A group of boys walking along the Ohio River found Alberta floating face down at dawn on August 5, 1965. She'd been beaten, put into the river alive, and drowned between 2:30 and 4:30 AM — shortly after Gladys watched her drive away.
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Alberta had become fearful for her safety in the weeks leading up to her death, so she initially refused Gladys Wyckoff's late-night request to come over. But Gladys laid on a guilt trip — accusing Alberta of getting 'snobby' since her new prosecutor job — and Alberta relented, arriving at Gladys's home by 11:30 PM. They chatted, picked up the Louisville Defender newspaper, Gladys trimmed Alberta's wig, and Alberta left between 1:30 and 2:00 AM. By morning, Alberta's sister Flora and mother Sadie knew something was badly wrong: she wasn't home, her car wasn't visible, and she would have called if she was staying out.
Alberta Jones didn't want to go out that night — she'd been scared and cautious for months. Her hairstylist friend Gladys guilted her into a late-night visit with a wig fitting and a guilt trip about getting 'snobby.' Alberta left between 1:30 and 2:00 AM and was never seen alive again.
The coroner determined Alberta was beaten, put into the Ohio River alive, and drowned sometime between 2:30 and 4:30 in the morning on August 5, 1965.
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