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Archive Home > 2007 > March > 16 > Family's hopes dashed as a cold case unfolds

Family's hopes dashed as a cold case unfolds

Nikki Hutchings' family always thought she'd come home

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
March 16, 2007

When Nicole "Nikki" Hutchings could barely put a string of words together, she gave her grandfather a nickname that would stick for life.

He was walking with the toddler in Drake Park in Bend when she saw a group of the park's namesake birds and shouted "Grandpa, duck. Grandpa,....

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