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Hey everyone. Welcome back to Justice Pending. I'm Claire. And I'm Susan. And today we're covering a heartbreaking and haunting

case out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the 2012 murder of 19-year-old University of North Carolina

student, Faith Hedgepeth. Faith was a beloved daughter, a friend, a scholar, and a proud member of the

Native American tribal community. She had dreams of

becoming the first in her family to graduate from college. She wanted to be a teacher or maybe

even a pediatrician. But instead of September 2012, her life was stolen in one of the most

brutal ways imaginable. And here's the part that still

stuns people today. Although a suspect was arrested in 2021, there has still been no trial.

Yeah, this is one of those cases that raises as many questions as it answers. So let's start by

talking about faith herself, who she was and why this case

has left such a deep mark on her community. Faith Danielle Hedgepeth was born September 26th,

1992. She was a vibrant, ambitious, and deeply tied to her culture, her family. Her friends described her as the kind of person

who made everyone feel welcome. And she was smart. She was in the National Honor Society. She was on

the cheer squad and active in Native American student groups. You can sort of picture her as the

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