MARIETTA, OH (WTRF) An Ohio jury has convicted a man of murdering a woman and her young son nearly 30 years after the killings took place.

Scott Hickman, 53, was found guilty of four counts of aggravated murder and two counts of murder in the 1995 deaths of 28-year-old Kimberly Fulton and her 17-month-old son, Daniel.

The victims’ bodies were discovered on March 5, 1995, inside a burned mobile home in Palmer Township, a small town about 100 miles southeast of Columbus.

However, investigators later determined it wasn’t the fire that had killed them. Kimberly and Daniel didn’t have carbon monoxide in their lungs, the Parkersburg News and Sentinel reported, leading investigators to believe they had died before the fire was set.

The Ohio Attorney General’s office believed the fire was an attempt to cover up the murders.

Hickman was arrested in 1998 but ended up being released because there wasn’t enough evidence against him, according to the News and Sentinel.

The case went unsolved for decades until cold-case detectives with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation reopened the investigation in 2019. Hickman was indicted two years later in October 2021.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost credited investigators and prosecutors for their persistence in the case.

Hickman is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 14.

Another man, Johnny Ball of Marietta, was indicted last year on perjury and obstruction charges connected to the case. His trial is pending.