What Happened in Room 348!? -- SOLVED Mysteries, Episode 1

i will be shocked if any of you can figure out what actually happened before i reveal it at the end of the show but before i get into today's story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you come to the right channel because that's all we do and we upload three four even five times every week so if that's of interest to you then the next time the like button approaches you and says hey you know where's a good place to to lay out and get a good suntan suggest the far away dock on kidney mountain also please subscribe to this channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's story on september 15 2010 a 55 year old man named greg flanagan checked into the elegante hotel in beaumont texas to start his work week as a young man greg had worked as a chief engineer on ocean-going vessels spending months out at sea but in his middle age he had reinvented himself as a land man it was greg's job to secure leases of mineral rights and land for drilling greg was slender and fit looking despite the fact that he never exercised and he smoked constantly he kept a close cropped white beard and he had the leathered skin of a lifelong outdoorsman every monday morning greg would make the two-hour commute in his pickup truck from lafayette louisiana all the way to beaumont texas where his company would always rent him a room the hotel itself was neither good nor bad but to greg he didn't care he just needed a bed and a tv once greg walked inside he had a bathroom immediately to his right and then a little bit farther in was the main section of the hotel room which was very basic you know straight ahead there was a window that looked down onto a small pool that was lined with potted plants and then in the main space was a queen-size bed tucked up against the right wall and then on the left wall was a tv greg wheeled his one suitcase into the hotel room and he put it at the foot of the bed and he opened it up he pulled out the shirts that he wanted to keep wrinkle free for the week and he hung them in his closet then he pulled out his toiletries that were kept in a cloth bag with a hook and he hooked those onto a towel rack then he took off his very worn brown boots and his faded blue jeans and he slipped on some pajama pants any time greg stayed at the elegante he rarely left his room there was a bar downstairs but he wasn't a big drinker or socializer he preferred to just have quiet nights alone in his room watching tv so that night greg cranked the air conditioning to make sure it was as cold as it could get he liked to sleep in a very cold room and then he hopped on his bed and he put two big pillows behind his head and he rested up against the headboard and then he took a towel and he laid it out next to him and on the towel was his ashtray his cigarettes his lighter his phone the tv remote and the candy bar then he picked up the tv remote turned it on flicked through the channels until he landed on one that was playing iron man 2 and he thought good enough put the remote down picked up his candy bar opened it up he ate a piece of his candy and then he grabbed a cigarette lit up a cigarette and he began smoking the following morning susie greg's wife did not get a call from her husband and he always called her every morning that he was gone that was their routine and this was a big break from their routine and so she tried calling him and his phone rang and rang and rang and he never picked up and so then she called his beaumont office and he didn't pick up but after the second or third time she called his co-workers picked up the phone and they said hey you know greg's not here he hasn't come into work yet and susie felt concerned she felt like something was wrong and she said do you guys mind just going to his hotel room and knocking on his door and making sure he's okay and they said sure we'll go over there so the two co-workers head over to the hotel they knock on greg's door he doesn't answer and so they go down and get the manager who comes up and opens greg's door and right away they find greg lying dead in the middle of his hotel room the way greg was positioned when they found him it looked like he had fallen to his knees and then fallen again onto his face and his left arm got kind of tucked underneath his body and still in his two left fingers was a cigarette that had not fallen from his hand that had burned down to the wick the room was exceptionally warm and greg's skin was grayish blue immediately after seeing greg the two co-workers called 9-1-1 shortly after the ambulance arrived at the hotel detective scott apple arrived in his cruiser apple was a short guy very very fit he had silver hair that he spiked up he looked 100 cop and he worked basically 24 7. when he got up to room 348 there was no sign of a break-in nothing had been disturbed inside of the room and there was no blood or obvious wound on greg with the exception of a slight abrasion on his cheek when he came down and hit his face on the rug he looked around the room and he found greg's wallet that was sitting in the back pocket of his jeans and there was hundreds of dollars in his wallet that had not been taken so he ruled out robbery he went out into the hall and he began interviewing the other occupants of the surrounding rooms and no one had heard anything and no one had seen anything he went back into the hotel room and he began looking around for drugs of any kind or any substance that greg might have taken that could have contributed to his death and there was nothing no prescription pills no alcohol nothing later that day after the family had been notified of greg's passing his grief-stricken wife susie called