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Faith Hedgepeth

Case from Durham, NC dated Sep 07, 2012

Victim Details

Faith Hedgepeth

September 18, 2023

Female

Native American / Indigenous

Durham

NC

2012-09-07

1992-09-26

$0.00

19

Faith Hedgepeth

Faith

Hedgepeth

Victim

Brown

Brown

litigation

07/10/2026


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A 19 year old college student is found murdered in her off-campus apartment
DNA ancestry technology solves Faith Hedgepeth’s murder

Faith Hedgepeth is described by her family as having a “heart of gold and an infectious smile that illumined the room.”  Faith, just a few weeks shy of her 20th birthday, was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. As a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill, Faith was majoring in biology.  She hoped to turn her love for children and strong desire to work with them into a career as a pediatrician or an elementary sch ...
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