Along the roads of southern India, the billboards are plentiful, promoting movies, mobile phones, fine silks, Chinese restaurants and Communist Party politicians seeking re-election.
There, along National Highway 49, not far from the mountain town of Munnar, were at least two billboards with an image that would be chilling to most North Carolinians: the smiling visage of Eve Carson, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student body president who was killed in 2008.




