The Strange and Mysterious Death of Artemus Ogletree Beers With Queers True Crime Podcast

Описание: They found him alone in a locked Kansas City hotel room. No weapon. No sign of forced entry. Just blood.
In January 1935, a man checked into the President Hotel under the name “Roland T. Owen.” He paid cash. No luggage. No past. Over the next two days, hotel staff noticed strange things, anonymous phone calls, visitors who slipped in and out, lights left burning through the night. By the time his body was discovered, bound and beaten, every clue seemed to point in a different direction. But who was “Roland T. Owen”? And why did he beg for silence even as he lay dying?
When the newspapers finally released his photograph, families from across the country Tried to ID. Weeks later, one woman’s letter arrived with a chilling message: He’s fine. He’s traveling. But Artemus Ogletree wasn’t fine, he was already in a Kansas City grave marked only by a number. It would take years before anyone connected the dots, uncovering the name behind the alias and revealing the secrets he carried from Birmingham to the Midwest.
Rumors swirled of forbidden relationships, blackmail, and a violent lover’s quarrel. Some whispered about a jealous man. Others claimed it was a shadowy organization that punished “deviance.” The trail twisted through coded letters, anonymous phone calls, and a mysterious woman who paid for his funeral before disappearing into history. To this day, the story of Artemus Ogletree feels less like a crime and more like a ghost story, a queer secret sealed behind the walls of a hotel room.
Decades later, his death still raises the same questions. Who was he meeting that night? Why did he hide his identity? And what did his last words really mean? Was Artemus running from someone, or toward something? One thing is certain: the mystery of Room 1046 remains one of the eeriest unsolved LGBTQ+ cases in American history, where every answer seems to echo back with more silence.
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The story of Artemus Ogletree lingers like cigarette smoke in the halls of the President Hotel, a reminder that some mysteries never fade, only deepen. The Room 1046 case remains one of the most chilling entries in 1930s true crime, tangled in rumors of forbidden love, hidden identity, and violence kept quiet by fear. It stands as both a Kansas City mystery and an enduring symbol of how queerness was once erased from the record, its truths buried beneath coded headlines and whispered names. Nearly a century later, his death still echoes among the most haunting unsolved cases in queer history, a mysterious hotel death that defies time and explanation. Through this LGBTQ+ murder mystery, we’re reminded that behind every cold file lies a human life and a secret story worth telling. These are the voices we resurrect on Beers With Queers, where we uncover the lost stories of queer victims, historical queer crimes, secret relationships, and the unsolved American mysteries that shaped our world.