Disappearance of Pearl Turner
{{Short description|1923 missing child case in Arkansas, United States}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Pearl Turner
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|10|10}}
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| disappeared_date = {{Disappeared date and age|1923|10|19|1920|10|10}}
| disappeared_status = {{Missing for|1923|10|19}}
| disappeared_place = home in the mountains of West-Central Arkansas
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| mother = Lela Turner
| father = Lynn Turner
| known_for = Mysterious disappearance
}}
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.{{Cite news |date=November 17, 2023 |title=Other Days |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/nov/17/other-days/ |access-date=February 7, 2025 |work=Arkansas Democrat-Gazette|language=en |archive-date=February 25, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250225005000/https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/nov/17/other-days/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite book |last=Yates |first=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vEWizgEACAAJ |title=Pearl: Lost Girl of White Oak Mountain : a True Story |date=2020 |publisher=Bill Yates |isbn=979-8-6436-1476-0 |language=en |archive-date=2025-02-25 |access-date=2025-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250225005119/https://books.google.ca/books/about/Pearl.html?id=vEWizgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Yates |first=Bill |title=Pearl |url=https://therattlecat.com/Pearl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109055103/https://therattlecat.com/pearl |archive-date=2024-11-09 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=The RattleCat |language=en-US |url-status=live }} Despite intense nationwide publicity and repeated efforts to locate the girl, Turner has never been located. Her ultimate fate remains unknown.{{Cite web |last=Meaghan |date=2022-08-27 |title=Pearl Turner |url=https://charleyross.wordpress.com/tag/pearl-turner/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=The Charley Project Blog |language=en}}
Disappearance
In the fall of 1923 on a Friday while Pearl's parents were camping,{{Cite web |title=Pearl: Lost Girl of White Oak Mountain |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53529156-pearl |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Goodreads |language=en}} Pearl had wandered away into the wilderness, multiple hundreds of people{{Cite news |date=1923-10-24 |title=800 MEN HUNT LOST CHILD.; Groups Scour Ozarks for Pearl Turner, Mountaineer's Daughter. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/10/24/archives/800-men-hunt-lost-child-groups-scour-ozarks-for-pearl-turner.html |access-date=2025-02-07 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2025-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250225005014/https://www.nytimes.com/1923/10/24/archives/800-men-hunt-lost-child-groups-scour-ozarks-for-pearl-turner.html |url-status=live }} from nearby towns searched find her, for many weeks, but with no avail at all.{{Cite web |title=Turner, Pearl (Disappearance of) |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/media/turner-pearl-disappearance-of-21664/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |language=en-US}} She is believed by some people to have been kidnapped.{{Cite web |last=Yates |first=Bill |date=2013-05-04 |title=Growing Up In Waldron: Whatever Happened to Little Pearl? |url=https://growingupinwaldron.blogspot.com/2013/05/whatever-happened-to-little-pearl.html |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=Growing Up In Waldron |archive-date=2025-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250205120010/https://growingupinwaldron.blogspot.com/2013/05/whatever-happened-to-little-pearl.html |url-status=live }}
Aftermath
Pearl's disappearance has had books published about it as well as missing people's YouTube videos made about it.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Als6hbWPxM8 |title=Mount Rainier National Park: Strange and Unexplained Disappearances |date=2020-04-24 |last=Missing Void |access-date=2025-02-07 |via=YouTube |archive-date=2025-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250225005242/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Als6hbWPxM8 |url-status=live }}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJKeDNuBA_8 |title=Pearl Turner Missing Over 100 Years |date=2025-01-13 |last=Kidmissing |access-date=2025-02-07 |via=YouTube}}
See also
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Category:1920s missing person cases
Category:1923 in the United States
Category:Child abduction in the United States