Dateline NBC will run another program on Friday on the 2015 demise of Norfolk undergrad Anjelica “A.J.” Hadsell. Dateline columnist Andrea Canning will write about the program, named “The Jacket,” which will air at 10 p.m. Friday.

As indicated by a NBC News discharge, Canning addressed Wesley Hadsell, Norfolk cop David Benjamin, and A.J. Hadsell’s buddies Corey French and Andre Barr.

Who Is Wesley Hadsell And Where Is He Now? Wesley Hadsell is Anjelica Hadsell’s stepfather, and he was indicted for her homicide and condemned to the most extreme permitted: life in addition to 15 years in April.

Jennifer Wright, Aj’s mom, expressed that she and Wesley Hadsell met in 2010 and wedded a month after the fact.

They have one youngster, who is presently a decade old. Wright expressed that she constrained Hadsell out of the house in 2015 subsequent to finding that he had been taking opiates. Hadsell decided to remain in an inn close to their home.

Wright expressed that she got AJ from Longwood University the few days of March 2, 2015. AJ was a first-year understudy concentrating on data innovation and PC programming. She likewise played field hockey and club softball.

On the day AJ evaporated, Hadsell called Wright at work to drop off his own truck and get his business truck. She expressed that she taught him to leave the keys in the post box in the event that AJ needed to go anyplace.

At the point when Wright got back, she expressed that AJ had left, however her wallet and coat stayed in the house. The family likewise found that a portion of AJ’s garments were taken, and a message was put on the kitchen table.

“With everything going on, it’s a ton to manage,” the message said. Wright expressed that she was dubious of the message since it didn’t sound good to her or her different girls.

Notwithstanding, weeks after the fact officials found her, half-covered in a waste trench behind a neglected house in Southampton County, close to the line with North Carolina.

The clinical inspector expressed that she died because of serious heroin inebriation and “murderous viciousness”. Her heroin level was multiple times the dangerous level, and her eyes and jaw were obscured and harmed.

The inspector, notwithstanding, couldn’t recognize whether she had been physically manhandled because of creature and bug harm to her body.

Hadsell was not accused of anything in that frame of mind until 2018.

Anjelica Hadsell’s Stepfather Wesley Hadsell Was Arrested And Charged For Her Murder Anjelica Hadsell’s stepfather, Wesley Hadsell was captured and accused of her homicide in April 2022. His most memorable preliminary started in Southampton County in 2020, however it was considered a malfeasance after only two days because of a disagreement regarding what proof the jury ought to be allowed to hear.

His latest preliminary began in April 2022. The examiners said Hadsell snatched A.J. as she was collapsing garments and paying attention to music in the parlor.

Hadsell had been thrown out of the house by his better half a few days before because of his medication utilization and eccentric lead. At the point when her mom got back later, the clothing was half-collapsed and music was all the while playing on the speaker.

Examiners suspect Hadsell hijacked A.J. to physically go after her, and that A.J. was killed the following day.

Examiner Toni Colvin let members of the jury know that Wesley Hadsell abducted A.J. furthermore, intended to go after her physically. Anjelica otherwise known as A.J. died of an extreme heroin glut and “maniacal savagery,” as indicated by the clinical inspector, who couldn’t lay out on the off chance that she had been assaulted.

As per Colvin, a line of injuries found across her chest was viable with somebody putting an arm across it. Moreover, the swelling on her jawline was logical brought about by somebody holding it hard in their grasp, perhaps to propel her to consume the lethal portion of heroin.

“He abused her, beat her, and afterward harmed her with heroin,” Colvin vouched for the jury. Following that, Hadsell endeavored to redirect specialists by creating a progression of deceptions and placing proof in various areas.

A portion of his creations incorporate breaking into the place of one of A.J’s. male companions and hiding a coat with her name sewed on it among his effects, as per the indictment.

Examiners excused safeguard counsel James Ellenson’s contention that A.J. serious self destruction by ingesting too much of a headache medication she was taking.

Ellenson expressed that A.J. was agitated about her association with her beau Corey and had been downloading photos with self destruction remarks in the days going before her vanishing.

Wesley Hadsell Verdict And Sentence The jury in Wesley Hadsell’s homicide preliminary hurt a decision and sentenced him blameworthy for first-degree murder and covering of a cadaver in the killing of his embraced stepdaughter, AJ.

In April 2022, he was condemned to life in jail in addition to 15 years.

Norfolk police found heroin reserved in a gap close to the roof of a lodging where Hadsell was dwelling after his significant other threw him out. Official Matt Burnham of the Norfolk Police Department affirmed that he checked Hadsell’s lodging half a month after A.J. disappeared.

Inside, he found a little baggie containing a white substance in this manner distinguished as heroin, as well as two boxes of 9mm ammo.

Here’s more from the sentencing hearing for Wesley Hadsell, who will serve life plus 15 years for the 2015 murder of his adopted daughter, Anjelica “A.J.” Hadsell.

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— The Virginian-Pilot (@virginianpilot) April 4, 2022

Moreover, Hadsell’s medication provider affirmed that he provided him heroin the day after A.J. disappeared.

A dead body canine prepared to distinguish the scent of decaying remains cautioned on a region of Hadsell’s inn room yet disregarded anything in his work vehicle.

Burnham found a digging tool and channel tape in the back of Hadsell’s work van, as well as a hair band between the seats. There was likewise a photograph of A.J. in the vehicle, however her sisters were generally not there.

As per Pilot Online, A GPS contraption in the vehicle guided officials to a neglected house on Smith Ferry Road in Franklin, where A.J. Hadsell’s body was found.

The vehicle had got there from Norfolk on March 4, two days after she disappeared, as per the unit. Examiners said Wesley was likewise in the area in view of bank records and accommodation shop surveillance cameras.

Wesley and A.J. Hadsell’s PDA information likewise uncovered that the two telephones were pinging in similar areas the day after A.J. disappeared.

After this multitude of confirmations and seven years after Aj’s homicide, he was at last reported at fault for killing and condemned to jail.