Deadly Obsession: The Savage Murder of College Student Berry Bryant
Promising Young Woman
In October of 1996, eighteen-year-old co-ed Berry Bryant was sitting on top of the world. A natural beauty with an impressive intellect to boot, she was already becoming popular with her fellow students only a month after her arrival at Wyoming’s Northwest College. Blessed with both a kind spirit and a desire to stand up for those who couldn’t speak for themselves, she endeared herself to nearly everyone she met.
As Berry drank in the joys of youth and the freedom that went hand-in-hand with college life, a threat was lurking nearby that she hadn’t seen coming. A mere thirty days into her first semester at Northwest, her hopes and dreams for the future would be shattered in a frenzy of violence that would take her life and the promise it held, leaving a trail of broken hearts in its wake.
The events leading up to the tragedy began on the evening of Friday, October 4 when Berry and her friend, Jessie, attended a campus shindig. The get-together was intended to give new students a chance to mingle and get to know each other. One of the guests, however, had other things in mind.
At some point in the festivities, Berry announced that she was going outside for a minute, but that she would be right back. While she was gone, another…
