This Missouri Historic Hotel Holds a 90-Year-Old Crime Mystery

One of the most historic hotels in Missouri is also linked to one of the most unsolved cases.

Most Historic Missouri Hotel

MSN listed the most historical hotels in each state and the one in Missouri has a very unique history. Hotel President is located in Kansas City in the Power Light District and is a grand hotel. First opened in 1925 it was the place where the 1928 Republican National Convention, where Herbert Hoover was nominated for president.

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It was closed in 1980 and went through a $45.5 million renovation and reopened in 2005. However, as historic as this hotel may seem it holds the mystery of one of Missouri's unsolved criminal cases.

90-Year-Old Unsolved Murder Case

On January 2, 1935, Roland T. Owen checked into the President Hotel. Two days after checking in the 20-year-old would be dead. He was found in his hotel room stabbed and bound by the ankles he was taken to the lack hospital and later passed away.

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It was later determined several years later that Owen's real name was Artemus Ogletree. During the initial investigation, hotel staff found his behavior to be very unusual and he wanted to be left alone and in the dark.

The Ogletree case is just one of those cases like the Black Dahlia, will we ever know what truly happened to this person?

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