Murder of Pearl Bryan
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Date: 2022-01-13

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Pearl Bryan （c. 1874–1896） was a 22-year-old pregnant American woman from Greencastle, Indiana who was found decapitated in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in 1896.
Her head was severed below the fifth vertebra.
Due to the murder's gruesome nature, it achieved significant notoriety at the time.
More recently, there have been claims that her ghost haunts Bobby Mackey's Music World located in Wilder, Kentucky.
Pearl Bryan was born to Alexander S. Bryan and Susan Jane Bryan.
Her father was a well-respected farmer in the community.
She was a graduate of Greencastle High School.
At the time of her murder, she had begun working as a Sunday school teacher.
Bryan had left her home in Greencastle on January 28, 1896, under the pretense that she was visiting a friend in Indianapolis.
Bryan's body was found headless just behind what is now the YMCA in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, on February 1, 1896, by a 17-year-old farm hand named Johnny Hewling.
According to the presiding coroner, Bryan was found with multiple wounds across her back and her hands.
He also indicated that she was decapitated while still alive.
She was five months pregnant at the time of her death.
Her body was identified by the tag in her custom-made shoes from Greencastle, Indiana.
Pearl Bryan's headless body is buried in the family plot at Forest Hill Cemetery in Greencastle.
Scott Jackson, a dental student at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, was soon arrested for the murder, and later implicated fellow student and roommate Alonzo M. Walling.
During the trial it was revealed that Jackson had a secret romance with Bryan for several months prior to her murder.
Allegedly, on ...