Eric Hicks, a 33-year-old man, was found stabbed to death along a northeast Albuquerque bike path on September 15, 2017. A passerby discovered him near Candelaria Road and Richmond Drive, a stretch of trail that threads quietly between neighborhoods and businesses before dawn brings traffic. Police said the position of his body and the wounds suggested a brutal, personal attack; in public briefings that fall, they also noted his killing resembled two other stabbings of men found outdoors that
summer. The echoes between the scenes—down to how the bodies were left—prompted investigators to consider whether a single hand or pattern might link the crimes.
Hicks's death date is recorded in his obituary notices and memorials, and public records list his birth in August 1984, placing him at 33 when he was killed. Those notices speak only to the loss; the investigative files that followed sketched a leaner narrative, centered on the bike path and the knife. Despite the early attention to similarities across the cases, authorities did not announce an arrest in Hicks's killing in the months that followed, and open-source summaries that track Albuquerque homicides continued to list his case among those without a publicly identified suspect. Years later, his name still sits in that unsatisfying limbo between the known facts of a life cut short and the unanswered questions about who took it and why.
