SO FAR FROM HOME
This rather gruesome event in Indiana history concerns the untimely murder of Pearl Bryant, a 22-year-old pregnant American woman. Beheaded and left in a field, her murder was eventually connected to a Dental student (the baby's father) and his roommate, who after the killing allegedly took the head in a bag to a local saloon before disposing of it. It's a miserable story but I'm attracted to the macabre as much as anyone and ran with it. The image with the headless body was a staged event at the time of the trial, and many mistake if for the actual crime scene.