
Room 1046
Dark Histories
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The American Weekly - A Brief History
Ruby Ogletree from Birmingham, Alabama had previously waved her son off on a trip across America in April of 1934. The story that ran in the American weekly was almost the last hurrah for Roland Tio and the strange case of room 1046. That was until one four year later in the autumn of 1936 when a woman reading the issue recognised the photo of the body of Owen as that of her friend's son. Interestingly, that piece gave further details concerning the phone call from the anonymous caller to McGillie at the funeral home.
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