Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old young woman and a junior studying at the University of North Carolina. She was part of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe.

She majored in biology and dreamed of getting to teach elementary school or go on to be a pediatrician since she was so passionate about children.

Faith’s mom raised her nearly alone, with help from Faith’s older sister.

Her mom picked out her name because she knew she would need to find her inner strength and faith to be able to bring up four children as a single parent.

Faith had a heart made of gold, and she enjoyed making friends wherever she went. She wasn’t just a pretty girl, she was beautiful on the inside, too.

Wikipedia; Faith smiles in the photo above

Her family says in her obituary, “Her beautifully infectious smile illuminated a room and touched every soul there within.”

“Her bubbly personality and lighthearted laughter made her a joy to be around.”

“Although her time on earth was short, she had an enormous impact on many.”

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And she had planned on being able to do good in the world and positively shape the lives of kids she hoped to work with.

Unfortunately, her life was tragically taken from her before she had the chance to do that.

Facebook; Faith smiles big, above

September 6th, 2012. The day before Faith was brutally murdered, she went to school. She rushed a sorority.

She went to the Davis Library on campus, so she could get some studying in with Karena Rosario, her roommate, and very best friend.

After the two finished up in the library, they went back to the apartment they shared located on Old Chapel Hill Road.

Faith and Karena changed their clothes and got ready to head out to a club called The Thrill. They got there at around 12:40 in the morning.

Even though they were underage, they were able to get in because The Thrill let people under 21 inside so they could dance.

At 2:06 in the morning, Karena said her stomach was hurting her and she wanted to go home. Club security cameras picked the two girls up as they exited and left.

They got back to their apartment at around 2:30 a.m., and their downstairs neighbor later recalled to the police hearing 3 different thumps coming from their apartment.

By 3:40 a.m. Faith texted a man named Brandon Edwards. He used to date Karena, but they had broken up.

Faith’s text to him said, “Hey b. can you come over here please. Karena needs you more aha. You know. Please let her know you care.”

3 minutes later, Faith texted him “than” to correct herself. She meant to put that instead of “aha” it seems.

That was the last time her phone was used.

While Faith was texting Brandon, Karena was trying to call him, but Brandon never answered. At 4:16 a.m. he finally texted Faith back saying, “Who is this?”

Facebook; in the above photo Faith walks through a parking lot with her arms out

Karena then placed a call to another student named Jordan McCrary, and at 4:27 in the morning he came by to pick Karena up.

Karena left their apartment and went to a sleepover at a friend’s house.

She explained to the police that when she left, she figured Faith was asleep in her bedroom.

She also left their front door unlocked behind her.

At 11 a.m., Karena came home and found Faith dead.

Faith was on her back on the floor of Karena’s bedroom, leaning up against her bed. The mattress had been pushed off the frame slightly.

Her black t-shirt was yanked up and she had no other clothing on.

Karena called 911 and on the call, she tells the dispatcher, “Hi. Um, I just walked into my apartment and my friend is just like…semi? Unconscious.”

She explained there was blood all over the place. On her comforter. On her pillows.

On the door to her closet. On the walls. “I think she fell off the bed because she’s like off the bed.”

“There’s blood all over the pillows like in the comforter.”

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Karena also said, “I don’t know what’s going on…like  There’s stuff in my room that like was not here before…It looks like someone came in here.”

Karena’s friend Marisol Rangel was with her that morning according to police reports, but she is never heard saying anything on the 911 call.

Police arrived at the apartment and realized that Faith was sadly no longer alive.

As they began processing the crime scene, they noticed a note her killer had written on a takeout bag.

It said, “I’M NOT STUPID B*TCH JEALOUS.”

Facebook; Faith snaps a selfie, above

Everything in the bedroom was pretty much covered in Faith’s blood, but this bag was white and pristine.

The note on the takeout bag had been written with a pen left behind, and it had male DNA on it.

They also recovered male DNA on her, leading them to think Faith was assaulted, and that DNA matched the pen and an empty bottle of peach-flavored Bacardi rum they believed was used to bludgeon Faith to death.

The bottle was covered in Faith’s blood.

An autopsy was performed and Faith’s cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to her head. It looked like Faith put up a fight with whoever took her life, as she also had blood under her nails and a lot of bruises and cuts.

Now, one of Faith’s friends came forward with a voicemail Faith had left for them accidentally. It was time-stamped at 1:23 a.m., right before she was killed.

Faith was supposedly at the club at this time, but Crime Watch Daily hired an expert in audio named Arlo West to help review the recording.

Arlo says there’s a widely known issue surrounding timestamps on voicemails where they can be recorded at a certain time and have an entirely different time assigned to them.

Arlo says that Faith was speaking to two men and a woman on the recording, and it seems she is really in distress.

Facebook; Faith blows out birthday candles in the above photo

Faith says, “Help me!” “Ow!!!” and “Let me go.” She also asks to have her hands untied, while a man says, “I think she’s dying,” and then goes on to discuss a “next victim.”

A woman says, “Do it anyhow.”

Arlo thinks he also heard the people in the recording use the names “Rosie” (which some speculate is short for Karena Rosario) and “Eriq.”

Eriq is the name of Karena’s ex-boyfriend, Eriq Takoy Jones, and a few weeks before Faith was found dead, he did threaten to kill her if Karena wouldn’t start seeing him again.

He also kicked 2 doors right off the frames in the apartment Karena and Faith shared. Karena then took out a restraining order against him.

Although Eriq might seem like a prime suspect, he has been fully cooperative with the police. He also gave them his DNA, which did not match anything found on Faith or the other objects police recovered.

It’s now been 8 years since Faith was murdered, and her killer has not been caught. Police never got a hit on that DNA match, but they did use it to create a photo of what they think her killer looks like.

Police photo; pictured above is the photo of what Faith’s killer probably looks like

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Analysis Unit along with the police released a profile of Faith’s killer.

They say this man most likely knew Faith and even lived close to her at some point in her life. He would have talked about her, and after her murder, he probably exhibited behavior different from how he normally acts.

It’s also worth noting this man’s whereabouts would have been unaccounted for on September 7th, 2012 between at least 4 a.m. to 11 a.m….when Faith was most likely murdered.

Despite it being close to a decade since Faith was murdered, police are confident they can still catch up with her killer and bring this bright and bubbly young woman justice.

Please contact the Chapel Hill-Carrboro-UNC Crimestoppers at 919-942-7515 if you have any information related to Faith’s case.

Facebook; Faith smiles in the photo above