University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jury selection has started in the trial of the man accused of killing University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth, who was found dead in her Chapel Hill apartment in 2012. The cold case went unsolved for years before an arrest was made in 2021, and the proceedings are drawing close attention in North Carolina and among Native American communities, as Hedgepeth was a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe.

Jury selection has begun in the murder trial of the man accused of killing Faith Hedgepeth, a University of North Carolina student found dead in her Chapel Hill apartment in 2012. The long-awaited trial renews attention on a case that haunted the community for nearly a decade before an arrest was made.