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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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Sunday, February 14, 2016

3 1/2 Years On....


Tom Gasparoli ran another column on Faith's case a couple weeks back... nothing new, and you can sense Tom's frustration (like all of us) with law enforcement at this point. He apparently posed 20 questions to them, and received no satisfactory answers. They continue to give out little information, yet keep requesting new info from the public... 3+ years on no less... as if any new information (short of a confession or DNA evidence) at this point could even be taken as accurate or credible.

As I've indicated before, more and more it simply appears like a cover-up of a case badly-botched by small-town police and the Durham District Attorney in the first 72 hours following the murder. They continue to expend great effort on jaywalkers and speed traps, but give no sense of what effort is going into catching a murderer-on-the-loose. Perhaps they're hoping we will forget Faith Hedgepeth... despite few articles about her tragedy these days we won't. And across the country, Faith is just one of many such victims.

Tom ends his piece simply, "40 months. 20 questions. Zero answers."  Indeed.
Read it here, if you haven't already seen it:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/durham-news/dn-opinion/article58109918.html


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