Days before Christmas, Christina Pearl played a prank on a family member.
Pearl, her fiancé and children had been staying with her fiancé’s sister in Perry County after a fire in their own house two months earlier.
On Dec. 22, Pearl poured flour all over the family’s bed as a joke. But instead of laughs, the joke started an argument that led her to leave the house, seeking space to cool off. Her family believes she was headed to a trailer she owned on Bailey Run Street in Newport…