Everett - A father's worst nightmare has come true. On Monday a truck driver spotted a body hidden behind a jersey wall on Highway 2 in Everett. Thursday, the body was identified as 15-year-old Heather Trickler.

"I said please don't tell me this is about that accident," recalls Rob Trickler as a state trooper stood at his door, "he said I'm sorry it is. That's when I knew for sure."

Well before police knocked on his lake Steven's home door, Trickler says he knew something had happened to his daughter Heather.

"Actually the night it happened I had a really bad feeling I don't know why," he says, "I just keep waiting for this to be a bad dream but it's not going to happen."

Investigators believe Heather was walking East on Highway 2 near the Home Acres Road exit over the weekend when a driver hit her and then took off. It wasn't until Monday that a truck driver spotted her body.

"She was lying in the guard point area where the highway splits from the off ramp," says a state trooper at the scene, "that was surrounded by the jersey wall so drivers were not able to see her body lying there."

Detectives know where it happened, but when it happened, Heather's father is not sure. He says he got a text from his daughter Sunday night.

"She was coming home for my birthday," he says.

His birthday was Sunday night. By bedtime, no Heather and a sinking feeling that would only get worse.

"I don't know how I'm going to get by without her. I'd give anything to trade places with her if I could."

Detectives say evidence on the road suggests the vehicle involved was a greenish-blue GM SUV or pickup truck and they're guessing the passenger side has some damage. Trickler says he and Heather's mother just want closure so they can remember Heather the way she was.

"Right now I just want somebody to have the conscience to come forward," says Trickler, "That's all I really want right now for her sake."

There is now a memorial fund set-up. It's at any Bank of America under Heather Trickler.