HERE For Faith Hedgepeth...: 2020

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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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Monday, September 7, 2020

8 Years... and counting

An old quip says: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” Is that what the Chapel Hill Police Dept. has in mind when they refuse year-after-year-after-year to comment substantively on (or answer questions about) Faith's brutal death, other than to claim, against all public perception, that it is not a cold case.

Unthinkably, this case, chock-full of evidence and clues has now passed the 8-year mark without solution, and with no sense of a break in the case coming any time soon. How many of Faith’s friends, family, and loved ones, will themselves be deceased by the time any progress is shown in the case; by the time, if ever, her killer is brought to justice? How many are doomed to pass from this Earth with the frustration and emptiness of not knowing what happened to Faith and why? Eight years and counting…. incredible.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

More TV Coverage

As most know who have followed this crime, Discovery ID covered the case once again a few days ago. For any who missed the showing a reader here sends along these links that should work for you:

main show:

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/who-killed-the-co-ed-an-id-murder-mystery/full-episodes/who-killed-the-co-ed-an-id-murder-mystery

some followup:

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/the-missing-pieces-faith-hedgepeth/full-episodes/the-missing-pieces-faith-hedgepeth

...nothing much new in all of this, but helps keep this baffling (seemingly cold) case alive in the public eye.

Meanwhile, genetic genealogy, slowly expanding the number of trained practitioners, continues to solve crimes on a near weekly basis, though mostly decades-old cold cases. When it might get around to a crime not even 8 years old yet (8-yr. anniversary coming this September), I don't know yet.