Pearl O'Loughlin
Life got busy for a while and although I have several blogs already researched, I have not posted in more than a week. Sometimes that makes it a bit more difficult for me because I like to compose my blogs close to when I researched them so I remember things but, it is what it is. On October 15, 1930 ten year old Leona O'Loughlin was reported missing in Denver Colorado. It is not exactly clear who reported Leona missing. Her father, Leo, was a police detective but he was extremely sick on the day that she was reported missing. In fact, it was said that everyone in the house except for Leona's uncle, Leo's brother, Frank, was sick that day with varying symptoms. Aside from Frank, Leona lived with her father, her step-mother, Pearl, and step-brother Doug Millican, who was seven. It was unclear whether before she had gone missing if Leona was also sick. Leo's symptoms resembled the flu while Pearl's seemed to be acute poisoning, meaning sh...