Vickers was last seen alive in 2010. She had withdrawn from her extended family, and her mummified body was discovered by Actress and neighbor Susan Savage on April 27, 2011, in her 10021 Westwanda Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, home. The date of her death is unknown, but forensic Scientists concluded that she may have been dead for as long as a year before her body was discovered. There were no signs of foul play. Vickers was autopsied by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, who ruled her cause of death to be heart failure resulting from coronary artery disease. Her remains were cremated.