The grisly cold case involves a famed serial killer and a fugitive cult leader.
In 1981, Gibson stood trial for sexually assaulting several teenage boys. Prosecutors alleged he dosed his victims with LSD before the assaults. Prosecutors told the Merced Sun-Star that the sexual acts"between the minors and the defendant meant they would become a part of the deity and it would relieve their sins.”
National Park Service investigators believe Hicks was an acolyte of Gibson’s and, after his conviction and disappearance, decided to pack up and head to Yosemite. According to a friend interviewed by “Wild Crime,” Hicks hopped on the bus from Merced to Yosemite around 1982 and was never seen again. She was just 27 years old.
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