There were NO bodies found in this case.

Here’s how his friends at ManCI remember him. . .
Wickline – “a friend to us all”
“Now that is one hell of a nice dude! …..he is a great guy, quiet, respectful, and just all around nice dude.”
“Wickline is a friend of mine.”
“You could hear a feather drop when he left” [Wickline taken to DR 5 on 12/29/03]
“Wickline is a good guy and I would hate to see the state kill him. And I doubt that there are many if any people here that could speak ill of Wickline, he is just an all around good guy.”
“He is a good friend of mine … I pray everyday for strength.”
“Anyone that was present [1997] and knew Bill, knows what a valuable service he rendered to us all, myself included! I don’t care what the “official” story released by the administrators of this institution, and the dept of corrections was, it was he [Wickline] that kept the incident from growing into something truly tragic, and they should have been thankful to him for the services he rendered, instead, they beat him along with the rest of us, as if he were part of the problem instead of being the solution.”
“I’ve known him 16 years, he has never changed, and has always been an up front type person with no hidden agendas. He is very intelligent.”

Ohioans to Stop Execution sponsored a witness outside the death house in Lucasville. Two busloads of area high school students from St Ursula Academy, St Xavier, Mt Notre Dame and Seton attended. Buses of high school students from Cleveland also attended, including students from St. Ignatius HS, Magnificat, Padua Franciscan, St Peter Chanel, St Edwards and St Joseph Academy. Over 230 people were present. We thank the students and their teachers for demonstrating such support, and being a voice for justice in our state.

In one of our last correspondence Billy sent this, one of his favorite quotes:

“Each smallest act of kindness – even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile – reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away……
Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will. All human lives are so profound and intricately entwined – those dead, those living, those generations yet to come – that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”

Dean Koontz; From the Corner of His Eye