Joshua Emmanuel ’Josh’ Dickerson, a 22-year-old Black man from Seaford, Delaware, was found dead on February 20, 2008, along German Road outside Seaford. Troopers discovered him lying in the roadway, blindfolded, with his hooded sweatshirt pulled on backwards and having been shot multiple times. The quiet back road and the staging of his clothing suggested he had been attacked elsewhere or brought to the spot, leaving investigators to reconstruct his final movements on that winter Wednesday.

Public death notices recorded the loss of Joshua Emmanuel ’Josh’ Dickerson at age 22; family and friends remembered a young life ended without warning. The blindfold and reversed sweatshirt became the haunting signature detail in a case with little publicly released about motive. The killing has been treated as an unsolved homicide by the state police Cold Case Unit; no arrests have been announced and periodic appeals for information have been made.

If anyone knew Joshua’s whereabouts that day or has information about the shooting, please contact detectives or Crime Stoppers.