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Carolyn Hedgepeth

Death by Force
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Carolyn Hedgepeth, a 15-year-old Black/African American girl from Wilmington, Delaware, left home with her friend Denise Evans on Friday night, October 24, 1975. By the next day, hunters in a marshy clearing in rural Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey—roughly forty miles from Wilmington—found the two teenagers lying close together, each slain by gunfire in a manner contemporaneous reports described as execution-style. The discovery ended an overnight search and shifted t ...Read More
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    • Victim Details

    Carolyn Hedgepeth

    Female

    Black / African American

    Wilmington

    DE

    1975-10-24

    15

    Carolyn

    Hedgepeth

    11/27/2025

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