MURDERED: Faith Hedgepeth
When 19-year-old college student Faith Hedgepeth is horrifically slain in her apartment after a night out clubbing, the local police are shockingly tight-lipped…until information starts flooding out and raising so many new questions.
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Episode Source Material
- UNC-Chapel Hill student’s death shocks community
- University of North Carolina grieves after student, Faith Hedgepeth, found murdered in her apartment
- UNC students, staff gather to mourn death of Faith Hegdgepeth
- Still no answers in Hedgepeth killing
- Discovery of DNA prompts profile of UNC student’s killer
- In the Shadow of the Sealings
- Faith Hedgepeth warrants, 911 call released
- Handwritten note found near Faith Hedgepeth’s body at murder scene
- Chapel Hill Police Department – Faith Hedgepeth Case Files
- 911 Call Faith Hedgepeth Murder 2012 – Statement Analysis
- Expert, police dispute voicemail in Faith Hedgepeth case
- Murdered UNC Student’s Final Moments: What Police Say Happened to Faith Hedgepeth
- Is this the face of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth’s killer?
- Keeping faith: Family and police grapple with Hedgepeth’s unsolved murder years later
- Family of slain UNC student Faith Hedgepeth desperate for answers nearly eight years after her brutal murder
- Hear a Murdered Co-Ed’s Chilling Last Voicemail Recording
- 8 Years After N.C. College Student’s Murder, Mom Still Seeks Answers in Daughter’s Death
- Who Killed The Co-Ed? – Investigation Discovery
- National Domestic Abuse Hotline – Is This Abuse?
- Police hope new composite could break Faith Hedgepeth case
- #MMIWG2S – Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn, Girls, and Two Spirit
- Reddit – The 2012 murder of Faith Hedgepeth featured on new ID show tonight
- ABC News 20/20 – Love, Hope & Faith
- Pursuit Podcast
- Voicemail Full Audio
- The News & Observer – A Bright Light Goes Dark (p. 1, 17)
- Police profile male suspect in Hedgepeth homicide
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