The DNA That Waited Nine Years: The Faith Hedgepeth Case
The DNA That Waited Nine Years: The Faith Hedgepeth Case
On September 7, 2012, Faith Hedgepeth, a 19-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill student and member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, was found beaten to death in her apartment bedroom near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The killer left semen, a palm print, fingerprints, and a handwritten note on a fast food bag reading "I'M NOT STUPID BITCH. JEALOUS." So why did a case with a full DNA profile take nine years to produce an arrest? Who sent the texts from Faith's phone at 3:40 a.m.? And why will the jury never hear how police first found the man they…
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