Carolyn Hedgepeth was 15 when she left Wilmington, Delaware with her friend Denise Evans on the night of Friday, October 24, 1975. Hunters found the two girls the following day in a marshy clearing in Lower Alloways Creek Township, Salem County, New Jersey—about forty miles from Wilmington—each slain by gunfire in what contemporaneous reports described as execution-style killings.

Their deaths came amid a tense autumn of disappearances and killings of young women in the region. Investigators and reporters linked the Wilmington teens with other cases from that October, and authorities examined whether the murders fit a broader pattern associated with a serial predator active that month. Evans and Hedgepeth were included in those inquiries but were never formally tied to a conviction.

No arrests were made in the killings of Carolyn Hedgepeth and Denise Evans, and the pair remain listed by local outlets and cold-case projects as unsolved homicides. Does anyone have information about where the girls were last seen in Wilmington or who might have driven them toward the Delaware Bay marshes that night?