#aj hadsell

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Resolved in 2022 - Part 1.

2022 is coming to an end! Many cases featured on this page were finally resolved during this year. I've created a two-part list of these c...

Many cases featured on this blog were finally resolved during 2022. I've created a two-part list of these cases - the above link contains part one. Links to the full case write-ups are provided. Stay tuned for part 2!

[truecrimecrystals]

Anjelica 'AJ' Hadsell vanished from Norfolk, Virginia at the age of 18 on March 2nd, 2015. At the time, AJ was a freshman at Longwood University. When she vanished, she was visiting her hometown, Norfolk, while on spring break. When news about AJ's disappearance was initially reported, it was believed that AJ was last seen by a neighbor while driving away from her mother’s home on Millard Street. However, suspicion quickly fell upon AJ’s adopted father/ex-stepfather, Wesley Hadsell. The day AJ was last seen, Wesley abruptly left his job around noon after telling his co-workers that he had to meet up with his daughter to give her some money. He returned about two hours later, but his co-workers stated that he appeared agitated upon his return and he ended up needing to take the rest of the day off. Initially, it appeared that Wesley was going to great lengths to deflect suspicion away from him. In fact, within the first week of AJ’s disappearance, Wesley broke into a home and reportedly “found” AJ’s jacket. He claimed that the person who lived in said home kidnapped AJ, which is why her jacket was there. Wesley was arrested for breaking and entering after that, and many suspected that he actually planted the jacket there himself. At this point, Wesley was officially named a person of interest in AJ’s disappearance. The 38 year-old was already no stranger to the police–he was a convicted felon with previous bank robbery and burglary convictions. As the investigation into AJ's disappearance continued, Wesley continued to publicly deny harming AJ, even after the investigators searched his motel room and seized his van. Inside the motel room, investigators found several rounds of ammunition; which he is forbidden to own as a felon. Inside the vehicle, investigators found a shovel, duct tape, and a pair of black work gloves. In April 2015, investigators received an analysis report on Wesley's van’s GPS, which revealed that it had been driven to an abandoned home close to the North Carolina border on the day AJ vanished. The report states that the van remained on the property for about 20 minutes. On April 9th, 2015 detectives went to the property and found AJ’s body buried in a ditch behind the abandoned home. Now, investigators were tasked with putting her killer behind bars.

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[katruna]

[fletchermarple]

Anjelica “AJ” Hadsell (18) was visiting home in Norfolk, Virginia, during a break from college when she disappeared. She was last seen on March 2nd, 2015. Her mother Jennifer came home from work in the evening and didn’t find her, so she texted her. “Out with friends,” was the curt reply she got, which was out of character for AJ. The two exchanged more texts through the night, but they only made the mother uneasier. The next day, after the texting had stopped and her daughter hadn’t come home, she alerted the police.

There was a lot of commotion in the community during the search for AJ, which finished on April 9th, when her remains were found in the backyard of an abandoned house in Southampton County. The forensic analysis determined she had died of acute heroin poisoning, but the manner of death was undertermined. Meaning they can’t say (officially, at least) whether she was murdered or overdosed.

The former sounds more likely, considering all that surrounds the case. AJ’s family has said she didn’t do drugs and was a model student. Her adoptive father, Wesley Hadsell, is currently behind bars on unrelated charges, but there’s a lot of suspicion on him.

He was kicked out of the house by his wife a week before AJ came home. And he acted very strangely after her disappearence. He even broke into the house of Corey French, a friend of AJ’s who dated her in middle school. Wesley claimed that he had reason to believe Corey had kinapped his daughter and that he found hidden in his house a jacket she was wearing when she was last seen.

French told the press that he had been interrogated by police over this finding, and said he had no idea how it got there. They can’t really be sure that it wasn’t planted. At this point, he hasn’t been named a suspect.

The case is still under investigation.

UPDATE

Unsealed court documents prove without a doubt that AJ was murdered, and the manner of her death is now listed as “homicidal violence”. Turns out that her remains were found partially buried in a ditch in an abandoned home. More damning is the fact that police got to that house, and found AJ’s body, because the address appeared in the GPS found in Wesley Hadsell’s van. Also in that vehicle they found a shovel, black gloves and a roll of duct tape, all with dirt residue.

It was also stated that on the day AJ went missing, Wesley left work around noon, claiming that his daughter needed money, and came back two hours later in an agitated state, so he took the rest of the day off.

Despite this, Wesley still hasn’t been charged with anything related to AJ’s murder. He’s currently in jail, having been sentenced to 20 years for illegally possessing ammunition, but in June 2017 an appellate ruling considered that sentence too high, and it will likely be reduced in half. He’s still facing charges of possession of heroin, found in his hotel room in March 2015 when police was looking for AJ, and for rape and kidnapping in an incident that happened in 2005 in Ohio.

[mackenziefrancie-blog]

So for the past month I’ve been sharing posts about a girl from my school who went missing, AJ Hadsell. I don’t know if y’all saw them or not because no one shared these posts and no one seemed to care (at least not on tumblr). A few days ago, her body was found. (link) Please keep her family and friends in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. After a month, we finally found her, just not in the condition we had hoped for. We brought AJ home. Now, please support the Bring AJ Home Bill by signing this petition (link). We hope to find people like AJ faster and get the word out quicker with this bill and it would mean the world to us if everyone shared and signed. Your signature could mean the difference between life and death for someone you know.

[sarahkatbeee]

Anjelica "AJ" Hadsell was reported missing earlier this week in her hometown of Norfolk, Virginia while she was on spring break. Please keep an eye out for her!