Talk:Murder of Pearl Bryan

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Is this an article in an encyclopedia or a personal anecdote? The entire article should be completely redone because nobody wants the author of an encyclopedia entry giving his personal belief, nor have ANYTHING written in the first-person. This is not your blog or your myspace page, the word "I" should never appear in any article here unless it is surrounded like quotes as was just demonstrated. The lack of references is especially a killer here, especially since there is a somewhat legitimate reference source one could use...The Discovery Channel program A Haunting (episode titled, "Gateway to Hell,") explores this particular incident in great detail.

Firebrand24 19:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

I would love to re-write this but I have too many irons in the fire at the moment. I just finished watching the Discovery Channel show on this and it has nothing to do with this case. What it does is regurgitate the urban legend. It’s clear that the producers took the word of the people they interviewed verbatim and didn’t bother to look at any of the contemporaneous records of the case, which are readily available. My favorite assertion of the satanic version of the story is that they removed her head with their dental tools. Now we’ve all been to the dentist and seen the tools a dentist uses. I wish one of these people would please tell us which instrument on a dentist’s tray could possibly be used to decapitate someone. The idea comes from the statement that her head was removed with a “clean cut”. This was part of the testimony in the coroner’s inquest and to a person who doesn’t understand the terminology it connotes a surgical procedure. The actual testimony was that her head was removed from behind in a clean cut, suggesting that a large sharp instrument was used. Scott Jackson owned and often showed to his friends a large dissecting knife. This was part of a mid-nineteenth century amputation kit and was similar to a modern narrow bladed chef’s knife. Its purpose was to slice through flesh to the bone in a single pass. After the murder, this knife that Jackson was so proud of was nowhere to be found. It is likely that he dumped the knife, along with the head, into the Ohio River from the Covington Suspension Bridge. I wrote an article about this for Associated Content but it is written in a narrative style that is inappropriate for Wikipedia but if anyone is interested it is at:

The True Story of Pearl Bryan

Ltrouse 00:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Please note that the associatedcontent website has been blacklisted and therefore may not be used as a source. --Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 14:39, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

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