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On January 5, 1935, a man who had given his name as Roland T. Owen, later identified as '''Artemus Ogletree''', died at a hospital in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], United States, of beating and stabbing injuries. His death was preceded by two-day stay in room 1046 at the [[Hotel President]] in the city's [[Kansas City Power & Light District|Power & Light District]] marked by unusual behavior and incidents noted by the hotel's staff before he was found wounded in his room the morning of his death. When no next of kin could be located, leading to suspicions that his name was an alias, his body was stored in a local funeral parlor for almost three months; a planned burial in the city's [[potter's field]] was averted when an anonymous donor provided funds for a funeral and a floral arrangement signed "Louise".<ref name="WDAF story"></ref>
The man's true identity remained unknown for a year and a half until Ruby Ogletree, an [[Alabama]] woman who had seen a photo of a distinctive scar on his head in the news, identified him as her son Artemus. She said he had left [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] in 1934 at the age of 17 for whereabouts unknown. Later she received three letters purportedly from him some from as far away as [[Egypt]], and in August 1935 a caller claiming to be from [[Memphis, Tennessee]], told her that Artemus was in [[Cairo]]. Two of the letters had also been sent after Artemus's death. Records kept by shipping companies found no records that Ogletree had gone to Egypt.<ref name="Jefferson City newspaper story"></ref> No other suspect has ever been identified.
The letters later were used to link the killing to a 1937 murder in New York but no charges were filed against the man arrested in that case.<ref name="New Yorker article"></ref> The FBI later investigated but was unable to produce any new leads.
In 2012 a historian at the [[Kansas City Public Library]] wrote two posts on the library's blog about the case. At the end of the last one he revealed that in 2003 or 2004, he had taken a call from someone out of state related to the case. The caller said that they had been helping to inventory the belongings of a recently deceased elderly person when they found a box with newspaper clippings about the Ogletree case and an item mentioned repeatedly in the stories, but they refused to say what that item was.<ref name="KC library blog post 2"></ref> The [[Kansas City Police Department (Missouri)|Kansas City police]] continue to investigate.
==References==
[[Category:Unsolved murders in the United States]]
[[Category:Deaths by beating in the United States]]
[[Category:Deaths by stabbing in Missouri]]
[[Category:Crime in Kansas City, Missouri]]
[[Category:1935 murders in the United States]]
[[Category:1935 in Missouri]]
[[Category:January 1935 events]]
The man's true identity remained unknown for a year and a half until Ruby Ogletree, an [[Alabama]] woman who had seen a photo of a distinctive scar on his head in the news, identified him as her son Artemus. She said he had left [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] in 1934 at the age of 17 for whereabouts unknown. Later she received three letters purportedly from him some from as far away as [[Egypt]], and in August 1935 a caller claiming to be from [[Memphis, Tennessee]], told her that Artemus was in [[Cairo]]. Two of the letters had also been sent after Artemus's death. Records kept by shipping companies found no records that Ogletree had gone to Egypt.<ref name="Jefferson City newspaper story"></ref> No other suspect has ever been identified.
The letters later were used to link the killing to a 1937 murder in New York but no charges were filed against the man arrested in that case.<ref name="New Yorker article"></ref> The FBI later investigated but was unable to produce any new leads.
In 2012 a historian at the [[Kansas City Public Library]] wrote two posts on the library's blog about the case. At the end of the last one he revealed that in 2003 or 2004, he had taken a call from someone out of state related to the case. The caller said that they had been helping to inventory the belongings of a recently deceased elderly person when they found a box with newspaper clippings about the Ogletree case and an item mentioned repeatedly in the stories, but they refused to say what that item was.<ref name="KC library blog post 2"></ref> The [[Kansas City Police Department (Missouri)|Kansas City police]] continue to investigate.
==References==
[[Category:Unsolved murders in the United States]]
[[Category:Deaths by beating in the United States]]
[[Category:Deaths by stabbing in Missouri]]
[[Category:Crime in Kansas City, Missouri]]
[[Category:1935 murders in the United States]]
[[Category:1935 in Missouri]]
[[Category:January 1935 events]]
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