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Trial begins in 2012 killing of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth
Original: Murder trial set to begin in 2012 killing of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth
The murder trial in the 2012 killing of Faith Hedgepeth, a University of North Carolina student, is set to begin. Hedgepeth, a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, was found dead in her Chapel Hill apartment in September 2012, a case that remained unsolved for years. A man was arrested in 2021 and now faces trial, reopening attention on one of the area's most closely followed cold cases.
Why now: The long-awaited trial is finally starting, drawing renewed attention to a notorious unsolved-for-years campus murder.
Faith HedgepethUniversity of North CarolinaChapel HillWRAL
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