Vicki Lynne Hoskinson (February 2, 1976 – c. September 17, 1984) was an 8‑year-old American girl who disappeared in Tucson, Arizona while riding her bicycle to mail a birthday card to her aunt, and was eventually found murdered.

[4] Carlson placed Vicki's bicycle in her car trunk and called the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

Not long after Hoskinson's abduction was publicized, a tipster reported seeing a young girl matching the victim's description in a store, accompanied by an adult woman.

A composite sketch was created of the girl's companion, but eventually, police determined the sighting was unrelated to the abduction of Hoskinson.

[4] The trace on the license plate led to a 28-year-old Los Angeles man named Frank Jarvis Atwood.

[9] A few hours later, Atwood called his parents stating his car had broken down in Texas and he needed money wired to get it fixed.

FBI agents in Texas detained Atwood and his traveling companion, James McDonald, at the mechanic shop on September 20 and impounded the car.

[6] During questioning, Atwood told investigators he was in Vicki's neighborhood on September 17, the day she disappeared, staying in a nearby park.

[1] While no physical evidence in the car could be linked to Vicki's person,[7] accident reconstruction experts matched pink paint on the front bumper of Atwood's vehicle to the color of the paint on Vicki's bike, and traced damage to the car's gravel pan to one of the bike's pedals.

[7] Returning to the site where the bike was found, investigators discovered damage to the mailbox post about 12 inches above ground, consistent with the height of Atwood's sports car, and believed this to be the spot where the car allegedly struck Vicki's bike at a slow speed.

[11] Traces of adipocere found on the skull fixed the time that the body had been placed in the desert to within 48 hours of Vicki's disappearance.

On April 6, 2021, Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that his office was seeking to file an execution warrant for Atwood.

As he was convicted of his crime before November 26, 1992, he would be allowed to choose either lethal injection or gas inhalation as his preferred method to die.

I want to thank my friends and legal team, and most of all, Jesus Christ through this unfair judicial process that led to my salvation.