Murder of Pearl Bryan

Good place to not get noticed, but it got notoriety.

in 1896 with a woman named Pearl Bryan.

Pearl Bryan was a 22-year-old Sunday school teacher.

She was from Greencastle, Indiana, and she went to Kentucky on January 28th, 1896.

She told her family that she was going there to visit a friend.

However, she was actually going there to speak with a man named Scott Jackson.

Scott Jackson was a dental student, and he was having a secret affair with Pearl Bryan.

The Sunday school teacher? The Sunday school teacher.

Upon laying eyes on a 19th century article from the Kentucky Post, he was strangely intrigued.

In 1897, two men, one by the name of Alonzo Walling, and the other by the name of Scott Jackson, were hung for the murder of a woman named Pearl Bryan.

Bryan's headless corpse was found near the site of an old slaughterhouse in Wilder.

She had been a Sunday school teacher and was five and a half months pregnant at the time of her demise.

The only things that the killers would tell authorities was that it was in a deep, dark place and would never be seen again.

As the two men were asked to give their final words before meeting their own fates at the gallows, Alonzo Walling gave an eerie last couple of sentences.

He said that he would come back from hell and haunt everyone involved in his trial and the location where Pearl Bryant's head was.

When searching for Pearl's head, bloodhounds led investigators to the old slaughterhouse, and although it was never proven, it was speculated that the two men had disposed of it.