The Kansas City Alias: The Mystery of Room 1046 and Artemus Ogletree

The Kansas City Alias: The Mystery of Room 1046 and Artemus Ogletree

The Hotel President, Kansas City, 1935. A "wide-open" city where secrets were deadly.

A young man checks into Room 1046 under the name "Roland T. Owen." He has no luggage, asks for an interior room for maximum secrecy, and spends his time in the suffocating dark.

For two days, hotel staff witness a parade of bizarre activity: hushed phone calls to a man named "Don," a maid finding the door locked from the outside, and arguments in the dead of night involving both male and female voices.

Then comes the brutal discovery.

Found naked and restrained, the man is savagely beaten, stabbed, and left for dead on the blood-soaked floor. With his dying breath, he whispers a single word when asked to name his attacker: "Nobody."

The case fractures immediately. Police find no clothes, no identification, and no murder weapon—only a bizarre collection of clues: a hairpin, a safety pin, a note for "Don," and a full bottle of diluted sulfuric acid.

Two years later, the victim is finally identified as Artemus Ogletree, but the truth only grows darker. The police receive typewritten letters from the killer pretending Artemus is alive. An anonymous caller pays for the funeral, warning that "cheaters get what's coming to them." And a bouquet of thirteen roses arrives, signed: "Love for ever, Louise."

Was this a secret life exposed? A deadly love triangle? Or a blackmail plot gone violently wrong?

Join Jay Nicoll of Nicoll Investigations as Ontario Cold Cases crosses the border to dissect one of America's most chilling, complex, and unsolvable mysteries. The killer left clues, but they lead only to a dark web of aliases, deception, and death.

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