Speaker 1: mister Rowen having died in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: By the afternoon, detectives had made some headway in piecing
Speaker 1: together the events leading up to his death, but then
Speaker 1: came an unexpected call from the Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 1: They'd made inquiries into the man's address, only to find
Speaker 1: there wasn't one, simply because Roland t Owen didn't exist.
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Speaker 1: page articles in the Kansas City Star and the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Journal Post encouraged anyone to get in touch with
Speaker 1: police who might be able to identify the man. Members
Speaker 1: of the public were also encouraged to go down to
Speaker 1: Melody mc gilly funeral Home on Linwood and Maine, where
Speaker 1: the man's body was being kept, to identify it for themselves.
Speaker 1: One man, Robert Lane, who visited the body the following day,
Speaker 1: recognized the man as the same individual he'd given a
Speaker 1: lift to on Thursday night, the night before the man died.
Speaker 1: Lane had first seen him in some distress running down
Speaker 1: Thirteenth Street, a few minutes walk from the President Hotel,
Speaker 1: bleeding on his arm and wearing only an undershirt on
Speaker 1: his top half despite the freezing cold weather. When Lane
Speaker 1: pulled over to see if the man was okay, he
Speaker 1: asked if Lane could take him to the nearest taxi rank.
Speaker 1: After a gree to help, Lane heard the man saying
Speaker 1: I'll kill that son of a bitch tomorrow as he
Speaker 1: jumped into the back of his car. He dropped him
Speaker 1: off at the next junction, where the man promptly found
Speaker 1: a cab and drove off into the night. As many
Speaker 1: as fifty to three hundred people are said to view
Speaker 1: the body, with many more calling in to inquire if
Speaker 1: it was a missing loved one or family member, sometimes
Speaker 1: sending pictures to back up their requests. However, none were
Speaker 1: able to successfully identify the deceased. Efforts to locate the
Speaker 1: mysterious don were also made, with some wandering if the
Speaker 1: woman in the Hudson sealed coat and her companion in
Speaker 1: the brown hat had anything to do with it, but
Speaker 1: nothing was ever found of the pair. Inquiries were also
Speaker 1: made at the mule Back Hotel, where the man was
Speaker 1: thought to have stayed shortly before arriving at the President Hotel,
Speaker 1: staff identified the man as the guest known to them
Speaker 1: as Eugene case Scott, who also claimed to have arrived
Speaker 1: from la although once again the LAPD could find no
Speaker 1: record of such a person. After further investigations, the man
Speaker 1: was also found to have stayed at the city's Saint
Speaker 1: Regis Hotel, this time checking in under the name Duncan Ogletree,
Speaker 1: where he shared his room with another guest named Donald
Speaker 1: Kelso perhaps this man was their don thought police. However,
Speaker 1: despite continued efforts to locate the man and countless more
Speaker 1: failed attempts to identify the body, the case eventually went cold.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, March third, it was announced in the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Journal Post that the unidentified man would be buried
Speaker 1: the next day in the Potter's Field or a pauper's Grave,
Speaker 1: as it is sometimes known, an area reserved for the
Speaker 1: unknown and unclaimed. Later that afternoon, however, a call was
Speaker 1: received at the Melody mc gillie funeral Home. The caller,
Speaker 1: a woman who didn't leave her name, asked only that
Speaker 1: they hold off on the burial to give her time
Speaker 1: to find some money to pay for it. Three weeks later,
Speaker 1: an envelope stuffed with cash arrived at the funeral home
Speaker 1: with a note to use the money for the unknown man.
Speaker 1: Payments were also made to a local flower company for
Speaker 1: the purchase of thirteen roses to be placed on the
Speaker 1: man's grave, alongside a card that dread simply Love Forever, Louise.