detective apple and she said you know my husband did not take good care of himself he had a terrible diet he's been smoking like a chimney since he was a young teenager and he never saw a doctor and i always told him that if he wasn't careful something like this was going to happen i always worried that he might have a heart attack or something so at this point not only does greg's family think he died of natural causes detective apple also thinks the same thing he's thinking about what he saw in the hotel room and there's no sign of any foul play it just looks like a guy whose lifestyle caught up to him greg's body was sent to dr tommy brown who in beaumont texas he was like the medical examiner he'd been doing this for years and years dr brown had read ahead that they believed greg had died of a heart attack or something like that and when his body was wheeled in in front of him there was nothing he saw right away that contradicted that theory the only two marks that the doctor noted on the outside of greg's body was the small abrasion on his face from where he landed on the rug and then he also had another small abrasion on his crotch but beyond that the rest of his body was completely unblemished when he looked inside of his body it looked like someone had literally just crushed his insides his torso was full of blood food from his intestines had been ripped outside he had ribs broken internal organs were lacerated and there was a hole in his heart dr brown was really confused at what he was looking at because the severity of greg's internal injuries were more consistent with someone who had been in a severe car crash or who had had a really heavy object land on them but greg didn't have any significant external injuries that would support either of those two things happening to him and he was found in the middle of a hotel room where there was nothing disturbed and no one had apparently seen or heard anything and so dr brown says look i don't have all the answers here but this was not natural this is a homicide and my best guess is he was beaten to death i know it doesn't really make sense because there's not any external injuries but he suffered some significant trauma from somebody else and that's what killed him when detective apple got this report from the medical examiner he was just as confused as dr brown was but his attention turned to okay well if he's been murdered who would want to murder him and he began digging into greg's background and he found that he was universally liked he was known for being incredibly courteous and polite he kept to himself he was in love with his wife and his wife loved him back there was there's no evidence of some scandal in the background he was just this really nice normal guy and it didn't make any sense why anybody would want to kill him after a few months of getting nowhere and in reality he hadn't really even gotten started because there wasn't any good starting point the only thing he could find that was odd about the crime scene was that the room was particularly warm when they walked inside which was not in keeping with how greg would have kept the room but that doesn't explain why his insides were crushed and so he's gotten nowhere and then he makes a discovery he found in the hotel's maintenance logs on the night greg died he had been making popcorn in his microwave and managed to blow a fuse and it wasn't just his power maybe greg didn't know this but he cut the power to both the room next to him on his right and on his left and below him and so he calls down to the front desk and a maintenance guy came up and he reset the breaker this opened the door to two theories the first theory is the maintenance guy who did have a criminal record when he came up to fix the breaker he attacked greg but that was wildly speculative and there was no evidence to suggest that the maintenance guy would do that and so that was quickly ruled out the other theory was greg's neighbors in room 349 were these two electricians who were big partiers and drinkers and so detective apple suggested that maybe when greg accidentally cut the power to their room they were really annoyed and they went outside in the hall and they saw greg and they somehow realized he was to blame for this and in a drunken rage they attacked him and killed him and that's that's what killed greg and even though it was a stretch it was the closest thing to a motive detective apple had found in anyone and so detective apple put on a hidden camera and he went and interviewed these two electricians that were still staying in room 349 and he said when he spoke to them they were very forthcoming they seemed very honest they were appropriately curious about what happened to greg and all they said was look we had no interaction with him we did hear him coughing when we came back from the bar we were at the bar that night but honestly that's the extent of our interaction with him the electricians offered up their cell phone numbers their email addresses and said anything you need from us we'd be happy to help we're really sorry this happened at this point detective apple is back to square one no one knows what happened to this guy the one big lead he had the maintenance records proved to be a total dead end and so unfortunately this case went cold seven months after greg's death where there had been absolutely no traction on figuring out what happened to him susie greg's wife decided she wanted to hire a private investigator and her friend suggested she call ken brennan who was a famous private detective who was well known for being able to solve really complex cases and so on a whim susie calls ken brennan not expecting to get through to him thinking he's probably