When Artemus Ogletree was 19, he left his family in Birmingham to hitchhike to California. On January 2, 1935 he checked into the Hotel President in Kansas City under, giving them a fake name and address. Two days later, hotel staff found him badly beaten in his room, which was covered in blood. Unfortunately, he died just a few hours later and because he had checked in under an alias, police had little to go off. His mother would continue to receive letters from her son for almost two years after his death. Eventually she would identify the unknown murdered man as Artemus, but would his attacker ever be identified?