Carla Hickman

Do you know who murdered Carla?
Carla Mae Morgan Hickman was a 45-year-old real estate agent and mother of three in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the spring of 1978, the White woman was working for the Rooney Co., helping clients buy and sell homes. On the morning of April 3, she had an appointment with a potential male buyer, whom she had arranged to pick up at a downtown bus station to show him a house.

The property was at 1514 N Vandalia Place, and its owner, Grace Moyer, had hired Hickman to handle the sale. Shortly after Hickman arrived with the man, Moyer left the home to go to a laundromat. When she returned, she saw Hickman’s car still in the driveway and decided to park down the street to avoid disturbing the showing. After waiting for about an hour, Moyer became concerned and went inside to check on them. In a bedroom, she found Hickman's body; the prospective buyer was nowhere to be found.

Investigators determined that Carla Hickman had been stabbed to death, suffering multiple wounds to her abdomen. There were no signs of a struggle at the scene, and the murder weapon was not found. Police began looking for a man seen getting into Hickman’s car in downtown Tulsa that day, described as wearing a red baseball cap, a plaid shirt, and grey slacks. Authorities also announced they were looking for another person of interest, described as a white male, 6 feet tall and 170 pounds, with short black hair and a mustache.

The investigation eventually led detectives to interview two men in Georgia, but no connection to the murder was found. No other suspects have ever been named. In the months before and after Hickman's death, several other female real estate agents in the Tulsa area were attacked and raped, but it remains unknown if those cases are related to her homicide. As of March 2023, the case remains unsolved. Anyone with information on the murder of Carla Mae Morgan Hickman is asked to contact the Tulsa Cold Case Unit at 918-586-1357.