Leah Nicole Hickman was 21 and studying journalism at Marshall University when she disappeared from her off-campus apartment in Huntington, West Virginia, in mid-December 2007. Last seen on December 14 after calling a friend and reportedly going to McDonald’s, her purse, keys and car were left behind and her cell phone was never recovered. Family reported her missing on December 16 after she missed work and other obligations.

On December 21 investigators found her body wrapped in plastic in a crawlspace beneath the apartment building, reachable from the basement laundry area. Authorities determined she had been strangled and reclassified the case as a homicide. Police said the attack did not appear random and that the killer likely knew the building’s layout, but forensic testing, including mitochondrial DNA analysis, has not produced a public identification of a suspect.

No arrests, charges or convictions have been announced, and the case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Leah, lived in that building, or has information about who could access the crawlspace, please come forward.