Strangled Body of Missing Student Hidden in Apartment Crawl Space
“Who killed Leah Hickman?”
The identity of Leah Hickman’s murderer remains unknown. She vanished just before Christmas and was found several days later, her body hidden where no one would think to look. The last time her father had spoken with her was on her birthday, just a few weeks before her death.
This would be the very last time he would ever speak with his daughter.
The memory of Leah Hickman is displayed in a blue hue across the community of Huntington, West Virginia. After all, it was her favorite color. Ribbons of blue are hung around the apartment complex where she was found strangled and stuffed in a crawl space.
Vanished Into Thin Air
Leah was a junior studying journalism at Marshall University. After graduation, she hoped to become a television news reporter. On 8th Avenue in Huntington, Leah shared an apartment with her half-sister, Jessica Vickers. Jessica was the last person to see her alive. Computer records show that on December 14th, 2007, after signing into her Myspace account, Leah decided to go to McDonald’s and called a friend to let them know where she was going.
A receipt from McDonald’s, dated December 14th, was later found in the apartment…
