Missing Person: Leah Hickman December 21, 2007
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Yesterday, peta2 became aware of a missing student situation in Huntington, WV which has the entire campus of Marshall University on the look-out. While Leah Hickman had planned to go home for the holidays to spend time with her family in nearby Point Pleasant, WV, she has now been missing for nearly a week and counting.
This situation was brought to our attention because a local news story reported that she had just recently been inspired to be a vegetarian after watching videos on PETA's website. As the article states:
"[Her friend] described the missing woman as "the sweetest girl you could ever imagine," adding that "when she first started at Marshall, all she talked about was wanted [sic] to find a job where she could help people. "A couple of weeks ago she called me out of the blue crying hysterically because she had watched some videos on the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,) website. She was like, 'I'm going to become a vegetarian.' [it's like eating meat] broke her heart.""
Image from Leah's Rescue MySpace page
If anybody has any information that could be helpful for Leah's safe return, please contact the Huntington Police Department (304-696-4420).
A MySpace page has been set up in an effort to raise awareness about this situation, which can be found here.
- Ryan!
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MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THE FAMILY.
Posted by: IVETTE at December 23, 2007 12:21 AMSadly Leah Hickman was found dead in the basement crawl space of her apt building. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family.
Posted by: at December 23, 2007 5:54 AMThe police have possitively i.d.ed the body as Leah's even though, as a friend, we already kinda knew it was her. We are all heartbroken, Leah was everything that it said in that article and more... She was the kindest person I could have ever hoped to met in my lifetime. I only hope that they find who has done this so that this never happens to another family and friends.
All my love to everyone for you support but please keep the prayers coming for Leah's family.
thats so tragic, right around the holidays :[
Posted by: kaysee at December 26, 2007 4:30 PMas the mother of two daughters, i am so sorry.
she sounds like a beautiful girl.
My deepest thoughts and prayers go out for Leah's family. She sounded like such a wonderful girl. My son, Matthew Wilson, has been missing on the same day as Leah. Please pray for us and for his safe return to home.
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A body has been found near the laundry room in a crawl space, no formal id of the body had been made when I last heard. God bless Leah's family.
Posted by: donna at December 22, 2007 7:19 PMRest in Peace, Leah.