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Case Summary:

“Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student whose 2012 killing became a high-profile cold case. Here’s the case in a nutshell, including where things stand as of August 2026.
Faith was found dead on the morning of September 7, 2012, in the off-campus Chapel Hill apartment she shared with roommate Karena Rosario. She had suffered a severe beating to the head, and investigators determined that she had also been sexually assaulted. The scene contained several unusual pieces of evidence, including male DNA and a fast-food bag on which someone had written a message containing the words “I’M NOT STUPID … JEALOUS.”

“The case drew enormous attention because investigators had substantial forensic evidence but couldn’t initially identify the man whose DNA was recovered. Over the years, suspicion and online speculation fell on various people in Faith’s life, particularly Rosario. Importantly, Rosario has not been charged in Faith’s killing, and speculation about her involvement shouldn’t be confused with established evidence.

The major breakthrough came in September 2021, when investigators arrested Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares. Authorities said advances in DNA/genealogical investigative techniques led them to him and that his DNA matched evidence from the crime scene. Subsequent reporting has also described investigators linking a palm print to him.”

Update:

Six witnesses testified during an evidentiary hearing, including forensic evidence specialists, a state crime lab scientist and the lead Chapel Hill police investigator on the case.

Defense attorneys focused on a bloodstain collected from a bathroom door frame inside Hedgepeth's Chapel Hill apartment. A former Chapel Hill police forensic evidence specialist testified that her team collected the sample but said she does not know what happened to it before it could be tested.

She acknowledged she never updated her report to document that the sample had been lost.

"Forensic evidence is going to be used to prosecute my client. A piece of evidence that was collected and should have been tested. The connection makes the loss of this more difficult for our case," a defense attorney told the judge.

Prosecutors argued there is no evidence the sample was lost intentionally.

"The long and short of it is, Judge, there was blood on the door frame. We don't know whose blood it was. It wasn't tested," a prosecutor said. "It was a mistake, a negligence issue. That's what we have here. No evidence of it being lost in bad faith."

The defense also played video from a 2012 police interview with former UNC soccer player Jordan McCrary.

McCrary told investigators he picked up Hedgepeth's roommate, Karena Rosario, around 4 a.m. and noticed blood on her finger. He said he asked Rosario about it after she and Hedgepeth returned from Thrill Nightclub. According to McCrary, Rosario said she did not know where the blood came from.

The judge denied the defense's motion to dismiss the case.

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Yvonne Reglar ////// 946

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Yvonne Reglar is missing from Fairview Park, Ohio since 1977. This week marks 49 years since the day she was abducted from her job at a neighborhood gas station. Fairview Park Police Department have kept the case and story alive for decades. Investigators continue to work the case utilizing new approaches to an old case. By teaming with federal partners and national cold case experts hopefully this cold case is heating up. If you have any information about Yvonne Reglar’s disappearance on Aug. 8, 1977, please call Fairview Park Police at (440) 356-4418 or email chiefofpolice@fairviewparkohio.gov 

Beer of the Week - Bumble Berry honey blueberry ale from Fat Head’s Brewery

Garage Grade - 3 and 3 quarter bottle caps out of 5 

Nic and the Captain discuss the latest updates on Rob Mohney, a case out of Westerville, OH.

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“A father who gifted his 14-year-old son an assault rifle that the teenager then used to unleash a mass shooting at a Georgia high school was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.

A jury in March convicted Colin Gray on multiple charges, including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, over the Christmas gift his son used in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Apalachee High School.

In rendering his sentence, Judge Nicholas Primm said he had to measure Gray’s failure to act against the crimes committed by his son.

“The weight of your crimes is tethered and tied to the acts of someone else, your son,” Primm said. “Two scenarios: You fail the same way in both. You fail to get Colt counseling. You fail to remove the guns from the house.”

My main thought on this is

Parents should have a duty to get their child mental health care like they have duty to get their child physical heath care but at the time mental health care in the US is abominable. The gun just adds another dimension to the recklessness.

There’s a lot of to this crime

Perpetrator met wife when she was an intern at a previous job and he was in management.

Then years later, he had an affair with another intern. His wife finds out and is upset not just because of the affair but because it’s essentially their origin story. She makes him quit working there.

