The Dry Handbag: Why Donna Hicks Shouldn't Have Drowned

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Jul 23, 2026 · 20m

The Dry Handbag: Why Donna Hicks Shouldn't Have Drowned

The dry, closed beaded handbag sat three feet from the waterline on a gravel bar while the creek had been flowing for weeks - a detail that contradicted the drowning ruling and was never explained. Thirty years later a buried fuel log and a confession would reopen the question everyone assumed was settled: how did Donna Hicks really die?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events, the official conclusions, and the buried evidence that was filed and forgotten while witnesses waited decades for answers. How did a dry handbag, two…