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Tonight on Dateline. This was a very well thought out plan The video of the fire is just insane Trial lies, manipulation death. The female, she's got a hood on, she lets her long curly blonde hair hang out of the hood. Later on, we will learn a wig is purchased and that a mask is purchased. He is dressing somebody up in a disguise to look like you Sth Stady. had nobody to protect me. I do a little more digging. I started reading about the death of Regina Hicks, a young mom, a young wife. They found her she was in a car. She was crumpled up on the passenger side of that car. Someone drove her into that pond There is a man, a secret witness. Did you tell your wife or anybody about this? Noope. neverever. No I'm sorry I didn't come forward It's like your heart's jumping out of your chest All that darkness comes to light mother murdered, a mysterious fire. A mass disguise Just how devious could one killer be I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline Here's Keith Morrison with Secrets Unmasked There is a town little place pllantted firmly in the wide flat farmlands of North central Ohio calledall Willard Railway town, among other things, sort of place where rumors travel fast and truth doesn't always catch up This is where it started a quarter century ago the trouble and the gossip And if somebody had said a true thing about it way back then Might all of it have been prevented? All twenty four years of it Well, who knows It is just mind boggling how one person can be responsible for all of this drama, this heartache, this death. It's hard to wrap your mind around it. I get away with it for so long silence for so long day when it started The year was two thousand one It was an October evening past sunset. twenty five year old Regina Hicks was due around eight to pick up her four year old son Montana boy was with his dad Regina' estranged husband, Paul. They'd arranged to meet at a friend's house Baul said he started calling her when she didn't show up left her a message Oh this one over Is you going to come getting that or what? should you be here eighty, thirty is nine give me a call or I have a cell phone And when Regina didn't arrive at her mom's, as expected later that evening mother got on the phone. and called Regina's brother Row And She said, Have you seen Regina? She was supposed to be here like two hours ago And I was like, no, I haven't seen Reene And then the whole family began to panic Regina's uncle, Carl Patrick What happened We just couldn't find her. We was losing our mind. I mean, where was she I've got seven brothers and sisters. Why didn't somebody in the family know where she was at or contacted her And This is Regina's cousin and best friend Jennifer Dononworth. I knew she didn't run away. She would never leave her son She loved him more than anything Family and friends left messages on her cell phone and on her answering machine Every is it being not it We' wored about When they said that they couldn't locate her, all of my cousins and all of her brothers and her stepdad, everybody went out looking for her The next day, the family called the Willard Police Department. filed a missing person report So the police and the family, all of them went looking for Regina But they couldn't find her. Not that day or the next day. For the frantic day after that And then My ex wife calls me and tells me, Hey, they found a car in the pond. and I went there as fast as I could get there And I watched them Fisher car out of the pond And they said yes, there's a body in the car My mom's they foundounder she was in her car She's not with us anymore An incalculable loss, certainly to the family to that little boy of hers That to be an awful day. There's no way to explain it. until you experienence it yourself. Probably not a moment you forget Noope, you'll never forget I ain't got it in twenty four years Dane Howard remembers two Dane was the sheriff's investigator back then can see it still That woman in the car in the pond. How she got there Oh no Early in the investigation, we had no idea. We didn't have any facts, we didn't know what happened to her at all The autopsy didn't help much, showed the cause of death was drowning. method Undetermined So chalked it up to an unfortunate accident. Ohio Asistant Attorney General Dan Caseris explained She had marks on the top of her head. She had marks underneath her shoulders as if she was dragged And she had marks on her wrist But there was no doubt about it. She was alive when she went into the pond. Possibly unconscious, Aive She's unconscious, right? And this was strange. She was found on the passenger side of the car. So Maybe someone made sure she went into that pond. She didn't drive the car into the pond by herself. No. Someone drove her into that pond But who could have done it She has suspicions. But she couldn't prove it either. She couldn't prove it either Then, years later and nearly two hundred miles away. L's like the Twilight zone. I don't even know what you're tal about. I don't even know what the hell is going on. And she's like his house burnt to the ground. I'm like. What He came in and he saw the video and said, that's her hair, that's her face, That's her body shape. Regina Hicks had been dead a long time Before investigative reporter Karen Johnson of WLWTTV heard a thing about her But pretty soon She was hooked What did you learn about Regina So Regina was a twenty five year old woman She wanted This happy life with someone she loved, with her child, with her family. All very close that family Tell me about her She was a very fun loving girl. She never really met no enemies She was seven years younger than me I brought her up a little