{"id":145805,"date":"2022-08-31T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/us\/?p=145805"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T12:59:23","slug":"the-real-truth-about-pearl-lusk-and-olga-rocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/us\/the-real-truth-about-pearl-lusk-and-olga-rocco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Truth About Pearl Lusk and Olga Rocco"},"content":{"rendered":"
The true-life story of Pearl Lusk and Olga Rocco could have been an interesting classic – if written as a crime movie. Pearl was a young sales clerk who was relieved of her job. She desperately needed a job as she could not afford her well-furnished apartment.<\/strong><\/p>\n On Thanksgiving Day in 1946, she met Allen La Rue, Olga Rocco’s ex-husband, who disguised as a detective working for an insurance company to find stolen jewelry and promised her a job.\u00a0Excited, she took the job offer to take a snapshot of Olga as proof that she stole the jewelry. He said he needed proof to report the case to the police.<\/p>\n On the 31st of December, 1946, Pearl set out early on her mission, but little did she know that the x-ray camera given to her to take the snapshot was a sawed shotgun. Did she complete the mission? How did she find out that she was deceived? This article answers these questions and more. Pearl and Olga ended up as friends. But let’s see how they started:<\/p>\n Pearl Lusk was a 19-year-old girl who moved to New York City just a few months after finishing high school. She moved from Quakertown in Pennsylvania, a town near Philadelphia. She had to spend some time in Brooklyn with her mother and step-father, so she rented an apartment in Manhattan after securing a job as a salesgirl.<\/p>\nWho Was Pearl Lusk?<\/strong><\/h2>\n