MYSTERIES Ep. 1 | “Roland Owen, Room 1046”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On January 2, 1935, a man who calls himself Roland T. Owen checks into a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next 48 hours, the events surrounding Roland Owen grow increasingly strange … until he is discovered badly beaten and locked in his room. It takes years to unravel the mystery of his true identity, but most of the questions about this story remain unanswered. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.5	get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers. Wednesday, January 2nd, 1935, was already set to be an eventful day in the United States.
1:06.3	In Flemington, New Jersey, the long-anticipated trial of the century began with jury selection.
1:12.6	Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German immigrant, stood accused of kidnapping and murdering Charles Lindbergh's infant son.
1:21.6	Lindberg became an American icon and the most famous person in the world in 1927 after he completed the first solo flight
1:29.9	across the Atlantic Ocean, and the ordeal with his son edged his name into history for a second
1:35.7	time. More than a thousand miles to the west in Kansas City, Missourians clamored for fresh
1:42.3	headlines in the papers and updates on the radio.
1:45.9	They couldn't wait to hear the sensational development of the trial,
1:49.5	but they would soon find themselves distracted by a mystery right in their backyards.
1:54.8	Just before 1.30 that afternoon, on January 2nd,
1:58.7	a man walked into the President hotel located on Baltimore Avenue.
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