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Do you know who killed 32 year old Edward Leroy Hickson in 1978?
In the pre-dawn hours of February 15, 1978, the quiet of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was broken by the response of emergency services to a fire in the 1500 block of South Sixth. Inside the Rock Island Bunkhouse #27, firefighters discovered an unresponsive male. The man, 32-year-old Edward Leroy Hickson, was transported by paramedics to Mercy Hospital, but it was too late; he was pronounced dead on arrival.
What might have initially appeared to be a tragic accident soon revealed itself to be som ...Read More
In the pre-dawn hours of February 15, 1978, the quiet of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was broken by the response of emergency services to a fire in the 1500 block of South Sixth. Inside the Rock Island Bunkhouse #27, firefighters discovered an unresponsive male. The man, 32-year-old Edward Leroy Hickson, was transported by paramedics to Mercy Hospital, but it was too late; he was pronounced dead on arrival.
What might have initially appeared to be a tragic accident soon revealed itself to be som ...Read More
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Edward Hickson
December 19, 2022
Male
Unknown
Council Bluffs
IA
1978-02-15
32
Edward
Hickson
11/05/2025
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