search
Donate

News

A Washington County man has been sentenced to prison after being found guilty of a decades-old double murder

By:
Posted on:

< < Back to

MARIETTA, Ohio (WOUB) — A 53-year-old Washington County man was sentenced Tuesday for a decades-old double murder.

A gavel sits upright on a table
[Billion Photos | shutterstock.com]
Scott Hickman, of Waterford, will spend to 20 years to life in prison, according to a news release from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

“These victims – a young mother and her baby – had their entire lives ahead of them,” Yost said. “Today’s sentence does not restore everything they could have been, but it does finally hold a murderer accountable for his actions.”

Hickman’s sentencing follows his August conviction on felony charges of aggravated murder and murder for the 1995 deaths of Kimberly Fulton, 28, and her 17-month-old son, Daniel.

Detectives from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and agents with the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation reopened the cold case in 2019, 24 years after the Fultons’ bodies were discovered in a burnt-out mobile home in Palmer Township on March 5, 1995. The investigation revealed that the victims had died before the fire started.

Attorneys from Yost’s Special Prosecutions Section presented the case to a Washington County jury, which found Hickman responsible for the homicides.