rough like a tom boy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. At the local wateratering hole. they could be fifty people in there. And when she laugh You could hear her over the music And I'd be like There's my sister right there. She was so warm and loving and kind And just such a beautiful, beautiful soul She was my best friend She was my hero Regina and her husband, Paul had been a couple since high school It was a love affair at first sight They were together constantly. She was head over heels in love with him She just knew that this was going to be her future How do you treat Regina At first, they they got along great while they was in school But marriage is quite another matter and theirs unraveled So when investigators found out that Regina and Paul had recently separated Of course they talk to him along with a bunch of other people I think we've worked all through that night the next day interviewing folks connected to Regina We interviewed the husband, Paul Hicks You're up there, you cooperating, man, that's really good. thing was, though They had not yet revealed the fact that they'd found Regina's body. I think you know where she is now You know, that's lie of. I'm not liing. I had five or six people call that buddy with the fire department saying you guys buulldg all the thirty day tags are in, I'm not stupid I put two and three together How does it make me feel You love her? Ll on my heart I'll always love her. She knows him And, last he knew, she was supposed to pick up their son at his friend's house. But she never come to pick up m gu, she never show up That friend was Steve Gates They came to you the police did, didn't they Multiple times. Yeah They came to a lot of people Steve told investigators he was at his farmhouse with Paul playing around with a bulldozer. And we were kids, you know, with a dozer, let's go push some dirt around And Steve said what Paul said They waited at his house Waiting for Regina. She didn't show up In there somewhere is when the investigators found out that Regina was dating another man now, after her split with Paul So they brought that guy in too any sexual partner tip that they would have had Anybody who had access to her that night Her boyfriend. boyfriends buddies But that was pretty much a dead end The boyfriend said he last saw Regina when she left to pick up her son and there was no way to disprove it It all became little like social media is now these years later. Ls of conspiracy theories Truth and lies indistinguishable Regina went missing, I think there was a lot of speculation. There was a lot of whispers around town There were stories about drug runners and Mexican cartels and Friends and family And One of the big problems early in this case What was the rumor, Mk And it would just be be a deadly. And worse, said investigator Howard Regina's death was not officially ruled a murder County coronner refuse to listed as a murdery, said it was an undetermined manner of death. That's a major hiccup in this case Meaning Howard was hamstrung, couldn't intensify the investigation the way he wanted to And as the months went by and the investigation seemed stalled Regina's mother contacted local TV stations to drum up interest in the case I stay in touch with the detectives that are working on it I just try to keep it alive as much as possible On the first anniversary of Regina's death She told how she paid for billboards and offered a reward for solid information My mother put up a lot of money that she was going to pay out of her pocket. No one ever come through. Nhing ever happened And it went on like that For years Did you give up hope that this would be solved Every time I went somewhere I carried her pictureer, my billfol still got it there. I thought about it every time I got up, every night I went to bed. So did you and your family push for answers? Over that whole course of years, or did you give up on it? What happened No we never gave up on it I mean, we had our lives to go on with, of course. and it seemed like Nobody to give a cp But no, said Detective Howard wasn't like that. Everybody cared. He said, They never gave up I mean the case file has hundreds of pages in it from different interviews and different things. We turned over every leaf and We did everything we could do Then, fourteen years after Regina's death Her mom died Her mother passed away in twenty fifteen She died with a broken heart. I think in Regina's mom's heart She knew who was responsible She has suspicions But you couldn't prove it either She couldn't imp prove it either But they could practically feel it. feele They were sure Him. 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It's like slime oozing through a screen. like he just get through things She is talking about Regina's estranged husband, Paul. In fact, one of Regina's uncles told investigators he had seen her car at the house where she was supposed to meet Paul On the night she went missing whichich, if true put the lie to pose alibi It was obvious to me It was obvious to everybody in the community. Ebody knew that he did it But through the years, Paul resolutely maintained his innocence. maintain custody of their son Montana too At first he allowed Regina's family to visit, but That didn't last And then eventually Paul left the boy with his own mother. The job took him back and forth to Southern Ohio F from Regina's family and the rumor mals Mry met a new woman this woman Kelly Did he tell you what happened to his wife Yeah, I believe it is our second timeime hanging out, I believe And he actually told me that she died in a car wreck and he cried. For privacy reasons, Kelly asked us not to use her last name I just turned twenty three and he was thirty