Disappearance of Pearl Turner


Pearl Turner was a three-year-old American child who disappeared from the garden of her family cabin in the White Oak Mountain district of Scott County, Arkansas on October 19, 1923. Despite intense nationwide publicity and repeated efforts to locate the girl, Turner has never been located. Her ultimate fate remains unknown.

Disappearance

In the fall of 1923 on a Friday while Pearl's parents were camping, Pearl had wandered away into the wilderness. Multiple hundreds of people from nearby towns searched for her for many weeks but to no avail. She is believed by some people to have been kidnapped.

Aftermath

Pearl's disappearance has had books published, and missing person's YouTube videos made about it.