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19-year-old University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth was brutally murdered on the morning of Sept. 7, 2012, in an off-campus apt. To this day, despite LOTS of evidence and suspicions, the case remains unsolved. It is my hope that a collaborative Web effort ("hivemind") may accomplish what law enforcement has been unable to do in two long years… solve this vicious, senseless crime. In recent years Web collaboration of 100s, has been the tool allowing many decades-old problems in science to be solved in a matter of months; it can work for solving crimes as well. On behalf of Faith, her friends, and loved ones... let's DO IT!

Here are links to several of the podcasts/sites that have covered the case in recent years (and of course you can google for many more news reports) -- I would caution though that virtually all podcasts and extended treatments of this case (including this blog!) have some facts wrong, and are highly speculative:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8a4FoGE20 [20/20 broadcast]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz8mBob9aPs ["Trace Evidence"]


https://truenoirstories.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/faith-hedgepeth/


http://twistedpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-50-the-murder-of-faith-hedgepeth


https://crimewatchdaily.com/2016/02/16/crime-watch-daily-investigates-the-murder-of-faith-hedgepeth/


https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/breaking-homicide/full-episodes/who-killed-faith (2018 episode)


ALSO, because of the heavy suspicion usually directed toward Karena Rosario, I'll leave a permanent link to this longish "Defense" of Karena that has been offered by a reader:

https://faithhedgepeth.blogspot.com/p/on-september-7-2012-faith-danielle.html


==> [Finally, I have moved the long introductory material to the bottom so newest posts will now appear closer to the top (but you can click as needed if you want to review, or read for the first time, the basics about this crime).]
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

A New Assignment


First, THANK YOU to the few folks who sent along thoughts/ideas about the prior post (or ANY part of this case, for that matter) -- even if nothing very earth-shattering has emerged, I do appreciate any/all thoughts offered. Good to know some people will take the time and interest to at least try and solve this brutal crime.
Also, I understand why many feel more comfortable sending thoughts along in private email rather than leaving comments for the whole world to see, but open comments do sometimes generate further thoughts/ideas from others, and can be useful -- still, do whatever you're most comfortable with (by the way, for now, I do prefer using initials generally in the comments, if possible, rather than full names of parties being discussed).

Anyway, your new assignment, should you choose to accept it ;-) is as follows:

Another perplexing part of the official court documents released, comes on pages 95 through 98, covering March 6, 2013 to March 12, 2013:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1283962-hedgepeth-case-files.html

This section covers the individuals who arrived at and left The Thrill nightclub who likely had contact with Faith that early morning. I am very interested to discern exactly who the main 5-6 individuals referenced are, and in what combination they arrived at, and departed, The Thrill. After many, many re-readings of this section, I think I have it sorted out, but am still not certain I've got it right. So would be curious if any others have figured it out.
The last assignment, interpreting a visual hand-written note, was easy compared to this one of carefully reading through several pages of a redacted, confusing document, so I won't be surprised to get even less response on this, but if someone enjoys playing detective have at it!!

I continue to believe that in all the social media lurking out there, remains a 'smoking gun' that can tie together a lot of the dots we already have... finding it, though, is like looking for the needle in a haystack. Still, young, savvy digitally-immersed young people may be more skilled at navigating and searching that digital world than the CHPD who probably think they have scoured it (and probably have NOT).

Law enforcement continually says this is not a cold case, yet has nothing to show recently to indicate otherwise (the released documents all go back to well-over a year ago; maybe LE has more recent info that is unreleased, but gives little indication of such). It is up to we, the public, to truly keep this case ACTIVE!


6 comments:

  1. So many unanswered questions... It's interesting how there are inconsistencies in their stories but considering they were interviewed in March 2013 I don't know that that's unusual.

    Now I'm curious as to where Faith must have parked and is there footage of that. Seems like both of the Chapel Hill parking garages on that street might have cameras.

    Maybe this is just me being hopeful (and surely we don't know what all evidence CHPD has) but it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to corroborate who came with who and when.

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    1. 1) I agree the inconsistencies are interesting, yet as you say, one must be cautious given the time-lapse involved -- still, I also think that once Faith's death was announced, if an individual had seen her that night/morning, everything about that time period would get locked into one's memory pretty vividly.

      2) I'm not quite clear why her parking location would be of interest? She and KR arrived and left together at times that are more-or-less established. Or are you implying that if she parked in proximity to certain of the men specifically discussed in the documents, that might be significant? or something else?

      3) Yes, I'm sure CHPD have sorted this out already. That is one of the exasperating aspects of the case: so many of the questions arising for the public by release of the newest documents have undoubtedly already been answered by police, but they're not sharing those answers, so we have to spend time/effort trying to piece together things that are already known.

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  2. "Or are you implying that if she parked in proximity to certain of the men specifically discussed in the documents, that might be significant?"

    Yeah, this is basically what I was getting at... that they could have interacted with or encountered those men or someone else on the way to the car or something of that nature.

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  3. I have been doing lots of research. I saw the more recent post with initials of POI's. Not all my POI's have same initials. Are there any typos in the initials given in addendum from the 20/20 post? Is ETJ cousin on that list with the initials?

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    1. There are not typos, but it is possible some of those individuals go under alternative names/nicknames that might represent different initials -- also, there are certainly many more POIs than the few I mentioned who's specific whereabouts I was curious about. And no, ETJ's cousin was not on that list because he was reported to be at The Thrill on the suspect night, so I knew of his whereabouts (but he could still be a POI). There could also be many POIs in police files who's names have never shown up publicly. Or perhaps the "100s of new leads" law enforcement claim the 20/20 show generated will produce more POIs. Very frustrating.

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  4. Agree. Very frustrating. I've been digging around. I have lots of notes to go through but I am committed to getting Justic for FAITH and those who love FAITH.

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