Room 1046 (Part One: Roland T. Owen)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 10 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

"My impression of this man from the expressions on his face and from his actions was that he was either worried about something or afraid."

On Wednesday, 2 January 1935, a young man arrived at the Hotel President in Kansas City, Missouri. Claiming to be from Los Angeles, he told the front desk his name was Roland T. Owen and requested an interior room several floors up. Staff there accommodated him, assigning him a room on the tenth floor that overlooked the hotel's courtyard.

Over the next two days, people would recall strange run-ins with Owen, including a few peculiar experiences in his room with hotel staff. But just two days later, after repeated attempts at rousing this guest for his morning wake-up call, a bellhop would make a grisly discovery inside of room 1046...

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0:00.0	This episode contains graphic content that may not be suitable for all ages.
0:08.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.0	If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
0:15.0	Call or text 988 or chat with someone at 988 lifeline.org.
0:21.0	Those outside of the U.S. reach out to someone at your local crisis center or hotline.
0:25.9	Please do not suffer in silence.
0:32.4	Inside Kansas City, Missouri, rest a historic hotel, which may not look like it, but is home
0:43.8	to one of America's strangest unsolved murders.
0:47.4	Built in 1925, the Hotel President, or the President Hotel, depending on who you asked,
0:53.0	was part of Niagara Falls businessman Frank A. Dudley's string of successful hotels built in the early 20th century.
1:00.0	It was constructed in an era when Kansas City was attempting to build up its power and light district,
1:05.0	which is now one of the largest developmental projects in the entire Midwest.
1:10.0	At the time the hotel president opened in
1:12.4	1926, it had been built over many months and was considered by all who visited to be a
1:17.6	great place to stay. So much so that it was chosen by the Republican Party to serve as its
1:22.5	headquarters for the Republican National Convention in 1928, the year that they chose longtime administrator
1:29.0	Herbert Hoover to become their nominee, an election that he would end up winning, much to
1:33.6	the chagrin of many, including historians.
1:36.5	But that's neither here nor there.
1:38.5	Regardless, at the time today's story unfolded, the shine from the 1928 Republican
1:43.3	Convention had yet to truly wear off.
1:46.0	While it's true that the hotel president was the only hotel in the Power and Light District
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