364: Murder In Room 1046
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A mystery unfolds in a Kansas City hotel room in 1935.
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| 0:41.5 | I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Lebe. And this is Ghost Town. On January 4, 1935, a bellboy named Randolph-Propst went to the 10th floor of the hotel president, |
| 1:08.5 | an upscale hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, to check in on |
| 1:12.8 | room 1046. All probes knew was that the room was rented by a guest named Roland T. Owen, and that |
| 1:20.1 | the calls placed to the room were going unanswered. Checking on what was going on, the bellboy |
| 1:26.2 | arrived at the front door, noticing a do-not-disturb sign on the handle. |
| 1:31.6 | After knocking and hearing no response, Probst took it upon himself to enter the room. |
| 1:37.6 | The gruesome scene inside and the details surrounding the hotel's morbid context would begin one of the most enduring and puzzling unsolved |
| 1:46.7 | mysteries in Missouri, Kansas City, and maybe beyond. Today on Ghost Town, murder in room 1046. |
| 1:57.0 | On January 3rd, one day before Probes discovered the scene in room 1046, a man named Robert |
| 2:04.0 | Lane was driving on 13th Street in Kansas City, around 11 p.m. Lane would later say that as he |
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