three. He had his life together. He seemed like a great guy. He knew what he was doing. He act like he wanted to take care of me and be good to me. But you were up. Lust. They moved in together and had a son Paul worked on the railroad and Kelly was a practical nurse But as time went by Pul became more and more controlling said Kelly Mipulative I've heard some people describe those kind of relationships as when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's awful. That's more when I get more to know him to when the true Paul Higgs comes out She and their son put up with it for years, she said, until finally She asked him to get out Leave I was just st at that point And he kept saying, u I'm in half I'm going to do something that's gonna to hurt you the most. They were in a bitter custody battle at that point Paul had moved into a new place and One day in june twenty fifteen. Kelly was dropping off her son at this supermarket. Visitation with Paul Before we knew it, both doors were open and we had taser guns pointed at our head from Claremounty Sheriff's Department What's it like to have taser guns pointed at you by cops as you're pulling out of a parking? T. I don't know when you're really in a moment like that where you're just so surprised you just don't think you just go with the moment You know, you can't really describe it. It just It's like your heart's jumping out of your chest uty arrested her. L hand look like a criminal. I have no record at all And She's like, Do you know what happened to Paul's house last n? I'm like, No. I don't even know you're talking. I don't know what hell is going on. And she's like, his house burnt to the ground. and I'm like What Did you hear anything about what happened? No. No I was at home with my mom and my son watching TV It was as if Kelly had been forced into an alternate universe, in which she was the criminal, chief suspect in an arson investigation arrested because She had an outstanding warrant damaging a hot tub at Paul's house This is video of that incident and It looked like her, but She swore to those cops she was never there It didn't help and where you actually charged with Cime criminal damag And they use that to take me in to question me about the fire In this interview, her face is obscured Investigators showed her security camera photos of a woman who set fire to Paul's house. Well I want to show you some pictures of actually the woman who came in. the arson All claim It was Kelly She's rather large Paul also accused Kelly of harassing him the night before the fire. There's numerous, numerous phone calls from your phone to his phone. Oh, no, that's what I was just showing you right here. I never called him at all What in heaven's name was going on How did you find out what happened? What really happened? The insurance, they dug really deep into it And they couldn't believe what they found Have you ever seen a case like this one before No, this was the wildest case that I have ever seen. We all Hick's house burned to the ground in an arson fire. But something was very off I am an attorney, but I have a specialty cases that involve fire investigation Zach Mcun was brought in when Paul filed a claim with the insurance company What made them suspicious about the claim and what made you suspicious about it? Paul Hicks reported that he was three hours away from the residence where the fire occurred when it happened. He drove down the morning of the fire and reported to law enforcement that he had surveillance footage of the fire because it was stored inside of two fireproof gun safes That seemed odd, said Mcun. Hard drives and video recordings and fireproof gun safes. For then, the content of the video itself was odd too Not just God Risin The arson by a man and a woman was as blatant as can be And the female, shes got a hood on She also lets her long curly blonde hair hang out of the hood and be displayed for the cameras. And she also looks at some of the cameras kind of directly with her face right to the camera They bring in multiple cans of gas and pour them and ultimately light them Somehow the cameras wereplaced right in the Perfect spot to capture everything. Paul told police he had no idea who the man in the video was But he certainly recognized the woman And he's saying, Wow, That's my ex girlfriend How to be Kelly? Exactly. He came in and he saw the video and said, that's her hair, that's her face, that's her body shape Those were the images the police had shone Kelly At the time, her hair was curly But to be cune It all seemed a bit too convenient As did this Paul Hicks had been posting to his Facebook account all of his Facebook friends. He'd been using screenshots from his iPhone that made it appear Kelly was stalking him and harassing him and calling him like initially sixty times and then ninety times then more than one hundred times. Lo and behold, a few hours later, there's this arson fire that she's blamed for So McCun started digging He actually handed over his cell phone to us, which was analyzed. And one of the contacts in his cell phone was a company called SpoofCard What is that? Spoof card BofCard is a company allows you to buy minutes with them And when you use them I could call you and make it look like it's someone completely different calling you. So all those messages from Kelly sake Then, more digital evidence led to a phone Paul shared with another woman. Her name is Terry Sweet When Mcugh looked at those phone records He found receipts from a company with a strange name That's my face We find out that that's my face as a company that makes custom wearable masks of anyone's face. To create the mask, you have to have pictures of the person's face from front angles and side angles. The