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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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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Still, More....


Be sure to read yesterday's update, from which this one follows. Obviously, the newly-disclosed voicemail creates a flurry of new interest in Faith's case, at least for time-being.
Tom Gasparoli writes a new, more personal entry of his reactions to the tape and transcript here:

http://www.gaspowrites.com/2016/02/a-re-typed-version-of-transcript-of.html

Very telling... IF (IF, IF, IF) the purported voicemail actually emanates from the murder scene.
Again, I wish I knew exactly how this garbled voicemail was enhanced (and how much the enhancer knew of the crime story ahead-of-time?). Also, wish I understood better what the various explanations for the time-stamp discrepancy can be?

With that said... it seems like there's no reason to avoid the elephant-in-the-room here... IF the interpretation of voicemail is as some purport then clearly Faith's roommate Karena Rosario is implicated in the crime scene.
I've never leaned in that direction in the past, but of course a great many have (I have leaned toward 2-3 participants coming from The Thrill nightclub).
In the past I've avoided linking to this "statement analysis" of the Rosario's 911 call because I'm skeptical of 'statement analysis' in general (and still don't put a lot of weight in this particular analysis), but I'll link to it now and let others make up their own minds:

http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/2015/12/911-call-faith-hedgepeth-murder-2012.html?m=1

The names "Dave" and "Big Mike" (from Gasparoli's piece) may also specifically, but more speculatively, point to certain individuals in released documents.  One certainly wishes we could know the answers that Rosario and other key figures gave to various questions under interrogation, but that's not about to happen.
Clearly, the validity of the interpretation of this voicemail needs to be resolved quickly, and with today's digital forensic tools it's hard to believe it can't be done (indeed, hasn't already been done).

Meanwhile, thanks to Tom Gasparoli for being a bulldog on this case... while LE seems to but whimper.

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