1046 room mystery case, can not say the murderer

It began more than 80 years ago, at about 1:20 p.m. on a cold winter day in 1935, a strange guest entered the President Hotel in Kansas City, Kansas.

The guest identified himself as Roland Irving, about 30 years old, and told the front desk that he wanted a room, strange because he didn't have any luggage with him and had a scar on his head.

Although he did not look like the previous guests, the hotel would not interfere with the private affairs of the residents, so he was given the usual room - 1046 - and was taken there by the attendant.

On the way, Owen also complained to this waiter, he said he originally wanted to stay in a nearby hotel, but that the price was ridiculously high, and finally had no choice but to stay here.

After sending Owen to his room, the attendant saw him walk to the bathroom and pull out a comb, a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste from inside his coat pocket, after which the attendant left.

At about 2:30 that afternoon, the hotel had rules about cleaning rooms for guests. A room service cleaner named Mary knocked on the door and entered room 1046 and found it spooky inside.

The curtains were tightly closed in broad daylight, the room was only on a bedside table lamp, and Owen was sitting in the shadows, seemingly preoccupied, the depressing atmosphere made Mary uncomfortable ......

At this time, Owen told Mary, sweep out when do not lock the door, their friends will come in a moment, said Owen went out, the expression looks very uneasy, walk also very anxious.

Mary finished cleaning and did not lock the door according to Owen's request. When Mary went to room 1046 to deliver new towels around 4 p.m., she found the door unlocked and thought Owen had not returned.

The room was still dark, even the lamp was not turned on, Mary went straight to the bathroom, put the towels out, found a person lying on the bed, close to see that it was Owen ......

There is a note on the nightstand, which says: Don, I'll be back in 15 minutes, wait for me. So Mary carefully out of the room, flying away from here.

In Mary's eyes, this guest was so strange that she didn't want to stay in his room for a moment, but work still had to be done, and at 10:00 a.m. the next day, she had to go clean the room again.

When she came to the door of 1046, Mary found that the door was unlocked from the outside. Thinking that Owen had gone out, she opened the door with the service staff's master key and found Owen inside the room!

Owen sat on a chair opposite the door, not saying a word, seemed to be thinking about something, Mary walked in hard, thinking what the hell is this thing? I'm scared to death!

In the eerie atmosphere, Mary continued to clean the room, suddenly the phone rang, Owen answered and said a few words: No, Don, I do not want to eat now, I just had breakfast.

Owen hung up the phone, and then chatted with Mary with a sentence, at this time Mary cried and laughed, she just hope she finished cleaning quickly, so as to leave this weird man and room!

Around 4pm, it was time to change the towels again, Mary came to 1046 and knocked on the door and heard two men talking, one of them shouted from outside this door: Who?

Mary said she was delivering towels and the other man said no! Mary couldn't wait to get out of this room and left quickly. That night, the guest staying at 1048 said he heard a heated argument.

At 7:00 a.m. the third day, the hotel telephone operator noticed that the handset was not in place in room 1046, so he sent someone to check it out. The attendant came to 1046 and found a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door.

The attendant knocked on the door, and a voice came from inside: Come in, turn on the light! But the attendant found that the door would not open, so he said to the inside: Sir, please put the phone handset away! and left.

After an hour and a half, the telephone operator found that the handset had not been placed, so another attendant went to check, the attendant knocked on the door without response, so he used the master key to open the door.

It turned out that the house is very dark, and no lights, Owen lying naked on the bed, seems to be sleeping, the attendant thought he was drunk, did not dare to disturb, so put the phone and went out.

As a result, around 10:30, the operator found that the 1046 phone dropped again, this guy is sick! He complained having informed the attendant to check, only to see the creepy scene this time ......

Owen was covered in blood, kneeling in front of the room door, the attendant turned on the lights and found the walls, bed and bathroom all covered in blood, the attendant was so scared that he rushed out of the room, notified the manager and called the police!

The police arrived and found that Owen had been strangled with rope around the neck, ankles and wrists, he was also stabbed in the chest many times, but there were signs of life, in a semi-conscious state.

The police rushed to ask him if anyone had come in the room, at this point Owen was already dying, but still clearly answered: "No one, I fell in the bathtub by myself".

After that, Owen passed out, and as a result, the doctor pronounced him dead on the way to the hospital. Later, the coroner's autopsy proved that the so-called "fall" was obviously a lie by Owen.

Because he had more than a dozen stab wounds, several of which were fatal, a shattered skull, and strangulation marks on his neck, it was likely that the other party was trying to torture him, and the wounds were formed six hours before they were found.

The police found nothing at the crime scene, and the comb and toothbrush Owen had brought with him disappeared. Finally, they found only a tie tag and a fingerprint on the phone belonging to a woman.

The police began to investigate Owen, found that the name is also false, the case was once at a standstill, the police had to publish his photo, the body was placed in a funeral home, for people to claim.

As a result, no one came for a long time, this can not continue, so the police published a message in the newspaper: If no one comes to claim, Owen's body will be buried in the cemetery!

As a result, the funeral home received an anonymous phone call: I paid for Owen to be buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, which can be closer to my sister. The next day, the funeral home received an envelope with money in it.

Along with it came a bouquet of flowers with an accompanying card that simply said: Love you always - Louise. With Owen buried, the whole case became an unsolved mystery with no truth.