Deborah Roberts

And she joined us in our 2020 episode, as she has for a number of them.

Julia, good to see you.

Yeah, yeah.

I wish you were here with me so you and I could talk a little bit more about our roots.

We're both Georgia girls.

Yeah, yeah.

Small town Georgia for me, and I went to the University of Georgia.

And viewers might be very curious about you.

You've reported on these kinds of true crime cases for a very long time.

And I'm curious what captivates you about these cases, because they can be pretty dark.

Let's talk about the case of Regina Hicks, because when this was presented to me by the producers, I was just fascinated not only by how long it took to resolve the case, but the man who was involved in this case, Paul Hicks, who was her estranged husband, how he was implicated in this case.

What were your first thoughts when you heard about it?

Yeah, yeah.

And we'll talk about that car in a minute.

But let's talk about the two of them.

These two were high school sweethearts.

The relationship soured.

And so on October 18th of 2001, they shared a child together, a four-year-old boy named Montana.

They had a pretty tumultuous relationship.

So they had this meeting point where she was supposed to go pick up her son from Paul.