Karen Johnson
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29 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yes. The video surveillance system, in months leading up to the arson, he had purchased a pretty elaborate surveillance system. And he had it, according to investigators, in a firebox. So the cameras would record and even if the cameras got destroyed, the data would still be collected.
So that way he can show investigators, hey, I have video proof that two people walked in the house and one appears to be my ex-girlfriend. So did they think that Paul Hicks himself was wearing the mask then of the ex-girlfriend and the wig or someone else? They do not believe it was Paul Hicks.
Investigators believe that he hired two people to go in, set the fire to his home, and that way he can frame his ex-girlfriend. The reason why investigators say he tried to frame her was so he can get custody of their child and also for the insurance money. How does it all end then with the fire? Something finally happens criminally? So 2015 is when the fire took place inside the house.
He was indicted in 2019. And finally in 2022, when we thought this case would be going to trial, we learned there's been a plea deal. And all of the felony charges, including the most serious aggravated arson, they were all dropped. And he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of insurance fraud.
So he got no time and he ended up leaving Claremont County and moving back to where he is from in northern Ohio.
Yes. He was indicted on three counts of murder and one count of kidnapping in connection to the 2001 murder of his estranged wife, Regina Hicks. He was never named a suspect in Regina's death up until he was indicted last week. But family had their suspicions. Friends had their suspicions.
I can't really speculate, but leading up to it, I have heard, you know, they had a rocky marriage towards the end. Right. They had kind of separated. She had a new boyfriend. So it wasn't the best relationship.
I do believe so. I think it put more eyes on Paul Hicks. I know we gave the fire a lot of coverage. A lot of, you know, Ohio media organizations gave the fire a lot of coverage. So, you know, I do believe it... pushed people more, I think, to open up about what they knew about Paul Hicks. I think more people started talking. How has Hicks responded to these new charges?
All we know at this point is Hicks did enter a plea of not guilty in court last week. But so far, that's the only response that he has made is that not guilty plea.
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