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Forensic Files

Speck Of Evidence

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A speck of bicycle paint and a speck nickel tie a suspect to the murder of a 9-year-old.

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0:00.0

Honey, do mom a favor.

0:01.5

Take this down to the mailbox.

0:02.7

OK?

0:03.7

OK.

0:04.1

I love you, mom.

0:05.1

I love you, too.

0:09.1

Vicki Lynn Hoskinson never returned home

0:11.9

after running the errand for her mother.

0:20.1

A revandon bicycle was the only clue to her disappearance.

0:30.0

Vicki Lynn Hoskinson grew up in flowing wells, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona.

0:40.6

She was the youngest and a family brought together by the second marriage of her mother, Debbie

0:45.0

Carlson.

0:46.0

There was something about her that grabbed her heart the minute you were around her.

0:52.8

She had this intensity of a royal blueness in her eyes.

0:58.8

When you looked into her eyes, you saw this depth of wisdom.

1:03.9

It was beyond her years.

1:07.8

Vicki's prized possession was the pink stingray bicycle she had received as a Christmas present,

1:13.8

which is what she rode to the mailbox on the day she disappeared.

1:19.5

To get to the mailbox, Vicki headed down a dirt path behind some neighbor's homes.

1:25.4

She headed down a dead end street and over an unclear area of desert brush.

1:34.4

Her mother expected Vicki back in 10 minutes.

1:37.2

When she didn't return, she sent her older daughter Stephanie to look for her.

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