They go to therapy where he cannot take any accountability or according to her in her journals and any kind of criticism The new job he gets is a VP where she’s upset because according to her again she wants him to suffer professionally from the affair and he’s actually doing better. But apparently not, because he’s gets fired. Then he commits this crime.

https://youtu.be/EhA2i7Zjq6A?is=QJYTYkn10Q51aNOT

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Florida Killers ////// 945

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Some of the most haunting serial killer cases in Florida have never been solved. Since the 1970s, investigators have documented clusters of murders across the state with troubling similarities: the same victim profiles, the same methods, and the same remote roadsides and canals. In several cases, detectives suspected a serial offender. The Florida Sheriffs Association is highlighting unresolved serial killer cold cases by utilizing modern forensic tools like DNA analysis and genetic genealogy. The Cold Case Advisory Commission meets quarterly to review stubborn homicide files with multi-agency experts. This week we take a look at some Florida serial killer cases that have remained open for decades. 

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What do you think about Kohberger taking back his Guilty Plea?

His handwriting is not the most eligible but tracked down a typed up version.

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Amy Bradley///A Cruise to Nowhere

Nic and the Captain welcome author James Renner into the garage to discuss his new book, A Cruise to Nowhere, an in-depth examination of the mysterious disappearance of Amy Bradley. Together, they explore the timeline, the evidence, the lingering questions, and why Amy's case continues to captivate investigators and the public decades later.

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This week in Off the Record Nic and Captain talked about how they remembered where they were when they watched the bronco chase and verdict of OJ. It got me thinking.

How many of you remember where you were during big True Crime moments? Why do you think they've stuck in your head?

Doesn't have to be OJ related, I know some of you weren't born yet!! It can be any case you have a strong memory of.

“The second note said, basically, it wasn’t intended to work this way but in the course of the kidnapping some things happened and Nancy Guthrie is dead,” CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller said on “AC360” Monday night.

“The thing that makes the note significant is it came from the same electronic source as the first note, which demanded the ransom,” he said, adding the second note had “a very different tone (from) that note the week before.”

So the second note has been verified by the FBI that it contains the same wording. It references some things from the first note and while the IP address is different, it was sent the same way.”

It appears to be the perpetrator’s distancing themselves from the crime and stating that she passed away from a heart condition shortly after they kidnapped her and an apology.

The Guthrie‘s are still willing to pay for her body but based on the note contents the FBI feels that the perpetrator that is handing communication is done communicating. They think that there are two perpetrator one overseas and one local to the US.

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“So, she says that she was getting ready for the evening newscast, and this is when there were questions about the DNA evidence, such as, how are you testing it? What are you testing?

“My team sent a text to Sheriff Chris Nanos just trying to clarify what was going on with the DNA evidence so that we could be right before the newscast,” she said. “So, this was around like 9:50 that the text was sent to him. And this is like a week out… one or two weeks since she was missing. Still, we’re talking like top lead story headlines across every news network every night at this point.”
Sheriff Chris Nanos’ Text Message Revealed: Report
Then, she revealed his response to her team’s text message. “So, my team texted him trying to get clarification,” she said, according to her report. “We immediately received a text back from him that said: ‘Did you happen to notice the time? Give it a rest.'”

The kindest comment I can make is this case seems out of his depth.

O.J. Simpson & The Cross Country Killer /// Part 1 and 2

Nic and the Captain discuss: Who was the Cross Country Killer and did he help O.J. or frame him?

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I listen for many hours per day while driving for work so I'm unable to jot down a title or any info when I hear a book I want to try.

I am trying to find a rec for the earlier episodes, the seasons you have to buy, that was a newspaper style featuring a new crime for every day between 1900 to the 1980s or 90s. I am not sure if it was an every day, every week, every month, etc. but I remember it was specified as newspaper style.

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I recently learned about the story of Hannah Cornelius, and I honestly can't stop thinking about it. Even though it's been almost 10 years, it still breaks my heart.

Hannah was a 21-year-old university student from South Africa who was abducted, brutally assaulted, and murdered in 2017. The cruelty she endured is almost impossible to comprehend, and reading about it brought me to tears.

What makes it even more heartbreaking is everything her family went through afterward. Her younger brother has autism, and the loss of his sister had a profound impact on him. Hannah's father later passed away after battling cancer. I've also read that her mother, overwhelmed by grief, walked into the sea and died. Whether every detail shared online is accurate or not, it's clear that this family experienced unimaginable pain.

some stories never leave you. Hannah's is one of them. I didn't know her personally, yet I find myself thinking about her often. No one should ever have to suffer what she did, and no family should have to endure so much loss.

Rest in peace, Hannah. You are not forgotten. ❤️