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Kathy Hicks

Case from Honolulu, HI dated Sep 18, 1982

Victim Details

Kathy Hicks

November 6, 2022

Female

Black / African American

Honolulu

HI

1982-09-18

1982-09-18

25

Kathy

Hicks

yes

06/27/2026


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Kathy Hicks, 25, a Black female, arrived in Honolulu for what was supposed to be an ordinary company trip — a softball tournament and a few nights away from home — and ended up becoming the center of a mystery that would linger for decades. On September 18, 1982, Hicks was found dead on a grassy slope along Nuuanu Pali Drive, with investigators reporting that Hicks had been assaulted and strangled. 

In the hours before Hicks was discovered, the trail of the night narrowed to fragme ...
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