super busy and has other cases because he's on tv and he's this really famous guy but he picked up the phone and he was like hey how can i help you and susie couldn't believe it she had a chance to to tell him about what happened to her husband and ken said he was really interested in that he would take on the case ken was a former long island cop and he was a dea special agent he spoke with a really thick new york city accent and he wore t-shirts that were a little bit too small to show off his muscles and he usually had a big gaudy gold chain on once ken agreed to take on this case he flew right to lafayette louisiana where susie lived and he sat down and he asked her a lot of really difficult questions about their marriage about whether she thought he might be cheating on her if he had like a secret life she didn't know about and after feeling satisfied that all those avenues have been explored and were not going to lead to the answer he said okay well can you tell me anything about the crime scene that stood out to you is there anything about it that seems off and susie said yeah greg always kept the air conditioning on very cold at night he never slept in a room that wasn't freezing cold and so i thought it was really odd when his co-workers discovered him that the air conditioning was off and it was really hot inside of the room that's incredibly unlike greg for his air conditioning to be off ken made a note of this and then he left lafayette and he went to beaumont texas to meet up with detective apple and detective apple and he actually got along really well they agreed to work together on this case because detective apple feels like he's reached a dead end anyways apple brought ken to the crime scene he showed him the hotel room and then afterwards he turned over all of the documents he had on the case from the autopsy report to the photographs to anything he'd collected over the seven months he'd been working on it so that night ken diligently looks through all of the documentation all of the photos and the next day when he goes into apple's office he says to him i think i figured it out and apple's like oh really figured it out one day after being here and ken's like no seriously i think i figured it out i have to confirm something with his wife but i think i have a theory and so ken calls susie right in front of apple and when susie picks up ken's like hey did your husband ever smoke with his left hand or did he smoke with his right hand and susie said oh no he only smoked with his right hand then ken goes thank you very much he hangs up and he goes apple i got it and so apple's like okay what's your theory and ken says okay so i spoke to susie and she told me it was very strange that his room was not air conditioned when they discovered his body because greg was known for always turning on the air conditioning to as cold as it can get especially at night when he went to bed and so when his power went out the night before his air conditioning would have gone out and so the maintenance guy comes up turns the power back on but it doesn't trigger the air conditioning to turn back on the room is still cold from having been air conditioned all evening to that point and so the tv is back on and so perhaps greg turns and just starts watching tv because the room feels air conditioned he hasn't realized that he hasn't turned the air conditioning back on again now this is beaumont in the summer so it's going to get really hot in his room really quickly and as soon as it starts to warm up in there he's going to realize oh i didn't turn the ac back on and he would go over and turn it on again and so because the air conditioning wasn't on and we know that the power was restored at 8 30 then he must have died after the power was on but before it got warm enough in the room for him to recognize he did not turn the ac on which means he would have died somewhere between 8 30 and 9 pm at night and so apple's like wow that's that's pretty impressive except that doesn't really help us figure out how he died or who killed him and ken puts his hand up and he says i know i'm just building the whole picture here okay so we have him dying between 8 30 and 9 and i don't think he was beaten to death i think a lot of people want that to be what killed him because it's kind of the only thing that might make sense but i say it definitely doesn't make sense because of the cigarette now we found that cigarette in his left hand and i talked to his wife and she said he only smokes in his right hand and so what i think happened is the power came back on at about 8 30 which is what the report says the tv turns back on greg doesn't turn the air conditioning back on he sits on his bed he's watching tv he lights up a cigarette and he's smoking with his right hand and then something happens to him which i'll get into my theories on that and he jumps off the bed and he starts making his way to the door to get help and he transfers the cigarette from his right hand to his left hand so he can use his right hand to turn the doorknob and open the door to safety but he doesn't make it he falls to his knees and he falls to the ground and his cigarette's still in his fingers and he dies and apple's like you know what that's pretty good it makes a lot of sense but the crucial missing piece here is well what was the trauma he suffered that caused him to jump from his bed and run to the door and then ultimately die ken's like i got a theory on that too but i gotta be in the hotel room to see if it's true so apple and ken go back to the hotel room when they get there ken goes inside and he starts walking around looking at the ceiling the wall the ground and then finally he stops when he's looking