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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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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Moving in Circles....


I keep coming back to the section referred to earlier (pages 95 through 98 of the released documents, covering March 6, 2013 to March 12, 2013) recounting individuals who encountered Faith at The Thrill nightclub on the fatal morning.  It's amazing that these interviews came in March 2013 -- a FULL SIX MONTHS after the murder! Is there some explanation for why contacts at The Thrill weren't looked into, oh say maybe, perhaps, uhhh, within 48 hrs. of the crime??? Will law enforcement's behavior become more comprehensible once this crime is solved???... as one commenter remarked to me in a coffeehouse, 'if you want to commit a serious crime in the Triangle and not be caught, then come to Chapel Hill to do it.' Another party referred to local law enforcement as "Mayberry RFD" so low has their credibility sunk, largely I imagine due to this case. Other off-the-cuff opinions I've heard range from law enforcement being 'hog-tied by overpaid lawyers,' to 'they're in over-their-head' or 'simple small-town incompetency,' and even to 'it's all a cover-up.' Pretty harsh. My own guess (until shown otherwise) is still that law enforcement thought they had a slam-dunk case against KR's ex-bf early-on and botched the investigation in the first month, or even the first 72 hrs., by not rapidly looking at other leads. But maybe once the case is resolved everything will come together to make sense. Maybe.

Anyway, there were at least 6 people at The Thrill who had some connection to Faith on the fateful morning. I believe their initials are, DB, QB, BW, BME, JRB, and a roommate who's name I don't know. There are at least a couple different versions of how some of these persons arrived at and left The Thrill (which is suspicious in itself, though could be the result of mere faulty memories over the 6-month lapse in interrogation). Also, not clear to me if K. Rosario's ex-bf, ETJ, or her later pick-up that morning, JM, were present at The Thrill that morning (it is mentioned by at least one source that a cousin of ETJ was there, and also that a "rapper" was there; ETJ is a rapper). So we have an abundance of POIs present, but, as I've cautioned before, no telling how many others had contact with Faith that morning at the night club, who aren't even mentioned in the released documents. Again, the police likely have this all much better-sorted out through their interviews, but they ain't sayin'. And other folks have completely different theories on who the main suspects should be (not necessarily from The Thrill).
Yeah, feels like we're ambling around in circles at this point... and biggest worry of all is that we'll still be doing so come September of next year, when again, some uniformed officer will venture forth in the press and beg, 'someone in the public to please come forth with new information'... deja vu, all over again... while the Hedgepeth family and friends head into yet another Holiday season with no closure.


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