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The Chapel Hill Police Department says it has surveillance from The Thrill.11 am that morning, at which time she discovered Hedgepeth’s body. Rosario returned home with a friend at approx. Investigators believe the pair returned home and that Rosario left the apartment at 4:27 am. Hedgepeth and Rosario left the bar together at 2:38 am and drove home in Faith’s car, a white Nissan Altima. At a little before 1AM on Sept 7th, they arrived at the Wallace Parking Deck on East Rosemary Street and walked to The Thrill bar. Investigators determined that, prior to her death, Faith Hedgepeth and Karena Rosario visited Davis Library on the UNC campus at approximately 7:30 pm and arrived home shortly after midnight.Investigators believe that this DNA belongs to the person responsible for Faith Hedgepeth’s murder. It was determined that the DNA profile generated from this semen matched other DNA evidence which was also recovered from the crime scene. A sexual assault kit was collected, which revealed the presence of semen.An autopsy determined that Faith’s death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head resulting from a beating.


Photo via the Chapel Hill Police Department. A note written on a take-out fast-food bag was also located on the bed. There was pooled blood near her body and blood spatter on the wall and bedroom closet door.Faith’s body was found on the floor leaning against the bed with her shirt pulled up she had no clothes on from the waist down. Officers located Faith Hedgepeth dead in a bedroom inside.When officers arrived, they were greeted by the primary tenant of apartment 1502, Karena Rosario, who advised that she had found the victim, Faith Hedgepeth, inside and that she was unresponsive.At approximately 11:00am on September 7, 2012, officers with the Chapel Hill Police Department received a call to the Hawthorne at the View apartment complex located at 5639 Old Chapel Hill Road in reference to a possible dead body located in apartment 1502.***Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue Addresses the Media*** Some information in this story may be considered graphic
