The Death of Pearl Bryan
In beginning my research in this story, for the most part it seemed an open and shut case. Upon further reading I was left with questions, partly because of conflicting information, but also because that same information appears to go with other information. Of course, like many of the cases I have recently written about the fact that this case took place in 1896 leaves it open for legends. Neither of the men convicted and executed for the crime truly confessed at least according to the theory given by the prosecution. I will first give you the long and short of the crime as told by the prosecution at the trials of the condemned men as well as the newspaper accounts. I will then look into the other proposed theories as to if there is any credence to them. On February 1, 1896 the headless body of a woman was found on a farm belonging to John Locke in Newport, Kentucky. Newport was located just over the bridge from Cincinnati Ohio. ...