mask looks like this So the person in the video wasn't Kelly It was someone wearing a mask to look just like her Kelly was being framed Is she a victim in all of this? She's the main victim in all of this, yes. And that wasn't all Paul made false accusations. her using drugs and harming her son It resulted in her losing custody. He set me up for the arson it took my son That's the only thing that could hurt me It's like cutting off your leg, taking your heart out All I wanted to do is be a Mam and he knew that he took him Once they learned about the scheme, Prosecutors dropped the hot tub charge against Kelly, and she was never charged for the arson Who was the female arsonist wearing the face mask if it wasn't Kelly McCun was pretty sure It was Paul's friend, Terry Sweet She denied having anything to do with the fire, but She shared that phone with Paul. The one used to order the mask So of course, Mun wanted to ask her all about it, but When he tried to set up a deposition So we call over to her family and we find out that she died the previous day Unbelieve Was there any investigation of that Not that I'm aware of. We were told that she was an alcoholic and that she was told, if you don't stop drinking, there's a chance that you could die MCun was never able to identify. The man in the video After a two year investigation, he turned over his findings to the police. In twenty nineteen, four years after the fire, though he did not torch the house himself Pul was charged They arrived at ultimately charging him for arson and insurance fraud and counts of perjury Paul denied it Denied it all Denied committing arson, denied framing Kelly, and pleaded not guilty However By then, investigators trying to solve Regina's case got wind of the bizarre arson claim We were hoping he would get convicted of some felonies and receive some incarceration, go to prison. Because if that happens, then we can go to these witnesses now and talk to these witnesses and he's in prison So since he's in prison, maybe you'll be more likely to talk to us. That didn't happen. Instead, after three more years of legal starts and stops, Paul got a plea deal He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor never went to jail Wait a second I'm like rewind, sayay that again Paul Hicks, who's charged with agravated arson, who' accused of creating this elaborate scheme to frame his ex girlfriend pleaded no contest and He's not Avicted of any of the serious crimes, just a misdemeanor But that old case, Regina's death at the bottom of the pond That was quite another matter. That was escalated to the State Attorney General's offffice and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation What happened For one thing Cisseris and a team of investigators, met with the coroner and asked him to take another look at the case. He did And that's when he changed the manner of death from undetermined to homicide And suddenly, after twenty four years Very big. 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The investigators tried one more round of questions M This man finally unburdened his soul Did you tell your wife or your family or anybody about this Never Nope Nobody No Steve Gates Remember him For all those years, he denied knowing anything about a murder But with mortality staring him in the face, he said it was time Denied knowing anything about it. What was going on in your gut Very uncomfortable. I knew it was wrong. I knew it. That wasn't the way it should have played out. It happened here, said Steve, on his farm in Willard. He was just twenty at the time And Paul, Regina's estranged husband, was there with him Paul was his buddy, though older and taller and a bit intimidating. So Steve was really more follower who happened to have the toys Paul liked So take us back there What actually happened that night Oh we hung out that day. I had a dozer and tract and stuff around in the mud. At around eight in the evening, he said, Regina pulled into the driveway, intending to pick up her son Montana Right away, she and Paul started arguing I remember she showed up and All they did was fight, whether it was about money or who was in charge or who's going to get a job or It was always Somet. How much of that can you take? I just I'm tired of it So, Steve said he walked away for about fifteen minutes And when he returned to her car It was like twilight dark And I remember seeing the dome light of the car When I got over there, she was crumpled up in a ball on the floor was already done. She was, you know, dude, you know, she's hurt, she needs help Let's call nine and eleven. Paul snapped back at him Dude She's E and dead And I just You know Come on, follow me. I guess I didn't really know at the time where we were going. But Steve said he did what he was told started up Paul's car with fourour year old Montana sleeping in the back seat Well, Paul drove Regina's car with her in the passenger seat beside him. He took her in her car And I followed him in his car. I didn't know where we were going And then u And went down the road, there's a There's a little driveway that goes into a pond and When I pulled up, he kind of had her car blocking the whole thing and I went down to turn around and when I come back, I just remember seeing the car up in the air. putut it into the pond, you came out and You know, I'm involved. I did this. you know, Im whatever he says, yeah, that makes sense to a twenty year old kid. I didn't touch her, I didn't drive the car in the pond. I didn't have anything to do with it I didn't tell the truth about it Some people were saying, well, why didn't you call nine and eleven from the other car? You wouldn't have known that you were calling Yeah. It's a good idea. I don't