NC NC - Faith Hedgepeth, 19, UNC student, Chapel Hill, 7 Sep 2012 #2

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Wow, certainly unexpected, but a wonderful step forward in hopefully getting some measure of justice for Faith and answers for her friends and family.

I have never commented on this case, but have followed it closely for around 7 years. After joining WS fairly recently I made my way through all of the comments on Faith’s case, but never commented because I honestly didn’t feel as if I had anything to add after so many years to what seemed like a relatively stagnant case.

That $9 million allocated to DNA testing so many backlogged kits was worth every cent! It’s a shame it took so long, but if I was a resident of NC I’d be thrilled to have my tax dollars spent this way. Cliche, better late than never!
 
raiders444 said:
Feels like we are all just recycling the same info for the last few years, but for the sake of keeping hope alive, here are 3 things I think could be done to hopefully bring some life back to this cold case:

1 - LE holds a press conference to announce reward money has been upped from $40,000 to say $100,000. To me, 40k is nice but is that enough to sell your buddy down the river? Not sure. 100k might be

2 - In same press conference, announce new info is being released. Throw us a bone. Release SOMETHING...maybe time of death? I don't think that was ever on the autopsy report from what I recall

3 - Finish the backlog of rape kits!! Hopefully we get a hit that leads to something
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Welp. They held the presser and it appears it was a DNA match. Whether from backlogged kits or from a recent arrest, we don't know yet. I thought from the way that Stein was speaking that it was a backlogged kit. But the fact that he was arrested for DWI exactly a month ago makes me wonder if they got a partial match from a backlogged kit and were able to do some confirmatory testing from DNA collected in connection with his DWI arrest.
 
Skigirl said:
Welp. They held the presser and it appears it was a DNA match. Whether from backlogged kits or from a recent arrest, we don't know yet. I thought from the way that Stein was speaking that it was a backlogged kit. But the fact that he was arrested for DWI exactly a month ago makes me wonder if they got a partial match from a backlogged kit and were able to do some confirmatory testing from DNA collected in connection with his DWI arrest.
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Definitely agree. It can't be a coincidence that this big arrest came just a month after his DWI.

ETA: This quote from Stein: "Yesterday, with a sample provided by law enforcement of the suspect, the state crime lab generated a match to a DNA profile derived from the original crime scene. As a result, an arrest nearly a decade in the making has been made" makes it sound like the sample was from the DWI arrest.
 
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They were essentially the same age when this all happened. I've always wondered if Red Robin was where she met her killer. I guess time will tell whether it was totally random, or if they knew each other somehow.
 
Skigirl said:
They were essentially the same age when this all happened. I've always wondered if Red Robin was where she met her killer. I guess time will tell whether it was totally random, or if they knew each other somehow.
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Yeah, I'm definitely interested to see how their lives intersected. We'll certainly find out more now!
 
Skigirl said:
Welp. They held the presser and it appears it was a DNA match. Whether from backlogged kits or from a recent arrest, we don't know yet. I thought from the way that Stein was speaking that it was a backlogged kit. But the fact that he was arrested for DWI exactly a month ago makes me wonder if they got a partial match from a backlogged kit and were able to do some confirmatory testing from DNA collected in connection with his DWI arrest.
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Sounds plausible. I still can't believe that such progress has been made. Let's hope there's justice.
 
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