“These victims – a young mother and her baby – had their entire lives ahead of them,” said Attorney General Yost. “Today’s sentence does not restore everything they could have been, but it does finally hold a murderer accountable for his actions.”
Hickman, 53, was convicted in August on felony charges of aggravated murder and murder for the 1995 deaths of Kimberly Fulton, 28, and her 17-month-old son, Daniel.
The case had gone cold until 2019, when detectives from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and agents from the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) reopened the investigation. The Fultons’ bodies were originally found on March 5, 1995, in a burnt-out mobile home in Palmer Township. The renewed investigation revealed that the victims had been killed before the fire was set.
Attorneys from Yost’s Special Prosecutions Section successfully presented the evidence to a Washington County jury, which found Hickman responsible for the homicides.