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Regina Goes Missing: October 2001

At 7:03 · chapter starts 6:18

Regina Hicks was supposed to pick up 4-year-old Montana from her estranged husband Paul at a friend's house at 8 PM. When she didn't arrive, Paul left a voicemail — 'Hey, it's me, Paul' — but she never called back. Her mother then alerted her brother Chuck Rowe, and then the whole family began to panic. Jennifer Donenworth was certain immediately: 'She would never leave her son.' Family and friends left messages, searched through the night, and filed a missing person report with the Willard Police Department. Days later, Chuck Rowe learned a car had been found in a pond — and watched investigators fish it out, with Regina's body inside. The grief that followed, as her uncle Carl Patrick put it, is something you never forget after 24 years.

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Evidence of Murder: She Didn't Drive Herself In

Secrets Unmasked · Jun 23, 2026 True Crime

Regina Hicks had marks on her head consistent with being dragged, marks on her wrists, and was found crumpled on the passenger side of her own car. The medical evidence made one thing clear: someone else drove that car into the pond.

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