back towards the front door leading back into the hall and he points at the wall and he says there and apple looks at what he's pointing at and it looks like there had been some patchwork on the wall in the same spot where the doorknob when it swings open would hit the wall and so apple's looking at it and he's like that's just from the doorknob and so ken takes the door and he opens it all the way to where the doorknob is pressed against the wall and it's to the right of this patchwork meaning this patchwork is not connected to the doorknob apple was confused and was about to ask questions and ken was like on a roll and he said hold on and he goes outside he goes next door to room 349 they go inside and apple walks in the room and he's watching ken do his work and ken's rubbing his hands all over the wall and eventually he stops and he looks up at apple and he takes his finger and he pushes on one spot in the wall as apple is watching and his finger goes right in and what he pushed on was this little chunk of toothpaste that had been wedged in this little tiny hole in the wall and he pushed it through apple brought in a crime scene investigations unit who carefully excavated both sides of this wall and they shined a laser from 349 into greg's room and the trajectory of the laser going through this hole lined up perfectly with where greg would have been sitting on the bed smoking cigarettes eating candy watching a movie so ken and apple go back to the medical examiner dr brown and they say look you missed something because greg got shot and unfortunately greg's body had already been cremated but they did have the pictures to look at from the autopsy and sure enough they find that little tiny laceration in his crotch was actually an entrance wound and then when dr brown pointed out there was a hole in the heart and it kind of lined up with the trajectory that bullet would have been traveling through his body dr brown realized he had made a mistake and he changed the autopsy report to reflect a gunshot wound ken and detective apple re-interviewed one of the electricians that had been in room 349 that was in the room where the gunshot had originated from his name was lance and when they brought him in they said this is totally routine you know it's been seven plus months since greg's death and what we're doing is any of our witnesses we want them to sign a statement basically attesting that this is what i saw or didn't see and so they had prepared a statement that basically lined up with the first thing he had told police which was i didn't hear anything i didn't see anything and they said is there anything you want to change about your story or is this exactly what you saw and heard and lance said yeah that's that's that's exactly i don't know anything i wish i wish i knew more i'm sorry and like all right well then can you sign this document saying that you don't know anything and you didn't see anything and he said yeah he signs the document and then ken's like all right gotcha because we know a gunshot was fired from your room and that's what killed greg and so you need to tell me who shot the gun otherwise i'm taking you to jail for submitting a false police report at this point lance crumbles and the truth comes out and he said that he and the other electrician in the room with him whose name was mueller they were goofing around and drinking that night and mueller went out and got his pistol from his car and he brought it in he was goofing around with it and lance was saying that he was trying to get him to stop doing that but he kept goofing around with the gun and at one point he aimed the gun at lance and lance kind of batted it away from him he dropped the gun it landed and it went off and they saw where the bullet hole was they saw it was into greg's room and they both froze and they listened to see if anybody had reacted to this gunshot and he said they didn't hear anything for a long time and that made them believe that no one was in the other room that no one was in greg's room and that they were in the clear and so they left and went to the bar they didn't even think to check on whoever was in that room and when they came back they said they heard greg coughing in his room and that further confirmed that he must not have been in there when they fired the shot and he's totally fine and they are totally in the clear the next day lance said when they saw his body being taken out at first they did think oh my goodness this is this is us we did this but they overheard detective apple walking around interviewing people saying out loud that yeah we think this is natural causes yup looks like a heart attack this is probably nothing i'm sure it's nothing and they were like oh few it's not us and so they actually believed it was just a coincidence that on the same day they're firing a rogue bullet into greg's room that greg had a heart attack and died separately but lance would say that somewhere in the back of both of their minds they knew they probably had something to do with it and so they covered their tracks and they put toothpaste in the wall to cover up the hole and they hid the gun and they intentionally kept information from the police and so ultimately muller the owner of the gun the one who really instigated that night waving the gun around and the one who actually dropped the gun he was charged with manslaughter and was given 10 years in prison so that's gonna do it guys i hope you enjoyed today's story if you found the secret in today's video let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it give us the 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Length: 20min 40sec (1240 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2020