Priscilla Dawn Hickman, known as Dawn or Dondi, was a 46-year-old woman from Heath, Ohio. She was petite, 4 feet 10 inches and about 104 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. Neighbors grew concerned after not seeing her for several days in mid-January 2009 and police contacted her family, who went to her home at 1100 Thornwood Drive, Lot 918, on Sunday, January 18. They found her body concealed in a corner of her bedroom closet, wrapped in blankets.

Investigators determined Priscilla had been strangled. The exact date of death could not be confirmed; the last known contact was on a Monday that might have been January 5 or January 12. Neighbors reported seeing a white male in his late 40s or early 50s entering her residence on Tuesday, January 13. He was described as unusually tall, about 6 feet 4 inches or more, very thin, with sunken cheeks, missing most top front teeth, and short sandy brown or dirty blond hair.

Witnesses noted several tattoos, including a possible skeleton on the right arm, a spider web on an elbow, and an uncolored right upper chest tattoo that looked like a woodpecker face with a cigar pointed toward the left. He drove an older boxy Ford Ranger, regular cab with extended bed, primer gray paint and a makeshift sunroof. The man has not been identified and the murder remains unsolved. Did anyone in the area recognize the man or that truck?