Speaker 1: A few days later, at the Memorial Park Cemetery in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, as the reverend conducted the service for the
Speaker 1: unidentified man, some police detectives gathered as a sign of respect,
Speaker 1: but also in the hope that the mysterious Louise might
Speaker 1: make an appearance, but nobody came. In early autumn nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty six, in Birmingham, Alabama, Ruby Ogletree had spent the
Speaker 1: best part of a year agonizing about the whereabouts of
Speaker 1: her seventeen year old son, Artemis. Back in April of
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, Artemis decided he wanted to see more
Speaker 1: of America and set out to hitchhike to California. Ruby
Speaker 1: missed her son greatly, but gained solace from the frequent
Speaker 1: letters he would write to her informing her of his
Speaker 1: latest adventures. By spring the following year, however, things had
Speaker 1: taken a peculiar turn. Artemis's letters, which had once been
Speaker 1: free flowing, handwritten and upbeat accounts of his travels, had
Speaker 1: suddenly become typewritten and strangely curt often using slang that
Speaker 1: sounded very unlike her son. In one letter, the apparent
Speaker 1: Artemis declared he was traveling to Chica to enroll in
Speaker 1: business school, while another soon after said he was in
Speaker 1: fact going to visit Europe and was scheduled to leave
Speaker 1: on a boat from New York imminently. But by far
Speaker 1: the strangest communication came a few months later, in August
Speaker 1: of nineteen thirty five, when Ruby received a phone call
Speaker 1: from a man named Jordan, who said he was calling
Speaker 1: from Memphis, Tennessee. The man, who spoke with great speed
Speaker 1: and energy, was bringing to let her know that Artemis
Speaker 1: was by then in Cairo in Egypt, having married and
Speaker 1: settled down with a wealthy woman he'd met there. Jordan
Speaker 1: also explained that her son had saved his life in
Speaker 1: a fight, but had lost his thumb in the process
Speaker 1: and so would be unable to write to her any time. Soon.
Speaker 1: Realizing that something was up, a confused and distressed Ruby
Speaker 1: wrote to j Edgar Hoover at the FBI to look
Speaker 1: into the matter. She also wrote to the American Consulate
Speaker 1: in Cairo in the hope that they might be able
Speaker 1: to help track her sundown, but nothing came of it.
Speaker 1: A year later, having heard nothing more of her son,
Speaker 1: a friend of Ruby's arrived one morning at her house
Speaker 1: carrying an old issue of the American Weekly magazine. Handing
Speaker 1: it to Ruby, she said, I think that something you
Speaker 1: should see. It was an article titled the Mystery of
Speaker 1: Room Number ten forty six, the story of the unidentified
Speaker 1: man who had been found mortally wounded at the President Hotel,
Speaker 1: and right in the middle was a large photo of
Speaker 1: the man lying dead at the funeral home, with his
Speaker 1: unusual scar showing prominently on the side of his head.
Speaker 1: Ruby took the magazine from her friend and felt her
Speaker 1: legs buckle beneath her. The man, or, as it turned
Speaker 1: out more a boy, was unmistakeably her son Artemis. After
Speaker 1: the boy's identity was confirmed with Kansas City Police, further
Speaker 1: efforts were made to locate the mysterious Donald Kelso, but
Speaker 1: they were to no avail. In nineteen thirty seven, a
Speaker 1: man named Joseph Ogden was arrested for killing a roommate
Speaker 1: of his. Ogden was later found to sometimes go by
Speaker 1: the name of Donald Kelso. However, this was never investigated
Speaker 1: further in connection to the Ogletree case. Littlemore was heard
Speaker 1: of the story until around two thousand and three, when
Speaker 1: writer John Horner, who was working at Kansas City Library
Speaker 1: at the time, took a phone call from someone who
Speaker 1: wanted to find out more about it. As Horner later
Speaker 1: detailed in a twenty twelve article he wrote about the
Speaker 1: case for the Kansas City Library, the caller was going
Speaker 1: through the belongings of an elderly person who'd recently died
Speaker 1: and had come across a box of newspaper clippings about
Speaker 1: the incident. The caller also said that they'd found something
Speaker 1: in the box that was mentioned in one of the
Speaker 1: newspaper stories. Just what that item was, however, was never revealed.
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