know This young woman was suddenly was killed almost in front of you. and then cover app happens almost in front of you For a twenty year old kid, that's got to be a pretty horrific thing to see Or was it Or was it pretty me? Well, I'm asking you, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what you felt It wasn't comfortable at all. It was Terrible Terrible and yet He did not say a word about it for decades What made you come forward after twenty four years? Finally, after all that time, was what was the deciding factor There was a lot that decided against it I was tired of the threats. I was tired of a looking over my shoulder waiting for her. to see where he's going to be. Was it like that all those years I me to look over your shoulder Watching out for him, ye Really He always had an angle I didn't do very well documenting the threats with law enforcement, but there was threats. What could have happened to you? My life He threatened your life Many times. Didn't have to be directly, he said Sometimes he heard about the threats through the grape vine It's a tiny little town. Everybody knows everything. It's a small town and just Everybody knows everybody Steve, are you saying that then that this little town kind of they all knew he did it And they all knew that you saw that he did it and they all knew that you were saying anything because of threats against you No, I don't think that they knew The whole truth. I think they knew that I saw it But I think they thought I was involved. I think they thought that I helped perform the act. I think that's what the town thought. Yeah, some people still think that you were involved in this in a direct way that you participated in murder I didn't I never touched that girl. I never did anything with that girl his attorney Bernie Davis When this happened, Steve was a very young guy. and I think he was intimidated by Paul Hicks point where He believed him when he said, you're involved in it And he kept his mouth shut And one more thing Howty fifteen Fourteen years after Regina's death, Steve was called in for questioning yet again and He said he was willing to talk but investigator Howard saw it differently He sat down there, he was defiant, he was not He's not cooperated at all. He hand in the card of his attorney and that's the last we heard of him Steve said he wanted investigators to talk to his attorney first And after he gave them the attorney's card Nothing happened. It's fair for Steve to say, hey, I tried to come forward in twenty fifteen and no one listened to me That's the reality. what happened You can't can't sugarcoat it When he finally spoke in twenty twenty four Steve Gates could have been charged with obstruction of justice Instead, he got an immunity deal to testify against Paul Based on Steve's sworn testimony Paul was indicted by a grand jury He was arrested in april twenty twenty five, charged with murder and kidnapping. Paul I don't know if they told you we got a warranter arrest. Okay's home enough. But would a jury believe the state's star witness? We called him a liar. Paul Hicks pleaded not guilty, but he went on trial for the murder of his wife Regina, in december twenty twenty five. All right right, please. But Regina's family felt confident. I thank God that these prosecutors finally got the right people to testify Were you sitting in the courtroom watching them I never took my eyes off from it I bet you were boring a hole through the back of his head with your Stare. Yeah. he might have looked at me three times the whole time Co prosecutor James Sitterley asked the jury to remember What this case did to the entire area But it all started. when the defendant Paul Hicks twenty four years ago launched his wife's coffin in the shape of a nineteen ninety four Camaro into the whetstone pot Prosecutors presented phone records which they said showed Paul staged a voicemail message for Regina left when she was already dead He me paul just want know A you going gonna come get him that or what?s Sh you be here at eighty thirty, it nine? G me a call and I have my cell phone run by. He says to Regina, you know, you were supposed to be here at eight o'clock. You're not here here at Steve Gates's house while Hicks was telling people and in the police that I left at eight thirty But it's five after nine when he's telling Regina on her voicemail, hey, why aren't you here here at Steve Gates' house? said that looks like. The prosecution also put on the stand that uncle of Regina's who saw her car at Steve's place He drives by Steve Gates' house and he sees Regina Camaro parked on the property So Paul Hicks is story as Regina was never here. This might sound familiar The alleged motive for murder Wh'll put Regina Pod Well, who had the motive The defend. benf benefit from her death No custody dispute. No child support She's dead. the defendant The state alleged Paul knocked Regina unconscious while Steve Gates was inside his barn Of course, St was the star witness. though he asked his testimony not be recorded What was it like testifying in court? Very easy He was sitting there in Gord looking at you as you testify You still found it easy? At that point, I didn't care care about him anymore Steve told the jury the same story he told police and us He saw Paul Hicks drive the Camaro into the pond withith Regina crumpled in the passenger seat. Steve. unaware She was still alive The defense obviously is going to call Steve a liar Were you prepared for that? Did you expect that We called him a liar We got out in front of it I told the jury that he lied and we fully knew that defense counsel was gonna to do that. any defense attorney would And as expected, deffense attorney Jay Anthony Rich attacked Gates credibility